[ukbodypilot]

Check the dell site there is new firmware that upgrades the card to 7.2Mb.

:-)

Now I just need to find a 3G tower to test it!!!

[ZeroKuhl]

Hi robert,

tried your firmware update and it was working good.
This is really better mod then mine

I will link it in the Windows7 driver thread.
With honor to you!!!

Greetings Zero

[Ciuraz]

Hi, Robert

I`ts working on my Mini1010 Win7
Updated firmware without problems.

Thanks,

[ZeroKuhl]

Hi Ciuraz,

did you run the firmware update within Win7 with the command i post?
Did the update run into timeout at the end?

Thanks for answering the questions.

Bye Zero

[Ciuraz]

Hi, Zero

I did step by step in your post, but no sucsess

but Roberts metod work for me in Win7
Now I have new firmware.

Regards,

[robert]

hmmm. my patch didn't for for me in win7. I cloned my drive then put xp on. swapped SSD to do other mini. Did you use the command line to specify COM port ?

Thanks to Zero for first taking the risk to update.

[Ciuraz]

No, I only use your moded firmware update and skip few errors raports, and card flashed OK

[aszu]

Is this modded 5530 only for US version?
I have got the following HW and wondering if it is worth to give it a try (having serious stability issues with WWAN at the moment):


Product Number........... KRD 131 14/103
Revision................. R1J
Software Product......... CRH10627
Software Version......... R1B/1
Build Date/Time.......... 2008-07-30 11:40
Model.................... D5530
Customization Product.... CXC 172 5864/103
Customization Version.... R1E

What is your experience with this mod? I can see that my revision is slightly different (R1J) and software version quite uncommon (R1B/1). It is UK dell mini 10, which came with Vodaphone trial sim.

[aszu]

OK, actually I could not resist and gave it a try

First of all: updater will work as well on Windows 7, you just have to make sure it is running from elevated command prompt (run as Administrator) with -t COMX option (X is modem port number, for me it had to be actual modem port, not management one).
It is also important that "WWAN AutoConfig" and "Mobile Broadband" services cannot be running - otherwise they will hog access to modem port and updater will not recognize device.

I started update process, it uploaded firmware just fine, but after *device reboot* it just got stuck at "awaiting for device to perform firmware update" - eventually it went to 100% and I got an error that device didn't came back after update.

At this point, I was pretty sure everything is over However, suprisingly device is still alive!
AT*EVERS shows now new R1D06 firmware revision and 3g connection still works - I will test stability and report back

[aszu]

OK, I can tell now that firmware upgrade did the trick for me. No more hanged/stalled connections, BSODs, device is not 'disappearing' from device manager after sleep any more, no more crashing of Windows 7 WWAN manager (when Disconnect button doesn't work and you have to reboot to get it back up and running again)!

Many thanks to Robert, Zero and other people involved for this great work. I recommend this fix to anyone facing problems with WWAN like mine.

It is pretty sad though, that this firmware has been available for almost two years and Dell still has done nothing so far to make it widely available - so we have to rely on unofficial hacks (looks like many people are facing issues with WWAN).

Thanks again!