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[Desire General] xox101:
I've had me Desire for about three weeks and the reception has never been great. Flashed the latest radio when it was still on Eclair and noticed a definite signal improvement, have since tried Devillain and am now on Modaco R5 but reception is even worse now than when I was on Eclair! Tried flashing a couple of the older radios and then reflashing the newest but the reception problems persist. The signal bars go up and down like a yo yo, even when the phone is left on a flat surface in a known good signal area. I can have full reception on H one minute and the next have no bars showing at all! Anybody else get this?
[Desire General] kayceejayh:
You're not on Orange UK are you?

K
[Desire General] xox101:
No I'm actually on O2 and have been for a few years. All that trime I have had excellent coverage on every phone I have owned until this one. Got to be either a hardware problem with the phone or a firmware prob. As the latest radio performed significantly better on Eclair than on the R5 rom I'm thinking firmware.
[Desire General] tienha:
my Desire is Orange brand,when i bought it.the original rom,signal is awesome,seems never down!Now i rooted and flashed 2.1 sense,signal up and down always>"<.Tell me what's about the lastest radio???
[Desire General] j5m:
can anyone get the 5.08.zip from adamg's website? it seems like it has shutdown.

I need it for my r5modaco rom
[Desire General] gibsonk:
Since i have flashed to DJ Droid froyo rom and the new radio i am experiencing the same issue with it dropping in and out of signal completely, one minute its all good then the next i loose my network totaly .

I never had these issues with the stock rom from T-mobile anybody have any ideas why this is or am i gonna have to wait until T-mobile release Froyo to sort the issue out :confused:
[Desire General] Handl3vogn:
New radio from htc desire froyo rom hxxp://files.bestblog.de/desire/32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20.zip
[Desire General] AdamG:
New radio is up
[Desire General] cesar67:
Safe to flash with OD 3.02 ?

Any benefits ?
[Desire General] UltraLinx:
hell to the ****ing yes!
[Desire General] Mountainjew:
Hope this cures my signal loss....Let's find out :D

Nope, still losing signal and 3g after 1 min or so :(
[Desire General] ernest33:
Just installed 32.43...no problem. Maybe a little better reception...
[Desire General] prove:
Just flashed using clockwork, went into recovery and flashed but it didnt reboot as usual. Do I dare to reboot? It just installed it and then nothing... How did it work for you guys?
[Desire General] Bl@ck:
One thing i noticed, atleast in my area, is that the phone got less reception with 5.x radios compared to 4.x

With 4.x radio i got full bars (4), with 5.x i've 2-3 bars but the phone keeps the 3G signal better and the wifi takes just a couple of seconds to start and take the IP, with 4.x radio my phone takes around 10ish seconds to start and get the IP.
[Desire General] DreamWiva:
I just did the same thing and it worked without any problems, opened recovery and flashed the radio and nothing else

Full 5 bars now! Brilliant !!
[Desire General] VinnYAjU:
I'm still in an Eclair rooted with my phone, can i update just the radio and then update OD as well?
[Desire General] Hyonic:
Thanks for the new radio :)
[Desire General] prove:
Yeah, it was no problems. I had a memory that it would start rebooting automatically but I had to do the first reboot myself. Thanks though :)
[Desire General] skedone:
anyone on uk orange(unlocked) having any issues with new radio
[Desire General] ernest33:
Using RomManager, i selected flash from SD, select the zip and let the procedure run till i got the pin code page (I don't touch to the phone t'ill it end the operation)

Hope this help a little ;-)
[Desire General] amf:
Getting better signal here! Thanks!
[Desire General] inkredi:
would this by any means help the development of the 720p camcorer support??
[Desire General] prove:
Im already done, thanks though! The last time I flashed a radio I did that but this time I went into recovery and it turned out that I had to use the "reboot now" option to get the real unpacking started. :)
[Desire General] caldo:
Thank you for the update! :)
[Desire General] dneill2006:
Thanks, flashing now :)
[Desire General] hdougie:
I would also love to know this... Is latest update safe to use on Orange UK branded handset?
[Desire General] ernest33:
I just test this new radio in a zone of my house where i never got a signal...i got one bar in Edge....love that :D

A big thanks the poster of this radio :-)

Mr Handl3vogn i presume ;)
[Desire General] Nekromantik:
yeah anyone on orange UK have issues with new radio?

my phone is unlocked
[Desire General] Fightspit:
Does it work on the ROM you're using (MDC r5 ?)
[Desire General] sruon:
ctrl alt del and make sure there are no adb process currently launched.
[Desire General] bedeabc:
Does one's Desire need to be unlocked in order to do this?

