ok so a while ago i decided to try gb and found it was worse than froyo so i reverted back to froyo. but when i was in gb i had so many problems like radio disconnect and random restarts. now both were installed useing cwm so im wondering could my phone still have the bad ep1w radio and be running froyo? or is that not possible?
kainobean said:
ok so a while ago i decided to try gb and found it was worse than froyo so i reverted back to froyo. but when i was in gb i had so many problems like radio disconnect and random restarts. now both were installed useing cwm so im wondering could my phone still have the bad ep1w radio and be running froyo? or is that not possible?
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no if you used Odin to flash back to EE4 then you have the EE4 radios, if you flashed stock froyo/custom froyo in CWM then most likely you still have the GB modems which you can check by seeing what it says under baseband in about phone settings... if it is still GB radios no problem just Odin the EE4 ones, however in my personal experience those were horrible radios and my phone works best with the GB ones
hmm ok well i tryed the gummy gbe 2.0 and thats when i started getting reboot problems and radio cut outs. so i reflashed ee4. ill try a odin flash instead of a cwm flash.
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Ok..I always try to figure it out by searching the forums...could not get there this time. I had Humbles rom on the phone...then I realized I should update my Baseband...so the mission starts.. I started on Basband ep3 on both the first and second lines..after reading it sounded like I needed to flash back to stock to get the update to ee4....I first deactivated voodo by adding the file directly ...reset phone then waited while the sexy voice said it was deactivated... then I flashed the stock rom...when I powered up the the phone on stock ...it did download the update...while installing the update it crashes and does not install correctly...so after messing around I re-flashed the stock rom and then downloaded the update again.....same thing happened.....then after reading some more I thought maybe my partitions where jacked so I flashed charge.pit ...now my phone wouldn't even show signs of life...stressing a bit ....I was able to flash Hummble 4.0 which brought my phone back to life...happy that it is working I'm now back where I originally started but now I'm on Ep1...even worse than before I started..lol
Does anyone have any ideas why it would not update? any help would be great!
Ep3 is the newest radio version. Ep1 is the second newest. And ee4 is the oldest. So you were really trying to unupdate. You are fine with the ep1 modems. But if you want to upgrade flash the ep3h radios through Odin.
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Yep
I'm confused....thanks for the clarification.... I thought I had to go to stock to get any updates...whats with all the posts talking about that?
any quick link to where I could download the ep3 for odin? much appreciated
kmichaeld said:
any quick link to where I could download the ep3 for odin? much appreciated
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Here ya go - EP3 Modem
The only reason you ever need to go back to stock is if you want to "unroot" your phone or to fix soft bricks. The baseband version corrosponds to the type of radios your phone is running (how you get your signal). And the radios are always independent of your ROM. Here's a short overview of the different radios from beginning to present.
ED1: Original charge modem. (sucked).
ED2: still sucks.
EE4: Latest official update for the droid charge. This is the radio that most Froyo Roms are based off of.
<I'm going to skip over a few because they are kind of non-existant now>
EP1Q: A leaked Gingerbread Radio. Significant improvements in signal strength.
EP1W: Improves upon EP1Q radio by handling data switching better. (A lot of Gingerbread ROMS are based off of this radio).
EP3H: The newest radio and probably the best. Some small improvements in data switching and got rid of occasional "popping" sounds from EP1W radio. Most of the newest ROMS use this radio as a base (Meaning they are optimized to use this radio).
Long story short, use the latest Radios. They always bring improvements. =)
Reflashed my wifes SGS4G last night, running Valhalla 1.3.2 with KJ1 voodoo kernel and KJ6 modem....phone doesn't register SIM card. Removed, waited, powered off etc..phone would not see it, swapped it into my phone and worked great. Tried my SIM on her phone, no dice.
Reflashed again, starting from KG4 this time. Flashed Valhalla, rebooted, voodoo, and SIM reads fine. Figured it was fixed, flashed KJ6 modem and SIM Card disappears again. Flashed various other modems and could not get it to come back. Reflashed Valhalla and honks KJ1 a third time, enabled voodoo and called it a night...SIM is reading fine.
I have the exact same setup on my phone, Valhalla, honks Kj1 and KJ6 modem and I have no issues. Has anyone experienced something similar or know the cause? I want to get KJ6 on there are the signal strength is stronger throughout our house than previous radios, but flashing the same rom 3 times in a day is my limit...
Note: I am already factory reseting / wipe / fixing permissions etc...
Thanks in advance guys.
Have you verified the modem file you downloaded isn't corrupt? If so:
Flash it back to Valhalla in a working state
Start incrementing the modem file (KJ2, KJ3, etc) and see if the problem manifests in a modem other than just KJ6
If it's still happening, I'd be curious to know if her phone has the same problem if you flash the stock KJ6 ROM. If not, throw drhonk's KJ1 on there. If the problem is still not there, then enable voodoo.
I'm just trying to think of things to try. That's definitely interesting to me.
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Have you verified the modem file you downloaded isn't corrupt? If so:
Flash it back to Valhalla in a working state
Start incrementing the modem file (KJ2, KJ3, etc) and see if the problem manifests in a modem other than just KJ6
If it's still happening, I'd be curious to know if her phone has the same problem if you flash the stock KJ6 ROM. If not, throw drhonk's KJ1 on there. If the problem is still not there, then enable voodoo.
I'm just trying to think of things to try. That's definitely interesting to me.
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Yeah, the file is good. It's the same one I flashed to my phone, I even copied her copy back to my phone and flashed my phone with it and it works fine.
