PinePhone's LED is blinking, but doesn't start
09-06-2024, 02:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2024, 05:49 AM by zvavybir.
Edit Reason: Added notice that I solved it and how
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I normally turn my phone on by taking out the battery, putting it back in and then plugging in the charging cable. Since yesterday though this will not start it, but just cause it's LED to blink until I disconnect the charging cable (if I don't disconnect it, the blinking goes for hours until I *do* disconnect it) and it probably looses power (The battery is empty right now I think), so can't go on. How to get it to start again?
I'm running Manjaro Plasma Mobile and searching the internet didn't yield anything.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: It's solved now. A couple days after posting this thread I went to a trip to my parents (and forgot my forum password, so couldn't write earlier) and when I tried to show them how my phone doesn't work, it surprisingly actually did work again for the first time in a couple days. Since then it now reliably worked like before, so this issue is solved, but sadly this means I can't document how I solved it.
Edit2: A couple days ago it again failed, which of course was annoying, but I just got it to work again again and I now know the problem: Wrong charging cable. I recently started to use a different charging cable because I was of the impression that it's better (which now seems not to be the case) and since then it didn't work, but I just changed it back and now it works again (this also explains why it worked at my parents' because there I used their charging cable, not mine).
tl;dr: Use a different charging cable.
I'm running Manjaro Plasma Mobile and searching the internet didn't yield anything.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: It's solved now. A couple days after posting this thread I went to a trip to my parents (and forgot my forum password, so couldn't write earlier) and when I tried to show them how my phone doesn't work, it surprisingly actually did work again for the first time in a couple days. Since then it now reliably worked like before, so this issue is solved, but sadly this means I can't document how I solved it.
Edit2: A couple days ago it again failed, which of course was annoying, but I just got it to work again again and I now know the problem: Wrong charging cable. I recently started to use a different charging cable because I was of the impression that it's better (which now seems not to be the case) and since then it didn't work, but I just changed it back and now it works again (this also explains why it worked at my parents' because there I used their charging cable, not mine).
tl;dr: Use a different charging cable.
