I just rooted my EVO 3D (revolutionary) and flashed my first ROM. I still have the stock radio which is 0.97.10.0530.
Should I upgrade the radios to the latest ones or is it not worth it? Have you guys seen better signal with the latest radios?
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issafram said:
I just rooted my EVO 3D (revolutionary) and flashed my first ROM. I still have the stock radio which is 0.97.10.0530.
Should I upgrade the radios to the latest ones or is it not worth it? Have you guys seen better signal with the latest radios?
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The radio is one of the pieces we receive in OTA files but receive very little to no information on what is updated/changed. Also since it is a binary image, its much more difficult to run a diff on it against a previous radio image.
I'm still on the same stock radio version as you. I haven't bothered to flash the latest version. I generally don't unless I'm having some serious type of issue with the radio or there seems to be overwhelming support for the latest version which there usually isn't.
Hope that helps.
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Hi,
I am getting ready to flash my first custom ROM. I have a Hero with firmware 2.1-update1 and baseband 63.18.55.06OU_6_35.15.01. I have been following the newbie guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253) and I'm intending to flash FroydVillain 1.5.
My question is this: can I safely flash the latest radio before flashing the custom ROM? I figured this would make sense as I can check to make sure my radios work fine after the radio update before I install the ROM. Or will this cause problems?
Yep, can do if you want.
And its simple to roll back if you have issues.
Why should i upgrade my radio? I'm still running the one i got with the StockROM 1.5 and flashed like 8 CustomROMs already, but never upgraded my radio.
So, why should i upgrade my radio?
87Vortex87 said:
Why should i upgrade my radio? I'm still running the one i got with the StockROM 1.5 and flashed like 8 CustomROMs already, but never upgraded my radio.
So, why should i upgrade my radio?
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I believe the radio controls gsm/data signal and battery and some other things. So the newer the radio the better these things will be. So it's really a no brainier, but just make sure you flash the correct one or you'll no doubt brick your phone.
jpool81 said:
I believe the radio controls gsm/data signal and battery and some other things. So the newer the radio the better these things will be. So it's really a no brainier, but just make sure you flash the correct one or you'll no doubt brick your phone.
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I know what it does. But what do you mean by better? Longer battery life? I doubt so. Better signal? Maybe.
What i mean is, what does it improve exactly and in what way?
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As new towers get built their data (signature) needs to be registered to the phone before it will connect to them. The radio contains this data.
[Q] Is it more "safe" to flash the offical ota MR2 Radio than the leaked one?
Im hearing of people bricking there thunderbolts installing the gingerbread radio,now does this apply to all "officially"released radios (like the one posted by the user andrew8806) on XDA or only the leaked ones? Is it safe to go on gingerbread now or should i just stay on froyo? And can someone recommend/link me a "safe" radio to flash so i can install a gingerbread rom. i have proper understanding on how to install radios i just dont know what radio to install. and should i flash radio first then rom or it dont make a difference ?
Thanks
the only radio that had a problem was th leaked mr2 and it was causing some random reboot issues but there all fine now. theres actually an mr2.5 2.75 and 3.0 radio. im on the 3.0 radio and i have had zero problems. you can find it on mclabias website --> http://devious-intentions.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&cid=6
dak_181 said:
the only radio that had a problem was th leaked mr2 and it was causing some random reboot issues but there all fine now. theres actually an mr2.5 2.75 and 3.0 radio. im on the 3.0 radio and i have had zero problems. you can find it on mclabias website
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Is there any benefit to switching to the 3.0 radio? Forgive me if that's a stupid question, I'm pretty new to the rooting scene...only been rooted 3 days and wonder why I never did this sooner.
i get way better service than i used to on any other radio. i pretty much live in a dead zone, but after switching to the 3.0 radio i can actually make calls here 4g data is way faster as well. do it!
dak_181 said:
i get way better service than i used to on any other radio. i pretty much live in a dead zone, but after switching to the 3.0 radio i can actually make calls here 4g data is way faster as well. do it!
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hahahaha...done. Thanks for the info man
I have been on the new leak since the day it leaked and have never had any radio related issues.
Jerelie said:
Im hearing of people bricking there thunderbolts installing the gingerbread radio,now does this apply to all "officially"released radios (like the one posted by the user andrew8806) on XDA or only the leaked ones? Is it safe to go on gingerbread now or should i just stay on froyo? And can someone recommend/link me a "safe" radio to flash so i can install a gingerbread rom. i have proper understanding on how to install radios i just dont know what radio to install. and should i flash radio first then rom or it dont make a difference ?
