I upgrade my firmware on my original pinephone 3gb months ago the manual way. This is so much easier. Also the new firmware is significantly better at waking the device from sleep and actually maintaining a 4g connection. Thanks for the posting the video. I like that you are posting on a regular basis as of late. Keep up the good work.
During the summer, I switched to the opensource firmware (Using Arch and Phosh if I recall correctly. Now I use PMOS) and it worked flawlessly... ... for a couple days. Then I vent on vacation to Bulgaria and as soon as I crossed the borders of my country (czech republic), the modem started behaving weirdly. It disappeared from the OS but it still sometimes reconnected. When I got to Bulgaria, it started to be rarer and rarer to see the modem online. When I returned home, I couldn't fix the modem behavior. I tried reflashing the 0.6.7 version, downgrading and when the version 0.6.8 came out, I tried updating as well. Tried it with the SIM card both installed and removed and it just wouldn't work. It would be always the same: I would boot up my PinePhone, I would wait for the modem to show up, I'd open this gui firmware manager to try to flashing new firmware. The firmware always downloaded without any issues but when it tried to restart the modem to be able to flash it, the modem wouldn't show up so it would just tell me that it couldn't flash the firmware. I had to stop daily driving my PinePhone because I need a phone with working calls and SMS (who would have guessed 😆) but recently, I stumbled upon the Github page for the firmware and found some troubleshooting tutorials. The problem is, every one of them needs the modem to be listed by the lsusb command which isn't the case for me. I also tried shorting the two pins that one of the tutorials recommended and booting the phone up with them shorted but it didn't do anything (I tried a couple times as doing it with only two hands is kinda hard to do) and now I don't know what to try next. Do I have to buy a new mainboard or is there still a way to fix it? I'm not as educated about these things as I'd like so I have no idea what to do. I know that the headphone jack can be switched to UART mode but I don't even know what that's for 😆. Do you have any advice?
I upgrade my firmware on my original pinephone 3gb months ago the manual way. This is so much easier. Also the new firmware is significantly better at waking the device from sleep and actually maintaining a 4g connection. Thanks for the posting the video. I like that you are posting on a regular basis as of late. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for posting this, looking forward to testing it out more now that I have a SIM card.
During the summer, I switched to the opensource firmware (Using Arch and Phosh if I recall correctly. Now I use PMOS) and it worked flawlessly...
... for a couple days. Then I vent on vacation to Bulgaria and as soon as I crossed the borders of my country (czech republic), the modem started behaving weirdly. It disappeared from the OS but it still sometimes reconnected. When I got to Bulgaria, it started to be rarer and rarer to see the modem online.
When I returned home, I couldn't fix the modem behavior. I tried reflashing the 0.6.7 version, downgrading and when the version 0.6.8 came out, I tried updating as well. Tried it with the SIM card both installed and removed and it just wouldn't work. It would be always the same: I would boot up my PinePhone, I would wait for the modem to show up, I'd open this gui firmware manager to try to flashing new firmware.
The firmware always downloaded without any issues but when it tried to restart the modem to be able to flash it, the modem wouldn't show up so it would just tell me that it couldn't flash the firmware.
I had to stop daily driving my PinePhone because I need a phone with working calls and SMS (who would have guessed 😆) but recently, I stumbled upon the Github page for the firmware and found some troubleshooting tutorials. The problem is, every one of them needs the modem to be listed by the lsusb command which isn't the case for me. I also tried shorting the two pins that one of the tutorials recommended and booting the phone up with them shorted but it didn't do anything (I tried a couple times as doing it with only two hands is kinda hard to do) and now I don't know what to try next.
Do I have to buy a new mainboard or is there still a way to fix it? I'm not as educated about these things as I'd like so I have no idea what to do. I know that the headphone jack can be switched to UART mode but I don't even know what that's for 😆. Do you have any advice?
Any Idea what is going on if it says "No Releases Available" refreshing Meta Data makes no change. Does it have to have a sim card for update?