GPD Win (x86 Computer / Palmtop)

[Maschinenherz]

Question: i have the device on my tv and on charger the last few days days, as i got it a few days ago and use it to watch streams an downloading steam games on a slow connection. Is that the problem, so it doesn't see the real battery capacity? Or was it the hub all along? Remembers me of charging my phone with a faulty cable, where it statet 100 perct, but the battery died way faster

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[Maschinenherz]

For everybody with the closed bios bug...

There are words put there, that say, you have to press F3 to access the hidden settings. I did this, nothing happened. I upgraded the bios and applied the settings for the wont boot plugged in bug. Either the settings for the driver or the bios upgrade in general fixed the strange boot behavior. It is possible, that in November 2016 bios, loading the optimised defaults lead to the unpropper shutdown

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[NetBLOKS]

A question of personal interest:
I´ve managed to brick my GPD Win with the help of the TOLUD memory setting.
The light flashes correctly "long" when I turn it on and short when I turn it off.
But nothing else happens (no screen, no fan etc.)
I´ve tested the blind BIOS reset (FN+3 enter, FN+4 enter) but no change.
Now I´ve opened it and disconnected the battery.
Maybe I have to wait some hours for the BIOS reset, but has anybody an idea, where I can find the CMOS reset pins or another method of BIOS reset?
Any help is appreciated!

 

[vcoleiro1]

GPD said in the comments section for a video they posted about the GPD Pocket, that they will release Ubuntu and drivers for the GPD WIN at around the same time as the GPD Pocket release.

Ubuntu and particularly drivers for the WIN was something they had promised backers during the GPD WIN Indiegogo campaign

 

[Alperoot]

Check the GPD Win subreddit, it seems like they are planning GPD Win 2.

 

[vcoleiro1]

Check the GPD Win subreddit, it seems like they are planning GPD Win 2.

I wouldn't make too much out of it, t's sort of GPDs standard comment. In reality, it will be a while for a GPD WIN 2. There still isn't a XD 2, and they have said the same thing for that since pretty much day one.

 

[Alperoot]

I wouldn't make too much out of it, t's sort of GPDs standard comment. In reality, it will be a while for a GPD WIN 2. There still isn't a XD 2, and they have said the same thing for that since pretty much day one.

I wouldn't expect too much from them, they already have GPD Pocket going.

 

[vcoleiro1]

Someone managed to put a 7" screen on their GPD WIN. They used a Sharp 7" 1920 x 1200 IGZO display. Well, if you are going to do it, might as well do it in style

http://blog.livedoor.jp/sega_ss/archives/10170742.html

 

[directive0]

It kills me that they didn't centre the actual viewable area on the base. That would drive me crazy.

Still a pretty righteous hack.

 

[Pyrate]

Thanks for the link, very interesting hardware mod. It is funny, but I had a similar idea yesterday and was looking for cheap panels. They are around 15 USD for a 7 inch screen - but I would not like to install it with a hdmi cable and no touchscreen.

I like the idea though, that you can install and deinstall it with no changes to the GPD WIN.

But Full HD makes little sense in my opinion as the GPU is struggling a lot already on the native resolution...

 

[TheOldOne]

I like that mod but would prefer the 7 inch screen to be 1280x800 (hopefully the driver board rathar than the GPU can scale it) as there are a few old games I can't play on the win without hooking up an external monitor because they're hard coded to a resolution of 1024x768.

 

[elwing]

That screen is great... But not cheap... I have some doubt on the "assembly" and on the base idea of using that much pixels on the win through...

 

[Ian J]

Video review, not had a chance to watch it yet.

[doublepost=1489775239,1489774554][/doublepost]Just finished watching the video, oh dear

I likes this guys usual video's but please don't send him a Pyra to review.

It just shows that even for someone into tech that they need it to work out of the box.

 

[AVahne]

Video review, not had a chance to watch it yet.

[doublepost=1489775239,1489774554][/doublepost]Just finished watching the video, oh dear

I likes this guys usual video's but please don't send him a Pyra to review.

It just shows that even for someone into tech that they need it to work out of the box.

I usually like his videos, but....this just feels like he made the video out of spite. Some points are justified (though really fixable), but others like his typing method are just.....whut?
Definitely shouldn't go to him for a Pyra review.

 

[levi]

I think that's a fair review. They should have known he's not going to play any games that support the xbox controller throughout on it. I was surprised he wasn't aware enough of the project to know at the start it was using an Atom processor, but he explained his misconceptions and showed his mistake which was very fair I thought.

He may not be the best person to send a unit to as soon as they're available, but I can't really think of any youtubers I'd know of that wouldn't do a better review if a unit was shipped to them with a selection of software and emulators already on an SD card in the device, like was done with the Pandora, I believe. Although hopefully getting a DBP manager app and repo up and running might be quicker than it was with the Pandora, when we were all doing this for the first time - although it still remains to be seen what gets released in DBP format and what gets pushed to our apt repository.

I thought his criticisms of the system were fair. I wasn't aware that there were plenty of emulators on PC that couldn't be configured using the joystick - I'd heard people complaining about not being able to move the switch when an emulator is running, but hadn't really understood before why. And the fact the standard lid close settings don't seem to work seems quite significant to me. Maybe there are better ways to do these things, but these gotchas for example simple never happened to me on my Pandora.

Edit: Trying to use it on a desk struck me as weird too, but the keyboard threads showed those people were around. Whether the Pyra will work at all well remains to be seen though - I know my Pandora keyboard buttons are too stiff to be pushed with the fingers comfortably.

 

[vcoleiro1]

Yeah, I have to say he didn't really seem to know what he was doing . To have to read the manual to stop the screen rotating was a giveaway.

EMU's work well on the WIN, there is more than enough proof and videos of that out there. As for the mouse/joystick mode. Can be a little pain, but once you set things up ,thats it.

Pretty poor review, he didn't get into EMU game performance - just said they run well enough. But then later said EMU's are probably not best on windows - why , because of the joystick/mouse thing? .
Also didn't seem to run many or any from what I can tell, PC games. WTF

Pretty sure you can get those games running full screen, if you play with the screen settings

 

[Ian J]

I have to say I was very unimpressed with the review.

I've setup and played various emulator's on my phone without issue, and that's not something I'd recommend to any technophobe.

And why is getting the various emulators on it a pain, it's a bloody windows device with a USB port, most emulators are made for windows anyway.



All of the issues I could see were user error, it even said on the drop down he selected for 2 screens use screen 1 or 2 but he selected extended so the screen on the device would stay on.

 

[erico]

I suspect that when it comes to handhelds, laptops or similar, people expect it to work out of the box.

 

[levi]

And why is getting the various emulators on it a pain, it's a bloody windows device with a USB port, most emulators are made for windows anyway.



All of the issues I could see were user error, it even said on the drop down he selected for 2 screens use screen 1 or 2 but he selected extended so the screen on the device would stay on.

He explained what the problems were with emulators; it wasn't about getting them, it was about configuring them.

And regarding the screen spanning, I used to do that between a windows laptop and an external monitor, but it would still let me shut the laptop and not suspend the system IIRC. That was a while back though, and the machine was running WinXP, so maybe that's changed.

 

[Citizen_Lurker]

He may not be the best person to send a unit to as soon as they're available, but I can't really think of any youtubers I'd know of that wouldn't do a better review if a unit was shipped to them with a selection of software and emulators already on an SD card in the device, like was done with the Pandora, I believe.

Well, how about Ashens? I mean, he did a 40 minute review of Pandora...
Also maybe LGR?