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[Droid Incredible Android Development] jmartino5920:
All I know is that after a couple days my signal is amazing...especially when I'm downtown...-50!

Sent from my Incredible Droid CM Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] hgoldner:
It ain't the radio, folks

Droid Life just announced that the OTA update to Gingerbread is imminent for the Incredible. The support docs show an increment of the ROM, but not the radio, so the 7.07 radio is what's coming, and it isn't what held up the release of the update.

See the post on Droid Life here.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
I finally went back to 7.28 b/c my battery life was horrible with this radio. I gave it several days to level out too.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jesssiii:
+ 1

Zeam & Incredikernel

CM7 latest Nightly
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Flyhalf205:
My battery life has been amazing. Been running on Stock 2.3.4
[Droid Incredible Android Development] REYES702:
I updated my radio from 2.15.00.09.01 and this radio is much better. Battery life seems better & my signal is definitely better. I am using PRL#65024 which I think is a hybrid between Verizon & Alltell.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
65024 is a hybrid. Before I got switched back to Verizon only mine was 65225. Now it's 53421 or something like that
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ndcart:
Man I need a copy of that 6502 PRL. Is there a way to copy that and post, and then copy it to my device? I have no idea if that is even possible, so don't flame me. :D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] REYES702:
Here is the attachment link from another thread I had posted it in back in the day:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=419643&d=1287086020
[Droid Incredible Android Development] ryryrocco:
once if flash this radio, is it recommended to upate with *228 option 1, 2 or both.

i am rooted with s off running the leaked ota build 4.06.605.3
[Droid Incredible Android Development] dustbinge:
I do both just to be on the safe side.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
how do i flash this again? sorry, just afraid i will inadvertantly brick it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] rohdawg:
Rename to PB31IMG.zip <<<<<Just like that

Copy to root of SD Card (Card must be formatted FAT32)

Reboot phone into bootloader NOT recovery

Wait for bootloader to find it

Press volume-up when prompted

Press volume-up to reboot when finished and prompted

DON'T DO ANYTHING to your device while flashing a radio!!

:D
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
You beat me to it. Lots of activity and problem solving going on today... Hahaha
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
or maybe i shouldn't. since i may brick it, i have the zip file i downloaded, but, yeah, afraidness.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
If you do it right, you won't brick it. Just do a nandroid backup, then try it. Tip: After updating it, get the file out of the root of your SD card, otherwise it'll keep seeing the file there and keep trying to update it whenever you go to the Hboot screen.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
yeah, but the thing is, i want to, yet i don't. lately verizon has been doing some ****-arounds with the towers (moving over to LTE, i guess shutting off some towers in the process) when this happens my phone freaks out and swaps to displaying 1X. but, when it works fine, i get perfect signal, if my radio works fine, wouldn't it be best to not **** with it?

one of those "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" type of things.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Well, this is the radio being released with the OTA, but it's all about what you want. Just because they're releasing it, doesn't mean it's better though, so you're right. I personally haven't had any issues with the new radio though.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
is there any MAJOR discernable difference bewteen 7.28 and 7.07?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] JohnKuczek:
Radios are all YMMV. Each phone will respond differently and radios may work better for different locations or even elevations. Personally, I select mine based on performance at a few specific locations...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
GPS lock in is what made the decision for me. The main places I check in using GPS lock in faster with this new radio.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
ah, see i hardly use the GPS, i may flash it, i may not, it's just the last time i activated a new phone, they had to push it at the store because it kept saying

"phone can not be activated at this time" well, then again, the ESN wasn't switched on my account yet, so that may have been why.

ans it is illegal to put a new ESN number on a phone with one already?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GatorsUF:
If I update to the hybrid prl and signal is worse how do I switch back? I'd rather not have to revert to nandroid as those are sometimes screwy...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
Did you manually give yourself the hybrid or did Verizon set it up? You can call them and ask them to change it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] GatorsUF:
I just downloaded the zip file, but haven't flashed it yet...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Just make a nandroid right before you flash it. It's a hassle, but if you know what to back up using Titanium Backup, you won't even lose recent messages when you switch back over, if that's something you're worried about.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
I'm not sure about the legality of switching ESN's, but the radio doesn't have anything to do with changing that, other than broadcasting what ESN you have. At least that's what I understand.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] s197:
First, a nandroid does nothing in terms of the radio. You are flashing firmware, not a ROM. If you screw something up in a radio flash, a nandroid will not help you.

