Ok here's the deal, when I flashed my phone to the newest 3.3 VZW ROM locked up my phone and upgraded my BL from 1.02 to 1.04 now with that said, I couldnt flash any ROMs into it because of this so GguruUSA suggested and helped me revert into BL 1.02, everything good so far, but when trying o flash radio, RADIO WON'T FLASH, yes that's it radio is not fried or anything, it just wont flash, GguruUSA says he talked to colonel and he has no clue about what to do, both ran out of ideas, i flashed bootloaders like crazy, that did work, but radio just wont flash, we even used a Verizon WM6 RUU that has disabled many checks, and still is a no-no, and no flashing the stock 3.3 ROM doesn't help out, it shows up error 100, well.. that's all hope someone has any information or anything, please please!
P.S.- We had been working on this for over 4 hours!
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hello, i have read and read all the wiki's, but ive not been able to fix my phone.
i use a cingular 8525 (herm100) phone, and cannot install any rom on the phone. I have two versions of the At&t ROM with radio's and tried them both, but they all stop at 11-12 %.
i have tried usind the sd-card method, and it does not pass the "GSM - " portion.
i guess the radio is not working or is corrupt or something..
my phone is now in bootloader and just says
HERM100
IPL-1.04
HERM100
SPL-2.03
please any help will be appreciated. thank you!!!!
wow.. can anyone even say "sorry"
geez.. 35 views, and not even one reply, or consolation message, or anything??
I would update your copy of Windows Mobile Device Center first (especially if you're using Vista). Flash SPL and the radio, then flash any rom to see what happens. I mean really at this point, it's already a brick... try some crazy stuff, you can't hurt it anymore than it already is. I did the same thing to mine a couple of months ago, and after trying these things, I got it working again without a problem.
update to hard spl ver.7.
try to flash
a). stock rom (sometimes this works)
b). radio only rom.
Also make sure you unlock your phone with this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665
Hope this helps...
ultramag69 said:
update to hard spl ver.7.
try to flash
a). stock rom (sometimes this works)
b). radio only rom.
Also make sure you unlock your phone with this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293665
Hope this helps...
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Just to make sure I understand, the unlocker you linked is to SIM and CID unlock, correct ?? And then on top of that - you should update to HardSpl also ??
I have an 8525 on its way that I will be looking to upgrade - just want to make sure I am understanding correctly.
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geez.. 35 views, and not even one reply, or consolation message, or anything??
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sorry for the late reply
i have been dealing with this for 3 days and finally managed to run official AT&T rom for 4 days wout hard reset.
there is a method dumping an official himalaya rom to hermes. az pof explained in one of his posts all commands except radio commands are different in himalaya so it is safe to use dumping method.
it basically deletes everything in radio rom so you can install official rom.
PS: at first install official rom stucked %12 i said damn but in second try %15 third try success
i am at work now i dont have the link of method but try googling or searching my posts (not too much )
i hope it solves your problem
bartan
thanks guys, i've tried some things
i have tried using Hard SPL v.7 it does not work.
i have tried using official cingular roms too. stops at 11% no success.
i have tried upgraing radio only, stops a 0% and restarts the device.
i have also used mtty, with some text inputs, no success
i have even tried selling the brick on e-bay .... as you can guess no success.!
bill_in_mtl, sorry bout lateness of my reply ( net problems), yes you do unlock sim and cid. Sim unlock means you can use ANY simcard from any carrier and Cid unlock means you can flash ANY hermes rom (both official or cooked). It needs to be unlocked first as the spl is downgraded to 1.40 (I think) and you should REALLY be running with 2.10 olipro (hard SPL ver 7). I wouldnt bother upgrading to Hard SPL ver 9 a this is essentially only ver 7 with some neat features for developers but it does throw up an error message when you finish flashing a rom(no problems t just feels like it).
Hard SPL WON'T stop you from bricking your phone BUT it will make it easier to recover.
roomtek*8525, sorry to hear that but have you tried flashing with a cooked rom? This unfortunately wont fix the phone part but you will have a working PDA...If you've tried MTTY with info 8 and task 2a commands then thats the best to hope for, Sorry bout that..
Hello,
I have a problem with my G1.
I got my G1 maybe a month ago. It had firmware 1.1 and radio module 1.22.12.29. Back then I did not realize it was a radio image compatible with firmware 1.0 as far as I gather from the HTC website.
