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[Bounty][WIP] Get 4G working on sense 3.5 releases! Calling all devs! [UPDATE]

First and foremost, NO DRAMA, NO BS, NO TROLLS, if you are for any other reason then wanting to contribute to this bounty then please leave now.
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Okay now that we have that taken care of, i have decided to start this thread because just like me and other xda members we need our 4g! So I would like to use this thread to call out all xda devs working on these projects to please put aside all the drama and bs and get working on these ports together after all xda is a friendly community not a who can make a rom better!
for all of you saying to wait for a sense 3.5 sprint wimax phone to come out:
UPDATE! http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/27/sprints-lte-build-out-already-underway-new-4g-network-to-launc/
Sprint is officially moving to LTE most likely meaning there will not be a sense 3.5 wimax enabled phone released. So the excuse wait for a 4g wimax sense 3.5 phone can no longer be used. So now im challenging everyone to jump on this challenge and lets give the devs a little motivation! the donation doesnt matter anywhere form 1$-1000000$!
dxjay said:
that is a concern along with the other concern will sprint even release a 2.3.5 sense 3.5 wimax phone? this is why i rose this topic, there has yet to be a single confirmed sense 3.5 phone with wimax going to sprint so what exactly are we waiting for? i say we(the devs) get our hands on it and get it working!
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To the devs: Im sure i speak on behalf of at least half of the Evo 4g forum when i say we need you guys to put all the stuff aside(BS) and get working on this together so that we can have a fully functional sense 3.5 rom with working 4g! I ask you devs to let me know through pm if your going to join this bounty team and help out TOGETHER with other devs to complete our goal.
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To the members: I am currently going to start taking pledges for donations to give towards the group of devs who agree to join in on this bounty and it will of course be split as evenly as possible. Once i can get a donation system set up i will set it up and donations then can be entered there. But for now just reply to this thread or pm me and i will write your name along with your pledge amount and please act your age and take this seriously!
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Remember this is only being done for a good cause to bring together the devs and get working on this massive amazing rom!
Some sense 3.5 roms:
[ROM][Team Nocturnal] PROJECT BLISS - Team Nocturnal
[WIP][2.3.5][Sense3.5] Fortified Beta Series - slawson
[ROM]-MikRoms-HTC Runnymede Beta EVO 4G[sense 3.5 GB 2.3.5] - newtoroot
Devs who are currently on the bounty to get 4g working:
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Members who pledged to make a donation towards this project:
- dxjay $25
- mrsmoke35 $25
- Tekn010933 $10
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This is not going to happen, there isn't even a stable build yet. If you need 4g use a rom with 4g. Bounties are pointless and hinder any development. Everyone will be working alone until one finds the fixes.

lithid-cm said:
This is not going to happen, there isn't even a stable build yet.
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Well at least we can get some awareness out there and see if we can make a stable build! They did the same thing for CM and 4g came not to long after maybe the same will happen here who knows but keep positive!

just be patient
im staying away from 3.5 sense roms
cuz im paying for my 4g
might as well use that ish, whenever i need it
mik3d for the win

4g will be closer once Sprint gets a Wimax sense 3.5 phone.

flex360 said:
just be patient
im staying away from 3.5 sense roms
cuz im paying for my 4g
might as well use that ish, whenever i need it
mik3d for the win
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im being patient just would like to see all the drama behind these sense 3.5 roms to go away and get them instead of arguing working together were loosing valuable seconds with every flaming post a dev puts!

XsMagical said:
4g will be closer once Sprint gets a Wimax sense 3.5 phone.
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^This. +1
I'm checking the leaks thread over @ Mobile Underground every day to see if/when Football posts one . . .

Once their is a device on Sprint that is manufactured by HTC that uses Wimax then it coups happen but until then I'm 99.5% sure it won't happen. If you look at all the ported roms that have 4g working they all are Sprint HTC devices.
Nevermind all ready stated lol
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25$
I'm in lets see if the devs can pull it off....

close this thread...most of the ppl that say they will give money will bounce when they find a solution anyways....usually less than half pays up when it's all said and done

Newt's 3.5 is very stable. I've been running v5 for hours now and it is rock solid.
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Great Idea here but the point of the matter is that by time a team of devs figures out how to get 4G working or converting it from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 it will have been released on a new SPRINT device that is running 3.5. At that point in time the port to the EVO would be super easy.
The only concern with that theory is that SPRINT is moving to LTE, no longer WiMax in the coming years.

