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cant install any ruu to htc desire cdma

I dont know if someone here has posted something similar but i got a huge problem with my damn htc desire, it is cdma ive tried to install the ruu froyo but it wont let me it says model id error or cid incorrect i have made the damn goldcard and it doesn't work, this phone is pissing the hell out of me. i cant do nothing with it. could someone here tell me plz some way to install an compatible ruu. the phone only boots to fastboot, i can change it to hboot but from there nothing. plz can someone here help me i;m losing my mind.

give us some details then we MAY be able to help you.. we're not friggin' magicians here..
Firstly, the RUU's didn't work because my best bet is that you were using RUU for Bravo and not BravoC (your model) - Hence modelID error.
Secondly, if you're rooted, then you're more than likely S-OFF too so you can probably just fix it, look on my guide. (DO NOT FLASH ANY HBOOTS)

to stop us working double on this, please choose either this thread, or http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/475726-cant-install-any-ruu-htc-desire-cdma.html
It gets annoying trying to help people in several different places.
My suggestion is to stay on XDA as Bortak knows his stuff and will probably be able to help. On AF you may get stuck with me and I just havent the time.

Oooh rootSu sorry didnt knew that androis forums where from here too, my apologies for that. Ummm ok the problem. I got this htc desire bravo_c it was rooted but my brother told me that the phone started on bootloop. Then I exactly didnt knew what he did but then he said the phone was with black screen. Ok I tried some guides from here, the only problem was that it happened like some guy said here, I tried to do an ruu rom but when it started doing the progress when It was at 20% it stopped and now the phone boots only in fastboot. After the ruu now I can see whats happening with the phone but like I said it only boots on fast boot. Oh other thing now the phone is S-on and the hboot is 0.98. Let me know if u need some more details. Ill let u kno,. And sorry again for the other forum.
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There aren't that many resources for the bravoC so you've got limited options. As far as I know there is one BravoC RUU on shipped-roms.Com, but if it's not for your network provider I don't know whether it wouldn't just break your phone..
If it is the right RUU for your network then great, use it and hope for the best. If it isn't then stay away from it and contact HTC.
you should root and s-off your phone (when/if you fix it/get it back from repair), so that these sort of problems can be sorted out easily without any hiccups.

bortak said:
There aren't that many resources for the bravoC so you've got limited options. As far as I know there is one BravoC RUU on shipped-roms.Com, but if it's not for your network provider I don't know whether it wouldn't just break your phone..
If it is the right RUU for your network then great, use it and hope for the best. If it isn't then stay away from it and contact HTC.
you should root and s-off your phone (when/if you fix it/get it back from repair), so that these sort of problems can be sorted out easily without any hiccups.
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well this sucks umm if i contact htc they will probably say to send the phone right? man i was hoping i could fix it with the guides here i really have bad luck.
So the best thing to do now is just to contact htc and wait for what they have to say. thanks for the help, sorry for posting this thread like that, it wasn't my intention to make anyone mad or anything, its just that i was so desperate that i wanted someone to help me.

Sorry I'm not mad and it IS a different forum. But sometimes I end up helping on AF and someone else helps here and we end up either
a) both duplicating each others work
b) taking different approaches.
The risk then is you take some advise from here, some advise from there, put it all together and end up bricking your phone.

I understand thanks for the help. I called htc they told me that i have to call tomorrow because Im from Puerto Rico and their offices are close today so I gotta check tomorrow to see if they are open.

dude i have a htc cdma i rooted. installed cm7 on there..took me like 10 minutes

freshkid87 said:
dude i have a htc cdma i rooted. installed cm7 on there..took me like 10 minutes
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Yes, well done, congratulations.. your point is? Have you read the thread? No? You just decided to post something totally irrelevant? Really? Awesome.