I'm presuming Orange have put a simlock on my phone...
[Desire General] PaulW21781:
The 4.06.00.02_2 radio you can't flash to your Orange supplied Desire unless you have done a full SIM Unlock (code and everything...)

Not sure if 4.06.00.16_2 will also SIMlock your phone too, but either way if it does you can just downgrade the radio to 4.05.00.11 or 4.05.00.30_2 to get rid of the lock problem.
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
Hey,

I just flashed this but it "Hard Reset" my phone,

corrupted my SD card, now says no SD inserted,

phone no longer asks me what type of connection i want when i connect the USB,

adb devices command says nothing is connected and

i cant get into the recovery menu.

Am i right in thinking the SD being corrupted is why adb devices/USB connection doesn't work or is it a bigger problem?

Any ideas of why this happened or of things i can try..... rele cant be bothered to buy a new SD card and set up my phone again.

Thanks
[Desire General] PaulW21781:
Sounds like another "USB Brick" :(

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...b-bricked-desire-or-legends-lets-get-a-count/

:/
[Desire General] bedeabc:
Thanks PaulW, really appreciated.

JBaldwin, can you give more info on your phone, radio version, procedure etc
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
It does boot into android, just effectively hard reset my phone to the state its in when you flash a new rom.

I did have radio 4.05.00.11

Iv got this rom

http://android.modaco.com/content/h...ustom-rom-for-htc-desire-with-online-kitchen/

I used the custom kitchen.

On t-mobile network

Flashed by putting the zip on the sd in android. then went to recovery and flashed the zip. same way as i flashed the rom.

is there anything else u need to know?

Thank for taking the time to help me, i really appreciate it.
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
It won't charge either.... ****
[Desire General] PaulW21781:
Does it not charge using the wall charger too?
[Desire General] cnic:
As stated by sruon indeed I had another adb process runing .. but ..

.. after seeing what happened to jbaldwinroberts after a mere "Radio" update i'm scared like ****..

Is there any way to backup everything to avoid brickage ? Rom & such ? Or at least my old radio version to have something to downgrade so I don`t end up locked out of my network ..

This really sux :|
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
Nope,

I didnt think that flashing could effect that, i thought it would go straight to the battery.

Apparently not, ill have to ring HTC/T mobile tomorrow and see what they say
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
I did back up but its on the SD card which is broke, and i can't use nandroid restore or flash again without recovery.
[Desire General] jbaldwinroberts:
Just found out it will charge, however iv got to switch the phone off then connect the cable which will turn the phone on.

Thanks
[Desire General] AdamG:
I have flashed all of these myself individually a couple of times each and I did not get the brick issue once.

I know for certain any bricking issue is not down to the radio packages I have made.

All I can assume is it's either 1 the rom you are using or 2 unplugging the usb cable at the wrong time.

I'm not being funny but a lot of these bricks seem to be happening with pauls modaco rom loaded.
[Desire General] s4vva:
is there a stock ruu from HTC available for the latest Radio Rom? I have not rooted my phone and don't particularly want to.

Thanks.
[Desire General] AdamG:
You don't have to root your phone to use any of these files.

As for your question, the latest radio came from the Asian wwe update.
[Desire General] eddyther:
Hi to all.

I don't know how to install usb drivers.

I readed that i have to install SDK first, but the installation doesn't start.

Any "step by step" help?

The rest of the process is clear.
[Desire General] Pyr0x64:
just flashed 4.06.00.16_2, thanks Adam :)
[Desire General] i6bazar:
Does it simlock your phone ?

My matters is I have a simlocked phone and I unlocked it using the supplied code, if it simlock again my phone, will my code still be working or it will lock it to a new network operator.

Is it a problem to flash an Asian Radio Version to a European Mobile phone ?
[Desire General] Pyr0x64:
i have sim unlocked my phone using a code as well

flashing the new radio had no effect and everything works as it should
[Desire General] charon72:
I am on Leedroid 1.4c and reception has improved with the new radio :)

flashed without any hickups
[Desire General] theodm:
Running fine on Leedroid 1.6 so far and good reception.

