Flashed Flipz radio for Fresh 2.0 and had a few question that I have asked numerous times in numerous threads and they were not adressed...
1. Will my phone brick if I restore a backup to a 1.5 ROM with the updated radio?
2. Does the radio for Fresh 2.0 work for all 2.1 ROMS?
Thanks a lot guys. I just want to be 100% rather than having skipping stone.
Brutus2TheMax said:
Flashed Flipz radio for Fresh 2.0 and had a few question that I have asked numerous times in numerous threads and they were not adressed...
1. Will my phone brick if I restore a backup to a 1.5 ROM with the updated radio?
2. Does the radio for Fresh 2.0 work for all 2.1 ROMS?
Thanks a lot guys. I just want to be 100% rather than having skipping stone.
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This radio will work on all roms.... 1.5-2.1 and will not brick if you nandroid back to a 1.5 rom. However, there have been numerous reports of bricking when trying to go back to the previous stock radio. Just keep this in mind.
troyboytn said:
This radio will work on all roms.... 1.5-2.1 and will not brick if you nandroid back to a 1.5 rom. However, there have been numerous reports of bricking when trying to go back to the previous stock radio. Just keep this in mind.
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Thanks a lot man!
troyboytn said:
This radio will work on all roms.... 1.5-2.1 and will not brick if you nandroid back to a 1.5 rom. However, there have been numerous reports of bricking when trying to go back to the previous stock radio. Just keep this in mind.
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It only bricks if you use the 1.5.6 RUU to go back.
mrinehart93 said:
It only bricks if you use the 1.5.6 RUU to go back.
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Besides the 1.5.6 RUU, there is no other way to go back correct?
There is a stock radio.zip posted on the forum (instead of using RUU) but it is also iffy. It still has a 50/50 chance of a bricking.
has anyone figured out why this radio update has gotten such conflicting reviews??? i use the new radio on damage v1 and its helped tremendously getting 3g in places i never could before...so glad i dont have to worry about ruu'ing
aauussttiinn88 said:
has anyone figured out why this radio update has gotten such conflicting reviews??? i use the new radio on damage v1 and its helped tremendously getting 3g in places i never could before...so glad i dont have to worry about ruu'ing
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I had a good signal before (cant really tell a difference), but my battery life is greatly improved.
i was also good on the previous radio but just figured it was something they add in the official update so i did it anyway and i used to NEVER get 3g at my desk at work and it would kill my battery going in and out of service for 8 hours straight let alone me playin with my phone but since the new radio its sits at 3g the whole day and i have way more battery when im off work..
I have had nothing but problems with the new radio. I pushed a new PRL to it and still couldn't get a decent signal. I used to get 3 out of 5 bars -70db on the old radio, and now I cant get more than -90db. My Pre still gets almost perfect signal in my house and my Hero is now unusable. I applaud everyone's efforts in making the most of our Heros, but I sure hope a new radio comes out soon!
which of the 2 new radios should we use?
I really cant get a solid answer.
I am on DamageControl v1
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I have had nothing but problems with the new radio. I pushed a new PRL to it and still couldn't get a decent signal. I used to get 3 out of 5 bars -70db on the old radio, and now I cant get more than -90db. My Pre still gets almost perfect signal in my house and my Hero is now unusable. I applaud everyone's efforts in making the most of our Heros, but I sure hope a new radio comes out soon!
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Old radio....the only one that let me flash back to the old radio. Now I have much better reception. Where are you located?
I'm out in North Dallas.. Sprint's coverage is pretty good out here.. so I knew right away that something was up with that new radio. I'll probably switch back to my Pre for the next few weeks until the next official radio comes out.
a99tandem said:
I'm out in North Dallas.. Sprint's coverage is pretty good out here.. so I knew right away that something was up with that new radio. I'll probably switch back to my Pre for the next few weeks until the next official radio comes out.
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I am out in North Ft Worth...
Maybe I should not upgrade the Radio..
but to be honest.. I really want to try it..
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I went through a few pages of the official Sapphire porting project and didn't see a whole lot regarding the RC33 version of the radio update. I personally don't plan on ever switching over to the ported version since it's likely that we will be seeing an official version out soon enough.
So my question is to those that have flashed the new radio to RC33, have you noticed any benefits as of yet? Battery life? Signal?
