Hey all, bit of a long shot but hoping someone here has been inside one of these. I grabbed a WiiM Amp really cheap second hand, the seller had it down as faulty/for parts because he couldn't get it running, said the light just went white then red. Figured for the money it was worth a shot and probably just needed setting up properly.
When I first powered it on it actually looked fine, showed up in the WiiM Home app straight away and I could see it sitting in setup mode. I put my wifi details in and that's where it all went wrong, it just hung on "loading" forever and never connected. Tried it a few times, same every time. So I figured I'd go wired instead and plugged an ethernet cable in. It rebooted itself when I did that, and ever since it's been stuck, boots up flashing white like normal then settles on slow flashing red and just stays there.
Now it's basically a brick. Doesn't show in the app anymore on wifi or ethernet, it's not putting out its own setup hotspot, and nothing in bluetooth either. On ethernet the port lights come on but it never pulls an IP, can't find it on the router at all. I even hooked it straight to my laptop direct and there's no arp response, total silence. Holding the volume knob to factory reset does absolutely nothing no matter how long I hold it. Power cycled it a ton, tried a different mains lead, no difference.
I got in touch with WiiM and they checked the serial, told me it never received an OTA update and that it's a hardware fault on the network module. They don't sell the module on its own and they've got no repair centre in Europe, so they basically said send it back to the seller, which I can't do since it was a for-parts sale.
I've had it open and honestly there's nothing obviously dead, no bulging caps, no burnt bits, the amp and power side all look healthy. The board's marked A98MG V02 so it's the same LinkPlay module that's in loads of other stuff.
So before I give up on it, has anyone here actually brought one of these A98 modules back to life over the serial console? I'm fine with soldering and I've got a USB to TTL adapter ready, I just don't know where the UART pads are on this board or what baud rate to use, and whether you can wipe the config from the bootloader to force it back into setup mode. If anyone has the pinout or has done this on a WiiM/Arylic/whatever that uses the same module I'd really appreciate a nudge in the right direction. Happy to post some close up photos of the board if it helps.
Thanks!
When I first powered it on it actually looked fine, showed up in the WiiM Home app straight away and I could see it sitting in setup mode. I put my wifi details in and that's where it all went wrong, it just hung on "loading" forever and never connected. Tried it a few times, same every time. So I figured I'd go wired instead and plugged an ethernet cable in. It rebooted itself when I did that, and ever since it's been stuck, boots up flashing white like normal then settles on slow flashing red and just stays there.
Now it's basically a brick. Doesn't show in the app anymore on wifi or ethernet, it's not putting out its own setup hotspot, and nothing in bluetooth either. On ethernet the port lights come on but it never pulls an IP, can't find it on the router at all. I even hooked it straight to my laptop direct and there's no arp response, total silence. Holding the volume knob to factory reset does absolutely nothing no matter how long I hold it. Power cycled it a ton, tried a different mains lead, no difference.
I got in touch with WiiM and they checked the serial, told me it never received an OTA update and that it's a hardware fault on the network module. They don't sell the module on its own and they've got no repair centre in Europe, so they basically said send it back to the seller, which I can't do since it was a for-parts sale.
I've had it open and honestly there's nothing obviously dead, no bulging caps, no burnt bits, the amp and power side all look healthy. The board's marked A98MG V02 so it's the same LinkPlay module that's in loads of other stuff.
So before I give up on it, has anyone here actually brought one of these A98 modules back to life over the serial console? I'm fine with soldering and I've got a USB to TTL adapter ready, I just don't know where the UART pads are on this board or what baud rate to use, and whether you can wipe the config from the bootloader to force it back into setup mode. If anyone has the pinout or has done this on a WiiM/Arylic/whatever that uses the same module I'd really appreciate a nudge in the right direction. Happy to post some close up photos of the board if it helps.
Thanks!