Bortak thanks for the help man, but my brother got an galaxy s2 so I wont b trying to fix the desire anymore.
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Oh and btw dont care, the desire was rooted and it had cm too the problem was that... Whatever wont waste time on u.
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bortak said:
Yes, well done, congratulations.. your point is? Have you read the thread? No? You just decided to post something totally irrelevant? Really? Awesome.
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shut your london ass up

Serious help needed, unknown baseband, no signal. HTC won't repair..

Hello fellow hox xda people... I am very stuck in this situation, gutted because I love my hox.
It started when I lost my phone signal for a few hours.. stupidly in a panic I tried to flash stock recovery to try and fix it.. then I noticed my imei and baseband showing as "unknown".. I have relocked and run the ruu but the problem still remains.. I fear u have somehow corrupted the radio partition...
It isn't the sim because that works in another phone, I have tried another sim but still no signal.
I sent it to HTC to repair under warranty but because it had been relocked the won't touch it without me paying £150 to replace main board..
Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts?
I am waiting for the next official update to come and see if writing the new radio will fix it...
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Seems like you've screwed your IMEI. This happened to me on the SGS2 where my EFS got corrupted luckily I had saved my EFS and managed to flash it back.
Not sure if this method also applies to HTC products, or it could be your phone has a hardware fault. If they are trying to charge you then nothing you can do I'm afraid then just cough up especially if it is a corrupted EFS.
Edit : EFS only applies to the Samsung phones, seems like your radio is screwed, if you still have your phone there is a radio thread on the development section, flash a radio again and it might just restore it back.
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Thank-you for your reply... I did notice similar problems with gs2 when doing research on Google. I have looked at the radio which leads me to think I may be up the proverbial creak... I did try flashing the new leaked radio but with no luck... I do have quite a bit of blind faith in the up coming official update... is there a way of formatting the radio partition and the ruu re-writing it?
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stout0_0 said:
Thank-you for your reply... I did notice similar problems with gs2 when doing research on Google. I have looked at the radio which leads me to think I may be up the proverbial creak... I did try flashing the new leaked radio but with no luck... I do have quite a bit of blind faith in the up coming official update... is there a way of formatting the radio partition and the ruu re-writing it?
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We can't really do anything in regards to that as we have no S-OFF. Where we can flash radios and rils. Still clueless how it would have damaged it as we don't have S-OFF.
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It does seem to be a bit of a mystery!... the imei is still there when I check the barcode in hboot screen... does that indicate anything do u think?
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stout0_0 said:
It does seem to be a bit of a mystery!... the imei is still there when I check the barcode in hboot screen... does that indicate anything do u think?
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Just relock your bootloader, flash with an RUU (branded or unbranded) and everything should be fine. This kind of thing happens once in a while. It happened with my S II and Sensation back in the day

Hi, and thank-you for your response. I have tried that numerous time but still have the same problem, I have flashed the leaked radio too on various roms to no avail..
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stout0_0 said:
Hi, and thank-you for your response. I have tried that numerous time but still have the same problem, I have flashed the leaked radio too on various roms to no avail..
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That's very odd. That's what I've always done when my IMEI or baseband goes missing. Flashing the official OEM ROM usually writes the ROM, kernel and the baseband if I'm not mistaken. Kinda like when you flash a OEM firmware to the iPhone. It writes over everything hence why you have to use a custom ROM that doesn't update the baseband if you want to preserve your SIM unlock.
I installed Android Revolution HD 7.2.1 the other day (nice ROM by the way). Decided I wanted the benfits of Francos r12 kernel. Flashed it and then had no GSM signal. Baseband and IMEI were both unknown. Thought to myself "f*^k here we go again".
Downloaded this. Went back into the bootloader. Relocked it via adb. Then whilst still in the bootloader, I clicked on the RUU that I downloaded from here.
Once everything booted back up, had GSM, IMEI and baseband back. Proceeded to unlock the bootloader and flash ARDH 7.2.1 again but left out Francos kernel for the time being lol.

