[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] malloy0:
Holy Crap!

CRAZY UPDATE...I apologize for the length of this message, just bypass it should it be too long winded, frankly it is likely more therapy for me than anything, maybe though it may be of some help?

Ok...so HOLY CRAP!!!

Talk about fear, after a radio flash and 3 reboots my DZ screen froze at the "white" HTC screen and..wait, wait, wait, nothing, nada...HOLY CRAP!

So I as noted in the above post I THOUGHT I flashed a new radio....NOT! I did however get a GPS lock, with the old / current radio, not sure why or what, I am still using 12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M and not 26.08.04.16 and locked but my 3G is painfully slow on downloads from the market. I not have this issue on the Virtuous ROM 2.2.1 v1.02.

Anyway, come to find out that I following the various guide but after a couple checks at BOOTLOADER I have the same old radio, so I tride to use fastboot.exe only to try and get this

fastboot flash radio radio.img

sending 'radio' (24832 KB)... OKAY

writing 'radio'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

After doing some searching, to much! I ahve real work to do...I found a post

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/13593-cannot-flashing-the-radio/

that says that I have not HBOOTed which is the cause of the

writing 'radio'... FAILED (remote: not allowed) error

So after looking at these links

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=TMobile_G2:_Rooting#Installing_ClockworkMod_Recovery_and_Flashing_a_Radio_.26_CyanogenMod

I downloaded Engineering HBoot vision.hboot-0.84.2000.zip even though I have 0.85.xxxx (or something like this)

Followed the instructions to adb the file, goto term emulator, yada, yada and waa-laa!! Got this

fastboot flash radio radio.img

sending 'radio' (24832 KB)... OKAY

writing 'radio' (24832 KB)... OKAY

So, figured in like flynn. NOT!!!

Went to reboot to see if the radio stuck --NOPE! After reboots, yes 3 reboots ---my DZ screen froze at the "white" HTC picture and...wait, wait, wait, nothing, nada...HOLY CRAP! With perspiration running down the crack of my "xss", I pulled my SDCard, loaded a fresh ROM onto it, got into Bootloader and using CWM loaded Virtuous v1.02 Sense 2.2.1 ROM and while there...

I decided to check out the market app downloads and my GPS lock, not any trouble what-so-ever!! What the heck?? After this, I restored my MIUI OsiMood nandroid backup and am not back in business,

still with using 12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M radio and

still issues with the market but not so much with my GPS, trust me I do not get it either??

Anyway, I will stick with MIUI_1.4.15_OsiMood_v1.1 until the orange thing can get to blue via a theme, but the mark apps download on 3G stinks for me and yes I have check the APN settings, but they are more difficult to complete in MIUI than in a Sense ROM.

And as of now, yes HBOOT is 0.84.2000, thus downgraded from 0.85.xxx something, my radio is STILL the 12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M and would love to flash a new one, but I am still sweating after trying to get 26.08.04.16 to flash, so for now forget-abou-tit.

If anyone made it this far into my rant and boring post, I hope you are laughing and also that maybe it will be of some help.

Meanwhile, perhaps you tech guys have ideas for me on the "right" HBOOT, a good radio for my A7275 HTC DZ on AT&T, 'cause, I like this ROM.

Thank you all and to all good...

malloy0