For those of you that have not seen this, you can find the new radio image here:
korndub's radio update (for RC33): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhzebmabxyn
the mediafire has been blocked from china
Do you mean the radio version of 1.22.14.11? not so stable for me, lost signal sometimes.
I guess it must be 2.22.19.23, since it's from G2
has anyone given this a shot yet?
I've installed it on my JF RC9 with Three. Seems to have a better reception, 3G speed is a tough one because the speed is always different anyway but I'm currently getting 0.7Mbit, which is the highest I've seen on the device (Never got over 0.4 before)
Havent encountered any issues yet. Will see over the next few days.
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I went through a few pages of the official Sapphire porting project and didn't see a whole lot regarding the RC33 version of the radio update. I personally don't plan on ever switching over to the ported version since it's likely that we will be seeing an official version out soon enough.
So my question is to those that have flashed the new radio to RC33, have you noticed any benefits as of yet? Battery life? Signal?
For those of you that have not seen this, you can find the new radio image here:
korndub's radio update (for RC33): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhzebmabxyn
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Question do I just rename it to update.zip and install?
yes update and alt s
Thanks, I've been having problems connecting to the network since I flashed Haykuro 3rd build then reverted back to JF. Do you think it could be the radio that's giving me problems?
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I flashed back to JF radio update and everything seems to be working fine now.
Radio Issues
chief2842 said:
Thanks, I've been having problems connecting to the network since I flashed Haykuro 3rd build then reverted back to JF. Do you think it could be the radio that's giving me problems?
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I flashed back to JF radio update and everything seems to be working fine now.
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I had problems too when I flashed the JF signed Sapphire radio update. My phone never displayed 3G, it stayed stuck on E. Also, a couple people tried to call me, and said they even left a message, but when I checked my phone, no missed calls were displayed in the notification or the call log.
I dont know if it's device specific, or area specific (So Cal). Either way, even if I go to Haykuro's 5.0, I am still going to flash the original G1 radio which never gave me any issues (other than the crap battery life).
when i installed it my data and phone connection would drop every 5 minutes or so. and the data connecttion didn't always return.
Phone connection is fine for me. I don't use data(just wifi) so I can't say anything about that. The phone is taking way longer to charge though. Not sure if it will hold any longer though. I'm using adb 1.1h.
I've been losing my data connection lately with 2.22.19.23
It will go and come back 10-60mins later. It gets really annoying. but the good thing is, it did improve battery somewhat.
and edit: I used nandroid to come back to RC33 with the cupcake radio. should I go ahead and flash it RC33 radio?
momentarylapseofreason said:
I went through a few pages of the official Sapphire porting project and didn't see a whole lot regarding the RC33 version of the radio update. I personally don't plan on ever switching over to the ported version since it's likely that we will be seeing an official version out soon enough.
So my question is to those that have flashed the new radio to RC33, have you noticed any benefits as of yet? Battery life? Signal?
For those of you that have not seen this, you can find the new radio image here:
korndub's radio update (for RC33): http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhzebmabxyn
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I cannot recommend the Magic Radio to be run on RC at all. I can literally throw a rock from my back yard and hit a TMobile tower so I have the luxury of blazing fast 3G from my house. While running that radio on RC33 I noticed my battery drain was GOD. AWFUL. and charge time took twice as long. Also the signal quality went way down. I was a solid 1 bar and if I even thought of leaving my house I dropped down to Edge. I wasn't sure if it was the radio but the second I installed the RC33 radio my battery life instantly improved and I'm back on holy crap fast 3G.
Please note that I experienced none of these problems while running that radio on the 4.9 build. IMHO, something just isn't jiving between RC and the Magic radio but that's hardly surprising.
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I cannot recommend the Magic Radio to be run on RC at all. I can literally throw a rock from my back yard and hit a TMobile tower so I have the luxury of blazing fast 3G from my house. While running that radio on RC33 I noticed my battery drain was GOD. AWFUL. and charge time took twice as long. Also the signal quality went way down. I was a solid 1 bar and if I even thought of leaving my house I dropped down to Edge. I wasn't sure if it was the radio but the second I installed the RC33 radio my battery life instantly improved and I'm back on holy crap fast 3G.
Please note that I experienced none of these problems while running that radio on the 4.9 build. IMHO, something just isn't jiving between RC and the Magic radio but that's hardly surprising.
