[Q] CM10 radio update causing battery drain - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

I'm have been running CM10 on my at&t hox for some tiime now but recently desided to start trying some of the new radios out. I was running the 1.85 radio since first flashing CM10. I read in the hox CM10 development forum that some people were getting great signal and battery on the 2.29 radio so I gave it a shot. The next day I experienced rather quick battery drain and my device felt physically warm. I then tried out the 2.20 radio but experienced the same results. Once I flash the 1.85 radio back on battery life went back to normal. Is there a particular order that a radio and rom need to be flashed in? Should I wipe and reset before flashing a new radio (I was simply wiping the caches and flashing the radio)? I know I'm not doing something right just not sure what.

The CM 10 nightlies have the 1.85 ril pre-built within the rom so some say that the 1.85 AT&T radio works best with that rom. I have personally tried the 2.20 radio and have had better battery life and signal with the 2.20 and my phone did not run hot as you found. Did you clear dalvik/cache after you flashed the radio?

eak1080 said:
The CM 10 nightlies have the 1.85 ril pre-built within the rom so some say that the 1.85 AT&T radio works best with that rom. I have personally tried the 2.20 radio and have had better battery life and signal with the 2.20 and my phone did not run hot as you found. Did you clear dalvik/cache after you flashed the radio?
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Yes I cleared both before and after flashing the radio.

Related

If your having slow data speeds on AOSP Builds...

If anyone is having slow data speeds for the AOSP builds, CM7, or the like, I flashed the recommended radio and BAM my speeds are back to 4.5 down and 1.5 up. This might be common knowledge and if so just delete the thread, but I was having consistently good data speeds on every sense rom even without the recommended radio, and for some reason when I flashed adamholden's ROM with the stock radio was getting as low as .2 down and .8 up, and after a helpful suggestion to flash the radio through HBOOT (just putting the PD98IMG file on my sd and booting into the bootloader and letting it do its thing) which was way easier in my opinion than all the eng s-off stuff, not to mention safer, my speeds are back up to the normal 4.5 down and 1.5 up. Hope this helps, because I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out all this new radio stuff (came from the captivate).
laxwillsch said:
If anyone is having slow data speeds for the ASOP builds, CM7, or the like, I flashed the recommended radio and BAM my speeds are back to 4.5 down and 1.5 up. This might be common knowledge and if so just delete the thread, but I was having consistently good data speeds on every sense rom even without the recommended radio, and for some reason when I flashed adamholden's ROM with the stock radio was getting as low as .2 down and .8 up, and after a helpful suggestion to flash the radio through HBOOT (just putting the PD98IMG file on my sd and booting into the bootloader and letting it do its thing) which was way easier in my opinion than all the eng s-off stuff, not to mention safer, my speeds are back up to the normal 4.5 down and 1.5 up. Hope this helps, because I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out all this new radio stuff (came from the captivate).
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Ill say it again... keep the stock radio in place. That's all I've ever used and never had issues.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App
laxwillsch said:
If anyone is having slow data speeds for the ASOP builds, CM7, or the like, I flashed the recommended radio and BAM my speeds are back to 4.5 down and 1.5 up. This might be common knowledge and if so just delete the thread, but I was having consistently good data speeds on every sense rom even without the recommended radio, and for some reason when I flashed adamholden's ROM with the stock radio was getting as low as .2 down and .8 up, and after a helpful suggestion to flash the radio through HBOOT (just putting the PD98IMG file on my sd and booting into the bootloader and letting it do its thing) which was way easier in my opinion than all the eng s-off stuff, not to mention safer, my speeds are back up to the normal 4.5 down and 1.5 up. Hope this helps, because I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out all this new radio stuff (came from the captivate).
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I see in your sig you've got TPGB's AOSP ROM, so you must be referring to radio version 26.06.06.30. This is the new stock radio that HTC pushed out a couple of weeks ago to the stock Inspires. This has been a great radio for me as well.
henrybravo said:
I see in your sig you've got TPGB's AOSP ROM, so you must be referring to radio version 26.06.06.30. This is the new stock radio that HTC pushed out a couple of weeks ago to the stock Inspires. This has been a great radio for me as well.
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+1 I switched to the new radio as well so far no complaints.
And not trying to be rude to the OP but it's AOSP not ASOP lol.
henrybravo said:
I see in your sig you've got TPGB's AOSP ROM, so you must be referring to radio version 26.06.06.30. This is the new stock radio that HTC pushed out a couple of weeks ago to the stock Inspires. This has been a great radio for me as well.
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I am also using the 26.06.06.30.(M) radio. Just flashed it today but having great success. Immediately better Dl speeds and call quality/reception.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA App. MIUI 1.5.6V2
How do you install just the radio via hboot? Where do you get just the radio in a .zip format? Thanks.
Four-Fifty-X said:
How do you install just the radio via hboot? Where do you get just the radio in a .zip format? Thanks.
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Check this thread out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002226
That's where you can get your radio from and it tells you how to flash it.
Does having different carriers call for different radios? i'm on Att, should I "update" my radio, or use the one found in the new ruu @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058042
henrybravo said:
I see in your sig you've got TPGB's AOSP ROM, so you must be referring to radio version 26.06.06.30. This is the new stock radio that HTC pushed out a couple of weeks ago to the stock Inspires. This has been a great radio for me as well.
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Nice.. I was looking through your sig and noticed you had a link to the APN fix thread, are u using it now on TPGB? and if so are you seeing increased speeds?
gvsukids said:
Does having different carriers call for different radios? i'm on Att, should I "update" my radio, or use the one found in the new ruu @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058042
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You need to use carrier specific radios as much as possible. Be VERY careful flashing radios.
Sent from Inspire 4g with latest MIUI (customized) with either latest cyan or lordmod kernel
laxwillsch said:
Nice.. I was looking through your sig and noticed you had a link to the APN fix thread, are u using it now on TPGB? and if so are you seeing increased speeds?
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Yes. In my market, most custom ROMs run slow without the APN fix.
I think this ROM already has the fix implemented (I'm back on CM7).