More for the legal heads etc. here, but HTC-Dev's website states:
Why is my security still on (S-On) after I have unlocked my bootloader?
Your device is shipped with Security on (S-ON) to protect your system software configuration (such as the bootloader, radio, boot, recovery, system and others). After you have unlocked the bootloader, however, you will have lifted the restrictions on boot, recovery and system. This means you can customize boot, recovery and system images on your phone as you desire. You can easily see that you have successfully unlocked the bootloader by looking at the top of the screen when entering the bootloader screen. Security is left on to protect things like the radio, and SIM lock.
If you should require support, please feel free to contact us via the support section of our website, http://www.htc.com
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It specifically says security is left on to protect the radio etc. - surely this should then be covered by HTC as, according to them, there's no way we could break it. The way I see it, either their 'security' didn't work, or the problem isn't caused by a bootloader unlock?

Hahaha! I couldn't help it. I just had to flash Francos r12 kernel again and what do you know? No IMEI and baseband. All good though. Restored from a nand backup I did earlier this evening and all is well again. Downloaded the kernel again just to make sure the md5 wasn't bung, flashed and same thing happened again. So when you get your HOX working again, don't flash Francos r12 kernel lol.

Eambo said:
More for the legal heads etc. here, but HTC-Dev's website states:
It specifically says security is left on to protect the radio etc. - surely this should then be covered by HTC as, according to them, there's no way we could break it. The way I see it, either their 'security' didn't work, or the problem isn't caused by a bootloader unlock?
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That applies to every device apart from, maybe, Tegra3. The radio might be accessible.

have the same insuee... yesterday i pick my phone and it has no signal...i think no problem reboot the phone...and no changes.. after i see that imei is unknown and baseband too... the phone with or without sim when i open sim slot says that has a problem to see the sim.. root relock flash stock and other roms is not helped -.-
sorry for my english guys.. but seriosly i tryed a lot of things nothing to do -.-
now i'm downloading an old RUU for flash it to change the radio...

If I'm not mistaken you can't roll back the radio using an old ruu.. I think I tried but it failed. I have also flashed the latest ota update but that didn't work either.. beginning to think its hardware as the weekend before it first happen it was dropped onto its screen from chair height with no immediate problems or damage... really struggling with this..
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stout0_0 said:
If I'm not mistaken you can't roll back the radio using an old ruu.. I think I tried but it failed. I have also flashed the latest ota update but that didn't work either.. beginning to think its hardware as the weekend before it first happen it was dropped onto its screen from chair height with no immediate problems or damage... really struggling with this..
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No way...no changes...but my HTC are never dropped down..I have no idea why it's doesn't work..some one can help us?

AlexVendettA said:
No way...no changes...but my HTC are never dropped down..I have no idea why it's doesn't work..some one can help us?
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Check out GetRIL app free in playstore. Bu also see xmoo's radio collection thread under and. dev. section. There are instructions
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eyosen said:
Check out GetRIL app free in playstore. Bu also see xmoo's radio collection thread under and. dev. section. There are instructions
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thank you.. but..it's the same -.-'' i think i'll pay htc for repair..
p.s. think that it's hard problems..

i'm just trying to... open an old ruu take the boot_signed.img from rom.zip(windows/temp) and flash it in fastboot then i relock my device and flash ruu.. hope that it will work

Fingers crossed bud!.....
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Not trying to start a flame war or anything, but this is why I stopped buying HTC phones and went with the S3. Because ever since they started with this HTCDev garbage, modding your phone became ridiculously difficult.

no way need s-off to downgrade hboot... s-off is not possible for now.. w/o javacard......i don't have idea what to do.. then f-.ck all.. drop my hand down and monday send my phone to htc and cross the fingers for free repair...
p.s. i think..to go to an phone store and say that i wanna see an one x white/grey and change it accendentely.. (stupid and illegal but can work )
edit: it's hardware fault i think..

