Help Needed- Which is the latest Radio version for Vox (in India)..more questions

[asmarttechie]

Hi everyone..

I use Vox with Airtel prepaid in India..

My phone is one year old now.. still under warranty..

I am facing a serious problem with calls as many incoming calls are not being notified on the phone.. though the caller says that he hears the call ringing..

This way i'm losing many calls..

There is a Thread in the forum about this problem but nobody came up with a good solution..

They said in that Thread that only thing that might work may be radio version change..

Now my questions-

1. Does anyone have a better solution to the call drop problem?

2. I am using the original ROM that came with the phone.. so can i change radio without affecting the original ROM.. will i lose my warranty?

3. Where can i get the latest radio?

4. Whats the procedure to change it?

THANKS EVERYONE.. AWAITING REPLY

[hashtowent]

lots of the radio roms can be found on xda ftp :)

you wont loose any data ;) (but be sure your phone is fully charged!)

i dont know about warranty^^

its same prcedure like flashing a normal rom!

maybe uspl (first threat) is nessecary this coudl cause loose of waranty!

[parthabhatta]

So you are the guy who has shown us the way for surfing via Airtel NOP. Thanks for that. And using UCWEB 6.3 java browser may allow you to remove NOP download limitation.
Now about your query. I think there is nothing regarding radio ver for India. I think the latest ver is 4.1.13.60 which I am using at present. By default my VOX came with previous ver 4.1.13.54. I have also tried the 4.1.13.47. All three are good and I could not notice any significant difference amongst them. All are available for download _ see wiki.
Reagarding flashing - the process is same as flashing OS ROMS and it shouldnot affect your installed apps - but then keeping a backup is always good. It will need unlocking your phone and also doing USPL which will void the warranty. But I dont think thats a problem. If anything goes wromg reflashing with shipped ROM should solve the problem before taking it to service centre.

[parthabhatta]

One more thing when there is a question of warranty why not flash with original shipped ROM - I think it will not require unlocking and doing USPL. In the process your phone may also get rectified.

[scanman1]

Hi everyone..

I use Vox with Airtel prepaid in India..

My phone is one year old now.. still under warranty..

I am facing a serious problem with calls as many incoming calls are not being notified on the phone.. though the caller says that he hears the call ringing..

This way i'm losing many calls..

There is a Thread in the forum about this problem but nobody came up with a good solution..

They said in that Thread that only thing that might work may be radio version change..

Now my questions-

1. Does anyone have a better solution to the call drop problem?

2. I am using the original ROM that came with the phone.. so can i change radio without affecting the original ROM.. will i lose my warranty?

3. Where can i get the latest radio?

4. Whats the procedure to change it?

THANKS EVERYONE.. AWAITING REPLY

hi there. i had a similar problem. what software and third party programs r u running? sometimes when the base memory dips below say 8 mb, this can happen bcos a program called connmgr.exe gets disabled. so what happens is, the call is completed, but u cant either pick up the phone while ringing,. at best it shows up as a missed call notification. i dont think this is an issue with ur radio at all. my advice is, shut down most running programs. use a hibernate function that is available on software such as smart toolkit ( or sk tools lite ). this should solve ur problem. if not, pm me with a list of whatever 3rd party software u have.
:cool:

[Addicted2xda]

Have you tried hard reset? A lot of times, some or the other intalled application causes problems, a hard reset cleans up such mess, but cleans up all your data and app from the phone memory as well :D.

[scanman1]

what is ur radio version by the way? mines a pretty old one, and works perfectly ok. as addicted2xda says, try a hard reset if u have no other choice. im convincedthat it is an issue f free memory only. happened to me lots of times...have changed my rom now to fireburned's lite rom. seems to be pretty good so far!

[indtram]

If you are on Airtel Pre Paid...this will continue to haunt you........ try as many ROM's and Radio Versions....... NO USE

I faced the same problem with Airtel Pre Paid in New Delhi..... I have tried all the Radio Versions available on the Net and as many as I could lay my hands on from elsewhere

Ultimate Solution.........

