radio downgrading ?

[jt.one]

i tried to make a thread in the Q&A section but it has not been appearing.. twice!


my question -

currently on 5.08 radio and want to experiement/try out 5.12 radio
if i do not like it and want to go back to 5.08 can i simply just fastboot flash the 5.08 radio back?

or is there additional steps i must take to downgrade the radio?
if i am unable to downgrade back to 5.08 i dont think i want to flash 5.12 tbh....



thanks in advance!

 

[Jack_R1]

You can flash whichever radio you want. There is no "upgrade" or "downgrade", the system doesn't check versions.

 

[cpm]

Funny you mention that. I went from 5.12 back to 5.08 a few days ago. I had a small issue with wifi not reconnecting, and had to disable/enable wifi to reconnect each time.

This is on MIUI GB. Radio 5.08 doesn't experience this issue for me.

Interesting to hear if you experience this too on 5.12

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA

 

[Jack_R1]

WiFi has nothing to do with radio, so whatever it was that you did in addition to flashing radio - like rebooting - more likely cured your phone.

 

[soloviyko]

Flashing an unsigned radio will brick your phone RIGHT?
I had been flashing ROMs, Recoveries, HBOOTs but haven't tried Radios
I want to experiment just don't want to have a BRICK

 

[baseballfanz]

Flashing an unsigned radio will brick your phone RIGHT?
I had been flashing ROMs, Recoveries, HBOOTs but haven't tried Radios
I want to experiment just don't want to have a BRICK

That's why it's best to use fastboot to flash the radio.

 

[GuestX0019]

baseballfanz is correct

do it thru fastboot, if you are not familiar with fastboot, become familiar before you do it

nandroid

get the radio images from the wiki

i never saw any diff btw .08 and .12

put the radio.img in your adb/fastboot folder on pc, usually tools or platform-tools

fastboot flash radio radio.img where radio.img is exact name of the image file

i check this by right clicking the on the radio.img i put in the tools folder and clicking on properties. it will show you the exact name and i copy/paste it into command window

 

[cpm]

WiFi has nothing to do with radio, so whatever it was that you did in addition to flashing radio - like rebooting - more likely cured your phone.

I had already tried multiple reboots, fix permissions etc to no avail. It was only when I changed radio that wifi reconnect worked.

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA

 

[CrustyMcLovin]

Anyone else have an opinion on .08 versus .12?

i never saw any diff btw .08 and .12

 

[baseballfanz]

Anyone else have an opinion on .08 versus .12?

No differences IMO. I was on 5.12 for a long time but went with 5.08 as that's the "official" radio version that came out with GB. Performance wise no different.