Any Non-Sense Rom gives No Signal/Service? Factory S-OFF One X

so icedcold AOKP, icecold jelly and eternityproject cm10 all give no signal/no service. the sense roms such as leedroid and maximus give good service. what is going on? please help me, i like jelly bean ALOT and i hate sense, i lose 70% in about 10.5 hours, mediocre usage.
these are my steps:
backup using cwm
mounts and storage>format system, format data
install zip from sd, install icecoldjelly, install gapps
hold vol+down til bootloader. plug in. click fastboot. flash boot.img
reboot. no service.
EDIT: threads newer than this have replies. please help me out. am i missing something substantial? maybe upgrade my hboot or something? its .9.4. upgrade my RUU?

143 views no replies? please, this is crucial, sense eats battery for like breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, every minute. and any NON sense rom wont get signal. please. even if you dont know just reply that you dont know. i hate to bump but i just did.

check ur APN settings start a fresh install what radio are u using, etc need more info
Sent from Mars

Same thing for me... and specially with those roms... it doesn't really seem to be a radio problem... anyone can help us???

Why did you unlock the phone when it was S-OFF?? You didn't need to

S off lucky guy I'm shure u don't need to fasboot boot.IMG with s off
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Also..many many roms have an option to De-Sense (remove Sense from the ROM installation)...

Also its weird that you have ship soff and not eng soff. Have you updated the bootloader at all
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do you have no service, as in literally no signal whatsoever?
have you tried the normal things like trying another known good sim card when this happens?
do you have a pin enabled on your sim card?

hello00 said:
check ur APN settings start a fresh install what radio are u using, etc need more info
Sent from Mars
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radio is in the picture. in main post. what more info would you like? just installed jellybean and went to APN and reset to default
EddyOS said:
Why did you unlock the phone when it was S-OFF?? You didn't need to
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i bought it this way
joewong1991 said:
S off lucky guy I'm shure u don't need to fasboot boot.IMG with s off
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roms sometimes dont boot without their specified kernel.
ArmedandDangerous said:
Also..many many roms have an option to De-Sense (remove Sense from the ROM installation)...
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yeah. are u suggesting i de sense a rom i like? this issue still exists, plus i want jellybean which is only available in no sense.
bagofcrap24 said:
Also its weird that you have ship soff and not eng soff. Have you updated the bootloader at all
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no i havent
lawrence750 said:
do you have no service, as in literally no signal whatsoever?
have you tried the normal things like trying another known good sim card when this happens?
do you have a pin enabled on your sim card?
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literally no signal whatsoever.
havent tried another known good sim, dont got one i could try with. regardless, it shouldnt work with another sim. i have, however, tried reinserting my own sim
no pin.

http://i.imgur.com/gAqMj.jpg me on Jellybean, (sorry theres no screenshot on it yet. and if there is, im not bothering to look it up yet)
me chillin on teh sense rom http://i.imgur.com/0pgFx.png

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EddyOS said:
Why did you unlock the phone when it was S-OFF?? You didn't need to
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Yeah you do*, S-OFF alone doesn't enable fastboot flash commands.
*or install an ENG HBOOT.

ive found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660807
but i dont know which to use. im on tmobile usa

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Have you looked at the info when you dial *#*#4636#*#* into phone settings anything notable? Turn radio on and off in there
Preferred connection may be set to one you can't use in your country?
Signal strength?
Is your carrier listen in there?
Sent from my HTC One CMX

whynot66 said:
Have you looked at the info when you dial *#*#4636#*#* into phone settings anything notable? Turn radio on and off in there
Preferred connection may be set to one you can't use in your country?
Signal strength?
Is your carrier listen in there?
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http://www.mediafire.com/?p9s5obatgtxs4en
screenshots of the phone settings on that numberfirst being leedroid, second being icedcoldaokp. thanks!

