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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LoveNOE:
Hi guys, sorry for bothering you but i have a problem with my nexus..

So, here we go.. a few months ago i rooted my nexus in order to have kitkat installed on it. Everything went well, and i installed a Cyanogenmod version of kitkat. I had no internet problems with it.

Two days ago due to some bugs i wanted to change my rom to a newer one.

Said and done, i've flashed another rom but surprise.. my internet (3g, wireless it's working fine) stopped working.. i have tried to go back to jelly bean, i have tried the kitkat version that osm0sis is using, i have tried a few other basebands but it's still not working.

I live in Europe, and i.ve tried all the xx basebands. Do you have any ideea what i can do?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] t00tall:
Same thing happend to me today, was running cm11 for couple of months now, without any problems and today all of a sudden I've lost calls, sms and internet connection.

Did a full wipe down... caches, user data, did a clean install of a CM11, got it working for a half of a day, and it stopped again... It seems that t internet starts working for a some period of time, after I restart the phone, but sms and calls don't work.

Should I try to flash the last radio from here?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LoveNOE:
You are a lucky one.. i have tried every single radio for europe and i can't get my internet to work. But i can call and send messages.

What i noticed is that with cm11 i had signal drops more often than with other rom's. same thing with shiny. Now i run paranoid and it's pretty stable, my internet it's not working but at least i can make a phone call without my signal droping every minute.

I honestly don't know if you should try other radios because in my situation they did not changed a thing. What you can try is to go back to jelly bean, while i runed it i did not had any signal drops.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.is.for.michael:
Latest nightlies of CM have some issue with ril.d which kills calls and SMSs.

I restored to 0227.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maciek82:
osm0sis, why do you prefer the older one over the newest and "greatest"?

I was currently on XXLJ1, and just upgraded to UGLL1. I'm looking for the strongest signal possible. When I take the train, some spots during my commute get really bad signal and I want to see if I can improve that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ASHURiCAN:
I think it's been corrected on CM 03.14 nightly cuz I've no more telephony problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
For precisely that reason. Latest isn't always greatest. ;)

I downloaded all the recent radios, went to the part of my work's building where I had cell reception issues and then flashed them all and watched my signal strength in About phone for a few minutes each. For me, in my area UILH1 was the best and gives me fewer drops. :)

Try a few and see what works best for you. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Now that I've had my primary baseband mirror on Dev-Host up for over half a year and since things are pretty much entirely wound down for the GN, I thought it might be interesting to post the stats on most downloaded.

Top 10 for Flashable Zip:

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxlj1.zip 364

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250ugll1.zip 249

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxlh1.zip 91

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250ugkk7.zip 55

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250uilh1.zip 54

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxlf1.zip 53

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxkk1.zip 43

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxkk6.zip 34

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250xxla2.zip 34

cwm-radio-maguro-i9250uglh1.zip 34

Unsurprisingly, the last Factory Image radio XXLJ1, and the absolute most recent UGLL1 are in the lead by far, followed by previous stock and regional radios, including my favorite UILH1; they're seemingly random but the stock KKs seem to hold on here.

Top 10 for Fastboot:

fastboot-radio-maguro-sc04domla1.img.zip 651

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250ugll1.img.zip 153

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxlj1.img.zip 116

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxlh1.img.zip 34

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxlf1.img.zip 31

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxkk6.img.zip 20

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxla2.img.zip 19

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250xxkk1.img.zip 18

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250uilh1.img.zip 15

fastboot-radio-maguro-i9250tdvlh1.img.zip 12

This is the really interesting one, OMLA1 dominates all the others. Otherwise generally newer to older with a few exceptions, again with the stock KK builds. Perhaps my mirror is linked on some Japanese sites? :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DR3W5K1:
To bad you can't check the server logs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SoftWord:
There's a way to log the signal so I can take track of which is the best radio?

