Huawei HG532s

Overview

 * ISP: Orange (Spain)

"AM1HG530ERRAM VER.B" is silkscreened on the board in the photos.


 * Huawei HG532s (rev B1/C1)
 * Ralink RT63365E/RT5392L/RT63087N

Third party firmwares
The TP-LINK TD-W8968 v2 has identical hardware, but a firmware with more features.
 * It can be installed by flashing a full flash backup from the TD-W8968 v2.

We only need to replace the WIFi calibration data and the MAC hardware address
 * by the ones used in our device.

You can ommit steps 3 to 4 if you aren't worried about having your own MAC/calibration data.
 * But it's always recommendable making a flash backup, step 1


 * Tune the Tplink image (procedure made in a Linux OS desktop PC):
 * 1) Make a full flash backup on the HG532s as described above. Rename it to hg532sfull.bin
 * 2) Download the Tplink flash backup: TD-W8968v2-flashbackup-mod.zip. Uncompress the file and rename it to tplinkfull.bin.
 * 3) Now we can insert the wifi calibration data from our device in the tplink file. Execute this command:
 * 4) Insert the MAC addres of our HG532s in the tplink file:  In this example the MAC was 00:11:22:33:44:55
 * Flash the Tplink image.
 * 1) Power off the device.
 * 2) Conect the USB UART adapter in your computer to the serial port at the router (only TX, RX and GND). Open the serial software console.
 * 3) Conect the ethernet cable from your computer to the device. Set a static IP on your computer compatible with 192.168.1.1, i.e: 192.168.1.33.
 * 4) Power up the device and immediatelly press any key on the serial console. It should stop at the bootloader CLI with the symbol:
 * 5) Send the image via TFTP: on your computer execute
 * 6) Flash the image (the received image should be stored at 0x80020000):
 * 7) Power cycle the device

RT63365 at Wed Dec 12 17:15:09 CST 2012 version 0.8
 * This is a session of flashing the device at the serial console:

Memory size 32MB

Found SPI Flash 8MiB Winbond W25Q64 at 0xb0000000

Press any key in 3 secs to enter boot command mode. Search PHY addr and found PHY addr=0

bldr> Starting the TFTP download... ............................. Total 8388608 (0x800000) bytes received

bldr> flash 0 80020000 800000 Write to flash from 80020000 to 0 with 800000 bytes program from 0 to 800000

bldr>


 * Note: The file TD-W8968v2-flashbackup-mod.zip contains a modded rootfs with a telnet server (port 2323), a new busybox with more utilities among other nice features. You can go to the original Tplink firmware after flashing if you feel more comfortable. The default serial console and telnet user/password are admin:1234, whereas the default web interace is admin:admin.

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