Cannot boot from microSD

[pizzalovingnerd]

My MicroSD card won't click in, I have to use the tray that opens the microSD slot in order to hold it in. (It came like this)

That doesn't sound right. Have you taken the unit apart at all? When I first did that the sd slot didn't align properly after reassembling it. I had to take it apart again to get it properly accessible. Now, as others have said, it is difficult to access but it clicks in. It's on a spring clip (like on the pbp not the pinephone), if you're not getting that effect it might be worth trying to take it apart and (carefully!) reassemble so it's aligned properly. But be very careful, that's how I snapped my screen.

I verified it was a hardware issue in the Pine64 PineTab chat, and I disassembled it after I found this out because of a teardown video I was thinking about making that I never made.