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Strange, I went ahead and flashed just after I made this post and have had none of these issues
I had the same problem with data access amd signal dropping with the new update(2.22.19.23). i reverted to rc33 old radio(1.22.14.11) and rebooted twice and now all is fine. that new radio is unstable.
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Strange, I went ahead and flashed just after I made this post and have had none of these issues
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I've been back and forth from RC33 and 4.9 w/Magic radio and I can reproduce the problem every single time. Maybe it's related to my phone but to me it doesn't seem like it. Other problems included showing connected but NOTHING data working.
Dunno. Odd indeed but my troubleshooting keeps leading me to "Don't use Magic Radio on RC ROM.
I tried the magic radio this morning before I went to work... After a whole day with no connections at all, I went back to rc33 radio as soon as I got home. I thought I may have done something wrong but after seeing I am not the only one with problems, I think I will stick with rc33 for the time being
i have jf's rc33 1.43 and updated with the saphire radio. battery life seems to be shortened a bit but do find a performance increase throughout the OS. other than that, i havent experienced any of the issues others are reporting.
I've been running this new radio for a couple days now and I just have 1 strange problem.
I consistently have better 3G connection, less straight connection drops, and overall everything seems alot more responsive and just plain faster.
However...
Webpages just don't want to fully load about 75-90% of the time. I'm an avid fark.com reader and I spend a good deal of my train ride on the site and I've never had this issue with the other radios. On this new radio, when I go to the site in either Steel or Browser, I get to about 40% of the progress bar and it just stops. I've tinkered with it alot, and it's not only that 1 site.
Something isn't jiving right in RC33. I didn't run the 4.9 build long enough to notice if I experience the same problem. The no headphone support makes it not an option for me and my train rides.
I am running 4.5 build with the new radio(2. Something) and I have seen a lot of improvements with the ui, and my battery life has improved.
4.5 is very nice and I can't wait for upsates on it.
Geek for Me is proud to release:
Updated Radio.img for Android 2.1 (radio version 2.32.40.11.09) for Sprint
Note: This radio is actually older than the newest one I have released however as explained below, different people get better results with different radios.
This is from Verizon's Desire. The verizon radios work better for a number of people.
This has only been tested and confirmed as working on Fresh 2.0d but will work on every Sprint 2.20.651.1 based rom
Flashing an updated radio will typically give you better battery life and better signal
Different radios work differently depending on where you are in the country. You may actually get better performance out of another radio. Test them out.
This won't fix any current problems with the 2.x roms, but it will make your phone more efficient
Don't hold me responsible if you brick your phone
Don't flash this unless you have a CDMA Hero
In case you are wondering, our stock one is 1.04.01.09.21
Check this post for how to flash it: How To: Flash a Radio Update Sprint HTC Hero
DOWNLOAD: http://geekfor.me/radio/baseband-232401109
i flashed the other one today haha ...gueesss amd gonna flash this one too
thanks flipz
Dumb question, is DC 2.6 a Sprint 2.20.651.1 based ROM? I know 2.5 is, but I wasn't sure about the newest one.
Thanks for the radio Flipz!
lattiboy said:
Dumb question, is DC 2.6 a Sprint 2.20.651.1 based ROM? I know 2.5 is, but I wasn't sure about the newest one.
Thanks for the radio Flipz!
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Yea. DC 2.05 and 2.06 are the same rom.
Thanks Flipz, keep it up!
I'm running DarchLegend V5.0 and I just flashed this radio. For some reason my widgets couldn't access the internet and wouldn't refresh. The News and Weather widget just kept spinning on "loading". The internet browser worked fine though. Anyone else see this too on their non-Sprint based ROM? I had been running the newest Sprint radio that Flipz released last just fine.
GOnna give this a shot. Hell my reception sucks no matter where I am in my area. Damn Sprint lacks of towers.
So with this Radio, I get less bars but -85 where before I was getting more bars at -97...so it is btter right?
If the only way I can enter recovery is through adb (home+power send me to stock recovery) can I still install it or will it get caught in a bootloop?
How would a radio designed for a completely different phone make the Hero "more efficient"?
That has to be one of the zanier things that I've ever read.
flipzmode said:
Geek for Me is proud to release:
Updated Radio.img for Android 2.1 (radio version 2.32.40.11.09) for Sprint
Note: This radio is actually older than the newest one I have released however as explained below, different people get better results with different radios.