At first, I did not intend to root it at all, a decision later I would regret. Well, it worked OK, only it was not updated. I was told I would receive the update over-the-air in 4 days. At first they said it would be to 1.5, but it turned out my operator started to upgrade straight to 1.6.
And so I did receive it in 4 days and the problems began.
Basically, the voice quality is so bad that half of what I say is ununderstandable. My voice sounds metalic and I cannot have a coherent conversation over the phone. It is a business phone, so you can imagine it is rather annoying when I have to struggle to be understood by clients.
Ok, so I checked the bootloader for the radio image version and I found out it was still version 1.22.12.29. As per the HTC website I should have 2.22.19.26I. So, obviously the radio firmware was not updated as it should be as per the HTC website. Thus, it seems the reason voice quality is so poor is the outdated radio firmware.
Since I did not plan to return my new phone to my operator (I had no time for it), I decided to root the phone and update the radio firmware myself. It seemed simple enough and I use Unix and Linux since 15 years, so it seemed it would pose no problem.
Quickly I learned that rooting 1.6 is not so simple. One-click method fails. Only goldcard worked and after a few days of struggle I finally got back to firmware RC7 and rooted the device.
Right after I updated the recovery image to CM 1.4, but before I flashed the CM ROM I attempted to update the radio firmware as was suggested by one tutorial I followed as well as the CM website.
Well, it all went smooth. After the update I pressed Home and Back, it rebooted, back to recovery CM1.4, one more time Home and Back and I was back to the working phone. I checked the radio firmware and lo and behold, it was still version 1.22.12.29. No errors, nothing, smooth update process and no result. I repeated it at least 5 times to no avail.
I decided to install CM 4.2.7.1 ROM and try to update the radio then. Before the CM ROM I updated the SPL to HardSPL with success to have fastboot and went to install CM. It went smooth and I booted into this new rooted G1 ROM with ease.
Again, I attempted to update the radio firmware from recovery CM1.4 and again no results.
So, I am back to square one. I have again firmware 1.6 only from CM instead of stock HTC, and I cannot use this phone for calling.
So, summarizing, I got the phone with firmware 1.1, but radio firmware from 1.0. Why it was not updated together with the system I do not know. Then I got an update to 1.6 and the radio firmware also did not upgrade. Then I went back to RC7 (firmware 1.0), rooted the phone, attempted the radio firmware update before installing CM ROM and failed. And finally, I installed HardSPL + HTC 1.6 recovery (as suggested on the CM website) + CM ROM and again failed to update the radio firmware to 2.22.19.26I. The update process is going without any errors. Verification, extracting, installation of radio image all go OK, the phone reboots but no radio updated.
Anybody any idea why it is like this? Why this phone refuses to update the radio from HTC website.
Any suggestions?
Oliwer
PS. One more thing, I was contemplating updating the radio via fastboot, but it seems after reading HTC website that fastboot is only for system and recovery image flashing. The radio has to go first adn from recovery console. Am I right on this?
I too have a problem updating to the 26i version. however i rooted at 1.5 using the one click root method and ive since switched from cyan 1.4 recovery and cyan roms to amon recovery and dwang roms. No matter which recovery i use, the 26 update flashes without an error but shows up as the same radio ive had all along (1.22.14.11) i made a thread about it but noone seems to have an answer. Sorry I couldnt help, but at least bumped up your thread and maybe someone can help us.
speedysilwady said:
I too have a problem updating to the 26i version. however i rooted at 1.5 using the one click root method and ive since switched from cyan 1.4 recovery and cyan roms to amon recovery and dwang roms. No matter which recovery i use, the 26 update flashes without an error but shows up as the same radio ive had all along (1.22.14.11) i made a thread about it but noone seems to have an answer. Sorry I couldnt help, but at least bumped up your thread and maybe someone can help us.
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Thanks for sharing!
At least I know I am not alone here with this problem.
Since it's Christmas and I have some more time, I decided to do a Nandroid backup and wipe my phone back to the original rom with 1.0 firmware (RC7).
I used my goldcard and I flashed it in a few minutes. I logged back into 1.0 firmware with the original bootloader and recovery console.
Next I put everything on my goldcard, flashed the recovery CM1.4 from the terminal, went to the bootloader, flashed update.zip with the newest radio 2.x from HTC, everything went smooth. Reboot and again NO change of the firmware. Tried a few more times flash the radio and HardSPL together to no avail. I restored my backup and found myself back to square one.
