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Why is the radio not out?

I am just trying to understand why everyone is so afraid of the new radio and won't post it?

It was specifically told not to be released. We have the roms, we will have the radio in due time.

because it improves the radio soo much you pick up alien communications. most likely it will be classified top secret by the government men in black never to see the light of day.

Or perhaps its the reason the OTA was pulled...

cpuspeed said:
because it improves the radio soo much you pick up alien communications. most likely it will be classified top secret by the government men in black never to see the light of day.
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^ too funny... ^
I knew that had to be the reason. It makes total sense now.

yes... We will soon have the only phone that supports the galaxy's largest wireless network! wOOhOO!!

I'll still be spooked by the radio once it drops cause all I can imagine are
red and black brixxxx

pastalero said:
I'll still be spooked by the radio once it drops cause all I can imagine are
red and black brixxxx
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Why would you be spooked about the radio? We use leaked EVO radios and there's nothing wrong
Sent from my OVO Community ROM using XDA Premium App

Im runnin new radio now, no issues, increased signal in my area. Dl in dev section.
If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!

Check the dev section, the new radio is out now!! Getting ready to flash it myself
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227215

It's not rocket surgery to just get the RUU and pull the radio out of it if you've got such a need for it.

sweet sweet sweet

What is the radio?

saosinalm said:
What is the radio?
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You seem to be asking a lot of basic questions. Try reading this first, then ask.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744807

[Q] Is there an external for the SGH-T989 ?

External antenna
I activated my phone yesterday and my signal is weak and very spotty. Sometimes I can get as high as 4 bars, most times 1 or none. If I can't get something to boost the signal, I'll have to sell my phone and look for something else. Is there anything sold or any mod I can do to boost my signal? Many thanks, for any help I can get.

ardent_phoenix said:
External antenna
I activated my phone yesterday and my signal is weak and very spotty. Sometimes I can get as high as 4 bars, most times 1 or none. If I can't get something to boost the signal, I'll have to sell my phone and look for something else. Is there anything sold or any mod I can do to boost my signal? Many thanks, for any help I can get.
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Try a different radio. Mr x just reactivated the links in his thread
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

capcanuck said:
Try a different radio. Mr x just reactivated the links in his thread
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
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Have patience with me. This is my first smartphone. I don't know what a radio is in this context and who and where can I find this Mr x thread?

ok I now know what a radio is, but is a hacked version better than the stock version that came with my phone. I just got it yesterday and I don't want to mess anything up. I don't know enough about this stuff to fool around with it just yet. I am trying to learn so that I can IMPROVE it's functionality. Notice improve, if it will not work better than stock, what's the need to change anything?

ardent_phoenix said:
ok I now know what a radio is, but is a hacked version better than the stock version that came with my phone. I just got it yesterday and I don't want to mess anything up. I don't know enough about this stuff to fool around with it just yet. I am trying to learn so that I can IMPROVE it's functionality. Notice improve, if it will not work better than stock, what's the need to change anything?
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Radios give different mileage depending on your location. Which is why the above poster suggested trying different radios because in your particular area you might get better reception with a radio other than stock. You'll need to have your phone rooted in order to flash new radios.

Thank you for the quick reply. If I can't find a hardware solution, I may gather the courage to try a new radio. Is this the software or is it firmware, that I need for the T989?
http://www.androidfilehost.com/.mrx/..._Kj3_radio.zip:)

ardent_phoenix said:
Thank you for the quick reply. If I can't find a hardware solution, I may gather the courage to try a new radio. Is this the software or is it firmware, that I need for the T989?
http://www.androidfilehost.com/.mrx/..._Kj3_radio.zip:)
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I'm not sure what that list of files is but whatever it is, it's not applicable to our phone either way. The galaxy s2 they have listed is the I9100 which is the international version. We are sgh-t989 and any software or firmware is not cross platform.