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drmxmyt:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.signalmonitoring.gsmsignalmonitoring

or

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.stanislavkulikov.SignalLevel
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
yakjudv JWR66Y (JB 4.3) OTA for the Australian GT-i9250T dropped on April 14th for Telstra and Vodafone and came packaged with a complete radio image. Attached is the DVMK1 radio in recovery flashable zip, and fastboot img (once unzipped) formats.

Pretty safe to say this is the last GSM radio ever for the GN, and the only one from 2013. The build string is virtually the same as that of XXLJ1, so UGLL1 is still the radio with the newest DB#, for whatever that's worth. Thanks to [MENTION=4670279]EthanFirst[/MENTION] pulling the OTA URL. :)

Radio build string:

SP6260_Q1_01.1243_DB121023 2013-Nov-15 19:44:13 .
PDB_NOT_AVAILABLE ..SP6260_Q1_01.1243_DB121023.I9250TDVMK1
.1212660 ..<no label>.9ed34d38......

The RIL is the same as yakju/takju JOP40C/D + JDQ39 + JWR66V/Y, so don't worry about it.

Please read my RIL/Radio Correlation post if you still care about RILs, to learn why you shouldn't. :good:

If you do still want the RIL for some crazy reason, despite reading and knowing it's needless/pointless to flash, it can still be had from my XXLH1+JOP40C/D post.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aswinrulez:
When I'm browsing or texting or doing anything with Internet, the area around the camera heats up a lot. I'm sure it's not normal coz it's really hot in that area.. What could be the reason?

Brightness is always in minimum, I have 3g on all the time, baseband is xxlj1 but has been the case with list basebands I tried, running vanir 4.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
It's the SoC and radio amplifier. They can produce a lot of heat. All normal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aswinrulez:
[MENTION=1143630]osmosis[/MENTION] I'm on Vodafone network here in India currently running latest vanir nightly with XXLJ1 baseband. I saw that the new DVMK1 was for Vodafone in Australia. Would my phone benefit from flashing this?

And my gps doesnt seem to be working anymore?Can u suggest someway to verify this?maybe to test it or fix it?

Thanks in advance :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.is.for.michael:
Re the radio, flash and see. If not, flash back.

Re the GPS, it's most likely a ROM issue. Get gps test and clear/request agps data

sent from my brain using telepathy
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ronaldo Forenucci:
So I finally got my old GNex back from my nephew when he got an N5. I want to turn this into a WiFi only communication device, with NO POSSIBILITY for it to connect to or ping a tower. How can I wipe out the radio, so that it won't even be able to make emergency calls? Could I flash a Nexus 4 or 5 radio, to mess it up... or is there a way to corrupt a GNex radio.img? Or wipe it with ADB?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drmxmyt:
whats wrong with airplane mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rahimali:
How about taking the SIM out?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ronaldo Forenucci:
The SIM is out, and Airplane mode is on... but since Baseband OS is like Voodoo (backdoor found by the Replicant guys), I want to completely wipe any possibility of cell communication. I should check IFixIt and see if they remove the radio, LOL.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Sounds a little tinfoiled to do anything further than remove the SIM and set Airplane mode + Wi-Fi on..

You could wipe the radio by writing garbage to it, but that doesn't mean you should.. Same goes for physically removing a component. There's no telling what that would do to Android, possibly brick your device, since it expects them to be there, so I'm going to advise you against it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ronaldo Forenucci:
Tinfoil? LOL, have you read the papers since last June :D J/K my friend. Anyway, this is a test device, I have an N5 as a daily driver. If you can post the best way you think for wiping where the radio.img is, I'll do it and report back. I don't care if it bricks. I would think a Nexus 4 radio.img would bork it, no? I wonder if it would flash? But zeroing that area in fastboot or something, would be the ultimate, I would think - I just don't know how to go about it.

Thanks 0z
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Open a radio image in a hex editor (I use HxD) and replace all the data with 00, put it in a radio zip since fastboot might not accept it, then flash in recovery. Let me know how broken things get. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
As osm0sis suggested, this is one way to do it.

