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Sadly I had a similar experience. Actually had the Pro too, which was even more of a pain, IIRC because of having to press a reset button to boot with a pin, it was really bad. The OG Pinephone eventually would freeze every time I ran apk update on Postmarketos, I think the internal mmc went bad after a year.

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The eMMC issue sounds like really bad luck - mine is still fine after more than three years (although I have moved on to other mobile Linux devices a year ago, since they are faster).

What are the good Linux mobile devices nowadays? I still believe in mobile linux, but not necessarily Pine..

There's no reset button on Pinephone Pro. So this is a bit curious...

It may have been an early version. I tried to look it up but seems the Pine forums are down..

On early version reset button can't be used to override boot rom boot order. It's just a literal SoC reset button. Newer revisions have RE button, that can override it.

So if it was early revision, I can understand the frustration.

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