Ardent are you in the Phoenix area? If so the kl1 modem is the best.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

capcanuck said:
Ardent are you in the Phoenix area? If so the kl1 modem is the best.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk
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No, I am in Appomattox, VA. I live in the county, not the actual town. I know for sure that I am 7 miles from a Novatel tower. I get mostly a signal with 2 to 3 bars, that's between -100 and -92, respectively. I an using a U727 data stick on Ntelos 3G network. It wasn't always that way. I used to get practically no signal, until I cleared all the trees on my property.
I got the link in my last post from the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
and it says at the top of the page that it is for the SGH-T989 series, that would make one believe that our phone is supported by it. I believe that it was derived from the SGH-T989D to be exact.
Someone please chime in, if I'm wrong. I have been getting, what I believe to be a lot of contradictory info here and for a newbie such as myself, that will only impede my progress and send me scurrying post haste to some other "authority" on the subject.
There does not seem to be anyone here who will correct faulty procedures. I understand that no one here is liable for bad advice, but believing that many here are proficient at modifying these devices, people come here to seek advice.
I need to increase my signal, either by hardware or script, can someone please help me resolve this issue?

ardent_phoenix said:
No, I am in Appomattox, VA. I live in the county, not the actual town. I know for sure that I am 7 miles from a Novatel tower. I get mostly a signal with 2 to 3 bars, that's between -100 and -92, respectively. I an using a U727 data stick on Ntelos 3G network. It wasn't always that way. I used to get practically no signal, until I cleared all the trees on my property.
I got the link in my last post from the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
and it says at the top of the page that it is for the SGH-T989 series, that would make one believe that our phone is supported by it. I believe that it was derived from the SGH-T989D to be exact.
Someone please chime in, if I'm wrong. I have been getting, what I believe to be a lot of contradictory info here and for a newbie such as myself, that will only impede my progress and send me scurrying post haste to some other "authority" on the subject.
There does not seem to be anyone here who will correct faulty procedures. I understand that no one here is liable for bad advice, but believing that many here are proficient at modifying these devices, people come here to seek advice.
I need to increase my signal, either by hardware or script, can someone please help me resolve this issue?
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you don't really need to because you can always return everything and get out of contract without ETF since you just activated. Just saying you can use it as a trial run and if reception sucks you can go somewhere else. You can try the radios but for what it's worth, might not produce any results.
You can probably safety use any of the ones in the link you have, and I think anything that screws up is recoverable. Any screwup will just mean you get no signal at all. Just flash back to the stock one which you can easily find with search.

8Fishes said:
you don't really need to because you can always return everything and get out of contract without ETF since you just activated. Just saying you can use it as a trial run and if reception sucks you can go somewhere else. You can try the radios but for what it's worth, might not produce any results.
You can probably safety use any of the ones in the link you have, and I think anything that screws up is recoverable. Any screwup will just mean you get no signal at all. Just flash back to the stock one which you can easily find with search.
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No I am not in a contract. I would have to sell my phone, which I really like. I am using T-mobile prepaid. I bought the phone on eBay for $500. It has a clean IMIE as verified by T-Mobile Customer Service. I have bought over $125 in accessories also and would lose too much selling everything.
So I prefer to try to resolve my weak signal dilemma before taking such drastic action. Is there anybody out there that can help?

ardent_phoenix said:
No I am not in a contract. I would have to sell my phone, which I really like. I am using T-mobile prepaid. I bought the phone on eBay for $500. It has a clean IMIE as verified by T-Mobile Customer Service. I have bought over $125 in accessories also and would lose too much selling everything.
So I prefer to try to resolve my weak signal dilemma before taking such drastic action. Is there anybody out there that can help?
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Still same problem, anybody Please help.