One think I noticed, and I wonder if you get the same, is that when I flash the radio, the phone reboots back to the recovery console and shows "Formating Cache..." message. It does not tell me anything like Please reboot, just this message. Meanwhile I can move the cursor up and down the recovery menu, so the phone has not hang up. It just sits at the recovery until I reboot it. Once I waited 30 minutes to see if it reboots itself and it does not. So, I press Home+Back and then it reboots fully and after loging in I check the radio and NO change.
So, I wonder if your phone does the same?
Oliwer
PS.
T-Mobile G1 - w/ ROOT
DREA110 PVT 32B
HardSPL 10.95.3000
Recovery image: HTC Android 1.6 (from HTC website)
Class IV 8GB SD Card w/ Ext 4 Partition and Swap partition
That's a huge wall of text, and it's Christmas so I'm a little merry
When flashing the radio image w/ Cy's recovery you must flash as an update.zip using alt-s, press whatever key you need to press to confirm and reboot using home+back. If you use flash any zip or use the trackball to reboot the radio image (or SPL) will not reboot in the required way to complete installation.
AdrianK said:
When flashing the radio image w/ Cy's recovery you must flash as an update.zip using alt-s, press whatever key you need to press to confirm and reboot using home+back. If you use flash any zip or use the trackball to reboot the radio image (or SPL) will not reboot in the required way to complete installation.
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I tried all possible ways. Just a few minutes ago I went to CM1.4 recovery, used the update from update.zip, pressed Home+Back, rebooted back to recovery console, pressed Home+Back again, booted to CM4.2.10, punched the PIN code, checked the About Phone section and I am still with 1.22.x radio firmware.
This phone simply refuses to update the firmware in any known way.
So, my plan now is to un-root it back to the state I got it 2 months ago and return it to the operator and request upgrade of radio, since Donut with an old radio is basically useless. People simply do not understand half of what I say even if I speak slowly and quietly.
Cheers,
Oliwer
You have to press
Cam+power and it will show radio
....
In settings that radio has nothing to do with one installed...Do you know that the radio does?
It allows custom roms like cyan to be installed while keeping root access. The rom allows some tmo apps like account to still be used here in the states.
yes oliwer i get the same formatting cache message but nothing else happens. i tried in cyans recovery and amons recovery using only button shortcuts and not the trackball. i always named the radio update.zip, but still no luck. Im not sure if the 26i radio requires a certain version before it can upgrade, like maybe i have to upgrade to another radio before i can get to 26i? im not quite sure...ive run out of ideas on what to do. I dont have a warranty or anything on my g1. does the fact im using a donut rom on a cupcake radio have anything to do with it? if i had a cupcake rom and upgraded the radio to 26i from there would it work? i know these might sound like dumb ideas but im still relatively new to the scene and im running out of ideas as to why this is happening or why i cant solve it..
bump? anyone have a solution for us? or advice?
i just realized that i had android 1.1 with the 1.22.14.11 radio when i first got my phone, when t-mobile gave me the 1.5 update, i was still stuck on the same radio for some reason. After that I used the one click method to root and ive been on dwang donut rom ever since with the same dated radio...Ive tried using cyans recovery to flash and still no luck, no error, it says its updated but when i check the baseband or stock spl its still the same radio. I never went for a danger spl when i rooted because i was afraid to brick so i cant fastboot a radio update. I asked in another topic if it was possible to use the "flash_image" command in terminal to flash the radio but i dnt think itll work and i dont wanna risk it. If anyone has any advice or a possible solution please keep us updated.
Thank you!
Turn your phone off, hold the camera button down, and power on your phone.
What do you see?
each time before and after the flashing of the radio using cyans or amons recovery image id get the same rainbow screen saying
DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.14.11
Serial0
so im still stuck on the Android 1.1 radio.
speedysilwady said:
yes oliwer i get the same formatting cache message but nothing else happens. i tried in cyans recovery and amons recovery using only button shortcuts and not the trackball. i always named the radio update.zip, but still no luck. Im not sure if the 26i radio requires a certain version before it can upgrade, like maybe i have to upgrade to another radio before i can get to 26i? im not quite sure...ive run out of ideas on what to do. I dont have a warranty or anything on my g1. does the fact im using a donut rom on a cupcake radio have anything to do with it? if i had a cupcake rom and upgraded the radio to 26i from there would it work? i know these might sound like dumb ideas but im still relatively new to the scene and im running out of ideas as to why this is happening or why i cant solve it..
