03-01-2025, 06:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2025, 07:03 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
The PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro have completely different battery control hardware. (The battery itself is the same, but that does not matter here. What does is the power management chip.)
The original PinePhone uses an X-Powers AXP803 chip for power management. The PinePhone Pro uses a Rockchip RK818 chip for power management. (I believe that the reason for the different choice is that the AXP803 is designed to work with Allwinner SoCs, the RK818 with Rockchip SoCs.) They are not compatible.
Your program supports only the RK818, and as such, labeling it with just "PinePhone" is misleading, as it will not work on an actual (original) PinePhone, only on a PinePhone Pro.
The original PinePhone uses an X-Powers AXP803 chip for power management. The PinePhone Pro uses a Rockchip RK818 chip for power management. (I believe that the reason for the different choice is that the AXP803 is designed to work with Allwinner SoCs, the RK818 with Rockchip SoCs.) They are not compatible.
Your program supports only the RK818, and as such, labeling it with just "PinePhone" is misleading, as it will not work on an actual (original) PinePhone, only on a PinePhone Pro.
