ESP32-S3: Unable to use DFU

[stockywell]

Hi,
I have a custom board with a ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module. The USB_PHY_SEL eFuse has been burnt, however the device cannot be detected by dfu-util when in download mode.

Using a separate USB-UART converter on UART0 I can see that it's in download mode, and flash it via UART. Also, I can run a simple application that enables USB-CDC through TinyUSB and this works fine.

I have tried on MacOS as well as Windows and it just doesn't seem to work. Is there something I'm missing?

Attached is the eFuse summary, and below is the ESP-ROM version (are there multiple revisions of the ESP32-S3 chip?)

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ESP-ROM:esp32s3-20210327
Build:Mar 27 2021

Thanks.

[marclee]

I have the same problem here. And the same problem is also described there: https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=26795
It seems that nobody has solved the problem yet. Is there anybody from Espressif staff who could help?

This is my code I used to burn the efuse bit:

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1. const esp_efuse_desc_t efuse_USB_PHY_SEL[] = { { EFUSE_BLK0, 121, 1 } };
2. const esp_efuse_desc_t* efuse_field[] = { &efuse_USB_PHY_SEL[0], NULL };
3. ESP_LOGI(TAG, "eFuse bit USB_PHY_SEL = %u", esp_efuse_read_field_bit(efuse_field));
4. esp_efuse_write_field_bit(efuse_field);
5. ESP_LOGI(TAG, "-> eFuse bit USB_PHY_SEL = %u", esp_efuse_read_field_bit(efuse_field));

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As a result ESP32-S3 can't be recognized from my PC anymore and even in DFU mode it doesn't appear anymore.

ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N8R8
ESP-IDF v5.0-beta1-829-g3f2f35bd5e

The UART console shows that ESP32-S3 is in DFU mode:

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1. ESP-ROM:esp32s3-20210327
2. Build:Mar 27 2021
3. rst:0x1 (POWERON),boot:0x20 (DOWNLOAD(USB/UART0))
4. waiting for download

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[chegewara]

I have the same problem here. And the same problem is also described there: https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=26795
It seems that nobody has solved the problem yet. Is there anybody from Espressif staff who could help?

I dont understand how can you say that nobody solved it yet, when i clearly said few times and also included pictures from windows proving it is working:
https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t= ... =20#p95651

Yet again, there is official espressif documentation about using zadig under windows:
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... ndows-only

If its not clear maybe its good to ask to update it.

Another prove is here. This is windows in VM, the only connected USB device is esp32-s3. As you can see 2 devices are detected, esp-s3 not recognized and com19, serial port. This is device with USB_PHY_SEL burned

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And here is another esp32-s3 without USB_PHY_SEL burned. As you can see only serial port com21 detected:

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[chegewara]

On linux it looks like this. Differently detected S3 with and without burned efuse and only 1 is detected as DFU capable:

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[marclee]

So why don't you tell us how to get it working?