ssconceptz said:
Great Idea here but the point of the matter is that by time a team of devs figures out how to get 4G working or converting it from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 it will have been released on a new SPRINT device that is running 3.5. At that point in time the port to the EVO would be super easy.
The only concern with that theory is that SPRINT is moving to LTE, no longer WiMax in the coming years.
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My opinion of curiousity, I don't think sprint will be going to LTE? Just saying cause that is a core network that was originated as a 4Generation, if anything everyone is riding on their's. LTE with verizon is just internet, for them to have the cellular on 4G is going to cost them heavy. 4G is backward compatible 3G cannot leap forward, sprint was forever on 3G with a 4G core?
Overall look with international devices whom not allowed in our country, HTC broke barriers and released what non of us have used regular. Video talk was in NZ(intl) 5yrs before us as I visited and there cellular networks had no boundries nor laws like U.S, we were limited my friends of what was allowed. Today who held on the longest and now becoming the strongest and giving Verizon a very good race, I am not saying this cause I am a customer but my knowledge of Networks. 5Gen is making it's way out of Canada, for info on wimax look up Clearwire who introduced wimax to all of us.
And for the bounty? I am in as always supportive to what great names in here have done from the past to the present, would it there was a place that can be collected at to save all the talk and no walk bs from happening. You can put my name in the OP for $10 before the new ports gets in or this would all be uncalled for.

Tekn010933 said:
My opinion of curiousity, I don't think sprint will be going to LTE? Just saying cause that is a core network that was originated as a 4Generation, if anything everyone is riding on their's. LTE with verizon is just internet, for them to have the cellular on 4G is going to cost them heavy. 4G is backward compatible 3G cannot leap forward, sprint was forever on 3G with a 4G core?
Overall look with international devices whom not allowed in our country, HTC broke barriers and released what non of us have used regular. Video talk was in NZ(intl) 5yrs before us as I visited and there cellular networks had no boundries nor laws like U.S, we were limited my friends of what was allowed. Today who held on the longest and now becoming the strongest and giving Verizon a very good race, I am not saying this cause I am a customer but my knowledge of Networks. 5Gen is making it's way out of Canada, for info on wimax look up Clearwire who introduced wimax to all of us.
And for the bounty? I am in as always supportive to what great names in here have done from the past to the present, would it there was a place that can be collected at to save all the talk and no walk bs from happening. You can put my name in the OP for $10 before the new ports gets in or this would all be uncalled for.
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Thank you for your pledge come on guys lets keep it going so we can inspire the devs to convert 4g to work on sense 3.5 !!! I keep hearing that we need a special kernel or what not but im sure our devs can convert the old kernel with the new one!!

ssconceptz said:
Great Idea here but the point of the matter is that by time a team of devs figures out how to get 4G working or converting it from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 it will have been released on a new SPRINT device that is running 3.5. At that point in time the port to the EVO would be super easy.
The only concern with that theory is that SPRINT is moving to LTE, no longer WiMax in the coming years.
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that is a concern along with the other concern will sprint even release a 2.3.5 sense 3.5 wimax phone? this is why i rose this topic, there has yet to be a single confirmed sense 3.5 phone with wimax going to sprint so what exactly are we waiting for i say we get our hands on it and get it working!

Tekn010933 said:
My opinion of curiousity, I don't think sprint will be going to LTE? Just saying cause that is a core network that was originated as a 4Generation, if anything everyone is riding on their's. LTE with verizon is just internet, for them to have the cellular on 4G is going to cost them heavy. 4G is backward compatible 3G cannot leap forward, sprint was forever on 3G with a 4G core?
Overall look with international devices whom not allowed in our country, HTC broke barriers and released what non of us have used regular. Video talk was in NZ(intl) 5yrs before us as I visited and there cellular networks had no boundries nor laws like U.S, we were limited my friends of what was allowed. Today who held on the longest and now becoming the strongest and giving Verizon a very good race, I am not saying this cause I am a customer but my knowledge of Networks. 5Gen is making it's way out of Canada, for info on wimax look up Clearwire who introduced wimax to all of us.
And for the bounty? I am in as always supportive to what great names in here have done from the past to the present, would it there was a place that can be collected at to save all the talk and no walk bs from happening. You can put my name in the OP for $10 before the new ports gets in or this would all be uncalled for.
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just wanted to quote you and let you know sprint has already announced that they are shifting away from wimax 4g and are going to be working on releasing a LTE advanced network because of the dramatic differnces in speed of LTE compared to wimax. wimax is more comparable to atts hspa+ which if you do recall att just flipped the switch on their LTE network. also have you not noticed that sprint hasnt expanded wimax any in over the last six months???
to the OP this is a good idea i just dont see it happening. the devs would have to take sense 3.5 and strip it from its current base and then take a base that is WIMAX compatible and overlay/integrate sense 3.5 into that which while possible is a lot of work and from what ive seen the devs arent concerned with getting 4g working anytime soon until they have all the wrinkles and bugs out of their roms and have everything else working 100%

sswestberry08 said:
just wanted to quote you and let you know sprint has already announced that they are shifting away from wimax 4g and are going to be working on releasing a LTE advanced network because of the dramatic differnces in speed of LTE compared to wimax. wimax is more comparable to atts hspa+ which if you do recall att just flipped the switch on their LTE network. also have you not noticed that sprint hasnt expanded wimax any in over the last six months???
to the OP this is a good idea i just dont see it happening. the devs would have to take sense 3.5 and strip it from its current base and then take a base that is WIMAX compatible and overlay/integrate sense 3.5 into that which while possible is a lot of work and from what ive seen the devs arent concerned with getting 4g working anytime soon until they have all the wrinkles and bugs out of their roms and have everything else working 100%
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Thank you. My post was fact not opinion. It was announced wimax will be no more for Sprint.
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Would be nice to have some Android 2.3.5 Sense 3.5 roms 100% working, including 4G, but I am tooking about fast roms with no bloatware inside.

