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Radio update help..

...It's pretty much been over half a year since I needed to root my phone again, but I just received a brand new one from tmob.
SO. I did the root deal, that went super smooth, I have JF1.51 CRB43 ADP to start with.
NOW, I am trying to update the radio, and it does not seem to be working. From what I remember and what I've read, all you do is flash it like you would any rom, rename to update.zip and recov alt+s, right? Well, when I check the radio version it still says the original, not what I flashed. So I re-downloaded and tried again, no luck.
....feel like a real idiot here haha, never had it not work before. Tried searching but I had no luck finding the solution. By all means if you have a link and this was a pointless post just tell me, else I just need some help!

which recovery image do you have installed

maruutah said:
...It's pretty much been over half a year since I needed to root my phone again, but I just received a brand new one from tmob.
SO. I did the root deal, that went super smooth, I have JF1.51 CRB43 ADP to start with.
NOW, I am trying to update the radio, and it does not seem to be working. From what I remember and what I've read, all you do is flash it like you would any rom, rename to update.zip and recov alt+s, right? Well, when I check the radio version it still says the original, not what I flashed. So I re-downloaded and tried again, no luck.
....feel like a real idiot here haha, never had it not work before. Tried searching but I had no luck finding the solution. By all means if you have a link and this was a pointless post just tell me, else I just need some help!
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If your using Cyanogen's recovery, try to physically press the alt-s, and home + back to reboot
I believe it works like that for flashing the IPL (radio) and SPL
where did you get the radio from?

Sorry I left out the recov info, I know my signature is misleading...didn't change it yet..!
I'm using JF 1.43 recov, I remember that (not sure if it was ever fixed, all I know is that flashing the SPL with CM recov caused 'error at line ___' when flashing new roms) that you cannot flash the new SPL with cyanogen recovery, so I'm using JF's until I get the radio and spl flashed correctly.
I got the radio from where I usually have in the past, as well as the new SPL
http://sapphire-port-dream.googlecode.com/files/
(Of course I will not flash the latest SPL until the newest radio is flashed first!)
I just want my happy CM 3.9.7 back..! With the ability to flash the new hero roms when I get curious..
****I am now attempting to flash the radio with cm recov 1.4, will update on this if it works.
****no luck with cm either, didn't think it would make a difference but thought I would give it a shot. I still have 1.22.12.29 for my radio :/ agh!

So...Still can't update the radio for whatever reason, just does not take, and I still can't find anything in the forums about this either... :/ Anyone have any ideas at all?

get the radio from the htc website maybe you got a bad download. i have flashed radio and new spl with cyanogens recovery so i know it will do it. after flashing the radio press home and back to reboot. do not reboot from the recovery console because i have noticed that it will not write the image.

david1171 said:
get the radio from the htc website maybe you got a bad download. i have flashed radio and new spl with cyanogens recovery so i know it will do it. after flashing the radio press home and back to reboot. do not reboot from the recovery console because i have noticed that it will not write the image.
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Thanks for the link ^-^ I will give it a shot. Good to her that the CM recov flashes the new SPL alright now..! I will post results...every time I flash it goes through the motions of writing the radio but just never shows that I have the new one..super frustrating.
** I also notice that whenever I have tried to flash the radio on the new phone, when I reboot it goes through the appropriate motions, yes, however it puts me back into recovery every time. I wonder if I should just completely start over (unroot, re-root) hope thats not the case..I just got it all set back up again :/

Nope, no matter where I download from and how many times I flash with different recoveries.. I still have the original radio 1.22.12.29 :/
This has always been so easy! I've never had issues with rooting, then updating the radio, then updating to the new SPL.. :/

maruutah said:
Thanks for the link ^-^ I will give it a shot. Good to her that the CM recov flashes the new SPL alright now..! I will post results...every time I flash it goes through the motions of writing the radio but just never shows that I have the new one..super frustrating.
** I also notice that whenever I have tried to flash the radio on the new phone, when I reboot it goes through the appropriate motions, yes, however it puts me back into recovery every time. I wonder if I should just completely start over (unroot, re-root) hope thats not the case..I just got it all set back up again :/
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If you can, try rerooting, it will only be a few more steps.

