Manual firmware upgrade for EP06-A

RouterOS General
1

I got an updated firmware from Quectel for my EP06-A (EP06ALAR02A08M4G_01.011.01.011), which Mikrotik isn't distributing (yet?) apparently. I'm stumped on how to apply the update on my SXT-R.

I understand it should look something like this:

/interface lte firmware-upgrade lte1 upgrade=yes firmware-file="something"

But the file I was given is a zip file that is 83MB. That's too big to store in memory, so I can't upload it via Files and can't host it somewhere and feed a link to the "firmware-upgrade" command because it still doesn't have enough space to download it.

These are the files inside. What am I supposed to do with this?

    Size   Compressed  Name
-------- ------------  ------------------------
    4845         1333  contents.xml
    1254          655  md5.txt
  504969       209135  update\appsboot.mbn
   99720        60993  update\ENPRG9x45.mbn
 9961472      4971346  update\mdm-perf-recovery-image-mdm9640-perf.ubi
 6576128      5419890  update\mdm9640-perf-boot.img
50069504     35166149  update\mdm9640-perf-sysfs.ubi
47448064     37651230  update\NON-HLOS.ubi
  100012        60388  update\NPRG9x45.mbn
     604          232  update\partition.mbn
    6725          676  update\partition_nand.xml
  157400        86469  update\rpm.mbn
  230460       115984  update\sbl1.mbn
  467552       198470  update\tz.mbn
   16384          365  update\firehose\partition_complete_p4K_b256K.mbn
     740          391  update\firehose\patch_p4K_b256K.xml
  136932        81015  update\firehose\prog_nand_firehose_9x45.mbn
    5597          671  update\firehose\rawprogram_nand_p4K_b256K_update.xml
2

Update outside the MT device if possible.

3

I could, but I was hoping to not have to climb up on my roof

4

Maybe this will help.

Click link below.

Qflash

Do make sure you read everything first.

You will need to get a Mini PCIe to USB adapter.

Maybe others can help.

I haven't got into LTE modems yet.

5

Yes, I'm aware of how to do it with QFlash. I did it that way when I first got the device. But I was hoping to do it in the RouterOS terminal so I don't have to retrieve it from off my roof, and minimize the downtime.

It's clearly possible to update the firmware from within RouterOS since it's done with the firmware that's distributed by Mikrotik. I just don't know what format that is compared to what I got directly from Quectel.

6

For my knowledge.

What adapter did you use and can you post a link for it?

TIA

7

It's a mini PCIe to USB adapter. The one I have came with the modem when I bought it off of AliExpress back in 2020. That listing doesn't exist anymore. The adapter I have is similar to this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008080890744.html