I have just recently rooted my TB and have since flashed a different radio that accompanied the injected theory rom. I have since restored my backup-up of my device, bofore flashing injected theory rom.
When restoring a backup, does the radio change back as well or do you need to re-flash the proper radio when you go back? How do you know what radio you should be using at any given time?
I have attached a pic of my software as it is right now and I would like to know what radio I should be using because ever since i flashed a different radio with injected theory rom then went back to my backup I have had some connection issues with 4G.
I found this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081 but I don't know which radio to use or when.
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Radio is separate from the ROM/kernel combo. Radio does not change when you flash, nor is it backed up. Any ROM you flash should have the radio requirements listed in the original post. If you flash a ROM and don't have the right radio the worst that happens is you get no data.
I keep every radio on my SD card in a RADIO folder so I can flash a different one if needed. I've been using the "MR3" radio but you won't find it here. Just do a Google search for it.
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You're on 402W which is an MR1 radio. You can try any MR1's you want but the one you flashed for that rom is probably the newest. Some users have worse luck with newer radios than older radios and that may be what you are noticing. Your original was probably .223r (assuming you are talking about before you rooted and the rooting was done before the OTA).
If you want to stay on your current rom, just find any MR1 radio and it will work. Many are listed in the pinned list (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081930) such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045081
Radio is separate from rom and will not be backed up in recovery but you said that you flashed a radio when you flashed the rom so yea...but you said it "accompanied" the rom so I'm not completely sure if you actually did or not.
Either way, MR1 roms need MR1 radios...MR2 roms need MR2 radios (or the GB leak)
MR1 is for froyo ROMS base and MR2, MR2.5 and .704 is for GINGERBREAD ROMS base
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Thanks for the help. Now, is there a specific order necessary to flash? Should you flash the rom then the radio or the other way around, or does it matter? Also, if you wipe data then flash a rom, should you wipe data again when flashing the radio or is that unnecessary?
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Doesn't really matter. Some flash the ROM then pull the battery and go into hboot to flash the radio. When I moved from froyo to the GB roms, I flashed the ROM, rebooted, pushed the radio to my SD using ADB, and then flashed the radio. Since I now only run GB, I have only flashed one radio since i moved from MR2 - the original leak.
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Usually flash radio first then rom
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I wipe data/factory
Wipe cache partition
Wipe dalvik
Format/system
In that order ......also format/system is under mounts/storage
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I am rooted and using BAMF 1.63, and want to do a clean move to 2.0 Beta 5 without errors.
I've been told that I don't need to do the entire AutoRoot w/MR1 program, but that I should instead just flash using the MR1 rom. The link below is where the files are located here on XDA, but see 3 files listed.
I assume that what I need is the last one, the custom ruu with MR1 included...BUT, will I also need to download the exploits file that contains busybox, wpthis, psneuter, su, readme.txt, misc.img, and hbooteng.nb0?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996616&highlight=prerooted+RUU
You shouldn't need to do the whole root process again, when I switched from 1.6.3 to 2.0, all I needed was the new GB radio. I haven't had any issues with it & I didn't do any of the MR1 stuff
So, that process then would be to:
place radio file on the SD root and reboot so it will flash.
Remove the radio file, and then boot into Recovery and install 2.0 Beta5 ReMix using CWM
That's it? Sounds too easy. lol
have you read jcase's notice about the leaked gb radio, you might want to give it a read before taking the plunge,
I just came back to froyo, bamf remix 1.6.3 style
ibsk8 said:
have you read jcase's notice about the leaked gb radio, you might want to give it a read before taking the plunge,
I just came back to froyo, bamf remix 1.6.3 style
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I'm new to all this and monitor androidcentral more, only coming here for info on released files. When I tried BAMF 2.0 Beta4 recently I didn't do the radio file, and the phone was dead with no signal. I'd like to avoid that so flashing with a radio file is necessary. What or where is the concern with the leaked radio file? Instead of what not to do, are you able to offer a link to a good radio file compatible with the new BAMF Beta5? Thanks!
EisBlade said:
I'm new to all this and monitor androidcentral more, only coming here for info on released files. When I tried BAMF 2.0 Beta4 recently I didn't do the radio file, and the phone was dead with no signal. I'd like to avoid that so flashing with a radio file is necessary. What or where is the concern with the leaked radio file? Instead of what not to do, are you able to offer a link to a good radio file compatible with the new BAMF Beta5? Thanks!
