QMI-FIRMWARE-UPDATE(1)

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version 1.38.0 · 14 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

qmi-firmware-update — bestie, this is the one that updates firmware in QMI devices ✨ (it's a User Commands girly, iykyk)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Usage:

qmi-firmware-update [OPTION???] FILE1 FILE2... - Update firmware
in QMI devices

That's the whole vibe: you point it at a device, you hand it your files, it does the firmware update thing. Slay. 💅

🎀 Generic device selection options:

Okay so first you gotta tell it WHICH device we're talking about. Pick your fighter:

  • -s, --busnum-devnum=[BUS:]DEV — pick the device by bus and device number, and those are in decimal babe, don't come at it with hex.
  • -d, --vid-pid=VID[:PID] — pick the device by device vendor and product id, and these ones are in hexadecimal. (Yes, the two options use different number bases. Not my rules, it's just how it is 💀)
  • -w, --cdc-wdm=[PATH] — pick the device by its QMI/MBIM cdc-wdm device path (like, e.g. /dev/cdc-wdm0).
  • -t, --tty=[PATH] — pick the device by serial device path (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB2).

🔥 Update options (normal mode):

This is the main-character section, fr fr.

  • -u, --update — launch the firmware update process. The whole point, honestly.
  • -f, --firmware-version=[VERSION] — the firmware version (e.g. '05.05.58.00').
  • -c, --config-version=[VERSION] — the config version (e.g. '005.025_002').
  • -C, --carrier=[CARRIER] — the carrier name (e.g. 'Generic').
  • --ignore-version-errors — run the update operation even if the version strings are giving errors. Bold move, but ok 🫶
  • --override-download — download the images even when the module is out here saying it already has them. Gaslight it, go off.
  • --modem-storage-index=[INDEX] — index storage for the modem image.
  • --skip-validation — don't wait around to validate the running firmware after the update. Impatient queen behavior ✨

💜 Reset options (normal mode):

  • -b, --reset — reset the device into download mode.

🦋 Update options (download mode):

  • -U, --update-download — launch the firmware update process while the device is in download (boot & hold) mode.

⭐ Verify options:

  • -z, --verify — analyze and verify firmware images. A little vibe check for your firmware, no cap.

👑 Application Options:

  • -p, --device-open-proxy — request to use the 'qmi-proxy' proxy.
  • --device-open-qmi — open a cdc-wdm device explicitly in QMI mode.
  • --device-open-mbim — open a cdc-wdm device explicitly in MBIM mode.
  • --device-open-auto — open a cdc-wdm device in either QMI or MBIM mode (this is the default, so if you don't pick, this picks for you).
  • --ignore-mm-runtime-check — ignore the ModemManager runtime check.
  • -v, --verbose — run the action with verbose messages in standard output, including the debug ones. Chatty mode activated 🗣️
  • -S, --silent — run the action with no messages in standard output; not even the error ones. Shhh. Not a single word. 🤫
  • -L, --verbose-log=[PATH] — write verbose messages to an output file.
  • -V, --version — print version.
  • -h, --help — show help.
  • -H, --help-examples — show help examples.
⚠️ Warning! Use this program with caution. The authors take no responsibility if any device gets broken as a result of using this program. Like, genuinely, bestie, be careful with this one — nobody's covering you if it goes sideways. 💀

Please report issues to the libqmi mailing list at:

libqmi-devel@lists.freedesktop.org

📜 qmi-firmware-update 1.38.0

Copyright (C) 2016-2022 Aleksander Morgado Copyright (C) 2022 VMware, Inc. Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Bj??rn Mork Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Zodiac Inflight Innovations

License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for qmi-firmware-update is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and qmi-firmware-update programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info qmi-firmware-update

should give you access to the complete manual.

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ — this was qmi-firmware-update from January 2026, page QMI-FIRMWARE-UPDATE(1), and that's on periodt 🎀🦋💖

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