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[Hero CDMA Android Development] legendarykotetu:
Loaded on the Eris, with engineering bootloader and KaosFroyo v39. I used the method you described for non-firerats. Things are looking good so far! I will vote later on the signal strength.

Thanks theimpaler747!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem man! Glad it's working well for you :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
I, before rooting, originally had Radio BaseBand Version 2.42.01.04.23

Note that I am an ALLTEL Customer, not a SPRINT (CDMA)

After Rooting I upgraded to Radio 2.42.01.04.27 (which I was told that this was a SPRINT RADIO IMG)...

After upgrading the Radio IMG and installing CM6.1 ROM the phone works good..I just made sure I updated the PRL after the phone booted up using the new radio...

So my question is this... could it be safe for me to upgrade from my current 2.42.01.04.27 to this new radio version 2.42.02.10.29...even though this is a Sprint Radio and I am an Alltel user...

(I was told the Radio IMG's are all interchangeable and are NOT carrier specific, but the ONLY was flashing a radio would brick your phone was if you tried flashing a GSM radio to a CDMA phone or vice versa (a CDMA radio to a GSM phone)

any thoughts?!

some info taken from ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10172967#post10172967 )
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
That is correct if you flash a radio that is for a GSM phone or a Gsm radio you will brick your phone. You can flash the .29 radio that is in the OP and try it. See if you get a better overall signal,if you don't I posted the radio you are on now in post#249. Hers the link to that post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853868&page=25
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
You should be able to, but do so at your own risk ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
What does upgrading the radio do for my phone?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Better signal, quicker, etc.

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
it gave me better battery life too.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
Okay....ran into a problem, i think.....

I have Firerat's CustomMTD MOD installed... I went an did a Nandroid Backup First

then rebooted back into the phone, opened ROM MANAGER and REFLASHED the Clockwork Recovery so that I could clear out the setting made by Firerat's MOD

After I got the confirmation box stating that the recovery image was successfully installed, I then rebooted into recovery from the ROM MANAGER MENU

and now when I try and get into RECOVERY I am stuck at the WHITE HTC SCREEN

I am still able to boot the phone like normal... even went back into ROM MANAGER MENU and flashed the RA RECOVERY, thinking that would fix it...still stuck at HTC screen when trying to boot RECOVERY

and for some unknown reason (for the first time) I tried flashing the recovery.img using FASTBOOT and got an error

c:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (2942 KB)... FAILED (remote: not allow)
finished. total time: 0.006s

and I DO HAVE S-OFF

havnt even gotten to the part of attempting to flash this new radio, because I seem to have lost my recovery....

what happened to it and how do I get it back?

like I said, phone is not bricked and is still bootable, I just cant boot into recovery
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
So you flashed it with firerats? You didn't do the alternate method I said on the op to do?

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
No...I havnt flashed anything yet.... I just went into the ROM MANGER MENU to reflash the recovery so that Firerats would turned off... which is what I thought I had to do to get rid of Firerats was to Flash an unpatched recovery
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ah ok :) so, how are you flashing the recovery? You can't boot into it by holding home and end call?

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
Well like I said, I rebooted into recovery and did a nandroid backup...booted back into the phone normally and opened up the ROM MANAGER APP once booted and just clicked the INSTALL CLOCKWORK RECOVERY...it said it was successful.. I then clicked REBOOT INTO RECOVERY from the ROM MANGER MENU...the phone rebooted but would NOT go into recovery, just stuck at white HTC screen

so I pulled the battery after stuck at HTC screen for 8 mins... booted normally again...went back into ROM MANAGER and tried flash the ALTERNATE RECOVERY from the ROM Manager, which is the RA Recovery... tried to reboot into RECOVERY again, still stuck at white HTC screen...

so I then tried flashing recovery using fastboot and got the error I listed above
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Flash the unofficial amon ra 1.7 from terminal

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
awesome that worked! that got to RA ...and then I was able to flash Clockwork back....so now I got my recovery back!!! THANKS FOR THAT!!

Have any idea why I couldnt flash using the FASTBOOT METHOD, or idea why I was getting the error

FAILED (remote: not allow)

???

Anyways...now I can try an update this radio....

Step 1 - already completed which was a NANDROID BACKUP

Step 2 - Now that I have got my recovery back, and it is unpatched that means Firerat's is off now, Right? or do I have to run th FR-Remove.zip for the Firerat MOD?