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[Q] Not getting 3G/4G on my Wildfire S

I recently came to US and purchased a t-Mob connection for my Wildfire S (bought in India)
My plan includes 4G data but I'm getting only Edge network.
When I place my SIM in another hand-set, I get 4G speed but its not working in my phone.
Anyone else faced this issue?
Pls message me if you have any solution for this.
T-mob guys dont have any idea about this. The say I should atleast get 3G.
My Wildfire-S is rooted.

sourabh1510 said:
I recently came to US and purchased a t-Mob connection for my Wildfire S (bought in India)
My plan includes 4G data but I'm getting only Edge network.
When I place my SIM in another hand-set, I get 4G speed but its not working in my phone.
Anyone else faced this issue?
Pls message me if you have any solution for this.
T-mob guys dont have any idea about this. The say I should atleast get 3G.
My Wildfire-S is rooted.
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try restart your phone and set network on WCDMA mode. and which rom you are using ?

crossfire77 said:
try restart your phone and set network on WCDMA mode. and which rom you are using ?
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I'm on stock ROM and have already set it to WCDMA mode
I restarted my phone a 100 times but its not working

sourabh1510 said:
I'm on stock ROM and have already set it to WCDMA mode
I restarted my phone a 100 times but its not working
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Oh..you can do one more thing..do factory reset might it ll work and also if your friend has any other provider check these on your phone..3g should be working..good luck
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crossfire77 said:
Oh..you can do one more thing..do factory reset might it ll work and also if your friend has any other provider check these on your phone..3g should be working..good luck
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Yep, I was going to try that.
Will update if it works!
Can you pls tell me the baseband version which your phone is having.
It should be in the About phone menu.

No luck!
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sourabh1510 said:
No luck!
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oh thats bad.i have latest radio 7.53.39.15M
yeah you can port new radio might it ll help.
EDIT: i checked with gsmarena,wildfire s supported HSDPA 900 / 2100 frequency and t-mobile 3g works on 1700 MHz/2100 MHz so it should be working.
if nothing work check with service center.
hopefully you have tried verizon and other providers.

crossfire77 said:
oh thats bad.i have latest radio 7.53.39.15M
yeah you can port new radio might it ll help.
EDIT: i checked with gsmarena,wildfire s supported HSDPA 900 / 2100 frequency and t-mobile 3g works on 1700 MHz/2100 MHz so it should be working.
if nothing work check with service center.
hopefully you have tried verizon and other providers.
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mine is 7.53.39.03M
will that make a difference

sourabh1510 said:
mine is 7.53.39.03M
will that make a difference
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You can port new radio if you want.if.you are s-on see general section u ll find thread..if s-off see android dev section u ll find radio..
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im not able to upgrade the radio. my phone is s-on.
when i try to install .zip from sd card thru cwm, it says operation aborted.

sourabh1510 said:
im not able to upgrade the radio. my phone is s-on.
when i try to install .zip from sd card thru cwm, it says operation aborted.
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man you cant upgrade radio with cwm..
follow this link,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2018511use
and yeah might first universal method wont work so you need to use second one.
steps:
download latest radio ruu from post
download bl-tool from post
then use bl-tool to lock your bootloader and set supervision
then make goldcard
extract latest ruu on computer and see steps to copy rom.zip from temp(see advanced method)
rename zip to PG76IMG
put on sdcard and boot to hboot menu(remove battery and hold power button plus volume down)
then your phone will detect ruu and tell flash it self.
then you will see firsst hboot and radio will upgraded and when you see recovery screen again pull out battery.(keep in mind this step or you have to unlocked your bootloader again and root again and also flash recovery again because ruu will unrooted your phone)
this is only method because s-on only allowed to flash radio when your upgrading it with ruu,nothing else.
for goldcard:
you can find goldcard zip in mentioned post.
then download it and open it with administrator,put your sdcard in card reader and format it.
now put sdcard in phone and keep usb debugging on.
now use mmc0 or mmc1 which option works for you.(only one will work)
then copy CID to website mentioned in that tool download goldcard.img and patch your goldcard.
now your sdcard is goldcard.
put PG76IMG.zip on it and boot to hboot menu.else phone will do it.
keep in mind in flashing ruu first it ll ask and use volume button to yes or no. and then first ruu will flash radio and hboot then it ll show recovery screen again.there you can see hboot and radio is upgraded..now you can pull out battery if you dont wana loose your data,root,recovery.
CAUTION: do it your own risk