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Short answer: No
Longer answer: It was discovered that the bricks were hardware related not software. I have flashed every radio that has been released since I purchased my T-bolt at the beginning of May and have had ZERO issues.
I c. Can you link me to a radio you reccomend. And do have any tips to prevent bricking when flashing it or using it o:?
I'm content with the official last real release of virus infected. Is there a way just to upgrade radio and ciq remove?
You'll shoot your eye out (in 3D)
babyschmoof said:
I'm content with the official last real release of virus infected. Is there a way just to upgrade radio and ciq remove?
You'll shoot your eye out (in 3D)
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Ya just wait till the new update comes out from a dev either in a rom or what not then flash it. That would let you update your radio.
babyschmoof said:
I'm content with the official last real release of virus infected. Is there a way just to upgrade radio and ciq remove?
You'll shoot your eye out (in 3D)
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Most of our roms have the ciq removed already....since TrevE made that little discovery a long time ago it "should" be a non issue. See below for the radio info.
reaper24 said:
Ya just wait till the new update comes out from a dev either in a rom or what not then flash it. That would let you update your radio.
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^Reaper your info is a little confusing / inaccurate here^
Radio's are flashed from H-boot and are totally not rom related at all. If you're on h-boot 1.4 you just boot into bootloader with the radio on the root of your sd card named "PG86IMG.zip" and flash regardless of your rom. If you have h-boot 1.5 you are SOL and cannot flash radios with out returning to stock and taking an OTA update and re-rooting. Anyways there is a thread stickied in the development section by gu1dry with all of our available radios except the latest which just came out the other day here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101...... Read it carefully and understand it before you flash a radio. The latest radio can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443592 If you get a bad flash, or do it wrong, or your battery dies while you're flashing it, or you flash a gsm radio to a cdma device....YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE.
Any other relevant improvements from that OTA update the other day will be in a future update to the rom you're currently running......I believe this is what reaper24 meant, but it wasn't really worded correctly.
hockeyfamily737 said:
Most of our roms have the ciq removed already....since TrevE made that little discovery a long time ago it "should" be a non issue. See below for the radio info.
^Reaper your info is a little confusing / inaccurate here^
Radio's are flashed from H-boot and are totally not rom related at all. If you're on h-boot 1.4 you just boot into bootloader with the radio on the root of your sd card named "PG86IMG.zip" and flash regardless of your rom. If you have h-boot 1.5 you are SOL and cannot flash radios with out returning to stock and taking an OTA update and re-rooting. Anyways there is a thread stickied in the development section by gu1dry with all of our available radios except the latest which just came out the other day here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101...... Read it carefully and understand it before you flash a radio. The latest radio can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1443592 If you get a bad flash, or do it wrong, or your battery dies while you're flashing it, or you flash a gsm radio to a cdma device....YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE.
Any other relevant improvements from that OTA update the other day will be in a future update to the rom you're currently running......I believe this is what reaper24 meant, but it wasn't really worded correctly.
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What I was meaning is if he has S off he could wait till a dev throws out a rom with all the updates in it. I know on the the new Hboot you have to go back to stock and flash the OTA software update.
reaper24 said:
What I was meaning is if he has S off he could wait till a dev throws out a rom with all the updates in it. I know on the the new Hboot you have to go back to stock and flash the OTA software update.
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I knew what you meant, but it was worded as such that someone might believe flashing an updated rom would update their radio.
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hockeyfamily737 said:
I knew what you meant, but it was worded as such that someone might believe flashing an updated rom would update their radio.
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If S-off you should be able to update all that stuff with a rom if it's cooked in by a dev . Thanks for pointing it out tho.
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If S-off you should be able to update all that stuff with a rom if it's cooked in by a dev . Thanks for pointing it out tho.
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I have never seem a radio cooked into ROM before. I've only seem them packaged for bootloader flashing, or in the old days on the evo 4g, some you could flash with Amon RA recovery. Even then, I still never saw one cooked in a ROM.
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k2buckley said:
I have never seem a radio cooked into ROM before. I've only seem them packaged for bootloader flashing, or in the old days on the evo 4g, some you could flash with Amon RA recovery. Even then, I still never saw one cooked in a ROM.
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Thought virus had a rom that had radios cooked into it back on the OG Evo days. Was a big rom user and I remember having to downgrade or upgrade your radios through amon with the rom.
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Thought virus had a rom that had radios cooked into it back on the OG Evo days. Was a big rom user and I remember having to downgrade or upgrade your radios through amon with the rom.
