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[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
I have one. Its fine in the house but outside it overpowers the real signal from towers.I can make calls and send texts but I get no data outside. Its really more of a hassle.
[Nexus S General] 4redstars:
this has always been the case. I ran Cyanogen on my EVO for a long time and WIFI signal always showed low on my taskbar. With Decks Rom the same thing. It has always been an AOSP vs HTC / Sense rom thing. I do think though that the wifi on my evo with AOSP just looked worse in the taskbar and still performed the same as running a sense rom.
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
I want the google wallet, hopefully there is something for people that have visa, my debt card is visa and thats what i would use with my phone.

I saw the soda machines have that wave and pass stuff...cant wait
[Nexus S General] BrianDigital:
yeah I agree with you on sense I would get full bars and say 76 db(not exact) then on CM7 id have like two/three bars with the same db reading.
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
I promise you, its not just showing it wrong. Service is actually worse on aosp than sense.
[Nexus S General] chappy824:
So if possible, we could get a sense port and service would be better???

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] 4redstars:
Not possible really. Sense is an HTC software base and our phones are made by samsung. AOSP is the main google code so that is why it normally works on almost all phones. Where things start getting sticky is turning around and trying to get proprietary files from HTC / Motorola / and the like to play nice on other hardware.

It all depends on the openness of HTC / Motorola / Samsung / LG's software. Which usually isn't open.
[Nexus S General] gear.h34d.2012:
I want Google Wallet so bad I can taste it!

I BOUGHT YOUR NFC ENABLED NEXUS PHONE GOOGLE AND SACRIFICED A YOUNG LAMB FOR GOOD MEASURE NOW DELIVER!
[Nexus S General] 3cables:
yep. blocked
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Yeah, how?
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Terminal emulator...
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Go on...........
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
I'll have unzip the file though correct?
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Fastboot flash radio radioname
[Nexus S General] p-slim:
you can load radio by following this post
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Yes
[Nexus S General] nickny516:
For anyone updating on a mac running os x and getting the signature error try this.

- download the update directly into the nexus disk image on your desktop.

- make sure file is named update.zip and file type is .zip file

btw this is for an unrooted stock nexus s 4g
[Nexus S General] raiderep:
Native tether wouldn't work for me on 3g or 4g but wifi tether works fine, and root is no trouble either obviously ;)
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Could careless about no 3g tethering it was like using Netzero on a laptop tethering on Sprints SlowG network
[Nexus S General] jbeez:
just to confirm, wifi tether works for you and you installed the GRJ90 update file?
[Nexus S General] p-slim:
i always see sprint advertising 4G tethering with the nexus, does that mean it only works if you pay the $30? will that fix the tethering issue?
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
If I just load the radio on Deck's Rom or any custom rom will that mess anything up?
[Nexus S General] Jeremiah239:
Thanks!
[Nexus S General] raiderep:
Thats correct sir, I fastboot flashed CWM after the update and flashed the su.zip I already had from previous rooting, then installed busybox with the market app by stericson. It actually works better now as before it wouldn't work if I turned it on with 4g already on but maybe thats a placebo....who cares really, it works ;)
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Pardon my idiocy but where do I enter that text?
[Nexus S General] exstatica:
Better to wait until an easier method comes out. If you have never used fastboot before, than I wouldn't recommend it.
[Nexus S General] logikgr:
Should work just fine.
[Nexus S General] Overstew:
Should be "adb fastboot flash radio radio.pr.img" I think...unless I'm doing something wrong.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Your PC command line while connected to the phone via USB when it is on the bootloader
[Nexus S General] LucidChaos:
Thanks for all the posts on this today- I've enjoyed watching this thread evolve over the last few hours... Anyways, here are my results:

(unable to test 4G as I am not in a 4G area at home)

- signal strength ranged from-86 t -96 dBm pre-update, and now it appears locked in at -86.

- NFC turns on/off without issue

- 3g indicator shows 2 bars consistently where it previously only reported 1 bar consistently

- pre/post 3G speedtests are 'best of' from 5 test each in exact same location in crap 3G area aka my house...

