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I wiped my Inspire with 1.3-Wipe and then flashed Coredroid 5.4 yesterday after booting into CWM Recovery. I used the ROM throughout the day and it is awesome. However, I work in an urban area and our Wifi strength is ridiculously high and my mobile signal strength is as good as it gets for me.
When I got home, I immediately noticed connectivity issues to my home wifi. It would sort of work off and on, and when it worked it was very slow. I tried switching to mobile data and it was even worse. My phone would even occasionally display "no service".
We had storms in the area so I dismissed it as a fluke. Now I'm back in the office and turned on wifi. I noticed right away that two different audio streaming apps had drops and buffering issues (iheartradio and TuenIn Radio, different stations). I immediately wiped my phone and restored my stock rooted ROM. The audio popping and buffering issues went away immediately.
Is not flashing the radio the cause of these issues? I'm really hesitant to flash radios for a number of reasons some of which may be my newness: knowing different between UK/US radios, conflicting info on "ENG S-OFF" being required or not on the Inspire, conflicting reports about radios breaking 4G speeds and requiring re-rooting, etc.
This question should be posted in the coredroid thread as it is their rom they will be able to direct you better on what you need to do.
I agree. 10 post minimum to post in Dev forums sucks.
I would try re-downloading the rom, then reflashing. I never had those problems with core droid, even on the stock radio.
I guess re-flashing is worth a try. An md5sum of the ROM image was posted in the Desire HD thread, and I verified that mine matched. So I don't believe that there's any corruption in the main file.
I also installed the following mods: Circle Battery Meter, Calendar Fix, and the Original transparent rosie.
techpriest001 said:
I guess re-flashing is worth a try. An md5sum of the ROM image was posted in the Desire HD thread, and I verified that mine matched. So I don't believe that there's any corruption in the main file.
I also installed the following mods: Circle Battery Meter, Calendar Fix, and the Original transparent rosie.
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Did you flash all the mods right after flashing the rom without rebooting ?
No, I let the phone boot and settle after flashing the ROM and I didn't even load any apps. After it seemed settled I booted back in CWM Recovery and installed the zipped mod files. I then loaded most of my apps from the market directly, and installed a few that were in my download directory.
I ran OS monitor to try and see if something was maybe hogging the CPU, but I didn't see any evidence of such. I may just be cursed.
Sometimes the Rom just doesn't flash right. The first thing they would tell you to do is wipe and flash.
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I have flashed a lot of Roms successfully, ever since I got the inspire (over a year ago). Sure in the early stages of learning the device I had some boot loops, flashes that didn't take, or just random items.
However, as time has past I have noticed a problem when it comes to signal.
When I flash a Rom I always use the recommended radio, and ril combo that is suggested, however, I flash all available radios for our device, to make sure I have the right one for my area. (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana)
I have a device that doesn't like overclocking, past 1.2 normally, no matter the Rom or kernal.
So I keep the device a hair over 1G, for stability.
Now to my question.
When I flash GB with sense 2.1, I get the best signal, and GPS lock of any build.
When I flash GB with sense 3.0, the signal drops some, but still ok.
When I flash GB with sense 3.5, the signal goes away. (I know some Roms have a glitch in the display) however I totally lose signal, where I had full service with the above.
My question is? Is there a way to pull the radio set up from GB 2.1 and align it with GB 3.0, GB 3.5 or even ICS?
Or is this based off the RUU that the Rom is based off of?
The Rom that gives me the best radio and GPS is Rumrunner 4.0, and the worst is any sensation port.
I have found a lot of stable, clean, and fast Roms that I like, however, I always have to return to a GB 2.1 Rom, because of signal issues.
Any insight on this would be awesome!!
"This has occured on multiple devices I have rooted, and flashed for others, so I know it is not just my device."
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I have flashed a lot of Roms successfully, ever since I got the inspire (over a year ago). Sure in the early stages of learning the device I had some boot loops, flashes that didn't take, or just random items.
However, as time has past I have noticed a problem when it comes to signal.
When I flash a Rom I always use the recommended radio, and ril combo that is suggested, however, I flash all available radios for our device, to make sure I have the right one for my area. (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana)
I have a device that doesn't like overclocking, past 1.2 normally, no matter the Rom or kernal.
So I keep the device a hair over 1G, for stability.
