Trunk's Technical Blog

The GoPro HERO7 White & Silver are completely different beasts from previous GoPro cameras. Based upon yet another image processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 624, the architecture is a Qualcomm Snapdragon reference design with the GoPro application layer. Here is a quick psuedo-teardown of the GoPro HERO7 White & Silver.  Hardware Name Tasmania perhaps originally named Popoyo  Product name Code Name Cam ID GoPro HERO7 White Boomer H18.02 GoPro HERO7 Silver Badger H18.03 Design Wins Processor Qualcomm APQ8053 Snapdragon 624: Octa-Core, 8x ARM Cortex A53 Up To 1.80 GHz.  APQ8053-Lite GoPro HERO7 White...

Let me start with saying I love when people share my photos. I get gratification out of seeing my work as your profile picture, featured on your Instagram account, or even passed around Chive. I shoot because I enjoy capturing people's pure smiles in freefall. Regrettably, the truth is, most Skydiving Photographers make little to no money off of event photography. Personally, I spend 5-8 hours ingesting, editing, watermarking, and posting a weekend's worth of photos. At the bigger events, we get reimbursed for...

We purchased a GoPro HERO (2018) the other day and after some cursory inspection we realized this camera is actually a GoPro HERO5 with the firmware crippled. To confirm our hypothesis, we decided to trick the camera to loading the GoPro HERO5 software. It loaded properly and all the features were unlocked. Even GPS and 4K at 30fps work great! Some people were worried that we're overclocking the parts. After inspecting the device tree, we can confirm the processors and DSPs between the two...