[SOLVED] Trouble flashing mobian to pinephone

ondoho · 08-30-2020, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binkyd

I guess it's time to put the phone away, write it off.

I'm still interested!

binkyd · 08-30-2020, 05:26 PM

I was wondering if you'd post on here, ha ha ha.

Anyway, at this point all I want to know is how to get passed my error and figure out where I'm supposed to bmap this file to.

Seems pretty basic for those who have experience, but I'm getting nowhere.

Mill J · 08-31-2020, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binkyd

I was wondering if you'd post on here, ha ha ha.

Anyway, at this point all I want to know is how to get passed my error and figure out where I'm supposed to bmap this file to.

Seems pretty basic for those who have experience, but I'm getting nowhere.

Before jumpdrive existed they booted the os and used Disk Destroyer(dd

) to copy the image over to emmc. Might try that.

P.S.
My PMOS CE phone is scheduled to be delivered in a week.

binkyd · 08-31-2020, 02:40 PM

Would have tried it already, except for the same destination problem; the mobian wiki says I'd do that from jumpdrive, too.

Are you saying if I booted from a MobianOS SD card, I could just use the famous Disk Destroyer right from the command line on the phone?

The wiki offers this command:

Code:

sudo dd bs=64k if=mobian-pinephone-YYYYMMDD.img of=/dev/mmcblkX status=progress

so I'd still have to ID the eMMC partition,no?

Going to make another SD card and check this out. Thanks!

Mill J · 08-31-2020, 03:06 PM

The following post from the Pine64 forum might be useful https://forum.pine64.org/showthread....72424#pid72424

It appears from that post that you need to target the entire emmc drive not a partition on the drive. From my Raspberry pi experience this would make sense. This would of course replace ubports but I can't see how that would be a problem since you can reflash that OS any time you want.

I recommend reading the rest of the thread as well.

Edit: this might not be very useful after all.

binkyd · 08-31-2020, 03:54 PM

I read through the whole thread, and I'm just mystified:

Quote:

The eMMC is the first block device, and the uSD the second.

Well, he refers to a list that I can't make sense of, not something from "lsblk"

And it looks like that, too, says "flash to "/sdX" not "sdXn"

But when I try that, we go back to my earlier question: how do I unmount "sdX" when it says it's not mounted. Then how is it "busy"??

(@ondoho, I'm afraid I'm approaching the point of printing all my attempts to get help, and then sending them to Pinephone, wrapped neatly around the phone, which I will have taken a sledgehammer to and turned into dust.

)

And as a final note, perhaps ALL the folks involved in these projects should take my signature to heart

Mill J · 08-31-2020, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binkyd

I read through the whole thread, and I'm just mystified:

Well, he refers to a list that I can't make sense of, not something from "lsblk"

And it looks like that, too, says "flash to "/sdX" not "sdXn"

But when I try that, we go back to my earlier question: how do I unmount "sdX" when it says it's not mounted. Then how is it "busy"??

(@ondoho, I'm afraid I'm approaching the point of printing all my attempts to get help, and then sending them to Pinephone, wrapped neatly around the phone, which I will have taken a sledgehammer to and turned into dust.

)

And as a final note, perhaps ALL the folks involved in these projects should take my signature to heart

That list is found by running

Code:

dmsg

after connecting the phone.

Ok. What what os are you using on your computer? Does it auto mount all inserted drives? Can you mount and look at the emmc drive from the file manager? Can you also unmount anything from file manager?

Can you post the output of

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

If you know what you are doing i think you can use the -f option when unmounting a drive.

ondoho · 08-31-2020, 11:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binkyd

(@ondoho, I'm afraid I'm approaching the point of printing all my attempts to get help, and then sending them to Pinephone, wrapped neatly around the phone, which I will have taken a sledgehammer to and turned into dust.

)

Well before you do please PM me, I will make you an offer.
You are in Europe, yes?

linmob · 09-01-2020, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by binkyd

But when I try that, we go back to my earlier question: how do I unmount "sdX" when it says it's not mounted. Then how is it "busy"??

Well, /dev/sde is the disk, /dev/sde1, /dev/sde2 etc. are the partitions, one of them might be mounted (lsblk should tell you more about that). The disk can't be written when a partition is mounted. Therefore, always type

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sde*

because that un-mounts every partition and the drive. Sorry if the guides aren't detailed enough sometimes, as – once you've done this a couple times – you just forget that someone could not know this. Hope this helps!

The upside to all the frustration with hardware like the PinePhone is that it can be a great learning opportunity.

binkyd · 09-01-2020, 02:00 PM

Wahoo! Thank you thank you linmob

That little asterisk is what I was missing - I had no idea it could fit there.

It's now merrily copying!

4:00 pm

We're golden. Almost everything seems to work fine, except that the camera is glitchy. I never use that anyway.

Major iomprovement with mobian.

Thanks all mucho !!!

binkyd · 09-04-2020, 01:01 PM

And there's absolutely no issue with the battery in Mobian, not like in UBports.

ondoho · 09-05-2020, 04:49 AM

^ great, so how long does it last?
Can you make phone calls, send SMS, have mobile broadband (not WiFi)?