Second, flashing a radio is by far the easiest way to brick a phone. Yes, many of us have flashed many radios that have come out successfully but if the guy is hesitant, I wouldn't be pushing him.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Well said, but his question was how to switch back. Which the answer would be... Flashing the previous version, if he had root of course.

And I always do a nandroid backup, so that I always have a snapshot in time of the last time my ROM worked. Yes, you're right, it has nothing to do with the Radio, but who's to say he won't need the backup for another reason.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
thing is, i want to, i am hesitant because i caused a bootloop before (which i fixed by going back into reocvery and wiping, turns out i forgot to flash somthing with it, but, anyway.

going to try and muster up the courage to flash this. then again, the 7.28 is working fine, so why mess with it?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Important if you want to make sure the radio is running as well as it should be, or if you want to flash the previous radio version back.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
It's up to you. It's your phone. I'm lucky that I have a backup renewal with Verizon should the worst case scenario happen. I've flashed a lot of stuff, and I've been careful, so it's paid of so far.

But if you don't like it if you do flash it, just check my quote from my previous post.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
If you're running a Verizon ROM, just call #228 and do both options. That might help a little.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
What happened to the .0808 radio I saw here posted the other day?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Homan13PSU:
This, the easiest way to avoid bricking your phone when updating the radio is too verify the MD5 sum.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
which i just checked, it matched, so, would i be able to do this with MIUI?

(testing out AOSP roms, seeing which one is more me...since, lets face it, i hardly use the camera anyway. and when i do it's just for little point-and-shoot moments, and i have a 200 dollar Flip HD right here for HD videos)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
it was moved i think.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
to where? I can't find that thread at all. I'm using it currently and hands down the best radio I've tried (I'm super OCD about the radio, most have extremely subtle differences but this one has had a bigger, yet still subtle, impact on reception and battery)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] poontab:
I requested it be deleted. You can find it on RootzWiki.com
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 318sugarhill:
I'm always amused at the responses of "I just installed and signal went from -87 to -84!" I can make my signal change by switching how I hold the phone. The true test will come at work, where the signal is so low, it constantly switches from 3g to 1x. Some radios have gotten 1x only, and others 3g, but they drain the battery in different ways. Hopefully this will stick to 3g for me and help with battery.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Homan13PSU:
Just curious, why did you request it be deleted?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
yeah I don't mean to start anything here but curious too.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Flyhalf205:
This is just me guessing but probably just because it is not an Incredible radio but a EVO radio.

Even though EVO radios work on the Incredible.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
very confused...i've been running the stock OTA, but wasn't using sense. been using ADW as my launcher...

anyway, i was still on 07.28 and updated to this radio...it flashed fine, the phone boots fine. but it somehow switched me back to sense, and i can't do anything. i get stuck on "loading..." and nothing works. it never actually loads sense.

what gives? i thought flashing the radio wasn't supposed to change software?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Did you wipe Dalvik and the Cache partition?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
when i flashed the rom, yes. the radio? no...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Try doing that in Recovery and see if that fixes your issue.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
i'll give it a shot. sense finally loaded btw, after about 10 minutes...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
that didn't work. still the same issue. very confused...mostly about how flashing the radio somehow took me back to sense.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
going in and clearing defaults on sense after it finally loaded fixed it. not sure what caused it to begin with, though...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] smtom:
Giving this one a try - also live in The South - had most recently been on 09.01 - will report back in a few days.

First thing I tried after flash is Navigation - lock was essentially instant - it's never been that fast.

More later as the week progresses.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] tincbtrar:
I found that this radio didn't work well for me. Call drops are a no no.

Back to the previous leak.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
This WAS on the previous leak
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
doesn't make sense because we still list the 11.x EVO radio.

anyway I have tried this radio and found that it drains harder on battery than most of the other radio's. Signal strength is about the same but transfer speeds seem slightly higher.

the 8080 radio has had the best battery life, best reception and still great speeds but I care about the first 2 more instead of the ~20-30kb/s difference.

just opinion, radio's are crazy objective to minor changes in weather/amount of people calling/where you're at, so it's hard to compare since they're all so similar. Hardware is most important factor.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Do I need to wipe cache and Dalvik before flashing this?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Quantumrabbit:
No. No need to wipe anything to install a radio.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] crackers8199:
Can anyone figure out how flashing the radio somehow took me back to sense?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] 318sugarhill:
After 3 days at work in a building with very low signal, this radio doesn't get 3g at all, just 1x, and it is leaving me with 20 to 30% less battery at the end of my day. I'm a moron when it comes to searching. Do know which forum the 8080 radio is in? Otherwise I'm going back to the 9.01 radio as that didn't totally wipe my battery like this one. Even the 5.xx radios drained my battery worse than 9.1, but nothing like this.

