how can i tell if my sim card is starting to fail? i do have frequent data drops and alot of switching between 3g/4g/1x. i cannot tell if its the phone, sim, rom or radio doing this?
if it is bad will verizon give me a new card without hassles? i just do not want to unroot to take it in.
fixxxer2008 said:
how can i tell if my sim card is starting to fail? i do have frequent data drops and alot of switching between 3g/4g/1x. i cannot tell if its the phone, sim, rom or radio doing this?
if it is bad will verizon give me a new card without hassles? i just do not want to unroot to take it in.
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I was using the 2.11 radios and was having a lot of issues with data freezing and quirky connectivity. I went back to the 1.70 OTA radios and it seems to have gone away. I think it's something to do with the CDAM radio packed with those newer radios.
loonatik78 said:
I was using the 2.11 radios and was having a lot of issues with data freezing and quirky connectivity. I went back to the 1.70 OTA radios and it seems to have gone away. I think it's something to do with the CDAM radio packed with those newer radios.
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you mean the 627 ota? i agree the newest 802 radio is garbage. i don't see any 1.70 radios. got a link to it?
fixxxer2008 said:
you mean the 627 ota? i agree the newest 802 radio is garbage. i don't see any 1.70 radios. got a link to it?
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I don't make habit of using partial numbers of a specific radio version to denote a particular CDMA/LTE radio package. A good reason not to is because the RUU 2.10 and 2.11 radios use the same CDMA radio. By 1.70, I mean the radios that came with the 1.70 RUU.
I'm glad the goofy "MR" scheme is dying though.
i think im going to mix & match the cdma radio from 627 and the lte radio from 802.
fixxxer2008 said:
i think im going to mix & match the cdma radio from 627 and the lte radio from 802.
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Be curious to see what you find using that combo.
I've never mixed and matched radios.
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Be curious to see what you find using that combo.
I've never mixed and matched radios.
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well i know people do it. the 627 cdma radio seems the best and the 802 lte radio seems to have the best 4g speeds.
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Be curious to see what you find using that combo.
I've never mixed and matched radios.
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the combo is working great for me, getting good results soo far.
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Whats the best and newest radio rom out ?
Technically the newest is 3.42.40 [TELUS]. I tried it for a while and found .40 had the same performance as 3.42.50 [Sprint] but ate battery more quickly.
I could be wrong. I haven't tested my conclusions.
I found that .50 (Sprint) works better than .40 (Telus) and I'm on Telus.
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Whats the best and newest radio rom out ?
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I think the latest one out is the Verizon but I use the .50 as well. (If GC is using it I am using it)
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I found that .50 (Sprint) works better than .40 (Telus) and I'm on Telus.
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thats funny cuz i found that .40 works better than .50 and i'm on sprint, lol...really though i get under 5 second gps locks with .40
Using the .50 from the latest Alltel Rom on Sprint here. Very quick GPS locks, but I never noticed it getting slower or faster with updates before.
t0mmyr said:
thats funny cuz i found that .40 works better than .50 and i'm on sprint, lol...really though i get under 5 second gps locks with .40
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I don't think the radio rom makes too much difference on GPS locks. I think the aGPS settings make more of a difference. Once I put in the IP addresses for the BDE servers I too am getting very fast locks and inside my house as well.
So I am getting REALLY crappy data service. Crappy 4g & 3g. Not just my cell towers, but all through the greater twin cities area (Minnesota). Can someone suggest a radio that could help me with this? Thanks.
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theherkman said:
So I am getting REALLY crappy data service. Crappy 4g & 3g. Not just my cell towers, but all through the greater twin cities area (Minnesota). Can someone suggest a radio that could help me with this? Thanks.
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Don't think it's your radios, bro. If it is, flash the 2.11 radios or 1.70 radios. I don't think it'll change anything though. It's more likely your ROM or network issues.
loonatik78 said:
Don't think it's your radios, bro. If it is, flash the 2.11 radios or 1.70 radios. I don't think it'll change anything though. It's more likely your ROM or network issues.
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I hope it isn't the rom... I'm really digging the HACK3DA05P rom... Which radio are you talking about? I have 802, MR2, MR2.5, and 06275r on my SD card.
Nevermind... Search box is my friend and all that...