B-man007 said:
If you ca try rerooting, it will only be a few more steps.
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Yeah, I was hoping to not have to but I will in a bit here if I still can't figure it out. I have root just fine, running CM 3.9.9.1 even, which I usually only run his roms, however I do like to try the Hero roms as well as they come out..
bummer :/

maruutah said:
Yeah, I was hoping to not have to but I will in a bit here if I still can't figure it out. I have root just fine, running CM 3.9.9.1 even, which I usually only run his roms, however I do like to try the Hero roms as well as they come out..
bummer :/
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I don't know why its not updating your radio, but everything else works fine. You should update the radio before updating to cupcake builds. maybe that will help?

gave up for a while, finally re-rooted
Re-rooted and still cannot update my radio, I have tried updating it after the very first rooting steps, after updating to JF RC33 as well, I still can't get the latest radio to get onto my phone. I have tried with JF recovery, CM recovery, as well as the original recovery image, and nothing. Notta. Zip. No idea why my phone simply will not take the new radio image.. I have re-downloaded it a million times as well, going in circles..don't get why the phone will let me root, unroot, all that jazz, and simply will not let me update the radio... driving me nuts!! I can use CM roms just fine of course but any other roms I am stuck with not trying cause of this annoyance!! Anything anyone can recommend would be great

o man still can't get it to work?
try flashing the official 1.5 OTA update, which contains the updated radio. see if it gives you an error message. if it does, take it to tmobile and tell them to replace your phone.
if it flashes...see if it updated your radio. if it did, you can use the one click root to root your phone

Thanks again buddy, I will try it out ^^

So, I unrooted, and applied the OTA updates from 29 to 30, 30 to 33, 33 to cupcake..and I still don't have the latest radio, still at 1.22.12.29. I got the ota cupcake here:
https://android.clients.google.com/updates/partner/signed-kila-ota-150275.53dde318.zip
i'm going to try flashing the ota radio update without root if it will let me..grr..this is so weird, there is no reason why it shouldn't take a simple radio update..hrm
***attempted the ota radio update, guess you can't without root which is what I figured, but frick, this makes no sense.. >>

so, this is a bit odd, at http://developer.htc.com/adp.html, one of the spots to DL the latest radio, when you hover over the radio link for 1.5 and 1.6, it says "ota-radio-1_22_14_11.zip" rather than "ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip", weird, eh? Wonder if it's simply not the right radio, and labeled wrong, I have no idea, but this is getting super old.

I'm actually having the same problem, can't seem to update the radio with the radio image the htc site provides. It's still stuck at 1.22.12.29

Anyone had this before? Any help would be appreciated

I can't get around it, and it's really frustrating, since the only rom I can use is a CM build..aside from a couple others, but CM is the best as far as universal SPL use goes..

So what I've tried so far:
- Updated to HardSPL
- Tried multiple Radio updates, new ones, old ones, even some from the forums.
- Tried a few complete updates that include the radio image
- Tried flashing directly from fastboot, not sure what partition I need to flash though, the radio partition gives me an error that it does not exist.
Still no go. The weird thing is that I come from a stock 1.5 installation updated from 1.0 via t-mobile. And I'm still at the original 1.0 radio image.

Downgrade radio from ERE36B to ERE27

http://android.modaco.com/content/g...-online-kitchen-optional-root-insecure-himem/
There are several files in there and I'm not really sure which one is the one I'm looking for. Obviously, I'm not going to take such a risk having a great community of people who know what they're talking about.
So, if I have ERE36B and want to downgrade to ERE27, is this the correct file I have to flash? The thing is I'm not sure because I'm reading all this "update version" stuff everywhere and I'm now pretty confused. I'd appreciate someone's 10 seconds to check it out for me. You'll understand I don't want to mess up with radio stuff if it can brick my phone. Thanks
ERE27 / 32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2 radio - update zip format
The update includes the Radio ROM shipped with ERE27, again as an update zip. It carries version number 32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2. NOTE: This has been superceded by a new radio shipped with ERE36B.
RADIO UPDATE ZIP DOWNLOAD MD5: 28a6aabf2f756806c5eb5e99a9626ca4
http://www.romraid.com/paul/nexusone/update-nexusone-radio-32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2-signed.zip
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I try to flash radios as least possible,you could brick your phone,anyways I found the new radio to be better, but I guessed is a personal preference. But yes just flash the zip and wait, wait, wait.

jongie123 said:
I try to flash radios as least possible,you could brick your phone,anyways I found the new radio to be better, but I guessed is a personal preference. But yes just flash the zip and wait, wait, wait.
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I'm experiencing low performance in all radio-related aspects and want to try to downgrade to see what happens. If it doesn't help I'll upgrade again. I just want to make sure that's the correct file to flash.

