PBP won't boot (no amber or green LED)
04-08-2021, 08:53 AM
Not sure if this is the correct thread, but...
This started about 4 months ago. Due to my own fault, I discovered that I was trying to flash my PBP w/the wrong image. I aborted the process halfway through. Obviously, bricked my PBP.
I have read every forum post about recovering a 'bricked' PBP. And I have read every link I could find about the rkdeveloptool. I ran into some error messages that are still unanswered on the rkdeveloptool Github page. So I pursued the snap version.
After weeks of false starts & dead ends, I have gotten the snap version of rkdeveloptool to run on another laptop. KDE Neon. I have tried to get rkdeveloptool to install and run on at least four laptops. Always run into some kind of roadblock. Very little up-to-date documentation it seems.
`journalctl -f` confirms that rkdeveloptool is running.
However, `rkdeveloptool ld` always shows: 'no device connected!' after following the steps for shorting the SPI and pressing the reset button. I am using commercial grade tweezers. I am in the IT industry (40+ years), so I have some experience w/troubleshooting. But this seems to be beyond me now.
I am wondering if I have well and truly bricked my PBP.
This started about 4 months ago. Due to my own fault, I discovered that I was trying to flash my PBP w/the wrong image. I aborted the process halfway through. Obviously, bricked my PBP.
I have read every forum post about recovering a 'bricked' PBP. And I have read every link I could find about the rkdeveloptool. I ran into some error messages that are still unanswered on the rkdeveloptool Github page. So I pursued the snap version.
After weeks of false starts & dead ends, I have gotten the snap version of rkdeveloptool to run on another laptop. KDE Neon. I have tried to get rkdeveloptool to install and run on at least four laptops. Always run into some kind of roadblock. Very little up-to-date documentation it seems.
`journalctl -f` confirms that rkdeveloptool is running.
However, `rkdeveloptool ld` always shows: 'no device connected!' after following the steps for shorting the SPI and pressing the reset button. I am using commercial grade tweezers. I am in the IT industry (40+ years), so I have some experience w/troubleshooting. But this seems to be beyond me now.
I am wondering if I have well and truly bricked my PBP.