Step 3 - is to WIPE

now here is my question

Step 4 says to INSTALL FRESH2.4 ... (taken from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9415009&postcount=579 )

I am running CM6.1 ...do I skip this step?!!?

and then I would go an flash the radio zip, reboot recovery, wipe again, flash firerats recovery zip, wipe again, reboot recovery, NANDROID RESTORE from earlier backup, reboot recovery, flash Firerat Boot zip, and reboot system (which all seems self explanatory)

i'm just stumped on Step 4 there
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ummm, check the instructions again since you don't have firerats anymore, just flash it ;)

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
so by reflashing the clockwork recovery, that turned off firerat's? how do I check to see if its off? just look at my memory?! if it did turn off, wouldnt my phone boot loop at the cyanogen mod screen because of the /data/ being bigger than the original size?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
It should, just check the size of the partition, or flash the radio and see if it takes.

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
so there is no risk to damage the phone if I try and flash it and firerats is not successfully off?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
It shouldn't, the update just wouldn't take

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
so I should try flashing zip from recovery or use the HBOOT method?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Flash it from recovery :)

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
just checked the partition sizes.... they did not revert to original sizes.... seems the mod is still active
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Just try flashing it, and if that fails, ask firerat how to remove it

Sent from a truly Epic phone!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
Awesome! thanks for all your help!!!!!!!!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem, happy to do it :)

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[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
actually, just had another thought! lol

instead of removing firerats... couldnt I just resize the system and cache a little bigger and flash it from recovery?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Perhaps, not 100% sure if there's another conflict though... did flashing it not work?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
well i tried changing the partition sizes in firerats...and then flashed the new radio img zip from recovery....

everything said successful...told me to reboot....got the HTC screen...it rebooted again to HTC screen.... then booted normally...checked the about phone info...

radio image didnt update
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Yeah, so you still have firerat's applied then
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
yeah.....gonna tweak around with the partition sizes once more n try again
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Cool cool, let me know if you need any more help, I'll be here :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
I got the radio installed!

I ended up reflashing the clockwork recovery img, so that I knew the recovery wasn't patched then I WIPED everything, installed the ORIGINAL CM6.1, rebooted, flashed the radio zip from recovery, rebooted back to ORIGINAL CM6.1 to verify installation in the "about phone" - it verified!

Now I am going back to reflash the firerats and my nandroid restore (which the phone is working on now)

Let ya know soon if I seen any improvments with the new radio!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Awesome, glad you got it! :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] teknikalcrysis:
Well after more than a day after the radio update...I must say I have noticed quite a bit of improvement on the whole all the way around...

1) Better Signal by about 1-1.5 Bars

2) Better Battery Life from what I can tell so far

3) Less Lag or better Performance in the phone

all since upgrading from radio 2.42.01.04.27 to thie new radio 2.42.2.10.29

even tho I am an Alltel Customer n this was a Sprint Radio... Interchangeable as I thought
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Fantastic, glad it's working out for you :) Let me know if you need anything else!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hoesnaps:
so i tried this method on aospGBmod and it didn't work. so i flashed back to cm6.1 and tried this method and it worked. the only thing i can figure is that aospGBmod was running CWM 3.0 and not 2.5, which seemed to work. strange i know but now i am updated to the latest radio. thanks guys!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem, and actually cwm is the problem ;)

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] hoesnaps:
yeah i kinda figured. strange but nonetheless 2.5 still works.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Cool cool, well at least you figured it out and got it working to your liking ;) :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Rooster85:
Can I flash this from hboot? I upgraded to cwm 3.0.0.5 and can't flash it now :(
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Just briefly downgrade cwm and flash I'd say :D

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
I can't seem to be able to downgrade cwm and want to flash this radio. Any idea impaler?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Flash RA instead.... why can't you downgrade it?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
I dunno, it just says there was an error. Yesterday when I originally installed cwm it was giving me tons of problems so CrashV2010 worked with me to get it working via bootloader. He had to give me a few different .img files to get it to work so maybe it has something to do with that. I was having a problem where it would appear to work, but when trying to go into recovery it would freeze at the htc screen. I'll try getting ra back on via rom manager.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ok, let me know, and if that doesn't work I have a better version of RA for you :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
Well it said it was sucessful, but when I boot into recovery it is still cwm. So I guess I will try your better version of RA.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Flash this version of RA from terminal then :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
i get mtd: read error at 0x00xxxxxxxxxx (out of memory) about 20 times and mtd: write error at 0x000xxxxxxxx (out of memory) and mtd: re-read error at 0x00xxxxxxx (out of memory) and mtd: skipping write block....(etc) when flash that in terminal emulator.

my process is

Move recovery.img to root of the SD card.

