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[Desire General] AdamG:
I have taken the time to put together all the radios available for the HTC Desire (GSM), all the radios have been packaged in recovery flashable zips.

I do not know which is best for battery life/performance so please discuss that below, if you find any radios I do not have listed please send me a message with the link so I can update the thread.

Note: Flashing RIL files will not improve battery, stability or enhance anything despite what people think, you are wasting your time, lookup what the RIL actually is and the example source code and you will see why.

Latest radio

5.17.05.23

Old radios

5.17.05.08

5.14.05.17

5.11.05.27

5.11.05.14

5.10.05.23

5.10.05.17_2

5.09.05.30_2

5.09.00.20

5.09.00.08

5.08.00.04

Old eclair radios

4.06.00.16_2

4.06.00.02_2

4.05.00.30_2

4.05.00.11

4.04.00.03_2

Instructions on how to flash the radios can be found here.

NOTE: If you have the Alpharev Oxygen or CM7 HBOOT then you will not be able to flash these files via recovery, quote from AlphaRev site below.

You need to have a rooted device to flash any of these radios, help with this can be found here.

Mirrors

mofirouz.com
[Desire General] myth1001:
Thanks for the effort!

Some brief information on how to flash radios would be helpful. :D

Will try out the new radio tomorrow. Gonna test out Richard's kernel tonight. :D
[Desire General] AdamG:
You flash them the same way you would any other update.zip :)
[Desire General] SamE:
Are these like other Radio ROMs I have seen for download and will sim lock Orange phones?
[Desire General] G1StefanG1:
Do we need root for flashing Radio ROM?
[Desire General] PaulW21781:
Cheers AdamG!

Just put RADIO_4.06.00.16_2.zip on my Desire. Reception does seem better than the previous 4.06.00.02_2 so far :)

This is on a GSM Handset with Orange SIM Card. No idea if it will SIMlock Orange supplied handsets though like 4.06.00.02_2 did...
[Desire General] cnic:
Hy guys, the Radio part is a major issue for me because the signal fluctuates like crazy and sometimes when I am updating or browsing the web data conn. goes from 3G/H to standard G. And of course if someone calls me gets a out of area tone.

Not speaking about lack of signal indoors wich sucks also. Sometimes i get the no connection "x" near the signal bars. And my Nokia 6500slide has full signal, no drops, etc etc in exactly the same area.

And one more thing, if I have 3bars, I pick it up,, it drops like crazy to 1bar or none...

So, I would really like to update the radio part for my desire because this is the one thing that sucks about him, but:

1. I really would not like to loose my warranty

2. I'm not into rooting my phone or custom rom-ing it, from lack of time and reason number one

so my question is:

can I install a radio update without rooting/loosing warranty/rom-ing it ?!

thank-yee
[Desire General] AdamG:
You need to root your device to flash any of these files.

Follow the instructions here http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/24-may-r5-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-with-hboot-0-80-and-os-to-1-21-support/

Use the recovery-windows script to flash them once you have rooted your device.
[Desire General] weedup:
Hi sorry for the noob question... this can be used with the pays rom and kernel ?
[Desire General] angeloc92:
hi, you can use them with any rom :)
[Desire General] cnic:
that thread is huge and from what I read it provides info to root it..

how do you just "flash" it ? (I'm not THAT lazy but it looks rather complicated)

and how do I found out what radio version I have ?
[Desire General] angeloc92:
you can check directly from your phone. Just go to settings > telephone info > Software information > and look at the second part of baseband version. For example, i have 32.37.00.32U_4.06.00.16_2, it means my radio image is the version 4.06.00.16_2 :)
[Desire General] cnic:
Thanks ..

it seems that I have the worst radio version :)) the first one, 4.05.00.11

Now about that "just flash it" thing ... How does one do it without warranty void/rooting ..
[Desire General] angeloc92:
i THINK, therefor wait for confirmation from some expert, that you just have to reboot in recovery: hold vol down + power on, then select recovery from the menu. Once in recovery, while displaying the red triangle, connect the usb to the pc, install adb drivers for your phone if you did not do before and run the script (depending on the os you have) to push recovery image to the phone.

