Wireless Joint

With help from jheld and other folks over at the rooter forum, I was able to get the 8200EA to work. The bulk of the praise goes to jheld. If you want to see how take a look at these two topics on the forum:

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/3vx1k1r3?p=718#r14346
and
https://forums.whirlpool ...

Looks like someone has done something like that

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/quectel-ec25-e-firmware-upgrade-on-mifi/16491/7


That is interesting, thanks.
I looked at it a couple of days ago and indeed extroot is needed because ROOter (I installed the "full" image with load balancing on board ...

And one more thing: whether or not one should upgrade the firmware of his EM160R. I checked the release notes available here:

https://forums.quectel.com/uploads/short-url/nUZ5LPsSkNG5SjgaX4zdcwjBPSv.pdf

for ver. 05 they say the following:
ver5.jpg

I wish it could be true because somehow I ...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it :) Can you please elaborate more on the virtual machine method? Am I understanding correctly that with that method I could upgrade my Quectel modem firmware without having to use an M.2 to usb adapter? Thank you!


I was speaking about VMware, I have 2 versions (15 ...

Hello,

I found some free time and built QFirehose on WG1608 (after installing extroot since this device does not have enough memory to install all necessary tools) - upgrade of EM160 firmware installed in the router actually works (should work for other Quectel modems too).

But there is a problem ...

You do not have to load different firmware to manipulate the bands on this device, I won't go into it here but there is plenty on the web about band configuration and calculating the proper bitmasks for them for this model, all you need is putty or a command line to the modem to change them

I dont think you need to build QFirehose for a specific firmware, just the cpu of your modem.
Dairyman just added latest version of qfirehose for all the builds, so you can get it, whit ROOter 19 or ROOter 21 version.
you could grab the binary inside it, and you on your own router thecnically, or ...