[HOW-TO]Flash T-Mobile USA Radio In Recovery

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Becool0130

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HOW TO Flash T-Mobile USA Radio Via Recovery (Needs More Work/Tweaking)

All credit goes to he_stheone64 and his thread located here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2245615

Credit: The War Horse - for telling me the obvious, how to get the radio was listed in the thread above all along :p

I apologize this is my first stab at development and for any errors you may or may not run into. This is fully expected to work with he_stheone64 method above as the only thing I changed was the radio.img.

This thread taught me how to extract the T-mobile USA radio from my HTC One. Now its time for those in the community who really want to have T-mobile 3G speeds to test this out! :D

This is for you and you deserve it. As I promised with no more words....


This is how you can upgrade your RADIO without S-Off

1. Download Radio update.zip below and copy to your SD


2. Only an optional step for those, who want to have a Radio Firmware backup just in case

a) Connect your device via USB in recovery and open cmd in fastboot folder:

adb shell
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p31 of=/sdcard/radio_firmware.img

You will now have current Radio on SD as radio_firmware.img

Expected output:

PHP Code:
Code: 
~ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p31 of=/sdcard/radio_firmware.img
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p31 of=/sdcard/radio_firmware.img
153601+0 records in
153601+0 records out
78643712 bytes (75.0MB) copied, 11.826523 seconds, 5.4MB/s
3. Now just flash the Radio update.zip as usual in recovery, reboot your device and enjoy the T-mobile radio


In case you want / need to restore your current Radio backup:

Either you adjust updater script to radio_recovery.img or just do it via adb in recovery:

dd if=/sdcard/radio_firmware.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p31

Download Radio from:
https://mega.co.nz/#!d9wz0QDA!DF1QoGnkPuDt3ttjpGz1xSqh9U0ZDUtEpPG15vA_61E
MD5: 7BACD1B72F53859A52A3EB6CB3FB5433
 
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Becool0130

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cellneuron said:
anybody tried? willit unlock 1700 aws?

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Give it a try. International radios have been flashed using this same tried and true method listed in the first post. All I did was add the t-mobile radio and viola! At this point everything is safe and its just the question will the developer/ATT phone let us call using T-mobile 3G :)

If it doesn't then please let us know and flash your original radios back from the back up in step 2.
 
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Becool0130 said:
Give it a try. International radios have been flashed using this same tried and true method listed in the first post. All I did was add the t-mobile radio and viola! At this point everything is safe and its just the question will the developer/ATT phone let us call using T-mobile 3G :)

If it doesn't then please let us know and flash your original radios back from the back up in step 2.
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Id love to try it on my dev edition, but i havent switched to tmobile yet. hopefully later this week, and my area has LTE and is refarmed. Id like to see a radio that enables all frequencies, but i dont think that its possbile. at least not yet.
 
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illestfob

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I just flashed it. copied the old radio img, then flashed the zip file.

But I don't notice any difference in radio reception. Network connection changes from E to 3G to H to no service every few minutes just as before I flashed it...

I live in a refarmed area, but my G2 would always have a solid 4G connection in my room. Not to mention the service bars are between 2-3 on the One. I usually get full reception here.
 
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illestfob said:
I just flashed it. copied the old radio img, then flashed the zip file.

But I don't notice any difference in radio reception. Network connection changes from E to 3G to H to no service every few minutes just as before I flashed it...

I live in a refarmed area, but my G2 would always have a solid 4G connection in my room. Not to mention the service bars are between 2-3 on the One. I usually get full reception here.
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I don't want to flash it as I man return the device (for a TMO version, or maybe an S4/other), but I can confirm the same behavior with the stock radio:

1900 refarmed. Gets "H" sometimes, but never for long. Mostly switches between "E" and "3G". Old TMO phone had solid "H" always. My bars are about the same as before... usually... right now my phone is only showing 2 bars and "G" which must be slower than Edge I guess.
 
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cellneuron

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you may get same connection with tmo htc one in your area.

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dksxmks

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I'm on Tmo with a 32gb unlocked One, so I gave it a shot. I have a SGS2 as well so I know I get HSPA+ here and not Edge, which is what I'm getting now on my One.

I backed up the radio, unlocked the bootloader, flashed recovery, flashed supersu, flashed Tmo radio, did factory reset. No luck, still getting Edge on my One. :(
 
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cellneuron

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dksxmks said:
I'm on Tmo with a 32gb unlocked One, so I gave it a shot. I have a SGS2 as well so I know I get HSPA+ here and not Edge, which is what I'm getting now on my One.

I backed up the radio, unlocked the bootloader, flashed recovery, flashed supersu, flashed Tmo radio, did factory reset. No luck, still getting Edge on my One. :(
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so it means either there is no 1700 band in unlocked version or need other tricks to unlock it.

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xcesivemastub8ah

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rpmccormick said:
I don't want to flash it as I man return the device (for a TMO version, or maybe an S4/other), but I can confirm the same behavior with the stock radio:

1900 refarmed. Gets "H" sometimes, but never for long. Mostly switches between "E" and "3G". Old TMO phone had solid "H" always. My bars are about the same as before... usually... right now my phone is only showing 2 bars and "G" which must be slower than Edge I guess.
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Keeping the solid "H" is just a tmobile software trick. Like all carriers they "tweak" their signal icons and bars to keep the icon on while in range of hspa+ but most, if not all, unlocked phones will show "3g" until you start transferring data such as opening a web page or syncing weather or mail, etc. then it'll show the "H". If youre showing "3g" then youre in 1900mhz "4g" range.
As for you only getting "G" it really sucks but you seem to be getting crappy signal.
 
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xcesivemastub8ah said:
Keeping the solid "H" is just a tmobile software trick. Like all carriers they "tweak" their signal icons and bars to keep the icon on while in range of hspa+ but most, if not all, unlocked phones will show "3g" until you start transferring data such as opening a web page or syncing weather or mail, etc. then it'll show the "H". If youre showing "3g" then youre in 1900mhz "4g" range.
As for you only getting "G" it really sucks but you seem to be getting crappy signal.
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This actually makes sense

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Becool0130

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illestfob said:
I just flashed it. copied the old radio img, then flashed the zip file.

But I don't notice any difference in radio reception. Network connection changes from E to 3G to H to no service every few minutes just as before I flashed it...

I live in a refarmed area, but my G2 would always have a solid 4G connection in my room. Not to mention the service bars are between 2-3 on the One. I usually get full reception here.
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Could you please post a picture or tell us what your baseband currently is? Just want to be sure the T-mobile radio did indeed flash over correctly.
settings>about>software information>More>Baseband version

should be:4A.14.3250.15_10.34.1150.02L
 
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dksxmks

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Becool0130 said:
Could you please post a picture or tell us what your baseband currently is? Just want to be sure the T-mobile radio did indeed flash over correctly.
settings>about>software information>More>Baseband version

should be:4A.14.3250.15_10.34.1150.02L
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That is what I have after flashing the Tmo Radio.
 
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