So I'm still sitting in Canada and the release is getting closer. Canada traditionaly gets different variants, however this time all that is changed is the frequencies. So does this mean I still need special ROMS to get my flashing fix? or will it be just a matter of flashing a different radio? Does anyone really know yet?
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Ok, So I have the new Fresh 2.0b ROM, right? But I have Cellular South as my service provider. Can I still flash the Radio update? I don't want to mess up my phone by bricking it because of my carrier. Yes, it is CDMA. Anyways, can I?
Someone, please correct me if Im wrong, but I do not believe that this radio will work correctly with a different carrier. I definitely wouldnt try it without being able to flash back to your original.
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Someone, please correct me if Im wrong, but I do not believe that this radio will work correctly with a different carrier. I definitely wouldnt try it without being able to flash back to your original.
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That's what I thought as well. That should really be specified in the thread of the radio update. It never specifies carrier. it just specifies "CDMA"
The radio update should work fine for Cell South.
The "big" carriers have enough buying power to get products in volume from the manufacturer. Smaller carriers, like Cell South, Alaska DigiTel, ACS, Bluegrass, etc. get their stock from a distributor who, with all those smaller companies buying, have enough customers to buy products in volume just like the "big" carriers. That's why there's no significant difference in the Hero between the smaller carriers.
KyleIsTheBeast said:
I don't want to mess up my phone by bricking it because of my carrier.
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The bricking usually happens with people flashing GSM on a CDMA phone or the other way around.
navalynt said:
The radio update should work fine for Cell South.
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Can someone please confirm? I don't want to **** up my precious hero! xD LOL
First question: Why would you want to update the radio?
Radio update cannot be undone. This may cause the sprint update a problem
Bielinsk said:
First question: Why would you want to update the radio?
Radio update cannot be undone. This may cause the sprint update a problem
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Because it is said to have a better battery life
I am aware that it can not be undone. What do you mean? How is this so? I do not have Sprint
i dont see why one of the devs could pull the old radio image out and just flash it back..but i dont think anyone would want to...and it could be the radio update that is coming for sprint since alot of these new roms are based of leaks from htc and whatnot a couple weeks before the official update
I don't see why you'd want to Sprint update now that we have working 2.1 Anyways, RUU restores the stock radio, and it is probably inside the RUU.
yea i figured it wasnt permanant..but i like it it has improved my signal more than my battery life IMO but i wouldnt take it back cause now i get real strong evdo at work when i never got it at all which does inturn help battery life...also the devs on here will make the official sprint update look like a small town guinnea.
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yea i figured it wasnt permanant..but i like it it has improved my signal more than my battery life IMO but i wouldnt take it back cause now i get real strong evdo at work when i never got it at all which does inturn help battery life...also the devs on here will make the official sprint update look like a small town guinnea.
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Are you running Fresh 2.0b2 ? My radio update seems to have killed my reception. Its not as good as it was originally.
yea i am and like i said i didnt at all see an improvvement in my bars..but my stats (i forget how its measured) but the numbers were way lower than they are normally and i noticed that while i have just 2 evdo bars it never leaves that as before it was constantly going in and out of evdo also i would think your phone also needs to get used to it seems like android phone always have to break something in weather it be a rom or we just my opinion
Hi, was just interested to hear other peoples experience with certain modems in certain countries. Im in Australia and am currently using jpp and was wondering for issues such as reception and data speeds is there certain modems we should use in regards to where we live?
I havnt notice much dif with modems except JPM modem hangs on me often. Currently using JP0 and it seems stable. speed wise I havn't noticed any dif as Optus is always screwed due to over selling its network. Btw you are using optus too
Yeah Virgin using Optus just heard other people saying this modem does this and that compared this modem which doesnt etc just got me thinking cause we are flashing european firmwares maybe we should be using certain one.
Hi all,
I'm waiting patiently for my 64gb developer phone which I should be getting next week. In the meantime I've been combing through the forums trying to get as much information as I can regarding the developer's edition HTC One. When I think I got the answer I'm looking for I see something else that makes me think another way. With this thread I'm hoping to get answers in one place to avoid confusion. Someone please educate me on this phone.
1. Will I be able to get 4G LTE, and or HSPA+?
2. Unlocked bootloader means I can flash roms but not kernels? How will I know which roms/kernels are the correct ones to flash for the dev edition?