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A few people are getting bricked TBs from the GB radio they are thinking. Enough people are having this happen that the ROM devs are advising everybody that has gone to a GB ROM, to go back to a Froyo ROM until we get an updated GB radio.
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A few people are getting bricked TBs from the GB radio they are thinking. Enough people are having this happen that the ROM devs are advising everybody that has gone to a GB ROM, to go back to a Froyo ROM until we get an updated GB radio.
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Well, I didn't get bricked, but I was without connection/service to anything after doing the latest radio file followed by BAMF 2.0 b5, until I restored to my last working backup. Not fun. I downloaded TeslaCoil to give it a try, but my TB has turned off on its own 3 times now in 3 days.
EisBlade said:
Well, I didn't get bricked, but I was without connection/service to anything after doing the latest radio file followed by BAMF 2.0 b5, until I restored to my last working backup. Not fun. I downloaded TeslaCoil to give it a try, but my TB has turned off on its own 3 times now in 3 days.
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You didn't brick because you weren't running the GB radio. In order to run any GB ROM with signal and whatnot, you need the leaked ALPHA GB radio, which is supposedly causing some phones to brick. And just because you run the GB radio fine for a few days doesn't mean you are in the clear. This has been happening to people a couple days after running it.
still not sure why the whole brick thing vanished as fast as it came, nobody bother to ask the simple question "was your phone having alot of reboots befor,root no root stock ruu or custom rom". my original tbolt was rootet cause it would reboot all the time as stock, was running bamf 1.63,never had gb on it,well it started doing it again,so when the ota came out i put the phone back to stock s-on did the ota and 2 days later it had the reboot contious could not do anything, that tells me it was hardware and it was replaced no probs,htc and verizon have been aware of the problem
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Hopefully this isn't too hard to solve. I have an HTC Evo, and offered to root my friends Thunderbolt. I rooted it fine, everything works flawlessly, and I even flashed a ROM without an issue.
Now, here is the thing I cannot figure out. Every ROM i have installed (BAMF, Synergy, etc) has no radio when it boots up. There are two processes that stop responding (A Sync process and a DM process). There is just simply no radio at all. I can connect to wifi, and I can browse the internet that way, but it refuses to show any connection to Verizon.
Any idea as to what is causing it? Again, I am usually on my Evo, so the Thunderbolt is a little bit different territory.
Keep in mind, all the ROM's flash and boot fine. Everything on the ROM works fine, with the exception of the radio.
Thanks for your help guys.
You have to install a new radio for the gingerbread Rom. In the dev section there is a Rom and kernel list. Find the mr2 radio there. Rename it to PG05img.zip, place on root of SD card, boot into hboot (phone off, hold vol down and power. It will flash the radio. Once it reboots delete or rename that radio file so it won't try and flash it again the next time you boot into hboot. And your done.
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Do you see any notification of data on the phone? (1x, 3g, 4g)
Did you make sure to snap the back of the battery cover on tight as it has a connection for the antenna for the battery?
Are you trying to flash the MR1 radio on a ROM that requires either MR2 or MR2.5?
All of these could cause the issue you are having.
Have you tried to reflash one of the radios in hboot? Plus with not all the roms based on the new radios and some of them are this can cause you to lose data if the rom isn't compatable with the radio. Just make sure the roms you are installing are not based on the MR2 or MR2.5 radio while you have a MR1 radio and vice versa.
I hope this helps. If not you may want to just find the original rooted stock OTA ruu and reflash it in hboot. This will wipe all your data so if you have a way to back up apps and data like mybackup pro or titanium backup.
Here is the rom and radio listing thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081930
Edit: Yeah almost forgot about the battery cover having the antenna on it like Beastclaw said
Ah. Downloaded the MR2 file, renamed it and flashed it and it worked perfectly.
Thanks so much, you all are the ****.
Going back to the Evo section now.
Again, thanks for all your help. *Waves*
I rooted my phone using this guide. I wanted CM7 on here, so I flashed the MR2.5 radio. My phone came with MR1. It flashed properly, but now I have no signal and it shows me as having no baseband.
What did I screw up? From my knowledge of radios from my DInc, I can't flash 2.5 again or it'll brick (can't flash the same radio twice in a row).
Would I be able to flash MR2, then MR2.5 again? Basically, wtf do I do, and why did this happen?
you flashed the wrong cm7...there are two versions...one for the mr1 radio and another for the mr2 radios
I didn't even flash CM7. I said I flashed the MR2.5 radio.
