Expectations

[alaraajavamma]

it SEEMS like I have the version where pressing vol_down makes it do er... something? but all it does is turn the LED blue.

this isnt documented AFAICT. Is it meant to go blue? I read that the *screen* is supposed to go blue, but that isn't happening either.

Hi and welcome to the forum.

To be honest I did not read your whole post .

What you need to do is this:
Download chosen Pinephone Pro image to your computer. I suggest that start with postmarketOS Phosh.
You can find it here:
https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/edge...0208-0145/

Then connect your Pinephone Pro to your computer using usb cable. Boot now your Pinephone Pro and press volume up all the time so long that the blue led will be on constantly.
Then use some image writing software (for example gnome disks) and flash that downloaded image to Pinephone Pro (which should be visible after these steps in gnome disks or similar).
Notice that some usb cables does not work correctly so if you don't see the device change cable.

You can find information here:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro
And you can also join to Pinephone channel  using matrix, irc, discord or telegram.
People are happy to help but notice that most things are all ready documented (for example that blue light thing is written in tow-boot home page)

And please also notice that Pinephone Pro software developement is pure community effort so people are doing it when they want to and when they have time to do something for free.