Battery life after firmware upgrade?

Hi, would appreciate some input as I'm pretty new with this.
I recently tried the ics Rom but didn't like it, so I reverted back to my 2.3.4 stock but now it seems the battery is running down very quickly. Could this b related to the firmware flashed for the ics?
I noticed hboot is now 1.23 and radio is 11.19.....even I did a wipe and restore the Nand I created b4 the firmware upgrade. So I guess restoring NAND doesn't include the firmware?
So I m wondering how would I go.about goin back to where it was b4...is the battery affected by the firmware?
Thx
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Generally when you flash any new ROM you should give it 2 full charge cycles before evaluating the battery usage. It has something to do with the "battery stats" needing to recalibrate.
However, I guess it could have something to do with flashing the new firmware. I would recommend though giving it some time and seeing if it levels out in a day or two. If it doesn't, then you know there may be some other issue.
Battery drain is one of those tricky subjects, cause any amount of apps can make a huge difference as well. There is a lot of general variance...
Anyways.
Hope I helped
It can also be attributed to GB roms having certain RIL files pertaining to 10.x radios. The ICS radio is 11.x, and no GB roms have RIL files for 11.x radios. That being said - if RIL files don't match the radio in question, battery life and performance can be bad.
I do believe you can keep the hboot 1.23 but you need to down grade that radio back to 10.56 or 10.59. The RIL file should be in ur nandroid backup for the older radio already so in theory that + 2 battery cycles and you should be good again. Theres a radio thread over in the development section. Install old radio and like mommy used to say 'dont forget to wipe' before a fresh restore. G'luck
madigan311 said:
I do believe you can keep the hboot 1.23 but you need to down grade that radio back to 10.56 or 10.59. The RIL file should be in ur nandroid backup for the older radio already so in theory that + 2 battery cycles and you should be good again. Theres a radio thread over in the development section. Install old radio and like mommy used to say 'dont forget to wipe' before a fresh restore. G'luck
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Thx for the input. I do think it's related to the firmware update I flashed when trying to do the ICS. I've done a few cycles and the battery is still bad. I flashed the older firmware file (the one from the extracted dec tmous update), but it didn't change radio back and HBOOT is still 1.23. Guess I can try to just flash the radio.
If I run the RUU file, it will reset everything is that right? I'll lose root too? How about S-off and CW? And after installing RUU, can I do OTA update given the RUU file available is a lower software version.
Appreciate the clarification
Theres a radio flashing guide somewhere where you can download just the radio and flash it without losing root or rom data if done right. The firmare you flashed was taken out of the ICS RUUs just like the radios are taken out for flashing purposes. And so are flashed through the bootloader just like you did with firmware.
That old dec tmo firmware we had flashed didnt include a radio i think the packager left it out. All i think you did was redo the nand partitions back to the last GB setup so no harm there.
An RUU is a full package install. Partitions, hboot, recovery, radio, rom, the works. Everything we are talkin about here are just pieces of an RUU. So root and s-off should still be there unless u flash a whole RUU.
baatery
the first time I've flashed it was horrible, run out after not much usage in one day.
flashed oneics, and now hd 6.0.2 and it is looking good...

