Bricked Pinetab?

[fritz]

I hear ticking noise too at times of doing updates and restarting usually. After a couple power-off and power ons with the power button usually bounces back to either the distro on card or Ubuntu without card.

So far so good.

The clicking is the camera powering up

Good to know.. Sometimes the pinetab doesn’t reboot properly and that power up noise goes in an endless loop more softly if you put your ear to the back of the device probably hear the chip.  I use it as an indicator that the device has powered even if the screen hasn’t. I sometimes repeat hold power button on and off till screen returns.