I just hope it won't suck my battery empty as fast as the previous version (9.00.08). So far version 32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04 has been the best for me, I can easily make it 2 days without recharging. During a night it then uses maybe 4 or 5% battery, while with 9.00.08 it happened several times I went to sleep with it at around 50% forgetting to put the charger, and the next morning no alarm because of an empty battery :p
[Desire General] Frools:
seems fine, im using a retail/simfree phone on Orange UK
[Desire General] mastakillaa:
woot!!

Flashed radio 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20 Rom: ۵.NeoPhyTe ROM v1.4a Sense-FroYo no problem :)
[Desire General] ekowanz:
thx for this confirmation.....
[Desire General] azrudin99:
flashed the new radio [LATEST 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20] working good so far.
[Desire General] wmfreak:
flashed through Rom Manager and it's all good! orange RO. We'll see if there is any improvement!
[Desire General] Nitrius:
Do you extract the file inside the zip before you move it to the sdcard or do you just move the zip to the sdcard?

Edit: Nvm, no need to extract just copy the zip file.
[Desire General] blackie84:
OpenDesire 3.0.2 e last radio -----> PERFECT!

:)
[Desire General] kerzo:
I decided to change to the .20 radio after using .04 since it was leaked but I am finding the Wifi reception a lot weaker. The mobile network seems to be the same although I never really had a problem with it but haven't tried the bluetooth or GPS yet.
[Desire General] hankhandsome:
i flashed the new radio and it's just left my phone stuck in an infinite loop with the silver 'android' logo flashing over and over again.

even though i don't use ext partitions, i still reformatted my sdcard and copied everything back over and re-flashed. still no luck - still stuck in a loop.

any ideas ?

i'd love to use the new one but i'll have to go back to the older one i guess .. i'm on orange uk and unlocked as well ...
[Desire General] hankhandsome:
Problem solved :)

I think what had happened is that because i'd reformatted, it flashed the radio but didn't have any actual rom to latch on to essentially.

i popped the battery out, rebooted into recovery and flashed the rom again and it came back - booted up fine with the new radio installed.
[Desire General] skedone:
good to here mate thats why i always flash rom then radio and reboot
[Desire General] hankhandsome:
Sounds like a plan .. i'll remember it for the next radio for sure :D
[Desire General] Daedream:
Just flashed the new radio and I can confirm that it seems to improve the signal both for data and voice. It seems to work great with leedroid 1.6a.
[Desire General] c4p3fi3rr:
Has anyone tested the GPS with the new radio?
[Desire General] bossarts:
Works like a charm! :)
[Desire General] ductions:
Hi guys. I've just put 2.2 on to my orange locked desire using a Rom from another thread here that didn't have radio. My mobile internet does work but it fluctuates a lot. Going from 3g to h to g. Also the signal bars seem to go up and down. Could someone recommend a radio that won't Bork my phone and won't completely lock it?
[Desire General] etismyname:
when i first received my desire, it had a camera issue which doesn't happen all the time but probably around 1/5 of the time when I use my camera, it will turn to a black screen and cause my phone to reboot.

So I was told to update the radio to 5.09.00.08 and still has the problem...

Hopefully the newest 5.09.00.20 will fix it...
[Desire General] Jagdish84:
If you received the handset with a problematic camera out of the box i dont think upgradin the radio would solve the issue, its probably some hardware malfunction...

Hope im wrong, good luck :)
[Desire General] kuailan:
Hmmmm already tried the new Radio,

but really cant tell the difference between the previous x.x.x.08?? they both still "juice suckers!". Performance wise, roughly about the same...GPS good, but so is the previous one, reception is about the same.
[Desire General] babyshaq:
Flashed the new radio to my MCR r5 rom. Works very well. Found that signal and battery has improved greatly compared to the last radio .08
[Desire General] pina_:
damned, radio 32.30xxxx was still the best one for me. That radio didn't drain the battery like all the other ones and I tried maby radios :/

With Froyo I have to update :(
[Desire General] STONEMC:
I used the leaked version 5. 08. 00. 04 signal was the same... and batterylife was better. So I will flash back from x. 20 to x. 04
[Desire General] perettigiuliano:
Flashing RADIO

Hi all,

sorry in advance for this stupid questions:

1 - can i flash latest (32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20) radio on stock 2.1 rom?

2 - have i to wipe something after flashing?

Thanx!!!
[Desire General] STONEMC:
Back on x. 4
[Desire General] bightf:
The last radio (32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20) gives me bad results on a speed test over HSDPA, 1,5Mbits/s compared to 5Mbits+ I had with 5.09.00.08. Flashing back to x.08...

