Holodor Retroid Pocket 5 20261019

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SHA-256: f71bbfa6dd3ecfb08309f71f3846f2fc4e17038d039558c512439a725218a530

This image is for the Retroid Pocket 5 only. It is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL-rp5.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

Retroid Pocket 5 (Snapdragon 865), both the original and Visionox screen revisions. You can run Holodor straight off a microSD card alongside Android, or install it to internal storage for faster load times.

This release rebuilds the audio stack, fixes USB-C docks, and cuts battery drain during sleep.

What works

• Steam Big Picture, built-in controls, rumble, Wi-Fi, and sleep/wake.
• Sleep power management: the audio codec, gamepad microcontroller, Hall-effect stick sensors, RGB LED controllers, and 5V fan boost converter all power down during sleep and come right back on wake.
• Built-in speakers and the 3.5mm headphone jack (with automatic plug detection). The volume slider scales evenly: 50% is a comfortable everyday level (and the default on first boot), while 100% drives the amplifiers at full output.
• The display runs at 60 Hz by default to save battery and switches to 120 Hz whenever a game's frame limit calls for it (use the per-game "120 Hz Screen" toggle in Pocknix Control).
• Games stay pinned to the fast CPU cores while background work like shader compilation runs on the smaller cores.
• Desktop Mode includes an on-screen keyboard on the taskbar.
• USB-C docks: 1080p 60 Hz video and audio over HDMI or DisplayPort. Audio switches automatically when you plug in or unplug the dock, without cutting off the first sound. Booting with a dock already plugged in works too.
• Sleep on a dock: the device sleeps and wakes on the dock with the picture, charging and the dock's ethernet coming back.
• Docking and undocking with ethernet does not screw up networking.
• Unity games that use H.264, VP9, or Theora for intro videos play them out of the box (Hollow Knight still skips its intro video, which uses a different format).

Known issues

• Heavy 3D games run at 10 to 30 fps and the device gets warm. Check the tested games list for frame rates and settings that help.
• DirectX 12 games do not run on the Snapdragon 865 GPU.
• Native Linux x86 games do not run; Steam runs everything through Proton on ARM.
• Holodor uses Valve's ARM64 Steam client, which Valve builds for its own hardware and does not officially support on third-party devices. Bugs inside the Steam client itself are outside our control.
• Steam needs free disk space while unpacking downloads. Queuing several large installs at once on a nearly full drive can stall the system until you reboot.
• Some games sit on a blank or loading screen for a couple of minutes the very first time you launch them (Dark Souls Remastered takes about two minutes on a white screen before the title appears).
• At 100% volume the speakers hit the hardware amplifier limit, so loud games can clip. Android gets about 5 dB more volume out of the speakers using Qualcomm's proprietary speaker-protection DSP, which Holodor does not use yet.
• Some HDMI dongles occasionally fail to send their display info when plugged in, leaving the external screen at 640x480 with no audio. Unplugging and replugging the dock clears it up.
• Dock ethernet occasionally wakes from sleep at USB 2.0 speed (around 300 Mbit/s instead of gigabit). Unplug and replug the dock if you need full gigabit speed back.

Holodor 20261002b

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holodor-odin3-20261002b-seedless.img.zst (3.1 GB) · SHA-256 checksum (also attached below)

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SHA-256: 3d79bda443b9f236698762f93521a61c5fcee7e0fe15c5e876df19d72582c86c

The image is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite). Boots from SD next to Android; an internal install is optional.

What changed since 20261002

• Desktop Mode has an on-screen keyboard. Touch a text field and it comes up. The keyboard button on the panel shows or hides it at any time.

Already on Holodor?

Update from Settings (or pacman -Syu in desktop mode). No reflash needed.

Known issues

• The on-screen keyboard has no word prediction.
• Unreal Engine 5 games launch but are not yet playable.

Holodor 20261002

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holodor-odin3-20261002-seedless.img.zst (3.1 GB) · SHA-256 checksum (also attached below)

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SHA-256: 50a8f1ace56f04b32d38c3b9bcc14ab175b2de752cd37b12ba5a9aea58a2036c

The image is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite). Boots from SD next to Android; an internal install is optional.

What changed since 20260927d

• Headphone jack works out of the box. The 20260927d image left it silent until the first update.
• Headphones are balanced. The left channel was 2 to 3 dB quieter than the right. The jack now uses the same audio path as stock Android, and left and right measure within 0.1 dB at every volume step.
• Kernel 7.1.3-33 and device support 27 carry the fix. They are installed together.
• The bootloader restore tool recognises ROCKNIX ABL 1.2.

Already on Holodor?

Update from Settings (or pacman -Syu in desktop mode). No reflash needed.

Known issues

• Unreal Engine 5 games launch but are not yet playable.

Holodor 20260927d

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holodor-odin3-20260927d-seedless.img.zst (3.1 GB) · SHA-256 checksum (also attached below)

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SHA-256: 4bfa43ada59c0fc0456685cbfe4e9ffc10461f86b88016ccd3b6423391f06043

The image is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite). Boots from SD next to Android; an internal install is optional.

What changed since 20260925

• Kernel 7.1.3-32: controller MCU report rate restored to 250 Hz (fine analog steps).
• Mesa (Turnip) 26.3.0 devel-7: fixes Unreal Engine 5 titles on the A8xx GPU.
• gamescope 3.16.0 rocknix.4286887-4: guard against the red-tinted screen after wake (night-mode NaN).
• Decky Loader 3.2.9 running natively (no FEX) + Pocknix Control 20 with a STICKS page: "Zero stick centres" fixes off-centre sticks and is re-applied at boot.
• Device support 22/23: back paddles work, InputPlumber 0.81 mapping conflicts resolved, stick LED effects animate, boot-time stick calibration, headphone mixer path.
• Desktop mode: no lock screen after sleep.
• Bootloader kit 1.1.8 (ROCKNIX ABL, Armada's vendored build).

Known issues

• Headphone jack: the release image leaves the headphone output silent. Fixed in device support 23, published to the update repo on 2026-09-29: update from Settings (or pacman -Syu in desktop mode), no reflash needed. Speakers are unaffected.
• Unreal Engine 5 games launch but are not yet playable.

Holodor 20260925

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holodor-odin3-20260925-seedless.img.zst (3.1 GB) · SHA-256 checksum (also attached below)

Direct URL: https://holodor.bonesaw.com/holodor-odin3-20260925-seedless.img.zst

SHA-256: 3a1f7b037876a6b0b15f632cc85f9520337d97050936a2fcbe1df3a32110119c

The image is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite).

Holodor 20260923e

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holodor-odin3-20260923e-seedless.img.zst (3.2 GB) · SHA-256 checksum (also attached below)

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SHA-256: 61f450eb0493c71a48b0ff66bf31c3a48fb0ef50c46643eafd23c8070419b463

The image is hosted outside GitHub because of its size. Follow INSTALL.md to write it to an SD card; it also covers the one-time bootloader step in Android.

Device

AYN Odin 3 (Snapdragon 8 Elite).