Novatel firmwares

[rich hathaway]

just fyi if you load the wrong dmf file on your device you will NOT be able to run any duu with success, The duu by default have a check for device hardware and firmware and if they do not match you will not get any firm update on your novatel device via duu, So to put that in layman terms if you load a 135 firm that was made for a sprint or virgin or any other carrier on your vzw mifi it may load with dfs but you wont be loading any duu to it unless you can remove duu security as it will the fail the integrity test.
take some good advice peeps, do not ever load full firm with dfs unless you are trying to recover a messed up device instead only realize you only need to load the cefs partition to clear meid for flash, leave all other partitions alone.
dfs's firmwares are light and imo junk, they leave out many functions and is probably the reason so many devices end up stuck in download mode after only a short while of use, I mean think about it, if they clear the efs, yes the unit will rebuild it upon cold boot but it has no blueprint of start/stop for address's of functions so it puts start/stop wherever it sees fit, then when the firm needs a to ck with efs for a particular function it will call the correct address for it in the efs but the now the efs has a different function in that location causing the device to either bootloop or change mode due to error, hence you are stuck in download mode with no way to escape
also someone asked what is dmf? it is dfs's obfusticated compilation of the device firmware, they do that so you cant use it without there tool (unless you can de-obfusticate it)