This is from Verizon's Desire. The verizon radios work better for a number of people.
This has only been tested and confirmed as working on Fresh 2.0d but will work on every Sprint 2.20.651.1 based rom
Flashing an updated radio will typically give you better battery life and better signal
Different radios work differently depending on where you are in the country. You may actually get better performance out of another radio. Test them out.
This won't fix any current problems with the 2.x roms, but it will make your phone more efficient
Don't hold me responsible if you brick your phone
Don't flash this unless you have a CDMA Hero
In case you are wondering, our stock one is 1.04.01.09.21
Check this post for how to flash it: How To: Flash a Radio Update Sprint HTC Hero
DOWNLOAD: http://geekfor.me/radio/baseband-232401109
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Ok I'm confused I'm guessing this was just a typo but it says that the radio is from Verizon's Desire but they don't offer the Desire just the HTC Eris and HTC Incredible? I'm guessing you meant to put Eris not Desire but just thought I would double check.
bdizzel1982 said:
Ok I'm confused I'm guessing this was just a typo but it says that the radio is from Verizon's Desire but they don't offer the Desire just the HTC Eris and HTC Incredible? I'm guessing you meant to put Eris not Desire but just thought I would double check.
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The Eris's radio for the 2.1 leak was codenamed desire I believe.
ok so just to be clear what does it mean if we flash this? will my hero connect to sprint thru verizon towers? just confused here a bit. can anyone shine some light on it?
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danielt021 said:
ok so just to be clear what does it mean if we flash this? will my hero connect to sprint thru verizon towers? just confused here a bit. can anyone shine some light on it?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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All this is is a different radio for people who have trouble picking up good signal with their current radio. This is still going to connect you to sprint towers, it's just that it's a radio from the android 2.1 leak which was originally from the Eris. You're still connecting to sprint, just with a different radio.
theimpaler747 said:
All this is is a different radio for people who have trouble picking up good signal with their current radio. This is still going to connect you to sprint towers, it's just that it's a radio from the android 2.1 leak which was originally from the Eris. You're still connecting to sprint, just with a different radio.
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was wondering the same thing.
perfect explanation thank you.
rootsquared said:
was wondering the same thing.
perfect explanation thank you.
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No problem, let me know if you need anything else
Sorry for bumping this. But dies someone have this radio? I am trying to follow http://www.gsm4share.com/other-os-development/245-meid-repair-method-htc-hero-2-1-a.html this and could not find the files. I have moved on to other phones but pulled this little beauty from the closet and was trying to revive this.
Thanks for looking,
http://www.4shared.com/zip/S30xZUND/htcheroc.html?
should be both radios you need, good luck!
Okay so I was on a few different LTE devices for a while (Charge and Revo) , and I am about to be back on a Thunderbolt in a few days.
When I was originally on the Tbolt, it was April, we barely had a Gingerbread Leak and I believe MR2 had been leaking around.
My question to you guys is, what's the best root method currently (ADB, or Revolutionary?) and also....
What radio should I be on when I get the device to be able to enjoy most of the roms out there. I'm hoping to be able to enjoy some Gingerbread.
Sorry for the newbness as I have been a crack flasher with Odin and other Samsung stuff that I completely lost track of Tbolt development.
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Okay so I was on a few different LTE devices for a while (Charge and Revo) , and I am about to be back on a Thunderbolt in a few days.
When I was originally on the Tbolt, it was April, we barely had a Gingerbread Leak and I believe MR2 had been leaking around.
My question to you guys is, what's the best root method currently (ADB, or Revolutionary?) and also....
What radio should I be on when I get the device to be able to enjoy most of the roms out there. I'm hoping to be able to enjoy some Gingerbread.
Sorry for the newbness as I have been a crack flasher with Odin and other Samsung stuff that I completely lost track of Tbolt development.
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It's all in my thread linked in my sig. If you have any questions, post them there or PM me and I'll be happy to get you up to speed.
haha, what a coincidence, i just got done reading your entire thread.
So basically its the same as before.. all GB based roms are working on ANY MR2 radio.
Gotcha
What radio do you recommend? at the time when I left the Tbolt, MR2 was causing reboots on people.
