Bricked phone after u-boot update
08-04-2020, 08:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2020, 08:01 PM by DarkManiels.)
Hi there - I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to fix my Mobian installation. I've got it installed on the eMMC, with a 128Gb SD card for storage of music and such, and it's been working great since I got the phone several weeks ago. Today I did a couple of apt update & upgrades. On the second update it told me that u-boot-sunxi and u-boot-tools were among the packages to be updated. I ran sudo apt upgrade as usual to upgrade the other packages in the list, but then following the directions on the Mobian wiki Tweaks page I also ran
to actually upgrade u-boot. The output in the terminal was exactly the same as the last bit of output from my regular sudo apt upgrade, so I don't know if this actually did anything different or not.
I then tried to reboot the phone, since I figured this would be good after updating the bootloader, and after it shut down nothing happened. Now whether I push the power button briefly or for 5 seconds or so I can't get the phone to turn on - the screen remains blank and off. No green LED, nothing. I swapped out my SD card for a Jumpdrive card and am able to get in and see my filesystem just fine. But when I remove the Jumpdrive SD again I still can't boot into Mobian.
Any thoughts on how to be able to boot into Mobian again would be much appreciated. I'm assuming with Jumpdrive I can do something to fix it, but am not familiar enough with the boot file system to know what files to replace or commands to run. Thanks!
Code:
sudo u-boot-install-pinephoneto actually upgrade u-boot. The output in the terminal was exactly the same as the last bit of output from my regular sudo apt upgrade, so I don't know if this actually did anything different or not.
I then tried to reboot the phone, since I figured this would be good after updating the bootloader, and after it shut down nothing happened. Now whether I push the power button briefly or for 5 seconds or so I can't get the phone to turn on - the screen remains blank and off. No green LED, nothing. I swapped out my SD card for a Jumpdrive card and am able to get in and see my filesystem just fine. But when I remove the Jumpdrive SD again I still can't boot into Mobian.
Any thoughts on how to be able to boot into Mobian again would be much appreciated. I'm assuming with Jumpdrive I can do something to fix it, but am not familiar enough with the boot file system to know what files to replace or commands to run. Thanks!