so now knowing this we have no way of getting the code for wimax if they are gonna switch to lte we should then inspire the devs on xda to start coding so that we can have it sooner im sorry i know most of you dont have 4g in your areas and dont care about it but im sure the other side that do have 4g want to use it especially with how sick the roms are already. i saw they do this for cyanogen when there was no 4g and i know with the bounty idea it inspired all devs to get to work, im just trying to give our devs a challenge with a reward.

dxjay said:
so now knowing this we have no way of getting the code for wimax if they are gonna switch to lte we should then inspire the devs on xda to start coding so that we can have it sooner im sorry i know most of you dont have 4g in your areas and dont care about it but im sure the other side that do have 4g want to use it especially with how sick the roms are already. i saw they do this for cyanogen when there was no 4g and i know with the bounty idea it inspired all devs to get to work, im just trying to give our devs a challenge with a reward.
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Vanilla android is open source.
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Greetings!!!

Been lurking here for a few weeks, reading, studying, learning, and my eyes are still red...
I just wanted to share my experience so far and get some feedback.
Rooting
I followed the 1 click Ace Hack Kit to the letter, still had an issue where my phone wouldn't boot, screen was on but black, and had to re-install stock from the Ace Kit to correct it. Phone Rooted
Custom Rom
Reviewed all the Inspire Roms and decided on the Revolution HD 6.1.3
Again following everything to the letter, I couldn't get SuperWipe to run, it would abort, but did the full manual wipe (wipe data/factory reset - dalvik cache) in the the boot loader as in the sticky guide for flashing roms, radio's, etc. Was able to install 6.1.3
Q: Is there really any difference between doing it manually and running the SuperWipe Script?
Radio's - Read the Radio Sticky numerous times. Shoot, so far the recommended radio for HD is kicking but however, still have a fundemental question.
Q. I get that it's a gamble, but what sets these radio's apart from what AT&T gives on their stock phone?
I read in the radio sticky they are sort of area specific or vary by location. May or may not be good, try it... I don't get that because I could buy a Inspire in CA, use it in FL, and the stock radio doesn't change. I get that these coders and developers are freaking awesome and above my head, but intrigued none the less.
Doesn't it really come down to tower coverage? Still putting the radio puzzle together after much reading.
Anyway, I wanted to post a BIG THANKS in the Revolution HD Thread but can't as of yet.
I really like the 6.1.3 ROM so far. Some here may hate Sense, but I like the eye candy.
XDA is cool site and still have a lot to learn.
Hey, at least my first post wasn't "How do I boot loop my new phone?"
I'll see you around

Some will say the radio is region specific. I and others find no evidence of that. The Dev will recommend the radio for the matched ROM you choose. That should be your best bet.

Welcome!
I actually don't know if superwipe does anything special or just takes the hassle out of wiping partitions and FDR and cache. in my experience it doesn't make a difference which I do as long as I do one or the other, or both.
As for radios, there are different settings in the build.prop I believe (correct me if i'm wrong) that's set by each version of each radio (and other settings in more places?) but basically it boils down to different settings causing the phone to interact with the network differently. I never had luck with any of the recommended revolution radios so I would always stick to an inspire OTA or update radio and flash the corresponding RIL (radio interface layer, must match the radio you install).
come to think of it now, it might be the RIL that sets the build prop and other settings. now i'm just confused...

The build prop will remain the same regardless of what RIL or radio you use. The devs tweak settings in the build prop to try and squeeze a little more bandwidth but honestly I have never seen a definite increase in speeds by changing these settings. When the inspire was released it did not have the necassary settings to run 4g. They released a radio and new build prop with an update that enabled 4g. People on 3g would not have seen a difference even to this day. This all took place in the froyo days. The build prop has several settings for many aspects of the phone. The build prop only changes when edited by you or the dev.
It's always good to use recommended radios as that will match the RIL in your phone. I have read that new RIL's are backwards compatible as long as you are using a froyo radio on froyo and a gingerbread radio on gingerbread. The only official gingerbread radio released for the inspire is 26.10.04.03 which goes with RIL 2.2.0160. So in my exeperience as long as the RIL is this or higher you might as well just use the official radio. The one recommended for arhd is 26.13.04.19 which is what matches 2.2.0179 but 26.10.04.03 will also work since the RIL is newer than the radio. But if you used 26.13.04.19 on an older RIL like 2.2.0160 you may encounter problems.
As always though, do not report bugs or make any judgements on performance, unless you are using the recommended radio and have not changed the RIL.
Sent from my Inspire 4G Using XDA Premium

