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[RADIOS] CWM Flashable Modems

Here is just a collection of CWM flashable modems i have tested to be working on the SGS-T989(D)
Get all radios HERE
Mirror'd in this post in the General Section http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639771
NOTE: these are the radios i have TESTED this is why i don't have every radio available up here because i have not tested them to be working to some degree. Others are welcome to post and contribute what they have tested working as well.

Thanks you so much for this.You have done so much for this community and I thank you.
From a glaxay better than yours.

Thank you we needed one of these. Hopefully we are able to get the rest up soon
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In any way the SGH-T989 Series radio is better than stock ?
Or is it the actual stock radio

Awesome! Thank you so much for this Mr.X.
Tmo VK1 is the latest one to enable wifi calling right?

Very nice thank you, this should really be in the Dev section.... To important to be in General imo.
Also might i suggest MD5 check sums in the OP.
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Thanks!
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I made an oops and packed the tmo radio in the telus zip, so im updating that one and ill do md5's

are all of them compatable with US tmobile, with the exception of the EU/asian one

thethirdeye said:
are all of them compatable with US tmobile, with the exception of the EU/asian one
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I'm not sure fi wifi calling requires the tmobile modem, so it's really up to you guys to test and report in. What i can tell you is these modems will not damage your device.
they all work for me on telus (with exception of the DoMoCo one, since have no networks it supports here) However using the tmobile and rogers radio cut my HSPA+ speeds down to HSPA as the radios appear not to support dual channeling of HSPA on 850/1900 like telus needs.

for some reason it wont install on CM7 i have tried CWM and ROMmanager, no go on either, its the Tmobile vk1 radio

-Mr. X- said:
I'm not sure fi wifi calling requires the tmobile modem, so it's really up to you guys to test and report in. What i can tell you is these modems will not damage your device.
they all work for me on telus (with exception of the DoMoCo one, since have no networks it supports here) However using the tmobile and rogers radio cut my HSPA+ speeds down to HSPA as the radios appear not to support dual channeling of HSPA on 850/1900 like telus needs.
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means if i flash the Telus modem will support HSPA+ 850 ( the one i need in peru) but i get back to USA i have to flash again to the tmo stock modem to get 4G speeds on tmo network?

sorry for the noobish question but what excatly do these radios do? If i have the telus version of the phone, but using it on Wind Mobile, how will flashing this help me?

Dallas Texas
SWEET, will test and report back.

tuffballa said:
sorry for the noobish question but what excatly do these radios do? If i have the telus version of the phone, but using it on Wind Mobile, how will flashing this help me?
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Diffrent radios might increase reception in some areas, increase download speeds and might improve battery life or they can do the opposite and be detrimental to recepition, download speeds and battery.... Users results may vary. Flash and test for your self.
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How sure are we that flashing modems through cwm is 100% safe? I know on a lot of other phones that while it is possible, its said that it is not safe. Correct me if I'm wrong but I just wanna be sure.
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mikeyinid said:
How sure are we that flashing modems through cwm is 100% safe? I know on a lot of other phones that while it is possible, its said that it is not safe. Correct me if I'm wrong but I just wanna be sure.
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on the vibrant all the modems where came flashable and I've done dozens of time with all the modems they had and never had a problem. I was actually wondering why on this phone it wasn't being done. I would say from my experience it is safe

cwalker0906 said:
on the vibrant all the modems where came flashable and I've done dozens of time with all the modems they had and never had a problem. I was actually wondering why on this phone it wasn't being done. I would say from my experience it is safe
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OK. I trust Mr. X but just wanted to hear from other people that have done it. I've personally never flashed a radio through cwm. I usually run what I have or fastboot it if that's an option.
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mikeyinid said:
OK. I trust Mr. X but just wanted to hear from other people that have done it. I've personally never flashed a radio through cwm. I usually run what I have or fastboot it if that's an option.
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Generally fastboot is the safest method because of the bit check before flashing but I run the G2/ HTC Vision radio thread and as long as the MD5 matches it pretty safe, out of over 10000 downloads of my G2 flashable radio zips I think ive only seen 1 brick but even that one couldnt 100 percent be connected to the flashable zip so in general I thinks its very safe.
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if i try it and it doesnt work out for me, how can i remove the radio file that i flashed?

