Update Meizu Pro 5 Baseband

halucigenia

Mine is a TD-LTE too, it has its problems but it's not "hell".

aenima

mine is a TD-LTE (ubuntu edition) and it's not hell too . The main problem is the 4g frequence of 700 or 800Mhz used in France and not supported by the pro5 (is it the case for the LTE too?)

Stefano

@aenima Yeah, the 700 and 800 are not supported on LTE as well. Well, it must be a hardware fault then, cos I don't see how could the same software run on same type/product/hardware has such a huge difference. Clearly Meizu let slip some devices through Q. Control.

tera

I had a disastrous week in London, unable to perform calls unless de-activating data (took me a while to figure that one out) and dropping back to 2G indoor between others...

Reading more online, i noticed that XDA thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/meizu-pro-5/development/meizu-pro5-baseband-17-08-2017-t3667799 mentioning better signal with this firmware version:

Revision = S333_M86_20161109_CHNOPEN_MZ041

So to summarize, i'm now trying the following:

Updated rils from http://xep.8800.org/pro5/ flyme6_ril.zip (well, how to check their versions?)
Modem version above from https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73866639&postcount=7

As i personally swim in unknown water, it would be great to know how to build that android lxc image from scracth, i could only find this interesting deck online: https://elinux.org/images/c/cf/Ubuntu_Touch_Internals_1.pdf

tera

Hi All,

It has been a while with no update here on my side, i do not consider the Pro5 usable anymore, especially professionally, and currently testing a Fairphone 2 and a Nexus 5 for which the signal is definitively better.

In parallel, when time allows, i have slowly started looking into re-building Halium on Android 7.1 for Meizu Pro5... do not hesitate to ping if you are working on something similar

Peace,
Tera