Factory Reset

I've been experiencing the same battery jumps that others have (randomly turn off, battery drops, turning off and then having more battery etc etc)
I was wondering if I can factory reset with S-off.
Are there any files that I need or anything to do a correct factory reset.
What is it you mean by factory reset?
The wiping of all data etc or wiping and returning the ROM you got the phone with?
Edit: Either way both are possible with S-OFF
Sorry for the poorly worded question?
I've been having so many issues with battery drain, random turns offs, battery resets I just want to turn the phone back to the way it was when i got it out of the box.
Stock Kernal, Stock Firmware, Stock OS.
Is there a thread or ROM that I need to look at?
its all in the first post but a way down - read very carefully my friend
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
What ROM, firmware, radio etc are you currently running?
Check Settings > About phone
You should be able to find most info there, radio version will be called baseband.
Rom: ARHD 4.1.3 by mike1986
Firmware: I believe its 1.17 but im not sure
Android Verison 2.3.5
Kernel Version: Sebastian Faux 0.2.8
Radio Version: 11.65.3504.00P
Build Number: 2.08.401.1 CL
Im also running OSX a lot of the guides im reading have information for PC's so dont think I havent done any research im just a little lost.
Some of the issues you will be having will be due to that ROM being in beta,
also I see your using the radio from the latest ICS RUU leak which is not the recommend radio to be using with that ROM.
If I was you I would attempt to flash the stable version of the ARHD ROM HERE
Ensure you read the post carefully and follow each step. I would recommend having SuperCID before flashing the firmware and super wipe before flashing the ROM.
And make sure you use the recommend radio also clearly pointed out in the post.
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If you have issues flashing the radio as described by mike1986 have a look here and download a flashable .zip for the following radio, which you can then flash from your recovery
10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2
If all that seems to scary it may not have been such a good idea to jump in the deep end. Take a look at running an RUU as mentioned already in this thread information can be found HERE at the bottom of the first post
As always ensure you are 100% sure and happy you know what you are doing and double check everything before you do anything, as any of these processes done incorrectly could brick your phone
Nah none of that seems scary, ive flashed roms and firmwares and kernels before I just wasnt aware of the radio problem. Ill try to flash the radio and report back.
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I wasn't aware that ARHD 4.1.3 was a beta.
Can I flash the radio without using ADB I had issues setting it up on my Mac
zman245 said:
Nah none of that seems scary, ive flashed roms and firmwares and kernels before I just wasnt aware of the radio problem. Ill try to flash the radio and report back.
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I wasn't aware that ARHD 4.1.3 was a beta.
Can I flash the radio without using ADB I had issues setting it up on my Mac
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In my last reply I included a link to a flashable version of the radio. Good luck and let us know how you get on
So everything seemed to go well.
I flashed the old radio and the stable version of ARHD.
My phone was going great for about 4 hours.
Then bam the battery died and when it rebooted it had 8% battery, before it died it had near almost half, looking at the battery graph I can see a part when the graph has a straight line, which im pretty sure isnt right
im charging it now but im not sure what the issue could be.
Still considering a reflash to factory, but im not even sure that would work.
Any help would be more than appreciated.
Thank you.
I had this issue when I just flash a Rom.... Try to discharge it all the way down then charge it full to 100%... Be sure its 100% not the green led indicator... When you're fully charge just wipe the battery cache....
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G with Beats
See but how do I know that its actually completely discharged when it can get low die and then I turn it back on and its at 50%
The same for knowing when it is fully charged?
I dont want to calibrate the battery when it is not perfectly being read.
I tend to leave it on charge throughout the night and then as mentioned wipe the battery stats. Once you have done that if its stable use the ROM for a good few days to a week and the battery will sort its self out

