I'm on ICS 6.7.246. I was wondering if it's possible to flash the radio from earlier gingerboard version? I wanted to downgrade to GB but my understanding is that downgrading would brick my phone and therefore am thinking about flashing just the radio if possible. My perception is that gingerboard radio supports GSM 900/1800mhz as well and also gives better signal strength. I'm trying to make my phone work on 900/1800mhz band.
Is it possible to flash a gingerboard version including the radio in a rom slot using safestrap while keeping ICS in the stock slot? I guess not but just wanted to ask anyway.
Any kind of help or clarification is every much. Thanks in advance.
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My N1 on Rogers is currently at (unrooted) stock 2.3.6, with baseband version 32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04.
My data connection constantly hangs and then drops. I'd really like to flash the radio to 32.50.00.32U_5.12.00.08, but I have no idea how.
I can only find guides which flash the radio along with Cyanogen, but I ONLY want to flash the radio, without any custom ROM (I want to stick with stock 2.3.6).
How do I go about doing this?
The recommended way to flash a radio is through fastboot (which you need an unlocked bootloader for) but you can also use a flashable zip through recovery but it is crucial that you check md5 sum because flashing a radio is the easiest way to brick you phone if it is corrupt us something.
Thanks, and this doesn't require rooting?
No sorry forgot to mention flashing a radio requires root and I don't recommend you flash a radio until you are comfortable with all the rooting stuff because like I said it's the easiest way to brick your phone.
I doubt your problems is with your radio anyway
Why do you say that?
I had no problems with my 3g data connection until after Gingerbread was pushed to my phone. I believe the new 5.08 radio was included 2.3.
The 5.08 radio is the radio that seems to have the least amount of issues. I am sure google did a lot of research and testing before they decided to send out the 5.08 with Gingerbread rather than the 5.12.
But, to flash a radio, you either need to have your bootloader unlocked so you can flash it with fastboot, or you need your phone rooted so you can flash it with a custom recovery.
It isn't possible to do it staying completely stock.
Is there a way he can reflash OTA
Did you double check your apn's
Pull or replace sim
Pull battery
Call carrier
Hi there xda-ers!
I am about to buy myself one of these bad boys. The thing is, I will be needing to unlock it to use GSM to work in my country. Can this be accomplished no matter what D3 firmware version I pick up?
Also, are there any firmware versions which are not able to be rooted/have custom roms flashed to them?
I am a little confused - we still await an unlocked bootloader, yet people are flashing custom roms?
Thanks!
s1ice said:
Hi there xda-ers!
I am about to buy myself one of these bad boys. The thing is, I will be needing to unlock it to use GSM to work in my country. Can this be accomplished no matter what D3 firmware version I pick up?
Also, are there any firmware versions which are not able to be rooted/have custom roms flashed to them?
I am a little confused - we still await an unlocked bootloader, yet people are flashing custom roms?
Thanks!
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Droid 3 can be unlocked for all GSM bands except T-mobile 3g (correct me if I'm wrong)
All firmware versions can be rooted and you install safestrap (from Hashcode) to flash a custom ROM.
Safestrap uses a 2nd-init to 'get past' the bootloader, so we can flash a different ROM, but we keep the same kernel.
Although we now have something called kexec (bugs are being worked out) that allows us to load a kernel after the bootloader verifies the stock kernel. This will allow for custom ROMs and kernels.
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Hi everyone! My model is XT1058, same as Rogers, as I understand. The LTE frequencies in my country are closer to Rogers, so I thought if its possible to use my phone with Rogers baseband and see if LTE is working. Flashing the whole Rogers image seems to be too much for me, is there any way to backup/flash only networking/baseband part, what is the best way, what tools are better to use? Or maybe this is impossible? The phone is unlocked, CWM Recovered and fully rooted, I think I am ready for experiments.
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Hi everyone! My model is XT1058, same as Rogers, as I understand. The LTE frequencies in my country are closer to Rogers, so I thought if its possible to use my phone with Rogers baseband and see if LTE is working. Flashing the whole Rogers image seems to be too much for me, is there any way to backup/flash only networking/baseband part, what is the best way, what tools are better to use? Or maybe this is impossible? The phone is unlocked, CWM Recovered and fully rooted, I think I am ready for experiments.
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Hey buddy, same PR phone with you. Have you ever tried to flash other carriers(AT&T/Rogers) on your phone?
It seems the same as specification as XT1058.
chrisjenho said:
Hey buddy, same PR phone with you. Have you ever tried to flash other carriers(AT&T/Rogers) on your phone?
It seems the same as specification as XT1058.
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Nope, that's why I am asking others, maybe someone has done it already. I am thinking of extracting system image from FXZ and flashing just that without touching the recovery or boot but wanted to collect authorities' oppinions on if its a wise move from their experience perspective.
Flame goes to AT&T:
Am I imagining that AT&T is not allowing us to flash a different ROM (even if it's AT&T Rom).
I have tried to flash ROMs that are less bloated but all my efforts failed. It all restore back to the crap that AT&T wanted us to have. Even SS is not working normally any more. Can someone confirm this??? Thanks.
That all depends on what your firmware version is, along with what version of Safestrap you're attempting to use.
I see. I have safestrap 3.07 and 4.4.2 at&t firmware. I think it's bootloader locked.
Do you think if I flash clockworkmod things are going to get better?
I am too confused now.
It's ss 3.75.
Hello XDA,
Before I came to this subforum I was under the impression I had a regular HTC One, I got the same error message and then figured out I had a Sprint HTC One.
Now I had the issue where I had no service at all, my Sim card seemed to be detected but I ofcourse had the wrong firmware on it likely causing the issue.
So I got new firmware and a cm 12 (also tried stock rom) rom, but comming up to the same error message. The Sim card is detected and I am asked to fill in the pin for it which I was not when I had the wrong rom/firmware. I am not sure what is going wrong and I hope you guys can help me.
I am in The Netherlands and I am using radio Baseband - 1.01.20.0515
Thanks
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Tried:
RUU's:
I tried flashing this ruu, no success.
I flashed 3.04.651.2 RUU and 5.05.651.2 RUU after that to be sure to have a radio (according to this thread) but with no success. I also tried flashing the radio Baseband - 1.01.20.0515 again after it dit not work.
Radio's:
Baseband - 1.01.20.0515
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I wish I could help. My only suggestion is to try to run the Sprint RUU to reset the phone back to stock with the latest firmware to see if that helps. Unless I'm mistaken, the issue is that Europe uses GSM and Sprint is a CDMA carrier. So, you may not even have the right radios in the phone. The only saving grace is that it is a worldphone that uses LTE bands so you might be able to access those. But, you may have to unlock the SIM card first. At this point, I'm pretty much just throwing out ideas I've seen on the site since I've never been in the situation myself.
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I wish I could help. My only suggestion is to try to run the Sprint RUU to reset the phone back to stock with the latest firmware to see if that helps. Unless I'm mistaken, the issue is that Europe uses GSM and Sprint is a CDMA carrier. So, you may not even have the right radios in the phone. The only saving grace is that it is a worldphone that uses LTE bands so you might be able to access those. But, you may have to unlock the SIM card first. At this point, I'm pretty much just throwing out ideas I've seen on the site since I've never been in the situation myself.
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The hardware is capable of doing it. Before I started flashing it worked fine. I've tried going back to the stock rom but with no success.
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The hardware is capable of doing it. Before I started flashing it worked fine. I've tried going back to the stock rom but with no success.
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sounds like you flashed a gsm rom on a cdma phone, and now the partitions are messed up, only way out of that that I know of is running the RUU for the sprint phone.
I've tried that no success