When this happened to me I made a backup of my ROM, flashed the file found here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1082114, loaded my backup, and tried again with a different download of the MR2 radio. My theory on why the no baseband thing happened to me was a bad download... I've since started checking MD5 sums every time I flash anything through HBOOT which I should have been doing all along.
I'll try that. It shows me as no baseband, no phone number, no anything. Crap.
if you didn't flash a rom then its normal. You can't flash a 2.0+radio with an mr1 rom and have signal. Nothing is wrong just flash an mr2 rom.
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Alright I'll try flashing CM7 then. I hope this works. This is a lot more involved than my Incredible, haha.
Edit: Yup, that's definitely it. I flashed my original MR1 ROM and radio and I'm fine.
Thanks guys!
If you have the MR1 rom, the MR2.5 radio will not work for it due to the new RIL.
And I have flashed radios twice in a row before and nothing has happened...but if you take my word for it it's on you
Yeah it was just something I heard when I was working with radios on my incredible. No clue how true it was, but it's not worth the risk.
I got everything sorted out, thanks guys!
pspkicks316 said:
Yeah it was just something I heard when I was working with radios on my incredible. No clue how true it was, but it's not worth the risk.
I got everything sorted out, thanks guys!
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Bricks like that don't happen on the thunderbolt if you flash the radio twice in a row, but I still wouldn't recommend it
In your opinion do I need to flash the radio.zip after cm7. If so wat does it do for my device? Do I get better service/ faster data speeds?
Thanks, tHe NoOb
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I think the radio that you have currently should work well enough.
I had the 1.97.00 radio and found that cwm was giving me a 1 bar issue. Same thing with aosp. And input so I installed the 1.77.30 radio via cwm. Wish I had a cwm version of the 1.97.00 radio just to try while im at work. Seems the 1.77.30 radio switches from H to 3g less in my area than the. 97 radio.
ok, it seems as if my service is pretty good compared to what yours was before you flashed it. ill keep it for now. thanks for the replies
Please help Radio flash
I want to flash the radio to my unlocked and cwm installed atrix 4g. I used to have 2.3.4, 4.5.91 ATT stock software, but went to cyanogenmod 7.
What radio do I need to flash in cwm? There is a radio.zip file on briefmobiles website, I just want to make sure I am downloading the correct one.
I want to flash because it is taking a while to get a gps lock in CM7, where in the stock rom it would happen almost instantly.
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I want to flash the radio to my unlocked and cwm installed atrix 4g. I used to have 2.3.4, 4.5.91 ATT stock software, but went to cyanogenmod 7.
What radio do I need to flash in cwm? There is a radio.zip file on briefmobiles website, I just want to make sure I am downloading the correct one.
I want to flash because it is taking a while to get a gps lock in CM7, where in the stock rom it would happen almost instantly.
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Not 100% sure but gps lock on isnt slow because of radio but couz of CM7 i got stock radio and its also slower then on GB. also CM7 doesnt install radio if im not mistaken if u had GB radio u should still have it
what cm says
code.google.com/p/atrix-dev-team/wiki/FAQ CM7 is saying if you are having slow locks to reinstall the radio. I'm just wondering how I can accomplish this through cwm.
I am looking for a stock rooted 2.13 ROM to flash. I see a bunch of modded ones in the android development section but I am looking for a pure stock one, can anybody point me in that direction? I'm not seeming to have any luck.
Also, can I just flash it over my current 1.22 version like an OTA would do without wiping data?
You should be able to flash a the ROM without losing data but it would probably be better to use titanium backup to save all the data in case something doesn't go right
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1860728
Stock Rooted DeOdexed 2.13.651.1its always a good idea to wipe the phone
If it is purely stock then try wiping just cache and dalvik cache at the least. As om4 said above, make sure u back up in titanium and/or make a backup of your data before flashing.
Just went from stock 1.13.651 to 2.13 with flex's stock with goodies. Wiped only the caches and it installed fine. Everything like I left it.
U may want to try the flex rom too. It is pretty much all stock with multitasking fixed.
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I flashed the 1.22 ota without wiping without any problems. I'm sure if it is modded in various ways it would be a problem but taking an ota doesn't wipe your phone. I'm gonna try the deodexed version. Do I have to flash the firmware/radios as well?
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Nope
I use the same one you're asking for. Just a stock, no modified ROM + Root.
I would still advise wiping before flashing this as well as updating your firmware if you haven't.
Alas, here is the link for the Stock Odex 2.13.651.1 http://d-h.st/som
Hope this helps.
Just flashed the deodexed stock version plus the new radio/firmware update and everything is running great. Thanks for the help guys!
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