Agoattamer said:
Some will say the radio is region specific. I and others find no evidence of that. The Dev will recommend the radio for the matched ROM you choose. That should be your best bet.
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I travel alot and can tell you that it really can depend on where you are. One radio and ril works great in alaska but if I go to the lower 48 I normally have to swap them for a different set to get better signal.

zelendel said:
I travel alot and can tell you that it really can depend on where you are. One radio and ril works great in alaska but if I go to the lower 48 I normally have to swap them for a different set to get better signal.
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Technically as there is only 1 official radio/ril for ATT gingerbread I would be curious to what you use and where. I know you have mentioned radios being location dependant but I can't recall you ever saying what you use.

Agoattamer said:
Technically as there is only 1 official radio/ril for ATT gingerbread I would be curious to what you use and where. I know you have mentioned radios being location dependant but I can't recall you ever saying what you use.
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Radio: 12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M
Ril: HTC-RIL 2.2.0153HM
Is what I use in alaska as the ATT rom and ril give me less signal then this one and when I go into the lower 48 I use
Radio: 12.39a.60.19x_26.06.06.30_M
Ril: HTC-RIL 2.2.0079HM

Where to begin

I've rooted my inspire and my nook color and have custom roms on them. I'm used to the android system and how it works. I was just wondering what rom would be suggested for my inspire. I just got the phone secondhand from a friend and I'm not sure what people consider the best rom for the inspire as there are always like 40+ for each system and only 2-3 are good ones.
Thanks for the advice,
Potticus
I was also wondering if there as a way to boost my network signal. My iphone 4 gets full service in my bedroom but hte Inspire gets 1-3 or so. I'm running Android Revolution for the inspire btw.

potticus said:
I've rooted my inspire and my nook color and have custom roms on them. I'm used to the android system and how it works. I was just wondering what rom would be suggested for my inspire. I just got the phone secondhand from a friend and I'm not sure what people consider the best rom for the inspire as there are always like 40+ for each system and only 2-3 are good ones.
Thanks for the advice,
Potticus
I was also wondering if there as a way to boost my network signal. My iphone 4 gets full service in my bedroom but hte Inspire gets 1-3 or so. I'm running Android Revolution for the inspire btw.
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There is no "Best ROM" its all personal preference. Theres Sense, AOSP, MIUI. Youll just have to try them and see for yourself. To boost your signal you can try flashing new radios+rils

Trial and error really, I have tried cm7 and it was pretty good. If your looking for a suggestion I'm really liking ice cold sandwich by lord clockan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962
Sent from my Inspire 4G Ice Cold Sandwich

Ok well, I've given Android revolution a shot, not for me. And I'm on Coredroid with the Lee kernal, But that confuses me a bit more. There is five different kernals to chose from?
As far as radios and rils, I've done my reading but that seems to be a total cluster**** as far as hunting down combos and what not. Could you direct me towards a combo that might work in the Southern states (Oklahoma to be exact) Also I've checked the guide and I've got to turn something or other off. I've turned off eng but not the other.
What might be the major differences shortly summarized between AOSP and MIUI and Sense. All I've tried is Sense to this point.

Read op of radio thread in the dev stickies. It will explain radio ril combos. As for a Rom its trial and error. Since the DHD has had more updates almost all of the roms for the inspire are based off of DHD roms. I personally beleive that anything based on an inspire Rom will give a better user experience as far as everything working the way it should. However the dhd roms have a lot more options. Att just did release our sense 3.0 Rom on the 31st so maybe we will see a little more inspire based roms going up. Still though we won't be seeing any sense 3.5 or higher roms based off of anything made specifically for the inspire and American data network. If you can sacrifice the sense interface than I would say hands down aosp is the way to go, but I myself am stuck on sense for now, and I HATE miui. But its all opinion.
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I've been reading his thread, but I'm not sure I got the radio installed? I've tried going to bootloader but I can't seem to get it to work through his instructions.
"A. Radio - Download the PD98IMG.zip file. Place this file on the root of your SD card. Reboot to bootloader. When prompted, press the Volume Up button to install. Then reboot."
I'm not sure I'm getting the correct prompt or one at all.
I'm using coredroid until I can get all this figured out right now. (actually I'm going to ice sammich, thanks to the guy that posted it) I grabbed the latest ATT radio+ril combo for the inspire just as a starting point.
The only message i got from bootloader is "parsing the .zip" then it just goes back.

Woah! grabbed a different radio from the one I was trying, and it worked!(HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM)
Going to install the RIL right now, let's hope we've made progress to better signal. Aswell as the ICS i'm going to load on it.

Usually when it just says parsing and goes back its either a bad download or an issue with the SD card

potticus said:
Woah! grabbed a different radio from the one I was trying, and it worked!(HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM)
Going to install the RIL right now, let's hope we've made progress to better signal. Aswell as the ICS i'm going to load on it.
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Only use radio. Don't flash the ril. Ril is included in Rom anyways. Ics is aosp so don't mess with the ril. It will mess things up. Ril is for sense roms.
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Ok thanks, I put another copy of it on there and it worked. But the SD card is fine, I use it for nook flashes and whatnot.