When you can access the recovery menu, just go to flash update from zip and select the radio update...then some restart in order to finalize the process and it should be done..
[Desire General] cnic:
ok .. waiting for some sort of confirmation from a senior member ..

also I found this tutorial on google (for HTC Hero..but still)

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/17/htc-hero-cdma-custom-rom-users-update-your-radio-baseband-for-best-performance-reception-and-battery-life/
[Desire General] him7x:
Very nice...thanks I have updated to 4.06.00.16_2
[Desire General] cnic:
installed android 2.1 sdk

installed htc sync for the drivers

put radio.zip to the card

rebooted and selected Recovery ...

but i can't get into the recovery menu, and also when the phone icon with the red triangle apears i can`t get out of it, i have to take out and put the battery in..

some help would be apreciated...
[Desire General] AdamG:
How to flash the radios:

Make sure you have the usb driver installed from the android sdk

Turn your desire off

Hold the back button and turn your desire on

When you are at the white screen, make sure BOOTLOADER is selected and press the power button

Wait a few seconds then press volume down to select RECOVERY and press the power button again

When you are at the screen with the red triangle and the phone, plug in the usb cable

Run the recovery-windows.bat script from modaco r5 root pack

When the recovery menu appears select 'Flash zip from sdcard'

Select the radio zip file and press the trackerball to confirm

Press the trackerball over 'Reboot system now'

When the radio image has finished being written unplug the usb cable

The phone will reboot a couple of times and then return to a normal state with your new radio :)
[Desire General] Minishlink:
Thanks Adam ! :)

Is there any changelog ?

Or do the lastest radio images "just" make GSM reception and battery life better ?

Will ever be an OTA update published for radio images ? I mean, if I can avoid flashing my device, it'd be great. (in the past HTC devices, did they release radio images via OTA ?)
[Desire General] cnic:
Thanks Adam ...

but at step 7 ..when the recovery menu should appear ... the phone remains with the red triangle and does nothing ...

(I have android sdk installed with platform 2.2 api 8, and htc sync for the drivers).

Windows makes the typical USB-sound when I connect the phone but RUNME.bat says :

*daemon not running, starting on port 5037*

* daemon started ...*

error: device not found

error: device not found

error: device not found

Now wipe and apply. .. etc etc...

And indeed "adb-windows devices" does not list anything as being attached ...

Any ideas ?! ...

Thanks yet again.
[Desire General] marmin:
Orange- some clarification please

And before anyone kicks off I HAVE read the ENTIRE thread.

I have a Orange Desire (Black One, direct from Orange), Rooted, Custom ROM-currently opendesire 1.2c FroYo.

I also have terrible signal at work, think I am falling between 3g and 2g means I get multiple missed calls/emails/sms etc.current radio 4.05.00.11

What does Simlock mean?

Am I Simlocked now?

Will I be Simlocked if I upgrade to ANY other radio?

Cheers in advance for the advice.
[Desire General] Rkiver:
Simlock means you cannot use a sim from another phone company.

If it's from orange, you may well be.

I have never seen changing a radio affect a sim lock, or the other way around personally.
[Desire General] marmin:
Thanks for the reply

So that means that If I am on Orange and intend to stay on Orange I have nothing to lose?

on the latter point there are lots of people complaining about sim lock after radio update so guess it must exist, does this mean they had original orange phone and chose to use non orange sim and are now unable?
[Desire General] wingphil:
For some reason, using any other radio than the one supplied by orange causes the phone to think it's sim locked, even though you're using an orange sim in an orange phone.

Just get yourself an unlock code (htcsimunlock.com etc.) and then flash the radio and unlock the phone. You only need to do it once and it also means in the future you could use another sim if you want to.
[Desire General] marmin:
So that means that if I install a new radio my current sim will no longer work?
[Desire General] wingphil:
Your current sim will work, but only with an unlock code.
[Desire General] marmin:
I know its probably obvious to most, but Would flashing the latest radio provide better reception, battery life or both?
[Desire General] djoni1980:
you can probably expect better reception, not so sure about the battery life...
[Desire General] ljesh:
I got the same phone (black Desire, orange UK branded...) just is not simlocked anymore, I unlocked it.

I flashed the latest radio, and I have much better signal. I haven't noticed if the battery is worse or better... looks kinda same to me.

Still, before you unlock it, I wouldn't flash any of the radios.
[Desire General] marmin:
Thanks guys
[Desire General] dnlgee:
Omg.. you do NOT NEED to purchase an unlock code to remove the simlock proplem on Orange phones. I've posted this many times before.