Open the Terminal Emulator on the phone & type the following commands:

:su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/RA-Darchstar.img

I verified that the file is indeed on the root of my sdcard too.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
And now my I get stuck at the htc screen when trying to get into recovery.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Do you use firerat's?

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
no i do not
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No reason that didn't work then... Reboot you phone, and then try again

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] gmoney41685:
Then I type reboot recovery and it worked. Sweet!!! Flashing radio now and all seems to be working. Thanks man. I knew you'd know what to do.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
No problem, glad it's working for you and hope the radio transfer goes well! :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Stalte:
The fact that the poll is 50/50 is really entertaining
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Lol, yeah I noticed that, been fluctuating around there for a while now ;) :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] RocStar629:
you are the man as usual!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Thanks man :) Glad it worked out well for you, and I'm happy this thread is still useful
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
Impaler are you on I have? About radio's
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
:confused: Que? What's up? Sorry, not sure what you're asking :o :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
Can pm you
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Of course you can, but you can just ask me here as well ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
Ok first off I'm not trying to start any trouble for any one. But there is a thread "DF ROM TUNER 2.2.11" in his script he has radio version GSM 2.42.02.10.29 the thing that I'm worrys me is that me and some other on alltel have radio 2.42.01.04.23 both sprint alltel and others are cdma. I have herd from you that messing with the radio can BRICK your phone. Can you take a look at it to be safe I asked him and did not get a reply. thanks man
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Wait, ok, what does he have? Is he advising people to flash a GSM radio? If so, link me please.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
He is not telling any one to change radios its a rewritten 30cpumem file to push to the phone. And he replied to change it to my radio # the thread is "DF ROM TUNER 2.2.11"
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ok, I'll take a look. Thanks for the heads up
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
He did add change radio# to the op I think its worked out now just had me worried for people with different radios or older ones.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ok cool cool, well so long as it's not bricking phones I'm ok with it :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dearmasfamily:
I have never bricked a phone.

made them faster :) but never a brick! ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Yeah, so long as a GSM/incorrect radio isn't being flashed, it's tough to brick a phone :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chromiumleaf:
For what it's worth to anyone, I have tried this new radio in the NW Houston area for the past 3 weeks or so, and the signal on both phone calls and data has been WORSE than the older radio. I switched back to the previous 2.42.01.04.27 baseband and have instantly noticed better phone signal and better data speeds. Just sharing my experience; it definitely varies for all of us.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Sorry to hear that, and yes it does, as seen by the poll at the top ;) Almost 50/50
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
Hey guys im trying to switch back to the .27 radio and it is not sticking. I have CWR and fresh along with firerats ive been fallowing the method and nothing seems to work.

Im thinking something is up with CWR bc when i go to reboot recovery after installing fresh it does not go back into reovery it trys to do a reboot of the phone. Im going to try it again with the latest CWR and see if that helps. But any other ideas will help.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Read the OP again. You can't simply flash a radio with Firerat's applied.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
yeah ive been fallowing the directions for firerats and everytime when i go to reboot recovery after flashing fresh it reboots the phone not recovery.. The newest CWR is a bust for a whole dif reason, just got 2.5 revorey back on going to keep trying to flash old radio
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ok, well if you get rid of firerat's you'll be able to flash it just fine :)

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
i think im to that point.. can you point me that process?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
That's the process described in the op ;)

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
sorry i meant how do i get rid of firerats?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ask him, I never used it, I think you have to flash a different recovery or something. Not 100% sure though

Sent from a truly Epic phone and a transparent XDA app ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
Thanks ill start reading and asking q's on that thread then comeback and try the OP method to flash .27 radio
[Hero CDMA Android Development] caliboy99:
ugh finally got it back to .27 radio.. finally what seem to work what flashing Fresh then letting that boot for the first time then flashed RA recovery then back to CW recovery (to get rid of firerats) then flashing old radio per OP instructions.. Thanks for your help again impaler
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Not a problem :) Glad you got it, let me know if you ever need anything else!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aosp:
aospMod boots at 691 so who knows
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Hmm, well he fixed it by reflashing the rom :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] rokenford:
whats the MD5 for this file?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Same as the nfinite one in his rom thread, B1C235BEF14951E5FDD44133DB95FD61

Edit: actually I think it's this one: F15CF77B1C08CFB1F357E2574F386F5F
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stealth919:
Will this work with the Liquid Sense Rom ok? I've been running it and do like it. But ever since June when we got the 2.1 update from Sprint my phone jumps tower to tower like its playing hopscotch ( before and after rooting ) every 15-20 sec. very anoying.