Verizon roms to sprint roms..

I seem to always get in trouble for making a thread, or it goes unnoticed. just a question on how much work would it be to port over a Verizon gnex rom to sprint gnex? I'm not dev at all but I imagine it would only be a radio and some other small things. Again I could be missing the big picture, I just got my sprint gnex yesterday and I can't wait for highly custom roms! If its not to advanced I'd love to take a crack at it if anyone would be willing to teach me how
Mods move it to wherever you want....
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Too me it just seems that something needs to be done with the radio as of now flashing a verizon rom works fine except for the radio which is data and whatnot. As soon as they get aosp running with mms fixed and find the radio so if the radio gets borked then I am sure those developers of the verizon roms could hopefully just add compatibility with sprint.
That is all I know as of now
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why would you want that? the sprint rom is better

What makes it better though? Aren't they literally the exact same phone just different networks? I'm glad its better if it is I almost bought the Verizon one hahah
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bdubs4200 said:
What makes it better though? Aren't they literally the exact same phone just different networks? I'm glad its better if it is I almost bought the Verizon one hahah
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One is not better then the other
In fact like i said above Verizon roms almost fully work on ours except the radio, once they get that fixed i am sure we can share roms with verizon people but who knows? Our device is still brand new and will be a little bit til we have as many roms as verizons forum
BTW don't flash verizons roms until there is a radio fix some poor people have broken radios and are waiting as people are looking to fix it.
just in case you were thinking about flashing one

There is nothing superior about Sprint roms that isn't remedied by AOSP.
Now if you are talking about zip roms, tsk, tsk.
Those are a crime against humanity...er, the Nexus The device is open enough to not warrant such a thing.

bdubs4200 said:
What makes it better though? Aren't they literally the exact same phone just different networks? I'm glad its better if it is I almost bought the Verizon one hahah
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They use differen radio frequencies, which the CPUs are programmed for. They are incompatible. That's what causes the data problems. That's just about the only difference in terms of hardware.

davidrules7778 said:
One is not better then the other
In fact like i said above Verizon roms almost fully work on ours except the radio, once they get that fixed i am sure we can share roms with verizon people but who knows? Our device is still brand new and will be a little bit til we have as many roms as verizons forum
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Radio is fixed. The problem is mms.
Wanna test? Team BAMF is looking for a few good geeks, er testers. PM me your email address.

adrynalyne said:
Radio is fixed. The problem is mms.
Wanna test? Team BAMF is looking for a few good geeks, er testers. PM me your email address.
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oooo
I would love too but no device for me yet
Also is do we have a way to restore the radio if ours get borked?
It should be posted in wordswisely's thread

davidrules7778 said:
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I would love too but no device for me yet
Also is do we have a way to restore the radio if ours get borked?
It should be posted in wordswisely's thread
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I've seen successful LTE radio pull, but not CDMA yet.
No radio included on our rom, so when you get your device, look me up

adrynalyne said:
I've seen successful LTE radio pull, but not CDMA yet.
No radio included on our rom, so when you get your device, look me up
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so here is a question:
Once we have the cdma radio pulled and mms working would there be anyway that verizon roms with a little modification to the radio and whatnot to get them working easily. or do they have to redo the whole rom special?

adrynalyne said:
Radio is fixed. The problem is mms.
Wanna test? Team BAMF is looking for a few good geeks, er testers. PM me your email address.
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Pm sent ;-D
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davidrules7778 said:
so here is a question:
Once we have the cdma radio pulled and mms working would there be anyway that verizon roms with a little modification to the radio and whatnot to get them working easily. or do they have to redo the whole rom special?
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The only real difference from Sprint to Verizon are the ril props outside of the mms issue.
So, no, not hard, but just as easy for the devs to simple compile for Sprint.

adrynalyne said:
The only real difference from Sprint to Verizon are the ril props outside of the mms issue.
So, no, not hard, but just as easy for the devs to simple compile for Sprint.
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Cool
Ill hit u up may 18th if u still need testers for future stuff
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^^ what he said

[Q] Different Radio and Roms...can they coexist?