3. Has anyone achieved s-off yet and if so which method is the best and easiest?
4. Tmo is going to be my carier. Whats this about Non Tmo devices needing the Tmobile 4GLTE APN added to the phone to connect to 4G LTE? Does this mean I don't have LTE (I guess it related to 1st question). And how do I add the tmo 4gLTE APN?
5. How does insurance work with unlocked phones and who do I get it from?
Sorry for all these questions. I'm fascinated and I want to be a developer one day so I'm trying to find my way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi all,
I'm waiting patiently for my 64gb developer phone which I should be getting next week. In the meantime I've been combing through the forums trying to get as much information as I can regarding the developer's edition HTC One. When I think I got the answer I'm looking for I see something else that makes me think another way. With this thread I'm hoping to get answers in one place to avoid confusion. Someone please educate me on this phone.
1. Will I be able to get 4G LTE, and or HSPA+?
2. Unlocked bootloader means I can flash roms but not kernels? How will I know which roms/kernels are the correct ones to flash for the dev edition?
3. Has anyone achieved s-off yet and if so which method is the best and easiest?
4. Tmo is going to be my carier. Whats this about Non Tmo devices needing the Tmobile 4GLTE APN added to the phone to connect to 4G LTE? Does this mean I don't have LTE (I guess it related to 1st question). And how do I add the tmo 4gLTE APN?
5. How does insurance work with unlocked phones and who do I get it from?
Sorry for all these questions. I'm fascinated and I want to be a developer one day so I'm trying to find my way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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1. You can get lte if your in a lte area. You will get hspa if your in a Markey with the 1900 band
2. You can flash roms kernels and radios now with s on
3. Prob no need for s off anymore
4. Put in the SIM should be auto or just Google it
5. Squaretrade.com
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I am still struggling, some people say that you will never get 3g, but yes on 4g, some other says that you will never get both of them since you are Tmobile. I can tell you, I have Tmobile wiht my HTC One Dev edition and I am getting HSDPA, and I pretty happy wiht that, but I am also worried why we are not getting 4G, so I also have started reading about that, the specs are almost the same, but it looks like the problem is the radio installed in the dev edition. So it look like if some dev are able to pull the radio out of the Tmobile HTC One version and try to adapt it or maybe directly installed in out dev edition it will work. I heard this a couple of days ago from another topic in this forum.
Good luck:good:
So 4glte runs on AWS 1700 and dev version doesn't support it unless a developer figures out how to flash it on the dev phone. Do you think that possibility is high? Thanks for the info.
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Wow... when you say neither that's pretty scary. I certainly hope that's not the case. I live in NJ in a 1900 rich area. I really do hope we can get LTE and hspa+. I told my wife we are getting 4g with these new phones but I guess I read wrong. We're coming from Sprint so even if we get hspa+ it's a major improvement.
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So 4glte runs on AWS 1700 and dev version doesn't support it unless a developer figures out how to flash it on the dev phone. Do you think that possibility is high? Thanks for the info.
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So I heard that the problem with dev version is that it has the compatibility built in hardware, but the radio which comes with the dev version doesn't support it, the problem here is that I don't know if flashing the radio from Tmobile HTC one will brick our phone.
If some developer could come to the thread and give us some answer, I don't have enough knowledge about how radios works.
flipy34 said:
So I heard that the problem with dev version is that it has the compatibility built in hardware, but the radio which comes with the dev version doesn't support it, the problem here is that I don't know if flashing the radio from Tmobile HTC one will brick our phone.
If some developer could come to the thread and give us some answer, I don't have enough knowledge about how radios works.
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You can flash it without bricking, but based on a thread in here that it doesn't work. There might be addition files other than the radio or something.
based on this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223236 we have the same devices with T-Mobile and AT&T
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248586 is where some people have tried and it booted, but they don't get HSPA+ on non-refarmed areas.
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You can flash it without bricking, but based on a thread in here that it doesn't work. There might be addition files other than the radio or something.
based on this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223236 we have the same devices with T-Mobile and AT&T
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248586 is where some people have tried and it booted, but they don't get HSPA+ on non-refarmed areas.
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I suspect that we are going to need S-Off in order to get this working, assuming that there is not in fact some hardware difference between the dev and TMO versions. I've read the threads, but I don't know where they get their information. I have not seen anything from HTC on which hardware is in the various phones.
