Anbernic RG35XX: GarlicOS Setup & Recommended Upgrades Guide

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📖Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - GarlicOS CFW, themes & fat32 download
01:47 - installation
07:06 - Better buttons and battery installation
14:49 - Battery and button thoughts
07:19 - Game Testing
16:33 - GarlicOS theme, hotkeys & overclock
18:19 - Overclock demonstration
19:32 - Final Thoughts
20:31 - Thanks for watching

[retrohandhelds]

Correction on overclock: I said 1300 gigahertz but meant megahertz :)

Thanks for stopping by. Let us know what you'd like to see next!

[DamfinoMR]

Bigger battery?! After the latest Garlic OS (I installed fresh yesterday), and better battery, this little thing is on track to be my daily.

[ViktarTheBarbarian]

Gonna go ahead and order that new battery. With garlic being close to feature complete the only thing this device has going against it is battery life. If I can get another hour or two out of it I'd be a happy camper!

[TheRealTedNeal]

Just bought the larger battery. Thanks, keep up the great work!

[akifrivaldo]

Much easier to follow than anybody on tutorial here in Youtube. I messed up my other sdcard and gone thru using a new one. Thank you so much for the tut vid. More power to your channel mate ;)

[NaraMakesGames]

great guide. making the 35xx way better. if anbernic were smart (they are not), they would say hey... pretty much everybody hates this new trigger design. we gotta fix that.

[cho-vn]

You read my mind with the battery upgrade buddy! Thanks!

[kabosumamadoge]

Nice tutorial on how to replace the battery. That was quite easy to follow. Thanks.

[grimgoreironhide]

Was going to buy the buttons but the cost of the shipping doubles the price 😂. Got to love that international shipping fee.

[deadriddle]

I am done changing my back buttons. So scared of breaking any of it. Nothing broken but its not easy for sure. Thanks for the great tutorial👍

[lancejohnson]

Hey bro, appreciate the video. I just wanted to mention a few notes performing this upgrade.
First, the bottom clips are near impossible not to bend. I bent 3 out of 4 while following your tip. That is to say, you NEED super glue for this mod.
Even if you don’t “snap” a clip, even just the slightest bend will cause issues. My 4th clip was loose, despite looking fine, such that shoulder presses caused the button to shift left and right instead of pushing inward.
For this reason, I snapped this unbent clip on purpose. Applying a small drop of super glue by the clip (you just need enough to fill all crevices, not much), letting it fill the full crevice of the clip (with help from a push pin) and then pushing the clip firmly in place as everything dried locked everything in place very effectively. Doing this with the clip that I had to snap actually locked it in much better.
The little clips on the bottom, for the housing, are tough not to snap as well. No big impact if these break off.

Overall still glad I did the mod. These shoulder buttons feel so much better. Just a bit of “buyer beware”.

[woolfy]

Thanks for the tutorial! All the other video guides just had me more and more confused. This is the first time it actually worked.

I think I spoke to soon. Buggy windows 11 now shows a blank drive that I can't delete. Idk what the hell happened but, I cant get rid of it.

[yiltang]

Nicely done, lots of good info and mods. How much improvement is the bigger battery? How much longer does it last compared to stock?

[SammyTheBu]

Great guide, for some reason no one ever talks about the overclocking feature. I had mine - - underclocked and it was struggling to play GBA Pokémon rom hacks for the longest and I didn't know why. Also overclocking is an amazing feature!

[ge]

you shoudl be able to clean off the excess super glue residue around the clips using some isopropyl alcohol. just a pit on a qtip or something like that. should make it look cleaner.

[arrabal]

Nice guide. Unfortunately the buttons + shipping to Brazil cost almost the price of the console.

[NaraMakesGames]

additional mod idea (one that I tend to do a make a custom sticker to put over your batteries. and do a better looking tape job to hold the battery in place. i hate that adhesive direct to the shell.

[ElementalTJ]

Hello!

I appreciate the video!
Am interested in doing a battery replacement.

Can you give us specs on size, connector, and voltage so we can source elsewhere?

Do these all look correct?

Thickness - 6mm
Width - 50mm
Length - 65mm

Voltage - 3.7v

2-wire Molex Plug at 1.25mm?

Thanks!

[SlydogUTube]

Thanks for the video, can you show how to update your garlic OS without losing your old ROMS dir, thanks

[TheHowlingDawn]

Hey man, i just bought a RG35xx and after i charged it, it doesn't turn on anymore. is the battery the issue? or the motherboard? :(