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If I may ask, where did you get the QFirehose flasher for the EM12G?

Yessir it comes already bundled/installed with rooter and I used the fw that quectel emailed me. I then I used this method with a usb drive and putty to execute QFirehose command on my 1608 16mb variant.

modemsandmen .pdf ...

Update: Seems like the issue is resolved. Here is what I did:
1) Asked on quectel forums for the latest firmware and got a circa 2023 one EM12GPAR01A21M4G_01.203.01.203.zip (newer than the ones on that github page I think)
2) used QFirehose to flash the em12 while it was installed in my wg1608. I ...

Good advice BillA . I've not flashed the em12 before since it's been problem free. I will see if I can do it with qfirehose and/or try to find m2 sled I bought years back.

Unfortunately I don't have any other router besides the 1608 nor do I have another module. Looks like most options of buying ...

Yes ~2 years ago I removed the lid of the 1608 and put a finned cpu heatsink on the em12g's metal shield held in place with white thermal compound. It reduced the temperature by some but I doubt its nesecary in the environment I have it in.
I do not think the resetting is due to temperature, I ...

Have you also replaced the power supply with a new one that has at least 2.5A of supply?

Yessir, I actually never even used the stock adapter that came with the wg1608 thanks to seeing your recommendations on old posts a couple years ago.
Was using a 12v 5a for the past 2-3 years and today I ...

Thank you for your help either way Didneywhorl , always appreciated.
I am not too well versed on what parts of the kernel/sys logs I should share and didn't want to bog you down with the entire logs in case they weren't helpful.

Tried updating to the latest rooter pre-release and sadly the issue ...

Might need a reflash and factory reset, maybe update in firmware, but it might just be failing .. maybe.

I checked the kernel after it just recently powered down again, I notice that it throws a similar error each time. Does this excerpt provide any clues or could it just be too many ...

Cheers, been reading more of the posts including a couple you replied to and I got some ideas on what data I can gather that may be helpful.
Will be monitoring the kernel logs and others today and report back if I find any patterns

Been using my wg1608 GoldenOrb_2023-07-26 ( OpenWrt 22.03-SNAPSHOT )/em12 for a couple years and recently been losing connection randomly once or twice a day. It seems the router stays powered on (can still log into rooter etc) but the modem itself powers down. I checked the debug area right after ...

Was having the issue again all of a sudden. Tried everything mentioned in my original post but nothing worked.
Decided to try upgrading from my old 2020 version of rooter to the latest.
Now everything works great. Currently have it set to ipv4 only but havent played around with things much.

I noticed the new version of rooter has an MTU feature unlike my old version. Today I read on the whirlpool forum that dairyman added the mtu for an att user. Are you aware of the new feature?
I am curious how you found out about needing to change the mtu?
How much of a speed difference was there ...

Interested in what you find out.
It appears the silkscreened labels on the board label the pins from left to right as Ground, tx, rx, 3v3
I think that may mean those pins are for testing transmission/receive etc?
Fan headers usually are indexed to ensure its plugged in the right way as well I think ...

update: Resolved but cause unknown
I used the hotspot instead of the wg1608+em12g last night to do some work, left the modem/router unplugged.
Came back this morning prepared to try resetting the em12g with the AT command that resets it + the AT command that re-enables to nvram or whatever it is ...

Ive been successfully using a connectall tmobile sim with my em12g + wg1608
Today I was using the web and a brief power outage occured. I am unsure if it was coincidence but after my power came back the modem was stuck on 'Failed to Connect'

I did the basics of unplugging, power cycling, reset ...

No, I am unaware of what that is -- I assumed it was a term for changing the APN. Will look it up now, using the em12-g. Will report back. Thanks for the information again Radec!

I tried B2B.t-mobile.com and fast.t-mobile.com, save & apply, reboot, but sadly it still left me with the modem screen reporting "Failed to Connect : Retrying"
I also ensured I set the band locking to use all bands.

I was initially using the isdn.sprint.com (possibly mispelled it) and was sure this ...

I was using connectall sim in a wg1608 for a couple years but they recently had to send me a new SIM card due to their service being updated. The old sim was working fine up until a week ago. I finally opened the new sim and used it in their supplied t10 franklin which works (slow).
I tried putting ...

Sorry for the delay gentlemen, I just wanted to say I appreciated the information and it's helped me learn a bit more.
It seems that the issue is unrelated to ports as you all suggested. Appears to have been resolved on it's own so I assume it was likely an issue outside of my control.
Still it was ...

I am trying to play an online game via my connection (WG1608 + em12g, ethernet wire from WG1608>PC, Sprint/Tmobile + confirmed unlimited/unthrottled plan)
I can connect and play the game but occasionally experience some issues that prompted me to begin diagnosis.
The game's support team advised me ...

