[Pineapple + USB Battery + USB Tethering = FAIL?]

Hi everyone, I'm the happy owner of a MKV which I use (when I take it out with me) with an Anker Astro E7 USB battery.

When I connect the MKV to my home power supply, I'm perfectly able to use my Galaxy S6 as a 4G modem ( using the USB port on the MKV and enabling USB tethering ), but when I'm not home and I try to use the same exact configuration with the battery, the phone simply doesn't detect the USB connection thus doesn't allow me to enable tethering ( basically it's just like the phone's connected to absolutely nothing ).

I guess this is due to some power requirements of the phone? Any chance to fix this? I vaguely remember I used tethering with my old phone ( a LG Nexus 5 ) and it worked, so the Galaxy S6 is probably draining more power than the battery is actually able to give?

Thanks.

[MKV Boot Loop]

nevermind, I've solved using another power adapter.

[MKV Boot Loop]

Hi guys, I bought a MK5 a few months ago and it worked like a charm ... it's been turned off for a while and today, when I tried to turn it on again, I got stuck in a boot loop ( green led fixed and blue blinking ).

I tried the unbrick procedure described here more than once ( switch pins setup, upload factory.bin, switch pins back, reboot ) but when I try to reboot I get the same results ( of course I've waited more than 5 minutes for it to stop ).

Any hints would be very appreciated as I really need this device working for my job.

[Issues with Huawei E587 modem]

I guys, I have a Huawei E587 modem which is not supported out of the box (as it seems) by the MKV, I'm following this guide, so my steps were:

- Install cdc_ncm package.

opkg -nodeps install http://galapago.sakura.ne.jp/openwrt/12_09_rc1/kmod-usb-net-cdc-ncm_3.3.8-1_ar71xx.ipk

- Install modeswitch's parameter file for E587

cd /etc/usbmodeswitch.d
wget -O 12d1:1c1b http://galapago.sakura.ne.jp/openwrt/12_09_rc1/12d1_1c1b

Now when I plug the device to the usb port, I see the following dmesg:

[ 1938.820000] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-platform
[ 1938.970000] option 1-1.2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 1938.970000] usb 1-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 1938.980000] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-1.2:1.1
[ 1939.000000] usb 1-1.2: MAC-Address: 0x0c:0x5b:0x8f:0x27:0x9a:0x64
[ 1939.010000] cdc_ncm 1-1.2:1.2: wwan0: register 'cdc_ncm' at usb-ehci-platform-1.2, Mobile Broadband Network Device, 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64
[ 1939.980000] scsi 9:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass storage     ffff PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 1939.990000] scsi 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 1939.990000] scsi 9:0:0:1: Direct-Access     HUAWEI   Mass storage     ffff PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 1940.000000] sd 9:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 1940.030000] sd 9:0:0:1: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

( The cd-rom stuff it's normal, the device has a built in partition with softwares for windows ).

So far so good, if I execute ifconfig -a I see the interface with the right mac address:

wwan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0C:5B:8F:27:9A:64  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Now, since the protocol ncm is not in the list of the mobile configuration web ui, if I try to put it as a custom protocol nothing happens ( pppd is not launched basically ), if I try other configs such as:

config interface 'wan2'
        option proto '3g'
        option device '/dev/ttyUSB0'
        option service 'umts'
        option apn 'MY_APN'
        option username 'MY_USERNAME'
        option password 'MY_PASSWORD'
        option defaultroute '1'

I get the following (error) logs from pppd:

Jan  1 00:51:24 Pineapple daemon.notice pppd[24955]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: abort on (BUSY)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: abort on (ERROR)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: report (CONNECT)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: timeout set to 10 seconds
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: send (AT&F^M)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: expect (OK)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: AT&F^M^M
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: OK
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]:  -- got it
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: send (ATE1^M)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: expect (OK)
Jan  1 00:51:25 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^M
Jan  1 00:51:29 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ATE1^M^M
Jan  1 00:51:29 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^BOOT:478988,0,0,0,99^M
Jan  1 00:51:30 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^M
Jan  1 00:51:30 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^RSSI:10^M
Jan  1 00:51:30 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^M
Jan  1 00:51:30 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^CSNR:-93,-7^M
Jan  1 00:51:33 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^M
Jan  1 00:51:33 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^RSSI:10^M
Jan  1 00:51:33 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^M
Jan  1 00:51:33 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: ^CSNR:-96,-10^M
Jan  1 00:51:35 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: alarm
Jan  1 00:51:35 Pineapple local2.info chat[24971]: Failed
Jan  1 00:51:35 Pineapple daemon.err pppd[24955]: Connect script failed
Jan  1 00:51:36 Pineapple daemon.info pppd[24955]: Exit.
Jan  1 00:51:36 Pineapple daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan2' is now down

Can you help me please? Thanks :)