Updated today , now phone won't turn on/start up

Hardware Librem 5
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Can you try to use jumpdrive to check the status of the /boot partition?

To do that:

On your computer with GNU/Linux system:

  • Install the package uuu, on PureOS and other Debian based systems, from a terminal run the command: sudo apt install uuu
  • Open terminal and run command: mkdir jumpdrive && cd jumpdrive (creates new folder and changes location to it)
  • Download: wget https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/purism-librem5.tar.xz
  • Unpack: tar -xf purism-librem5.tar.xz

Put the Librem 5 in uuu mode:

  • Ensure that the phone is switched off.
  • Turn all Hardware-Kill-Switches off
  • Remove battery
  • Hold button volume-up
  • Insert the USB-C cable: (red light blinks, no green light)
  • Reinsert the battery: (red light is constantly on, the script will continue)
  • Release volume-up

To confirm that the device is in uuu mode, in the terminal run the command lsusb and search the following for an entry like:

001 Device 106: ID 1fc9:012b NXP Semiconductors i.MX 8M Dual/8M QuadLite/8M Quad Serial Downloader

Run the script: `sudo ./boot-purism-librem5.sh`

Once it is run the L5 will show up as an external drive, there will be a 465 MiB drive and a 28.7 GiB drive:

  • open the 465 MiB one, that is the boot partiton

Can you run the commands: df -h and ls -alh on the /boot partition and send the output.

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