ZTE MF269 - Updated installation info and teardown pictures

[LS3434]

Hello everyone. Just like in the title, i recently bought this router, and i decided to post some more info about installation procedure of OpenWRT on this router.

1. So to get inside the router, first pry off the top cover, it comes off with some force:

2. Then you need to take off the bottom cover. Under two rubber feet there are screws that you need to undo:

3. After taking off the top cover there are two screws also:

4. When you pry off the bottom cover, there are 4 screws:

5. After you take out all screws, the entire board slides out of the case:

6. On the backside, now you have access to serial holes:

So, as you can see, it’s not that hard to dissassemble this thing. Now, the commit is pretty much complete when it comes to installing OpenWRT, but i need to add a couple of things:

1. I needed to set my network card IP address to 192.168.0.22 in order to send initramfs.bin file thru tftp server.

2. In the commit it says to use 1.8V serial adapter. In my case, i used 3.3V adapter, and nothing bad happened, i didn’t fry anything.

3. Also in my case, when i connected all 3 connectors from uart, router woudn’t boot at all. I needed to connect only TX and RX, and when i powered the router up, i had to quickly connect GND, and press ESC to enter u-boot.

I decided to post this info, so maybe someone can update the info page on OpenWRT wiki about this router. I hope it can be useful to users around here

[LS3434]

Kindly ping @frollic for updating wiki page about this device.

[frollic]

there's no wiki page for it at all ?

[LS3434]

Oh crap, i forgot all there is is a github commit. Ok, i’ll try to make a page for it.

[frollic]

just ping me again if you need assistance.

[LS3434]

OK, @frollic, i created a device page and put in some very basic info, since i’m completely new to this. And of course i can’t put pictures in, cause’ i’m not authorized to do so.

[frollic]

post the openwrt boot log.

post output of cat /proc/mtd.

either here, or add to wiki.

going by the name, does it have a LTE modem built in, in that case, if you know which packages are required to get modem to work, post them too.
along with modem interface from /etc/config/network.

manual also says one of the ports can be used to power the device over PoE ?

[LS3434]

It doesn’t have any kind of mobile modem. I’ll post output logs later, since i flashed it with unofficial NSS build.

[LS3434]

Here are the logs:

cat /proc/mtd:

dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 000a0000 00020000 "fota-flag"
mtd1: 00080000 00020000 "mac"
mtd2: 01400000 00020000 "cfg-param"
mtd3: 00600000 00020000 "log"
mtd4: 000a0000 00020000 "oops"
mtd5: 00800000 00020000 "web"
mtd6: 03400000 00020000 "ubi_kernel"
mtd7: 00800000 00020000 "0:wififw"
mtd8: 09a00000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd9: 00050000 00010000 "0:sbl1"
mtd10: 00010000 00010000 "0:mibib"
mtd11: 00020000 00010000 "0:bootconfig"
mtd12: 00020000 00010000 "0:bootconfig1"
mtd13: 00180000 00010000 "0:qsee"
mtd14: 00180000 00010000 "0:qsee_1"
mtd15: 00010000 00010000 "0:devcfg"
mtd16: 00010000 00010000 "0:devcfg_1"
mtd17: 00010000 00010000 "0:apdp"
mtd18: 00010000 00010000 "0:apdp_1"
mtd19: 00040000 00010000 "0:rpm"
mtd20: 00040000 00010000 "0:rpm_1"
mtd21: 00010000 00010000 "0:cdt"
mtd22: 00010000 00010000 "0:cdt_1"
mtd23: 00010000 00010000 "0:appsblenv"
mtd24: 000c0000 00010000 "0:appsbl"
mtd25: 000c0000 00010000 "0:appsbl_1"
mtd26: 00040000 00010000 "0:art"
mtd27: 00080000 00010000 "0:ethphyfw"

[LS3434]

I will enter bootlog in the wiki, because it’s too long to post here.

[frollic]

photos are now in the wiki.

I noticed I can't spell to "disassemble", but I'm gonna leave the photos as they are, since they can't be deleted from the media vault.

[LS3434]

Thank you. I hope i didn’t forgot anything else, but if i did i will update the device page.