Battery won't charge.

[tchouli]

Apparently some people are reporting their phones have arrived without an operating system installed.

I think the operating system controls the charging,  so that could explain what you are seeing when you try to 'power on' your phone.

The phone does try to boot first from a bootable sd card, if one is installed.

> download an operating system from the wiki or the forum,  use Balena Etcher to flash a micro-sd card with the OS you downloaded.
Insert the sd card into the upper slot,    the lower slot is for your sim card,  > (located next to the battery)

Try again turning on your phone,  it may take a couple of minutes,  but it should boot to your 'log-in' screen.
The log-in for Mobian is  1 2 3 4   -    for Arch and Manjaro, it is  1 2 3 4 5 6

Hope that helps

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And a 8gb or 16gb micro-sd card is plenty big enough for "testing" the operating systems.

thank you I will try that