2.3.4 - .28Mbps/.22Mbps

2.3.5 - .47Mps/.35Mps

- both wifi and USB tether failing, when both previously worked w/o issue for me

...sigh... To say I am disappointed is an understatement.
[Nexus S General] esoh:
That's what we are trying to figure out. If someone is still paying for it, can you check for the rest of us.
[Nexus S General] p-slim:
you will be fine pushing the updated radio image to any rom

this has to be done thru adb
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Will Mac OS X terminal line suffice?
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
Fastboot not found
[Nexus S General] styckx:
No idea. You need the Android SDK. No clue if available for Mac. (Don't think so)
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
ok guys its uploaidng now, i keep running into issues with root not sticking

all set now tho :)

making a new thread for it right now

;) 42%
[Nexus S General] Overstew:
I hope this update doesn't break my tethering. I'm hearing it does so now I'm skeptical to update.
[Nexus S General] esoh:
Are you saying that you are disappointed overall or just with the tethering? As far as I'm concerned, you are getting better signal and faster speeds. That has to be good, no?
[Nexus S General] jonnythan:
Fastboot is not ADB.

You need to boot into bootloader, then enter the fastboot command. If that is beyond you, wait for a flashable zip.
[Nexus S General] 3cables:
just

fastboot flash radio radio.pr.img
[Nexus S General] esoh:
As of now, it's broken. You can still root and use Wifi Tether, so you still have that route. If you don't want to root and need tether, don't update. You will prob get forced to update at some point though.

Plus, I suppose that this might be temporary (although I highly doubt it).
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
I'm in the same boat
[Nexus S General] moolman:
My tethering is broken too. So does this mean we have to root if you want to tether or can I use a program like EasyTether to do it.

Thanks
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
./fastboot flash radio radioname

Edit: If you're on a mac.
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
Where do you put the radio.pr file?
[Nexus S General] moolman:
Noticed that EasyTether which was on sale for $4.99 on Amazon appstore just increased back to the normal price of $9.99....:)
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
yes it is, and the android drivers are built in no need for download like in windows just cd to the android sdk folder. if you don't know how to do that look it up and don't be so lazy
[Nexus S General] Quarzac:
Firstly, thanks a ton to everyone here who made getting this update today possible for me!

Secondly, to throw my experiences into the ring here, I and getting a slightly better 3G experience (fluctuating between -86 and -76 as opposed to -96 and -86) My 4G appears mostly unchanged, but that is likely because I am on the edge of the 4G coverage region. I never had a problem turning NFC on and off, and still can, as far as I know. Wifi tethering works, but neither 3G nor 4G tether correctly. This testing was done over USB. My wifi signal seems much the same, but I haven't tested it much. It used to drop occasionally, so I'll play around with the phone and let you guys know what I see. My speedtest app speeds seem to be much the same as before, but I'd like to test them in a better covered area before I give a definitive statement on that.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
"command not found"
[Nexus S General] Maximilian Mary:
Native wifi hotspot disables the data connection.

Data is definitely faster. I haven't seen 1 Mbps+ at home since my Alltel Hero.
[Nexus S General] esoh:
Yes, as far as I can tell, options are root and use something like Wifi Tether or Easy Tether. I believe you can get 4G tethering with Wifi Tether, not sure if Easy Tether has 4G.

Also, someone in AC forums is confirming that tether and MHS works if you are paying customer. So I guess this isn't a mistake, this is real.
[Nexus S General] Skimp Killah:
Isn't the radio seperate from the rom?

Sent from my Nexus S 5g.
[Nexus S General] pewipo123:
same here...
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
Well I successfully flashed the radio img...thanks guys. We'll see what happens now.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
The people not able to flash are doing it through terminal if I'm not mistaken, im in the same boat how do I flash it directly through my phone.
[Nexus S General] pewipo123:
amen!
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
wifi is no better for me, neither is 3g. but 4g actually stays connected now so thats at least good news.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I have adb installed, and I am in the correct directory but when I type "fastboot flash radio radio.pr.img" I get command not found.

