[Solution] PinePhone - eMMC not showing up with low battery charge. Just pull the battery and it works fine.

[ghost]

Just wanted to share small tip. The readme says, in the case of the Pinephone:

WARNING: In case eMMC isn't showing up try to charge your battery and try again. There are reports of people not being able to flash to eMMC with discharged battery.

This happened to me. Battery was totally dead as I had not used the phone for a few months, and the eMMC storage wouldn't show up on my desktop.

I simply pulled the battery out of the phone and plugged it back into USB, and voila.. eMMC showed up without any trouble. Just flashed batteryless without any trouble at all. It is maybe worth noting this in the readme.

Cheers

[sven-frotscher]

Doesn't work for me, the PP gets stuck in a loop of

DRAM: 3072 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

without the battery.
With the battery, the splash screen and UART shell work, but no USB.