You could also just write a little edify script to format the radio partition -- I think that would work.

The thing I'm not sure about is how the radio ties in to the OMAP SoC boot chain. If it is part of it (which I suspect it is), your device probably won't boot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nolsen311:
I'd be worried that the radio firmware contains both cellular & WiFi, but that's just me.

They're both "radio", if you catch my drift.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ronaldo Forenucci:
Thanks guys, when I get the time, I'll try one of those methods and see if I get a brick.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Wi-Fi is kernel. Some support on the ROM side too. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] markusssss:
Last radio?

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nautilus74:
Post #3 , newest at the top
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
Hey, how can I choose the right baseband for my device?

Currently I have XXLF1, so is the XXLJ1 is the right choice or any other baseband (not only those for Europe) can be good for me?

I'm actually from the middle east and using 3g really draining my battery bast so I'm looking for something different that maybe will change that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Use whatever you want. Find what works best in your area. I'm in Atlantic Canada and found UILH1 (South America/Brazil) and DVMK1 (Oceana/Australia) both work better than UGLL1 (North America/Canada) or XXLJ1 (International/Europa). ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
Okay, and about this "RIL" thing, you say it's better to update to the newest one if I can?

Because I currently running 4.4.2. What should I do?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
I also said if you're using a reasonably current ROM you don't have to worry about it. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
Got it.

Now, how can I test the baseband?

This gsm signal app doesn't help me because I don't understand it.

(I can compare dbm but I'm not sure it's enough)

I'm trying to find more battery friendly baseband because currently using 3g double the battery draining speed, what I don't think is normal.. (correct me if I'm wrong.)

And another problem is that after factory reset and upgrading PA I'm not getting H+ signal.

As I remember it was always like that till I used app that configure my apn. This app doesn't work for me right now so I configured it manually, but still no H+ at all.

XXLJ1 doesn't fix that either so maybe it's something related to settings?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
That's a carrier thing. Though showing the plus (+) itself is a ROM thing.

I tested by finding an area with crappy reception at my job and (on my break ;)) flashed a number of zips to see which gave me the best signal strength, no app required since it's in Settings | About phone | Status.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
I know a great spot for that kind of test :)

This tells me what is the best baseband for my area? Or can it be somehow better for my carrier?

And about the H+, does it have different name then H and 3g in Mobile network type?

So I'll able to see if it's a ROM thing or a carrier thing.

(I see I get HSDPA and HSPA+, both giving me only H.)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
You see which baseband gives you the best strength (dBm and asu). Give each a couple minutes to settle after flashing and boot up, then try opening a web page and watch the dialog I pointed you to.

You can Wikipedia the difference between HSDPA and HSPA+ on your own, but both of them are H+, so it sounds like your ROM doesn't have that tweak. If you're on Stock ROM I recommend trying Xposed with Gravity Box; it adds many useful tweaks, is configurable, and includes the H+ mod.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
I'm actually on PA so it's really weird it doesn't include this tweak. (and it's beta so I don't to use gravity box to avoid any conflicts.)

And this sounds logic, I got 10/2 few hours ago.

My question was if each baseband is good for specific area (and I need to find which one is best for my area) or it will be just best for my carrier and will give me better result always (as long as I'm connected to this carrier).

And - can changing baseband affect battery draining? (and I'm not talking about places with low reception!)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Ah maybe you just need to enable the setting in PA somewhere.

The thing about basebands is you're figuring out what is good for you on your carrier (ie. cell towers/network/coverage) and your area/terrain. They're all close enough that in good reception they're all good, so that leaves bad reception as the important factor.

For me the big thing was I'd get disconnects from mobile data at work in certain parts of the building, so I tried basebands until I found ones that helped. My house is between two cell towers in a dead zone basically so this helped there as well.

You may also want to consider call clarity.

As for battery, some basebands do seem to compensate for bad reception by powering up the radio a little higher, but that doesn't really translate to overall drain. If you have your wakelocks under control things remain about the same. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ToMeRv32:
I was talking about just using 3g, nothing about bad reception etc.