[Q] Complete Loss of Signal

I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this in, but here goes. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon. I was running AOKP Milestone 5 and Franco Kernel Build 185 and things were great. Then yesterday I randomly didn't get any signal when I got back to my house. Before I always got enough signal to make calls and text. I thought that was weird, so I did a complete wipe and upgraded to AOKP Build 38 and Franco Kernel 185 again. I still had no signal. Thinking I messed something up in the process, I reverted back to a month old Nandroid when I had no problems, still nothing, after this I went back to AOKP Build 38 and Franco Kernel 185 again. I tried reflashing the 4.0.4 radio's before and that didn't work either. It has to be my phone because my parents and sibiling both still get signal fine with their non-smart phones. I'm willing to unroot my phone if it means getting service again. I've never really encountered this problem and would love it if anyone could point me in the right direction to fixing this problem. I took two screenshots of my phone status for you to look at
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u141/aznbrotha/2012-06-12030559.png
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u141/aznbrotha/2012-06-12030548.png
I've been researching and haven't found any solution to my problem. I would appreciate any help or direction given. Thank you.

Check Logcat and check dmesg from inside the phone. This will help show as to why to begin to narrow down.
Also, when you post these two logs, use pastebin.com
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geoffcorey said:
Check Logcat and check dmesg from inside the phone. This will help show as to why to begin to narrow down.
Also, when you post these two logs, use pastebin.com
Sent from my Sensation using Tapatalk 2
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Thank you for your response, to be honest I didn't know what you meant by Logcat and Dmesg, so now I'm researching it and figuring it out. I will return with these pieces of information when I'm done. Thank you again for the response.

geoffcorey said:
Check Logcat and check dmesg from inside the phone. This will help show as to why to begin to narrow down.
Also, when you post these two logs, use pastebin.com
Sent from my Sensation using Tapatalk 2
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I managed to get my Logcat. Here it is http://pastebin.com/Uf4QSfU2
Still working on getting that Dmesg thing. Not sure how to save it to a text file.
EDIT: here it is http://pastebin.com/4EcufH7T

If it's the phone and won't get a signal after what you've tried.. I would say either a bad sim (not sure how the sim could just go bad) or.. hell, radio failure? Sounds strange. Usually when people lose signal rebooting or airplane mode works..

joshnichols189 said:
If it's the phone and won't get a signal after what you've tried.. I would say either a bad sim (not sure how the sim could just go bad) or.. hell, radio failure? Sounds strange. Usually when people lose signal rebooting or airplane mode works..
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Yeah, I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I do get signal outside my house and sometimes full 4G, but overall I get worse reception everywhere.

mengheng said:
Yeah, I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I do get signal outside my house and sometimes full 4G, but overall I get worse reception everywhere.
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Oh you get signal? I thought you got none at all haha. Are you looking at bars or DBM readings?

joshnichols189 said:
Oh you get signal? I thought you got none at all haha. Are you looking at bars or DBM readings?
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Well, I use to get a couple bars around my house. Now I get none. I am looking at bars. Now I have an X and am unable to send/receive texts and calls. I am thinking about unrooting my phone, going back to stock and locking my phone to see if it's a hardware thing.

Pretty sure it's a Gnex thing. I just bought mine and out of the box 4g only connect for 2 minutes then just goes out for a long time
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iTreezy said:
Pretty sure it's a Gnex thing. I just bought mine and out of the box 4g only connect for 2 minutes then just goes out for a long time
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
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Yeah, I just unrooted my phone, put stock back on and everything. Not working, thinks it's a hardware problem.

It's hardware. I went through 7 replacements from Verizon before I got one with a good screen and working radios.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

SnrSuave said:
It's hardware. I went through 7 replacements from Verizon before I got one with a good screen and working radios.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
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I'm so lazy that I don't want to go through the hassle of replacements -_-
Does anyone know exactly why it's a hardware problem? Because it does connect for me but only for a minute or so

New radios??

