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[CWM][FASTBOOT][OTA Fix] Fixed Radios FC12 FD02 for Sprint Galaxy Nexus

Nexus CM Blog: Sprint Galaxy Nexus Radio Images
Fix OTA upgrade to FD02 with these *fixed* FC12 radio images.
If you run CM9, AOKP, CNA or other custom Android, you may will want to flash directly to FD02.
Thanks to considerable help from winner00 and testers in channel freenode #gn-sprint we managed to figure out the real cause of the OTA upgrade failures plaguing us. We also have extracted and thoroughly tested fastboot and CWM/TWRP flashable .zip's of both FC12 and FD02 radios in the link above. The Nexus CM blog will maintain vigorously tested fastboot and flashable .zip's for all current and future toroplus radio firmware.
What broke OTA?
In short, this was the forum community's fault.
The initial leaked FC12 factory restore has a LTE radio image that does not match the radio that shipped on the Sprint Galaxy Nexus. As a result, the FD02 OTA upgrade fails. Please stop bothering Sprint stores for phone repairs/replacements.. Fortunately you can now easily fix these issues with the heavily tested downloads available from the link above. Please verify the md5sums before you attempt to flash with either fastboot, CWM or TWRP.
Follow the CyanogenMod Sprint Galaxy Nexus Google+ page for the latest development news and to interact with the developers!.

Don't want to clutter the thread with thanks and +1's but, u know...... this works and works well. I will no longer flash leaked radios, lol.
The sprint gnex community is growing daily, yay.

Stickied for now. It will need to be maintained with future radios as well.
Thanks
FNM

Flashed both CDMA and LTE radios in fastboot. Everything works great! Wish they would open up LTE here in Dallas! Probably going to flash CM9. I miss CM since I got rid of the EVO!

Glad you guys could find the legit FC12 radios! My phone is very happy now.

Man got me right before I odined thanks for this.

Know this is mostly for people who are running other roms, but if you're stock with an unlocked bootloader, you might consider applying this zip, which will bring you up to full FD02.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635104

Real happy to see these great devs including op and mod from the epic community now working on this amazing device. Really in love with it. Pretty sad, I know. Good to know I'm not alone though.

jwischka said:
Know this is mostly for people who are running other roms, but if you're stock with an unlocked bootloader, you might consider applying this zip, which will bring you up to full FD02.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635104
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Nice!

Thanks for this Wayne. Should be very helpful to a lot of us! Works great!
Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Nexus CDMA using xda premium

wtogami said:
What broke OTA?
In short, this was the forum community's fault.
The initial leaked FC12 factory restore has a LTE radio image that does not match the radio that shipped on the Sprint Galaxy Nexus. As a result, the FD02 OTA upgrade fails. Please stop bothering Sprint stores for phone repairs/replacements.. Fortunately you can now easily fix these issues with the heavily tested downloads available from the link above. Please verify the md5sums before you attempt to flash with either fastboot, CWM or TWRP.
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For what it's worth, I have a stock phone with unlocked bootloader and root and the OTA fails for me. I never flashed the FC12 radios, I never flashed any ROMs. I got the OTA yesterday and it fails with Status 7.

joypunk said:
For what it's worth, I have a stock phone with unlocked bootloader and root and the OTA fails for me. I never flashed the FC12 radios, I never flashed any ROMs. I got the OTA yesterday and it fails with Status 7.
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Same here, Stock sprint Gnex, Unlocked and rooted. But failed the OTA update.

joypunk said:
For what it's worth, I have a stock phone with unlocked bootloader and root and the OTA fails for me. I never flashed the FC12 radios, I never flashed any ROMs. I got the OTA yesterday and it fails with Status 7.
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I had the same issue -- unlocked but never installed other radios, everything stock. I even went back to locked stock by odin and still couldn't get the OTA. I called Sprint and the guy told me to go to the store. The store tried the OTA and it failed. That tech told me they had an email that said many people had issues installing the OTA but they couldn't manually update until May 17th.
They ended up swapping the phone for me and we updated it right there in the store.
The bonus was that I had spent about $5 of my Google wallet money and when I set up the new phone I got the whole $10 again.

meatgel said:
I had the same issue -- unlocked but never installed other radios, everything stock. I even went back to locked stock by odin and still couldn't get the OTA. I called Sprint and the guy told me to go to the store. The store tried the OTA and it failed. That tech told me they had an email that said many people had issues installing the OTA but they couldn't manually update until May 17th.
They ended up swapping the phone for me and we updated it right there in the store.
The bonus was that I had spent about $5 of my Google wallet money and when I set up the new phone I got the whole $10 again.
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You got lucky I cant see them replacing phones for that. The root method you used I would be curious about as well as it probably altered system files that were to be updated.