Also, is the recovery that revolutionary comes with a decent one in terms of being able to perform backups, etc?
Samsuck said:
haha, what a coincidence, i just got done reading your entire thread.
So basically its the same as before.. all GB based roms are working on ANY MR2 radio.
Gotcha
What radio do you recommend? at the time when I left the Tbolt, MR2 was causing reboots on people.
Also, is the recovery that revolutionary comes with a decent one in terms of being able to perform backups, etc?
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best radio is subjective.
some people for some reason still believe radios from 6 months ago are better than current ones.
Samsuck said:
haha, what a coincidence, i just got done reading your entire thread.
So basically its the same as before.. all GB based roms are working on ANY MR2 radio.
Gotcha
What radio do you recommend? at the time when I left the Tbolt, MR2 was causing reboots on people.
Also, is the recovery that revolutionary comes with a decent one in terms of being able to perform backups, etc?
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The most recent CWM is good, but the early 5.x releases had some issues. Not sure what the newest one is. I'm still on 3.something... cuz it just works.
There's a lot of opinion in radios. Right now I'm using the RUU 1.70 CDMA radio with the RUU 2.11.605.3 LTE radio. Generally there's not a big difference. I'd say the 2.10 and newer radios, including the 1.70 radios, are probably the most popular at the moment.
I seem to get better download speeds with the 802 radio than the 906. Not sure about the lte one yet though. Is there a combined release of the 906 for cdma and lte
Running Team Name SoaB .73, using XDA premium
Samsuck said:
Okay so I was on a few different LTE devices for a while (Charge and Revo) , and I am about to be back on a Thunderbolt in a few days.
When I was originally on the Tbolt, it was April, we barely had a Gingerbread Leak and I believe MR2 had been leaking around.
My question to you guys is, what's the best root method currently (ADB, or Revolutionary?) and also....
What radio should I be on when I get the device to be able to enjoy most of the roms out there. I'm hoping to be able to enjoy some Gingerbread.
Sorry for the newbness as I have been a crack flasher with Odin and other Samsung stuff that I completely lost track of Tbolt development.
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The radio could be anyone of the GB radios. Best bet is to take a few for a drive and see what works best for you. I use the 802 with good results. I used Revolutionary and everything was soooooo easy. The recovery in revolutionary is very easy too. The only big question is what ROM to use. I would suggest to try the one that lasts a long time (name omitted because of a spat between this forum and their Devs). I hope you can read beween the lines. And there's a host of AOSP ROM's too. Good luck and let us know what you choose.
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The radio could be anyone of the GB radios. Best bet is to take a few for a drive and see what works best for you. I use the 802 with good results. I used Revolutionary and everything was soooooo easy. The recovery in revolutionary is very easy too. The only big question is what ROM to use. I would suggest to try the one that lasts a long time (name omitted because of a spat between this forum and their Devs). I hope you can read beween the lines. And there's a host of AOSP ROM's too. Good luck and let us know what you choose.
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Don't worry, I know who you are referring too, i was running their rom when I originally left the Tbolt. I hear they are some bad a mofo's..
I can find their stuff on Rootzwiki
Thanks everyone for all the help. I have one more question, with the OTA that is about to come out. Is that going to be rootable? I'm afraid the phone VZW ships me will already have the update
Pulled too many problems
CREATE A NANDROID BACKUP before you test my modem, this is my first modem. I created this cause I had a theory I wanted to try. And because the UCLAC4 modem blows.
***CWR flash at your own RISK***
I get more lte bars at home, but havnt tested away from home, i always get poor LTE signal at the house anyways. Ive tested this with my phone and another superlite-5.0 user.
Let me know if this helps anyone
Be a boss and just click THANKS or donate to me if you like what I Do. thx! MHX
This spot is for me
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Got it, and I am going to test it.
Do you need to be on 5 in order to flash your 5?
markapowell said:
This spot is for me
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Got it, and I am going to test it.
Do you need to be on 5 in order to flash your 5?
