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Root Flashing Baseband (Radios)

gully52

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OK Bear with me here... long time lurker, very sporadic poster, but needing some major help with a problem Pantech Breakout:

I have a functional Pantech Breakout (PHONE 1) that refuses to take OTA updates. I had it rooted, with CWM Recovery installed, but have never installed a custom ROM. I have reverted back to stock recovery and stock ROM via mtmichaelson's and other's utilities here on this forum. I did purchase this phone on eBay, so the previous owner may very well have had a custom ROM on it at some point in the past.
This has left me with the following Baseband and Software versions:

PHONE 1 Baseband - M8995VWBB46F.BB
PHONE 1 Software - S8995VWB922F.BB

I also have a completely stock never-rooted Pantech Breakout (PHONE 2) with a broken digitizer that I've made a full Nandroid backup from. The software versions on this phone are newer:

PHONE 2 Baseband - M8995VWC624F.BB
PHONE 2 Software - S8995VWC624F.BB

I have been able to restore the nandroid backup from PHONE 2 onto PHONE 1. Now, PHONE 1 boots up, but does not detect my SIM Card as being installed, even though it's there. Also, the Baseband version is still the older one - M8995VWBB46F.BB... even though the software version has been updated to S8995VWC624F.BB on PHONE 1.

Is there any way possible to pull the baseband (radios) off of PHONE 2 and flash them to PHONE 1??? I have a feeling that this is the sole reason that the SIM card is not detected.

If I'm able to do this, PHONE 1 will be at the most recent software version, and will hopefully be able to be completely stock again.

Other potential needs:
-Stock recovery img - PHONE 2 has stock recovery, but how do I backup that stock recovery without installing CWM recovery over top of it to be able to use Nandroid???
 
You can put into fastboot and manually install the recovery that you want. 1.)power device off. 2.) Plug into computer 3.) Hold the power button and the back button while in splash screen should boot into fastboot.
Once it is on fastboot upon command prompt (if on windows) and cd to wherever you have the fastboot drivers at then type

~fastboot devices (to check if it is connected)
~fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img
~fastboot reboot
I how this helps..
FYI I got this off of the cyanogenmod wiki
 
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