For those of you who were waiting for the KW88 with the new bands

Paul_Levy · August 10, 2016, 3:00pm

For those of you who were waiting for the KW88 with the new bands for the US, I received mine yesterday and it works fine with my Freedompop sim. The firmware build version seems to be different than everyone else at this point.

Kenneth_Tan · August 10, 2016, 3:16pm

My KW88 is FW 3.10.72 Dated Jul 19 (received today)
I’ve seen another FW 3.10.72+ dated 30 july.
Very strange firmware housekeeping.

Miguel_Tan · August 10, 2016, 3:23pm

@Kenneth_Tan We have the exact same version. I wonder what improvements are there on 3.10.72+

pablo11 · August 10, 2016, 3:26pm

850 band has been added

pablo11 · August 10, 2016, 3:28pm

Real US band, 1900 is not available yet.

Paul_Levy · August 10, 2016, 3:33pm

I am just guessing, but my baseband was updated as well so probably just a new build that is compatible with the US carriers. I am hoping there will be a unifying OTA update in the near future

George_Zervas · August 10, 2016, 7:53pm

My wireless update does not show most recent firmware after factory reset my device
Only cycle indicator without any information

pablo11 · August 12, 2016, 2:55pm

There is no OTA for KW88 at the moment. It is off until new release is ready.

Ye_Si · October 7, 2016, 5:48am

Question , please. I can see 3G in connection status but is just doesn’t have I connection. By the way my APN shows no freedom pop. Did you manage to change APN?

pablo11 · October 7, 2016, 6:00am

If you have a look in the forum there is an app I posted a link to which allows you to add your APN to the config file

Ye_Si · October 7, 2016, 6:48am

Do you mean flashing the firmware you shared that has 850 band?

pablo11 · October 7, 2016, 11:17am

No - I mean an app that allows you to attach the watch to the pc and then as a file browser you can edit apn files. Did you miss it ?

Ye_Si · October 7, 2016, 2:27pm

Found it, will try. Does it need root?Do we have root?Thanks.

pablo11 · October 8, 2016, 4:09am

@Ye_Si
did you try it? As far as we know from the guy who recommended it to us, you can edit the APN config file without root.

Ye_Si · October 8, 2016, 4:58am

Just tried, it can read/download but not write/upload/deletw. Will flash the room to try.

Ye_Si · October 9, 2016, 3:18am

Stumbled on this tool from China and it works to root KW88, http://www.iroot.com. http://apn-config.xml modified to add freedompop, http://telephony.db deleted, restarted and still cannot connect to 3G data, although it got 3G signal in the status.

Ye_Si · October 9, 2016, 3:22am

@Paul_Levy Can you give some advice on how to modify the APN?

Ye_Si · October 9, 2016, 3:24am

My screen blacked out after flashing and root, and have to return and rebuy from Amazon. Can’t be sure which sis the bad. Be careful.

pablo11 · October 9, 2016, 4:11am

@Ye_Si
how did you root it ? This is the likely cause

Ye_Si · October 9, 2016, 4:17am

Just follow the program, it is a one click root. I am not sure about the reason because everything is fine after rooting and several restarting. And this watch blacked out once before rooting or flashing, the screen flashed several times and finally made it to start. So it could also be a hardware defect.