PinePhone won't boot
11-08-2020, 11:36 AM
Hello everyone
I got my "Manjaro Community Edition with Convergence Package" a couple of days ago and tried to set the phone up yesterday.
The first time I tried to boot it, I just removed the battery seal, connected it to USB power and gave it a go with no SIM and no SD inserted. A red LED in the upper left corner of the phone started to light up, but the screen did not do anything. After maybe 15 seconds the red LED went off. I retried several times to power on the phone, but it would just not boot.
I assumed that maybe there is no OS on the internal memory, so I went ahead, downloaded beta1-20201104 of Manjaro Phosh and burned it to the SD with dd.
I then inserted the SD into the PinePhone and tried to start it up several times. All I ever got was the red LED. After maybe 10 attempts to boot the PinePhone, the screen was finally lid and I saw the Manjaro logo alongside a loading animation for about a minute before the device has switched itself off again. I was unable to make it boot ever since. All I ever see is the red LED.
I tried to find my way around the wiki, but couldn't find a useful starting point for my case.
Should I try to have a look at the logs on the SD?
Many thanks for your help in advance.
PD: I am new to Linux.
I got my "Manjaro Community Edition with Convergence Package" a couple of days ago and tried to set the phone up yesterday.
The first time I tried to boot it, I just removed the battery seal, connected it to USB power and gave it a go with no SIM and no SD inserted. A red LED in the upper left corner of the phone started to light up, but the screen did not do anything. After maybe 15 seconds the red LED went off. I retried several times to power on the phone, but it would just not boot.
I assumed that maybe there is no OS on the internal memory, so I went ahead, downloaded beta1-20201104 of Manjaro Phosh and burned it to the SD with dd.
I then inserted the SD into the PinePhone and tried to start it up several times. All I ever got was the red LED. After maybe 10 attempts to boot the PinePhone, the screen was finally lid and I saw the Manjaro logo alongside a loading animation for about a minute before the device has switched itself off again. I was unable to make it boot ever since. All I ever see is the red LED.
I tried to find my way around the wiki, but couldn't find a useful starting point for my case.
Should I try to have a look at the logs on the SD?
Many thanks for your help in advance.
PD: I am new to Linux.