Hello, i have not connect to this forum in all this time. The firmware was update?
It works for me, now I made SC v.5 / CoreElec 9.2nightly, the flight is excellent!
eMMC/USB 3.1 от Samsung.
You can also use the “Krescue” tool. Good luck!
i have installed the last android firmware and coreelec show correct ram size. I have changed config.ini with use_rgb_to_yuv=1, but if i want install to emmc, what solution is there for green screen?
Thanks
CoreElec kernel config does not support PCI-e. Also device tree contains some errors for VIM3, but not for VIM3L.
Add into g12b_a311d_khadas_vim3.dts
&pcie_A {
reset-gpio = <&gpio GPIOA_8 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
status = "okay";
};try krescue 
coreelec works without any additional manipulations => all COREELEC emmc images - for krescue was updated - VIM1 VIM2 VIM3 VIM3L
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There is also USB 3.0, everything is fine, if you want to save the android😉
I did the update to 9.2.3 and now Kodi doesn’t start. I have the CoreELEC screen and CoreELEC (official): 9.2.3 message in the left-corner.
I can SSH into the box an I can see that the Kodi service isn’t working:
systemctl status kodi
kodi.service - Kodi Media Center
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kodi.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
If I try systemctl start kodi command it hangs forever.
I don’t have any new kodi logs after the update.
How can I debug further? Thanks
How did you install the original CE that was running on your system ? If it came preinstalled or you used the Khadas tools the partition structure is incompatible with standard CE file format. In this case you should only use CE versions packaged by Khadas to upgrade, the CE .tar file will trash your install.
This issue has been encountered by Coreelec team members and they have created a solution. I suggest you go over to the Coreelec forum and search the 9.2.3 thread for the cure for your problem.
Shoog
I did not encounter a problem, try also to do a full reset to the factory
Yes, specify this moment ?!
I flashed it myself on an microSD card using the official docs: https://docs.khadas.com/vim3/index.html#VIM3
For update I got a popup in Kodi, I selected the update and expecting to work.
Should I understand that the hot update doesn’t work? I have to do it manually or from scratch?
These are the instructions you need:
Shoog
This looks like I have to redo all my setup from scratch.
What is not clear to me if this was a bug that broke my system or it is the state of the platform not to provide hot updates. I don’t want to do this setup every-time I want to update Kodi. Is it on the platform’s roadmap to have seamless update of CE?
this question is more likely to the guys from coreelec, although I didn’t encounter a problem like yours
Coreelec is updating for CE users without this issue. Its specific to the way that Khadas handles the CE image that causes the issues. Once you migrate to the CE ecosystem you will not encounter this issue again.
Two things to note though;
-before performing a version upgrade you should always perform a backup using the CE backup tool built into the CE setup addon. This will allow you to recover your system even if you have to do a full reinstall
-I am not certain of this, but I believe that the method advocated preserves your storage partition and so system setup.
It would be best if you have any more issues that you raise them on the thread to which I pointed you.
Shoog
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I only now start having a better understanding of the structure of all things involved. Thanks for your help.
-before performing a version upgrade you should always perform a backup using the CE backup tool built into the CE setup addon. This will allow you to recover your system even if you have to do a full reinstall
I actually did that and I got a 2 GB backup which once restored it did bring back just the kodi settings but not the opkg packages and personal configuration files I had in the home folder.
-I am not certain of this, but I believe that the method advocated preserves your storage partition and so system setup.
Unfortuantely not. It does this only if one didn’t have the fail update first. My bad here that I updated as soon as I saw the message instead of going to check if anybody has issues
After restoring my setup it seems there was an issue with the Entware setup. As soon as I renamed the /storage/.opt directory kodi starts without any issue. They said it’s not supported and I didn’t listen. Too bad that these days I need 4 RPIs and one VIM3 to run lite open source services that could be run on the VIM3; I suppose it’s easier to support your service in a distro instead of general integration scripts.
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opkg stuff is not part of the userspace stuff so is probably borked if the System partition gets corrupted.
Have you managed to get most things back ? Best to stick to official CE upgrades when you do.
Shoog
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Yes, I kept the old uSD card and restored my mounted config folders for dockers which are running fine. I used opkg only for some extra tools when SSHing into the machine so I don’t really care; now I know better. Thanks a lot for the support.
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