I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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Ok, first things first: do the cache wipe, and use the script provided with the ROM for it. Trust me, it won't delete any of your data, it's perfectly safe. (I speak from experience) The only thing you will notice is that your phone will take a really long time to boot immediately after the wipe. That's expected, let it be.
To your question:
It makes no sense to me why using TELUS' radio on TELUS should be the only way for your phone have data. I can't test this for you as I am not a TELUS client, but I have used the TELUS modem on Rogers and Mobilicity without any trouble at all. The one thing I can think of that may do this is your modem's band settings: the ROM comes with a modem for T-Mobile, which uses a different frequency for its data network. This is how you (try to) fix this:
Go into the Phone application and dial the following:
*#*#2263#*#*
Upon hitting the last * you will see the service menu for the phone, allowing you to set which bands the phone will be looking for for a network. Then press (3) for GSM and then (5) for GSM 850/1900. This should do it for TELUS. If this doesn't work, try using (3) for GSM and then (7) for GSM ALL, or if all else fails, just go into the menu and set (1) for full Automatic.
Another thing, though: I don't understand why you would want to use the T-Mobile radio, when the TELUS one gives you something all of us here can only wish for: presence on two networks at the same time. You can be riding an elevator or take your time in the parking lot without loosing data even for a second! This radio is meant for the TELUS network, and is giving you the best possible experience on it. If it works for you, my advise is to stick with it. The T-Mobile one isn't a step up for you.
Thank you for the detailed response. It is very appreciated. The reason I used the T Mobile modem was that it was the one provided in TDJ's link and I thought it might be more "compatible" with the T-Mobile leak. I didn't know about the advantage that the Telus modem provided. Could you explain what is meant by prescence on two networks? Either case the Telus modem has been very stable thus far and I think I'll keep using it for now.
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Well, this flavour of the Galaxy S2 is not meant for TELUS. It is meant for T-Mobile, an AWS carrier. This phone cannot work very fast on TELUS as it does not support its data network fully. Worse still, last Q4 this phone was pitched against Rogers' LTE flavour of the S2, the Skyrocket, whose ICS leak we were running until recently. TELUS had to beef it up beyond the 14Mbps possible with HSPA so that it would compete.
So, they loaded it up with a state-of-the-art HSDPA radio, which allows it to aggregate signal from two HSPA towers to get its speed edge. I don't think this is done very often, if at all: it's quite remarkable TELUS did that. In a nutshell, your phone can sit on two cellular networks at the same time, the 850Mhz and the 1900Mhz one, and aggregate them to give you the theoretical 28Mbps. Still not LTE, but in the ballpark. You own a T989D, where the D stands for dual towers, and the 850Mhz band means you can stream music uninterrupted while walking into an elevator and then out again.
So that's it, in a nutshell. If I were on TELUS, I would be running this radio as well, up until the day I can replace it with another TELUS radio.
Hello,
For people having problems With the TMO Radio on Telus.
The Tmo radio sucks on Telus it will break Data connection, so use the Telus radio. But you can not flash over TMO ICS Rom with the Telus RIL files, it will break signal all together.
If you are already using a TMO ICS rom use one of the Telus radios in the Nexusmod thread with the system folder removed or remove the system folder before you flash the radio.
If your getting ready to flash an Ics rom and your on Telus radio, skip the flashing radio step. I hope that helps.
Though I heard rumors that the Telus radio doesnt quite work perfectly with the TMO leak
If we could use this thread for problems with Telus users using the leak that would be great
After flashing the Telus modem with the RIL file removed, ie installing the modem from the Nexus Mod thread in the dev section, this Rom has definitely more stable data connection. There are still some random drop outs but not as often as the TMo radios. Actually I have flashed many of the ICS leaks and there has, in my experience, data drop outs with any TMo modem on the Telus network. I'm very happy thus far with Evolution 2. There are occasionally some app crashes and camera glitches but overall nothing deal breaking. Amazing job on this ROM.
