[GUIDE] Enable China Telecom LTE by modifying modem partitions

[Icarus_Radio]

Thanks for your post, this is the best way I can find to enable China Telecom LTE on Pixel.

Based on your post, I did some further checks, and found a way to do this without erasing data partition, and even no need to root.
Successfully tested on my Pixel running Android P.

Same as your method, we will change modem.img and copy mcfg_sw.mbn from 1+3T's image.
From the aosp source code, we can see that the init.radio.sh will copy configs from modem.img if the versions in ver_info.txt is changed.
So we can just simply change the version to another value, and it will copy the new configs.

The following are the detailed steps, we need a Linux environment to mount modem.img:
1. extract modem.img from Pixel factory image.

2. extract NO-HLOS.bin from 1+ 3T factory image (download from oneplus).

3. In order to add new files into modem.img, first need to expand its size:

dd if=/dev/zero of=modem.img bs=4096 count=100 conv=notrunc oflag=append

This command appends about 400KB to the end of the modem.img.
The total size of CT configs in 1+ 3T is about 230KB, but you can change to a larger count if you need to add more files.

4. mount modem.img:

mkdir modem
sudo mount -o loop modem.img modem

5. mount NO-HLOS.bin:

mkdir oneplus
sudo mount -o loop NO-HLOS.bin oneplus

6. create a "china" folder, since we only copy the CT configs, and skip CMCC and CU configs.

sudo mkdir modem/modem_pr/mcfg/configs/mcfg_sw/generic/china/

7. copy CT configs from oneplus:

sudo cp -r oneplus/image/modem_pr/mcfg/configs/mcfg_sw/generic/china/ct modem/modem_pr/mcfg/configs/mcfg_sw/generic/china/

8. change the ver_info.txt:

sudo vim modem/modem_pr/verinfo/ver_info.txt

It is enough to only change the last digit.

9. umount the images:

sync
umount modem
umount oneplus

10. flash the modem.img:

fastboot flash modem_a modem.img
fastboot flash modem_b modem.img
fastboot reboot

After reboot, Pixel will be able to use China Telecom LTE.

Hi, I found out that Google removed modem.img in android 10 factory images. How can we change it?

 

[SGH-i200]

Location of Carrierconfig.apk in Android 10?

Carrierconfig.apk res xml cant be modified, can it?

I saw that it contains bools for vowifi being enabled or not

Where is the CarrierConfig.apk located? On device and in the factory image also would be interesting.

I want to find the source of the XML files (Pixel 2 IMS config) located in:
/data/user_de/0/com.android.phone/files/*.xml

If you want to edit the carrier xml file, add
<boolean name="carrier_wfc_supports_wifi_only_bool" value="true" />
<boolean name="carrier_wfc_ims_available_bool" value="true" />

 

[Xdevillived666]

Where is the CarrierConfig.apk located? On device and in the factory image also would be interesting.

I want to find the source of the XML files (Pixel 2 IMS config) located in:
/data/user_de/0/com.android.phone/files/*.xml

"I want to find the source of the XML files (Pixel 2 IMS config) located in:
/data/user_de/0/com.android.phone/files/*.xml"

What would you like to try to do?