Would someone be so kind to point me in the direction or explain what the differences in all the different radios that we can use on our phone? Thank you all in advance!

loumoli said:
Would someone be so kind to point me in the direction or explain what the differences in all the different radios that we can use on our phone? Thank you all in advance!
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Here's a link with all the radios and how to instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
There's a pretty good amount of info on them there. It seems to depend on your area as to witch will work best for you however for me the lf9 seems to be best and lg8 is pretty good as well. Just have to experiment yourself in your area.

gaunt_let said:
Here's a link with all the radios and how to instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
There's a pretty good amount of info on them there. It seems to depend on your area as to witch will work best for you however for me the lf9 seems to be best and lg8 is pretty good as well. Just have to experiment yourself in your area.
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Thanks, I had the same questions
I am still confused between the difference between radio and modem. Any suggested reading or can someone clarify?

IncrediblyCheap said:
Thanks, I had the same questions
I am still confused between the difference between radio and modem. Any suggested reading or can someone clarify?
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There's lots to read if you Google it but to my knowledge basically there the same. The modem does handle data and radio handles cell reception but there's no way to have different versions for modem and radio. I could be wrong but I'm sure someone will chime in and let me know if so.
Best thing to do in my opinion is just try the different radios and run the speed test and see what you get for your area. Different areas different modems are gonna be better.
If I helped hit thanks and if I can help anymore let me know.

gaunt_let said:
There's lots to read if you Google it but to my knowledge basically there the same. The modem does handle data and radio handles cell reception but there's no way to have different versions for modem and radio. I could be wrong but I'm sure someone will chime in and let me know if so.
Best thing to do in my opinion is just try the different radios and run the speed test and see what you get for your area. Different areas different modems are gonna be better.
If I helped hit thanks and if I can help anymore let me know.
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Yuuuup. You are pretty much on. Good assist!
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium

So far to me flashing all 4 radios numerous times, not too much of a difference. LF9 and LG8 seem to be the best. Then again, hard to tell, Sprint having network issues.
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IncrediblyCheap said:
Thanks, I had the same questions
I am still confused between the difference between radio and modem. Any suggested reading or can someone clarify?
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Did you come from an HTC phone? I came from an Evo 4G, and I got used to the term "radio", too. I think modem is just the word Samsung prefers, whereas HTC used the word "radio", but the actual function is exactly the same.

[Q] Which baseband should I use (Europe)?

I've never really experimented with radio basebands, but friends of mine are at the same carrier as I am and they can actually receive a solid 3G connection everywhere with a cheaper phone and I can only receive like one bar of 3G signal and that bothers me. Is it possible to fix this with a new radio and if so; which one should I use?
Thanks in advance!

Which one are you using?
XXLH1 going strong here (even on Texel Island)

Ti2 said:
Which one are you using?
XXLH1 going strong here (even on Texel Island)
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I'm using XXLA2 right now. XXLA2 is a later release I guess (as you count the baseband date with the L/H. Don't know if you ever tried XXLA2?

Try them all out for a bit and be sure to get the app GetRIL to match the RIL and Baseband. It took me a bit in the US but since I did the process I get almost double the signal.
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altimax98 said:
Try them all out for a bit and be sure to get the app GetRIL to match the RIL and Baseband. It took me a bit in the US but since I did the process I get almost double the signal.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
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I'll try that =]

No problems with XXLH1 here in Twente.

F-Fect said:
I'm using XXLA2 right now. XXLA2 is a later release I guess (as you count the baseband date with the L/H. Don't know if you ever tried XXLA2?
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LA2 is outdated. LH1 is a "jb radio". As someone suggesties, check with GetRIL of baseband and RIL match.

Ti2 said:
LA2 is outdated. LH1 is a "jb radio". As someone suggesties, check with GetRIL of baseband and RIL match.
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Thanks man, I've never really done any research into which radio to use, but I'm glad there are people who did. Will flash the radio tomorrow morning and post the result of it tomorrow evening. I really hope this radio will get me a better signal.

Well, the reception is a little better, but not much. Only problem: the radio bricked my sms function. Does anyone have a PROPER solution for that problem? It seems that it's quite a common one and I can't seem to find a fix.

try them all and see which works best for YOU
Edit- looks like this has already been said :good: