How are us CDMA guys to know? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Almost all of the roms in this thread do not have info if they are CDMA or GSM. Should it not be a prerequisite to include in the description of your rom whether it is CDMA or GSM? This is making it rather difficult for me, and I'm sure others. The only way to tell as of now is to look where the author is located.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328
Look under CDMA.
The majority of the ROMs are GSM. You can be pretty sure that it's a GSM ROM if it doesn't explicitly say that it is a CDMA ROM.

Thank you. Is this a list of all desire roms, or only CDMA roms?

omg.. The list is of course of all(or almost all) desire roms. The cdma roms are the 5-6 ones a little down the list, listet under cdma.
Also as stated if a rom is cdma, it will be stated, as almost all roms are gsm.

If the rom title dosent say cdma, its gsm....
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Ok, just use to all my old phones that had a big CDMA and GSM user base. Unfortunately I am finding out that the desire (although amazing) has little CDMA application, seems I may be fuct this generation, too sad for such a great phone!

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Ok let me try it this way...

I'm thinking of upgrading to a better rom for my CDMA diamond but I've never done it and the tutorial is for non CDMA phones. Can anyone tell me WHICH ROMS will work on CDMA if any, and what to expect? I also dont understrand fully how the upgrade will effect my carrier specific functions on the phone like Data, SMS/MMS and Calls. I use Cellular South as my carrier and I never see anything about them on the forums. Its usually sprint or alltell when discussing CDMA phones. Sorry for the noob questions but how else you gonna learn right? Now can anyone help?
what means cdma?
CDMA mena sit doesnt take a sim card like GSM phones. Its a different network. I'm sure its way more technical than that but thats the depth of my knowledge
check out ppcgeeks.com, the majority of the roms over there are cdma roms
SOHKis said:
check out ppcgeeks.com, the majority of the roms over there are cdma roms
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Thnaks, That helps alot!
Anyone care to shed light on the carrier specific stuff?
The CDMA Diamond has not been very popular, so XDA-Developers did not create a dedicated subforum for it like we did for the CDMA Raphael.
I suggest following the advice given earlier; check out PPCGeeks.com.

Neophyte Question

Hey guys, I'm new here and I'm just reading about this custom ROM stuff.
Now I don't have a smartphone yet and I have verizion. I'm really considering getting an HTC Touch Diamond for $99.99, but if I got it, could I use any of the awesome ROMs on here?
I was reading something about GSM and CDMA differences and got rather confused.
Thanks guys.
-Beaver_2
Hiya Beaver,
Most the Diamond roms I have seen on here are for the GSM model which is the one useful in many parts of the world (including the U.S. with carriers like AT&T and T-mobile). Verizon and Spring use CDMA which is a different type of radio/signal and is not compatible with GSM. And so GSM and CDMA phones have different types of radios and thus require different software to run them. On some other types of phones such as the AT&T Fuze have both CDMA and GSM counterparts and I have seen software on here for both versions. I'm not sure about the Diamond though.
Maybe helpful,
d.
Hiya Beaver,
Most the Diamond roms I have seen on here are for the GSM model which is the one useful in many parts of the world (including the U.S. with carriers like AT&T and T-mobile). Verizon and Spring use CDMA which is a different type of radio/signal and is not compatible with GSM. And so GSM and CDMA phones have different types of radios and thus require different software to run them. On some other types of phones such as the AT&T Fuze have both CDMA and GSM counterparts and I have seen software on here for both versions. I'm not sure about the Diamond though.
Maybe helpful,
d.
Hiya Beaver,
Here's a link to the forum with stuff for the CDMA version of the Diamond, but it doesn't look like there's much there. The beauty of GSM is that lots of developers around the world contribute to the development of the software since the GSM version of the phone is pretty wide-spread (though ironically I still haven't found a stable version of WM 6.5 that I really like).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=515
cheers,
D.
durkad said:
Hiya Beaver,
Here's a link to the forum with stuff for the CDMA version of the Diamond, but it doesn't look like there's much there. The beauty of GSM is that lots of developers around the world contribute to the development of the software since the GSM version of the phone is pretty wide-spread (though ironically I still haven't found a stable version of WM 6.5 that I really like).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=515
cheers,
D.
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Thanks Durkad, I suppose I'm pretty stuck with verizion. I notice there are some radio threads, they can't help me any can they?
This ROM looks pretty cool but I can't find where to download it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eM_RCaD1Hw
Beaver_2 said:
Thanks Durkad, I suppose I'm pretty stuck with verizion. I notice there are some radio threads, they can't help me any can they?
This ROM looks pretty cool but I can't find where to download it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eM_RCaD1Hw
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I found the website, there is another site that offers quite a bit of option for CDMA ROMS though it still doesn't come very close to what's offer here in the GSM site.
Here's the CDMA diamond site I'm talking about in case anyone here has a cdma dimaond.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=66
It has far more option than the CDMA forums here.