general radio confusion

Can someone help me out. I can't find a straight forward answer for this. If I were to flash a new rom, would I need a radio? I know the radio deals with GPS and data and everything but that's about as much as I know. The reason I adk is I just installed a rom by mod and i flashed t after wiping a close to stock just debloated ics. My wifi is very weak, and my speed results are at an all time low. Like my download speed is 2mb and it used to hang around eight. Websites don't load terribly slow but not as zippy as they used to. My GPS takes a little messing with before it c ition. I'm on whatever kernel came with the rom cause I'm completely lost on kernels and undervolting and overclocking and everything. I'd love to to fix my battery life cause that's complete shot too but..my bad I got off topic. Do I need to flash an radio on top of the rom? Would I need to do this every time I flashed a new one or updated? And which one would I flash? Sorry for the obnoxiously long post but any help is appreciated.
If you're on at&t , the latest radio is UCLF6 .. Search for it in dev section and flash it in ODIN or CWM if you're not already on it (or flash it anyway)... Another note is preferably to use the ROM with the radio that was released with it on leaked or official builds ...
Most custom roms are radio free or at least they should ... Leaving radio choice on user ...Radio files are not topics of customaiztion..
mahanddeem said:
If you're on at&t , the latest radio is UCLF6 .. Search for it in dev section and flash it in ODIN or CWM if you're not already on it (or flash it anyway)... Another note is preferably to use the ROM with the radio that was released with it on leaked or official builds ...
Most custom roms are radio free or at least they should ... Leaving radio choice on user ...Radio files are not topics of customaiztion..
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You're a life saver. So most roms come without radios and leave it up to you? And if I happen to be on uclf6 and I flash it anyway it won't hurt? I was wondering about that too forgot to ask. Sorry if im just tired and misreading but your last lines confused me a bit, you said that roms should be radio free but then said they're not topics of customization..?
See : if a custom ROM has radio baked with it you'll see it inside the zip for this ROM and the forum thread should mention it in the instructions...And if this is not the case your old radio will stay untouched...And yes to the other question, flashing the radio again would not hurt but I personally don't like messing with radio if not needed...And again personally I like using the latest stiff and in this case use UCLF6 although some might say try different radios until you find the one performing the best for you...
Thanks again, flashed uclf6 radio, learned I didn't need to but hey. Off to attempt different radio/kernel combos

Any way to flash radio on 2.20 from ATT after unlock?

Hey guys, I was updated to the ATT 2.20 which I guess included the 1.14 hboot and have now rooted through the new technique with a custom rom. However I have found that the radio was not updated along with the rom and the radio thread states that I cannot update with the ATT 2.20. I personally do not care much but my problem is that my phone regularly reboots by itself in standby and it also freezes very often when someone calls in. I am pretty sure most my problems are related to the radio.
Is there any way to update the radio with the new hboot? If so could you please point me in the right direction? And I am running the Venom rom and flashed the kernel separately through fastboot.
My process was similar:
screwed up rooting on 1.85, forced into 2.20, rooted recently with new exploit.
except i chose cleanROM.
and i don't have any of those problems.
johnny13oi said:
Hey guys, I was updated to the ATT 2.20 which I guess included the 1.14 hboot and have now rooted through the new technique with a custom rom. However I have found that the radio was not updated along with the rom and the radio thread states that I cannot update with the ATT 2.20. I personally do not care much but my problem is that my phone regularly reboots by itself in standby and it also freezes very often when someone calls in. I am pretty sure most my problems are related to the radio.
Is there any way to update the radio with the new hboot? If so could you please point me in the right direction? And I am running the Venom rom and flashed the kernel separately through fastboot.
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Can you not flash the radio through fastboot?
i personally like the radio that comes with 2.20. i flashed the 2.40 cm10 flashable and didn't notice a difference.
I also had a nasty problem with freezing/reboots when trying to answer incoming calls. Only way it wouldn't freeze was running stock software. I'm on 2.20 with 1.14 hboot. Every sense rom I tried caused the issue. Finally flashed over to CM10, a couple small issues but at least I can make and receive calls.
This is the first thread I've found where someone had the same issue as me, I swapped the first phone I got out for a new one thinking it was defective. :-\

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