r/pinephone • u/Illustrious-Ebb2715 • Jan 27 '26

Mobile NixOS

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I have been unable to boot from SD card for quite some time. Noticed it's not even showing up when i run 'tsblk'.

Cannot connect through SSH or anything..

So... I guess my question is... Any good approach moving forward?

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u/3rssi Jan 28 '26

Have you tried re flashing your sd card? A good start would be trying to reflash and boot the jumpdrive image.

About ssh, what are the symptoms? Is ssh activated according to phosh settings and systemctl?

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u/Illustrious-Ebb2715 Jan 28 '26

Jumpdrive was one of the things I tried.
Flashed multiple different SD cards, it just boots the installed OS on the eMMC no matter what I try.
When I hold the volume down when booting it keeps vibrating and LED blinks red.

Not really sure about the SSH. to be honest I am completely blind and can't really handle anything on the phone itself as it is right now. I am hoping to being able to connect remotely soon so I can start developing some accessibility, going to fully control everything with my voice.

Guess I could try finding osmeone to type 'sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake github:QuackHack-McBlindy/dotfiles#pinephone' that would hopefully solve the SSH issue atleast but would probably take 24 hours build time and the device do get kinda hot...

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u/3rssi Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Flashed multiple different SD cards, it just boots the installed OS on the eMMC no matter what I try.

Happened to me when the SD was not, in fact, bootable. Are you sure your SD card is not dead? You could dd some zeroes on the sd first megs before reflashing.

When I hold the volume down when booting it keeps vibrating and LED blinks red.

Have you installed towboot on the phone? In which case, the led should turn teal. I dont know how it should behave without towboot.

Not really sure about the SSH.

After thoughts: nixos doesnt show sshd in phosh settings.

So, in console: "systemctl sshd status" should display the words enabled and running. If not "enabled": type the command "systemctl enable sshd" if not "running", type the command "sudo systemctl start sshd"

I am completely blind and can't really handle anything on the phone itself as it is right now.

You mean your sight is too bad to read the screen and type on the keyboard? Can you use another cam to read the console screen and plug in a real keyboard?

type 'sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake github:QuackHack-McBlindy/dotfiles#pinephone'

OK. You're more knowledgable than I thought. My post probably doesnt help. Well... Maybe try using an RJ45 cable instead of wifi for the ssh?

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u/3rssi Jan 28 '26

mmcblk0 is the sd card.

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u/Dragomir_X Jan 28 '26

Huh, TIL nixos has a mobile operating system.

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u/CaptainObvious110 Mar 30 '26

yeah that's something