I was planning on trying the other modems but wanted to check with the community prior to doing so. Like I said, I only have the patience to reflash a rom so many times in a day. I don't think it's Valhalla, I've been running that Rom on both phones since it came out at the end of August and it's been bulletproof for me - best Rom out there IMHO - thanks Whitehawkx. Maybe I'll flash airfluips ASOP at the weekend and see if it persists.
Thanks for the input.
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Yeah, the file is good. It's the same one I flashed to my phone, I even copied her copy back to my phone and flashed my phone with it and it works fine.
I was planning on trying the other modems but wanted to check with the community prior to doing so. Like I said, I only have the patience to reflash a rom so many times in a day. I don't think it's Valhalla, I've been running that Rom on both phones since it came out at the end of August and it's been bulletproof for me - best Rom out there IMHO - thanks Whitehawkx. Maybe I'll flash airfluips ASOP at the weekend and see if it persists.
Thanks for the input.
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Sorry I can't be of more help, man. It's definitely an odd problem.
Did you ever resolve this? I've been suffering a "SIM Card Removed" error that won't go away, that has arisen in conjunction with fixing a calendar sync issue - I can restore an earlier system backup and the SIM issue goes away (but then I have the calendar sync issue back)...
I've been using VirtuousICS with pretty much terrible battery issues (drains, wrong value, random battery drop) so I went back down and flashed Android Rev HD 3.611.
Im still getting a really weird battery issue however, 4ext read my battery was at 23% I restarted the phone and then it read that it was fully charged.
I thought it was the Kernal but with the new flash the kernal was changed so it cant be that
I've gone into clockwork and deleted the battery values, so im thinking now is that its the ICS firmware that im still running which is plaguing my battery.
Does anyone know if I can go back down to a gingerbread firmware that I can run instead of my current ICS firmware?
I had these issues with the GB firmware, so I'd be careful. May not resolve the issue.
Have you tried the latest 4.0.3 ICS firmware?
I found reflashing a new version of recovery fixed these issues for me on GB.
Not yet, can I have a download?
and I just flash and then remove from Sd right?
Inherited a Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.1 from my housemate.
I want to switch to Eclipse 2.0. I know in order to run FP1 builds, you need to run stock kernel if you want wifi. Except, I also noticed that the PBJ kernel recently fixed the wifi issue.
I'm under the impression you're told to revert to stock, run OTA update, then flash your FP1 ROM so you have the latest stock kernel.
Or is there more to it than the kernel?
I'd rather skip the revert/flash/etc/etc, I updated to the latest CWM, made a backup, factory restored, wiped cache/dalvik, flashed ROM, flashed kernel, rebooted, everything seems fine (wifi working no issues). But... that doesn't mean that it is.
EDIT: Yeah, my baseband in About Phone shows i510.06 V.EE4 SCH-I510.EE1, which is what it was before. Can I get just the baseband?
Thanks!
By the way, I don't care about carrier signal at all, this phone got wet and no longer accepts SIM cards. The other functions still work, so I'm using it on wifi and I'm trying to re-purpose the device to be a portable offline GPS for hiking. But I did read that FP1 gets better GPS locks, which is part of why I want to run it.
U cant get the fp1 upgrade on a cstom rom. U have to go back to stock n get the ota upgrade. I suggest usin titanium to back up ur stuff then flash what u want. Stock fp1 or pjb 5/24 r both good, but u gta get back to factory first.
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Actually, I figured "what you do do well" and I decided to follow the suggested directions. I used ODIN, restored to stock EP4... and couldn't get past the main screen. Can't read SIM cards, so can't get past the activate screen. I then flashed back an FP1 rom, the latest PBJ kernel, and [attempted] to use the EP4 to FP1 patch, which hung and failed.
It looks like if I want to get my baseband to FP1, I'll have to jump through hoops (maybe flashing a stock EP4 pre-rooted ROM from ODIN? maybe?) Regardless, since the CDMA antenna in this thing is useless anyway, I'm just gonna skip it.
Thank you for your reply!
Well, now that you have borked your phone a bit, go and download the EP4 ODIN package and flash it (in ODIN or SamsungPST). Might not be a bad idea to flash the PIT while you're at it. You'll probably have to flash CWM, and then PBJ from within CWM (stock kernel overwrites it) Then go and try flashing your ROM of choice again (cough *tweaked* cough), either in ODIN (with the respective package) or CWM. (again with the proper package).
http://www.imnuts.org/odin-packages/
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thanks kvswim, that's pretty much exactly what I did yesterday. I'm even running Tweaked 2.1
It's too bad, I really prefer the theme of Eclipse, but I just couldn't handle the lack of TSM Parts.
So I went back to stock froyo and did a complete wipe of everything, even my sd cards. then I plugged into kies mini and updated to gingerbread, and about every time my phone went into standby mode after maybe 10 minutes it would do a soft reboot. I thought it might just be a problem with the stock rom, so I rooted and got a custom kernel, and I installed many different stock based gingerbread roms, all with the same effect. then, I tried cm7 and had NO PROBLEM with the reboots. also, I have no problems on any froyo roms or any aosp based roms. thanks for any help with this
Try using the one click to stock or the updated odin packages. Follow their instructions to the letter....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610374
That didn't work either...
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I was running MIUI on my phone and had problems and took it to the local ATT repair shop and of course their solution was to clear out the phone and revert back to stock Gingerbread UCLB. It seemed to run well for awhile, but after about two weeks I started having random and multiple reboots too. I then odin'ed the rooted stock gingerbread (I believe posted by Entrophy) and loaded the RemICS 1.2a Rom. It seems much faster and smoother than the stock rom. We will see how it lasts. Does anyone seem to have problems with loaded Roms seeming to deteriorate after awhile? It seems like on both my Infuse and a Captivate that I have, the performance and stability seems to go bad over time...