Now to my question.
When I flash GB with sense 2.1, I get the best signal, and GPS lock of any build.
When I flash GB with sense 3.0, the signal drops some, but still ok.
When I flash GB with sense 3.5, the signal goes away. (I know some Roms have a glitch in the display) however I totally lose signal, where I had full service with the above.
My question is? Is there a way to pull the radio set up from GB 2.1 and align it with GB 3.0, GB 3.5 or even ICS?
Or is this based off the RUU that the Rom is based off of?
The Rom that gives me the best radio and GPS is Rumrunner 4.0, and the worst is any sensation port.
I have found a lot of stable, clean, and fast Roms that I like, however, I always have to return to a GB 2.1 Rom, because of signal issues.
Any insight on this would be awesome!!
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What are you using to measure signal strength? If you are counting bars, each rom calculates them slightly different, only creating the illusion of different strength levels. Changing radios and rils often also isnt going to help you gain much. ive never seen a signal strength different between roms but i also have mine set to show -dbm so i know actual signal. Me personally, im using my gb ota radio as its given me the best signal retention out of the ones ive tried.
By the way, recommended radio ril that rom devs suggest is simply what they use on their device. They state this because this is the combination they know for 100% that it works. You are free to use whatever radio you want. and with sense roms flash the respective ril. aosp/aokp roms, do not flash ril (it will cause modem to not work until a reflash)
I flashed this ROM about a week ago or so and only when I'm at home does my signal completely drop. Sometimes it even says emergency calls only. This signal loss dilemma is driving me insane. Has anyone else had this issue or know of a fix? I read online on another website that another person had this problem, but they're using a completely different phone than me. The article stated to try flashing a new radio, would doing this make a huge mess? I'm totally new to flashing kernels and never flashed a radio before. Initially I had no sound when I first flashed the ROM and read that Tiamat 1.1.5 kernel would fix that, which it did. I really like this ROM and I've never had this before but if I can't get a steady signal I'll have to switch. I read that MIUI v4 builds don't support themes completely, but they do support lock screens, icons, and wallpaper changes. Any ideas on what I should/can do?
Before flashing a radio, I would say to re-flash the rom.
Full wipe and re-download the file.
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Try restoring your APN settings.
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Not sure what is happening, but I constantly lose data signal either completely (with an X in place of the signal strength), or just the data like internet and email (but can still make phone calls and texting).
I'm using v21y with various ROMs, I have the new baseband fix that I'm flashing after whatever ROM i'm installing. The data drop will last for minutes, or until I restart the phone, or it will be gone until it decides to come back.
lastly I haven't received an email on my phone (but I have on my computer) since I've updated the baseband and started flashing ROMs. I'm considering reflashing the kdz file and leaving it unrooted.
I have this same issue, but I've had random data drops on previous basebands as well. The most "radio stable" I've seen this was with CM 7.1 on the v21e baseband after running GetRIL.
Currently running CM 7.2 RC w/ March 2012 baseband. Default kernel/voltage settings.
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I have this same issue, but I've had random data drops on previous basebands as well. The most "radio stable" I've seen this was with CM 7.1 on the v21e baseband after running GetRIL.
Currently running CM 7.2 RC w/ March 2012 baseband. Default kernel/voltage settings.
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Alright well I've had good luck as of right now, I'm using the "slightly modded stock 2.3.4" that's in the Development section and I just downloaded GetRIL. The RIL is already matching my baseband, I'm also using Faux's latest v14b2 kernel for GB. I haven't had a signal drop for a few hours, which is saying a lot considering with other ROM's i've had data drops a hand full of times every hour.
Thanks for reminding me though, COMPLETELY forgot about GetRIL for some reason. Makes me second guess all the previous ROM's i've blowed over.
So yea, go this route if you want something that's actually reliable, so far at least.
Any signal loss since your last post?
Yup, I was using the MIUI that was built for v21y, and ran getRIL to fix the RIL but still didn't receive any e-mails overnight (i flashed the ROM a little before i went to sleep), I normally get at least 2 or 3 per night, never without ANY e-mails.
Saw I had the "H" in the signal bar, turned on Browser, "cannot connect..." bla blah, but I could text and call.
I was running Eagles Blood AOSP ICS yesterday AFTER I posted this thread, and I had NO problems all day, and I've flashed the Eagles Blood ROM again once I got to work and sure enough, NO signal loss.