Paleryder said:
You got lucky I cant see them replacing phones for that. The root method you used I would be curious about as well as it probably altered system files that were to be updated.
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I used the GNEX toolkit to root, so if that's the problem a lot more people would be having it. Plus I returned to stock with ODIN, wouldn't that put it back to stock with no altered system files?

What I have been reading the radios were either corrupt or a different version that was originally shipped.I'm assuming the Odin radios were having the same issue. The official CM9 peeps have posted correct radios
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

If I am on AOKP Rom, should I update to FD02?

holy hell thank you guys so much for this helped me out!

I was on Skank CM9 Kand with FD01 radios. I flashed these FD12 radios restored a stock nandroid I made and fastboot flashed a stock radio IMG it worked perfectly and I recieved the full update. Thanks
Odd issue im having after a fastboot oem unlock and a sucessful twrp 2.1.2 toro plus recovery flash it wont stick keeps reverting to stock recovery.
I did reboot into system before installing and then flash. I was even able to make a nandroid but after booting into recovery Im back on a stock recovery :/
any ideas
ty

Paleryder said:
I was on Skank CM9 Kand with FD01 radios. I flashed these FD12 radios restored a stock nandroid I made and fastboot flashed a stock radio IMG it worked perfectly and I recieved the full update. Thanks
Odd issue im having after a fastboot oem unlock and a sucessful twrp 2.1.2 toro plus recovery flash it wont stick keeps reverting to stock recovery.
I did reboot into system before installing and then flash. I was even able to make a nandroid but after booting into recovery Im back on a stock recovery :/
any ideas
ty
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On the stock ROM there is a script that restores stock recovery upon reboot. I believe it's in /system named recovery-from-boot. Either erase that file or rename it to recovery-from-boot.bak.

Sprint OTA update issues

So when i got my galaxy nexus about 3 weeks ago I rooted and unlocked the boot loader but stuck with the stock rom. My radio was FC12 for both CDMA and LTE. I didn't have any issues with those radios. My through put was around .6 - .7mbps down. I kept getting the message to do the OTA upgrade which was annoying so i manually flashed FD02 via fastboot. My throughput went to crap and was only getting like .02mbps. So this is what i did. I flashed back to stock recovery, flashed back to FC12 relocked my boot loader and did a full stock restore via the android OS. I still cannot install the OTA upgrade. Is there something I am missing? My plan was to go totally stock grab the updates and then reroot and unlock again.
Thanks and sorry if this has been asked but i did searched and couldn't find a similar situation.
also for a good funny for ya i forgot that unlocking again wipe everything so i lost all my pics and movies and backups That's what happens when you work on stuff with 2 rug rats running around and bugging you when you are doing something.

Wrong section this is for development please ask questions in q and a.
I think there is a stock fd02 tar that you need to flash through Odin... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620036
You could have reflashed the fc12 radios through fastboot.
Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus via XDA Premium

zachl said:
So when i got my galaxy nexus about 3 weeks about I rooted and unlocked the boot loader but stuck with the stock rom. My radio was FC12 for both CDMA and LTE. I didn't have any issues with those radios. My through put was around .6 - .7mbps down. I kept getting the message to do the OTA upgrade which was annoying so i manually flashed FD02 via fastboot. My throughput went to crap and was only getting like .02mbps. So this is what i did. I flashed back to stock recovery, flashed back to FC12 relocked my boot loader and did a full stock restore via the android OS. I still cannot install the OTA upgrade. Is there something I am missing? My plan was to go totally stock grab the updates and then reroot and unlock again.
Thanks and sorry if this has been asked i searched and couldn't find a similar situation.
also for a good funny for ya i forgot that unlocking again wipe everything so i lost all my pics and movies and backups That's what happens when you work on stuff with 2 rug rats running around and bugging you when you are doing something.
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Flash this to update the radios, then flash this to update the system files.