EDIT: Installed it, at first it still bounced around but noticed it was staying with Ev towers and not using the 1x towers which it would do about 50% of the time then all of a sudden it settled down and is holding position a lot longer so will do some comparing and report back. :cool:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AznGunner:
Not sure of the phone or data signal, but it did greatly improve my BT connection with my stereo headset!! :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Freeport36:
I'm having a problem finding a download link to Fresh rom to follow to the directions when using Firerat's partition mod... Please help! Geek for me links are down...

Thanks...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Not Sure:
I cant get data to work after flashing this radio. Tried twice per instructions.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] SirThumpaLot:
This is some dope ish! I have full bars in my house for the 1st time ever! Good lookin' out
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stealth919:
I have to agree. Now only bounces between the 2 closest towers to my house about 2.5 miles away each instead of 25miles away and 5 total. Also have 3-4 bars sitting in chair instead of 0-2 bars. And only running off of Ev now insteadof crappy 1x...Sweetness!

Lookout unlimitted data plan, I'm gonna be milkin ya dry :cool:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Cool, let me know!

Lol, glad to hear ;)

This is a radio, not a rom...........

No problem man :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Cool, glad it's working out for you :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Freeport36:
I'm aware of that. The directions for users that use Firerats say to put Fresh and the radio on the sd card. I'm using Aosp .9.8 and collins and Firerats. To follow the instructions I need a link to the Fresh rom since I always use Asop or cm... Thanks for the quick response...

P.S. Check your donations for jeff1davis1...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Ah ok, gotcha now.... well here is a link to fresh 2.4.0 :D And I did just get that, and I thank you very much for your kind donation :) I really appreciate it!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Freeport36:
I have tried that link several times to no avail... Maybe I'll go to the thread and post that the link to geek for me is down. Anybody else have a fresh zip they can send me...Please...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Oh ok, yeah it is down :o .... I used to have the file, got rid of it though.... anyone have a copy?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Not Sure:
Anyone else having problems connecting to data?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
Mine's fine..... for now anyways ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Not Sure:
I cant get the phone to connect to the mobile network. Sucks, seems like everyone else is fine.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
What's your PRL, and what rom do you run?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
I tried flashing this, doesn't seem to have worked.

Followed steps 1 through 3, for step 4 - it did not give me any confirmation. I rebooted the phone, but it did not go into recovery, straight booted into the ROM.

I am using CWM 3.0.0.5 and aospCMod.

Any ideas?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Pyr0TeK:
Are you using Firerat's MTD partitions mod?

I implemented the S-OFF method and then used the HBOOT to flash my radio when I did this.

S-OFF instructions etc:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=759955

HBOOT flash method:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=850308
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
Nope.......
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Pyr0TeK:
Updated my post above.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
Yeah, I have read about those... but, I was just being lazy and wanted to try out the flashable zip impaler posted in the OP.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Pyr0TeK:
The S-OFF and HBOOT method isn't all that hard. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
I know... it's not about hard or easy... was just being lazy... :p.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
This won't work on CWM 3, that's the problem ;)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
There you go... do you have a quick fix? If not, don't fret...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
I don't unfortunately :o Flash RA or downgrade CWM I'd say :D
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vayman:
Andy, in my sig is a link to the RA recovery that I use and it flashed this radio just fine. ;)

I'm currently on .27 due to some issues I was having w/ s-off, but when I did flash this it worked great.

Sent from my Super Hero w/ some sweet Gingerbread!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AjaxBU:
Well, I'm NW houston too and this was useful to me. I have never updated my radio and was about to. I just checked and its 2.42.01.04.27 too
[Hero CDMA Android Development] andythegreenguy:
Thanks vayman, but I ended up going S-OFF and then flashed the radio from HBOOT. I have posted the HERCIMG.zip for S-OFF here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11510848&postcount=64.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] waffle_:
EDIT: ignore this.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Brickster:
Can I use this radio with cellular south?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] theimpaler747:
I've heard it works :D