I already did... but I'll reflash ICS now that you say that. Good call!
Am I safe to flash a few different radios over the next 2-3 weeks to check the connection without having to change anything else?

potticus said:
I already did... but I'll reflash ICS now that you say that. Good call!
Am I safe to flash a few different radios over the next 2-3 weeks to check the connection without having to change anything else?
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Yeah radios are fine to play with as long as you stick to inspire threads. Stay away from ones with rc data unless you know it matches all three radio/ril/rom.
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unometooo said:
Trial and error really, I have tried cm7 and it was pretty good. If your looking for a suggestion I'm really liking ice cold sandwich by lord clockan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962
Sent from my Inspire 4G Ice Cold Sandwich
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Yeah radios are fine to play with as long as you stick to inspire threads. Stay away from ones with rc data unless you know it matches all three radio/ril/rom.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
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Ok how do I know it matches up? Also, I'm on ATT and it won't read my contacts off my sim card or show me my phone number and carrier in the software informations/settings part of hte rom.
Currently I'm using the recommended radio(26.06.06.30_M AT&T) with the inspire .5 mod found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131256

potticus said:
Ok how do I know it matches up? Also, I'm on ATT and it won't read my contacts off my sim card or show me my phone number and carrier in the software informations/settings part of hte rom.
Currently I'm using the recommended radio(26.06.06.30_M AT&T) with the inspire .5 mod found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131256
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That is the disadvantage to using roms that aren't supposed to run on our phones. Read up about Ics in the forums and see what issues are known and decide if you can live with them or if they can be fixed. There is a ton of information in these forums and pretty much already a thread for every question you could ask. That's why people say you just have to test them and and figure out which ones will work for you. The same goes for all the Rom/radio/ril combos. The radio thread is the best place but there are also many threads on the subject.
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So far, I'm willing to deal with it. Just takes 20 minutes of reentering contacts into my phonebook. The phone number part wasn't an issue, just wondering if that was a problem.
And I just switched to the non RCdata radio at your suggestion.
My battery seems to be 100% better, I've lost 4% in the course of about 2 and a half hours.

[Q] Best rom for service ONLY all other variables aside?

First off I apologize if there is another thread about this but all I found when searching was a general "best rom", and one related to battery life.
Personally I would like to know opinions on best rom for connectivity only. I live in a strong 4G area but whenever I am in my basement I get spotty connectivity, drop calls and such. I have been on the CM10 nightlies crack flashing since the boot-loader was unlocked. I love CM10 just wondering for basic call quality, does someone have a different rom preference for call quality?
Again mods I apologize if this is out there... but i couldn't find one for call quality. I realize this all depends on the baseband and such which Samsung is infamous for theirs. I just feel like even a slight better signal would make a big difference for me considering generally it's good connection.
Also my office is in my basement and I make a lot of calls and I'd prefer to keep it that way if possible.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

I'd actually like to know this as well. I recently switched from using an iphone to a Samsung Galaxy S3 and the difference with this phone is there are so many different roms available, I don't know which one is the best whereas with the iphone there is usually 1 main jailbreak and everything else is provided by cydia.

Like you said, this mainly is based on the radio and not on the Rom, but i agree there could be some minor differences. Your best bet would be to try a couple out and see how they work in your office. I personally am running jellywiz and my signal is rock sold and i work in low signal areas a lot.
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magus15 said:
I'd actually like to know this as well. I recently switched from using an iphone to a Samsung Galaxy S3 and the difference with this phone is there are so many different roms available, I don't know which one is the best whereas with the iphone there is usually 1 main jailbreak and everything else is provided by cydia.
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If you search the forum there is actually a main thread for best rom overall which may help you more since it doesn't seem your only concern is call quality. Sorry I don't have the thread name but I think if you do a forum search for "best rom" you should be able to find that thread.
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Like you said, this mainly is based on the radio and not on the Rom, but i agree there could be some minor differences. Your best bet would be to try a couple out and see how they work in your office. I personally am running jellywiz and my signal is rock sold and i work in low signal areas a lot.
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I actually planned on doing that and testing them out on my own, I was just hoping someone may have some tips on one they have used in areas such as a basement or a place they know they haven't always gotten good service but have found a rom that works great for them as far as call quality. Such as your example of jellywiz, I will certainly give that a try and see if I can hold a higher consistency for call quality. Thanks for your input!

There are definetly differences between ROMs relative to battery life... different versions of the same ROM can be quite different.
I've been using Jellywiz as my DD and it's been great. I really liked RLS4. I've updated to RLS5 this morning but my battery life has declined greatly. I've also gotten one reboot. I'm sure the dev will have it fixed in the next release (the Devs on the Jellywiz project are top notch).
I also liked Synergy quite a lot... It's not Jelly Bean, but the battery life was great and very stable!
The best thing you can do is try several different ones... Let the ROM settle for a good day or two before coming to any conclusions...
Good luck...

