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Same, my Pinephone does that within an hour maybe xD
A64 (the SoC for PinePhone) is mostly intended for set-top boxes (i.e. smart TV), so it is really not designed for power efficiency.
It's really a bummer that most "smartphone" SoCs cannot easily be purchased, and have no proper documentations. Thinkers and smaller manufacturers are stuck with mostly Allwinner and Rockchip SoCs (most of which are engineered as embedded processors) if they want to design something from starch at all.
That's what I thought and it seems like even those SoCs didn't have very good mainline Linux support.
Edit: I wonder if it would be possible to take some newer Rockchip SoC and underclock it so that it uses less power? Maybe that would help a little and it would still probably be faster than PinePhone Pro.
@PowerCore7 @erebion
If they wanna design something from starch, they'd probably be better of trying sourdough.
*badum-tss*
Exactly my thought, but isn't that breadboarding then?
The keyboard addon helps a lot, but it makes the phone big and heavy. I wonder what it's like with those extended battery cases that you can buy or 3D print.