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I do not know, really, why the radio refuses to upgrade. Since my last message I have read tons of posts on this issue and nearly ALL people can upgrade the radio firmware easily, just like the SPL. Somehow, I can upgrade the SPL to whatever I want, but not the radio. Very strange indeed and no luck so far.
Oliwer
speedysilwady said:
bump? anyone have a solution for us? or advice?
i just realized that i had android 1.1 with the 1.22.14.11 radio when i first got my phone, when t-mobile gave me the 1.5 update, i was still stuck on the same radio for some reason.
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Exactly the same in my case. Except they upgraded straight to 1.6. Before the upgrade I have 1.1 firmaware and quality of voice was perfect. After the upgrade things went south.
speedysilwady said:
After that I used the one click method to root and ive been on dwang donut rom ever since with the same dated radio...Ive tried using cyans recovery to flash and still no luck, no error, it says its updated but when i check the baseband or stock spl its still the same radio.
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Same thing with me.
speedysilwady said:
I never went for a danger spl when i rooted because i was afraid to brick so i cant fastboot a radio update.
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Well, I installed HardSPL and it worked despite the old radio. HardSPL offers FASTBOOT and I use it at times. This is safe, at least for me.
speedysilwady said:
I asked in another topic if it was possible to use the "flash_image" command in terminal to flash the radio but i dnt think itll work and i dont wanna risk it.
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Well, I did, but it does not work since flash_image updates partitions and G1 does not have radio partition. So, when you try to update the radio.img it tells you no radio partition. It is only possible for Roger G1 since it has radio partition unlike all other G1s and there you could upgrade the radio with flash_image.
speedysilwady said:
If anyone has any advice or a possible solution please keep us updated.
Thank you!
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Yeap! I just practised how to un-root the phone straight to 1.6 with the original SPL and recovery and I was able to restore my phone to the state before rooting and I plan to give it back to my operator under warranty and ask to get this radio fixed. I will do it next week. I will report if the authorized service will be able to upgrade the radio.
Oliwer
It was working and then all of a sudden I could not get a data connection..after a soft reset I could not get the phone out of flight mode..it would turn on wifi and blutooth but not data or phone radio. It acted like it could not read the SIM card. I could not even pull up my contacts list stored on the SIM card. I put the SIM in another phone and everything works.
I had no event that would have damaged the phone (drop etc..) so is it possible its a software issue? I did reflash a few ROM's but none would get it to work.
Has anyone had this happen to them? should I try to take the phone apart?
I love this phone
trying to reflash radio rom
OK I got an idea to try and reflash the radio ROM (1.58) in hopes that it would clear up my issue. I'm having a problem with this ..it will hang at the 0% progress (shown on the computer and the phone) and after a time error out. I then have to reflash the OS ROM and start all over...I have done this a few time with that same result. I even tried to use the older 1.57 radio ROM with the same results.
Anyone have any ideas on how i can get the radio flash to work?
Update
it seems like any flashing that tries to acces the radio portion of the ROM will not work..I get a error code 262 - loss of communication every time i try and flash any radio rom, I even tried to run the unlocker because one of the steps is to patch the radio rom ..but still get the same error..only this time it will go all the way to 99% bfr i get the error.
After all that I still have to reflash a OS ROM (currently 6.1 RO one) and everything still works great except for I cant turn on my radio for the phone and data.
Anyone have any idea how i can overcome this?
One idea i had was to roll back to the spl 1.2 ROM's but wanted to get some feedback bfr I do that..if it would even be worth trying.
thanks
Update 2
I decided to try and run the SPL downgrader. I flashed the ROM to prep ..all went OK ..then tried to run the SPLDowngrader.exe and when it got to the point where i see the progress in % it said:
Found SPL v1.20
Download SPL before v3.03
is not allowed!
Now I dont know what to do..please any help from anyone??
I was running the 3.5 SPL 6.1 RO ROM ..and never downgraded til now. Wes it because i was trying to run the unlocker earlier that may have messed something up?
Right now when i put it in boot loader (no choice its just that way after my failed attempt to downgrade) it shows:
ATHE100
IPL-v2.02
ATHE100 MFG
SPL-v3.50. OliNex
I may be able to reflash a 3.50 SPL ROM and get it back up and running but want to hold off to see if anyone knows more about how to fix it.
rpmbnsf said:
I decided to try and run the SPL downgrader. I flashed the ROM to prep ..all went OK ..then tried to run the SPLDowngrader.exe and when it got to the point where i see the progress in % it said:
Found SPL v1.20
Download SPL before v3.03
is not allowed!