My phone is connected and in the bootloader with fastboot mode. What am I doing wrong?
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
in terminal

Su

Fastboot flash radio radioname.img

If ffastboot not found need a custom rom that supports it
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
I'm wrong again.
[Nexus S General] pewipo123:
im in the terminal with img on root of sdcard....says " fastboot nit found "
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
I flash recoveries from terminal
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Ok, when I type ./adb devices it shows no devices attached. I am on CM7.
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
Can anyone write out the baseband for 2.3.4? Just want to make sure the radio flashed correctly.

Here's mine now after going trough fastboot: D720SPRKE5
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Sorry correction from terminal emulator

Su

Flash_image radio radio.img

Not fastboot
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
need to use flash image with recovery i believe, not sure if you can do it while phone is on (flashing radios)

anyways guys check dev section.. deodex'd is live :)
[Nexus S General] kurrier:
Flashed radio under bootloader no problem. With CM, speed differences aren't really noticeable. With Airave at home before flash had 2 bars during use, now is at 4-5 bars during use. Wifi seems the same. NFC turns off fine. 3g seems a little better. And can't test 4g.
[Nexus S General] chappy824:
D720SPRKD8

Sent from my Nexus S 4G
[Nexus S General] ammarmalik:
so this update is for the 4G version? The stupid WiFi issue is with all Nexus S variants so why is this for the 4G version only?
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
So it worked??? lol...awesome!
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
This is where I am at: ./adb devices shows my device when it is turned on but not when I am in the bootloader. Any ideas?
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
ADB can't see a device in bootloader you have to use fast boot
[Nexus S General] Swayyy:
While the update gave an aesthetically pleasing 1-2 more bars on the screen, my signal still sucks, and my data still sucks... Maybe my WIFI will get better a least, I can test that when I get home... I was about to switch back to my EVO and sell this pile of ****, but I check my email when I reboot after the update and WHOILA instant payment for the EVO on Ebay.... FML
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
./fastboot devices

./fasboot flash radio radio.img

./fastboot reboot
[Nexus S General] ammarmalik:
someone please tell me why isnt this for normal GSM nexus s??? My WiFi is horribly weak and I could really use this update
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Soju doesn't have fastboot :( that's what I'm on it doesn't work
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
I'm sure someone will grab the updated drivers for you..chill and relax
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
So I haven't flashed anything and my baseband is d720spkrd8...??
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
That sucks cus wifi is no better than before,for me at least. Only difference I've seen is 4g actually stays connected.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Try flash_image instead of fast boot but really doing it in boot loader is easy and safer..
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Cause that's the old one
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I did not mean to be such a hassle but I do not understand how to get into fastboot on my phone.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
./adb reboot bootloader then run commands from my last reply
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
OK lol
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
"no such file or directory"
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Try /path/to/radio.img
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
./fastboot devices results in "No such file or directory"
[Nexus S General] shabbypenguin:
guys, do you have fastboot on your computer? if not then this isnt going to work
[Nexus S General] styckx:
New radio works great. Does improve 3g. I saw my first 4 bars (-65db) ever while at work. Bounces between 2-4 bars now. Before it was 1-2 bars. DB measurements seem the same so they didn't fudge the numbers per bar. Going home soon to see how wifi is. 4g didn't change although I never had an issue with it in the first place.

Sprints 3g speeds still suck though. :)
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I must not? I just installed the android sdk and successfully put my phone into the bootloader via adb.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Flash image doesn't work in terminal either grrr
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I guess now how does one install or use fastboot? A quick google search was no help to me.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
CD to the folder in sdk with fastboot in it. Google how to use fastboot it should take 2 minutes
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
All I did was go to adb, get my device recognized and throw that sucka into fastboot...then typed the commands...boom. Put the PR Img in your tools folder for android sdk.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I do not have fastboot anywhere in my sdk folder.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Then download the sdk portion with fastboot or there are many separate fastboot bins available on Google and xda
[Nexus S General] ronnienyc:
This is what I was afraid of. No real improvement in 3G!! I believe that is what was killing my battery. :-(
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
That's the thing, I can;t find anything related to fastboot.
[Nexus S General] The111:
Multiple people have posted hard before/after numbers showing real improvement. Why choose to notice the one post with the subjective (and vague) "it still sucks" measurement? :confused:
[Nexus S General] matt2053:
You must install "platform tools" from SDK manager.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I have. I see an adb exec file, but no fastboot.
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
Guys, download SDK Developer Tools. Unload it onto your C drive. It should be android-sdk-windows. Open that folder and go into your Tools folder. If adb is NOT in Tools then it should have a txt file explaining where to find it within the other folders. You will need to copy adb application and AdbWinApi.dll and AdbWinUsbApi.dll and paste them into your Tools folder. Confirm that fastboot application is in Tools as well. It SHOULD be in there. Then hold down shift and right click the mouse and a menu should popup. Select Open Command Prompt Here. That should take you straight to the file directory for you to type the above commands that people are talking about. If your phone is on go in to the command prompt and type adb reboot bootloader <--should reboot you to bootloader. Then type fastboot flash radio radionamewhatever and you should be set.