I'm getting 2H of screen when I'm using 3g and 4H when using Wi-Fi, so I thought it's baseband related.. (what else can it be? Or this is normal draining?)

You mean you get same screen time for both of them?

I'll try few of the newest.. Maybe..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
It's normal. Cellular radios use more power than Wi-Fi.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pboggini:
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I can't seem to download any of the radios. The reason I'm doing this is that my neighbor's GSM GN started having issues with cell connectivity (it's stock 4.3). I swapped out the mobo, antenna wire and board below the USB and it seems better though the signal is still pretty low. Just looking for some more radios to try to see if that helps matters at all.

Must have a been a transient thing, downloaded some now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HeadQuaker:
Hello,

Maybe someone could help me because I don't know what to do.

I have installed a cyanogen 11 KK rom and since that, my 3G is ultra slow, about 5ko/s

I returned back to older ROM -> same issue

I've tried other ROMs -> same issue.

I've tried 2 differents radio -> same issue.

I'm in France, using Free Mobile provider which is using roaming.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lollipop:
[MENTION=4544860]osm0sis[/MENTION]

can i use the newest radio DVMK1 on my i9250(XXLH1)

is it good or bad ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Read the first 2 lines of the OP please. And read the last 2 pages for my experience in my area with MK1. In short: read. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lollipop:
Flashed MK1 seems to be fine
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Just to revisit this madness real quick. :p

I don't think formatting as such would work since it's raw (EMMC), like a bootloader, boot or recovery partition.. It would be worth hearing what happens if Ronaldo tried it from the recovery's shell though. Fun experiment! ;)

That said, I stumbled upon an easy way to zero the radio partition like Ronaldo and I were thinking, and apparently it works fine: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mi...-android-security-and-privacy#BasebandRemoval

:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lagos911:
hi all,

I am leaving @ Greece and the 4g network working @ LTE 1800 band 3

Can I make my galaxy nexus working at this frequency @ LTE?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] siealex:
No, it does not have LTE hardware.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] etMind:
Indian users, what radio you recommend (currently on XXLJ1) for a GNex running 4.4.3.?

UGH11 and the newer DMVK seem to be the ones released after the above radio. Anybody found them better?

Please do not consider this as a pointed question. I am more interested in reading people's impressions and will no doubt do my own comparison between the two as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
I need a little help

I am mostly out of signal even though I am in the same location for last 2 years without issues, but mostly I'm observing problems since android 4.4.3, and even in 4.4.4,

I used XXLJ1 and also DVMK1, but all the same. It also goes "emergency calls only" and I have to turn radio off/on or airplane mode on/off to restore the signal, I don't know what to do about it, apparently doesn't look like a network problem as many other phones in my surroundings are working fine,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Try UILH1. Always one of the best for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
One thing to confirm, it is related to baseband alone? Or there can be other reasons as well? I used xxlj1 for very long time without issues, up to 4.4.2 , but since 4.4.3 onwards I am facing the problem,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
I don't think.. Only other thing is RIL, but that's closed source.. I guess if you really wanted to make an experiment out of it you could go back to the RIL you used back then to see if it makes a difference. Let us know. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
It keeps giving: ril baseband mismatch, even I install latest baseband, matching the ril
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.is.for.michael:
That's a limitation of getril. Your baseband has a T in it. The recommend baseband doesn't, and the program sees a mismatch.