ROM : OpenDesire w/ Sense 1.0c

- Orange France Branded HTC Desire -
[Desire General] prove:
Yes you can but with 2.1 rom you wont have any video recording. The latest radios are for froyo roms.

No wipe after radio.

Otherwise, the new radio seem to work great for me. I have more bars and I think that the battery time is better. Running Defrost 2.4d
[Desire General] perettigiuliano:
thanx a lot...
[Desire General] blambo:
Latest radio with Pays 1.3 ROM

ROM: Pays Desire Froyo Sense v1.3

32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20: flashed without incident.

Performance: Better Internet response in GSM Network Mode; faster packet transfer, smoother scaling.

Battery life apparently equal to 32.42.00.32U_5.09.00.08 + Pays 1.3: approximately 33 hours.

Happy so far.
[Desire General] etismyname:
damn, problem is still here...

it isn't a hardware malfunction because it also occurs on other android based phones like the G1 and G2.

I am guessing from all the information I collected is that the problem only started after 1.5 system and also is likely a memory-related issue

oh well....I have tweaked the phone too much to factory restore it....I guess i will just bet on my luck when i use the camera :p
[Desire General] cq.dude:
Seems there's no significant improvement or change from all the reports. Signal fluctuations mostly come from external factors, at least in my experience. Can someone confirm like a really noticeable improvement?
[Desire General] hshah:
So, .04 or .20 for best battery life?
[Desire General] OpiZA:
Can we run an older 5x radio with the latest Froyo update? Cause .20 is absolutely killing my battery life. I ran .20 with adamg's HTC Sense + Froyo 1.0c and my battery was terrible, I'm running .20 with this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741663 and it's still as bad

With .08 is was super

Would this older radio work with the latest update?
[Desire General] quake2005:
I went back to 04 because the latest (especially 20) are really killing the battery!
[Desire General] OpiZA:
Any performance issues since downgrading?
[Desire General] cq.dude:
First full day with 20. Seems cell signal is noticeably better (or it might be my carrier "improvement plans" ;)

Will update again soon.
[Desire General] Nickedynick:
I'm running the same setup and got the best battery life I've ever had from my Desire yesterday! Off the charger around 10:30am, and at midnight it was at 25% with moderate - heavy use. Usually I'd have to plug it in with similar usage by around 10pm because it'd be single figures.
[Desire General] OpiZA:
Serious? Ok ill give it more time, but its been off the charger for two hours and already down 20%. Battery housing area noticeably hotter to the touch. Android system info app shows no real CPU usage beyond the occasional HTC location usage and so forth, so I'm thinking its the radio. In the time it took me to load this page and reply, the batt has dropped from 80 to 74 percent
[Desire General] Nickedynick:
Ok, that sounds pretty bad! I've not noticed anything like this at all - maybe try reflashing the radio?
[Desire General] repvik:
Having an issue with flashing the latest radio. I've tried the instructions linked to in the first post (modaco r5 recovery) and flashing through ROM Manager (which I've used to flash radios successfully earlier). It appears to flash the radio, but when the phone has finished booting I'm still on 32.36.00.28_U4.06.00.02_2 (And thus no 720p for me).

Anyone got a clue what's wrong?
[Desire General] prove:
Guys! Don't forget to wipe battery stats, I guess that's why many of you have problem with drain.

Happened to me before also, just flash again, enter recovery.
[Desire General] repvik:
I've tried several times with both modaco recovery and through rom manager :(
[Desire General] prove:
Even when you enter recovery? Does it give you any message?
[Desire General] OpiZA:
I may have found a potential suspect, After some monitoring I found the android.process.acore was using upwards of 50% or my cpu for a few min every time i synced my phone. Did a quick google search and pieced together that it may have something to do with a looped sync with my facebook contacts. I removed that feature, and acore no longer munches away at my precious cycles ;) battery consumption is levelling out but it's too early too tell.

Could be an HTC bug, if I had an idea of who uses this function vs who doesn't, and who has good batt and who doesn't, I could get a clearer picture.

Could be the custom ROM i'm running, will wait for AdamG's official Sense + Froyo to be updated to the official OTA rom and then test further before downgrading my Radio.
[Desire General] repvik:
It verifies the image, then tells me to reboot to flash it. It appears to flash it, but when it has booted, the version number is still the same.

Going to try flashing to a different radio...
[Desire General] gbil:
It's funny how everyone's experience varies so much.

