My VIM3L has been working well for a few months, but recently started failing to boot with errors in DDR training.
I tried booting this krescue image[1] from the SD card, and I get the same errors.
A detailed log with all the bootloader errors is available here: https://termbin.com/a925
[1] https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/Krescue/dump/VIM3L.krescue.sd.img.gz
Do you make sure your board is VIM3L and not VIM3?
Do you can try to flash the Android ROM and give me feedback. Thanks!
https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/VIM3L/Android/VIM3L_Pie_V191130.7z
Hi Kevin:
Glad to see you here 
Can you help to confirm again with the latest Android image as Terry posted above? As the board you have is the early prototype and with different DDR chipset which require timing patch for working.
@hyphop confirm with Terry to ensure that your repo already with the latest DDR timing.
Good day!
Yes, my board is a VIM3L. I also have a VIM3 which is working fine.
Unfortunately, I cannot try the Android image because thatâs an image made for eMMC, and when the board is in upgrade (USB boot) mode, my PC is not detecting my board, so I cannot run the flashing/burning tools.
Is there an Android Image I could boot from an SD card?
Hello, Standard Android eMMC images can be installed using the Burn card maker. I have not used it on the VIM3L, but it has worked fine another VIM.
Would be nice to have linux instructions. I donât have windows.
It might be possible for me to make the card and then upload the resulting files, if theyâre not too big. You would need to format an SD card to fat32 if I recall.
I think I tried to do this before, I recall it being successful. Your choice.
If so, I can check it tonight.
Update: @khilman So far I have not had luck with this. I will let you know if that changes.
If you have the time to create an SD image, I would be glad to try.
In order for it to be a bootable image, it needs to be a raw image (with partitions already created) and that I can directly write (e.g. using âddâ on linux)
Thanks.
It will be a couple of hours until I get to the tech, will check then.
@khilman Please point out the image you want me to use.
OK! krescue rebuilded with the latest DDR timing. plz download image again!
https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/Krescue/dump/VIM3L.krescue.sd.img.gz
2019-12-04 06:32
That boots fine on my VIM3L. Thanks!
@hyphop Oops, I spoke too soon. It booted fine the first time, but on the next reboots, I see DDR training failures, and then resets. Boot log here: https://termbin.com/3z1v
It seems to be kind of random. If I do multiple hard reboots, it will occasionally boot to u-boot and then into the rescue kernel, but most of the time it fails DDR training and resets multiple times.
plz download check again (rebuild from 2019-12-05 21:56 )
https://dl.khadas.com/Firmware/Krescue/dump/VIM3L.krescue.sd.img.gz
Hi @khilman
Can you help to take a hi-res photo and post here, we want to check which DDR model is used on your board.
Sorry for the trouble.
BTW, we will ship you some new VIM3L simultaneously, check your email for the details.
Good day!
@hyphop with your new rescue image, I still have the same issues.
Hereâs a boot log where you can see the training errors: https://termbin.com/yco6
Hello @khilman
DDR driver_vesion: LPDDR4_PHY_V_0_1_15 build time: Jul 17 2019 13:54:20
The u-boot in the eMMC is broken, seems you have flash other firmware to the VIM3L which doesnât support the VIM3L LPDDR4 (the correct DDR driver_vesion should be LPDDR4_PHY_V_0_1_18 on our GitHub), so that you canât boot well.
In this situation, you will also canât boot from the SD card, so that you canât use the krescure, for the boot sequence you will always boot from eMMC first, so it will always load the borken u-boot from eMMC.
So you have to reflash the eMMC via MASKROM mode.
YES! i have check your last logs again! broken uboot start from emmc its looped and cant stard from SD
last krescue must have boot string aml_ddr_fw_vesion: LPDDR4_PHY_V_0_1_18 build time: Jul 31 2019 19:17:53
plz clear emmc at first as say @numbqq
Youâre right. I thought I had erased eMMC, but it appears not. Thanks.
Iâm now not able to get the board into MASKROM mode. The TST approach from the wiki doesnât work. On the serial console, I see that it causes the âboot timesâ counter to reset to zero, but otherwise keeps loping.
I also tried the MRegister mode, but itâs not clear from the wiki what the âtwo pads of the M registerâ are. I see a single test-point labeled M, which based on the VIM3 schematics (I hope they are the same as VIM3L for this part) looks like TP7, connected to GND. Based on that, I connect R84 to TP7 and this seems to disable the eMMC.
However, this does not seem to enable USB boot for the MASKROM as expected. Rather, it continues to keep booting from the eMMC, but fails to load FIPs from eMMC.
Looking at the initial string SM1:BL:511f6b:81ca2f;FEAT:A0F83180:20282000;POC:D;RCY:0;USB:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; it seems like the MASKROM is not detecting a USB connection (even though USB-C is conntected to host PC)