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Naw, UCLAC4 or 5, it will flash over it. If you need go back, just load your nandroid backup
So far, so good with me. I flashed it and seem to be getting better reception from where I sit. This is sort of what I went through with Gingerbread. Initially the speeds with GB were kind of crappy. Then the UCLA3 modem came out and all of a sudden my signal was way better. With the modem you provided it seems to have increased my signal. Still, some have mentioned that perhaps the algorithm that calculates signal (and by that I mean in terms of bars) has been altered. Still, I have done my share of testing with the UCALC5 modem (outside of this flash) and the speeds seemed similar even though the bars on my phone seemed to increase. I guess time will tell. All the same, great work, as usual. You really don't stop, MHX. You're a MACHINE!
2x improvement on download speed.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
Thanks, gonna give it a wirl.
Works, seems to have the same reception as the note radio so I'm happy. I don't care about speed I have no lte here and the speeds are garbage to begin with.
What exactly do these extra libs help accomplish?
I have been having mms issues with ics aosp messaging. Hoping this might kick its butt in gear.
Mine seems to the the same. It's as if, no matter the modem I flash, the speeds are still the same
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA
Had 46 Mbps down and 18 Mbps up on UCLAC4 on Rogers in Vancouver. Flashed this and got 23 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up. Reception unchanged at home. Tried to go back to UCLAC4 with my Nandroid backup and it borked. "MD5 checksum mismatch?!" Ah well.
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Had 46 Mbps down and 18 Mbps up on UCLAC4 on Rogers in Vancouver. Flashed this and got 23 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up. Reception unchanged at home. Tried to go back to UCLAC4 with my Nandroid backup and it borked. "MD5 checksum mismatch?!" Ah well.
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yeah its apparently encryption setup in ics. enjoy reinstalling ur rom over again. =) and mhx you might as well take it off its causing mismatches..
Yup. Tried re-flashing this radio and it's all still borked. Non-stop FCs before I could even get to the launcher and 20-second waits in between every one. Ugh.
Starting afresh. YMMV but this destroyed the perfect setup I had on Superlite 5.0.
+kardboard+ said:
yup. Tried re-flashing this radio and it's all still borked. Non-stop fcs before i could even get to the launcher and 20-second waits in between every one. Ugh.
Starting afresh. Ymmv but this destroyed the perfect setup i had on superlite 5.0.
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rogers users i repeat don't flash this if u don't have modem back up files for ics and so forth. Otherwise you're done for..
Am I the only one that can switch radios every 5 minutes if I wanted without issue? I see a lot of people having fc problems after a radio flash. Never had an issue hopping around radios.
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Am I the only one that can switch radios every 5 minutes if I wanted without issue? I see a lot of people having fc problems after a radio flash. Never had an issue hopping around radios.
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sorry
wali01x said:
please flash this then.. and there is 3 of us facing this issue =) .. unless ur skyrocket is made offf exynos processor
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Already did, my post is on the first page. Its running fine.
R4INS said:
Am I the only one that can switch radios every 5 minutes if I wanted without issue? I see a lot of people having fc problems after a radio flash. Never had an issue hopping around radios.
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No problems here either. Just all completely useless. The Amaze 4g was terrible though. Not even 1mb up after the first 3 or 4 tests
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA
I have the old radio from Superlite 4.2, but that's not helping. Darkside Superwipe'd, re-flashed Superlite 5.0, won't finish booting. This ain't good, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Really needs to be taken down. Be careful, Rogers users!
I don't think the problem comes in flashing this radio, its restoring back to an older radio. though IDK if anyone has tried just flashing normal uclc5 or ucalc4 over this before restoring a backup.
edgex said:
I don't think the problem comes in flashing this radio, its restoring back to an older radio. though IDK if anyone has tried just flashing normal uclc5 or ucalc4 over this before restoring a backup.
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I never saw the need to restore a nandroid after flashing a radio, I just flash another one. Never had an issue. I just went from the note radio, to this one, to our ics radio, back to this one. Not a single issue.
Either a, skip restoring, or b, Rodgers phones are picky as hell.
R4INS said:
I never saw the need to restore a nandroid after flashing a radio, I just flash another one. Never had an issue. I just went from the note radio, to this one, to our ics radio, back to this one. Not a single issue.
Either a, skip restoring, or b, Rodgers phones are picky as hell.
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no wonder.. <3 u rogers u @$$w!p3z.
wali01x said:
no wonder.. <3 u rogers u @$$w!p3z.
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Ics has been nothing but hell for you guys hasn't it?
I wanted to thank the developers of MR3 in this thread. Liquid, Jester, etc.