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Do you think this could cause a phone force close with the Virgin Mobile network?
EDIT: Yep. That was the problem. Thank you guys so much, I've been stressing for days... The Telus radio fixed everything.
Working for me here. I'm not sure if my speeds are where they should be though, as in they seem to be half of what they should be. This leads me to think that the phone might only be seeing and connecting to one tower instead of two for the HSPA. My baseband shows up as Unknown too, so I'm not sure if that is a big deal or not.
I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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Bizarre. I just tried the Blaze modem and had extremely slow speeds on speedtest. Like 1 mpbs, whereas I had at least 10 with Telus' modem. It isn't like I was getting slow slow speeds or anything I guess. Just kind of strange.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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curious, where in canada you living? I'm on vancouver island and I kind of get junk speeds
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I got this phone from the states, and it's a great piece of hardware.
Love the screen / speed.
I'm using it on WIND, and so far I'm not having the greatest reception.
First tried GingerSnap rom with VK1 modem.
Conclusion: unusable gps, Slow speed, and voice was distorted - tunnel-like.
Then tried Jugger 4.1 with KL1 modem.
Conclusion: Great GPS. More normal data speeds. But Voice was even worse!
I tried forcing the network selection to WCDMA and that didn't help.
I'm looking for RADIOS to try out, or ones people can recommend for WIND. Not sure if there are any other ones for T989
This links in this thread are dead: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
I'm hoping to avoid flashing an entire ROM again. lol
check DEV section http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
I have wind galaxy s3 and I installed cm10 for t mobile. Obviously there isn't one for wind so I had to. Well I soon noticed my data is slower. Normally on 3g I would get 6-8mps but since I installed this I'm getting 2-3mbps. And I checked its because my phone isn't using 3g its using 3.5g(hsdpa). I have been looking everywhere but haven't found an answer yet. I was wondering if anyone can extract winds modem file I can try installing that.
I have already tried a lot of tricks from service menu but nothing works. I'll still try if you anyone have a good advice. Thanks
If you flashed CM10 for the T999 on a Wind Galaxy S3, which is what I understand you to mean, then you should still have a Wind radio/modem. CM10 doesn't flash a radio unless you have customized the package for some reason. And why do you think that you would get slower speeds on HSDPA as opposed to UMTS only? The phone is going to use the best that it is capable of, unless you tell it not to do so. I do know that CM9 and probably 10 also was said to have slower data speeds in general on some devices. I don't personally know if this is true or rumor. But, that may be your problem.
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If you flashed CM10 for the T999 on a Wind Galaxy S3, which is what I understand you to mean, then you should still have a Wind radio/modem. CM10 doesn't flash a radio unless you have customized the package for some reason. And why do you think that you would get slower speeds on HSDPA as opposed to UMTS only? The phone is going to use the best that it is capable of, unless you tell it not to do so. I do know that CM9 and probably 10 also was said to have slower data speeds in general on some devices. I don't personally know if this is true or rumor. But, that may be your problem.
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Yes you got it all correct, Wind actually uses 3g mostly so it has better service on 3g(utms) vs on 3.5g(hsdpa). hsdpa works but not as good as 3g could when i had stock rom and thats the band(3g) my phone used before mostly.
phone is using what logically should be better but stupid wind likes to be on old technology.
I have a unlocked galaxy s2 X from t-mobile that im currently using with wind. The data is just incredibly sow on it and i know its not Wind because my friend who has the same phone as me and is on wind gets around 3mbps down and around .5 up while i get no where near that. So i just want to know is there a way to speed up data in Toronto area
I have the same phone on Wind. My data speed is good but it also depends on data traffic (sometimes its slow) as well as your location.
Also, try flashing different radios. Personally, I prefer TLLE4 radio which is a telus ICS radio.
do u have the link to that radio
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do u have the link to that radio
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Heres a list of radios, (the telus radio is in there too) just try different ones until you find what works best: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1895400
cheers!
