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Re:PinePhone Beta by niels2 on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:06PM (#26519422)
Bought a Manjaro version in December. The thing just fried itself when I pressed the restart button in the GUI. With no sign of life, several tries, and only 5 minutes af total use.
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Re:PinePhone Beta by dleslie on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:36PM (#26519654)
Mine did the same.

After digging, I found it was because the charging logic has a bug that fails hard when the battery gets to a certain voltage.

The fix, and I'm not kidding here, is to remove the battery and plug/unplug it a few dozen times; then put the battery back in and plug it in. Repeat until it works again.

I did this for five minutes and it came back to life; I've read of it taking a half hour for some folks.

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Re:PinePhone Beta by simfree on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:24PM (#26519559)
Did you email Pine64? They are a touch slow to communicate, but they are generally pretty good about replacements and sending parts even if they list them as out of stock on their website.
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