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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] KiNG OMaR:
So I tried flashing the radio and got an error...

fastboot flash radio radio.img

sending 'radio' (24832 KB)... FAILED (status malformed (1 bytes))

finished. total time: 0.002s

tried flashing the radio twice but ended up with the same error, any suggestions?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BootloopedMillennials:
Will be flashing this tomorrow.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] coredalae:
You seem to have a bad dl. Download it again and try again
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Lokosis:
fastboot flash radio c:\radio.img

sending 'radio' (24832 KB)... OKAY [ 5.162s]

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

finished. total time: 5.166s

I'm getting the same problem, I've done the gfree method, and just rechecked with gfree_verify and I'm still S-OFF, yet I get this error in Fastboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] mdayjr:
Keeping up with latest radios, this one holds signal a lot further distance to where the previous radio dropped. Data is better on other towers (carriers). Can't say much for tmo of course haha. Running rc1.

from my rooted, booted, scooted G2
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joemm:
Why not just use the bootloader method you can download the new radio (12.28h.60.140f_26.06.02.27_M) in a PC10IMG zip

FROM HERE, then place it on the root of your sd card then boot into bootloader select yes and it will flash the radio for you.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BlackElvis79:
Holds a "decent " signal, but absolutely murdered my battery. 22% after only 6 hours, whereas with the TMOUS radio I get at least 12 hours. The oh so small "gain" is not worth the oh so large "drain". Just my 2¢.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lainvalenajr:
Am getting 2-3 bars at the most... feels like its weaker
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] iamthechickengod:
Has anyone tried this on a Singapore Desire Z with the radio that came with CM6.1.1?

Sent telepathically from a Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martx:
Just flashed my g2 and this radio is rockin, find out about battery tomorrow.

sent from a rock
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
This radio was released by what cell phone provider?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] klmsu19:
Agree I found it murdered my battery too, even in a full signal "H" area. Went down 20% in a few hours not doing anything on it where on the stock radio itd maybe lost 5% tops.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Hot_Hands:
Are you guys with battery issues remembering to clear out your cache and dalvik-cache after flashing? I've actually seen better battery life vs 26.04.02.17_M2 so far.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Crey23:
Well I goota say that signal is defenitely better. I'm sitting in my Home office, where I average 2-3 bars Edge, I am getting 4 bard edge, and upto 1 bar H.

I flashed via sdcard PCIMG thorugh bootloader, and it worked great! No errors, No hicups , no nothing...flashed gfree and radio in less than 10 minutes.

On my G2 TMOUS, I am running CM7 RC1 - Nightly #2. Pershoot's kernel #29. @1209 Mhz

As for battery life....I will post back in a few days. Today I had the best battery life since I had the phone in Oct-10. I unplugged at 10 AM, and at 12:38 AM (14.5 hrs later) I still have 28% left! That is pretty amazing.

The challenge is my real office in which I get barely any signal....I have to position my phone in a rather akward position for it to get even Edge. So tomorrow I will test signal and battery life.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] turboyo:
I didnt wipe anything and Im at 1 day plus today and last charge was 16 hrs plus
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] coredalae:
Guys dont forget to give your phone some cycles to recalibrate the battery for the new radio..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lainvalenajr:
Huh... I never knew that
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Gwanatu:
Phew lots of responses...here goes...

Definitely keep me posted. Not sure if it was the area or not. Specifically I'm in Ocoee if that helps you.

This is the problem I had, but it was tanking the entire phone. It would take in upwards of 3 seconds for the screen to turn on (which is long enough for it to time out), and the whole rest of the phone was incredibly slow. It was like the phone was spending all it's time looking for a signal and couldn't allocate any CPU to anything else.

No, didn't try that, didn't realize that made a difference. I'll give it a shot again this morning since everyone has been saying this one is incredibly good.

I don't see how that would make a difference, honestly. Not being rude or anything, it just doesn't make sense to me (explain it to me if you wouldn't mind).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] coredalae:
well basically every time you change something of importance (kernel, rom, radio are the most notable ones) on your phone you're gonna take a hit on your battery for a cycle of 2 before your phone actually has a good indication of hou much a certain thing uses.

ex: i used to flash cm nigtlies every day, and after 2 weeks my battery would die after about 8h. which was very inconsistent with what i was reading from other users.

