Latest modem.bin LTE dongle firmware for Huawei B593u-12
Latest modem.bin firmwares currently available are T-Mobile customized 11.533.03.03.748 (2013-09-30) from SP105 and generic 11.433.61.00.00 (2012-12-04) from Polkomtel SP103. While these are customized for EM920u according to few forum posts I've found they work equally with Huawei USB LTE dongles such as E392 part of same MDM9200 family.
Polkomtel one is generic as there's no operator ID in end of firmware version. Which means T-Mobile has requested some sort of LTE modem firmware customizations from Huawei. I haven't noticed any difference in functionality myself, but depending on your operator there might be some.
You can check version after opening SSH connection to router using "lteat" command.
# lteat
AT>at^rdcust=?
Vodafone B2000 branded Huawei B593u-12 running T-Mobile SP105 with T-Mobile modem.bin (11.533.03.03.748 / 2013-09-30)
(0: 1) (1: 0) (2: 0) (3: 0) (4: 0) (5: 0) (6: 0) (7: 0)
(8: 0) (9: 0) (10: 0) (11: 0) (12: 1) (13: 0) (14: 0) (15: 0)
(16: 0) (17: 0) (18: 0) (19: 0) (20: 0) (21: 0) (22: 0) (23: 1)
(25: 0 0) (26: 0) (27: 1) (28: 1 1) (29: 1)
Vodafone B2000 branded Huawei B593u-12 running Polkomtel SP103 with generic modem.bin (11.433.61.00.00 / 2012-12-04)
(0: 0) (1: 0) (2: 0) (3: 0) (4: 0) (5: 0) (6: 0) (7: 0)
(8: 0) (9: 0) (10: 0) (11: 0) (12: 1) (13: 0) (14: 0) (15: 0)
(16: 0) (17: 0) (18: 0) (19: 0) (20: 0) (21: 0) (22: 0) (23: 1)
(25: 0 0) (26: 0) (27: 0) (28: 1 1) (29: 1)
Did you spot it? #27 is different. Not that I would much idea what that means or if it matters. Quick googliohakuplaza search says it doesn't matter as long as SIM card used works with modem firmware. So it's not like some frequency would be disabled or other nasties.
This forum post provides bit more information of these registers, but not much about #27 we're most interested.
0 Replace Firmware Version True
1 ?Forbid 2G registration False
2 Forbid AT^CURC type/port False
3 Change Mean TPT Size False
4 Change MTU size False
5 Replace Product ID (PID) False
6 Change APN values False
7 Disable Video Calls False
8 Change USSD Mode False
9 Change? Full Frequency Scan False
10 ? LED Light False
11 Exclusive Cardlock False
12 Huawei Special SIM lock True
13 Permanent Cardlock False
14 Class-0 SMS Route False
15 Roaming HPLMN (count?) False
16 Diasble RPLMN (PME?) False
17 Change GPRS Recent Activity Timer False
18 Change Default Traffic Class False
19 Change STK False
20 Huawei Manual 3G? band Search Order False
21 Current ^SYSCFGEX Mode List False
22 Get/Set Attach PDP Parameters False
23 Disable F-DPCH (WCDMA) True
24 Huawei IPV4 and IPV6 Configuration N/A
25* ? Modified UI Network PLMN False
26 [1] GID1 Customer Forbid Band False
27 [1] Start Telus GID1 check True for T-Mobile, False for generic / Polkomtel
28* Set HS-DSCH Physical Layer Category True
29 [1] Set GID1 LTE Band Preference True
* Returns 2 digits in E589u-12.
[1] GID1 = "Group Identifier Level 1" and is a type of SIM network
lockout mechanism. The GID1 elementary files on the SIM are
specified in GSM 11.11 (ETS 300 977)
Polkomtel one is generic as there's no operator ID in end of firmware version. Which means T-Mobile has requested some sort of LTE modem firmware customizations from Huawei. I haven't noticed any difference in functionality myself, but depending on your operator there might be some.
You can check version after opening SSH connection to router using "lteat" command.
# lteat
AT>at^rdcust=?
Vodafone B2000 branded Huawei B593u-12 running T-Mobile SP105 with T-Mobile modem.bin (11.533.03.03.748 / 2013-09-30)
(0: 1) (1: 0) (2: 0) (3: 0) (4: 0) (5: 0) (6: 0) (7: 0)
(8: 0) (9: 0) (10: 0) (11: 0) (12: 1) (13: 0) (14: 0) (15: 0)
(16: 0) (17: 0) (18: 0) (19: 0) (20: 0) (21: 0) (22: 0) (23: 1)
(25: 0 0) (26: 0) (27: 1) (28: 1 1) (29: 1)
Vodafone B2000 branded Huawei B593u-12 running Polkomtel SP103 with generic modem.bin (11.433.61.00.00 / 2012-12-04)
(0: 0) (1: 0) (2: 0) (3: 0) (4: 0) (5: 0) (6: 0) (7: 0)
(8: 0) (9: 0) (10: 0) (11: 0) (12: 1) (13: 0) (14: 0) (15: 0)
(16: 0) (17: 0) (18: 0) (19: 0) (20: 0) (21: 0) (22: 0) (23: 1)
(25: 0 0) (26: 0) (27: 0) (28: 1 1) (29: 1)
Did you spot it? #27 is different. Not that I would much idea what that means or if it matters. Quick googliohakuplaza search says it doesn't matter as long as SIM card used works with modem firmware. So it's not like some frequency would be disabled or other nasties.
This forum post provides bit more information of these registers, but not much about #27 we're most interested.
0 Replace Firmware Version True
1 ?Forbid 2G registration False
2 Forbid AT^CURC type/port False
3 Change Mean TPT Size False
4 Change MTU size False
5 Replace Product ID (PID) False
6 Change APN values False
7 Disable Video Calls False
8 Change USSD Mode False
9 Change? Full Frequency Scan False
10 ? LED Light False
11 Exclusive Cardlock False
12 Huawei Special SIM lock True
13 Permanent Cardlock False
14 Class-0 SMS Route False
15 Roaming HPLMN (count?) False
16 Diasble RPLMN (PME?) False
17 Change GPRS Recent Activity Timer False
18 Change Default Traffic Class False
19 Change STK False
20 Huawei Manual 3G? band Search Order False
21 Current ^SYSCFGEX Mode List False
22 Get/Set Attach PDP Parameters False
23 Disable F-DPCH (WCDMA) True
24 Huawei IPV4 and IPV6 Configuration N/A
25* ? Modified UI Network PLMN False
26 [1] GID1 Customer Forbid Band False
27 [1] Start Telus GID1 check True for T-Mobile, False for generic / Polkomtel
28* Set HS-DSCH Physical Layer Category True
29 [1] Set GID1 LTE Band Preference True
* Returns 2 digits in E589u-12.
[1] GID1 = "Group Identifier Level 1" and is a type of SIM network
lockout mechanism. The GID1 elementary files on the SIM are
specified in GSM 11.11 (ETS 300 977)
Comments
Post a Comment
Got something to say?!