[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gcfishguy:
Okay, 1st off, I'm not techy when it comes to phones, but I like tweaking and playing around with other OS's on PCs, etc...so I gave a shot at trying some ROMs...now I have a doorstop..... I'm not dumb, I just have no experience playing around with phones.

It's a Bell Aliant Galaxy Nexus, so it's Verizon...LTE/CDMA...right?

Anyway, tried SlimRom (2.3, I think it was), then Cyanogen, then Slimrom again. Used it for a couple days, signal went away completely, tried the few things I knew how to do, couldn't get signal back, gave up and restored my backup (JB 4.1.1) That fixed it up.

Tonight I figure I'll try Slimrom 2.6. Flashed it and the aio_addons, boots up, no data again. Wireless works, no data...empty triangle.

Okay, I decide to try and solve it. I found a thread where someone had this issue, someone said to install the newest radio.

Tried to install the newest radio, possibly the wrong way....

CWMR Touch v5.5.0.4

Install zip from sdcard

Choose zip from card

Then I scroll to the 'rooting folder' where I put all my junk...and select 411_radios.zip

Writing LTE radio FC05...

Patching LTE radio...

Writing CDMA radio...

assert failed: samsung.update.cdma_modem(package_extract_file("radio-cdma.img"))

E:Error in /sdcard/Rooting/411_radios.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.

And that's that. I've also tried 4.0.2Radios.zip, 4.0.4_IMM76K_radios_btldr.zip, and several others. They all fail the same way at the point I assume it should start patching the CDMA radio.

Okay, gave up, restored my backup again. Guess what......now I have the same issue AFTER my backup. I've flashed my backup, Slim, back and forth....also get the same result when I try to flash the radio when my stock 'image' is installed.

Haha...everybody feel free to laugh at the noob that got over his head.... :)

Okay, now....I'd like my phone back. Honestly, I had no good reason to root and install other roms, other than the fact that it was fun....so if I could just go completely back to stock that would be fine. (Sorry if that goes against the grain here, but I'm getting too old to enjoy screwing with technology and I'm approaching the point I'd just like it to work.)

Anyway....I also cannot seam to get any of the stock roms to flash on my phone. I understand that the project is Tuna, and the GSM phones are maguro and the LTE/CDMA phones are toro... So, again, being a Galaxy Nexus with Bell, it would be LTE/CDMA, ie Toro. Right?

Reason I ask is because when I boot into....recovery? (power/vol up/vol down) I get to the android on his back, then can make my selections...but on the first screen that comes up when starting in recovery, it gives the 'summary' at the bottom of the screen:

FASTBOOT MODE

PRODUCT NAME - tuna

VARIANT - maguro 16GB <-- Shouldn't that say Toro..??

HW VERSION - 9

BOOTLOADER VERSION - PRIMELA03

BASEBAND VERSION -

CARRIER INFO - NONE

SERIAL NUMBER - Yes, there's a serial number here

SIGNING - production

LOCK STATE - UNLOCKED

Does the variant type being maguro (above) have anything to do with why it won't flash the CDMA radio?

Ugh. Just frustrating...been working at this for about 6 hours now.....actually took a break and looked on Kijiji for iPhones.....(GAH!)

And after all that, somebody will likely fix it with two words..."Flash GYTXX12" or something..... LOL

Okay...that's the end of my plea for help. Thanks in advance!!!