Ignore the warning.

sent from my brain using telepathy
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Yeah. Totally ignore it. The database/concept is hugely flawed but it's a good repo of all the old RILs. Check out my RIL post to know which one to try for the experiment, since most of them are actually the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
Well, sounds great, didn't observe any signal loss since I played with RIL etc, using latest radio DVMK1 and matching RIL, let's see if that's the solution, it literally pissed me off for very long time,

Update: still there is signal loss observed, about 12% of battery lost to no signal, but at least I didn't face "emergency calls only" , currently using DMKV1, will switch to the one suggested by osmosis and observe again,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
During all this testing, I'm observing one thing: with every reset, the service/network toggles between emergency calls only and a normal network, I mean, even if network is fine, but if i reboot mobile, it will come back with emergency calls only, and if it is emergency calls only, I have to either restart mobile or toggle airplane mode twice to get connected with the network,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pkt_Lnt:
Sounds like a hardware problem. (from someone who spent 16 years as a phone tech)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
well experience has its value, but I doubt that... if it was hardware it should be consistent with every reboot and should be "emergency calls" every time, but it is reverse of current state with each reboot,

although the "no signal" is solved now, lately, I flashed XXLH1 with matching RIL and it is not dropping signal anymore, but this "emergency calls" with reboot is still to be solved, may be I will flash 4.4.2 or older ROM to see any improvement,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Atento:
Guys, I'm having a strange problem. My phone works normally for 2 days, after that, my phone just stop receiving calls at all. I can access the internet, Facebook and all other apps that require data, but calls doesn't work.

Any idea if it is related to baseband or ril?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
My answer is always the same to these sorts of questions: Maybe. Try and see, then let us know.

No point in people asking before trying to fix it. It would be great if people would just cut out the middle man (especially when it can't contribute anything), experiment and report their results. Save me from saying "Maybe. Try it." on every page. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Atento:
Thank you for your answer, but I'm asking because I've already tried 4 basebands from your link.

I thought you could have any idea because I don't really know what to do anymore.

Anyway, I'll keep searching for a solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Ah well that's the type of information you should have shared in your post. Any sort of troubleshooting post should have 3 things: a clear explanation of the problem, your device setup, and what you've tried so far.

You had a good explanation at least. :)

Try clean flashing your ROM or try a different ROM? Those could be possible fixes/useful tests as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Atento:
Sorry for the lack of information.

Tried CM11 and Vanir. I'll try FML right now to see if it solves the problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
When you try to make calls, does it say "no mobile network" ? And how you fix it? Do you restart mobile?

Did u check during this situation, if your mobile is showing "emergency calls only" status on your network? Or it is showing some network that you are connected to?

If you see emergency calls only, do a "airplane mode on/off" it'll temporarily get your network back, but a permanent fix is hard to say, as I was having same problem, and I installed a matching rill with baseband xxlh1 and seems fine afterwards,

Although one thing I still see: when I reboot, i lose network connection and I have to do that airplane thing to get it back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TiagoRigueto:
hey please help-me?

my galaxy nexus brazil i9250, show network

but i can't make a call or use 3g...

i think.. this not work, because i did wipe data/cache/dalvik and FORMAT FACTORY... FORMAT DATA....etc...

now is running CM11....i try install from zip others baseband... like a i9250UILH and UIKL3... both in cwm... but until now, not working...

please quote, because my english is very bad...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] osm0sis:
Your IMEI is boned. If you have a backup of efs, restore it, or, if you just have any nandroid from your device at all restore it and copy the files from radio to factory. Otherwise take it to Samsung for repair.

Never

wipe /factory.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ibraheeemz:
Sharing for info:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63524

I was previously complaining about loosing network, facing emergency calls only etc, googled it and most people from N4/N5 are facing problems after upgrading to 4.4 onwards, as it's ported to Gnex, so would be the problems with it, but I don't know if it is generic problem as most gnex users seem fine,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] macr0sss:
CM11 radio issue

Hi there,

I have an issue with my phone after installing snapshot M7 of CyanogenMod.

I am recently abroad and before I installed current system (snapshot M7) I was able to use roaming (I am in UK right now, had snapshot M4 before). Right now I get no signal in place where I could use my phone before. Need to go about 10 miles to get roaming working.

I have radio version XXLH1.

Do you know what may cause the problem?

I have european version of I9250.

Do you recommend any other radio that I shall use (CWM version if possible)?

Please advise.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] macr0sss:
XXLJ1 sorted out my problem.