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No, it was a radio preference. It's what the person above says. If there's a radio in the ROM. It requires a bootloader flash.
DDiaz007 said:
No, it was a radio preference. It's what the person above says. If there's a radio in the ROM. It requires a bootloader flash.
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I was meaning they did make zips to flash with amon back in the day radio wise and yes some you did have to flash through boot.
Did a quick search on this and came up empty. Background: I don't ever need to update radios on my evo 4g. I don't know if I should update the radios on my gf's 3d. She has had the phone for over a year and a half, I rooted the phone the second day she had it and I think ics was pushed out shortly after I rooted it (it was still running gingerbread from the store). I have flashed an ics rom and things seem to work okay but I was wondering if I should flash a different radio package and if so, which one should I flash? There are so many and I am not sure which one I should use. Right now the phone is running:
hardware version 0002
android 4.0.3
sense v3.6
baseband version 0.97.00.0518
build number 2.89.651.2 CL409645 release-keys
pri 1.15_003
I also attached a copy of the hboot version for reference. Basically, I have the phone running SmoothCriminal-v2.3 but wanted to change the rom to something new, like a cm10 or jb rom, but was concerned whether or not to flash new radios as some of these threads say to use the latest firmware. Any help, advice, direction, smacks over the head for the noob question is appreiciated.
Background: I don't ever need to update radios on my evo 4g.
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Any why do you think this?
Bottom line, carriers release radio updates for a reason. It can't hurt to flash them when they are released.
pmacevad said:
Did a quick search on this and came up empty. Background: I don't ever need to update radios on my evo 4g. I don't know if I should update the radios on my gf's 3d. She has had the phone for over a year and a half, I rooted the phone the second day she had it and I think ics was pushed out shortly after I rooted it (it was still running gingerbread from the store). I have flashed an ics rom and things seem to work okay but I was wondering if I should flash a different radio package and if so, which one should I flash? There are so many and I am not sure which one I should use. Right now the phone is running:
hardware version 0002
android 4.0.3
sense v3.6
baseband version 0.97.00.0518
build number 2.89.651.2 CL409645 release-keys
pri 1.15_003
I also attached a copy of the hboot version for reference. Basically, I have the phone running SmoothCriminal-v2.3 but wanted to change the rom to something new, like a cm10 or jb rom, but was concerned whether or not to flash new radios as some of these threads say to use the latest firmware. Any help, advice, direction, smacks over the head for the noob question is appreiciated.
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Stock os upgrade includes radio updates also. The safest way to update to latest radio is update to stock ics sense 3.6 and then carry on your custom ROMs.
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sitlet said:
Any why do you think this?
Bottom line, carriers release radio updates for a reason. It can't hurt to flash them when they are released.
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I should say I have upgraded radios on the og EVO but it has stopped getting updates therefore, no new radios.
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dr.faramroze said:
Stock os upgrade includes radio updates also. The safest way to update to latest radio is update to stock ics sense 3.6 and then carry on your custom ROMs.
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A rooted version here I presume? Tia
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The latest radio with ics sense 3.5 has many fixes and calls for no need of further radio update. EVO's radio is well balanced.
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We dont get new radios anymore either. If ur not on the latest, then flash the last RUU and restore her backup.
dr.faramroze said:
The latest radio with ics sense 3.5 has many fixes and calls for no need of further radio update. EVO's radio is well balanced.
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Could you recommend what to flash?
faiyo said:
We dont get new radios anymore either. If ur not on the latest, then flash the last RUU and restore her backup.
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Never flashed a RUU before... Is that a stockROM? Will I lose root or s-off by doing this? Is there a guide you could recommend that I could read that could help me through the process? As for restoring a backup, do you refer to her data backup?
I also wanted to put the latest recovery on her phone. Which would that be? What recovery are most of the users using? Thanks folks!
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So I like others are having some issues with signal issues ever since I applied the updated radio from HTC. I want to downgrade to see if this gets better. I'm on CM and rooted so I am able to do whatever I need. Is there a way to downgrade besides doing RUU back to stock?
Imacellist said:
So I like others are having some issues with signal issues ever since I applied the updated radio from HTC. I want to downgrade to see if this gets better. I'm on CM and rooted so I am able to do whatever I need. Is there a way to downgrade besides doing RUU back to stock?
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Yes - see d08speed3's post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2740450
a little more than halfway down he posted links to flashable radios.
"NEVER flash the same radio on top of each other"
Yup just flash my zips. I have the most luck with the .0110 Radio. I stick with this one.
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