DUMPED the VOX till the time I am on Airtel Pre Paid and bought a Samsung......

Neither Airtel nor HTC Service Center has any solution to the problem..... Though HTC Service Center guys are dumbest ass**** you will ever find....

This problem was raised by me ages back in this forum and modaco.... was suggested some solutions but nothing works......

the choice was either continue to loose business or change the Handset..... I chose the latter....

best of luck

BTW if you find any solution....lemme know too

[scanman1]

hey i was on airtel prepaid in madras, had no problems whatsoever. the great bsnl gave me hell earlier. but i had another handset then. dont be in a hurry to dump ur phone....just try it out. i dont know abt the signal quality in delhi though. on roaming it was pretty ok to me

[scanman1]

else change over to postpaid. seems to make quite a difference. they do have a few good schemes. the postpaid scheme is supposed to come with a 64 k sim card which is faster and seems to have better signal reception. maybe that'll solve ur problem.

[indtram]

Hi...

I was never in hurry to dump the phone as I have been a HTC user thru'out....starting with SPV aka Canary...and so on....

I even changed the SIM to 64K ...

Tried every conceivable solution...... scanned the Phone for virus/ worms, tried all ROM furnished by the Learned here in the Forum.... Tried the Shipped WWE ROM with the original Radio version.....Tried all Radio versions including the Arabic Radio, Shipped Radio versions....

but the result was the same...

as for the signal quality..... am at same office and same factory as I was when I was using Canary, or other HTC phones and now Samsung.... so wudnt blame signal strength or location for the issue...

again.... if you find a solution lemme know too as the VOX is being used as her play mobile by my 7 yr old daughter at the moment.

thanxxx

BTW... try the Bluetooth Registry patch from HTC site and see if it helps your cause...because HTC claims that if you are using Bluetooth there are chances of Call drop. This is a suggestion from my side as I use Bluetooth Hands Free all the time and tried the Patch on my VOX but still the problem remained .... see if it helps ya out.

[scanman1]

Hi...

I was never in hurry to dump the phone as I have been a HTC user thru'out....starting with SPV aka Canary...and so on....

I even changed the SIM to 64K ...

Tried every conceivable solution...... scanned the Phone for virus/ worms, tried all ROM furnished by the Learned here in the Forum.... Tried the Shipped WWE ROM with the original Radio version.....Tried all Radio versions including the Arabic Radio, Shipped Radio versions....

but the result was the same...

as for the signal quality..... am at same office and same factory as I was when I was using Canary, or other HTC phones and now Samsung.... so wudnt blame signal strength or location for the issue...

again.... if you find a solution lemme know too as the VOX is being used as her play mobile by my 7 yr old daughter at the moment.

thanxxx

BTW... try the Bluetooth Registry patch from HTC site and see if it helps your cause...because HTC claims that if you are using Bluetooth there are chances of Call drop. This is a suggestion from my side as I use Bluetooth Hands Free all the time and tried the Patch on my VOX but still the problem remained .... see if it helps ya out.

HMMM.....man, i pity ur fate!:eek: but did u try shutting down all running programs? again, what third party stuff did u have running? as i said earlier, a program called connmgr.exe shuts down or malfunctions at memory levels <8mb. send me a list of what third party stuff u had. maybe theres something in that!

[scanman1]

mines very old radio and rom. never had this problem, and in madras the signal per se anywhere is lousy:mad:. so maybe it isnt an issue with the firmware at all. what rom were u using last? and wht radio version?

[indtram]

Last ROM on my Phone:

Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (Build 20282.1.3.6) by frauhottelmann

Last Radio Version Tried:

4.1.13.47_02.98.90

RIL Version

2.002

The Signal strength shown on the phone has NO Issues whatsoever....

No other software running on the device other than the ones started by the frau's ROM.... was aware of the fact that some third party softwares could create issues so never bothered loading them unless got the phone working in stable mode for a week or so......

thanxxx