03-01-2022, 09:39 AM
Problem description:
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In Angelfish browser. After downloading latest Manjaro Plasma image (20220301) to SDcard, I am unable to exit the web browser and escape back to the main / home screen. Nothing works -- swipe up from bottom, swipe down from top. Swipe left / right from sides brings up web browser menus.
Any tricks I am missing here?
Background:
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New PPP owner -- received yesterday, bricked yesterday.
I suspect I did a hard / power reset yesterday while an update was running in the background. In any event, the PPP would no longer boot. Symptoms were a flash at the lower center of the main screen, and a white LED flash at the top left of the phone. I observed a _very_ faint glow from the screen, so I knew it had power.
I managed to get it running this morning by flashing the 20220301 Manjaro Plasma image this morning onto a microSD card via my laptop running Ubuntu / KDE Plasma. Hard power down on the PPP (power button depressed until screen faint glow turned off.) Removed battery, inserted microSD card, re-inserted battery, then held down power button for a five count (one thousand one, one thousand two...) The upper left LED blinked red, and the phone buzzed/vibrated. Manjaro/Plasma booted. So the eMMC bootloader was not corrupted, just the OS image on the eMMC.
Went through the intitial setup, then launched Angelfish to download Manjaro image so I could re-flash the eMMC. Figure I'd like to have a bootable OS on the eMMC as a backup option to booting from a microSD -- so I plan on re-flashing the eMMC, but ran into this UI snafoo. Thought I'd ask about it.
TIA
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In Angelfish browser. After downloading latest Manjaro Plasma image (20220301) to SDcard, I am unable to exit the web browser and escape back to the main / home screen. Nothing works -- swipe up from bottom, swipe down from top. Swipe left / right from sides brings up web browser menus.
Any tricks I am missing here?
Background:
-----------------
New PPP owner -- received yesterday, bricked yesterday.
I suspect I did a hard / power reset yesterday while an update was running in the background. In any event, the PPP would no longer boot. Symptoms were a flash at the lower center of the main screen, and a white LED flash at the top left of the phone. I observed a _very_ faint glow from the screen, so I knew it had power.
I managed to get it running this morning by flashing the 20220301 Manjaro Plasma image this morning onto a microSD card via my laptop running Ubuntu / KDE Plasma. Hard power down on the PPP (power button depressed until screen faint glow turned off.) Removed battery, inserted microSD card, re-inserted battery, then held down power button for a five count (one thousand one, one thousand two...) The upper left LED blinked red, and the phone buzzed/vibrated. Manjaro/Plasma booted. So the eMMC bootloader was not corrupted, just the OS image on the eMMC.
Went through the intitial setup, then launched Angelfish to download Manjaro image so I could re-flash the eMMC. Figure I'd like to have a bootable OS on the eMMC as a backup option to booting from a microSD -- so I plan on re-flashing the eMMC, but ran into this UI snafoo. Thought I'd ask about it.
TIA