charging indicator

[nristen]

Update:

I followed the new additional instructions added on the wiki: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...structions

located in the section in blue beginning with:
If the battery is fully drained U-Boot might fail...

After letting it charge for about 6 hours, I am now getting a response however it still fails to fully boot.

After hitting the power button for two seconds to turn it on, a spinning indicator comes on for about 2 seconds then it goes to a blank screen with a tiny pointer that I can move around the screen by touching the display.  If I hit the power button again it goes back to the spinning icon for a few seconds before the screen goes black.

I am wondering if the boot failure is the result of the failure to update the system when I first got the phone when I tried to update using the discover app and then tried using pacman -Syu.

Does anyone else have any knowledge of what the black screen with the tiny pointer indicates?

I have also tried to boot with an sd card by holding down the power button for 5 - 8 seconds but I get the same results.

If the boot is broken on your eMMC,   perhaps the sd card will boot with the short 2 second power button press ?

Just a thought.

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Curious :  what OS did you put on your sd card ?

I have tried the SD card with Manjaro ARM plasma for pinephone pro (20220129 and 20220130) - I have been unable to get the phone to boot from either.  I have tried holding the power button down for 5 to 6 seconds and holding down the reset button while hitting the power button.

I have ordered the serial to USB cable and the external battery charger but expect those to take several weeks to arrive.

I will also probably try to make a video showing what I have attempted to see if that provides any further insight into what I might be doing wrong.