sourabh1510 said:
I recently came to US and purchased a t-Mob connection for my Wildfire S (bought in India)
My plan includes 4G data but I'm getting only Edge network.
When I place my SIM in another hand-set, I get 4G speed but its not working in my phone.
Anyone else faced this issue?
Pls message me if you have any solution for this.
T-mob guys dont have any idea about this. The say I should atleast get 3G.
My Wildfire-S is rooted.
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Im stuck in the EXACTLY same situation with t mobile
Can anyone confirm a fix? Nothing I tried has worked

[Q] no sim card error

hi all
sorry im a bit of a noob with things like this, but I tried unlocking a friends htc desire hd to all networks using xtc clip. it went part of the way through and failed. when I rebooted phone, it came up with no sim inserted. so then I tried using a tool called windroid htc desire hd toolkit. I used the "gain s-off method 1" button to do it. that went through and completed fully. but now it still says no sim inserted. I have tried putting tape on the back of the sim to see if that works, but no joy. i have even gone out to buy a new sim card to see if that helps and it still does not recognise it. could this be a radio issue or something else.
current bootloader info is as follows if that helps
*** UNLOCKED ***
ACE PVT ENG S-OFF RL
HBOOT-0.85.2425
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_M
eMMC-boot
Apr 12 2011,00:55:45
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

Read The guide in post #7 in my signature to flash a recovery and a rom if you don't know how to.
Sent from a dream.

Thank you for that guide. It is a very good insight as to what is what.
as for my current problem. have you any idea if that could be my problem. i know in the guide it says the radio is what gives the phone signal, but i am not sure if that effects the reading of the sim card. sorry if i am asking too much.
thanks

Not a problem. Well, the suggestion to flash a rom is just to find out if that will work. It seems that when you were trying to root it, something happened. If flashing a stable rom doesn't fix it, you can try flashing a ruu. That ought to rule out a few things.
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ok thank you. i will look in to flashing it with the original manufacturers sofware.
thanks

First, was that sim working in that phone before? Even if you unlock the sim it doesn't mean it will work for all the providers.
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Teichopsia said:
First, was that sim working in that phone before? Even if you unlock the sim it doesn't mean it will work for all the providers.
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i believe it was working as they wanted me to take it off the network they were on and open it to a different one as the reception in their area was very poor for the network they were on. i have since tried numerous other cards and even bought a brand new sim card to see if that works.

The baseband is corrupted. Try reflashing modem.
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grosmouton said:
The baseband is corrupted. Try reflashing modem.
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is that the radio? if so, with which one do i do it with or is there only one?
thanks

Yes the radio. You dont have a backup?
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grosmouton said:
Yes the radio. You dont have a backup?
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no i don't sorry. noob error i know. but i was using xtc clip 1st then tried using that tool after. i know for future references though, back up, back up, back up.
sorry if my replies are slow, as i am a newbie. it won't let me reply straight away. i got to wait 5 mins in between each reply.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2436481
this is the tool i used to get s-off

Follow this guide to flash your radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597

i will try this. i am looking for the right place to get the radio from as the one on that link does not seem to be there any more.
thank you

Radio_12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M.zip
as this is the one that is showing on my phone now, this is the one i am going to try.

tried with that radio, and it is still the same.
thanks though

Try another careful to match with your ROM version. If it still not work its hardware related
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sorry if i am being dumb, but how do i know which one matches my rom version?
thanks and sorry for troubling you

Here a list you can try them all. http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/34438-baseband-radio/
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as this is a french website, will they be ok on this phone. also will it matter what software i'm running for these. thanks and sorry for being a pain