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(Radio) All radio.img and update.zips Update-2!READ

BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN FLASHING OR MODIFYING THE RADIO.IMG AS THIS IS THE EASIEST WAY TO BRICK YOUR PHONE
All of the update.zips work 100% of the time. There has been no report of brick and i have used all of them at least once. if you dont like a new radio flash the old one. Good luck!
the stock radio.img is from the 1.56 RUU for the SPRINT CDMA HERO
There are three Radios here. stock, 2.41.04.02.03, and 2.42.00.03.10. they are in order from release date. high number=newer. radios are risky so i suggest sticking with one. they almost never cause worse performance. if you TRULY feel your signal has degraded i put the stock in here for you to return to.
Update!2 ok so with the new release of 2.42.01.04.27 i was kinda on the ehhh bar with it. i never like new releases because they will always take something from you.
so in this case they have taken the ability to use data with a .27 kernel. so if you flash this radio, you will not get data with any rom that has .27. including the fresh toast 1.1 and all 1.5's. so its up to you. i didnt gain one thing from this radio. battery life and signal stay 100% the same. i did lose data though.
so personally i would stick with 2.42.00.03.10
Please refer to this forum for troubleshooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643796&page=10
and refer to this for instructions
http://geekfor.me/faq/flash-radio/
thanks to flipz and co for releasing the new radios.

I'm gonna wait for someone else to try this first

Avalaunchmods said:
BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN FLASHING OR MODIFYING THE RADIO.IMG AS THIS IS THE EASIEST WAY TO BRICK YOUR PHONE
Here is the stock radio.img
The new radio.img from flipz baseband 2.41.04.02.03
also both update.zip for stock and new.
Please refer to this forum for troubleshooting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643796&page=10
and refer to this for instructions
http://geekfor.me/faq/flash-radio/
thanks to flipz and co for releasing the new radio.
i do not claim any responsibility for damage done.
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Just to be sure ... I am only asking this as a precaution as I do not want to brick my phone. These are for the SPRINT CDMA HERO correct? And when you say STOCK you mean the Radio that was originally installed on the SPRINT CDMA HERO like "out of box" so to speak?... Again I'm asking to clear up assumptions. a.k.a. (Click happy readers)

Is this for 1.5 as well or is this to be used only on fresh 2.0b

danimal_01 said:
Just to be sure ... I am only asking this as a precaution as I do not want to brick my phone. These are for the SPRINT CDMA HERO correct? And when you say STOCK you mean the Radio that was originally installed on the SPRINT CDMA HERO like "out of box" so to speak?... Again I'm asking to clear up assumptions. a.k.a. (Click happy readers)
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this is in the cdma hero forums. so yes sprint hero i believe it has also worked for other cdma heros. the img is the stock radio from phones "with google" on the back.
thanks i wasnt too specific up top i guess i didnt re read lol

H4k3r4r34l said:
Is this for 1.5 as well or is this to be used only on fresh 2.0b
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only tested on 2.0b but as i have said 1 million times before nandroid runs separate from the ROM. so it shouldnt matter. but it has only been tested on 2.0b
if you would like to test please do and post the results

I updated the radio to 2.41.04.02.02 earlier today and saw my download speeds decrease by about 50%. So I finally tried to flash back the Stock radio posted here. The good news it didn't brick my phone but it also didn't work. My phone still shows version 2.41.04.02.02. When I did the flash of the Stock radio file I never saw any error message and I didn't see the message about extracting radio file. Any ideas? Thanks

rjj1976 said:
I updated the radio to 2.41.04.02.02 earlier today and saw my download speeds decrease by about 50%. So I finally tried to flash back the Stock radio posted here. The good news it didn't brick my phone but it also didn't work. My phone still shows version 2.41.04.02.02. When I did the flash of the Stock radio file I never saw any error message and I didn't see the message about extracting radio file. Any ideas? Thanks
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did you download the stock radio signed one? only that one will flash right.

justinisyoung said:
did you download the stock radio signed one? only that one will flash right.
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Yes, that is the one I used.

that's weird.
hey, Avalaunchmods, when you reapplied the stock radio, did you check if it went back to the 1.0.xxxxxx version?

rjj1976 said:
Yes, that is the one I used.
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hm that is weird. i checked and my baseband changed. ill have to look into it again. just use the stock img and flash it using instructions in the other forum i linked to.

