Last week, the shoulder buttons arrived at my place. They aren't too spectacular, so I didn't take any pictures yet. :)

The case part received a small last-minute change: In order to improve the logo on the backside, it was decided to make the logo surrounding with laser-cut aluminium. Doing it fully in plastic would make it either look cheap or would extremely difficult to produce reliable and seamless.

The laser-cut aluminium will be a rectangle with rounded corners and the transparent logo inside. I think you can imagine it a bit better with the picture found on the forum thread.

This does not cause a long delay, btw, as the change to the mold is minimal and while they were working on that solution, they simply continued to work on a different mold (the one with the DPad, as that is important so I can test the keymat and submit the final changes). So I will get the molds in a different order than planned, but that's mostly it :)

Okay, what did Nikolaus do last week? -------------------------------------

He didn't find the time yet to dive deeper into the stability issue as he would need a full day without any breaks for proper testings and he was a bit busy last week.

However, he continued to work on the remaining tests, and here's the current result (only the newly tested stuff listed):

* All SD Card slots are now working fine without errors in Linux * Headset (incl. automatic switching and microphone) working. * Vibra-Motor working * Audio works * Touchscreen works * Display with rotator chip works * USB ports work

Most other things (sensors, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G/4G, keyboard, etc.) have already been tested before.

What's left to do before we consider the prototype finished:

* Fix the stability issue * Test HDMI * Test USB3.0 (we only tested the port with 2.0 so far) * Implement and test the SDD AntiTear-Driver (code is almost finished) * Test the fuel gauge and charging circuit for the battery * Fix eMMC/MicroSD-Switch (needs a different part)

So... that's mostly it... the list was quite long a few weeks ago, now most of the main components have already been tested and confirmed to be working. Only a few things remain!

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