Dual NOR-Flash BPI-R3

[jasle]

I have got a kind of special BPI-R3, @sinovoip :

Have a close look on the marking of the two flash chips: it is the same, W25Q256JVEIQ. So two times NOR flash, but unfortunately no NAND flash.

This is very sad, I was really happy to have found a powerful router board that has NAND flash and an eMMC flash to evaluate running containers on it. Planed storing OpenWrt on the NAND flash while using the eMMC to store the container images and so on. But now I have one without any NAND flash

It was also really annoying to find out, why flashing to the NAND flash did not work at all, always just flashed to NOR flash regardless of how the jumpers was set.

[KlausC (Klaus)]

Hello Friend,

May I know where you bought it ? This is Klaus , from Banana Pi , this is my email address, you can contact me , I will support you . Many Thanks ! [email protected]

[frank-w]

it is reported that this is a very specific case which is very rare and should not be happen anymore

[BPI-R3] hw issues

Hi frank， We have confirmed with MTK that using PL2303 will have such problem, the solution is to use CH340 or CP2012, MTK also recommends using FDTI’s [image] When powered on, if the uart tx is pulled high, it will cause this We will remove R171 and R173 in the next SMT This is an error caused by negligence when we first time SMT, and we have contacted the customer for repair. The same issues will not occur in future.