[HOW-TO] Flash the latest radio for your One S

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There is a guide on how to flash a new radio on the One S, but its outdated and obsolete.

While we still dont have S-OFF yet, there is a trick that lets you flash radio images.

Requirements.
The latest TWRP recovery image. Available here.

Grab the latest US or EU radio here and copy it to your SD Card. (adb push filename.zip /sdcard/radio.zip) Click the changelog-button to see which radio's are US and EU.

Lets get flashing

Reboot your device into the bootloader.

adb reboot bootloader

Use fastboot to boot up into recovery.

fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-ville.img

You will boot directly into recovery from the recovery image, and no restrictions apply. Now simply flash the radio.zip file that you pushed over earlier, and you're all set!

Enjoy!

Credits to xkonni for the tip!

Is it really bad if I flash a EU radio on my TMOBUS device? I have done so 24hrs ago and notice very fast speeds and good signal strength. I don't get why there is a difference.

Originally Posted by Closed Source Project

Is it really bad if I flash a EU radio on my TMOBUS device? I have done so 24hrs ago and notice very fast speeds and good signal strength. I don't get why there is a difference.

i would like to know the answer to this also

No it works great on my tmobile one s no problems here

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river

Originally Posted by Untouchab1e

There is a guide on how to flash a new radio on the One S, but its outdated and obsolete.

While we still dont have S-OFF yet, there is a trick that lets you flash radio images.

Requirements.
The latest clockwork recovery image. Available here. Make sure you get the latest version for the Ville. (released on or after 29-apr-2012).

Grab the latest US or EU radio here and copy it to your SD Card. (adb push filename.zip /sdcard/radio.zip) Click the changelog-button to see which radio's are US and EU.

Lets get flashing

Reboot your device into the bootloader.

adb reboot bootloader

Use fastboot to boot up into recovery.

fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-ville.img

You will boot directly into recovery from the recovery image, and no restrictions apply. Now simply flash the radio.zip file that you pushed over earlier, and you're all set!

Enjoy!

Credits to xkonni for the tip!

got the same result by just rebooting into bootloader, then choosing fastboot>recovery.....then chose radio.zip i placed on "sdcard"...never having to plug phone into PC

On leedroid without the radio it gets about 12mb but with this radio i get 10mb, when i load the same site, this radio loads about 2seconds faster..tmobUS thanx btw

I too just flashed the .zip from Clockwork Recovery from my T-Mobile US phone for the EU radio. Working just fine.

I'm getting an error when I enter stock recovery that it can't find /sdcard cause the file doesn't exist... a little help please

Originally Posted by ralph96gt

I'm getting an error when I enter stock recovery that it can't find /sdcard cause the file doesn't exist... a little help please

Had the exact same problem as you.

I just flashed the recovery with CWM recovery image. The one in this topic didn't work for me cause it wouldn't mount the /sdcard either. I used a different version.

Then I just installed the radio.zip from this topic.

So if I have the last CWM, just I have to put the zip to the SD, and flash it from recovery?

Edit: The radio I have now is the 0.15.31501S.19_2_10.13.31501S.06L