I'm a long time lurker of this forum since I got my Thunderbolt. I'm VERY VERY appreciative of the developers for creating a very functional ICS rom for the Thunderbolt. Shame on HTC and Verizon for sandbagging so long with what should be a very simple upgrade for them. I was running Thundershed for awhile but grew tired of the Gingerbread look and feel of Android. My friends all mostly have newer phones with ICS, and I couldn't believe that it was supposed to be out in August and it's now mid-October and it's still not out.
To my surprise, I log on to here and see that an ICS ROM had been released.
My only issues with this ROM are random restarts and the white screen error in Facebook/Gmail/etc. I don't really use the video camera much in general; could you use an aftermarket app, or is it broken period?
Otherwise, I absolutely LOVE this and will never go back to Verizon's bloated software. Even when an OTA is released with ICS I won't go back. My phone is running much faster and much better than with Sense and Gingerbread. With data off I had a 10% decrease in battery in 7 hours; with data on and normal use I'll get maybe 5 hours out of a charge on this ROM. About normal for this phone and it's absolutely terrible battery life with the stock battery.
I have it overclocked to 1.5ghz running interactiveX as my governor. It runs beautifully, other than those two minor issues I pointed out above. I haven't experienced any data drops or anything out of the sort like that.
vashts80 said:
I wanted to thank the developers of MR3 in this thread. Liquid, Jester, etc.
I'm a long time lurker of this forum since I got my Thunderbolt. I'm VERY VERY appreciative of the developers for creating a very functional ICS rom for the Thunderbolt. Shame on HTC and Verizon for sandbagging so long with what should be a very simple upgrade for them. I was running Thundershed for awhile but grew tired of the Gingerbread look and feel of Android. My friends all mostly have newer phones with ICS, and I couldn't believe that it was supposed to be out in August and it's now mid-October and it's still not out.
To my surprise, I log on to here and see that an ICS ROM had been released.
My only issues with this ROM are random restarts and the white screen error in Facebook/Gmail/etc. I don't really use the video camera much in general; could you use an aftermarket app, or is it broken period?
Otherwise, I absolutely LOVE this and will never go back to Verizon's bloated software. Even when an OTA is released with ICS I won't go back. My phone is running much faster and much better than with Sense and Gingerbread. With data off I had a 10% decrease in battery in 7 hours; with data on and normal use I'll get maybe 5 hours out of a charge on this ROM. About normal for this phone and it's absolutely terrible battery life with the stock battery.
I have it overclocked to 1.5ghz running interactiveX as my governor. It runs beautifully, other than those two minor issues I pointed out above. I haven't experienced any data drops or anything out of the sort like that.
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I second this thread.
A major thanks goes out to all of you who develop, in any way, for the Thunderbolt community. This even includes testers.
To answer your questions...
The video and front camera are broken even with an aftermarket app and will remain broken, most likely, until Verizon releases the OTA. From the OTA, our awesome developers will then be able to fix camera issues and many other issues that will make their ROM's 100% stable.
Also, if you get random reboots, you may want to flash to a different radio.
If you are currently running the OTA radios from the 2.11.605.19 software and still get these reboots, try flashing the combo radio and hopefully the reboots will vanish or, at least, happen less often.
If you go to your settings, about phone, software information, more, and look at the baseband version...
If the numbers you see are:
1.49.00.0406w_1, 0.01.79.0331w_1
Then you are on the OTA 2.11.605.19 radios, which is my recommendation for the radios to use with this ROM. If these are the radio numbers you see, try the combo radio. If the numbers you see under your phones baseband version is not:
1.49.00.0406w_1, 0.01.79.0331w_1
Then it may be:
1.48.00.0930w_3, 0.01.78.0916w_3
If it is:
1.48.00.0930w_3, 0.01.78.0916w_3
Try flashing the 2.11.605.19 OTA radios found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1605557
If you have the 2.11.605.19 radios, though, try flashing the combo radio found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864157
If you aren't sure how to flash a radio, here's a video tutorial for you to follow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-KLjHGGhc&sns=em
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Definitely want to ditto this thread. Thanks for continuing to support the Thunderbolt. I was on the verge of retiring the Thunderbolt. ICS has brought new the Tbolt new life though!
thanks for the links. I'm going to try upgrading tonight and see if that helps. I notice you flash the radio in hboot. If I do a nandroid backup, does it also backup the radio (so I can restore it)? Or if I **** up, will it be permanently bricked?