If anyone else has more experience or if I am wrong please correct me, but this is how I always go about getting to that point. Hope that helps guys.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I am on a mac and still cannot find fastboot.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
Fastboot-mac should be the Nam then
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
This.

I don't know a lot about macs man, sorry :(

I wish I could help the mac users more.

I just barely have the knowledge about windows and sdk tools and such that I do have, but I had a lot of these guys give a lot of good advice and help.
[Nexus S General] debh945:
Don't know if this will help anyone but for me adb is in platform-tools and fastboot is in the tools folder. Once I correctly spelled android-sdk-windows\tools (it couldn't find andorid-sdk-windows\tools, lol) I had to reboot bootloader before the radio would flash. It got hung up on "waiting for device". Rebooted bootloader and everything went through just fine.

I ran 5 speed tests before and after and basically the same speeds for me over 3g. I'm not in a 4g area to check that, unfortunately.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
I just cannot get anything fastboot to work for me. I do not have the skateboarding androids on my phone and I get "No such file ore directory" when I type "./fastboot devices"
[Nexus S General] jeffreynothing43:
This is good...thanks for posting for everyone.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Upon further testing

3G: While able to pull in a signal better, it still sucks at holding on to that signal. Same old crap of going from 4 bars to 0 bars in the blink of an eye then back to 4 bars a few seconds later for no explainable reason. Getting -76db at home.. Which was IMPOSSIBLE before the update.

Wifi: Improved, just barely. But barely enough I can browse the web from my porch now where as before I couldn't

4G: Zero difference. With my Epic I could pull a 4G signal from my room. Nexus S 4G before update I couldn't, and after update I still can't. (speeds are better though)
[Nexus S General] debh945:
Are you in the bootloader? I don't have skateboarding androids either. Just one green android.
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Got it. Thank you all so much for dealing with my noobiness. It was quite a learning experience.
[Nexus S General] stiffspliff:
try

./fastboot-mac devices
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Yes, that is what did it.
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
Seems my speeds seen lower... I but consistent, then again I am at work where it's over 600 people all connected to sprint. I'll test more at home
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Although it appears to be short-lived. I am still on D720 even after a fastboot radio flash.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
Does the end say KE5?
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Yes it does.
[Nexus S General] ceredics:
I was on this thread earlier so I'll confirm, tethering is blocked to paying customers. It will drop data until turned back off. I didn't like that at all as being a hotspot for my laptop. Everyone results seem different. I have better bars but same speeds as far as 3g. 4g, is significantly faster. Before I couldn't reach over 3 now I'm in the 6's in download. Upload is around 1.2mb. My wifi is the same, still the same speeds and all that. Same bars as well. For those on stock, you can flash thru your stock recovery by coping the file to you USB storage. (Don't have the link to directions but there here in the past pages) the bootloader method is longer and I already see steps to those so thank you to those people on xda :) all thanks to the original dump man also, he did great earlier today. Like I said, all results are different depending on location, for me its just all the same and at times worse. I wish everyone the best at this update and hope we all find the true solution to this dilemma. No matter if it be hardware or software we all have rights as paying customers ;)
[Nexus S General] styckx:
That's the new radio then.