Hi, everyone!
I have a question regarding modems for the Canadian variant of the Note 2 t889v. I am with Virgin Canada and my phone is the Wind variant. I had the i737m from Telus before this, and the speeds were phenomenal. I was wondering if there is a modem I can flash for this phone?
I live in the GTA.
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There are two users who've reported enabling LTE on the T889V: Rail205 and myself.
Flashing one of the LTE enabled modems through CWM or TWRP (Rail205 flashed the T-Mobile LTE update one, I flashed the I317M LJ2 modem) alone has in both our cases resulted in IMEI corruption. Reflashing the original T889V modem brought bootloops. Flashing the LTE modem a second time stops the bootloops, but the phone gets no service and has no IMEI at this point. (From what I can tell other items in addition to the IMEI are also corrupt.)
This requires an NV items restore from a proper backup through one of the few suitable programs that can do it. (NV_reader_writer, QPST, QXDM, CDMA Workshop, etc...)
Expect to be stuck on that modem onwards. In my case, reflashing the T889V modem again just causes bootloops again.
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There are two users who've reported enabling LTE on the T889V: Rail205 and myself.
Flashing one of the LTE enabled modems through CWM or TWRP (Rail205 flashed the T-Mobile LTE update one, I flashed the I317M LJ2 modem) alone has in both our cases resulted in IMEI corruption. Reflashing the original T889V modem brought bootloops. Flashing the LTE modem a second time stops the bootloops, but the phone gets no service and has no IMEI at this point. (From what I can tell other items in addition to the IMEI are also corrupt.)
This requires an NV items restore from a proper backup through one of the few suitable programs that can do it. (NV_reader_writer, QPST, QXDM, CDMA Workshop, etc...)
Expect to be stuck on that modem onwards. In my case, reflashing the T889V modem again just causes bootloops again.
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I do not have LTE, though. I am just looking for better speeds.
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As it stands, your T889V should be running in DC-HSPA, which has a theoretical maximum of 42 Mbps. Not too shabby, but LTE can run up to 75, and has consistently lower pings.
Provided you've got a VMC LTE microSIM with a compatible plan (pretty much anything that's got a set amount of data, VMC did have Unlimited Mobile Browser back in the day, and those plans/features would be stuck on HSPA no matter what.), LTE should work if the device supports it.
As far as anyone here can tell, the T889V's stock modem has LTE completely disabled, just like the original T889 releases. IIRC, flashing I317(M) NV items alone does not enable LTE, whereas flashing T889(V) items on an I317(M) enables AWS DC-HSPA. So your only way to get better speeds beyond those you currently have involve this convoluted, experimental, procedure.
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As it stands, your T889V should be running in DC-HSPA, which has a theoretical maximum of 42 Mbps. Not too shabby, but LTE can run up to 75, and has consistently lower pings.
Provided you've got a VMC LTE microSIM with a compatible plan (pretty much anything that's got a set amount of data, VMC did have Unlimited Mobile Browser back in the day, and those plans/features would be stuck on HSPA no matter what.), LTE should work if the device supports it.
As far as anyone here can tell, the T889V's stock modem has LTE completely disabled, just like the original T889 releases. IIRC, flashing I317(M) NV items alone does not enable LTE, whereas flashing T889(V) items on an I317(M) enables AWS DC-HSPA. So your only way to get better speeds beyond those you currently have involve this convoluted, experimental, procedure.
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I have seen you respond to another thread about flashing the T-Mobile modem on the T889V.
I do not have an LTE plan and so I am just looking for standard 4G speeds that I seem to not be having right now with the stock modem. As I've stated before, I've had the I317M and speeds were actually comparable to LTE speeds.
Can you point me to the right direction? I have backed up my efs (I don't know if this includes IMEI) by using Andromizer as I've heard horror stories of losing IMEI after flashing.
