Originally Posted by Nachobass25

I'm petty uninformed on these radios aswell. A further non-vague explanation or a link to some radio literature would be greatly appreciated. Can you tell me which radios are an improvement on the stock with the stock rom?


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Flashing different radios can help with battery life, connectivity (faster download/upload speeds) and lots of other stuff... simply google "why flash different radio android" and you should have plenty of reading and technicals.

It's essentially the firmware for...well...the radio hardware. It controls signaling, power, power management, and other things. It's not so much a driver as it is the code that would go on the hardware itself (firmware). It's kinda like the rom that would go in, say, your home router, to put it primitively.

Each version of a radio contains code that can fix problems/defects, as well as configuration tweaks that can affect signal quality, strength, and battery life, as has been explained.

Thanks for all the explanation guys, I definitely appreciate the clarification. Now the question remains, has anyone tested these radios on Verizons US network to see which ones yield better connectivity/battery-life/download speeds?

As far as I know there is a very elite few that have this capability as the unlock is yet to be released.

So it looks like we won't be able to flash radios like we did on the Inc1?

Place .zip on SD root, and just boot into hboot?

I believe this requires it be signed. Hence needing S-OFF and eng hboot.

really looking forward to S-OFF specifically for the radio. My reception sucks on my DI2 compared to the DI1.

Only S-OFF is required, like I started in the OP. And AlphaRev X now supports the Inc2 & will give you S-OFF access on the phone. With S-OFF, the P___IMG.zips do not need to be signed.

0.86.50.0123 seems to disable radio completely, even though I get full bars. No data or voice.

The 1.09.01.0622 radio from the 2.18.605.3 RUU is now available in the OP.