BUT, as an experiment i decided to stick to the nightly that gave me the crappy battery use for a while, and 4 days later i started having standby times of 18h, with exactly the same use.

same thing with this radio, first day i took a dip of like 4h, and now it actually performs better.

i know the explenation for this has something to do with the calibration of the battery.

just not sure exactly how it works.

anyway, experience on both the G1 and the desire Z has thought me, for effects on battery life. use it atleast a day or 2 before you say anything. (ofc extreme battery drains aside, 100% - dead in 3h can never be right :P)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] worldestroyer:
Personally seeing 1-bar increase in signal strength in crappy environments. But the most notable improvement is that there seems to be less lag in sending data.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Gwanatu:
Fair enough, I'll just take it at face value then. I tried the trick and so far it seems to be working! The phone doesn't have that weird delay, and so far battery seems normal. I'll report on battery usage further and any signal or speed improvements. Upload speed went up, and is now the same as my download speed in this area (190kb/s up and down).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
so I suggest the option in recovery(under "advanced") - "wipe battery status" has something to do with this?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Your battery stats are wiped when you do a wipe data/ factory reset.

....or when you manually clear them with the option that you speak of.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
I'm still interested in what coredalae said "recalibrate battery", if such thing exists, can we do this manually?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] steviewevie:
The ROM will automatically recalibrate itself vs the battery, i.e. "learn" the battery capacity etc, when it has no stats. So if you wipe the stats it will have to learn from scratch.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] martx:
After 4h 53min since I took the phone off the charger this morning, I'm at 81%. Few searches, gmail and work email both synced, checking twitter, and a dl from amazon. Data seems to be faster on this radio, almost a full meg down on edge, hitting 3 on avg on 4g.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Gwanatu:
So far data is awesome for me now. Clearing Dalvik Cache was the problem! I've been off the charger for about 3 hours with wireless tether on, downloading stuff and using the phone relatively heavily, and I was down to 80%. Pretty friggin awesome!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
3 Hours of Wireless Tether ? Wow, bet your gonna hit that cap pretty fast.

Downloading stuff? Who tethers their connection and then downloads stuff to their phone? Seems pretty pointless too me.

Relatively heavily? Who uses their phone heavily while they are tethering?

And finally....the fact that you said you are at 80% after 3 hours of wireless tethering tells me you are making up that percentage. But hey, A for effort.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
if i did a nandroid backup, flashed this radio file in my phone, and wanted to go back, would i have to do a full nandroid restore to put it back?

and i want to check in with the procedure...im pretty sure i read it correctly but want to verify...

boot into recovery

clear davlik cache

install zip from sd card

choose zip file manually from sd card

go to where the zip is, select it

flashing does its thing, messages scroll on screen, says complete

back up to where it says reboot the phone.

basically same procedure as installing a font pack?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Wrong, wrong and more wrong.

First, nandroid backup does NOTHING to save your old radio or anything like that, it is used to back up your ROM.

Now, for the proper flashing procedure (as mentioned in this thread many times)

The way you want to flash this .zip RADIO file is by booting into bootloader (Holding Volume Down + Power).

Once you are at the boot loader screen, it will scan your sdcard for the .zip with the new radio in it.

Once it does its thing, you reboot and you will boot into the current rom you have.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
ah ok, i think i got it now. i am bad with terminology in general, differences i tend to get lost with.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11481904&postcount=30

i read that, and if im understanding what you posted, and whats there...in bootloader it will scan specifically for the zip file called PC10IMG.zip and just do all the work on its own?

im using nightly rom cyanogen 7 #2...is this radio working and behaving well with this rom? or does the rom not even matter since the radio boots first before roms do (according to something else i read here, which is why bricked phones have to go back to HTC)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Yep you got it now.

And I personally have not flashed this as I am waiting for more testing to be done.....

There is a sticky here on XDA in the G2 And Desire Z Android Dev section that has scared me enough that I will not flash new radios or anything like that without seeing them get tested extensively....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] shellin:
I'm quite impressed so far. In my room I can get wifi calling, whereas beforehand I could barely hold a signal! Awesome!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] enserio:
can I flash this if I rooted using the old method? (i.e., not using gfree)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joemm:
Yes you can.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] enserio:
thanks joem
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
Thanks for the reply. My rooting and flashing has gone smoother on my g2 than my mt4g. The mt was my first phone tho while this phone was less stress because the mt was the only device I had and messing it up would have seriously sucked lol.

I'm still hesitant to do it but I haven't read too much bad on here yet to see the negative. Most replies have been positive so far

From my permarooted overclocked HTC G2 with cyanogen 7 nightly via XDA app
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
this radio is safe, dude, that thread said not to flash a full RUU but this is not, this is a standalone radio img extracted from the RUU

flashing this radio alone will NOT change anything to you system,data,etc. , and it WON'T make you lose the root and S-OFF

if you don't like this radio after tested it, just download a previous version and flash back.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] BootloopedMillennials:
Installed this morning. Only negative I notice is it takes a bit longer to connect to network after a reboot. So now in the status bar it doesnt show Weatherbug's temp until I manually click on it on the drop down menu, since it says could not connect to network (since it took so "long" to connect to network from reboot).
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
I just flashed it. Went flawlessly. I noticed my speed test on H next to signal was a tad higher than before for download. Upload was pretty much the same. I did 3 tests and they were all consistent which is nice. Before I would see different speeds. Phone is located in the same spot for all tests in the house.