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Three requirements for LTE on VMC: device, non-unlimited data plan, provisioning (which is automatic unless your data plan/feature is really old, in which case you just have to call for them to add "forced provisioning"). That's it. Test it with a known working LTE device to check the latter two are OK in your case. (Friend's or with a demo phone at a VMC or Bell location.)
Drop the "4G" term, it's misleading. HSPA and LTE aren't.
Your previous 317M was in all likelihood running on LTE. And remember that both the HSPA and LTE Bell/Telus networks are joint. To get a bit more technical, the radio side is identical, the backhaul isn't.
I'm not sure Andromizer makes all the required backups in our case.
Just made the switch over to att and I am getting really slow lte speeds. Can anybody help?
Fix your APN?
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Fix your APN?
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Tried every APN setting possible already. Searched all the threads and still no help.
There's a thread on here about flashing the AT&T modem and it solving the problem. Plz search and find it...
Here I found it for you..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522282
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There's a thread on here about flashing the AT&T modem and it solving the problem. Plz search and find it...
Here I found it for you..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522282
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Thanks for the advice but I read through the thread already and it doesn't seem like it will improve drastically. So I rather not attempt to flash a modem that may cause a soft brick. My brother has a N900a and gets almost triple the speed of my lte. What gives?
I dont always get fast speeds. I'm guessing at&t phones get higher priority than other phones. There is a build.prop that you can flash/edit that may or may not work. I, myself, haven't made any mods because I get higher speeds usually. Not always. I am on a 900T but using an international 9005 rom with T-Mobile modem still. It really boils down to is the risk flashing a modem or build.prop worth it. In downtown houston I rarely dip below 10mb/s on LTE and occasionally see over 20mb/s. The congestion is real bad here so it is very often I get bumped back down to hspa. Like I said, you have to weigh the risks. I am fine with how it is working now. My post probably hasn't helped you get you where you want to go but it may help you to be content with what you have or may consider flashing an international rom minus modem and see if that helps.
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I'm on straight talk att sim and it's ridiculous on an att phone I get att quality signal. But with this tmobile phone when home I can only get signal in my bed room by the window . From I walk into building calls and signal dropped dead . It truly sucks. I'm switching back to tmobile as soon as this month is over . I hate paying that extra 30 dollars but a phone is no good in one room .
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I'm on straight talk att sim and it's ridiculous on an att phone I get att quality signal. But with this tmobile phone when home I can only get signal in my bed room by the window . From I walk into building calls and signal dropped dead . It truly sucks. I'm switching back to tmobile as soon as this month is over . I hate paying that extra 30 dollars but a phone is no good in one room .
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I as well am on Straight Talk At&t micro sim and I get pretty decent speeds I believe Straight Talk cap's their LTE speeds at 15 down and I think around 8-9 up which ain't bad for the Chicago area. But there are times where I barely get 2 down and 4 up. I also have a Tmobile Note 3 stock/rooted using a ST sim.
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I as well am on Straight Talk At&t micro sim and I get pretty decent speeds I believe Straight Talk cap's their LTE speeds at 15 down and I think around 8-9 up which ain't bad for the Chicago area. But there are times where I barely get 2 down and 4 up. I also have a Tmobile Note 3 stock/rooted using a ST sim.
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The speeds are fine when I actually get a signal . Its the fact that I have dead spots in almost my whole apartment except the rooms located to front of building . It was never like this before .
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Tmobile Note 3 on ATT Network
I have a Tmobile unlocked phone on ATT and I can't find out anyway to speed up the LTE. I get LTE it seems, but it cuts the speed in half compared to my girlfriend ATT variant Note 3. I tried to flash an AT&T modem to it, but then it would soft brick the device and wouldn't boot. I have tried every APN I can think of, but still no success. I have tried the build.prop, like adding the lines for faster data tweak, but still nothing is getting better. I have full bars, but speed is slow. Do you have any suggestions on what to do, b/c I am out of options. Thanks.