---------- Post added at 08:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 PM ----------

Ok, found the 8080 in an EVO thread, but not in a Dinc forum. Is it save to use on the Dinc? Straight from the Evo forum download? That sounds like more of a risk than I want to take.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] davwman:
Do not use I repeat do not use the evo radio file!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] poontab:
Facepalm....http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?3318-RADIOS-INC-RADIO-PB31IMG.zip&highlight=

don't worry about it. It wouldn't even attempt to run.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] daddyscooltv:
When I try to flash it zip I get installation aborted....

HELP!!

I got it....
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
No do not use the one from the EVO thread.

We *can* use EVO radio's but it needs to be packaged for the INC, you can find it here:

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...ible-Radios-PB31IMG.zip-(Updated-07-Sept-2011)

I do not know why it was removed from XDA but it works great and IMO the best radio out. Make sure you update PRL (obvious I know, just don't forget)
[Droid Incredible Android Development] s197:
Regarding GPS and the speed which people are getting a lock, I'm curious to know if people are noticing a difference after a couple days (weeks would be better) of use.

Reason I ask is often times when the GPS is reset, the first time it is launched, the lock will be almost instant. You can test this for yourself, just wipe your dalvik cache then reboot the phone. Open maps and you should see an instant or near-instant lock.

But this is only temporary. I'm curious to know if the improvement w/ this radio lasts over time.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
I was in the same car with someone, in a distant town, probably hours away from where I last used my GPS days before. My friend has Verizon, but a Droid X, and couldn't get a GPS lock for a few minutes. I turn my GPS on and go to Maps, and it was already locked on, not even using any of the other GPS settings. His GPS locked on much later after me still, so yes, I'd say the GPS maintains it's consistency.

I've had the new radio from a few days after the OTA .2 version came out.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
Mine locks instant (within 5 seconds) compared to my brothers who took 3-4 minutes to get a lock.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
dunno what you guys are saying GPS lock, i'm still on the froyo 7.28, and my GPS lock is instant.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
alright, flashed the new radio, did the 228 rebooting now
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
Good luck and happy flashing!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
i've moved all over my house, i've never lost the 5 bars, i ****ing love this radio. so much.

it seems like it locks onto the tower's croshairs now.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
Battery sucking....going back to 7.28
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
That's odd, I'm not having any issues with battery life at all. Did you reset your battery calibration or anything? Not sure if that's needed.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Hey guys, something I noticed. I had flashed back to the 7.28 radio the other day so I could go back to stock unrooted froyo so I could capture the ota. Anyways, when I was done doing that I rerooted and then went and reflashed my Desired Inc HD 3D rom and noticed my Data kept dropping to 1X and even disappearing completely. Airplane mode and even rebooting wasn't helping at all. So I racked my brain to see what was going on and just as a test I reflashed this radio 07.07 and rebooted and just like that everything was good. I have had zero 1X or drops since then. I can only put two and two together because before I flashed back to 7.28 I was using the 07.07 with no issues on my Rom.

I can only guess that the newer Desire HD, Desire S, Bliss and normal Sense 3.5 Roms have issues with our older radios. This does not effect the older Sense 3.0 Roms like joel's rewind kingdom or pyramid Roms.

So if your having data issues and your on one of these newer 3.0 or 3.5 Roms I suggest checking this radio out.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
Funny you say it like this b/c I had to go back to 7.28 from 5.06 b/c of the exact same 1x issue. I also think Verizon causes it too b/c the other week it started doing 1x only in a certain area and did it for 2 weeks and now it's 3g through there again. And this happened after I went from 7.07 to 7.28 due to battery drain I documented here. I've been on MIUI.us since start of May so it's not a rom issue at all. My only guess is that they are converting Alltel towers to Verizon towers b/c I lost my hybrid PRL they gave me via 228 two months ago.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Ah yea could be. I haven't heard if there updating in my area but that could be it also.