All you need to do is download the 4.05.00.11 radio zip file, boot into recovery and flash it. Ta-da.
[Desire General] unikum:
So it is just to flash this as any other zip? From recovery mod?
[Desire General] wingphil:
If you'd actually read marmin's question, you'd know he's ON the 4.05 radio and wants to try an up to date one.
[Desire General] marmin:
Cheers mate, thought I was going a bit mad then!
[Desire General] dixonl90:
It's worse...

Is anyone else fidning the latest radio to give worse signal? :confused:

I seem to be getting G where i had at least 3G before and mostly H speeds...
[Desire General] gatsu_1981:
Sorry, wrong thread :D
[Desire General] prove:
Yeah, I did that.
[Desire General] itachi46:
currently on 32.36 is there a "changelog" or something to see what 32.37 has on 32.36?
[Desire General] ivarson_swe:
is anyone else besides me have problem with 3g/hsdpa stalling for a few minutes?

It happends way too often.

Its not related to the voice vs. data-issue mentioned a couple of pages back.

I had the issue on my vanilla desire and it follows me as Ive installed misc. froyo-ROMs and the latest radio-image from this thread.

I post the question here since im pretty sure its the radios fault.

When flashing some "new"-radio versions on my previos 32A/Sapphire, i got this problem too, although not when that phone had an older radio-version (3.22-series).

I believe that phonecalls are being redirected to voicemail during this period too :-(

I dont mind a bit less good reception, so I might downgrade a versionnumber

Sweden,

Operator Tre,
[Desire General] kai84m:
I also flashed the newest Radio a recently. First impression is OK HSDPA Connection seems to be more stable (less fall backs into 3G). But I need to field test it thoroughly tomorrow.

Cheers
[Desire General] mofirouz:
Radio posted

Hello all.

I have updated the website with the new radio (which is flashable).

http://www.mofirouz.com/wordpress/2011/03/htc-desire-radios/

As always, please have a look at the FAQ before posting questions and etc.

Thanks,

Mo.
[Desire General] sandervanzijl:
new radio can not be flashed. something wrong with the radio.img.

I have a standard hboot.
[Desire General] duuri:
working fine here..
[Desire General] kafe4ever:
me too..working fine
[Desire General] mello0110:
You are trying to flash it via recovery-menu, right? not through fastboot or bootloader?
[Desire General] kwan2209:
i can't flash 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 too,

i flash it in clockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7

it said

E:Can't open/sdcard/32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23.zip(bad)

Installation aborted

what happen??
[Desire General] thanito:
Can someone make a flashable via recovery .zip???

Thanx in advance
[Desire General] mofirouz:
I just reflashed radio, under 2.5.0.7 and it works just fine!

It already is flashable!
[Desire General] thanito:
Can u attach the radio that you used pls?

Thanx
[Desire General] papepo:
The same thing happens to me
[Desire General] kafe4ever:
try to flash it via adb in fastboot..(need S-OFF) it will help you
[Desire General] papepo:
Ok, I'll try tomorrow
[Desire General] veitograf:
flasher tool

for all those who want a flashable zip. why dont you use android flasher tool

its such an easy way to flash radio, recovery, splash and so on.
[Desire General] thanito:
I am S-on,so i need zip for recovery..

Cheers

T
[Desire General] cyberkamote:
i believe this is the latest radio: 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 ?
[Desire General] sandervanzijl:
yes, through amon-ra recovery.

i find this easier, because I do not always have access to a computer setup for flashing.

I am not s-off, because i find the process with a boot cd etc too much work.
[Desire General] mofirouz:
its the one on my website.... http://www.mofirouz.com/wordpress/2011/03/htc-desire-radios/
[Desire General] AlxMAX:
Thanks for the tutorial. If I was you, I would have written a Wiki page on the XDA-Developers site.
[Desire General] System of a pWne!^:
Virtual Box.
[Desire General] System of a pWne!^:
What does you prevent from using google, to find out, what virtual box is. Seriously, your post is pure spam. (question marks and especially the "spam slogan" "sent from my...". I still want everyone instant banned, who uses this spam signature. Btw I'm on tapatalk right now, with no spam sig)
[Desire General] thanito:
If you do not want to answer, then dont. But stop whining about spams etc- you should say that to the tapatalk app creator(He will laugh with your problem imo). I am flashing new roms every 1-2 days, I cannot bother changing tapatalk settings every time.