Avalaunchmods said:
hm that is weird. i checked and my baseband changed. ill have to look into it again. just use the stock img and flash it using instructions in the other forum i linked to.
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Do you mean the instructions on geekforme? If so, that is how I was trying to do it with the stock signed img. Thanks

rjj1976 said:
Do you mean the instructions on geekforme? If so, that is how I was trying to do it with the stock signed img. Thanks
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well i just retried it with the attached signed stock radio.img and it worked correctly. you may want to double check that in nandroid you are selecting the stock one not the 2.41.04.02.03-signed.zip one

Just tried to restore stock radio, all it says it "Install from SDCard Complete", and baseband is still 2.blahblah..any tips?

scriz said:
Just tried to restore stock radio, all it says it "Install from SDCard Complete", and baseband is still 2.blahblah..any tips?
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ok i think i know what caused this. although it says its still 2.blahblah its rlly the stock. the manifest isnt right so i guess it didnt apply. ill have a fix up but for right now your set with the stock radio.

It was the Stock img because is was the last one in the list to select. Are you using the instructions from geekforme to do the flash. That is what I was following.

rjj1976 said:
It was the Stock img because is was the last one in the list to select. Are you using the instructions from geekforme to do the flash. That is what I was following.
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yes you did it right. it should have worked although it still shows the old baseband. you now have the old radio. its not updating that for some reason i will fix once i find out why

Can anyone else confirm decreased data speeds?
I'll do a quick little test in the mean time...

Avalaunchmods said:
yes you did it right. it should have worked although it still shows the old baseband. you now have the old radio. its not updating that for some reason i will fix once i find out why
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Are you saying that my phone is now using the stock radio ver 1? If you are, I don't think it is because my download speeds are still way slower then before I did the ver 2 update.

Speedtest.net app available in market:
Phone was reset, then ATK was run killing all open apps. Test run at 12:30am so shouldn't be too much tower traffic, although my speeds never fall below 1000kbps
FACTORY RADIO
Test 1 (4/6 bars):
2239kbps down 671kbps up 285ms ping
Test 2 (5/6 bars):
1716kbps down 766kbps up 326ms ping
Test 3 (5/6 bars):
2199kbps down 617kbps up 342ms ping
UPDATED RADIO:
Speedtest.net app on phone.
Test 1 (4/6 bars):
2026kbps down 510kbps up 175ms ping
Test 2 (5/6 bars):
1671kbps down 715kbps up 183ms ping
Test 3 (5/6 bars):
1847kbps down 751kbps up 174ms ping
The decreased ping time is very obvious. Web sites start loading just a hair bit faster. The results are obvious ping times were cut in half!

Stock (1.56) baseband with 2.1 ROM

Would it be possible to downgrade to the stock (1.04.01.09.21) radio while keeping the 2.1 ROM? I tried following the steps from http://geekfor.me/faq/flash-radio/ but the update does not seem to stick - the baseband version doe snot change after final reboot. If it's not possible to to downgrade the baseband alone, can I downgrade both ROM and baseband using the recovery bootloader? If so, a link to some sort of tutorial would be much appreciated.

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Not really sure why you would want to seeing as from what I've read, the newer radio increases battery life and signal strength.
But yeah you can. I just downloaded the stock radio to test it out HERE. flashed it, and it stuck for me.

kyouko said:
Belongs in Q&A...
Not really sure why you would want to seeing as from what I've read, the newer radio increases battery life and signal strength.
But yeah you can. I just downloaded the stock radio to test it out HERE. flashed it, and it stuck for me.
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Thats not been my case. New radios have been worse in signal strength vs original stock. -80 db vs -95db. Battery like has been the same.

kyouko said:
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Not really sure why you would want to seeing as from what I've read, the newer radio increases battery life and signal strength.
But yeah you can. I just downloaded the stock radio to test it out HERE. flashed it, and it stuck for me.
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Just won't stick, unfortunately - the phone reboots back into recovery bootloader about 5 seconds after the box and phone screen pops up. Did you follow the steps from geekfor.me tutorial?

How do you RADIO FLASH?

I just installed Gingbreadman on my phone.
I need some help on doing this.
thanks!

try this:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Ace:_Recovery,_Radio_and_CyanogenMod
If you don't understand it or can't figured it out pm me and I can probably help.