From my permarooted overclocked HTC G2 with cyanogen 7 nightly via XDA app
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
Is the stock radio in this thread somewhere? I have been lookin around for it...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] androidtoy09:
Yeah I've been looking for the latest stock TMOUS G2 as well. Someone please point us a link please. Thanx in advance.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
Please use the search function of the forum.

anyway there are some older radio here, hope you can find yours:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=799208
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xanronin:
Flashing older radio

I have used the PC10 zip to flash the latest radio (26.06.02.27) but if I want to try flashing a different radio do I:

1) need to have one of the eng hboots listed in

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=799208​

2) do I use the method listed in the wiki?

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

3) I am running CM7 in the US (Tampa, specifically), are all the radios listed in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=799208 available or will one of them brick my phone.

My main reason is that after trying the radio out for a few days I'm only getting about a max of 3.5 Mbps with full bars on HSPA+ and I want to find a different radio for faster speeds.

Thanks for any help you can provide!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] xanronin:
Just realized that I already have engineering hboot 0.76.2000. Is there any reason to switch to one of the others mentioned above? Also does this mean I can simply fastboot flash the different radios? I would like some input on my third questions about the the different radios. Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joemm:
Im pretty sure they are all compatible with the G2, but I have only use

Vision_RADIO_12.28e.60.140f_26.04.02.17

Vision_RADIO_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26

Vision_TMOUS_RADIO_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15 (G2)

and obvioulsy this radio here 12.28h.60.140f_26.06.02.27_M which has been the best for me.

If you have the ENG Hboot, yes you can flash new radios thru fastboot. If you have problems flashing a new radio in fastboot, just PM me with the Radio verison you want an I'll make you an update PC10IMG.zip for it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Interesting. I decided to take Virtuous 1.0 for a test drive last night. I'm back to CM7 Nightlies again after restoring from backup and now my phone is back to a single vibration at boot. No more short, second vibration that seemed to appear after I flashed this radio.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] rhcp011235:
Flashed.

I get that double vibrate also odd
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
I'm not sure what made it go away...whether it was flashing the other rom or restoring from backup. I wasn't paying attention to actually know when it stopped but its gone now!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] iamthechickengod:
Just thought i'd mention that battery, wifi and phone signal works better now after flashing this radio. I came from the stock radio that came with my singapore-bought desire z

Sent telepathically from a Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] steviewevie:
My initial impressions of this new radio are very good. More time needed with it to be more specific though.

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Radioactive Death:
I'd agree with this. I've had it flashed for two days now. Slightly improved H signal at work and home. No noticable increased battery usage.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] heybobitsme:
Agreed. Flashed this a few days ago and I'm experiencing a slightly better signal. For example, in my house, with previous radios, data would switch between HSPA and Edge. Now it'll change between HSPA and 3G. I'm in a fairly old house, built in the late 1940's, so it probably has a layer of lead paint or something for the signal to go through. As far as throughput, though, it seems about the same. Testing with Speedtest app throughout the day, as well as testing while wifi tethering has shown similar speeds as previous radios. Latency is still pretty bad. I'm averaging around 700ms ping according to Speedtest.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dhkr234:
What ROM did this come from? Need the libhtc_ril.so that matches this radio for optimal function.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dhkr234:
Observations:

Speed is no different,

Signal is no different,

It is faster switching between plain old UMTS and HSPA.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jzhyok:
read the first post
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Carphedon:
The ROM is extracted from RUU_Vision_Hutch_AUS_1.85.861.3_Radio_12.28h.60.14 0f_26.06.02.27_M release.

link
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
My perception as well.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] krisko24:
I needed this!!!! I would get 1 to zero bars in my house. It was really frustrating me. Now im getting a steady 2 to 3 bars. Good enough for me so i can recieve and send text and calls.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ChronoReverse:
Doesn't seem to change much for me. I seem to have broken something else in the process though since my phone hasn't been running as smooth since the flash =(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ratchetrizzo:
I just flashed this, it seems a little better than the post ota update g2 radio.

