Please forgive my complete and utter ignorance....But
Can someone help me with updating my radios.
Do I need to root? anything special??
I am just about to throw this phone in the garbage due to the horrible reception on both Wifi and 3G. 4G LTE does not even exist on Long Island.
Please, any help to make this phone work. I'm about to switch back to my stock EVO....LOL
Thanks
Steve
Updating your radio CAN (but in all likelihood NOT) help with your reception. What it usually does (if anything) is stabilize fluctuations that could potentially cause drops. That said, Sprint and all their upgrades have been wreaking havoc on users and the community is buzzing with people trying to update radios, changing ROMS, changing phones, etc. and everyone is still having issues.
However, of all companies that offer network extender devices, Sprint is one of the best at giving them out to subs that need them for free. If your reception is poor, it's basically an ethernet based device that plugs into your router and creates cell reception for ya via the interwebz, most anyone who has one will tell you that they work pretty damn well.
If Sprint won't give you one for free, and you really want to update your radio, then you can update the radio via fastboot but if you've never really done all this before, I'd hit up the rooting thread and unlock your bootloader and get a custom recovery in there. There's fewer commands to deal with and it'll overall be an easier update, though again, really doubt it will help you that much but YMMV as radios are touchy community subjects.