You can sorta understand how it may have looked to me since I went through this.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
I thought same thing too at first then one afternoon it clicked that the 1x was only occurring in a small geographic area. I loaded up open signal maps and looked at tower location and sure enough I went 1x on one tower only. I wouldn't recommend keeping opensignalmaps installed though b/c even not in use it eats up resources terribly.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
Alltel still exists?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
I have the 2150 battery my god this sucks it.....77 3 minutes down to 54
[Droid Incredible Android Development] themusicmonkey:
What's taking the battery life in the battery usage breakdown?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
Verizon bought them but they still exist in a few states mostly in rural areas.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
Fixed it just cleared stats in cwm
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
Their towers still exist all throughout the South. In my state unless you live and travel mostly in the urban areas or Interstate corridors you stay on towers that were updated. If you travel just 10 miles off the Interstate in my location you need a hybrid alltel/verizon PRL to keep consistent 3g data.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
I'm currently on the 7.28 radio, but I want to try the new one. I assume I can revert back to this radio should anything go wrong?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Yep, just flash in hboot!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Cool, where do I get it from?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
dougpiston.com.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Wow, what can't you get there?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Lol. Well he is the best at all the stock ruu, radios, hboot and recoveries.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] past_pluto:
Radios 2.15.00.05.06 and 2.15.10.07.07
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Fair enough. I've downloaded the new radio and checked that he MD5 matches. Is there anything else I need to do before flashing via hboot?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Nope just reboot to hboot and fire at will. See you on the other side.

Oh other than just make sure it's named PB31IMG.zip
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
To reboot into hboot on this ROM I have to disable "Fast boot" in Settings > Applications, right?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
That's it bud. Your all over it.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Installing now...

Done, took about 30 seconds

Rebooting (I love how smooth the boot animation is now, the one on 2.2 always bugged me)

Just got the GPS nag, apparently removing the file at /data/data/com.android.settings/shared_prefs/HTC_CDMA_FEATURE.xml didn't work after all

Alright, looks like I didn't fail miserably :D

I'll keep an eye on performance over the next view days and report back.

---------- Post added at 01:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:03 PM ----------

One of the first things I've noticed:

I can now dial ##778#, nothing would happen with the old radio. When following the instructions wildstang posted here for getting the wifi hotspot to work, I didn't have to change anything (I'd done this previously on 2.2, I guess the changes carried over). I was also able to follow these steps to get rid of the cdrom popup, which I couldn't do before because nothing would happen when I dialed ##program#.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Yup because the radio and epst have to match. I coulda had this feature all along in my roms but I didnt even know that until the ota leak came out and I finally caught on to what was going on.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Didn't know that. Pardon my ignorance, but now that I've updated my radio, do I need to update my PRL (I believe that's the correct term)?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
Yes otherwise your data will be wonky
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
The new pellet is 1.70.000 something
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Kiboe:
Prl. I hate autocorrect
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
I just tried dialing #228 and it said "you have reached a number that is no longer in service at Verizon Wireles. If you are a Verizon Wireless customer, please dial (some 800 number) for assistance."

Did I do something wrong?

---------- Post added at 02:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:50 PM ----------

I just tried *228 instead of #228 and it said "To program or activate your phone, press 1. Update your roaming capabilities, press 2" with a little toast popup that said "Programming in progress" with little progress updates added every few moments. I didn't choose either 1 or 2, and just let it do its thing. It finished and rebooted my phone...is that what was supposed to happen?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Yup, you should have pressed one. Let it update you. It will reboot. Then do it again but this time hit option two. Its supposed to do that.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Cool, thanks!

Oh, I forgot to tell you, here you say to dial #228 instead of *228, just FYI.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Oh, I'm sorry about that. I'll fix it real quick. Thanks for letting me know.

Edit: Fixed it!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] thevoiceless:
Option 2 didn't go quite as smoothly as option 1; after booting up, the GPS nag appeared (going to try this), and then the screen faded. It was like the popup and Settings activity behind it had become unresponsive, and I couldn't do anything to get out of it. After fiddling with all of the buttons and locking/unlocking a few times, I'm now stuck on the home screen...minus my home screens. Pressing the power button skips the lock screen and just shows my wallpaper, so I did a battery pull. Booted up again and everything looks fine, the popup showed up again but I was able to close it.

I guess I got unlucky or something.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] wildstang83:
Wow unlucky is right. What rom was this on and what mods were on the rom that you know of?