You,in the first place should either explain about virtual box or dont write it at all, comments like "what does prevent you from using google'' are useless. That's why forums exist, to answer questions.
[Desire General] TheLastOne:
The issue with the latest radio is that it's not signed for us people who are S-ON.

Would it be possible for someone to make a signed version, or alternatively link me to a tutorial on how to sign it myself?
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
I must react for your arrogance. Forum is not exist to just answer questions! Especially for the people who are so lazy to learn something by him self. You really should learn that forum is community to help each other, not customer service. If you became more polite, ask real question, then someone will answer you and make conversation useful for everyone. Asking simple questions what could be found so easy, like this one about virtual box or just post ?? like you did is pure spam as colleague said.
[Desire General] thanito:
If you see my posts you will see that I am always more than willing to help other people if they have problems, I never said anything about customer service. So you are wrong in that.

As for the "polite", I am polite enough to everyone, dont know why the "??" comment I wrote while I was on the street is a big deal.

But instead of whining, you can either answer a question or not. Isn't that the case? No need for bad willing comments.

Btw we are off topic,
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
You said that booting Linux to s-off is to hard for you?! What is already very lazy. He offer you solution with virtual box (what should be enough for someone like you who is here for long time) and you answered with "??" So what did you expect as answer? Explanation what is the virtual box?

Yes, I agree. We are complete off topic. So let stop. Next time, please do short search. It's faster then post question marks :)
[Desire General] erklat:
I will not make comments if he is lazy or not, but this quoted is as ridiculous as a chocolate teapot.
[Desire General] thanito:
My question marks were about the procedure, but nevermind..

As for the booting linux part, in fact in 3 different computers I tried to boot a USB linux but didnt make it, either laptops would boot directly to windows, or blank screen, so its not a lazyness thing.

We should stop off topic now...

Just my two cents.
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
But how do anyone know what you're thinking? As you could see both of us understand that you were asking what is virtual box.

Procedure is that you can install virtual box, boot linux for s-off inside virtual box and than s-off...

Honestly you should google it for a little :) For laptops it sounds that you didn't change boot device in BIOS...

Edit: As you can see, if you ask normal question you'll get normal answer. We don't read minds, even with the latest version of Android :D
[Desire General] thanito:
Believe me I googled it a lot.

I have changed boot device, yet still no boot.

I tried to solve the blank screen problem on my desktop, still no luck, so I stopped digging, thus I prefer flashing zip files through recovery
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
Hmmm, strange problem. Are sure is not problem with your monitor? Maybe with graphic card? If you really wish s-off try virtual box. It's free and really powerful software.
[Desire General] thanito:
Not a problem with my pc, since I use it every day without issues.

There are some live cd issues and need to run in low graphics mode to boot, tried that but no luck.

I will check the virtual box too, as well as alpha rev method
[Desire General] saweboy:
Radio 5.17.5.23 is not working. Change from 3G to WIFI, or vice versa, not working at all. Reboot needed to get a working condition.

5.11.5.27 is latest latest, on which I have no bad word.
[Desire General] Zeljko1234:
I've just tested and radio 5.17.05.23 works as it should. Tried to connect to 3G, turned on WIFI, phone switched mobile data off and works with WIFI, then I turned WIFI and phone turned 3G automatically...
[Desire General] TheLastOne:
Not everyone wants to S-OFF necessarily, as it involves significant risk of Bricking, plus the inability to return the device to factory defaults.
[Desire General] ziggy1001:
Don't think that's entirely true, the risk is significant if you don't read, understand and follow the instructions. If you can't do that then don't touch your phone. AFAIK restoring to s-on is straightforward, so no problem with guarantee ;)

Of the probably 10's of thousands of people that have done it i guess the failure rate is very low and almost entirely down to "user error" Every HTC phone i have owned has been s-off'd on the day i bought it
[Desire General] erklat:
Wrong. Ruu contains hboot with security flag on, thus reverting your phone completely to factory defaults.
[Desire General] kimzplaze:
if you had s-offed your phone, you will just need to run the official RUU for your region if you need to revert back factory settings
[Desire General] TheLastOne:
Huh...good to know. Guess I'll be S-OFFing then lol.
[Desire General] c4p3fi3rr:
Has anyone got any statistics of signal strength, battery duration, gps fix time, ecc. for different radio versions?
[Desire General] FloHimself:
Maybe you should take a look into the RIL thread to get an idea of why it would be wasted time to create such a list: RIL Thread
[Desire General] Nesrail:
Really noob question. Why flash one of these radios? What is it good for??
[Desire General] DesirableHTC:
Wrong! Flashing a radio or a rom is just as likely to brick your phone as the s-off procedure is.

