[4 December] The Ultimate Radio Thread

PJ6363 · May 29, 2008

L26 v3 ROM, Radio 1.65.20.29

Hello all,
Firstly, this is a great thread...Radios are what this device is all about: phone reception, roaming, GPS locks....should be made sticky and presered!!

Would love to know if there is a utility that we could use as a standard measure for the Radios, then benchmarking and comparisons would be easier.

FYI, My Radio is 1.65.20.29 and I am findng that Reception in North-East Scotland is excellent (5 bars) 5/5, however it takes a "while" to get a GPS fix (tomtom) 3/5. Rarely if ever get 3G from BT in central Aberdeen.....

Please keep this thread alive...and big thanks to the the initiators!!

dani31 · May 30, 2008

hard reset after rom update?

But is a hard reset also recomanded after flashing a new radio?

10x

Mikulec · May 30, 2008

dani31 said:
But is a hard reset also recomanded after flashing a new radio?

10x

no ..........

joda77 · May 30, 2008

joda77 said:
Live in the Netherlands and use T-mobile. Had some problems with GPS fix which took lots of minutes to get something of a signal using the latest Dutty WM6.1 rom/radio.

Tested the 1.65.16.25 radio but had no signal on GPS.

Now trying Radio 1.64.08.21...

Tried TOMTOM and see lots of signals. Wow. Haven't seen this for a while. Still not very fast, took about a minute for a fix.

Field testing from now...

Been using GPS today, quite good reception. Some area's with a bit low perceptiob but no loss of signal.

Sadly the Radio 1.64.08.21 gives me lot's of battery usage, much more than with Dutty's original rom (don't know the radio version )

So, I will change it soon to another one....

theclear · May 30, 2008

joda77 said:
Been using GPS today, quite good reception. Some area's with a bit low perceptiob but no loss of signal.

Sadly the Radio 1.64.08.21 gives me lot's of battery usage, much more than with Dutty's original rom (don't know the radio version )

So, I will change it soon to another one....

Hi, i also live in nederland and im using 1.65.16.25 and i have no problems with gps , and im loving the reception , perfomance of this in combination with Igo 8 and Duttys hybrid V2

AllTheWay · May 31, 2008

Ok guys I have updated the radio thread.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or things that might make it easier to understand.

Thanks for all the help especially from hjlow and P1Tater

P1Tater · May 31, 2008

AllTheWay said:
Ok guys I have updated the radio thread.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or things that might make it easier to understand.

Thanks for all the help especially from hjlow and P1Tater

Not a problem at all friend. Glad to help. Very nice thread.

PostDeals · Jun 1, 2008

So far what is the best radio for AT&T Tilt, I live in Southeast and am running Death v3.5.

P1Tater · Jun 2, 2008

PostDeals said:
So far what is the best radio for AT&T Tilt, I live in Southeast and am running Death v3.5.

If you are truly in atlanta, you are real close to my area. Actually, about 3 hrs away. I'd try 20.29 radio. Personally I dont like any of the 1.65 radios, but that one worked best for me on the east coast when I was using 1.65 radios.

gasman858 · Jun 2, 2008

I echo ATW/P1Tater/et.al. sentiments - I'm in San Diego -all the 1.65.x.x radios eat battery faster than Spurs lost to Lakers...
I really wanted to try the highly touted 1.58.16.27 but couldn't get 3G/H to work with :[May 19] L26_3.53.502.0_(AT&T_Source)_wm6.1_pro_v1 despite multiple tweaks & reloads.
The best radio I have used as far as signal & batt life was the now vintage1.27.14.09 with any of the appropriate ROMS.

ceevee369 · Jun 2, 2008

Radios tested on Death V3.5

1.65.20.29 is still the best and reccomended for Asia (Oceania (whk?)

+ Battery life
+ GPS (first fix ,cold and warm start)
+ # of bars on 3G reception

- None.

PS. All Death V1, v2, V3, V3.5 are compliant with this Radio.

AllTheWay · Jun 2, 2008

gasman858 said:
I echo ATW/P1Tater/et.al. sentiments - I'm in San Diego -all the 1.65.x.x radios eat battery faster than Spurs lost to Lakers...

Ouch and I'm a Spurs fan too!

LOL

Go Lakers, beat Boston

jockyw2001 · Jun 2, 2008

A new sort of "Radio from Hell" emerged for the Diamond. See here. It combats rom updating by preventing us from running a SSPL.

A clear advice to all is: always make sure you have HardSPL installed and your device is security unlocked before installing a new radio !!

bengalih · Jun 2, 2008

Hopefully this will get seen in this thread...I didn't want to start a new thread.

Basically, as many of you may be aware I had been doing alot of testing with various SPLs. During this time I had my back cover removed so that I could take out my battery easily if need be.

It seems that since this time my phone's reception has been very poor. Usually at home I get 1 or 2 bars showing up and crackly reception in many of my rooms.

Since this time it seems that I have had 0 bars and often my calls won't connect if if an incoming call comes in it will be disconnected.

I have tried both the latest official ATT 19213 build and radio, and the latest official HTC ROM and radio and seem to get the same results.

I don't know that all this SPL flashing could have done it...I really doubt that, but I wonder if I could have touched something on the back with the cover removed that messed up my antenna?

