As a natural development of their previous XMM7160 LTE chipset, Intel presented a new generation, named XMM7260. It was announced about 2 years ago and only now some first real devices made it to customers. XMM7260 supports more LTE bands than XM7160 and also supports LTE carrier aggregation. It conforms to LTE Cat.6.

The following LTE bands supported: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 38, 41.

Wow, that’s 18 LTE bands supported!

The following LTE bands supported with carrier aggregation: 1+5, 8, 18, 19, 26; 2+4, 5, 13, 17, 29; 3+5, 8, 19, 20, 26; 4+5, 13, 17, 29; 7+20; 4+4.

That technical details look very good and I was desperate to test the new Sierra Wireless EM7445. Below is my review.

Quite a long time ago, I found an interesting AT command for Sierra Wireless EM7345. The command is “AT+XCIQ”. There’s the following text string in EM7345 firmware file (it is present in any version so far): +XCIQ CIQ: Carrier IQ enable/disable.

When playing with some EM7345 AT commands I was able to permanently bring the device down. Yes, THERE IS at least one AT command that can brick your EM7345 beyond repair! But not anymore, I found a way to revive a bricked EM7345 back to normal.

I’m going to publish some interesting information about that AT command in one of my following posts, as it’s really worth it, since it’s related to the infamous Carrier IQ scandal. Hey Intel, are you spying on us too?

But first things first, now I’m going to explain how to get your bricked EM7345 back to normal.