Old: D720SPRKD8

New: D720SPRKE5
[Nexus S General] anaglich:
Let me guess, KE5 is in fact the correct baseband? :P

EDIT: haha thank you much!
[Nexus S General] styckx:
You're welcome. :)
[Nexus S General] bsage23:
Alright, an update from home. Just like at work, 3G seems slightly better here. Was 0-1 bars and now 1-2. HOWEVER, it still doesn't lock in as it still drops to 0 bars on occasion. No 4G here either, so not able to test. WiFi tethering does not work in a quick test.

WiFi signal is slightly better overall, but still pretty bad. I'm in the same room as my router and EVERY other device I've ever had here showed full bars. I'm showing 2 right now and have seen 1 and 3 but not 4. Again, it's an improvement because I was 1-2 and now pretty solid 2 with occasional 3, but overall very disappointing given that it is the only device that is not full bars.

I'm frankly hoping that the next Nexus is not a Samsung device as I think this is an issue with the radios. Either that or this is a total failure of an update.
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
Not seeing more bars for wifi but definitely faster. Seeing 1 bar at home with -96dbm instead of 0 bars with -101. Wifi is like I said less bars really, but faster in essence. Don't have 3g or 4g at the house, so will post an update from work tomorrow :)
[Nexus S General] dmarden:
Yeah, D720 is the phone we all have.
[Nexus S General] phynal:
Sadly, (super:() my signal is about the same, and it still drops to zero on the indicator, but doesn't actually lose signal, just like before. On a positive note, speeds on wifi are improved. Don't have 4Gs so I can't test that.
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
my 3G speeds are so horrible that i am 5 seconds from just saying piss off to sprint. about .5mbps.... disgraceful.

I asked sprint about it...
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
Did everyone just flash the radio? Because there may be more in the update altogether that helps. I am waiting on AdamG to deodex the update for Oxygen. I effing love his rom, so whether he does or doesn't include the fixes, I am sticking with it. I only flashed the radio a bit ago. Noticing that I still roam a bit at home, but that is to be expected considering where I am.
[Nexus S General] oldblue910:
Can someone who has the update tell me if the bootloader was updated as well? If so, what's the new bootloader version?
[Nexus S General] mikeyinid:
I took the full update and everything is the same. The only difference is I'm on 2.3.5 now
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
After an hour or two of testing signal is definitely improved. Rarely any loss in signal and data speeds are way more consistent. I'll test 4G at home, I only updated the Radio.
[Nexus S General] styckx:
This update was over hyped. I was promised a hummer and all I got was a kiss on the cheek after suffering through a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy.
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
You are my new hero ^_^
[Nexus S General] dmora01:
So at this point what is the difference between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5?

I just updated the radio and I want to keep my deck Rom but I want to may sure I am no going to miss anything from 2.3.5.

I see more bars and more speed with the new radio and I tried the WiFi tether and is working.
[Nexus S General] HareyCarey:
No 4g widget? No Google wallet? Lame. Are you seeing a difference in performance? Do you think there is a new prl they will release to accommodate this upgrade?
[Nexus S General] The Killjoy:
I went back to a stock/locked grj22 build and flashed the update from stock recovery.

from there I went and unlocked bootloader, and flashed a version of clockwork that worked on 2.3.4 just fine. Now when I try to get into clockwork to flash SU, it just hangs on the "google and unlocked" screen...

anybody root AFTER taking the official stock update?
[Nexus S General] DirtyShroomz:
The point is what you're experiencing, better reception and data speeds.
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
dude i lmfao... i imagined carl saying all that
[Nexus S General] pewipo123:
maybe im crazy, but the only thing i see different in my phone is 2.3.5 and new radio...my quadrent score dropped from 2800+ down to around 1800... oc to 1300 usinx matr1x 5.0.... my phone doesnt look of run any diferent...maybe its me...
[Nexus S General] derekwilkinson:
Well sprint seemed to fix my data speed problem... 1.5mbps on 3G :)
[Nexus S General] antibox:
I noticed a drop in quadrant scores after flashing matrix 5.0 vs 4.0 and also in antutu benchmark. Your resulting drop in scores may be related to the kernel and not this android release. Flash the kernel back and check again.