[Q] CDMA vs. GSM ROMs

Forgive a relative noob, but are Desire GSM and Desire CDMA ROMs different? I have an Incredible but am trying to index Desire ROMs for http://www.heylisten.org/ROMs/android and don't know whether to categorize them differently. The Inc, of course, along with almost everything else, has only one version, so there's no question there, but I'm stumped on the Desire. I don't want to confuse anyone, but I don't want to force users to reflash unnecessarily. Thanks in advance for answers!
CDMA and GSM are different types of mobile networks. Because of their different way of functioning, phones need have specific hardware and drivers to be able to use the network. That said, a CDMA phone will not function using a GSM network and vice-versa. Usually, networks are GSM (all over Europe, and I don't think there is any country in the world which has only CDMA networks). The only CDMA's I know of are USA's Sprint and Verizon, though I don't know much about Asia and Canada.
The ROM's are different when it comes to the radio, and a bad radio WILL brick the device, so you should definitelly state which one are for CDMA and which for GSM (there's a chatch here: since a lot of the Disire's are GSM, you could specify all ROM's are for GSM, unless stated they're for CDMA).

[Q] RHOD400 ROM without Lockstream available?

I would like to try a ROM that doesn't have Lockstream built in, but I'm far too nooby to build one at this point. Does anyone have one posted for the Rhod400 platform (gsm)?
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I would like to try a ROM that doesn't have Lockstream built in, but I'm far too nooby to build one at this point. Does anyone have one posted for the Rhod400 platform (gsm)?
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I don't know of any offhand, but RHOD400 is CDMA. Even if you might be using it with a SIM card, the device only functions with CDMA ROMs. I would suggest inquiring over at PPC Geeks. They typically deal more with CDMA than XDA. XDA has always been more focused on GSM.
RHOD400 GSM ROM without Lockstream available?
I have the GSM Touch Pro 2 from sprint and want to try a ROM without Lockstream drm installed. Has anyone built one already?
As I mentioned before, there isn't much CDMA development here on XDA. PPC Geeks website would be a better place to make this request. Make sure you use a CDMA ROM and not a GSM ROM. A GSM ROM on a CDMA device will brick it. It doesn't matter if you use a SIM card or not. The RHOD400 is considered CDMA.
Again, it doesn't matter if you use a SIM. The RHOD400 uses only CDMA ROMs. A GSM ROM will brick it.

Are all desires cdma or GSM.

Just as the title says are desires cdma or GSM?
CrazyKnight122 said:
Just as the title says are desires cdma or GSM?
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Normally in the UK and, I think Europe, they're GSM but in the US CDMA or GSM. I may be wrong but hopefully someone will come along and back me up or correct me.
Ok are all the roms currently out gsm or cdma? Or does it matter?
If you have a GSM Desire (if you have a SIM card) then go ahead and flash away pretty much anything you want. If you're CDMA then I'm really not too sure.
I know MIUI do a CDMA ROM on their US site. I posted a direct link to it the other day but can't remember where it is now. Here's a starting point though. Hope this helps.

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