Okay, found it and updated the CDMA radio. As you unfortunately suspected, it hasn't helped. The CDMA radio is 817r from the 2.11 RUU. Sometimes my phone shows quite a few signal bars, but no data connectivity. At some points it will show 4G connectivity when there is none at all. When I attempt to use data, the 4G up arrow will light up for a second as if sending a page request. Then it will light up again after a while of not loading. And again... And again... At other points my 4G/3G will work at passable connectivity levels. This is quite frustrating...
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Okay, found it and updated the CDMA radio. As you unfortunately suspected, it hasn't helped. The CDMA radio is 817r from the 2.11 RUU. Sometimes my phone shows quite a few signal bars, but no data connectivity. At some points it will show 4G connectivity when there is none at all. When I attempt to use data, the 4G up arrow will light up for a second as if sending a page request. Then it will light up again after a while of not loading. And again... And again... At other points my 4G/3G will work at passable connectivity levels. This is quite frustrating...
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I'm sure it is! Mine does that on occasion, but a restart usually fixes it or it gets it's crap together on it's own.
I may have found the issue...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17098946&postcount=274
I'm on a network that provide 3G on only 900MHz. I could connect throgh 3G before I flashed CM7 with Radio Baseband N_01.100.00R. I had tried Bell N_01.77.33p but still can't connect just only EDGE.
How can I fix this?
There's another radio 1.97.00 or something like that. Don't remember the numbers ATM. Check around for it and see what it says about compatibility.
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after I've flashed N_01.95.00 (the stock AsiaRetail version) then I can connect my 3G network!
Thank you fro advice
wywerny said:
after I've flashed N_01.95.00 (the stock AsiaRetail version) then I can connect my 3G network!
Thank you fro advice
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Well ****. Sorry about that. Most people had better luck with that radio. Guess you are one of the few that didn't.
Have you tried going back to the N_01.100.00R ?
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Just found the radio number for the one i was talking about.
It is 1.97.00R
d3athsd00r said:
Well ****. Sorry about that. Most people had better luck with that radio. Guess you are one of the few that didn't.
Have you tried going back to the N_01.100.00R ?
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Just found the radio number for the one i was talking about.
It is 1.97.00R
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Now I CAN connect my 3G network alread man.
Should I try .97?
Would it be better on battery or signal?
wywerny said:
Now I CAN connect my 3G network alread man.
Should I try .97?
Would it be better on battery or signal?
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I would just stay right where you are if its working until you have problems.
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I have terrible reception on my phone.
I want to flash a new radio but I'm not sure which one to flash
I'm running CM7 and switch between that and MIUI roms.
I don't want to flash the wrong one. Can someone guide me in the right direction??
Thank you.
You can look here for radios. But you should read as much as possible before flashing a radio.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101
Also try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps. Or try a data reset.
Hope this helps
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laie1472 said:
You can look here for radios. But you should read as much as possible before flashing a radio.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101
Also try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps. Or try a data reset.
Hope this helps
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So there's no way to flash a radio for the people who have hBoot 1.50?
arozer said:
So there's no way to flash a radio for the people who have hBoot 1.50?
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correct. I suppose it is possible, but no one has figured it out yet.
Agreed.. I don't think us HBOOT 1.5 guys can flash radios yet. Another thing to try, if you haven't already, would be to install the Open Signal app. It'll give you your radio signal strength in dbm and even plot your current tower's position on a map. Great app although it is a bit of a resource hog with all of its radio polling.
arozer said:
I have terrible reception on my phone.
I want to flash a new radio but I'm not sure which one to flash
I'm running CM7 and switch between that and MIUI roms.
I don't want to flash the wrong one. Can someone guide me in the right direction??
Thank you.
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You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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Actually my friend, I appreciate you trying to help me but in this case I will help you out.
I did tho PRL trick a year ago on my regular Evo. About 4 months later, I received a letter from Sprint stating that "even thou roaming is free on sprint, due to the overage roaming that I have used, they will terminate my services if my habits don't change in a month." Well I tried my best to change them but i guess they weren't satisfied and terminated my services. I had to call and beg and go on a 90 probation period where if I went over the limit by even 1min/mb, they you disconnect me. So I'll never do prl again. Instead, I downloaded this app called Roam Control and only use it when i'm waiting for an important phone call.