Dirty13ear said:
First off I apologize if there is another thread about this but all I found when searching was a general "best rom", and one related to battery life.
Personally I would like to know opinions on best rom for connectivity only. I live in a strong 4G area but whenever I am in my basement I get spotty connectivity, drop calls and such. I have been on the CM10 nightlies crack flashing since the boot-loader was unlocked. I love CM10 just wondering for basic call quality, does someone have a different rom preference for call quality?
Again mods I apologize if this is out there... but i couldn't find one for call quality. I realize this all depends on the baseband and such which Samsung is infamous for theirs. I just feel like even a slight better signal would make a big difference for me considering generally it's good connection.
Also my office is in my basement and I make a lot of calls and I'd prefer to keep it that way if possible.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
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Without getting too granular, stock based roms have the best reception. Rom's where the RIL has had to be tweaked, such as CM, MIUI, JellyBean ports, and cross carrier ports are more likely to have radio issues.
Then, there are different radios you could flash. In my experience with many devices, changing radios has never had much of an impact on radio reception. Different radio versions generally fix bugs, and things like 3g/4g switching. For instance the latest stock radio for our device (VRLG7) fixes the "no SIM" bug. I am using that and it has worked great for me.
Generally though, I don't think actual reception (mostly dependent on hardware) should vary too much. Usually it's reliability that can vary. "Bars" aren't always an accurate indicator of reception either, signal strength in dBm is.

bfs673 said:
There are definetly differences between ROMs relative to battery life... different versions of the same ROM can be quite different.
I've been using Jellywiz as my DD and it's been great. I really liked RLS4. I've updated to RLS5 this morning but my battery life has declined greatly. I've also gotten one reboot. I'm sure the dev will have it fixed in the next release (the Devs on the Jellywiz project are top notch).
I also liked Synergy quite a lot... It's not Jelly Bean, but the battery life was great and very stable!
The best thing you can do is try several different ones... Let the ROM settle for a good day or two before coming to any conclusions...
Good luck...
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Sorry... I got lost in an unrelated thought (battery life)....
The service side appears to be pretty sold from the ROMs that I've personally tried. Not sure you'll find a big difference here in real world performance.

CodefireX is getting me the best service I've ever had. Several other people in the thread seem to be experiencing the same thing.
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no 4g since flashing
turbosrrgood said:
Without getting too granular, stock based roms have the best reception. Rom's where the RIL has had to be tweaked, such as CM, MIUI, JellyBean ports, and cross carrier ports are more likely to have radio issues.
Then, there are different radios you could flash. In my experience with many devices, changing radios has never had much of an impact on radio reception. Different radio versions generally fix bugs, and things like 3g/4g switching. For instance the latest stock radio for our device (VRLG7) fixes the "no SIM" bug. I am using that and it has worked great for me.
Generally though, I don't think actual reception (mostly dependent on hardware) should vary too much. Usually it's reliability that can vary. "Bars" aren't always an accurate indicator of reception either, signal strength in dBm is.
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I have not seen the 4G indicator since flashing a week or more ago. I have tried aokp, cm10, and root66.
Not sure what to do. The phone works fine otherwise. All these are great but I would never have gone this route if I had any thought that wireless capabilities would be reduced. Any ideas on how to return to 4G would be greatly appreciated.

Out of all the 4.1 roms out there, JellyWiz's wifi/4G/3g is the most solid one. Very stable and good enough to be a DD.
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Galaxy S 4G- How Can I Upgrade From 2.3.6?

Upgrading firmware question
I have a samsung GalaxyS4G from T-Mobile,
Model # SGH-T959V
Firmware 2..3.6
Baseband Ver. T959VUVKJ6
Kernal 2.6.35.7-T959VUVKJ6-CL694130
Build# Gingerbread.VUVKJ6
3 days ago I was finally able to upgrade to this 2.3.6, prior to that I had only 2.2.1.
I was able to upgrade with Kies Mini thanks to Samsung support.
I contacted Samsung Support Friday asking if I could now upgrade again, I was given the standard answer that I always got when asking about upgrading from 2.2.1, "There is no upgrade for that phone" Just lucky I finally reached a agent at Samsung that had the knowledge or at least the willingness to help or I would still be stuck with Froyo 2.2.1.
I have rooted the phone with Kingo Root and it now shows the phone is rooted.
I am not looking for the sky but would like to at least up grade to Jellybean if not more.
System Storage Used 296 MB, 219 MB free. SD CARD has 130MB used ,839 MB free
Any suggestions?