I think I might try to flash the original shipped ROM and radio. This could all be just false observation, but I really feel that since this time my radio performance is very very poor.

Also, what is strange is that when I have 0 bars and I ask MSVC "What is my signal strength" is said "30%" and as soon as it said 30% it jumped to having 2 bars... is it somehow not refreshing it's signal status on the today screen?

any words of wisdom appreciated.

thx.

AllTheWay · Jun 2, 2008

bengalih said:
any words of wisdom appreciated.

thx.

I would flash back to the WM6 Officially released ROM from AT&T w/ the 1.27.14.09 radio. See if you still have the same problem.

If that seems to give you better results I would then try using a ROM that works with 1.64.xx.xx and 1.58.xx.xx radios. I know myself and other AT&T users have had much better success with the 1.64.xx.xx and 1.58.xx.xx radio's, especially the NIKI 1.58.16.27 radio.

jockyw2001 said:
A new sort of "Radio from Hell" emerged for the Diamond. See here. It combats rom updating by preventing us from running a SSPL.

A clear advice to all is: always make sure you have HardSPL installed and your device is security unlocked before installing a new radio !!

Thanks for the heads up Jocky.

I will add this to the 1st post.

bengalih · Jun 2, 2008

AllTheWay said:
I would flash back to the WM6 Officially released ROM from AT&T w/ the 1.27.14.09 radio. See if you still have the same problem.

If that seems to give you better results I would then try using a ROM that works with 1.64.xx.xx and 1.58.xx.xx radios. I know myself and other AT&T users have had much better success with the 1.64.xx.xx and 1.58.xx.xx radio's, especially the NIKI 1.58.16.27 radio.

Thanks for the heads up Jocky.

I will add this to the 1st post.

Thanks, I'll try those ideas. I have been flashing the phone so much that I haven't really gotten to fully test any one radio. My test after flashing a ROM (with radio or not) was generally just to look at my bars while sitting here on my couch. Like I said my reception in my place isn't that good...but I generally would get 2 -3 bars. Now it seems I'm not getting any and having more calls cut out then usual.

I'm still interested if I could have damaged anything with the back cover off. I would have blamed it on the motorcycle crash, except I was seeing this behavior for a day and a half before that.

AllTheWay · Jun 2, 2008

bengalih said:
Thanks, I'll try those ideas. I have been flashing the phone so much that I haven't really gotten to fully test any one radio. My test after flashing a ROM (with radio or not) was generally just to look at my bars while sitting here on my couch. Like I said my reception in my place isn't that good...but I generally would get 2 -3 bars. Now it seems I'm not getting any and having more calls cut out then usual.

I'm still interested if I could have damaged anything with the back cover off. I would have blamed it on the motorcycle crash, except I was seeing this behavior for a day and a half before that.

I was wondering your wreck had something to do with your phone not performing to it's optimum. I am truly sorry to hear about your crash and I wish you a speedy recovery. Worse comes to worse if your device is still under warranty. Plug that bad boy into your pc. Fire up mtty and enter task 2a and get a replacement phone, that is of course if you are still under your 1 year warranty from AT&T. That's what I would do.

AT&T is pretty fast about getting you a replacement phone too. I ordered a replacement phone on a Thursday afternoon and it was at my house Friday morning.

bengalih · Jun 2, 2008

AllTheWay said:
I was wondering your wreck had something to do with your phone not performing to it's optimum. I am truly sorry to hear about your crash and I wish you a speedy recovery. Worse comes to worse if your device is still under warranty. Plug that bad boy into your pc. Fire up mtty and enter task 2a and get a replacement phone, that is of course if you are still under your 1 year warranty from AT&T. That's what I would do. AT&T is pretty fast about getting you a replacement phone too. I ordered a replacement phone on a Thursday afternoon and it was at my house Friday morning.

Yeah...no the issue was before the accident. I haven't used mtty yet, what does task 2a do for me? The only thing I was worried about (since I know how to revert ROM and SPL) was that I heard that you can't security re-lock your phone? Do you know if that's the case?

I probably will get a replacement from AT&T, just worried about getting a refurb that's worse than what I have.

I'll test it out over the next week and decide what I want to do.

I actually have a spare one still in the box due to some shipping mixups that I tried to resolve with the vendor multiple times. I'm not opening it yet because they still might want it back. But in a month or two I am going to claim it as my spare.

P1Tater · Jun 2, 2008

bengalih said:
Yeah...no the issue was before the accident. I haven't used mtty yet, what does task 2a do for me?

It makes a nice shiny brick for warranty return.

bengalih · Jun 2, 2008

P1Tater said:
It makes a nice shiny brick for warranty return.

Ahhh. Good to know. I assume there is a way to recover from it? If you could link me to the best post about how to use mtty that would be great.

I think however that AT&T will probably just take the phone back if I tell them I am having reception issues that weren't present a week ago.

In good conscious I really don't think that SPL flashing should permanently effect my signal. Nor do I think I should be able to damage my antenna simply by taking my back cover off for a few hours. Therefore I truly think that if something is wrong it is not related to these things, so I don't have a problem just reporting the facts.

If they are incooperative however, I guess 2a it is

thx

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