I have flashed multiple distros to my Pinephone many times. However, now, Etcher is not picking up my Pinephone anymore.
The jumpdrive is 100% functioning (my Pinephone screen is visibly showing the jumpdrive graphic) but Etcher is still not showing the eMMc option (or whatever its called) in the list.
Any ideas on what is going on here? Any solution suggestions?
Yesterday, 12:44 AM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday, 12:46 AM by Kevin Kofler.)
Use a better tool. BalenaEtcher should not be used anyway, because it is privacy-invading spyware.
What to use instead depends on the operating system you use on your computer, which you have not specified: - On GNU/Linux, you have plenty of options. You can use dd from the CLI, or KDE ISO Image Writer, or GNOME Disks, etc.
- On Windows, if you insist on using that, try Rawrite32, it's simple (no Electron etc.), BSD-licensed, and free of ads and spyware.
- On macOS, if you insist on using that, you can use dd from the CLI, or possibly ports of the dd GUI frontends that you have on GNU/Linux.
I wonder why there are any people at all interested in the PinePhone who do not run GNU/Linux on their computer. If you are willing to run it even on your phone, where it is a totally niche option, surely you should have switched your computer to it years ago considering the state of desktop vs. mobile GNU/Linux.
(Yesterday, 12:44 AM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Use a better tool. BalenaEtcher should not be used anyway, because it is privacy-invading spyware.
What to use instead depends on the operating system you use on your computer, which you have not specified:- On GNU/Linux, you have plenty of options. You can use dd from the CLI, or KDE ISO Image Writer, or GNOME Disks, etc.
- On Windows, if you insist on using that, try Rawrite32, it's simple (no Electron etc.), BSD-licensed, and free of ads and spyware.
- On macOS, if you insist on using that, you can use dd from the CLI, or possibly ports of the dd GUI frontends that you have on GNU/Linux.
in case of "dd" and balenaetcher, i recommend commading "sync" afterwards, preferebly as a root or using sudo. syncing may not happen in all cases.
(Yesterday, 12:44 AM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: I wonder why there are any people at all interested in the PinePhone who do not run GNU/Linux on their computer. If you are willing to run it even on your phone, where it is a totally niche option, surely you should have switched your computer to it years ago considering the state of desktop vs. mobile GNU/Linux.
i may partially answer for this. i have used linux for years or is it decades at this point. but i'm also privacy advocate, which is additional argument for linux based operating systems. privacy wasn't my original reason why i started using linux.
windows 7 wasn't privacy nightmare. windows 10 started to have privacy issues and more in windows 11. if i take privacy as a point, windows is less worse than average android device. windows is still fixable, even it is difficult and tedious. that's why some people may use windows but seeking alternatives in smartphone world.
but linux distributions starting to be quite usable.
(Yesterday, 09:11 AM)zetabeta Wrote: in case of "dd" and balenaetcher, i recommend commading "sync" afterwards, preferebly as a root or using sudo. syncing may not happen in all cases.
If you add the option "conv=fsync" to the dd command line syncing is done automatically before dd exits.
(Yesterday, 12:44 AM)Kevin Kofler Wrote: Use a better tool. BalenaEtcher should not be used anyway, because it is privacy-invading spyware.
What to use instead depends on the operating system you use on your computer, which you have not specified:- On GNU/Linux, you have plenty of options. You can use dd from the CLI, or KDE ISO Image Writer, or GNOME Disks, etc.
- On Windows, if you insist on using that, try Rawrite32, it's simple (no Electron etc.), BSD-licensed, and free of ads and spyware.
- On macOS, if you insist on using that, you can use dd from the CLI, or possibly ports of the dd GUI frontends that you have on GNU/Linux.
I wonder why there are any people at all interested in the PinePhone who do not run GNU/Linux on their computer. If you are willing to run it even on your phone, where it is a totally niche option, surely you should have switched your computer to it years ago considering the state of desktop vs. mobile GNU/Linux.
I have run Manjaro on a laptop for a few years. Its a nice hobby but am simply not confident enough to daily drive it on my primary PC. I would love to. But I just am not there and thats really all there is to it.
And the Pinephone was just a nice little alt-comms hobby as well. Not a daily driver what so ever. At least not for me.
You have a good use case then for dual-boot or booting from a flash drive.
You can use whatever you like daily. But when it comes to doing things that work best in GNU/Linux, boot GNU/Linux.
:wq
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