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@boorngos boorngos released this 12 Sep 21:42
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New Features

  1. The users can now choose between three different power profiles: Conservative, Performance, High Performance.
  2. A new minmum level of brightness has been added to help with night gameplay
  3. Over The Air updates have been introduced
  4. Battery percentage has been, finally, introduced. It can be toggled on and off in the Options menu
  5. Battery and clock now shows inside the in game menu
  6. Clocked has been updated with timezone selection and touch input support
  7. Changes in the Option menu to accomodate the latest features

Fixes

  1. SSH and WiFi toggles now work correctly and do not require a reboot to reset
  2. Led charging indicator now work correctly when the device is suspended
  3. Manual update now works and doesn't require to boot into stock Anbernic OS anymore
  4. Procedure to return to stock firmware now actually works
  5. Clock doesn't reset anymore after reboot

Installation

  1. Flash an SD card with Anbernic's Linux firmware (using rufus or win32DiskImager)

  2. Insert the SD card on your device and wait until the initial process is finished.

  3. Eject the SD card and plug it back on your computer

  4. Open the user partition (next to Roms/, anbernic/, …).

  5. Extract the contents of the zip into the root of that partition:

    simpleos/
simpleos/install/
.simpleos_update/
Roms/APPS/Install SimpleOS.sh
README.txt

    If Windows asks to merge Roms/, confirm. Do not leave everything inside a
    nested folder named SimpleOS-RGDS-….

  6. Eject the card, insert it in the RG DS, power on.

  7. In the Anbernic menu move to: Applications → APPS and then click on the Install SimpleOS script.
    SimpleOS splash screens appear on both displays. Do not power off.

  8. When it finishes, the device reboots into SimpleOS

  9. If the top screen doesn't come up: press start → reboot

  10. Now you can add you roms the usual way or in simpleos/games

  11. Enjoy!

Games go in simpleos/games and/or the stock NDS folder (Roms/NDS).

Update

⚠️If you are on version 1.0⚠️

  1. Download version 1.1 from the release page
  2. Extract the .zip file into SimpleOS-RGDS-20260912
  3. Turn on WiFi and SSH on your device if they are off
  4. Open WinSCP on your windows computer and login into your device by typing: IP, user = root, password = root
  5. From SSH copy the system folder into /mnt/mmc/simpleos/ inside your device. Overwrite files if prompted
  6. copy main.sh file into /mnt/mmc/simpleos/. Overwrite files if prompted
  7. In WinSCP oper the terminal (SHIFT+CTRL+T) and copy the following command
    \
killall -9 simpleos drastic hangmon 2>/dev/null; for d in /proc/[0-9]*; do c=$(tr '\0' ' ' < $d/cmdline 2>/dev/null); case "$c" in *loop.sh*|*powerd.sh*|*bin/simpleos*) kill -9 ${d#/proc/} 2>/dev/null;; esac; done; setsid env -u SIMPLEOS_NOPOWEROFF -u SIMPLEOS_NORESUME -u SSH_CONNECTION -u SSH_CLIENT sh /mnt/mmc/simpleos/system/loop.sh >/tmp/simpleos.log 2>&1 < /dev/null &
  1. SimpleOS should restart and you should see all the latest changes

From version 1.1 onwards

  1. Turn on WiFi connection from the Network settings on your device
  2. Open the Settings menu and select the Update option
  3. Select OTA
  4. If an update is available you will be asked to install the new update
  5. You will be asked if you want to install, click A to accept
  6. Wait for the installation process to finish
  7. The device will now reboot into the updated version of SimpleOS

If you don't access to WiFi on your device

  1. Download the latest release of SimpleOS on github
  2. Turn off your console and insert the SD card inside your PC
  3. Put the .zip with the latest release you download inside the root of your SD card
  4. Put the SD card back onto your device and power it on
  5. Open the Settings menu in SimpleOS and click on the Update option
  6. Click on Manual update
  7. You will be asked if you want to install, click A to accept
  8. Wait for the installation process to finish
  9. The device will now reboot into the updated version of SimpleOS
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SimpleOS v1.0

SimpleOS v1.0

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@boorngos boorngos released this 09 Sep 20:58
V1.0-SimpleOS
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SimpleOS v1.0

We are finally here! SimpleOS version 1.0 launches officially i hope you'll like the experience.
For the installation take a look at the official install documention
Feel free to report any bug or feature requests, i'll try to do my best to fix them.

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