hello i just downloaded the radio 3.42 file now what how do i upgrade the radio version
READ, READ, & READ SOME MORE!!!!! What are you trying to accomplish by flashing a new radio? Are you trying to get GPS? I am not sure what file you downloaded but you should just be able to run it from you computer. You will have to establish an activesync connection first though.
Hiya im about to flash on a custom ROM for my HD but it says :
Recommended Radio...
Im new to the desire hd so im not sure what a radio is, and how to put it on, im looking for a quick explanation on what it does and how to put it on my phone...
Im used to installing roms on my streak but never came across the term radio before (lol my first instinct was for the FM radio)...
I ran a quick search of the forums but nothing definitive...
Radio is basicly the software that makes your GSM, data and GPS signal work. And the developers usually recommend a radio to use with the spesific rom. It's not necessary and you can use your original radio, but you will most proberly get a better signal if you go with the radio recommended by the developer of the rom.
You will need eng s-off in order to flash the rom correct, so I will suggest you read your self up on that topic before you proceed. As far as I have understood it this is the most critical part of the procedure, so make sure you read the descriptions well untill you are sure that you got all the details.
I found this tread very usefull when I started to try and figure out what to do, but you will also find some even more detailed descriptions if you try to google the subject.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
Thanks that helped alot, i have much reading to do! But i look forward to it =)
OmegaStalker said:
Thanks that helped alot, i have much reading to do! But i look forward to it =)
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Android Flasher 1.6.1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638
DHD Radio Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
just as what bios is for your computer.. radio is for the cell phones.. radio basicaly covers. ur phones reception wifi. hotspot and high speeds and stuff.. lastest radio means more improved everything... once u still custom roms.. download the radio u want unzip it.. connect ur phone to pc make sure usb debuging is ticked(settings->applications>Development>usb debuging) and usb is to charge only... then open android flasher tick radio > begin. browse to the file u unzipped and select radio.img and leave the rest to the tool.. good luck
Hi all.
Last night I was reading thread regarding GingerVillain 2.1 and some people were saying something about new ril and drivers with it. Apparently that help them with signal strenght and such. My question is if I can use it with any Tom out there or just with the GV2.1? I am currently trying reduce 1.2 with latest radio 3.54.
Thanks in advance for any replays.
Regards
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
ok firstly, neither your radio nor your recovery are the latest so if you are having signal issues i would recommend trying new radio first. there is a seperate topic named 'new bravo radio' search for it - its radio extracted from leaked bravo gingerbread RUU.
now about RILs. these are (i think) android-drivers corresponding to radio-drivers. RIL is stored in ROM, so if you wipe or install new ROM, RIL you flashed will be gone unless you re-flash it (from recovery). Every official RUU big-update contains (usually) new radio and it's RIL. however, it doesnt neccesairly work in a way that once you flashed a radio, the RIL that came with it will improve things. turns out that for various devices on various networks running various ROMs things may differ. thats why in the end some ppl are using even nexus one RIL on desire.
so if you flash RIL that someone said to work well on this rom with this radio version it could be not the case for you. but you can try diffrent RILs until you found one that works fine for you. personally as long as my desire performs just fine i dont see a point to experiment with RILs.
That was an amazing explanation!
Main reason I would look to change my radio with ril would be to benefit my signal. Sometimes I am loosing a signal (even wifi) for about few seconds and than it reestablishes itself again. I will definitely loo for new radio flash that and than see what's happening.
Thanks again.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
I've been having issues with my GPS on this phone as long as I can remember.... I tried using the soldering fix, the various software fixes to no avail. I upgraded my radio to July 2012: Radio 12.69.60.29_26.17.14.11_M - AT&T Inspire 4G 3.20.502.52 (Latest)
before trying all these hacks, and I now just realized I can't downgrade this radio since it's bugged. (I confirmed I cant downgrade)
Is there any way to downgrade? Could the radio be the cause of my GPS not working at all? I don't feel it's hardware, because the GPS **MIGHT** get 1 sattelite lock if I'm very lucky and in a very open area. Does anyone have some other suggestions/options I can try?
