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Root New Radio Update Only

Mikestony

Mikestony

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Been reading about the new OTA update...I will not accept it because I am rooted..however, I have read that I can just download and flash the new radio's from this update.
Is this advisable? I am still on stock rom and kernel...this is what I have now...

Android version 2.33
Radio 2.15.00.0808
Software 4.54.651.1
PRI 2.15_003
PRL 61083
HBoot 6.16.1002
S-off running Amon Ra v2.3 recovery

Would like to update to the new radio version 2.15.00.12.19
Heard of better signal/3g etc..is this true and will it mess up anything?
 
It will be fine just to do the updates,

I updated mine a few days ago using the zip file in recovery, took all of 15 minutes for me. I have seen quite a bit of improvement on 3g.

I understand times for installing may differ for everyone so make sure you have a fully charged battery, do not leave phone plugged in, charging, while doing this and NEVER pull the battery out while it is installing.
 
Sweet...I found 2 different download links...one was from xda-developer site and the other was from--dont remember.. but zip file was named.. CM-EVO_Radio-2.15.00.12.19_PRI-233_WIMAX_NV.zip?
Is this the correct download file for radio update?
 
Mikestony said:
Sweet...I found 2 different download links...one was from xda-developer site and the other was from--dont remember.. but zip file was named.. CM-EVO_Radio-2.15.00.12.19_PRI-233_WIMAX_NV.zip?
Is this the correct download file for radio update?
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Yep, that's the one I used, CM-EVO, I saw where MizzouBrent had posted it in another thread but couldn't find the link to it :o
 
disc golfin said:
It will be fine just to do the updates,

I updated mine a few days ago using the zip file in recovery, took all of 15 minutes for me. I have seen quite a bit of improvement on 3g.

I understand times for installing may differ for everyone so make sure you have a fully charged battery, do not leave phone plugged in, charging, while doing this and NEVER pull the battery out while it is installing.
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Is there something wrong with leaving the phone on the charger while doing the update? O_O
 
MizzouBrent said:
Ok I lied it only took me a few seconds. Flash this in recovery. No renaming of the file is required. Just make sure you have at least 50% battery before flashing a radio update

CM-EVO_Radio-2.15.00.12.19_PRI-2.33_WiMax_NV.zip
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That is exactly the file I downloaded...so I will flash that and see what happens.
I will nandroid first..Do I need to wipe cache/dalvik, wimax only beforehand, then flash new radio?
 
MusicJunkie said:
Is there something wrong with leaving the phone on the charger while doing the update? O_O
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I read a few threads on this and other sites before I updated that said it has caused issues in the past while updating radios and it was suggested to not have it plugged up.
 
Mikestony said:
Been reading about the new OTA update...I will not accept it because I am rooted..however, I have read that I can just download and flash the new radio's from this update.
Is this advisable? I am still on stock rom and kernel...this is what I have now...

Android version 2.33
Radio 2.15.00.0808
Software 4.54.651.1
PRI 2.15_003
PRL 61083
HBoot 6.16.1002
S-off running Amon Ra v2.3 recovery

Would like to update to the new radio version 2.15.00.12.19
Heard of better signal/3g etc..is this true and will it mess up anything?
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By the way, you can download the new, updated and rooted stock ROM and flash that to get your ROM updated. Just wipe cache and dalvik cache first. No data wipe is required sooooo you wont lose any of your apps
 
Mikestony said:
That is exactly the file I downloaded...so I will flash that and see what happens.
I will nandroid first..Do I need to wipe cache/dalvik, wimax only beforehand, then flash new radio?
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Just wipe cache and dalvik but I don't even think you need to. certainly never hurts though
 
Just a sidenote..unrelated...I still have the 2 zip files on my phone for vr-superwipe and superuser file su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed from when I originally rooted...I can delete those right?
 
MizzouBrent said:
No that I know of but your phone will not charge while in recovery
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In amon ra style recovery, you can charge in recovery. Not sure with the original amon ra recovery though;)

Mikestony said:
Just a sidenote..unrelated...I still have the 2 zip files on my phone for vr-superwipe and superuser file su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed from when I originally rooted...I can delete those right?
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Keep superwipe, it's a script to wipe data, boot, system and cache partitions.



On a side note, I did the update of my radios doing the hboot version. Updated perfectly. :D
 
andygu3 said:
In amon ra style recovery, you can charge in recovery. Not sure with the original amon ra recovery though;)



Keep superwipe, it's a script to wipe data, boot, system and cache partitions.



On a side note, I did the update of my radios doing the hboot version. Updated perfectly. :D
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ok...so, i am a little under educated when you say update of radio's using hboot...what does that mean...
EDIT-- I think I just figured it out....but does it matter that I have hboot 6.16.1002? Will it change my hboot?
 
Mikestony said:
ok...so, i am a little under educated when you say update of radio's using hboot...what does that mean...
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There are 2 ways of doing the update of the radios. One is flashing the zip file in recovery and the other way is downloading the proper PC36IMG zip file and renaming the zip to PC36IMG.zip and put it on the root of the sdcard(no folders). Then booting to hboot and the phone will automatically recognize the PC36IMG.zip and will update the radios.

Either way is fine, I chose to do it the hboot way;)
 
Gotcha..so, in hboot, you have to rename the file but in recovery you dont?
And my hboot will remain as 6.16.1002 after update? And it wont unroot me?
 
Mikestony said:
Gotcha..so, in hboot, you have to rename the file but in recovery you dont?
And my hboot will remain as 6.16.1002 after update? And it wont unroot me?
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Correct, in recovery, you will navigate to the zip file and flash it while for hboot to recognize the zip file, it has to be in PC36IMG.zip form.

Your hboot will stay the same and it will not unroot you.
 
My experience with the new radios and PRI has been pretty poor actually. I don't think the new radios like my phone without the stock ROM and kernel. Where can I go to roll the radio and PRI back to the previous one? Thanks
 
MusicJunkie said:
My experience with the new radios and PRI has been pretty poor actually. I don't think the new radios like my phone without the stock ROM and kernel. Where can I go to roll the radio and PRI back to the previous one? Thanks
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Calkulin has a thread on xda that has all versions of everything
 
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