Well I'm officially the worst procrastinator. At least I'm in the big leagues. I waited so long to buy the 3GB/32GB #Pinephone mainboard for BH &UBports owners at discount that it sold out in the meantime. Now, as of today the regular price mainboard is sold out as well.
Seems like I'm stuck with my UBports CE with flaky SD card slot for the time being.
Hm, I don't know how willing you're to play arround, but I could offer you my time travelling mainboard.
The sdcard slot always worked like a charm.
You could practice the exchange of the board while waiting for your Rev 1.2b board.
And you could make sure that you're sdcard problem is a hardware problem (and at the same time that the time travelling problem is a hardware problem also).
You'd have to pay the shipping though (5,55€ or ~0,000354157₿ or anything of that value :) )
@chrichri
Hi, sorry for the late reply! I'd be interested, although what's that about a "time traveling mainboard"? Do you mean it cannot keep time?
Also I'm in Canada, don't know if it matters for shipping.
In the past few days I've been unable to mount two separate cards. dmesg indicates
mmc0: problem reading SD Status register
sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: data error, sending stop command
sunxi-mmc 1c0f000.mmc: send stop command failed
mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card
1/2
@chrichri
At this point I don't have much doubt that the card reader is at fault. I also had these issues on Ubuntu Touch prior to flashing Mobian. With no idea when the mainboads will be back in stock, I'm even considering getting a completely new #Pinephone. Or maybe a used one if it's fully functional.
2/2
@chrichri
More info, the card is now detected after ~45min but there's a superblock error.
fsck reports:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
Is there any specific way I should format an SD card for the PP? I use Ubuntu.
Thanks.
Filesystem for sdcard in #pinephone
Your ubuntu is a linux and your pinephone runs linux. There might be different kernel versions with different filesystem drivers and the different kernels might support different systems.
But in general for the well known filesystems you'll be able to use them in your pinephone the same way you use them in your ubuntu computer.
Things to consider are how well a filesystem treats your flash memory and how performant it is on flash.
@chrichri
Yeah, I've been a Ubuntu user for more than 10 years, I've formated my storage devices to ext4 for a long time, but using GUI tools. I was just wondering if there was a specific method for the #Pinephone. This is really annoying.
I've got a 32GB card with a working JumpDrive 0.6, I checked again yesterday. I want to keep it and not format it, in case I need it...
I'm pissed I got a 128GB card and can't freaking use it... ☹️