Cellular radio firmware release (SQN3330) for both Cat-M1 and NB-IoT
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@cssmacs01 Just looking at your output there (and maybe I am reading it incorrectly), but are you sure you have the right firmware file because a) you were able to save it onto the flash and load it from there (and I thought it was too big hence needing the SD card) and it is only reporting the size of around ~780k vs the ~5.4mb that it should be.
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@cssmacs01 .....addtional information. I've gone through the code line by line and manually sent the AT CMDS through UART and it all works up until AT+SMUPGRADE and then it errors. Feels like the two devices I got from Digi-key are bad or I'm missing something.
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@daniel I need some help here to see if my devices are bricked. I attempted to update the cellular radio firmware and it was taking a realllllyyyyyy long time to reset so I CTRL+C and now all my AT+cmds are Errors. How do I get back online?
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@vigmeister Sorry it did not resolve your upgrade issue as well. Just fyi, I used the lte library to send the AT command from REPL:
>>> from network import LTE >>> lte = LTE() >>> lte.send_at_cmd('AT^RESET')Probably doesn't make any difference though.
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@kevin Thanks for sharing progress! I tried the same on the FiPy. I was able to keep the REPL alive until the AT^RESET command was sent (using uart.write() ), but no dice. Still stuck with the same symptoms.
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Update on my issue: I found that AT^RESET was required after flashing the board with new FW, and before attempting the sqnsupgrade procedure. After that, the upgrade seems to have completed successfully.
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@ioag said in Cellular radio firmware release (SQN3330) for both Cat-M1 and NB-IoT:
@nathanh Hi, were you able to recover FiPy at the end?
Nope, @daniel asked me to send my unit back.
I tried to reload the actual Pycom firmware back onto it hoping that might reset the entire device and only made it worse, I can't event load the device now, REPL just shows un-ending loops of flash errors when I turn it on.
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@nathanh Hi, were you able to recover FiPy at the end?
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Same issue here, failing with "AT+SMSWBOOT=3,0 failed!" (full log is below). If/when this issue is resolved, please post the details here.
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I tinkered a bit further and by setting the default timeout to 2000 instead of 20000 in sqnsupgrade.read_rsp , I was able to get my FiPy to get further along, but ran into @bali ‘s issue of AT+SMSWBOOT=3, 0 failed!
Looks like the issues are roughly the same, but that @nathanh and I have unstable REPL on top :/
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@daniel @nathanh Additional hint from my observation. I looked at the TX buffer of the serial interface by inserting s.wait_tx_done(5000) after the s.write("ATE0\r\n") line in sqnsupgrade.py and I get "False" as the response. Will try moving downstream in the sqnsupgrade.py code later in the day and share my findings.
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@daniel FWIW I seem to have run into exactly the same symptoms as @nathanh If and when a resolution is found, I would appreciate if you post it here. I would also not mind getting in on the debugging action if that would help.
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So I think this just rendered my entire FiPy useless....
I upgraded the CAT-M firmware yesterday without issue to see if I could connect more successfully to Telstra and besides not getting reliable connections the upgrade process seemed to go ok.
Today I tried to upload the NB-IOT firmware and it got stuck at 6% for over 5 minutes exactly like the description in the instructions (https://github.com/pycom/pycom-libraries/tree/master/lib/sqnsupgrade). So I power cycled as per the instructions and now I get stuck on this:
<<< Welcome to the SQN3330 firmware updater >>>And nothing... I have let it run for over 10 minutes and power cycled multiple times. I also notice now I lose all UART REPL command/interface after about 1-2 minutes of powering up my FiPy and it is a race against the clock to even execute the update code. If I wait a while the REPL just freezes and won't accept any input, so essentially making the device unusable.
And as per @bali now when I can get in quick enough and try and call lte = LTE() my device hangs. So it looks like my device that was working is no longer functioning and I followed the instructions as directed...
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@bali Please open a technical support request at https://pycom.io/contact as it seems your GPy is faulty.
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@xykon hangs right after issuing lte=LTE()
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@bali Could you please check what happens if you run the following commands on your GPy?
from network import LTE lte = LTE() lte.send_at_cmd('AT+CFUN=0')
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@daniel I did try at 921600, 345600, 115200, 57600 and it failed the same way at every baud rate. Unfortunately i can't build custom firmware. If you could send me one with the LTE disabled i could try it. I ordered the GPy but was never able to the the LTE on it :(
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@bali OK then it seems that some of the new logic is causing your device to hang. Are you able to build a custom firmware? Then we can disable the background LTE logic and simply run the upgrade...
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@bali can you try changing the baud rate from 921600 to 115200 or 345600 and maybe 57600? Just in case somehow the default baudrate is different in your board...