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@Biktorgj Biktorgj released this 19 Jul 05:38
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Biktorgj Biktor
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Learn about vigilant mode.

CHANGELOG: 0.6.8

Big, enormous thank you to all the people who participate in the development of this firmware, be it by contributing with code, documentation, donations or testing and reporting issues, this firmware gets better on each release thanks to your help and feedback!

New:

  • Update Yocto to 4.0.2
  • Scheduled tasks: save tasks to flash and restore them on boot (beta, there's a lot that can go wrong if the modem can't sync time)
  • Add support for building ramdisk images

Fixes:

  • Bootloader: Fix a bug that made it not respect the AT+QFASTBOOT command. If you find issues flashing this firmware, either directly with the script or via fwupd, please run fastboot oem stay in a root terminal and try to flash it again
  • Higher temperature thresholds so it complains less when it's hot outside
  • Time syncing: Give up if it is unable to sync the time after 60 attempts (so it's not trying all the time)
  • Delay scheduled task thread start for 120 seconds (Give the time sync thread... ermmm... time... to sync its... time)

Compatibility:

  • Pinephone
  • Pinephone Pro
  • Quectel EG25 based MiniPCIe cards (make sure you enable USB audio if you want to make a call)

Known issues

  • SMS Timestamps will be wrong if the modem can't manage to sync the date from the carrier. If this happens all messages will have a date of 2022-01-01 (+- timezone offset)
  • You tell me!

NOTES:

SHA512 Sum of the package file

6d47a881d090dc7ce796708a56a1791881e064633491d25068ba8d4500a14fb507923e00857177ed85c8a43052a38344813ac3763b820e3fae62a3e94f7f05a4 package.tar.gz

Inside the compressed tar file there's a file containing the SHA sums for the files in it.

Installation instructions:

  1. Get required tools: you need adb and fastboot
  2. Run the flashall script bundled in the package as root. If something fails, flash manually

After you flashed everything, the modem should come back automatically after 14-18 seconds.
If you want to go back to stock, check the recovery repo

WARNING: Make sure you have a recent enough baseband version before installing the firmware, or some things won't work as expected. You can check your current ADSP firmware by sending the command AT+QGMR when running stock, or AT+GETADSPVER when using this firmware. Below you can find the latest ADSP firmware blobs we have found (all of them will work):

ADSP Firmware:

Depending on your carrier, some firmware versions will work better than others. You can check your current ADSP firmware version by sending the "AT+QGMR" AT command. If in doubt, version 01.002.01.002 is the default if you used the recovery repo. I've been using version 003 for months without issues (and improvements in data handling) but some users have reported problems making VoLTE calls with it, so pick whatever works best for you (or don't change it at all if it worked fine before)

Flashing it:

  1. Open a root terminal and run: echo -ne "AT+QFASTBOOT\r" > /dev/ttyUSB2 to enter fastboot mode
  2. Run fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.ubi && fastboot reboot

Something went wrong?

Feel free to check the troubleshooting section. If you don't manage to fix it, feel free to open an issue and I'll do my best to help you out

This release is a flashable package based on the following repos:

Have fun!

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