new phone asking for PIN

[krerichsen]

Hi all,

Just got my new phone and powered it on after charging and its asking for a PIN number.

Any ideas what this might be or how to get around it so I can add my own?

Thanks!
Joe

I'm getting the same challenge. According to the quick start guide in the original box, that's not supposed to happen. You should be prompted to create a username and PIN during the setup script which appears to have already been run by the time my phone arrived. The solution is to turn off the phone, pull the back off and fish the eMMC chip out and re-flash it with a USB to eMMC adapter plugged into a computer and writing a new image. Manjaro (what it shipped with) or about 16 other choices are on the PinePhone website. That's probably the easiest way to solve this. How it happened is probably not worth wasting time over given the ease of replacing the image.