As of now, for ICS, it seems like everything is good to go with EaglesBlood, and ONLY that ICS ROM.
As for GB, it's BuruROM P999 2.3.4 "slightly" modified stock.
Those are the only two ROMs, I haven't tried CM7, but those are the only two that don't give any signal drop.
I started with Stock 21y 2.3.4 -- everything was great, but I was missing the customization ofo other roms -- once 7.2 RC3 came out .. and the new libs.. i started trying other ROMS, but it just isn't as stable as stock 21y 2.3.4 was, so i reverted -- but I had lots of data drops/gps drops.
I re-ran GetRIL to download 21y again on stock (rooted) 2.3.4 --- and this solved the problems. So, if you are having data loss, my suggestion is to go back to 2.3.4 and reflash 21y RIL - this seems to do the trick..
Please help if I am missing something. I am s-off wire trick. I believe I have the most recent radio. 11.59.3504.00P_11.16.3504.20_2.
I can flash the 3.0.53v8 or v9 kernels over this rom and most everything works but wifi so I am sticking with the 3.0.16virt kernel that is available with this rom. But I cannot flash any other of the CM9 or CM10 roms and get data. I have flashed them multiple times, tooled around with the vpn's got a new sim card, got a new phone (warranty), spent too much time with customer service at TMobile. Still, no dice. I am pretty happy with this ROM aside from not having DSP Manager or the ability to add it. Is it because there are still some elements of sense there like the camera? I thought it was a APN input issue but I have dialed in the same APN's as Inquisition for any other CM9 or 10 roms and nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
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Please help if I am missing something. I am s-off wire trick. I believe I have the most recent radio. 11.59.3504.00P_11.16.3504.20_2.
I can flash the 3.0.53v8 or v9 kernels over this rom and most everything works but wifi so I am sticking with the 3.0.16virt kernel that is available with this rom. But I cannot flash any other of the CM9 or CM10 roms and get data. I have flashed them multiple times, tooled around with the vpn's got a new sim card, got a new phone (warranty), spent too much time with customer service at TMobile. Still, no dice. I am pretty happy with this ROM aside from not having DSP Manager or the ability to add it. Is it because there are still some elements of sense there like the camera? I thought it was a APN input issue but I have dialed in the same APN's as Inquisition for any other CM9 or 10 roms and nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
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I know this is no help to your situation, but I've run all the available ICS and JB roms that are for the MT4GS and I have mobile data and wifi on all of them. There have been some issues where data drops occasionally, but it will reconnect in a matter of seconds. With the later kernels like r8 and r9 I had no dropouts.
I believe that Sense-based ROMS require a kernel that is built for Sense, so using a CM-based kernel (like r8 or r9) would definitely cause problems. Likewise, using a Sense-based kernel on a CM ROM would be unwise.
If you like Sense based ROMs, have you tried either the Bliss ROM from sun_dream (the XE 3.32 version, not the 3.33) or the MikXE ROM? Of the ICS Sense ROMs, I found them to be the most stable and battery-friendly right out of the box. For a CM/AOKP, the AOKP JB Milestone 1 is very stable and functional, and gets you Jelly Bean... even Google Now works well on it. CM9.1r9 is a great, very stable release, as well.
Just make sure you're doing a very thorough wipe before flashing any new ROM. Even go to Mounts and format the /system, /data, and /cache manually wouldn't hurt.
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I know this is no help to your situation, but I've run all the available ICS and JB roms that are for the MT4GS and I have mobile data and wifi on all of them. There have been some issues where data drops occasionally, but it will reconnect in a matter of seconds. With the later kernels like r8 and r9 I had no dropouts.
I believe that Sense-based ROMS require a kernel that is built for Sense, so using a CM-based kernel (like r8 or r9) would definitely cause problems. Likewise, using a Sense-based kernel on a CM ROM would be unwise.
If you like Sense based ROMs, have you tried either the Bliss ROM from sun_dream (the XE 3.32 version, not the 3.33) or the MikXE ROM? Of the ICS Sense ROMs, I found them to be the most stable and battery-friendly right out of the box. For a CM/AOKP, the AOKP JB Milestone 1 is very stable and functional, and gets you Jelly Bean... even Google Now works well on it. CM9.1r9 is a great, very stable release, as well.