I realize this phone is OLD and most people have moved on but I have only this phone given to me by my
Son I could not afford a new phone these days.
I am just trying to make this phone as close to today's newer phones as possible.
I was also told that with FROYO 2.2.1 I would get no better then 2G wifi, and that I needed to upgrade the phone to get better wifi service, I thought Gingerbread 2.3.6 was the answer but I only get on occasion 3G and have yet to get 4G LTE although I have a tower less then 2 miles from my house.
If anyone has some suggestions as to what is the best firmware this phone can handle it would be appreciated if you reply.

Hey man.
The only recent official firmware for this phone is 2.3.6. If you want to have Jelly Bean, then you will have to get a custom recovery and flash a custom Jelly Bean ROM.

Wish39 said:
Hey man.
The only recent official firmware for this phone is 2.3.6. If you want to have Jelly Bean, then you will have to get a custom recovery and flash a custom Jelly Bean ROM.
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YES I understand that is the official update, I am trying to get some input as to what version of Jellybean or ? would be good for this phone without killing speed.
Any suggestions Please
My biggest reason for upgrading is I only have 2G service with FROYO and most always with Gingerbread as well, I was told by T-Mobile I would not get any better then 2G with FROYO but I should get 4G LTE with Gingerbread 2.3.6 but I have not gotten even close to that and still drop signal a lot.

Well then you can search up the Jelly Bean ROMS that are floating around. I don't know which one is the best, since I haven't flashed those yet.

I have been searching for a rom but seems that this phone has very little support, yes it is 4 years old and only sole thru T-Mobile(as far as I know) but I was hoping some one with a lot more experience then me would have some suggestions on a Jellybean Rom or higher that would be appropriate for this phone.
Please if there is anyone here that may have some suggestions as to a better rom then Gingerbread, although Gingerbread is a vast improvement over FROYO2.2.1.
My main concern as I said before is getting better data service then 2G, I was told that Gingerbread would give me 4Glte but that has not happened even though I am only 2 miles from a T-Mobile tower, T-Mobile has said that this tower does serve 4Glte.
Is there an app that will improve my ability to get a better signal, I read somewhere about having to upgrade the phone's wifi ? to receive 4Glte ?

1: go to settings and choose LTE, if not possible, no 4g
2: if your phone can'tuse 4g (hardware) then the OS changes Nothing
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As a former developer/tester and long time user of this phone (I still have one to play with) it is not capable of LTE. The best you will get is 4G. I got 4G even with official 2.3.6. So if your not you may need to have your SIM upgraded at the store. The best Rom I've used is slim which is 4.0.4. I didn't like the stock launcher so I flashed Xperia launcher 2.06b and it was great. If you're stuck on having JB which is still buggy...Mirage was the most reliable. Daothanduy was the developer. Good luck searching and how this helped
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I found the phone too slow to work with KitKat, but there were several solid Jellybean ROMs out there.
Read very carefully the upgrade threads and instructions as there are several low-level changes to the phone's firmware/software that are required to get off of "stock" and onto one of the KitKat ROMs. They're not "difficult" -- You just need to follow all the steps in the right order. Once you've got the right boot loader and are on an "MTD" ROM, changing between ROMs is reasonably straightforward.
Pick up a (paid) copy of TitaniumBackup Pro if you don't have one already. You'll be happy you did, even if it only provides piece of mind.
If the phone isn't rooted already, you may need "ODIN" (Windows only) or, my preference, "heimdal" to flash parts of the phone.
Anything you read about "WiFi performance sucks..." is likely only based on the visual indication of WiFi signal strength (RSSI) changing from the early releases to the custom ROMs. From what I could tell through actual throughput testing, there is no difference except for the RSSI.
It's a solid phone, though don't expect the GPS to lock reliably. There isn't a software fix for it, no matter what some claim. As far as I could tell, it was an RF-design or -execution problem. I have seen some threads suggesting some mechanical fixes for the antennas. I never pursued them so I can't comment further.
You're correct, it was only sold through T-Mobile. Official support for it was dropped like a rock when Apple won its infringement suit over Samsung. This was the phone that had all the infringement-claim boxes checked. Yep, you own a piece of patent-law history!
Samsung's source-code drops were horrendous and many of us worked to get subsequent versions of the kernel to run on the phone. As alluded to above, there were no upgrades to the proprietary binaries after the Gingerbread ROM.
I've still got one in the drawer, but it would take over three minutes to boot KitKat, so it wasn't terribly functional as a day-to-day phone.
The AMOLED screens do yellow with time. It's not your eyes

