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    Problems with PinePhone Builds

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        A Former User @LinAdmin
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        @LinAdmin How did you write the image? Have you tried with another SD card? Have you tried writing it on the eMMC?

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          LinAdmin @Guest
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          @C0n57an71n I did write the image on sdcard using dd.
          Running fsck after showed that all data has been corectly written. Using a different card makes no difference at all.
          I won't try it on eMMC before the system on sd-card is ok.

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            A Former User @LinAdmin
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            @LinAdmin On which desktop OS are you doing the image writing?

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              LinAdmin @Guest
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              @C0n57an71n Debian Buster. Many other distros do boot as expected.

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                A Former User @LinAdmin
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                @LinAdmin That means that you have Disks app? If yes, could you double-click on the image and see if the Disks app ask you if you want to recover the image and where?

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                  LinAdmin @Guest
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                  @C0n57an71n Sorry, I so not understand.

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                    A Former User @LinAdmin
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                    @LinAdmin The image file that you have downloaded, double-click on it an see what it does.

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                      LinAdmin @Guest
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                      @C0n57an71n What do you expect to happen when on Linux a raw file is tried to execute???

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                        A Former User @LinAdmin
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                        @LinAdmin Screenshot from 2020-11-19 13-11-26.png

                        This is what happens in Ubuntu 20.04!!!

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                          LinAdmin @Guest
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                          @C0n57an71n Thank you for the screenshot. Since I had no Ubuntu system ready, I installed gnome-disk-utility
                          and ran "gnome-disks --restore-disk-image=ubuntu-touch-pinephone.img.xz".
                          This resulted in the same screen as you showed and installed the image directly to the sd-card.

                          Obviously gnome-disk did not detect that the backup of GPT table was at the wrong place. I did repair this as usual using gdisk.
                          I am convinced that this gives the same result as using xz to decompress and dd to write to the sd-card.
                          And indeed when placing the card in the phone it only shows the pine logo and then the ubuntu boot screen.

                          This has now happened with #87 to #89. The last 'working' image had been #82.

                          So there remains the question who else has success using these new images and who does just upgrade from old ones?

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                            A Former User @LinAdmin
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                            @LinAdmin I'll try to write the latest image on my Pinephone (SD card and eMMC) tonight/tomorrow morning and let you know how it went. You could insert the SD-card in the phone, and try writing the image on the card, but with the phone connected to the laptop.

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                              A Former User @LinAdmin
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                              @LinAdmin With the latest image that I have on the phone, I can confirm that it tries like 2 times to boot and then it works. Did you gave it enough time to do its thing?

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                                LinAdmin @Guest
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                                @C0n57an71n Yes I always waited long enough. What image # have you used to flash now?

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                                  A Former User @LinAdmin
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                                  @LinAdmin I'm on stable. Latest update was on 29.10.2020. I need to look from a PC because Morph doesn't show me the link to the right image on ci.ubports and the Pinephone doesn't show me in settings.

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                                    A Former User @LinAdmin
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                                    @LinAdmin That will be 86.

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                                      A Former User @LinAdmin
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                                      @LinAdmin So I've flashed the latest image on an SD card and boot it from it. After it tried 2 times, it skiped and booted from eMMC instead. So yeah. The latest images might be broken, that could explain why my Pinephone didn't update to them automatically. You can give it a try with version 86, that one works for me.

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                                        OhneZ
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                                        Hello, I have a short question about this. I have 3 channels in the Pinephone to choose from: dev(298), RC(15) or stable (8). What version is in the link above ? The version (88 or 86) is more stable ? and would the normal OTA updates run here as well ?
                                        I am a bit confused. I hope you can help me with simply clear Words.

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                                          Keneda @OhneZ
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                                          @OhneZ

                                          OTA should be on any channel, however stable channel is the more stable version of uTouxh and you should go to that one if you want the stabler experience.

                                          RC can be a second choice, more up to date but little less stable.

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                                            A Former User @OhneZ
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                                            @OhneZ The latest stable version is 89 , but for some reason it doesn't work. My last update on the Pinephone is to version 86 and for some reason, my phone didn't update to the newer versions.

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                                              A Former User @OhneZ
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                                              @OhneZ So I have switched to RC channel and back to stable and it updated to version 8 so I guess that's the latest stable image.

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