Just make sure you're doing a very thorough wipe before flashing any new ROM. Even go to Mounts and format the /system, /data, and /cache manually wouldn't hurt.
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So, I did the full wipe and flashed the newest cm nightly on my phone. No data. Did it again, full reformat et all. No data.Flashed the v9 kernel on top with no wipe. DATA! Thanks. I must have to flash things a few times for them to take. This wasn't a problem with the roms that had some "sense" to them. Weird. I've done the reformating before when I was s-on and never noticed any effect. Now I'm gonna try the CM10 you recommended. I like this phone a lot. The market is based around people buying new phones once a year at least. It's crazy. It's not fair that you can purchase a phone that 6 months latter has a totally obsolete Rom. I am so glad you responded. This makes my life a lot easier. Thanks!
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So, I did the full wipe and flashed the newest cm nightly on my phone. No data. Did it again, full reformat et all. No data.Flashed the v9 kernel on top with no wipe. DATA! Thanks. I must have to flash things a few times for them to take. This wasn't a problem with the roms that had some "sense" to them. Weird. I've done the reformating before when I was s-on and never noticed any effect. Now I'm gonna try the CM10 you recommended. I like this phone a lot. The market is based around people buying new phones once a year at least. It's crazy. It's not fair that you can purchase a phone that 6 months latter has a totally obsolete Rom. I am so glad you responded. This makes my life a lot easier. Thanks!
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It almost sounds like you're S-ON or still locked. Could you be S-OFF but Locked? You could always fastboot flash the kernel after you flash the ROM just to be sure, but if doing what you just did got the data working for you, then I wouldn't mess with it. If you do want the Jelly Bean without too many issues, I would go with the AOKP JB Milestone 1. The Paranoid Android JB ROM is also very nice, but it does require a little bit more tinkering.
I'm s-off jb from doing the wire trick. I have flashed that cm10 rom with v9 kernel. Have any issues with mms? Got any apn tips?
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I'm s-off jb from doing the wire trick. I have flashed that cm10 rom with v9 kernel. Have any issues with mms? Got any apn tips?
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When you say cm10 rom, do you mean the AOKP JB Milestone 1? When I was running it I didn't have any issues with MMS, but I use Handcent SMS as my messaging client, not the built-in client. I also use T-Mobile and the standard T-Mobile APNs worked fine. I do see that some people are having issues with the r9 kernel, maybe if you flash the r7b kernel (standard, not experimental) it will be more stable. That seems to be the kernel some people find is the best combo of performance and stability.
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When you say cm10 rom, do you mean the AOKP JB Milestone 1? When I was running it I didn't have any issues with MMS, but I use Handcent SMS as my messaging client, not the built-in client. I also use T-Mobile and the standard T-Mobile APNs worked fine. I do see that some people are having issues with the r9 kernel, maybe if you flash the r7b kernel (standard, not experimental) it will be more stable. That seems to be the kernel some people find is the best combo of performance and stability.
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Sorry I should have specified. I am in the middle of My CCNA2 and Comptia+ hardware exams this week and I was writing from my phone. AOKP Milestone 1, yes. I think it is the best CM10 I have flashed for MT4gs yet. Just a bit of a battery drainer and I've got an Anker. I tried hand scent this morning. Tweeked the APN's and now know way too much about the ins and outs of this phone not to just learn to become a developer
I got the rom to send MMS but not receive without it being marked as a download. So, coupled with that and the battery drain, I decided to go straight for the r9 kernel and it's rom. Supercharged and ultimate jar patched it. Pimp my rom'd it. And it runs very well, sends and receives mms fine. My issues seem to stem from a combination of problems. Yes doing a complete wipe and manual formats and flashing the specific rom and kernel helped ingrain the rom I believe. But the main culprit is those darn APN's. I finally found alternate APN's and after going through them all in every combination, turning on and off my wifi to check the mobile data latency in terms of how long it took to come on, I have discovered that a T-Mobile Data APN named wap.voicestream.com with the mmsc set to the /mms/wapenc, the MCC:310, MNC:260, and APN protocol of IPv4, with everything else not set of unspecified, allows my phone to come and go between wifi and mobile data with no latency, just like the sense based roms did. So far no drops, but have been bunkered down studying and doing last minute work. When I leave the house in a minute I am gonna be driving around for about an hour to and from where I am going playing spotify, so that should be some kind of test. I also tried internet2.voicestream.com but it was not as consistent of a mobile data signal. They are trying their best to control all bandwidth and software so we can spend a fortune upgrading our services and buying 3 phones a year just to have a proper interface. Most phones are going to only one LTE radio soon as opposed to one that will do data and one that will do voice, effectively making the devices less expensive for them to manufacture, but not for us to buy! Hopefully there will be enough of a niche market to have qwerty hard keyboard devices that are decent released periodically.
