Hi everyone, I recently bought a pocket reform with the i-MX8MP and I’m wondering if I have the new backplate or the older one. My pocket reform is becoming dangerously hot, even if there is only one terminal open on a Sway system. If the backplate has a copper plate, does it mean that I have the good one?
Does anybody find a solution for this heat issue? Also, I have very very poor battery life, it’s around two hours max with only an idle terminal opened. I didn’t found any solution on this forum yet even if I’m not the only one to repport this issues. (the system is brand new, I just changed few parameters for the keyboard, and everything is up to date, and I just add a 1tb nvme disk on it)
Both versions of the top plate are made from copper, the newer top plate has light beige sides on either side of the copper square (if viewed from the inside) where as the old one had black sides.
With the heat issue maybe the thermal coupling isn’t making good contact with the top plate? You could open it up and check that the thermal paste square is in place and makes a tight fit to the cpu module and the copper top.
The battery only lasting 2 hours doesn’t sound right tho, it might be the reported % on the OLED is not updating the correct info.
Would you mind reporting what the system controller firmware and keyboard controller firmware is at currently?
If you type Hyper + Enter and then press s and post what it says on the OLED here that would be great.
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What temperatures does your OS see?
Here a photo of the “good” backplate:
And this is how the bad backplate looks like. For that one, the copper sheet extends throughout the whole plate and that kills wifi reception (but should have little influence on thermals): Wifi dropping constantly - #17 by DavePolaschek
Is that two hours until the system hard-shuts off or two hours until the battery meter shows 5% and you (or your OS) shuts down for safety and not to loose data?
When I got my Pocket Reform, the battery clips had broken inside the case, and had taken out the thermistors on the charging board.
It went back to Germany for repairs, but the new backplate got missed, which is when I started that thread.
But the batteries needed three or four charge/discharge cycles to get properly “conditioned” so they would hold more than an hour or two of charge.
The default batteries are still not great, but I get about 4 hours of use on a full charge. I’ve also got larger capacity batteries coming from China that I’ll install once they’re here, and the RK3588 upgrade arrives. Hopefully that’ll turn my pocket into a full-day daily driver.
In any case, cycle the batteries a few times and get the machine updated to latest software before making too many judgements about them. I spent months simply trying to get my Pocket working before it became relatively stable.
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