Sinovoip BananaPi BPi-R3 mini

• Two 10M/100M/1G/2.5G capable RJ45 ports, directly connected to SOC.

• PCIe 3.0x2 Key-M M.2 slot for NVMe SSD (or additional WiFi in Key-A/E to Key-M adapter)

• USB 3.0 only Key-B M.2 slot with SIM card slot for cellular modem (no PCIe lanes on the Key-B M.2 slot!)

• 5G Module requires BSP driver Information and Opensource drivers available here

Please see the user manual provided by SinoVoip to understand the hardware switches selecting the available storage devices, and which device to boot from.

The required files for installation on stock OEM can be found here: https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r3-mini

1. After switching to SPI-NAND, power up your device
2. Connect to your LAN port (closest to USB-C power connector) and SCP openwrt-*-r3-mini-emmc-gpt.bin into your device's /tmp directory
3. SSH into your device as root
4. Write the GPT partition table to eMMC /dev/mmcblk0 partition using the file we just sent via SCP:

   dd if=/tmp/openwrt-*-r3-mini-emmc-gpt.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0

5. Reboot (to reload partition table)
6. SCP the following files to /tmp directory:

   openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-emmc-preloader.bin
   openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-emmc-bl31-uboot.fip
   openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-initramfs-recovery.itb
   openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb

7. Once again SSH into your device as root
8. Write the bootloader and OpenWrt images, write them to the appropriate partitions:

   echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro
   dd if=/tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-emmc-preloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot0
   dd if=/tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-emmc-bl31-uboot.fip of=/dev/mmcblk0p3
   dd if=/tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-initramfs-recovery.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0p4
   dd if=/tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0p5
   sync

9. Remove the device from power, set boot switch back to eMMC
10. Power your device, let OpenWrt boot up, the device will come up with IP 192.168.1.1 and assume the Ethernet port closer to the USB-C power connector as LAN port, ssh into it and set your device.
11. (OPTIONAL) If you'd like to have Ethernet support inside U-Boot (eg. to boot via TFTP) you also need to write the PHY firmware to /dev/mmcblk0boot1:

    echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot1/force_ro
    dd if=/lib/firmware/airoha/EthMD32.dm.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0boot1
    dd if=/lib/firmware/airoha/EthMD32.DSP.bin bs=16384 seek=1 of=/dev/mmcblk0boot1

Move files to the device /tmp using scp:

openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-snand-preloader.bin
openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-snand-bl31-uboot.fip
openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-initramfs-recovery.itb
openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb

mtd write /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-snand-preloader.bin /dev/mtd0
ubidetach -m 1
ubiformat /dev/mtd1
ubiattach -m 1
volsize=$(wc -c < /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-snand-bl31-uboot.fip)
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N fip -n 0 -s $volsize -t static
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_0 /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-snand-bl31-uboot.fip
cd /lib/firmware/airoha
cat EthMD32.dm.bin EthMD32.DSP.bin > /tmp/en8811h-fw.bin
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N en8811h-firmware -n 1 -s 147456 -t static
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_1 /tmp/en8811h-fw.bin
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 2 -N ubootenv -s 126976
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 3 -N ubootenv2 -s 126976
volsize=$(wc -c < /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-initramfs-recovery.itb)
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 4 -N recovery -s $volsize
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_4 /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-initramfs-recovery.itb
volsize=$(wc -c < /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb)
ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -n 5 -N fit -s $volsize
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi0_5 /tmp/openwrt-*-bananapi_bpi-r3-mini-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb

P.S.: in case write to MTD results in error, apply the following:

insmod mtd-rw.ko i_want_a_brick=1

P.P.S.: If after NAND flashing to 24.10.0-rc2 and trying flash using TFTP you got an error like this:

Volume en8811h-fw not found! 
[Airoha] read firmware from UBI failed. 
EN8811H load firmware fail.

Please change this in the instruction above:

ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N en8811h-firmware -n 1 -s 147456 -t static

to:

ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 -N en8811h-fw -n 1 -s 147456 -t static

You will need to access the UART

→ generic.sysupgrade

→ generic.debrick

Incomplete Flash Layout

→ failsafe_and_factory_reset

→ Basic configuration After flashing, proceed with this.
Set up your Internet connection, configure wireless, configure USB port, etc.

Data for 4G LTE and SSD LEDs is missing

→ hardware.button on howto use and configure the hardware button(s). Here, we merely name the buttons, so we can use them in the above Howto.

The Banana Pi BPi-R3 Mini has the following buttons:

Front:
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Rear(Low cost case, applies to both versions) :

Main PCB:

Need photos for exact RX/TX/GND positions on the PCB

Use a 3.3V-TTL USB to Serial/UART converter.

Missing bootlog

Missing bootlog

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