We shall see.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] coredalae:
clear cache. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ChronoReverse:
First thing I did was clear the caches including Dalvik =/
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jr_223:
nice to have better signal after replacing stock radio
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
This radio works great. I'm posting this from a dead spot

From my permarooted overclocked HTC G2 with cyanogen 7 nightly via XDA app

EDIT: i was a traffic light and got excited that i had data service in a spot where it did not exist before. basically, at one corner i had service but it was conflicting a lot with a 4G tower and a 2G tower nearby, voice and text was always shaky in that spot and signal would always be none to 2 bars. now i got 2-4 bars and switched from H to 3G but consistently seemed to work. it pulled up a webpage slow on the initial tap on the bookmark but then showed up pretty quick after.

good radio flash! im happy so far
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] JPHCCFC:
Apologies if this has been asked but I did search, if I update via the pc image zip that is posted earlier in bootloader mode do I need eng hboot?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] androidtoy09:
Nope. That's the point of using the pc zip image.

You only need engineering hboot to flash radio via ADB.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
Not ADB... Fastboot.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] glock23c:
So, the radio comes from an Australian ROM? Or does AUS mean the US?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] iamthechickengod:
I believe this comes for Australia Hutchinson Telecoms if I am not mistaken. Can someone confirm?

Sent telepathically from a Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TheShoura:
is there any way to do this via CWM??

or can someone post instructions on how to do it via recovery? im a bit scared to do this /noob
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] lainvalenajr:
No not in cwm... am sure someone posted the pc10img.zip somewhere here
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TheShoura:
I have the pc10img.zip image for it, as well as the .img

but how do i flash it in bootloader??
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] iamthechickengod:
Just copy it to your SDcard just like a normal file then reboot your phone to bootloader by holding down the volume down button before turning it on.

Sent telepathically from a Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ImmortalZ:
Flashed this to my UK DZ. WiFi has a significant improvement. My desk at work has very weak WiFi from an AP two floors up. I had to place the phone at a particular area to get any WiFi. Now, it's rock solid no matter what, although the signal strength is still showing only one dot.

I don't have 3G, so I can't gauge changes, if any.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] turboyo:
whats the point of wiping dalvik cache?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sabez:
Do you need Hboot? Can you just have gfree?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] G1ForFun:
You do not need hboot if you use the .zip method of flashing the radio.

Grab the .zip and put it on your sdcard. Boot the phone into boot loader (Vol Down + Power) and it will automatically flash the radio.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] TheShoura:
Definitely getting better H reception before at home (kind of remote area from city) Its not consistent H, but I'm usually always looking at Edge at home.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tackleberry:
I have noticed my wifi is not as good. Tends to drop off a lot and I never see full signal at home on wifi anymore....even if I'm next to the transmitter.

From my permarooted overclocked HTC G2 with cyanogen 7 nightly via XDA app
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] buff_rob1256:
Think I might have the same problem, is it just a case of trial and error to see which is the best for your device?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] eioous:
I also have this problem, I only get three bars at home now when I used to have a full four. And I personally havent noticed any better reception with this radio...i think its gotten a little worst. On the plus side my battery is lasting longer though.
[HTC Inspire 4G] yg17:
I've had a couple calls go straight to voicemail even though I have a good signal, has anyone else noticed this happening? I'm on the Inspired ROM and rooted.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Killer Okain:
Yes, I've had it happen several times. I've got trapcall otherwise I may not even know it happened. Completely stock Inspire.
[HTC Inspire 4G] txdave:
Bump --- I had my first call to my Inspire go to voice mail, anyone else had this, and if so is there some fix? My Data is fine, even though I just swapped my Captivate sim into my Inspire and did not call ATT, hate when I have to call them for anything!
[HTC Inspire 4G] epicKA8:
i've had a few goto voicemail, i used to get this same issue sometimes with my iphone too
[Bada Software Development] sonalswaroop:
Well guys...

I am one of almost all bada phone owners who were very sad to find out out that samsung doesnt allow voip apps on its store...

But quite a time back an app called RockeTalk was released in the store which kinda seemed like a voip app... My friend and I after loads of trying and wasting our time ended up making a call to each other.... Ya that apps crap...

But is'nt this a sign showing that Samsung has allowed voip apps to the Store...

Well i actually do not know anything and this is just a speculation...

But if its actually true... we can urge a lot of companies like fring and skype to make their respective apps for bada..... or even make our own !!!

Thanks
[Bada Software Development] bangalorerohan:
Samsung Had, i repeat, had allowed VoIP apps in India during the month of April-May, It is now dis-continued, i believe? I can't even find RocketTalk on the app store!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joeygutz:
Hi all Thanks to all.... Newbie here with flashing and all so i just want to get started on the right track... being doing alot of reading just wanted to know what is the safest rom right now for the captivate....

also ive downloaded bay_wolfs AIO captivate tool ...if i use this tool i dont have to go through the the whole process of installing rom manager..zip files etc..do i if i read correctly..well thanks all in advance for the responses.....