Thats the radio update that I used originally. Also I did flash back to the FC12 i just don't want to keep seeing the OTA message. Also were did we get this other update file? I'm not a big fan of putting .zips and custom ROM's on my phone since you don't really know whats in them...sorry in my line of work its something people rarely thing about when just willy nilly installing things to their phones/computers.

Well if you don't want to do any of what they told you to do, I would think your only other option is taking the phone in to Sprint and having them flash for you.

zachl said:
Thats the radio update that I used originally. Also I did flash back to the FC12 i just don't want to keep seeing the OTA message. Also were did we get this other update file? I'm not a big fan of putting .zips and custom ROM's on my phone since you don't really know whats in them...sorry in my line of work its something people rarely thing about when just willy nilly installing things to their phones/computers.
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LOL because if it does have stuff containing "harmful" things... they will be sued. I've never had any issue flashing ANYTHING to my phone. I guess your one of those people who think somebody is wiretapping your LAN line huh? or your internet and now your phone?.... seriously we are only providing help... take it or leave it.

zachl said:
Thats the radio update that I used originally. Also I did flash back to the FC12 i just don't want to keep seeing the OTA message. Also were did we get this other update file? I'm not a big fan of putting .zips and custom ROM's on my phone since you don't really know whats in them...sorry in my line of work its something people rarely thing about when just willy nilly installing things to their phones/computers.
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I made it. If you don't want to flash it, don't.
It's taken from the OTA, with the updater script modified such that it doesn't check or update the bootloader, recovery, or radios. The stock script won't work if a) you've unlocked your bootloader, b) done anything to your recovery, or c) don't have the original radios. Hence, your update is failing. That file won't.
I made it because I was tired of seeing the OTA update message. Your options are to flash that zip, or ODIN and lose all your data. It doesn't matter to me which you choose.

Not Development!
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FNM
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[Q] I Hate 4.4

Hello Everyone,
im new here but ive been on this forum before for help searching similar problems.
now the problem i have today is driving me crazy since 4pm, i tried everything and no hope.
i have Galaxy note 3 tmobile it was rooted working great but i wanted more out of my rom so i decided to go with jedi elite, but it was recommended to flash it with TWRP so i thought i could flash it over CWM. but it didnt work and i couldnt reboot in recovery anymore. no problem backed up my apps and unrooted the phone back to normal with 4.3, then i found out that 4.4 is out so i went ahead and downloaded it thinking i can root with 4.4 kitkat. well after i updated the phone i rooted and tried to use TWRP but it wouldnt work and the phone didnt wanna boot in recovery i tried CWM and no luck either.
now the phone for some reason is not rooted, it wont load in recovery mode and i tried to downgrade back to 4.3 with odin but it keeps failing.
heres what i need help with. Downgrade back to 4.3, be able to root and boot in recovery mode with TWRP...
help pleaseeee.

If you flashed the full 4.4 update your not going to be able to go back but you can have your root and recovery. Just no 4.3 roms, sorry. Easiest thing for me to tell you is there are some good tuts, if you can follow directions you can get straightened out. I was feeling generous and searched for you.
Good tut here for getting going on 4.4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
If you want twrp instead of phill's touch, the latest version is compatible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467001