Has gone from a well intentioned but flawed technology to a stable streaming around this corner of my city. No drops. And spotify kind of sucks in comparison to other streaming services in terms of quality and performance. I don't wanna get too excited though, ill have to wait a month until I begin to have confidence again that ill have consistent data.
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Has gone from a well intentioned but flawed technology to a stable streaming around this corner of my city. No drops. And spotify kind of sucks in comparison to other streaming services in terms of quality and performance. I don't wanna get too excited though, ill have to wait a month until I begin to have confidence again that ill have consistent data.
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What city? Are you on a T-Mobile account? I'm in Atlanta and T-Mobile data is pretty good here, and I use the standard APNs (epc.tmobile.com). I also used my phone while in China, bought a China Unicom SIM and had excellent data using their system as they use the 2100MHz frequency for HSPA+.
Dallas, TX. Its solid around here but streaming high quality in a 40 mile radius could still be spoty with the meh quality of spotify, probably a load on their servers at rush hour, coupled with the fact that I've been so use to data drops. I'm telling you, the apn fixed my problem. It seems to be a known issue on these threads. Massive data drops. There needs to be a thread compiling alternate apns for people that have that issue with cm 9 and up. Double flash, full wipes, apn config. I'm on the cm 10 unofficial now with its standard kernel. Seems solid. Better battery life for my phone. Every time I flash a kernel I get intermittent data until I change to that apn above. Like zero to occasional. But now my data is tough as nails.
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hey guys im s-on unlocked n currently running [ROM] [01-DEC-2012][r9] CM 9.1 + bat drain fix + usb trans speed fix + other tweaks right now and not getting any wifi. i am coming from the only rom that would give me wifi (virtuous inquisition) but that rom got too heavy too fast n was done on my phone. so i switched between a few other ics roms and none of them r giving me wifi.
i dont want to go back to virtuous inquisition but i need wifi. my setting just wont slide over. any help would be appreciated. THANKS!
Have you tried "fastboot flash boot boot.img" ? Using one of the boot.img files from the CM9.1 ROM you're running? It's a necessity when changing ROMs with S-On.
The big issue with no wifi as I've experienced s-on or s-off is that the rom is not sticking. If you are s-on do not try to switch out different kernels, just flash the whole rom. Also, id try the v8 version of that rom because it seems more stable. Go into your recovery, wipe cache, wipe data, wipe delvic cache, go into mount/format and format cache, data, and system, flash rom zip, flash gapps, fastboot boot.img, then let the phone reboot and don't touch it for at least ten minutes, reboot into recovery, wipe cache, data, and delvik cache again, flash rom, fastboot boot.img, and wait again another ten minutes or so while itg reboots. Don't touch it even if the droid comes up and asks you for what language. It is still loading. This is the usual issue regarding roms not sticking. Multiple flash of the same rom over itself and not touching for ten minutes or so after flashing. If you don't know how to fastboot boot.img get hasoon 2000's mt4g all in one program. It'll instruct you to remove the boot.img from the rom and place it into one of the folders in the program and will fastboot the boot.img for you. And btw, the wire trick is real easy. I didn't do it for a year but when I did I was suprised at how easy it was. Makes flashing roms less of a headache.
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When flashing a ROM with S-On it isn't actually the ROM not sticking (although that may happen in certain circumstances) but it is that With S-On (security on) the kernel doesn't get installed at all thru CWM. You HAVE to flash that independantly & seperately & LAST And ALWAYS this way thru ADB with S-On. There IS no other way. (Save perhaps pushing that to the right partition thru terminal but that is another discussion altogether).
Yeah, what he said. And if your not savy with adb get hasoon 2000s all in one and it'll do it for you.
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