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I suspect that we are going to need S-Off in order to get this working, assuming that there is not in fact some hardware difference between the dev and TMO versions. I've read the threads, but I don't know where they get their information. I have not seen anything from HTC on which hardware is in the various phones.
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I have not either, but based on current information to go by that's all we have. I think the only way we could tell for sure is a complete tear down of each model, but so far that has not been accomplished. If there are any variations in the hardware we'd see them and could say "It isn't going to work". If there is no difference then it has to be software/firmware thing.
Is it possible to flash another radio in order to get support for that specific band (e.g AT&T radio on Intl phone), or is it hardware-specific?
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i have tried to activate the 3g 850 band and it didnt worked.
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i have tried to activate the 3g 850 band and it didnt worked.
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Which radio were you using?
i was using stock vodafone radio from germany, and now i flashed this one.
and i have flashed this one Radio 4A.16.3250.24 10.38.1150.03 i have read somewhere here that this one is a 850mhz band radio.
this has been discussed like a bajillion times. its currently being looked into but nothing concrete since you have to adjust the actual radio memory or something similar. even modifying anything doing with the radio required S-OFF which was only achieved just recently so its going to take a bit of time to see where this goes.
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this has been discussed like a bajillion times. its currently being looked into but nothing concrete since you have to adjust the actual radio memory or something similar. even modifying anything doing with the radio required S-OFF which was only achieved just recently so its going to take a bit of time to see where this goes.
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Search results gave me nothing, so I guess my thread should answer the questions other have.
Curiousbif anybody on tmobile USA updated their firmware to anything other than what tmobile has. I'm running HD13.3 right now and I seem to have few odd ts issues, but other than that good.
If you have flashed it, have you noticed any difference? Since tmobile fw is based on 4.1.2. I'm more concerned with it effecting the radio, since tmobile uses odd bands, don't really want to create any issues with it.
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The thing about radio and rom combos is that they sometimes contain updated modules that take advantage of the radio version you have.
Some users note that certain radio firmware work better with a certain rom while another rom hinders it. Less Battery life or signal.
You can stick to one rom and flash any radio you want and not notice a difference because of where you live while others will.
Radio updates don't control what bands you phone uses they simply make adjustments on how your phone uses them. So your T-Mo HTC One and my AT&T HTC One if they where to have the same ROM/Radio the difference in battery life and overall network performance depends on just that; the network.
If your having issues related to the T-Mobile network it could be any number of things. A bad rom flash, Radio firmware not at your favor, the phone itself, or just the local towers etc.
There are several radios available to install via recovery.. Try a couple and test each out for a day or so and compare the results. If not try to stick with the radio that was released with the ruu the rom was made from.
Tachi91 said:
The thing about radio and rom combos is that they sometimes contain updated modules that take advantage of the radio version you have.
Some users note that certain radio firmware work better with a certain rom while another rom hinders it. Less Battery life or signal.
You can stick to one rom and flash any radio you want and not notice a difference because of where you live while others will.
Radio updates don't control what bands you phone uses they simply make adjustments on how your phone uses them. So your T-Mo HTC One and my AT&T HTC One if they where to have the same ROM/Radio the difference in battery life and overall network performance depends on just that; the network.
If your having issues related to the T-Mobile network it could be any number of things. A bad rom flash, Radio firmware not at your favor, the phone itself, or just the local towers etc.
There are several radios available to install via recovery.. Try a couple and test each out for a day or so and compare the results. If not try to stick with the radio that was released with the ruu the rom was made from.
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Thank you . I will try and find a thread with all of the radios. I am kind of wanting to flash an updated Firmware, but I do not think it is possible unless I go S-OFF and go back to 4.1.2 RUU?
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Thank you . I will try and find a thread with all of the radios. I am kind of wanting to flash an updated Firmware, but I do not think it is possible unless I go S-OFF and go back to 4.1.2 RUU?
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Im kind of in the same boat. I have a T-MO branded HTC One. I wanted to get sOFF and go with the HTC Google Play edition firmware and ROM and flash the T-Mobile radios. BUT the update to my TMO unit at the end of July borked the moonshine and revone (revone?? is that right cant thing of it off the top of my head?) exploit to allow S-off.. So my unit is rooted but NOT with Soff to allow me to do the google play edition firmware..
I can tell you that for me the update in July did help with a little bit better battery life and did improve LTE performance.
I am in Dallas and often can get 35MB down and 25 up..
hoping the rumors are true that we get 4.3 around the end of September..