Radio on the other hand is a signal from Sprint and will not put you into roaming.
Aren't the radios loaded in the RUU? Can't you just run that and then unlock again with htcdev?
KB112 said:
Aren't the radios loaded in the RUU? Can't you just run that and then unlock again with htcdev?
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Well, I am not entirely certain that the radio is loaded into an RUU. Someone recently told me that the RUU would not change the radio version of your phone.
The thing is,the Hboot 1.5 folks cant revert to a pre HBoot 1.5 via RUU anyhow, so no one can try it. And while there are two RUU's available to Hboot 1.5 people. (2.08.651.2 & 2.08.651.3) They both have the same radio. So I can't run one over the other to compare radio versions before and after the RUU. Once a new update gets pushed with a different radio version, I could run the RUU to see if the radio flashes with it.
The one way I would think it is possible to switch radios is to re-lock the device, run an RUU to unroot, then accept an OTA to get an updated radio. Once you take the new radio via OTA, you would use HTC unlock again to unlock, flash a custom recovery, flash the SU binary and voila.
This of course is contingent that HTC doesnt backtrack on their unlocking promise. If you took an OTA and the new update is unable to be unlocked via HTC, you would be screwed. So we would want to make sure that they dont push an update that they wont support with the HTCDev tool. And of course the other flaw to this is that you can only "upgrade" the radio and never revert to a prior radio that you may have liked better.
EniGmA1987 said:
You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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Enigma, Can you tell me if Sprint charged you a ETF when they initially cancelled your service? I'm kind of looking for a way out of my contract and was hoping this might actually do it.
snowmobiledog said:
Enigma, Can you tell me if Sprint charged you a ETF when they initially cancelled your service? I'm kind of looking for a way out of my contract and was hoping this might actually do it.
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What makes you think Sprint cancelled my service? Cause they didint.
EniGmA1987 said:
What makes you think Sprint cancelled my service? Cause they didint.
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Well I tried my best to change them but i guess they weren't satisfied and terminated my services.
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I guess it was this sentence which led me to believe that.
I didnt ever say that though, that was some other guy. I cancelled my service by myself about 7 months after this post because I moved to Verizon since I was using their network all the time anyway. Sprint service is just too ****ty in my area. And not just cell/data coverage either, but text problems on their network were the worst I have ever seen. But I never had any problems from Sprint about data usage or things like that. The person who said Sprint contacted them about roaming usage must have been using multiple gigabytes of data each month, I normally only use 500MB-1GB at most unless I am tethering something.
EniGmA1987 said:
I didnt ever say that though, that was some other guy. I cancelled my server by myself about 7 months after this post because I moved to Verizon since I was using their network all the time anyway. Sprint service is just too ****ty in my area. And not just cell/data coverage either, but text problems on their network were the worst I have ever seen. But I never had any problems from Sprint about data usage or things like that. The person who said Sprint contacted them about roaming usage must have been using multiple gigabytes of data each month, I normally only use 500MB-1GB at most unless I am tethering something.
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Ohhh, **it! Sorry about that, I grabbed the wrong user. My bad. Well, thanks for the followup anyhow! The information is still useful. Sounds like a similar situation to me...about to say goodbye to Sprint.
Thanks again.
I have installed GBX0*+3.4.35 Full on my Rhodium 400 on the sprint network and it seems to be running well.
I notice that I only get 2 bars of reception max. I am running the stock radio (or was under windows mobile). Do I need to flash another radio to improve reception in android?
Thanks
jodap said:
I have installed GBX0*+3.4.35 Full on my Rhodium 400 on the sprint network and it seems to be running well.
I notice that I only get 2 bars of reception max. I am running the stock radio (or was under windows mobile). Do I need to flash another radio to improve reception in android?
Thanks
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You don't need/have to, but some people find that running the slightly newer Verizon radio helps.
wizardknight said:
You don't need/have to, but some people find that running the slightly newer Verizon radio helps.
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i have the newer verizon radio and only get 2 bars as well
vzihome said:
i have the newer verizon radio and only get 2 bars as well
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You don't want to be looking at the bars, but rather the real signal strength. The bars are a very rough guide, and not consistent between roms or OSs