For example 26 hours ago I had 40% left after running about 35 hours with .08 radio on 1.0c ROM. Then I flashed .20 radio, same ROM and after 26 hours my battery still has 9% left .

Up to now with .08 radio I got max 2 days but .20 seems to be much much better.
[Desire General] repvik:
Flashing a different radio didn't work either. WTF?
[Desire General] cq.dude:
I never wiped battery stats ever. And I've flashed many Radios. No problem so far. Hmmm...

One thing though. I noticed with this Radio, the screen stayed dark for a long while after flash. Scared me for a minute there.
[Desire General] fakts13:
have you tried using fake-flash recovery or maybe try using unrevoked to flash a recovery permanently to your phone?
[Desire General] repvik:
I have now tried unrevoked. Same result. Unpacking the radio image seems too quick though :confused: and the subsequent flashing also seems too quick.
[Desire General] Mabili:
Today the new original Froyo 2.2 via OTA whit radio 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20 but GPS will not working and waiting now for more than 30 min but no GPS Fix. I use a unrooted Desire.
[Desire General] member0:
I just played around with updating the radio from .08 to .20 about an hour ago, but I was getting weird battery problems. When plugged in to charge, the phone would show the green light, but say it was charging on the lock screen. Also, the charge would slowly *decrease* and the Battstatt widget would not recognise it as charging.

Flashing it back to .08 fixed everything though. Everything seems to be back to normal.
[Desire General] sattapaal:
tried all day to update this rom using r5.

SIGNATURE VERIFICATION FAILED.

in a nutshell. someone suggested "remove verification" but there is no option for that!

i've downgraded and re-upgraded to 42, and that works. its with the latest one im having a problem.
[Desire General] cmdrfire:
FWIW I've just installed 5.09.00.20 on my Desire and I'm having normal charging/discharging behaviour... but I've only had it installed now for a short while (hour or so).

I have noticed an improvement in both wifi and cellular connection? Didn't really expect that but hey :)
[Desire General] cq.dude:
Been using. 20 for 2 days. Notice that I goes down fairly quickly to about 60% or so but then witty kinda levels off. End of the day I have almost 30-40% left. I use the browser a lot. And XDA of course. :)

Btw, someone said they couldn't find 'turning signature verification off.' It's on recovery screen, under advance, I think?
[Desire General] pablo.va87:
Hi ! I'm using the last radio rom 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20, with an Official 2.2 ROM, but i've got some battery problems, it doen't charge at 100%, it sometimes stops at 90%, and the battery get's too much hot, is this happening to all the people?

Thanks!
[Desire General] casca:
I think i'm having poor cell reception after the last update, plus, i'm having battery floats to, for instance, i took my phone off ac charge and it had 94% left...lol it charged the hole night...so don't quite get it...reflashing now with the same radio but done the battery stats wipe first.

let's see how it goes...
[Desire General] StuMcBill:
Isn't it a bit crazy to disable signature verification when flashing a radio?

ROMS I can understand, because you can always recover, but bad radio flash = bricked phone!!
[Desire General] cmdrfire:
I didn't disable signature verification for this update, not sure why you would...

But clockwork recovery screen has an option to disable sig verification somewhere.
[Desire General] bigr1979:
I just installed the newest radio on my adam open desire official froyo with sense, all ok but 720p video option has disappeared, an ideas ?

*** fixed it, just went the the vid camera and reset default settings and 720 option reappeared ***
[Desire General] casca:
it was happening the same to me, but i was told by a friend that the Desire stops charging at 100%, and the starts using the battery untill it reaches 90%, then it enables the charge again and so on...

i was also told there is some sort of kernell mod to fix that, but couldn't find it yet.

today is the 2nd day with the lastest radio, and once again when i woke up, No network signal...tried to make a phonecall without it anyway, and it just popped up the signal! weird...
[Desire General] atomfix:
Anyone know if the .20 radio will network lock a Orange phone?
[Desire General] kien:
It didn't lock mine.
[Desire General] casca:
Well,with the .08 radio,all is nice including the cell signal,so the latest radio isnt the best for me...dont know why though...
[Desire General] erto90:
is possible to have the button to switch do japanese frequencies on the fm radio ( present in 2.1 and not in 2.2) is a radio question or software?
[Desire General] cammytammy:
I cant get any signal what so ever now ive swapped radio.

Can you tell me the exact version thats working for you?