Swyped from my GB loaded, sense 3.0 wearing HTC Desire!
[Desire General] saweboy:
Apologies for not being as informative as I should have been. The problem occured only when I was on the move, from my home around the city for the day.
[Desire General] Jameswgm:
Yeah I believe fastboot is the best/safest way to flash radios etc rather than recovery. Can't understand the issues with the s-off procedure, must be a BIOS problem surely? Does that mean you can't boot windows disks?
[Desire General] vertti:
no data but green icons

strange, since updating to latest radio i've had several occasions where i get green 3G and H logos (i thought green meant succesful connection to google servers?) but for example browser or twitter client moves no data. wifi works fine but 3g/h doens't.

any ideas?
[Desire General] puredesire:
Which of these radios are the best and without any problems?

32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23

or

32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08
[Desire General] erklat:
Can't reply to that as it can't be measured due to the large number of factors that can't be exactly reproduced. I use .08 and it acts nice, but that doesn't mean it will for you too.

You are right, green means exactly that.
[Desire General] puredesire:
I also use 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08

but was curious about the newest :-)
[Desire General] erklat:
Idk, if that helps I was getting ready to flash it anytime now. I like staying up to date. :D
[Desire General] proxuser:
32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 is good and battery life is great.

i cant believe the people say some problems are radio related. I dont accept this. i used gb sense roms with 5.09.30 radio from froyo. There was nothing wrong!
[Desire General] puredesire:
I have very good battery life with 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08! Worth it to switch to the newest?
[Desire General] dbanzon:
i just flashed the 5.17.05.23 radio on my desire, do i also need to flash the radio ril? Is there an official download page for the radio ril?
[Desire General] Large Hadron:
Flashing a radio, yes. A ROM? Unless you mean a ROM that includes a radio as part of the package, I'd have to disagree - a bad ROM flash can be undone with a nandroid, or another ROM flash. That's a different matter from a bad radio flash, which can brick your phone irrecoverably.
[Desire General] puredesire:
Is it reported any problems with this: 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08 ?
[Desire General] dexter93:
None, for me at least ;)
[Desire General] libetz:
I have worked quite a while with both the 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 and the 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08, and I must say that 5.17.05.23 had a very slow GPS fixation on my device, while 5.17.05.08 which I've got back to now is fixing very fast.
[Desire General] gurpreet3579:
where is the link to this radio pl help :rolleyes:32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23
[Desire General] puredesire:
http://www.mofirouz.com/wordpress/2011/03/htc-desire-radios/
[Desire General] UKseagull:
Maybe it's just me, but I think the 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 is using slightly more battery than the last one I used. I'm going to try another for a few days to compare.
[Desire General] gilberc:
Thanks for the effort, much appreciated, keep up the good work
[Desire General] Tillus:
Thats what the thanks button is for. ;)
[Desire General] bam82:
Ive tried searching but no joy, hopefully someone can help.

Recently changed carrier from Vodafone to 3 UK. Trying to find the latest official radio version 3 are shipping their phones with to compare signal coverage.

I am currently running GV 2.4 and the latest radio and RIL but the signal is not the best and am trying to test to see if it is the radio version or just crap coverage.

The only official RUU I can find for 3 UK are these

Three UK

RUU_Bravo_H3G_UK_1.22.771.1_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.0 6.00.02_2_release_127568

RUU_Bravo_H3G_UK_1.20.771.3_Radio_32.36.00.28U_4.0 6.00.02_2_release_124822

They have really old radio versions has there been a newer version shipped with 3 phones since these releases? Or can anyone who is on 3 recommend a radio they are having good results with? Thanks
[Desire General] puredesire:
I keep getting 'grey' signal icons. Basically it isn't green all the time meaning I'm not signed into Google services. Anyone else getting this error with:

32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08