Hi all,
Ok so my second GNex is in (White this time) and I wanted to try something different. Im right not on AOKP Build 40 which is a 4.04 ROM but I also am running a radio for 4.02 based roms (XXKK6). I've noticed I get substantially better signal than the newer radios that are out for it so I decided to keep it. My question is...is there any substantial harm im looking at by mixing an incorrect ROM and Radio this far apart? I know some of you have mixed it around but this radio is a couple versions old. Thanks in advance.

As long as the ril matches the radio you are fine. The latest aokp and cm9 builds use the ril for krlb1 radio. The easiest way to check is with the getril app off the play store.
This app will allow you to check if radio and ril match and download the correct ril if you are set on keeping your current radio.
First few days with the phone I had wicked signal drops until someone put me onto this app, now my signal is perfect.
Sent from my Cyanogenmodded GNex

Well given that I've used a north american radio and RIL on my phone I'd say you're good. The radio and RIL doesn't even have to match as some RILs (believe it or not) work better than the one suggested.

dr.m0x said:
As long as the ril matches the radio you are fine.
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Theshawty said:
The radio and RIL doesn't even have to match as some RILs (believe it or not) work better than one suggested.
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Ad Theshawty said, there is no evidence that matching the RIL to the radio will give you better performance. It does for some, it doesn't for others.
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efrant said:
Ad Theshawty said, there is no evidence that matching the RIL to the radio will give you better performance. It does for some, it doesn't for others.
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Ok you are right. I must be imagining that my data doesn't drop randomly now my radio and ril match. Maybe it's because I'm holding my phone differently now.
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dr.m0x said:
Ok you are right. I must be imagining that my data doesn't drop randomly now my radio and ril match. Maybe it's because I'm holding my phone differently now.
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Dude no need to get upset. Different phones behave differently. No one said you were wrong. If it works for you great but my nexus didn't have a matching RIL and baseband either and was fine. The only data drops I had were with newer radios.
Jeez.
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joshnichols189 said:
Dude no need to get upset. Different phones behave differently. No one said you were wrong. If it works for you great but my nexus didn't have a matching RIL and baseband either and was fine. The only data drops I had were with newer radios.
Jeez.
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In addition, some of us have never had data drops, whether the RIL was matched to the radio or not.
I've tried a few different radios, and a few different RILs (matched and not matched), and I have not noticed any perceivable difference in reception/latency/throughput.
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dr.m0x said:
Ok you are right. I must be imagining that my data doesn't drop randomly now my radio and ril match. Maybe it's because I'm holding my phone differently now.
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Look dude, the best thing is to just test different radios and RILs. Asking here what mix is best won't help you the least as the mix that work for someone might not work for you, at all.
I found that it didn't help avoiding data drops by running a 4.0.3 radio and RIL (for me) while running AOKP. I don't know whether my drops are because of AOKP, my carrier, a certain radio or simply a mix of all.
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efrant said:
In addition, some of us have never had data drops, whether the RIL was matched to the radio or not.
I've tried a few different radios, and a few different RILs (matched and not matched), and I have not noticed any perceivable difference in reception/latency/throughput.
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I wonder what actually differentiates all radios out there for the Galaxy Nexus, since most seem alike. I could run a UGLC1 radio in Europe as perfect as I could run a Europe radio.

Theshawty said:
I wonder what actually differentiates all radios out there for the Galaxy Nexus, since most seem alike. I could run a UGLC1 radio in Europe as perfect as I could run a Europe radio.
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That is indeed the $1 million question...
We need someone to disassemble the radios... if it is even possible.