P00t said:
I just installed Gingbreadman on my phone.
I need some help on doing this.
thanks!
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Choose the right radio from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
Follow these instructions to flash the radio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597

How do you know which radio to flash?

Focustom said:
How do you know which radio to flash?
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If you're on a gingerbread Rom, you flash a gingerbread radio. Otherwise you flash a Cingular radio.
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Focustom said:
How do you know which radio to flash?
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You don't really, I would go look in the section for whatever rom you flashed. I'm assuming you did rc mix, and then flash a radio from someone who has that same rom and isn't having any problems with it. Thats your best bet.

I'm running Leedroid right now. Does have the best radio for ATT in the US?
Thanks
Newb

Focustom said:
I'm running Leedroid right now. Does have the best radio for ATT in the US?
Thanks
Newb
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The radio is completely independent of the rom..

ok so the stock radio my best bet? I'm completely lost with radios lol

what does RADIO FLASH DO?
make your wifi connection stronger?

P00t said:
what does RADIO FLASH DO?
make your wifi connection stronger?
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Looks like you have some reading to do.

rwon said:
Looks like you have some reading to do.
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Can't you just explain it for us?

Focustom said:
Can't you just explain it for us?
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Sure, but you will understand it better if you read it your self. Basically flashing a radio can do a few things, one being to enable HSUPA, this can also be accomplished just by flashing certain roms. Also it helps with WIFI, calling(signal, speed etc) problems in some cases. This is all going to depend on which rom you have, the area, the cell provider(i'm assuming your all on ATT like me) and also it varies. I ran the "telus" radio for a long time with RC mix, but with the latest builds of the rom started having problems with the call not connecting when i pressed "call" and failing. I have since switched to the Cyanogen mod rom and am on the latest radio which is listed in my sig. This has improved call quality, battery life(from the rom and radio as a combo), and also call reliability(no dropped calls, calls failing etc) Hope that helps you guys

Is there away to go back to the stock radio if something goes wrong?

If you don't have problems with the stock radio then just stick with it. There's more risk than reward when flashing radio.
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Yeah I have to agree. If you mess up somehow while flashing the radio, your phone will become a paper weight. If its not giving you problems, then no need to flash the radio.
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rwon said:
Sure, but you will understand it better if you read it your self. Basically flashing a radio can do a few things, one being to enable HSUPA, this can also be accomplished just by flashing certain roms. Also it helps with WIFI, calling(signal, speed etc) problems in some cases. This is all going to depend on which rom you have, the area, the cell provider(i'm assuming your all on ATT like me) and also it varies. I ran the "telus" radio for a long time with RC mix, but with the latest builds of the rom started having problems with the call not connecting when i pressed "call" and failing. I have since switched to the Cyanogen mod rom and am on the latest radio which is listed in my sig. This has improved call quality, battery life(from the rom and radio as a combo), and also call reliability(no dropped calls, calls failing etc) Hope that helps you guys
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Flashing the radio does not enable HSUPA on the Inspire 4G. From what I know, the Captivate requires to flash a different radio to enable HSUPA.
Editing the build.prop enables HSUPA.

modified from Kirk's old post
1. Download this file http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BX5GV1CJ
this is a zip file containing two files. one is radio.img from ATT stock radio, dont touch the other file.
you need to remove this img file and replace with the Gingerbread radio.img
from here http://www.multiupload.com/BE0V4H8QQY
extract the radio.img and zip into the PD98IMG.zip with the other file already in the PD981img.zip. (two files)
2. Place the PD98IMG.zip radio file on the root of your SD card.
3. Power the phone off, remove and reinsert the battery.
4. Hold the volume button down and press power on.
5. The phone will boot into Hboot then Bootloader, It should see the PD98IMG.zip and ask if you want to apply the zip.
6. Use the volume up button to select "yes"
7. Once its done flashing, reboot the phone and you should have flashed the radio.

I hope I get some credit from my post. Lol
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kirk123 said:
I hope I get some credit from my post. Lol
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Credits go to you Kirk! thanks
your method can flash any radio

Rooted and no HSUPA? Read this for my theory and a possible fix.