Thanks Jim, that seems to work.
By the way, is it normal for the modem to take ~1 minute to be recognize and then another ~minute or two to connect to the tower? Is this something that can be set to go faster via editing settings?

Maybe it is coincidence but it seems like unplugging my router and waiting a bit then replugging it in has a different effect than rebooting it via the rooter page interface (System > Reboot)
For example, the tower I lock onto nearby is in the middle of no where, no chance of congestion.
My em12g ...

If it aint broke dont fix it :)

Wise words, not often followed by most though eh?
I wasnt sure if any performance issues that I may be unaware of were added to the new FW (aside from 5g wifi which I dont need)
If I will have the same exact performance I may as well not touch it.
Appreciate if ...

Been using my wg1608+em12g daily for past year or so. Everything seems to work alright using "openwrt-18.06 branch (git-20.029.49294-41e2258) / GoldenOrb_2020-06-10"
Does anyone know if there are any benefits or bug fixes in the latest firmware that may make it a good idea to flash to it?

I believe ...

Anyone elses wg1608 aluminum finned heat sink+shields on the 3 chips wobbly? They attach to board via tabs but I assumed there should be thermal pad under the shield to span the gap between small chip and big heatsink/shield?

Kinda confused with the wg1608, maybe its firmware related but it runs ...

I was curious about heat sinking the EM12-G as well as how heat transfer pads work in the event that the main board below the modem module doesn't have an exposed copper ground pad. Quectel forums helped answer all the questions and also shared their Quectel_LTE_Module_Thermal_Design_Guide_V1.0.pdf ...

I think this is right forum, if not apologies:
TL;DR: At-Command exec window keeps spamming +CPMS, AT+CSQ, AT+QENG serving cell, AT+QCFG nwscanmode etc. Is this normal?

uploaded short vid of what it's doing: https://streamable.com/0yfc2v
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I have a quectel em12G and have ...

Cheers
Ended up with wg1608 + em12g. Bought some lmr200 10ft from The Wireless Haven. Holding off on antenna for now while setting things up. Got most stuff figured out at the moment, main issue is that the modem network status screen is showing modem at 58C (yesterday I noticed it was reading at 65 ...

Just updating, wg1608/em12: installed mobcitizen coolpad's nano sim via noosy into wg1608, no problems.
I agree with BDF, put another SIM in it, I could be wrong but an unactivated one would probably show the SIM # too.
If you can't exchange it then i'd check the solder on the SIM card receptacle ...

Trying out my first router/modem. WG1608 w/ em12-g. So far i've been finding most of my answers via search.
Haven't had any luck finding more info about a couple issues:
is there a better way to 'configure' the modem rather than using browser and visiting 192.168.1.1? Any dedicated software for ...

Thanks for the insight BDF, due to my lack of knowing if the local towers even support X level of CA and/or MIMO, I went with the em12 and 2x2 mimo panel to test with. If the em12 gets maxed out then i'll buy a em160.
Unfortunately I don't have sprint as my phone service to be able to test the tower ...

about to be getting a wg1608 em12-g tomorrow or next day with noosy adapter. I also have Coolpad Surf (connectall) will report back on how my sim situation goes in case it helps at all. Monitoring this thread in the mean time.

Been learning quite a lot, have a previous post but I think it deals with a different subject at this point and wanted to make a new one.

For sprint (mobilecitizen/pcsforpeople/connectall), I have band 25, 26 and 41 being picked up by my current basic hotspot.

The em12-G can carrier aggregate B41 ...

Did some more research. Seems my para grid ant prob wont be good for band 41 because its not suited for 2496 - 2690 MHz. Will consider the one you suggested didney. Assuming it works through tree foilage?

For the router, is the NEXQ6GO-M Cellular WiFi Router sold in the store a good choice for the ...

Thanks didney, had time to look into figuring out what all I need again. Just wanted to say a lot of your prev posts I found while searching old threads, lots of very useful info that helped me narrow down the em12 series in the first place. Thanks for that.
I have a parabolic grid (forget exact ...

Been researching what I need to buy to potentially replace my Coolpad Surf (Provider: Connectall [similar to pcsforpeople], uses sprint network)

Logged the coolpad's debug/connection data for 10 minutes. During this time the "Serving Cell (SC)" jumped to different SC about 10 or so times. Each SC ...

Found this forum while searching for antenna info for my coolpad surf. Unfortunately my device is a CP332A which has a similar board judging by the FCC pics, but is for Sprint so i'm not sure if I could help with the bruteforce. Has anyone experimented with attaching an antenna to the device ...

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