Add me to the list. Just switched over to AT&T from T-mobile, but get very bad speeds. The only reason why I switched over was because with T-mobile, I was getting poor quality signal almost EVERYWHERE, so I had no choice.
I'm curious; if the bands in our phones support the proper AT&T bands and we actually get LTE, it's gotta be a software issue. Modem most likely.
Yeah im sure it has to do with the way the modem is optimized for ATT's 1700 band. I'm also in the same boat and have flashed ATT's modem but it doesn't work. Others have flashed ATT modems but I dont think anyone has been able to successfully see their baseband change in the settings so no one can say whether it worked for sure. I can tell you that the bars have nothing to do with your call signal though, its just your LTE signal strength. If you really want higher signal in your house if LTE seems to drop or be super slow, you should manually switch over to use HSPA+ in your house. Its a pain...i know.
I'm hoping eventually the newer modems fix the 1700 mhz frequency optimization or some devs figure out how to successfully flash N900A modems on the N900T.
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I have great signal almost always it seems like. I have full bars on LTE or 4G/HSPA+, but if I put my sim card in my AT&T variant note I get at least twice as much throughput than with the note 3 tmobile. It has to be a software issue, I have tried to flash att modems with no success. Just got to wait for a tweaked modem. I have even tried tweaking build.prop file and it works a little bit but not much. It is just weird I have full bars with LTE, but I won't be able to get data sometimes, which is really weird. I think there has to be something with the signal bars showing higher dbm that it actually is receiving. Probably another software glitch. Well if anyone has any insight on this issue let us know, please been looking everywhere.
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I think also that the modem is not the only issue. I flashed a kernel today after being on the stock kernel on the T-Mobile and I did a speedtest and the speeds were really low. Flashed another kernel and boom faster speeds back to where I was, maybe higher, but I will monitor to see what happens. But I read that Kernels do affect data speeds sometimes. I am just going to keep looking around to see if any kernels work.
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I think also that the modem is not the only issue. I flashed a kernel today after being on the stock kernel on the T-Mobile and I did a speedtest and the speeds were really low. Flashed another kernel and boom faster speeds back to where I was, maybe higher, but I will monitor to see what happens. But I read that Kernels do affect data speeds sometimes. I am just going to keep looking around to see if any kernels work.
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AFAIK it has nothing to do with kernel I might be wrong its just the modem
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Is there any tweaks that can be done to kinda help the LTE or at least fix my signal bars showing full all the time. I am thinking it is not switching towers when it is supposed to and giving a false signal strength. Is there anything on modifying like you can on Sprint phones with dbm on wimax, where it will switch antennas.
Has anybody flashed the new N900T NE6 based ROMs / modem and seen any difference?
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Has anybody flashed the new N900T NE6 based ROMs / modem and seen any difference?
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I upgraded the modem and bootloader to the new NE6 version. I'm on Temasek CM11. My observations:
Signal strength is slightly better. Speeds are definitely much better. Prior to the upgrade, I'd get around 6-15/down, 3/up. Now I consistently get 25/down, 10/up.
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I upgraded the modem and bootloader to the new NE6 version. I'm on Temasek CM11. My observations:
Signal strength is slightly better. Speeds are definitely much better. Prior to the upgrade, I'd get around 6-15/down, 3/up. Now I consistently get 25/down, 10/up.
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How did you get the new modem to stick? Did you do the triangle away method? If so, did you have to revert to a stock kernel first? I'm trying to upgrade only the modem and leave the bootloader as is. Is that a bad idea?
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How did you get the new modem to stick? Did you do the triangle away method? If so, did you have to revert to a stock kernel first? I'm trying to upgrade only the modem and leave the bootloader as is. Is that a bad idea?
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It's getting incredibly frustrating to have to repeat this a number of times. I think this morning I had to repeat it already 3 times. Please do a search; there are plenty of pointers on how to get it done. For reference, here is what I did.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52904005&postcount=95