I’m still fiddling with the phone , haven’t gotten it to turn on yet. Yeah I’ll leave the battery in the phone from now on. I’ll post when I get it going.
I tried all the suggestions. It will not start up. Light goes from green to yellow to red and phone vibrates about every 15 sec.The batteries are both in the high 90% of full charge because that’s what they show as when I put them into my other L5( not Byzantium) phone. Spare parts now it is.
(I wouldn’t take “putting it into another L5” as gospel. I think the other L5 can get confused by that. I would use a multimeter but let’s assume that the battery is fine i.e. working and charged.)
First check that it is not already installed. which uuu
Second, if it’s not already installed, do the install command as shown. If it’s in the Mint repo, it will install. If it’s not in the Mint repo, then it will immediately fail to install (no harm, no foul).
That means that the short answer to “Can I do this from Mint?” is “no”.
A longer answer is: Originally when I first received my Librem 5, uuu was also not in the repo for Ubuntu, so I used to git clone etc. to build uuu from sources - but subsequently uuu was made available in the Ubuntu repo.
@j8m2p6f, easiest (and safest) way might be to download and boot into PureOS Live GUI and from there: sudo apt update apt list uuu sudo apt install uuu
Now, as @joao.azevedo kindly explained, start to use Jumpdrive at the first place although just in temporary environment: lsusb | grep 8M uuu -lsusb
Jumpdrive method allows you to see and backup your files, etc. and, if needed or you decide so, ensures (prepares yourself) that the next reflash on your Librem 5 functions properly as well.
Yeah, no good. Obviously there are wider implications that I am completely ignorant of in your environment but if you were to upgrade to 21 or later then I believe your lack of uuu problem will go away.
Or you can use the Live Boot approach as suggested.
No, it is just temporary environment on your laptop or PC. There is no change to your currently installed OS there. After you are done with your session related to the Librem 5 recovery, you would just log out from the PureOS Live environment (make shutdown without any changes to your Mint permanent installations, nothing will be saved there).
After few of my thoughts related to avoid (in advance) some potential issues with the https://tracker.pureos.net/w/installation_guide/ on your hardware, like those that might popup after: “Make sure you followed the procedure to create a bootable USB drive”, you might want to use some other Debian based distro (that includes …), for example you should actually use one of this Live .iso images: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/. Everything else related to usage of Jumpdrive and uuu stays the same as you are here instructed from support@ Team to proceed (as thoroughly described within related post). This way you are about (just follow this path/direction) to solve your Linux phone booting issue there, for sure.
Get the phone into a state where it vibrates/blinks every 15sec.
Connect to your computer over USB
Hold the volume up button until it stops vibrating/color stays the same
Wait about 15s
Run lsusb on your computer.
6a. If lsusb shows the phone, it’s alive! But leave it alone for a couple hours to charge.
6b. Otherwise, leave it alone for a couple hours
6b1. Hold power button for 20s, go to 1.