Well really when it boils down to it they are all for the same frequencies so they cannot be TOO different..
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efrant said:
if it is even possible.
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All I can say is that nothing's impossible. We just don't know what the possible solution is.

[Q] What is the best radio to use with a JB rom?

I'm using Psychos R' Us CM-10Build4 on my Inc2 and everything works well, my issue is with signal strength. I live out in the country and on the stock sense rom i got 1-3 bars at my house but now that im on cm10 im lucky to get 1. would a radio update help? and if so which radio should i use? thanks!

On some roms the signal bars are not always accurate. You should be going off what your db levels are. The lower the better. Can be found in settings>about phone>status.
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kylesag21 said:
On some roms the signal bars are not always accurate. You should be going off what your db levels are. The lower the better. Can be found in settings>about phone>status.
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He is correct.
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CM based roms have always yielded fewer bars for me, but just to let you know I average -85db to -110db most of the time in my house. I am on the .320 radio and have tested a few with no better results. Good luck on your search.
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Thanks for all the replies guys. I checked and I'm at -99 plenty of signal for calling/texting/3g
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deathrow1993 said:
I'm using Psychos R' Us CM-10Build4 on my Inc2 and everything works well, my issue is with signal strength. I live out in the country and on the stock sense rom i got 1-3 bars at my house but now that im on cm10 im lucky to get 1. would a radio update help? and if so which radio should i use? thanks!
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The only way to know for sure is to test different ones out. Just don't flash the same one twice. ( meaning if you already have the .1111 on your phone don't flash over it with another .1111)

[Q] Will I benefit from flashing a different radio?

I am running aerovan's cm 10-20121003 with 2.6.35.14 ae14 kernel and radio 1.09.01.0622 I've got between -83 and -95 dBm signal strength when I check. I ask you guys, who I consider experts compared to me, if there is any reason for me to flash a different radio. If the answer is yes then a suggested radio would be a welcome addition to your answer. Oh and thanks in advance.

Jasonp0 said:
I am running aerovan's cm 10-20121003 with 2.6.35.14 ae14 kernel and radio 1.09.01.0622 I've got between -83 and -95 dBm signal strength when I check. I ask you guys, who I consider experts compared to me, if there is any reason for me to flash a different radio. If the answer is yes then a suggested radio would be a welcome addition to your answer. Oh and thanks in advance.
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It couldn't hurt but those are pretty good numbers you're getting, I wouldn't expect a lot better
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So the short answer is no.
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Derp

The short answer is try it and see
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jeremytn86 said:
The short answer is try it and see
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Yeah, you can always flash back. It's easy. Rename it, put it on root of sd, reboot into bootloader and let it do its thing. Be sure to rename again and put it somewhere else or delete it once you are done. Otherwise anytime you boot into bootloader it will try to flash again, which some say is bad. If you don't know how to do it, check the stickies.
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I'm great at reading stickies. I was just wanting to know what the benefits of flashing a new radio really were. Like I said I'm pulling good service. I was just trying to figure out the benefit vs. potential risks of flashing a radio. It does seem like the risk is relatively low, but I really haven't seen the benefit side of it.

Jasonp0 said:
I'm great at reading stickies. I was just wanting to know what the benefits of flashing a new radio really were. Like I said I'm pulling good service. I was just trying to figure out the benefit vs. potential risks of flashing a radio. It does seem like the risk is relatively low, but I really haven't seen the benefit side of it.
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The reason we say try and see is because benefit varies. Some don't notice any. I'm not sure I do. Others see better battery, signal, performance, ect. Nothing about this phone is consistent for everyone. One person swears a rom is flawless and another can't get it to boot. If you think your phone performs well enough I would not bother.
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I did end up updating the radio. I haven't seen any noticeable change. So for me it was pointless from a performance stand point, but from the experience stand point it was worth it. The slight moment of panic when the phone doesn't make it past the splash screen before all of the different advice from what I've read on the forums kick in and I go into recovery and wipe the delvak which I had forgotten and the cache and everything booted up great.
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Agreed. It's good to learn. Helps ease your mind about trying things.
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