I think some of these rooting programs/routines like Bubby's root are causing the loss of hsupa. See my post here about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12828255&postcount=2961

I extracted the radio.img from the PD98IMG.zip file in the \ace\tools\dngrd\ folder from the hack kit. I opened it up in a hex editor and found the version - 26.03.02.26
You can download the radio in PD98IMG.zip form from here: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Support_Downloads#HTC_Ace
So now we just need someone whose HSUPA is not working to downgrade to this radio and see if HSUPA comes back. If it does, then you can flash to 26.06.04.14 or 26.08.03.07 from the same link above.

I am thinking you may be onto something..........
I flashed the downgrade radio. Upload speeds still slower than before I flashed the stock radio. Now I am going back to the radio I had before stock and see what happens.

darkside1904 said:
I am thinking you may be onto something..........
I flashed the downgrade radio. Upload speeds still slower than before I flashed the stock radio. Now I am going back to the radio I had before stock and see what happens.
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This is interesting. Let us know.
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Maybe you need to flash the downgraded kernel from the hack kit as well? Does anyone know if that would even work - flashing the downgraded kernel on top of a custom rom like cm7 or mui?

EvoXOhio said:
Maybe you need to flash the downgraded kernel from the hack kit as well? Does anyone know if that would even work - flashing the downgraded kernel on top of a custom rom like cm7 or mui?
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Not a good idea. Flashing froyo kernel on a gb rom
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lrs421 said:
Not a good idea. Flashing froyo kernel on a gb rom
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worst case scenario, wouldnt it just prevent android from booting up? if so, you could always put the correct kernel on the SD cad and reflash it from recovery right?

Per the hack kit thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
I believe the kernel he links to in there is the downgraded Telus kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=518730&d=1297824204
EDIT: I believe its the boot.img in the hack kit in he \ace\tools\dngrd\ folder as well.

Before I went back to stock I was Uploading @ 1.50Mbps. Went to stock radio because of the ROM I am on and my Upload speeds won't go over .30Mbps. Using the downgrade radio didn't help. It was a good idea.

darkside1904 said:
Before I went back to stock I was Uploading @ 1500Mbps. Went to stock radio because of the ROM I am on and my Upload speeds won't go over .30Mbps. Using the downgrade radio didn't help. It was a good idea.
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I had the exact same issue. Like I said re-rooting fixed the issue for me. I was thinking that loading the downgraded radio would fix it, but maybe you need the downgraded kernel as well?
did you confirm it was the downgraded radio in "about phone"

Yeah, that was the first thing I did. Check to make sure the radio flashed correctly. I have to go put the kids in bed now. I am pretty bummed about my new slow upload speed.

darkside1904 said:
Yeah, that was the first thing I did. Check to make sure the radio flashed correctly. I have to go put the kids in bed now. I am pretty bummed about my new slow upload speed.
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You'll have to flash back to stock and reroot to get it back
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lrs421 said:
You'll have to flash back to stock and reroot to get it back
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There has to be an easier way. I can confirm that HSUPA came back for me after the downgrade, before I rooted or flashed another ROM. I've looked through the hack kit and what gets pushed to the phone during the downgrade, there's not a lot of files in there:
android-info.txt
boot.img
hboot_7230_0.85.0007_101011.nb0
radio.img
rcdata.img
recovery.img
splash1.nb0
splash2.nb0
system.img
tp_ACE_SYN3KT0108.img
tp_ACE_SYN3KW020B.img
tp_atmel224_20aa.img
tp_atmelc12_20aa.img
userdata.img
We've tried radio.img and that didn't do it, m next guess would be boot.img, which is the kernel if I'm not mistaken. I am not sure what all the other files do specifically.

I like your dedication. We'll figure this out...
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So this guy claims to have fixed the HSUPA issue simply by reflashing the downgraded radio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11847379&postcount=17
Maybe it's because he flashed radio.img directly instead of the PD98IMG.zip method?

I see we are still trying to figure this out???

darkside1904 said:
Yeah, that was the first thing I did. Check to make sure the radio flashed correctly. I have to go put the kids in bed now. I am pretty bummed about my new slow upload speed.
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For a quick test, can you reboot the phone again? I know when you edit build.prop, most people say it takes two reboots for it to take effect. Maybe just for the hell of it, reboot a second time and then try another speedtest? It's probably worth a try.
lrs421 said:
I like your dedication. We'll figure this out...
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Thanks. I got mine working but it involved going through the hack kit and losing all my data and then having to re-root and all of that. I'd love to find out what part of the PD98IMG.zip file fixed the issue, so that hopefully people can flash just that and fix their issue without losing data, re-rooting, reflashing ROMs, etc.
I am half tempted to purposely break my HSUPA just to figure out the fix but I'm not feeling that masochistic just yet.

