10-08-2020, 04:35 AM
(10-08-2020, 03:01 AM)a-wai Wrote: Reading through https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/modem-pp-reveng.html already provides a good explanation: there are at least some developers at Quectel who are very poorly skilled and don't really know what they're doing (based on the unreasonable amount of system() in the firmware code).I read some of the source for their QFirehose updater utility prior to running it, and that seriously made me reconsider updating my modem, as I wasn't sure I could trust it to do the job and not brick the modem. Miraculously, it worked as intended. But yes, Quectel seems to have some people who definitely do NOT belong in systems programming working on their modem firmware, which is horrifying. If they'd open source their firmware (when hell freezes over), I'm sure the community could quickly fix at least some of these issues.
