Bookworm

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WHOOP'S   *   Well that is Beta testing for you.

I have been running a Mobian nightly release on sd card from sometime in July on a PMOS Convergent phone just 'out of the box' with updates,  for my daily driver.

Yesterday I exchanged texts with an AT&T help rep, for well over 100 texts, and hours,   and I finally got my data issues resolved with them.

Then I spent 2 hours on hold,  before finally talking to a rep at Pure Talk,   when I did get through,  it only took a few minutes to get my "Hot Spot" up and running
on my Pine "Test" phones.
> It turns out you just have to "ask" them to turn it on,  as Hot Spot is off by default.

So I was 'on the phone'  much more than usual  yesterday.  Then I put the phone on the charger and left it for a while.

> Later when going out to a family birthday party, I picked up the phone and it would not open when I bumped the power button,  I tried several times,  nothing....
After trying to do a "Hard shutdown"  it still did nothing.  Holding the power button for 22+ seconds it appeared to do a 'restart'  but after a long wait,
      The Mobian logo flashed for about a second, then it went to a dark blue screen and stayed there.

I did try many times again, but all I could get was a quick glimpse of the Mobian logo  ...  occasionally.

SO...

Later I installed the latest Mobian Nightly,  the phone is fine again, everything I tried is working as normal.

There were a few "Links"  in some of the lost texts that I wish I had not lost,  but other than that no big loss....

I keep a paper copy of my "Contacts"  so nothing was actually lost there.  Just a little effort to type them into the New OS.

>>> The Point Being :  This is a "Beta Testing" operating  system !   Remember the disclaimer in the store, this is NOT an end user device.

  I am NOT disappointed, ...  Rather the opposite,     The Pine phone,  and "This" Operating system -  have both exceeded any promises ever made.

That sounds like a dead battery to me. If the battery gets low enough it has a hard time booting so it can charge. The last time it happened to me I the phone on a charger for a few days (I have VOIP so it's not critical) and eventually it worked itself out. If you have one of the standalone battery chargers that probably works better.