Any other trouble shooting processes I can perform?
If you have rooted phone, you downgrade phone you can PD98IMG.zip file by inserting a memory card and launch the bootloader
try flshing a different rom, such as viper dhd, sabsa,. I had similar bad luck with others but with a better rom I had better gps success
Hello.
I’m quite a newbie. I’ve search all the web for a solution or a similar problem but I couldn’t find any. Here is my problem.
A friend gave to me his old HTC Desire HD. He rooted it and installed the ViperDHD 2.3.0 ROM which should be based on ICS. I really don’t liked this rom so I decided to switch to chyanogenmod 10.1 the Mustaavalkosta version, precisely: cm-10.1-20130727-UNOFFICIAL-ace-SR1.1.zip. I try to installed it directly but I couldn’t. I try different times, when I find out that the phone was with s-on. I don't know (and my friend do not remember) if it was s-off when he installed the Viper ROM.
Anyhow, I managed to obtain s-off (following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835746 (only the part on the s-off procedure).
Than I was able to install CM 10.1 (yesterday updated to R2). The installation went well (btw this rom is great). The only problem I have is that the GPS is not functioning (also the GPS icon is not showing in the status bar). Searching on the web I discovered that this problem could be fixed with a newer version of the base band (my version is 12.65.60.29U_26.14.04.28_M).
I downloaded the suggested one and tried to flash it, without any luck tough.
What I noticed in one of many reboots is that the phone was back again in s-on. I don't know why nor when it happened (i think at the first reboot of the phone but is just a clue). I tried again with the same method to obtained s-off but now this is not functioning.
For what I red on various thread, one thing that maybe could solve my problem is to downgrade the phone to a stock rom, turn s-off, change the radio and back again on CM 10.1.
I‘d prefer not to downgrade to the stock rom (also not sure if I can since s-on), I would like to know if anybody has an idea about this.
Maybe the information I get when I load in the boot loader could be useful:
*** UNLOCKED ***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_M
eMMc-boot
Dec 22 2011,14:28:19
Hope the English is good enough to understand my problem.
Cheers,
Omunculus
Dear Omunculus,
I was in the same situation just a few hours ago and was able to resolve my GPS issue with the procedure describe here:
forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/18880-gps-broken-since-611/page__st__20#entry171860 (unfortantely, I'm not allowed to post links yet)
After the reboot, the GPS icon was flashing in Google Maps (it did not before) and after a couple of minutes, my phone could successfully acquire a location fix. I used the app "GPS test" to verify that GPS was indeed working.
Chances are that it will also work for your, given that I have almost the same specs.
Radio: 12.65.60.29U_26.14.04.28_M (same as you)
ROM: cm-10.1-20130924-UNOFFICIAL-ace-SR2.zip (slightly newer than yours)
Please note that I neither had to flash my radio nor did I have to enable S-OFF. I hope this solution works for you as well.
omunculus said:
For what I red on various thread, one thing that maybe could solve my problem is to downgrade the phone to a stock rom, turn s-off, change the radio and back again on CM 10.1.
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No need to turn s-off or change radio.
The first time I installed JellyTime (4.2 - R8), I had a similar issue: GPS not working.
I flashed back the stock ROM used to root the phone in Glevitan's tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169515
From that stock ROM, I turned on GPS, I used an app to verify that GPS was working (GPS Status), after a few minutes I was able to get located. I re-flashed JellyTime and it worked.
My phone is still S-ON and with the original radio ROM. I posted a few messages about it a few months ago, look for them if you want more details.
Updating the radio is quite dangerous, better know exactly what you do.
Some other people were reporting that sometimes the GPS antena needs to be physically fixed.
Good luck with your phone.
