Pinephone pro ee bricked?
#1
Hello,
I made a mistake and accidentally erased the SPI flash in the Tow Boot menu on my PinePhone Pro EE. I had Kali NetHunter Pro flashed to an SD card and to the eMMC, and everything was working fine until yesterday when I mistakenly hit "Erase SPI Flash" instead of "Power Off." After erasing it, I was able to boot into my eMMC Kali one last time before powering off. However, since then, the phone has shown no signs of life, except when I connect it to my PC, where it appears as an unknown device instead of being recognized as a PinePhone Pro like it used to. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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#2
(Yesterday, 03:05 AM)dennylee Wrote: Hello,
I made a mistake and accidentally erased the SPI flash in the Tow Boot menu on my PinePhone Pro EE. I had Kali NetHunter Pro flashed to an SD card and to the eMMC, and everything was working fine until yesterday when I mistakenly hit "Erase SPI Flash" instead of "Power Off." After erasing it, I was able to boot into my eMMC Kali one last time before powering off. However, since then, the phone has shown no signs of life, except when I connect it to my PC, where it appears as an unknown device instead of being recognized as a PinePhone Pro like it used to. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

sounds easy this time. re-install spi flash, spare sdcard is needed though.

https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html

https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/releases

you probably want:

https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/rel...007.tar.xz

there is installer image inside, boot that and you have options.
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#3
Why the heck does Kali Nethunter Pro even have an "Erase SPI Flash" menu entry? Erasing it is basically never what you want, overwriting it with a different bootloader usually is. And why the heck does that destructive action not even ask for confirmation?
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#4
https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter-pro/

Since it's for "pen testing", maybe it's to intentionally brick your phone when the cops blue team are about to grab the infiltration squad?
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