QFirehose / Flashing Quectel Modem

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4(MT7988)
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Hi and Happy New Year To All Members

I have Banana BPI-R4 has 5G/4G modem on it RM551 (X75) and using it as 5G/4G Router I want upgrade the modem by QFirehose I tried ROOter system has QFirehose V1.4.8 but didn’t work

Function of QFirehose to flash 5G/4G modem

is there any firmware OpenWRT or @frank-w system can be used to flash the modem I asked Quectel Team they told me to use QFirehose V1.4.17 on system i’m not familiar with coding

QFirehose V1.4.17 by Quectel Team

or on google drive

This repo has QFirehose V1.4.17 on github

I appreciate your support Mr. @frank-w or other members if can help me in this subject… if you can share any system has QFirehose V1.4.17 on your image

Modem firmware that I want to flash it , I unzipped the firmware on usb I connected it to BPI-R4

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I do not know qfirehouse and it is not part of my image. Maybe it can be installed,but the it needs to be configured too.

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Thank you Dear friend @frank-w … Really It will be great thing for BPI users

Here Quectel LTE&5G QFirehose (Linux&Android User Guide) I uploded it on github

or from Quectel form https://www.quectel.com/download/lte5g_qfirehose_linuxandroid_v1-2-zip/

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Previously people were using QFirehose to flash / upgrade their modem on OpenWRT device

Currently they removed this QFirehose from their image not supporting anymore …

So people need to purchase external m.2 board to install modem on it and connect it to their laptop or PC to flash the modem

If there any image or anything you want me to test it i’m ready .

Note : I have External m.2 board and I know how to put my modem on Emergency mode … but I know a lot of people have BPI-R4 with 5G modems , they don’t have capability to purchase m.2 board

So BPI Team can add section on their steps for flashing modem by Frank system

more info:

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So in a nutshell: use a debian (or archlinuxarm) image

Install:

sudo apt install build-essential git

Clone the repo and build the program on the R4 and then run it.

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No idea how to do it , i’m Windows user

if you can do this or share image has QFirehose ready , I will appreciate this support .

Thank you my friend Mr. @ericwoud for your participation in this post

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I got the new version on Qfirehose from Quectel team Qfirehose V1.4.21

Or from this link

https://forums.quectel.com/uploads/short-url/mNwbB7AC3eTIRn6V1hFQtVWFTHO.zip

Qfirehose V1.4.20 (If version V.1.4.21 didn’t work)

https://forums.quectel.com/uploads/short-url/1oS9G6ltjuVEN7XoRBGXoPj1aOx.zip

Or from this link

Im ready to test for Router BPI-R4 . If anyone can share the image or IPK for this router BPI-R4

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This is not working with BPI-R4 packages … not useful