LTE dongles support

[gustavomondron]

Hello,

I’m thinking of getting the HiKey 960 board for working with Android apps but, in addition to WiFi, I also need LTE connectivity.

Given that the board does not have built-in LTE support, the question is: does the HiKey 960 support LTE USB dongles?

For the sake of clarity: using a WiFi hotspot would not work for me, I’d need the board to actually use the LTE modem.

Thank you very much.

[danielt]

In principle this should work… but I don’t think anyone has yet proved it in practice.

You might need to reconfigure both the kernel (to enable support for the dongle) and maybe also the dongle. The last time I looked into this for someone I came up with:

USB 3G/4G Modem

Hi Skybax Define out-of-the-box I doubt you’ll find something that is plug and play… Android isn’t really designed for systems where the modem isn’t built in. However with a bit of effort you might be able to get a dongle to work without recompiling anything. You would have to combine the information at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZTE_MF110/MF190 about the ZTE modem with one of the tutorials about how to integrate a USB modem with an Android tablet. Google seems to rather like…

Unfortunately I’ve not really seen much in the way of success (or failure) reports on any Android system. Its been confirmed working on DB410C with Debian. This runs a v4.4 dervied kernel just as Hikey960 does so we know the kernel side should be OK but configuring Android remains “an exercise for the reader”.