How long does the phone need to be chrarged prior to turning on the 1st time?

[awsdert]

Finally received it today, attempting to boot it up but despite having it on charge for at least an hour it still refuses to boot, though maybe it was expecting a micro SD card so I popped a 64GB one in, still no go, I do have a tesco sim card in there, would that cause it not to boot?

Edit: Just took out both and now it is booting

Edit 2: Still black screen with just the mouse cursor, does it really take this long to boot or did it perhaps expect something else I wasn't aware of, the booklet that came with indicates it should already have an OS via a built-in memory

Edit 3: With the help of Jumpdrive I finally got it to boot, still struggling to find the list of bootable OS's and links to their images though, someone mind pointing me in the right direction?

Edit 4: Never mind, I found the list. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_S...e_Releases

[rogerco]

Also got mine today. Battery voltage measured 4.05V so figured it should boot, popped in a gash sim (EE) and a 16GB SD (format Ext4) and it started up ok. Battery was at 25% so attached to a charger and started to do a system update (861MB) - worryingly it is now 39% through and the battery has dropped to 16% despite being on charger - need to find a beefier charger urgently...

[awsdert]

Also got mine today. Battery voltage measured 4.05V so figured it should boot, popped in a gash sim (EE) and a 16GB SD (format Ext4) and it started up ok. Battery was at 25% so attached to a charger  and started to do a system update (861MB) - worryingly it is now 39% through and the battery has dropped to 16% despite being on charger - need to find a beefier charger urgently...

That won't be the charger's fault, that'll be just down to inefficient software/drivers that are still being optimized