I was wondering, what differences are there between the American and Chinese radios. I use my dinc2 only on gsm and don't use cdma at all, will upgrading my radio to the Chinese version kill my radio since I am in America?
Sorry for not putting this in the questions section, my phone hickuped and tapatalk did not show it after freezing.
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If I purchase a blue agel GSM PH20B. Would I be able to make it work on a cdma network like verizon in america somehow?I currently own a PH20A2 through verizon but thought about using a gsm phone on my network as well as uploading wm6 on it.If I did do this would I lose the wifi radio etc. Any help or guidance to the correct area i should be looking in greatly appreciated.
Hmm....
Well,
I'm no expert but I don't believe this is possible, we're talking about two different standards and as far as I know two different types of hardware. There's usually a similar model in CDMA for a lot of phones but I don't believe you can convert a GSM phone to CDMA.
Cheers.
No, CDMA and GSM are incompatible in hardware.
There is nothing you can do. Others have tried to get the Blue Angel IPL/SPL working on the PH20A2 (Harrier), but it complains about not being able to find the GSM radio.
Hi All,
Sorry if this has been asked before but i searched and i couldn't find an answer. I was wondering since after the Tytn II HTC always manufacture different phones with different Radio Roms to for USA and Europe/Asia (respectively), can't someone cook a rom that actually has both radios? Is that even possible?
That would be great if we can have 1 ROM which is truely Quad band, GSM/Edge 850/900/1900/2100 and HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100.
Or is there a ROM that actually has that? I looked at the Radio ROM thread, it has many Quad Band ROMs but doesn't mention if it's GSM and HSDPA or just GSM.
Thanks for your help and sorry again if the question was asked before.
its already gsm and hsdpa...?
at least i think so...because if you're not using hsdpa(3g) you get gsm right?
Well i live in the States and have the European version of the diamond with the stock ROM, i get GSM but not 3G. I didn't try flashing any of the other Radio Roms yet. Since there are many people here who are like me that would like to have 3G too so i thought of this idea. I have no experience what so ever with cooking ROMs so i was wondering if that's possible. I also travel a lot so it would be nice to have a 3G connection anywhere i am
Sorry if this has been asked/answered already, I wasn't able to find if it had.
Is it possible to reflash a European TP2 with the TMO USA TP2 radio ROM to enable TMO USA 3G on the European version?
I had come across a chart about a week ago of hardware differences between all the different versions of the TP2 and it appears these both have the same radio, so im assuming it may just be software registers or something that enable/disable certain frequencies?
d0ug said:
Sorry if this has been asked/answered already, I wasn't able to find if it had.
Is it possible to reflash a European TP2 with the TMO USA TP2 radio ROM to enable TMO USA 3G on the European version?
I had come across a chart about a week ago of hardware differences between all the different versions of the TP2 and it appears these both have the same radio, so im assuming it may just be software registers or something that enable/disable certain frequencies?
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I am fairly sure you can't.
d0ug said:
Sorry if this has been asked/answered already, I wasn't able to find if it had.
Is it possible to reflash a European TP2 with the TMO USA TP2 radio ROM to enable TMO USA 3G on the European version?
I had come across a chart about a week ago of hardware differences between all the different versions of the TP2 and it appears these both have the same radio, so im assuming it may just be software registers or something that enable/disable certain frequencies?
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Frequency is a hardware thing, you cannot flash a different radio to change the frequency of the phone.
Is there really much of a difference?
I'm in Canada and have been contemplating getting the TP2 from Telus for a while now, but reading up I noticed are versions that do not have CDMA/GSM bundled together?
Is one better than the other? I tried searching around but either my keywords suck or I'm blind becaue i couldnt find another thread like this. sorry if its a repeat (i'm almost sure it is..)
Which carrier branded version would you suggest I try to get (and why?).
Thanks again
if you are getting a carrier branded, just go with your carrier. all cdma versions of the tp2 have a gsm radio for international usage. if you buy a gsm version of the tp2 (ones without cdma) you can not use it on a cdma network such as telus.
I'd say the biggest difference between them, to the end user, is the absence of the 3.5mm headphone jack on the GSM exclusive versions. As The Jack of Clubs said, just get the version your carrier offers, since it's guaranteed to support all the carrier's features, like 3G bands and such.
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).