Dawii85 said:
Hello Everyone,
im new here but ive been on this forum before for help searching similar problems.
now the problem i have today is driving me crazy since 4pm, i tried everything and no hope.
i have Galaxy note 3 tmobile it was rooted working great but i wanted more out of my rom so i decided to go with jedi elite, but it was recommended to flash it with TWRP so i thought i could flash it over CWM. but it didnt work and i couldnt reboot in recovery anymore. no problem backed up my apps and unrooted the phone back to normal with 4.3, then i found out that 4.4 is out so i went ahead and downloaded it thinking i can root with 4.4 kitkat. well after i updated the phone i rooted and tried to use TWRP but it wouldnt work and the phone didnt wanna boot in recovery i tried CWM and no luck either.
now the phone for some reason is not rooted, it wont load in recovery mode and i tried to downgrade back to 4.3 with odin but it keeps failing.
heres what i need help with. Downgrade back to 4.3, be able to root and boot in recovery mode with TWRP...
help pleaseeee.
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Once you went up u here. No looking back. I disagree with you cause kit Kat is great. It has speed and great battery life. No more WiFi headaches. U need to search the threads for the how to root video and follow it. The last 10 or so people who hated kit Kat was all them doing wrong. Can't blame something when u doing it wrong. What recovery you got what root method. Where did you get Odin file from. Did md5 check out. I tell you that you my friend did something wrong. Read the threads not just the op. A few guys posted a step by step and it worked for 98% of the people. The other 2 did it wrong
TWEAKED N3

b.huss2 said:
If you flashed the full 4.4 update your not going to be able to go back but you can have your root and recovery. Just no 4.3 roms, sorry. Easiest thing for me to tell you is there are some good tuts, if you can follow directions you can get straightened out. I was feeling generous and searched for you.
Good tut here for getting going on 4.4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
If you want twrp instead of phill's touch, the latest version is compatible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467001
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i will try it out and hopefully the root goes through.
thank you so much

b.huss2 said:
If you flashed the full 4.4 update your not going to be able to go back but you can have your root and recovery. Just no 4.3 roms, sorry. Easiest thing for me to tell you is there are some good tuts, if you can follow directions you can get straightened out. I was feeling generous and searched for you.
Good tut here for getting going on 4.4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
If you want twrp instead of phill's touch, the latest version is compatible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467001
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It worked but the rom maxes at 2.4 kitkat and jedi are 2.7mhz. is there any method to root tmobile 4.4 at least with 4.4??

[Q] T889 Bricked, TWRP works, Wiped Everything, Have Android Toolkit, Now What?

Made big mistake. Downloaded Android Toolbox (PRO). Rooted 4.3 successfully. Trying to go to 4.1.2 from 4.3. Did Titanium backup. Downloaded Mr Robinson root66 ROM. Using TWRP (latest), made mistake of wiring everything (not extsdcard). Now stuck at the first Galaxy Note screen when the phone is turned on or I can get to TWRP. Feel dumb as a stump, but can't seem to move from here. Help!
All I really want to do is get back to an operating phone, be it with 4.3 or 4.1.2.
Bill

Sorry for the long-winded whiny first post. I'm just stumped how to flash a ROM back on the phone. Can I use TWRP to flash a new ROM? I usually have been able to muddle through but I'm really confused at this point. Anyone have an idea?
Thanks

Pringeo said:
Sorry for the long-winded whiny first post. I'm just stumped how to flash a ROM back on the phone. Can I use TWRP to flash a new ROM? I usually have been able to muddle through but I'm really confused at this point. Anyone have an idea?
Thanks
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If you can get into recovery you should be able to flash a custom rom, If not you will have to use Odin and flash a t889 rom to your phone preferably mk7.

Does your phone go in to download mode ? If yes, does it recognized by ODIN ?
If TWRP is working then you should not have any problems flashing any 4.3 rom via TWRP.

Thank you for the hint. I finally woke up after these replies and made the phone into a non-brick again. XDA continues to be my source for all things related to my toys.
Bill

Return to Stock

Hi All,
So 2 years ago I went to cyanogenmod 10.2, twas great, but I am looking to return to a stock phone. I was able to reset the binary counter, but I can not seem to be able to flash any of the stock t-mobile s3 roms or recovery roms i have found, I just get failed errors. I was able to restore my phone to the original cyanogenmod upgrade I made using a nandroid backup, but I have not clue how to step back to stock samsumg s3 t-mobile.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially as I managed to temporarily softbrick my phone last night, I was finally able to fix that by re-flashing CWM Recovery using Odin.
Thanks
PS: on this current backup I am on, I am not getting any network access, just wifi.

You can use ODIN and follow the instructions on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
The stock recovery image is listed as well. You may have also lost your imei.

mycomputerisjunk said:
You can use ODIN and follow the instructions on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
The stock recovery image is listed as well. You may have also lost your imei.
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Thanks, phone works like a phone again!!!