Radxa team has just announced their latest SBC named ROCK 3 powered with a brand Rockchip RK3568 chip. The new hardware also includes a few improvements, such as DDR4 memory and QC/PD power support. Basically, I have also attached this GPU to my mobile erp and developed my project. In Comparison to the previous Rockchip RK3399, its new CPU can reach up to 2GHZ, plus the GPU is faster than the ARM Mali-T860 MP4, capable of reaching up to a respectful higher frequency of 800-950 MHz.
ROCK 3A is simply an improved version of ROCK Pi 4 with some performance enhancements as well as additional new interfaces.
Interfaces
The ROCK 3A features an M key socket that supports two PCIe 3.0 lanes for NVMe SSDs and an E key with a single PCIe 2.0 lane. You also have all the typical I/O interfaces you expect from a standard SBC, which include an HDMI port, four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet and a compatible Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO header.
Specification
SoC – RK3568
CPU – Quad A55 up to 2GHz
GPU – Mali G52 GPU, 0.8T NPU
OS: Android 11.0 , Debian 10 / Ubuntu / Slackware
Pluggable eMMC module, 2/4/8GB LPDDR4 3200MT/s, dram controller frequency up to 1560MHz
QC/PD power support, with a new generation QC/PD protocol IC
Two USB2 same as ROCK Pi 4, two USB3(1x OTG+1x HOST), the two USB3 can be configured in SATA mode with a SATA breakout cable
GbE with PoE support
M.2 M key for NVMe with PCIe 3.0 x2 lanes
M.2 E key for connectivity with PCIe 2.0 x1/SDIO/UART, support Wi-Fi 6 cards
1x MIPI DSI, 1x MIPI CSI, compatible with ROCK Pi 4
40P GPIO header, mostly compatible with ROCK Pi 4
Price & Availability
The ROCK 3A is expected to be officially sold by the end of 2021, from US$35 for 2 GB of RAM. As for the highest level configurations. The 4 GB of RAM variant it will retail for US$55, and the 8 GB of RAM will sale for US$75.
ROCK 3A is expected to run the latest Android 11.0 as well as Debian 10 / Ubuntu, maintained by the Toybrick team. Other community distributions will probably will be also supported too.
Final prices based on different configurations:
Configuration
RAM
Price
1
2GB RAM
35USD
2
4GB RAM
55USD
3
8GB RAM
75USD
I have written down all the specifications which might help you.
@catalinii
Try to delete the partitions on your micro-sd card.
sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
then
sudo wipefs /dev/sdg -af
(sdg being the drive of your micro-sd card you got in the previous command)
Write with Balena Etcher.
What Rock3A do you have ,ram, OS on emmc or formatted etc?
It boots for me.
Seems u-boot fails to start android (same happens with the radxa android 11 image):
U-Boot SPL board init
U-Boot SPL 2017.09-ga1f6fc00a0-210413 #ldq (Apr 13 2021 - 11:35:00) unknown raw ID phN
unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 00, 00, 00
Trying to boot from MMC2
MMC error: The cmd index is 16, ret is -110
MMC error: The cmd index is 17, ret is -110
MMC error: The cmd index is 0, ret is -110
MMC error: The cmd index is 1, ret is -110
Card did not respond to voltage select!
mmc_init: -95, time 151
spl: partition error
Trying to boot from MMC1
MMC error: The cmd index is 0, ret is -110
mmc_init: -110, time 5
spl: mmc init failed with error: -110
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
Also erase the partitions on your micro-sd card, they aren’t always removed even if formatted.
sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
then
sudo wipefs /dev/sdg -af
(sdg being the drive of your micro-sd card you got in the previous command)
The Armbian bootloader or spi might be blocking the Android one from starting, newer ones aren’t compatible anymore with Android.
First try to get the stock firmware working to eliminate all the problems.
@catalinii
I will try to make a new image and test it later.
Maybe there is a difference between newer boards and it’s not compatible with older firmware.
it is almost all the same source just some diffrence in settings etc . and a more recent uboot i thought
it is a mmc setting where your board is not happy with .
@m0123 can you also update the rkbin folder .111 has some bugs ,
Try this new image I made
I tested on 2 different micro-sd cards and it booted on Rock3A.
Use a mouse or airmouse to scroll down on the setup screen.
Armbian flashed previously to the same micro-sd card can cause booting problems so it must be erased fully. https://mega.nz/file/AnhmzJqa#LLIFOHUKZ94P1WLK_nDC7wTqp4zDuH91eZueX9DxN2U
In TvSettings - There is an Input menu for HDMI CEC.
You can try to enable/disable those settings or change the Screensaver timeout or disable it.
Perhaps it helps.