Yes, that is the downgrade. I did the same thing... im still wondering if this radio works better or not...and im not ready to try the newest one out yet.

From Froyo back to a Custom Rom?

I searched around quit a bit and couldn't find this info.
If you go to one of the Froyos, with/without radio, is it possible to just flash it back with another custom Rom over that and all is good?
Just wondering if there are any gotchas like if you put the radio update on etc...
Thanks

how about using search!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687795

craigacgomez said:
how about using search!!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=687795
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One person in that thread claimed, with an unlocked bootloader, that he just put the old radio and custom rom on the card, and did the usual wipe and flash and it worked fine.
Others that posted were all over the place, including some convoluted approach that pretty much wiped everything on the device and SD card to get it back to stock..which I don't care about stock. I just want to be able to go back from 2.2 to my Modaco R21 if necessary without any gotchas.

Yes you can just flash any ROM like you normally would. I've done it a few times now in the last few days. I did the old radio and all.

RogerPodacter said:
Yes you can just flash any ROM like you normally would. I've done it a few times now in the last few days. I did the old radio and all.
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Thanks.
So I got the original radio, plus my R21 and intersectR kenerl setup I know is good.
Looks like you just flash the radio, then the Rom and kernel and setup again...
Thanks for the reply.

[Q] What is a Radio?

Ok, so this is a newb question so bare with me, i just rooted my phone and installed CM 6 only an hour ago (hurray). But I dont know what a radio flash is or how to handle them? Can anyone help me out, please dont yell at me for not searching, imagine how many thread with the word "radio" would pop up.
-Cheers and thanks

its what gives you the signal on your phone, usually improves signal or gives a feature of some sort.. some rom NEED the new radio update if there is one
simple as i can tell you without gettin all techy nechy

ilostchild said:
its what gives you the signal on your phone, usually improves signal or gives a feature of some sort.. some rom NEED the new radio update if there is one
simple as i can tell you without gettin all techy nechy
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how do you install one? do you just do an update.zip recovery install?

Blueman101 said:
how do you install one? do you just do an update.zip recovery install?
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forgot to mention that part, if there is a new Radio out for your phone usually a Dev, will pull it out of a OTA update , and make a update.zip already, and all you have to do is into recovery and flash it over... and some stock roms will push out a radio-ota(rare i belieive) but thats it.. so for froyo radio Cyanogen has a updatezip for froyo radio, you can grab it place it in sdcard then boot into recovery and flash! wa-la got new radio, i also believe you can flash via Fastboot too

Thanks man, i currently have CM6 installed and some other Roms in the Dev section, that i was looking at testing, say you gotta install a radio, so thanks for the help.

2.2

Hi is there a 2.2 rom for the incredible s that is close to stock that i can flash in clockwork recovery?..thanks

fridaycider said:
Hi is there a 2.2 rom for the incredible s that is close to stock that i can flash in clockwork recovery?..thanks
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I should think the very early versions of some ROMs might be 2.2... Possibly ARHD? Worth asking the devs directly, or looking at old versions of the ROMs in the development forum.
All that said, why do you even want a 2.2 ROM?

Thanks for the reply. i have had a look but couldnt see any..
The reason i want to downgrade is because of the delayed text messages and poor network reception which i didn't have a problem on 2.2..

fridaycider said:
Thanks for the reply. i have had a look but couldnt see any..
The reason i want to downgrade is because of the delayed text messages and poor network reception which i didn't have a problem on 2.2..
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If you have upgraded to a GB Rom and radio combination, you may have a problem trying to go back to a Froyo Rom and radio. Although the Rom can be downgraded, you probably will have an issue trying to downgrade the radio and a GB radio with a Froyo Rom will not work. You won't be able to make or hear calls.

fridaycider said:
Thanks for the reply. i have had a look but couldnt see any..
The reason i want to downgrade is because of the delayed text messages and poor network reception which i didn't have a problem on 2.2..
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Which ROMs have you tried so far?

right i decided to try and go back to 2.2 and couldn't downgrade the radio to a 2.2 one, but really stupidly ran a ruu and lost root access but still had revolutionary.
tried to re-run revolutionary without success so was stuck with 2.3 without root so could not install recovery or anything and no permissions.
eventually got root access back by running superoneclick 2.2.1 now everything is back to normal..
not going to mess anymore as i have messed it up once,next time it'll probably get bricked. i'll just wait for a fix...

Why don't you just try a different gb radio.