IRQs said:
Dear Omunculus,
I was in the same situation just a few hours ago and was able to resolve my GPS issue with the procedure describe here:
forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/18880-gps-broken-since-611/page__st__20#entry171860 (unfortantely, I'm not allowed to post links yet)
After the reboot, the GPS icon was flashing in Google Maps (it did not before) and after a couple of minutes, my phone could successfully acquire a location fix. I used the app "GPS test" to verify that GPS was indeed working.
Chances are that it will also work for your, given that I have almost the same specs.
Radio: 12.65.60.29U_26.14.04.28_M (same as you)
ROM: cm-10.1-20130924-UNOFFICIAL-ace-SR2.zip (slightly newer than yours)
Please note that I neither had to flash my radio nor did I have to enable S-OFF. I hope this solution works for you as well.
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Thank you very much IRQs, it functioned. Now I'm see the gps icon and he detects my position. I have only the feeling
that it is extremely slow to find satellites and the position.
But now it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same sport.
Matth59 said:
No need to turn s-off or change radio.
The first time I installed JellyTime (4.2 - R8), I had a similar issue: GPS not working.
I flashed back the stock ROM used to root the phone in Glevitan's tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169515
From that stock ROM, I turned on GPS, I used an app to verify that GPS was working (GPS Status), after a few minutes I was able to get located. I re-flashed JellyTime and it worked.
My phone is still S-ON and with the original radio ROM. I posted a few messages about it a few months ago, look for them if you want more details.
Updating the radio is quite dangerous, better know exactly what you do.
Some other people were reporting that sometimes the GPS antena needs to be physically fixed.
Good luck with your phone.
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Thank you Math59 for your reply. I know that updating the radio could be dangerous, but it was all my reading about this problem
that convinced me. I'm still convinced (based only on my lecture) that changing the radio could improve the performance of wi-fi, gps and 3g too. Obviously, now that everything works properly, I will not try anything risky.
My mobile had also a problem with the GPS antenna, but that was the first problem I solved (without any luck).
if your now s-off its just a case of downloading the correct radio and installer and install it as you do with a rom via sd-card- i did it this way via 4ext on my DHD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
Jimpy0 said:
if your now s-off its just a case of downloading the correct radio and installer and install it as you do with a rom via sd-card- i did it this way via 4ext on my DHD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877295
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Hi Jimpy0,
thank you for your reply.
I didn’t achieve s-off yet. Since I get my gps back Im trying fixing the problem of bad gps signal in different way. Till now I haven’t succeed anyhow.
omunculus said:
Hi Jimpy0,
thank you for your reply.
I didn’t achieve s-off yet. Since I get my gps back Im trying fixing the problem of bad gps signal in different way. Till now I haven’t succeed anyhow.
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Try a new GPS antenna, solved my problems. First I had very bad signal, and after a while I had no signal at all (even with newest radio). The antenna is located inside the flashlight cover, which you can replace with a new one. There are a lot available on ebay for only 4-5 euro's, search for "desire hd gps antenna". The old antenna broke in multiple pieces when I removed it (3 years old), so it was clear this was the problem. I now have very good signal!
eMBeeNL said:
Try a new GPS antenna, solved my problems. First I had very bad signal, and after a while I had no signal at all (even with newest radio). The antenna is located inside the flashlight cover, which you can replace with a new one. There are a lot available on ebay for only 4-5 euro's, search for "desire hd gps antenna". The old antenna broke in multiple pieces when I removed it (3 years old), so it was clear this was the problem. I now have very good signal!
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I solved the same problem by soldering a drop of pond over the golden contact in the antenna
antanigoni said:
I solved the same problem by soldering a drop of pond over the golden contact in the antenna
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Sometimes it's because bad contacts indeed, then you can bend the spring contacts slightly or a drop of pond on at the cover side as you suggested. This wasn't an option for me because the metal antenna strip inside was broken. You should measure a short circuit between the two contacts, and this was not the case for me.