(02-12-2021, 03:56 AM)moodroid Wrote: Hi. Doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong unfortunately. When i use etcher to write an image, e.g. mobian-pinephone-phosh-20201229.img.gz or pine64-pinephone.img.xz, to my SD card, then when I put my SD card into the phone, it will always boot from it. Assuming you've put your SD card the right way round into the upper slot, which I'm sure you have, then there doesn't sound like there's much else you can try. I suppose you could give the contacts on the card a bit of wipe and maybe blow into the slot on the phone? But unless anyone else can suggest anything, it sounds like you may have a hardware problem.
EDIT: I suppose yu could do some reading up on SD card compatibility, e.g. https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...&pid=78509 just in case you're very unlucky and have 2 incompatible ones?
EDIT2: I suppose the fact that it does something different when the SD is inserted is a good sign. Is your PP 2GB or 3GB as I think there were some issues on 3GB models with older images, but Jumprive 0.6 onwards should work as should the latest version of most OSs. Hope someone can come u with some ideas for you.
Thanks for the reply, I have been losing my mind for a whole day wondering what in the world was happening. I had a strong feeling it was the phone.. I just checked if my micro sd was a UHS-I and it is. found 2 other micro SD cards a 2GB and a 4GB (to use with JumpDrive) and sadly have the same issue.. I don't want to return the phone I would love to get this fixed and get it working but I will have to contact someone at pine64 if all else fails.. I have the 2GB model