My main concern is getting better then the 2G I am presently getting, I have checked and I am getting 9 signals of different strengths I on occasion get3G bu it shows no bars during 3G and does not appear to connect during 3G.
I have up to 4G available in my area but this phone only wants to use 2G.
I did upgrade from FROYO2.2.1 to Gingerbread 2.3.6but I am thinking the modem in the phone is still the original that used FROYO.
At this point I am trying to find a upgrade or new modem software for this phone.
Any ideas?
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I found the phone too slow to work with KitKat, but there were several solid Jellybean ROMs out there.
Read very carefully the upgrade threads and instructions as there are several low-level changes to the phone's firmware/software that are required to get off of "stock" and onto one of the KitKat ROMs. They're not "difficult" -- You just need to follow all the steps in the right order. Once you've got the right boot loader and are on an "MTD" ROM, changing between ROMs is reasonably straightforward.
Pick up a (paid) copy of TitaniumBackup Pro if you don't have one already. You'll be happy you did, even if it only provides piece of mind.
If the phone isn't rooted already, you may need "ODIN" (Windows only) or, my preference, "heimdal" to flash parts of the phone.
Anything you read about "WiFi performance sucks..." is likely only based on the visual indication of WiFi signal strength (RSSI) changing from the early releases to the custom ROMs. From what I could tell through actual throughput testing, there is no difference except for the RSSI.
It's a solid phone, though don't expect the GPS to lock reliably. There isn't a software fix for it, no matter what some claim. As far as I could tell, it was an RF-design or -execution problem. I have seen some threads suggesting some mechanical fixes for the antennas. I never pursued them so I can't comment further.
You're correct, it was only sold through T-Mobile. Official support for it was dropped like a rock when Apple won its infringement suit over Samsung. This was the phone that had all the infringement-claim boxes checked. Yep, you own a piece of patent-law history!
Samsung's source-code drops were horrendous and many of us worked to get subsequent versions of the kernel to run on the phone. As alluded to above, there were no upgrades to the proprietary binaries after the Gingerbread ROM.
I've still got one in the drawer, but it would take over three minutes to boot KitKat, so it wasn't terribly functional as a day-to-day phone.
The AMOLED screens do yellow with time. It's not your eyes
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slo_hand2 said:
My main concern is getting better then the 2G I am presently getting, I have checked and I am getting 9 signals of different strengths I on occasion get3G bu it shows no bars during 3G and does not appear to connect during 3G.
I have up to 4G available in my area but this phone only wants to use 2G.
I did upgrade from FROYO2.2.1 to Gingerbread 2.3.6but I am thinking the modem in the phone is still the original that used FROYO.
At this point I am trying to find a upgrade or new modem software for this phone.
Any ideas?
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This info might be old, but check out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192436

Thanks to @DickyG for providing that link to the available modems. There haven't been any new modems in many years.
My recommendation would be to upgrade to one of the JellyBean or potentially KitKat ROMs and use TWRP (my preference) or CW recovery to make it "safer" to flash modems. The "best" modem depends somewhat on carrier and location. I personally found the KG4 modem to have the best performance for me of the modems that supported splitting long SMS messages.
The SGS 4G supports HSPA+ (and not LTE) as it's "best" connection. There is nothing software can do to get LTE.
HSPA+ isn't bad at all. I typically got 3-10 Mbps on T-Mobile in the San Francisco Bay area. Once you have decent bandwidth, the most important thing for "responsiveness" is latency. See, for example http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest and http://www.bufferbloat.net/ A higher-bandwidth connection doesn't help that and, in some cases, the higher-bandwidth connections seem slower as they have more latency (often due to the carrier's buffering).
While some "stock" ROMs (and a few custom ones) have been "tweaked" to show "4G" in the UI, it is just cosmetic.

I am trying to get a better signal then 2G, I ran some test and have 9 signals available, but when I change off automatic to get 3G I get 3G but no bars. there are towers within 2 miles of me and I know for a fact that at least one maybe more are T-Mobile towers.
his has been a very long confusing journey it took me several months of contacting a agent at T-Mobile support before one took the time to give me the Kies mini to upgrade to Gingerbread, others would say there are "NO UPGRADES AVAILABLE FOR FROYO 2.2.1, most were to lazy or not knowledgeable enough to find the answer for me., I have tried but ever since that one agent I have not had any success with support other then here.
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T-Mobile isn't going to help you any here as all they have are the "official" releases which stopped with Gingerbread several years ago.
You'll have to read how to flash a phone with a custom ROM if you want anything more than what they provided years ago.
I much prefer Heimdal to Odin for reliable flashing of phones. Some swear by Odin, I swear at it, especially as it is Windows only.
I'd suggest backing up all your data with TitaniumBackup Pro, as well as a "nandroid" (TWRP or CW recovery) backup. The read all the instructions twice or three times until you understand them and flash a custom ROM, including a matching kernel. I'd suggest a JellyBean ROM to start with. I'd also suggest moving to an "MTD" ROM and kernel to start as you'll end up there anyways (most of the more recent ROMs and kernels built for the SGS 4G were MTD).
You can then very, very carefully and selectively restore your TitaniumBackup data, making sure to set "Migrate system data." Restoring across major OS versions is possible, but you have to be careful how you do it. I'd make sure I understood how TitaniumBackup Pro works and the suggestions from them and others on how to restore data.
In your opinion does jellybean or Kitkat have a better modem?
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All the modems for the SGS 4G are from the "official" ROMs from Samsung/T-Mobile/Wind for Froyo or Gingerbread.
There is no such thing as a "JellyBean modem" or "KitKat modem."