Right now I am back to the stock radio and looking into some things. I will be back in a bit, hopefully with some info.

darkside1904 said:
Right now I am back to the stock radio and looking into some things. I will be back in a bit, hopefully with some info.
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Cool good luck. I wish I would have caught you in time to try the second reboot. Maybe you will be brave enough to reflash the downgraded radio and then also do the downgraded Telus kernel?
I am going to read up on what all of these files in PD98IMG.zip do. Maybe the answer is in one of those other files.

So after reading up on the files some more, I now believe it could be rcdata.img, which has something to do with controlling the radio. I opened it up in a text editor and its a small file that contains a handful of line:
QCT_UMTS_RADIO_VER=1
DisH=2
HSDPACat=10
HSUPACat=6
QCT_UMTS_RADIO_END=1
That's the entire file. What I posted there is the one from the downgraded radio in the hack kit. Maybe this file needs to be reflashed in conjunction with the downgraded radio? In theory you could open up the PD98IMG.zip file that you downloaded for the downgraded radio, and then add the rcdata.img from the hack kit to the PD98IMG.zip file, and then flash PD98IMG.zip and it should flash both the radio and the rcdata.

Radio question.

I flashed my radio to (baseband version):
12.41.60.19U_26.06.04.14_M
I'm having severe issues with my connection.
I have 0 bars on some locations, where as an iPhone, or a non-smartphone, has 3+, or full bars at the same location.
Is this the radio issue, or is this the physical antenna of the phone being bad?

what rom you have?

I use that radio with saga and I get great reception. With stock I was getting -90 to -100 at home. I get - 70 now.
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Did you flash the corresponding ril?
I use that radio and got an average of 6 db better signal than I did with the stocker in south Florida USA.. I also use a gingerbread Rom. Btw never use bars to determine signal strength, its subjective at best. Go to menu,about phone,network to see signal strength.
I recommend reading the radio thread in the sticky under development. It's a great thread. Good luck to you.
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Junsuo said:
what rom you have?
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My apologies. I'm using RCMixHD v5.3.5.
mj0528 said:
I use that radio with saga and I get great reception
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Yea, that's the general consensus, which is why I decided to flash my radio, but I'm getting terrible service everywhere... "NO SERVICE" or "LIMITED SERVICE" message on my screen, while an iPhone or a messaging phone has several bars.
stickbo said:
Did you flash the corresponding ril?
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I did:
pollux1151 said:
simplest way for radio flashing
modified from Kirk's old post
1. Download this file http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BX5GV1CJ
this is a zip file containing two files. one is radio.img from ATT stock radio, dont touch the other file (android-info).
you need to remove this img file and replace with the Gingerbread radio.img
from here http://www.multiupload.com/BE0V4H8QQY
extract the radio.img and zip into the PD98IMG.zip with the other file (android-info) already in the PD981img.zip. (two files)
2. Place the PD98IMG.zip radio file on the root of your SD card.
3. Power the phone off, remove and reinsert the battery.
4. Hold the volume button down and press power on.
5. The phone will boot into Hboot then Bootloader, It should see the PD98IMG.zip and ask if you want to apply the zip.
6. Use the volume up button to select "yes"
7. Once its done flashing, reboot the phone and you should have flashed the radio.
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try the stock radio with RCMix HD (12.39.60.19_26.06.04.06_M) i use this radio when i have installed RCMix rom

I tried this without luck something about invalid image it scrolls by too fast to read. It is the first thing I have tried on my new inspire. I have been having major signal issues.
Help.
Thanks!

wshealy said:
I tried this without luck something about invalid image it scrolls by too fast to read. It is the first thing I have tried on my new inspire. I have been having major signal issues.
Help.
Thanks!
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Try reflashing your radio using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002226

I've had major issues with my GPS and from what I've been reading, reflashing the radio could help. I dl'ed the pd98img, placed it on the root of SD, booted to hboot but it never finds the file.
Any ideas as to what might he goin on? Fwiw, it takes about 10 minutes to go through all the steps till I can reboot back to os.
Halp,
Tx