Important note about the new MNT Pocket Reform kernel and firmware updates 20260819 (updated)

Solved: See below at Edit2

Hello, I think I restarted when I shouldn’t have after upgrading my system. It’s hard to tell because I was also trying to adjust my wifi antenna at the same time so I had the top plate open.

My usual process is doing this:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

# Restart computer

sudo apt autoremove

This time, after I restarted the computer, my Pocket got stuck in the boot up sequence. It constantly spews the same message and posts “driver failed to report ‘status’ property: -16”

I have tried to create a recovery SD card, plugged it in, rebooted, and still receive the following logs. Is there anything else I can try?

Edit: I see someone posted the same issue as me Important note about the new MNT Pocket Reform kernel and firmware updates 20260819 (updated) - #26 by habasud but mine is not booting into the SD recovery at all. I’ll try to leave it on for a few minutes to see if it’ll eventually boot in.

Edit2: I was able to boot into my OS just fine without an SD recovery - I just had to leave it on for a few minutes even with the flood of logs as in the screenshot. I just updated everything per instructions and rebooted. I still saw the messages just like in my screenshot. It wasn’t until I toggled the standby power switch to “off” then back “on” did it seem to boot normally. My waybar was not showing after logging in, though, so I started the GNOME firmware program and realized I didn’t upgrade the “Pocket Reform System” After doing so, I restarted, and everything is good now.

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