Canadian carriers different ICS baseband implications for custom roms...

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Like many Canadians today, I was happy to finally receive my official update to ICS. Actually, I was happier the day before when I learned that Google had released source code for ICS on our phone. Like many, I had intended to jump into the custom rom scene after the marvelous Devs in these forums have had a chance to cook up roms in a fully stocked kitchen.

Should Canadians be concerned that the official baseband, modems, kernals for ICS bear different identifiers than the AT&T ones?

I have always been concerned that there doesn't seem to be a dedicated forum for Canadian carrier Galaxy Notes. Until now, I have bought into the idea that all North American Galaxy Notes are the same hardware. This diversion in modem naming has me concerned.

I would eventually like my Bell Mobility Note to have a rom that has all the S pen functionality of stock with some of the upgraded Voice features from the S3. Most importantly, I need it to work flawlessly with the LTE network in the Toronto area.

I had high hopes for team perfections rom but recent developments have me wondering if it's future development will be AT&T centric....

I'm on a rogers note in Vancouver and i've run many different roms with at&t modems fine. It comes down to your APN settings but i'm currently running the June 28th version and it's been very solid. I've tried 3 different at&t modems over the last month and had no issues with speed on LTE.

Originally Posted by bklam

I'm on a rogers note in Vancouver and i've run many different roms with at&t modems fine. It comes down to your APN settings but i'm currently running the June 28th version and it's been very solid. I've tried 3 different at&t modems over the last month and had no issues with speed on LTE.

Thanks for the reply... Do you find that you have to set the APN settings each time you flash a new rom?

I'm sure it's too early for someone to have had a look yet, but is there a way for Devs to see what differences there are, if any, between the Canadian carrier modem and the US ones?

I too am concerned. My biggest issue is wanting to use bells mobiletv app. All custom roms do not allow the app to work properly. My apn settings are direct to bell. So for now i ride my newly loaded stock until something magical comes about!



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Originally Posted by bklam

I'm on a rogers note in Vancouver and i've run many different roms with at&t modems fine. It comes down to your APN settings. . .

Carrier tweaks are nice but usually there's a work around within a few days of a new rom.

Modem-shmodem it's an SGS modem not an at&t modem and it is interchangable with all galaxy-s phones with the same radio chip.

Well, I think we have a bigger problem with the changes made to the bootloader on the Canadian ICS update. It seems that getting root and CWM is proving more problematic for us than US users because the recovery module keeps being over written each time we boot..

Originally Posted by crutzulee

Well, I think we have a bigger problem with the changes made to the bootloader on the Canadian ICS update. It seems that getting root and CWM is proving more problematic for us than US users because the recovery module keeps being over written each time we boot..

That's exactly my case. Can't flash CWM it won't stick after reverting back to stock Bell and updating to ICS.

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Had no problems with the Rogers update. CWM took and SU installed the very first time. Have had many reboots and all is fine.