Updating PinePhone (Pro) Modem Firmware with GNOME Firmware Updater

A short video on how to upgrade the Quectel EG25-G Modem Firmware with postmarketOS edge.

This was done on a fresh microSD card install of postmarketOS edge with Phosh. The command to install GNOME Firmware is sudo apk add gnome-firmware-updater.

Before then navigating through the app to install the Firmware, make sure that your phone is decently charged (battery above 50%) AND plugged into power to not suffer a power loss while updating firmware.

The process took about 6 Minutes in total, and then a "Success" message appeared: https://fosstodon.org/web/@linmob/107865226013496268

Huge thanks to Dylan van Assche, who made this possible and explained the details in a blog post earlier this year: https://dylanvanassche.be/blog/2022/pinephone-modem-upgrade/

This topic has also been featured in PINE64's last Community Update: https://www.pine64.org/2022/02/15/february-update-chat-with-the-machine/#chat-with-the-machine

Demoed projects: GNOME Firmware: https://gitlab.gnome.org/hughsie/gnome-firmware-updater PinePhone Modem Firmware: https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk/ postmarketOS: https://postmarketos.org

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