PSA: To everyone receiving your #PinePhone, please read the included documentation and consult our Wiki (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone) prior to use.
Make sure to place your SD and SIM cards in the correct slots; see attached illustration.
@PINE64 Why can't the software handle the cards being the other way around?
*Many* people have managed to put the wrong card in a given slot, despite the labeling, and end up ripping the contacts (or whole connector) off the board trying to get it back out. 🤷♂️
@PINE64 @louispearson I see. It's unfortunate that the connector isn't (can't be?) designed to prevent people making this mistake.
@PINE64 @louispearson @zwol I got my fist microSD card one or two weeks ago. Almost lost it immediately :]
I needed to look very carefully to not do it wrong but I managed. I'm not used to fiddling with fingernail-sized cards and slots.
The labeling is not great.
It's a 5x5 mm pictogram of two slightly overlapping cards. One with "SIM" written on it, the other with "TF". What does "TF" even stand for, "The Fuck"?
It sure doesn't mean microSD to me.
You can see it here: https://wiki.pine64.org/images/6/62/PinePhone_battery3.jpeg
@PINE64 @louispearson @zwol I looked it up. Apparently TF stood for Trans-Flash, the name microSD had until 2005. I don't know what it does on a phone 15 years later.
@louispearson @zwol @PINE64 Old-school USB-B connectors (like on printers) fit in ethernet connectors, that doesn't make them work.
Basically the same issue here. It's both rectangular holes
@martijnbraam
I made the mistake once, but realized it when the phone booted its original distro vs the sd card. To be fair, black on black micro-print is hard to read for us ancient types.
When I left town a few weeks ago I used the sim slot to store a spare sd with a different distro on it :-)
@louispearson @zwol @PINE64
@louispearson @PINE64 I Did Not Know That™. In fact, I thought the whole problem here was that they had exactly the same form factor and pinout, but the firmware could only handle the SIM card being in slot 0 for some reason.
If they're not physically compatible, then it ought to be impossible to make the mistake OP is warning about, so I don't understand what's going on.