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Okay, I'm not sure if I should post this here on the boards or in the kernel mailing list... but if no one really has any ideas here, I'll try the mailing list :) This post is probably one for experienced devs and Linux users. What's it all about? Well, we all know that the Pyra eats quite a...

Just some quick news inbetween: 1000 of the new case sets have been produced and are on the way to us. Then they're going to be painted and afterwards we'll hopefully have a much easier time assembling and shipping units. In the meantime, we're still shipping albeit slowly as we're still using...

Some more thoughts about that: The OMAP5432 can get really warm, as we already know. Sadly, we don't know the TDP value (which basically says how hot it gets). The RK3568 is the SoC used in the Anbernic RG503. It doesn't have ANY cooling. Not even a small heatpad. It just sits on the board...

Wow, awesome release, thanks :D

Well, the problem is that the battery contacts we use are not the ones we originally planned to. The contacts we wanted to use had higher springs - but they're out of production. The one we use now are the highest ones available... But they're not high enough to work properly. A battery with a...

Yes, we have 550 or so boards fully finished (these are the ones we're currently assembling) and we order the next batch when we finished the first 300 units, approximately (so not so far off). A new CPU board is farther away, but once it's finished, we'll switch over to that one, so in case...

Huh? I usually reply to all discord / whatsapp or whatever chats pretty fast. Did you DM me? That said, I have no idea when you will receive your unit yet.

I also don't see any reason to update the screen. The LCD is pretty good, the resolution perfect for the size.

Well, yes, it depends on what you want to do with it. If you mostly want it for gaming / emulators, then there's the GPD Win series or also a lot of chinese handhelds. If you want a nice Linux Mini PC, the GPD Micro PC is actually pretty nice. But true, they are not exactly what the Pyra aims...

The Rk3399 is years old, so it uses more power. It's the old flagship from Rockchip. The new one is the RK3588.

No, everything should be enabled, and it looks like the Wifi hardware is there. Aaahhh... that reminds me... I think we once had a U-Boot / MLO combination that sometimes for some reason had a non-working USB! Could be the MLO / U-Boot we had on our flasher card was that old one! I need to...

They are usually not available, they're made exclusively for the RasPi. AND it runs hot and needs cooling.

Hm, Askarus assembled these Pyras, I hope he didn't forget to check the wifi in these. It could also be a bug in the current image, as I have not yet tested it myself. Can you check the kernel log if there is anything about the wl driver? Some timeouts or communication errors. dmesg |...

The RK3568 is about as fast as the Raspberry Pi 4. For emulators which often run single core, it shouldn't be a lot faster than the OMAP5, but it should use significantly less power. The Cortex A15 IS a beast, it's a lot more powerful than most here think, but it's only 32bit and the OMAP5 has...

It wasn't an upgrade to a new major version, I only do security updates until the software I use (in this case Xenforo) gets a new major version as well, as in this case I need to retest everything anyways. No idea why, but for some reason the security update disabled the cache which was the...

Hmm, maybe the Rk3588 would be better? it costs 5x as much as the RK35688 (so about 100 EUR) and I'm not sure about the heating. well, a consumer version exists, so it should work reasonably well with passive cooling.

Well, I think that's an issue with all high-power devices: The more the battery is stressed, the shorter it lives. Combined with the higher temperatures these devices have, batteries won't last that long

Well, they have improved, the later devices are getting better batteries (the GPD Win 1 one was horrible), but yeah, they die pretty easy. Probably because the devices produce a lot of heat AND they really suck a LOT of power from the batteries.

Yes, the upper part stays exactly the same. I'm not sure how easily the sticker can be removed. It won't tear, but you probably need a bit of glue to reattach it and you will visible see that it had been removed already. It's on the PCB, so not attached anywhere on the case. They're easy to...

Nice find :) And yeah, stuff like Ar Tonelic could work well. Though we don't know how much that will heat up the CPU :)