Ditto to all that has been said. Thank You to all who made this happen, including HTC and Verizon. Their inaction drove me to decide to root and find alternatives. I've been incredibly pleased with MR3.
Thanks all!
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thanks for the links. I'm going to try upgrading tonight and see if that helps. I notice you flash the radio in hboot. If I do a nandroid backup, does it also backup the radio (so I can restore it)? Or if I **** up, will it be permanently bricked?
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If you backup that ROM after flashing the radio, it will back up the ROM. Hboot is a whole different thing than the recovery. That radio is downloaded to the phone and will automatically run on any ROM after its downloaded, even if you start from scratch. But flashing any of those two radios will not brick you on any ROM. Worst case being you won't have signal or data until you flash different radios again.
Say if you upgraded to the newer radios, and then you flash a ROM based on an older software version, you won't brick. In fact, you may not ever experience any issues. Maybe just signal changes or random signal drops.
But no, it won't brick you. It's almost impossible to brick a Thunderbolt.
I recommend after flashing the new radios, immediately go and either change the name from PG05IMG to something custom, move into a different folder that's off of the root of the SD card, or just delete it once flashed.
This is for in a such case where you need to get back into recovery from hboot, it won't prompt you to install the radio again. Because if you had to get into recovery from hboot, it wouldn't allow you to since it runs a check for the PG05IMG files first... and with that being said... I was always told to never flash the same radio twice without changing to a new one first.
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i dont' see why these ROMs get so much acclaim... when i tried LiquidSmooth it wouldn't stay connected to the Internet. tried to toggle wifi and 3G/4G. nothing works and i have to reboot the phone every time i want to use the Internet.
Liquid MR3: the setup crashed and now the ROM won't even come all the way up...
unless my phone's broken or something (going to Verizon tomorrow to reflash and check it), i say they're both absolute garbage. i've had much better luck with ROMs on other phones.
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i dont' see why these ROMs get so much acclaim... when i tried LiquidSmooth it wouldn't stay connected to the Internet. tried to toggle wifi and 3G/4G. nothing works and i have to reboot the phone every time i want to use the Internet.
Liquid MR3: the setup crashed and now the ROM won't even come all the way up...
unless my phone's broken or something (going to Verizon tomorrow to reflash and check it), i say they're both absolute garbage. i've had much better luck with ROMs on other phones.
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Did you try a different radio and redownload? The first shot isnt always the right one....
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Did you try a different radio and redownload? The first shot isnt always the right one....
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whelp... as you can see from my post number, i'm not exactly the most well-versed member around. idk what that means. any reading you can point me to or explanation?
moonlightcheese said:
whelp... as you can see from my post number, i'm not exactly the most well-versed member around. idk what that means. any reading you can point me to or explanation?
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Back up 9 posts and you'll see a link to a video tutorial on how to flash a different radio. You'll even see 2 links to 2 different radios to flash and try.
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Back up 9 posts and you'll see a link to a video tutorial on how to flash a different radio. You'll even see 2 links to 2 different radios to flash and try.
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well i reflashed Liquid this morning and it didn't crash this time, connected fine via wifi and setup completed properly.
all of my radio issues were on the old version (not sure if there's a difference in radios or whatnot), but if it acts up again i will try your recommendations. thanks a lot.
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moonlightcheese said:
well i reflashed Liquid this morning and it didn't crash this time, connected fine via wifi and setup completed properly.
all of my radio issues were on the old version (not sure if there's a difference in radios or whatnot), but if it acts up again i will try your recommendations. thanks a lot.
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ah i see what happened now.
the first time i flashed it, i cleared /data after the flash before i brought the OS up, but you've included the launcher as a user app and not a system app. was this intentional? a user could easily screw up by uninstalling the launcher and have no way to interact with the OS. shouldn't there be a default launcher embedded in the system programs?
i'm an Android dev, but my understanding of system development is limited, but if i'm not mistaken, any Android ROM should come with a default launcher that is not uninstallable and has no icon as a backup launcher just in case.
He did install it that way so if the user wants to install their own launcher and remove the default. Its simple to make the new one a system app. All that has to be done is move the apk to /system and it is uninstallable.
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