04-09-2021, 07:43 PM
Good day all,
I have a PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition that suddenly stopped working. In looking around on the forums, I think the cause of the failure was a fully discharged battery (which I confirmed by testing the battery using a multi-meter). Leaving it plugged over the weekend did not seem to fix the problem so I ordered an external battery charger (and a serial cable for good measure). Seems that was a wise decision because even with a fully charged battery, the phone does not boot; neither from eMMC nor from the SD card.
When I connect the serial cable and try to boot up the phone, I see the following output:
This all seems normal except it never proceeds from there (I would expect more output). The output is the same whether I'm trying to boot from eMMC or the SD card.
Does this mean that the U-Boot on my device is corrupted? If that's the case, how would I go about flashing a new boot loader. The only guides I have found to do that so far seem to require that the device be booted already.
I have a PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition that suddenly stopped working. In looking around on the forums, I think the cause of the failure was a fully discharged battery (which I confirmed by testing the battery using a multi-meter). Leaving it plugged over the weekend did not seem to fix the problem so I ordered an external battery charger (and a serial cable for good measure). Seems that was a wise decision because even with a fully charged battery, the phone does not boot; neither from eMMC nor from the SD card.
When I connect the serial cable and try to boot up the phone, I see the following output:
Code:
U-Boot SPL 2020.07-rc4-2 (Nov 11 2020 - 21:49:00 +0000)
DRAM: 3072 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
NOTICE: BL31: v2.3(debug):9a34348
NOTICE: BL31: Built : 21:49:00, Nov 11 2020
NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner A64/H64/R18 SoC (1689)
NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x4064908, model: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2)
INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized
INFO: Configuring SPC Controller
INFO: PMIC: Probing AXP803 on RSBThis all seems normal except it never proceeds from there (I would expect more output). The output is the same whether I'm trying to boot from eMMC or the SD card.
Does this mean that the U-Boot on my device is corrupted? If that's the case, how would I go about flashing a new boot loader. The only guides I have found to do that so far seem to require that the device be booted already.
