Tinker Board still draws power after shutdown

Troubleshooting
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Creating a bug report/issue

I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

  • DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

  • G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=9
    G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
    G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
    G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’
    G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]=‘applied’
    G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[1]=‘applied’
    G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[2]=‘not applicable’

  • Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
    bookworm

  • Kernel version | uname --all

  • Linux DietPi 6.6.54-current-rockchip #1 SMP Fri Oct 4 14:30:05 UTC 2024 armv7l GNU/Linux

  • Architecture | dpkg --print-architecture

  • armhf

  • SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)
    ASUS Tinker Board (armv7l)

  • Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)
    benchtop psu at 5.1V via diy heavy gauge micro usb cable (have also tried with GPIO pins)

  • SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)
    Sandisk Industrial 32GB

Steps to reproduce

  1. sudo shutdown now

Expected behaviour

  • board should stop drawing power after shutdown

Actual behaviour

  • board still draws around 360mA (with nothing plugged in, more with usb devices connected)

Extra details

With ASUS’s Tinker OS the board stops drawing power after shutdown. With DietPi and also with Armbian, the board continues to draw power after shutdown.

Is there something I can do (other than turning it off at the wall) to make it shut down power like with Tinker OS? My linux knowledge is very limited.
To be honest, it’s not a huge problem since I turn my 3d printer off anyway with a wifi power socket but I am a bit worried that maybe it’s not shutting down properly.

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I believe this is typical for all the boards that don’t have a power button to switch on again and you need to take off the power plug and put it back in to boot.

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I have not yet seen an SBC that completely stops power consumption after the ‘poweroff’ or ‘shutdown’ command has been triggered.

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