Now I dont know what to do..please any help from anyone??
I was running the 3.5 SPL 6.1 RO ROM ..and never downgraded til now. Wes it because i was trying to run the unlocker earlier that may have messed something up?
Right now when i put it in boot loader (no choice its just that way after my failed attempt to downgrade) it shows:
ATHE100
IPL-v2.02
ATHE100 MFG
SPL-v3.50. OliNex
I may be able to reflash a 3.50 SPL ROM and get it back up and running but want to hold off to see if anyone knows more about how to fix it.
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Hi, sorry to hear of your problem
have you tried flashing radio 1.57 from sd card?
after this I would try flashing a 3.5 rom
Good luck
Thanks for the suggestion
I tried that and it started OK and even tried to load ..the progress bar showed about 1/8th of it loaded then it just stops...the phone stays that way saying "In Progress.." but will not load any more. I pulled out the battery and put on a 3.5 ROM to flash from the SD card..it works no problem..I even can flash a 1.2 ROM for some reason and it works no problem...but I cant flash the radio ROM (tried 1.58 and 1.57) they will start and load only a little way then just stop.
Anyone have any other ideas? Is there a way to run the unlocker from the SD card? I feel like i'm getting further using that approach than with activesync.
Thanks for the help so far!
rpmbnsf said:
I tried that and it started OK and even tried to load ..the progress bar showed about 1/8th of it loaded then it just stops...the phone stays that way saying "In Progress.." but will not load any more. I pulled out the battery and put on a 3.5 ROM to flash from the SD card..it works no problem..I even can flash a 1.2 ROM for some reason and it works no problem...but I cant flash the radio ROM (tried 1.58 and 1.57) they will start and load only a little way then just stop.
Anyone have any other ideas? Is there a way to run the unlocker from the SD card? I feel like i'm getting further using that approach than with activesync.
Thanks for the help so far!
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Try flashing taxists rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396165
this has radio 1.58 included so may be an upgrade path for you
Hi Guys, Need some help.
Have just flashed my ROM to Duttys new one, Hard SPL'd it first, which worked, now showing SPL-1.42.HSPL
Then I flashed to Duttys Rom, all went ok and completed sucessfully. Hard Reses afterwards, but now it won't boot up. It gets to preparing windows for first time use then resets and just hangs, any ideas any one?
Can you get into BootLoader Mode?
Maybe try to flash a shipped ROM first and after that retry the custom ROM
You probably forgot to flash the updated radio?
Thanks for the replies, I can get into the bootloader, so will revert back to the shipped ROM hopefully.
I thought the Radio was included in the Dutty ROM so didn't need flashing seperatly?
Most cooked ROMs don't have a radio built in. You have to identify the correct radio then flash that separately. This is becoming even more important with the new builds that require the latest radio's to work properly.
I can't understand why people don't take the time to research flashing properly before jumping in.
WB
Ok, I have found out that although it said it includes the radio, it doesn't, so there lies my problem, thanks guys. Off to find the Radio now.
my phone is dead, wont turn on after i flashed the newst radio from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563757.
just as a warning for u....
Did you by any chance take out the battery during the flashing process?
It's normal for phone to reboot two times during radio flashing and to show weird image of a box with an exclamation mark.
finally a development related thread... NOT!
xlxl said:
my phone is dead, wont turn on after i flashed the newst radio from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563757.
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What did you do wrong? - because it isn't the file. Hundreds if not thousands of people have also flashed it and not had a problem...
Did you flash over a CDMA?
there is no problem with the radio, i have the newest vertion.
Those radio's are specific for GSM HERO.
In case you haven't read
"Below are links to the latest known HTC Hero GSM Radio ROM's in signed update.zip format.
Again, ONLY for GSM Hero's not CDMA"
it is not the first time i flash a phone.
got my hero flashed with all modaco rom version, then i chanced to vanillia 5.4 and when back to modaco 3.2 because of the bad speed of vanillia 5.4.
but after restore modaco 3.2 with nanodroid, the gps didnt work, even after several reboots, so i try to flash the radio again with the newest version.
everything seems right, but after the 2. reboot the phone is just DEAD.
even the LED dont glow if the phone is plugged.
so i dont know what was wrong, but the phone is definitive DEAD.
is there something i can try?
Nothing I think. Happened to me. But mine was repaired under warranty because they thought the mainboard was broken. So you may be lucky.
Mine was due to pulling battery during second stage of flash. the flashing guides did not explain the full procedure properly and I thought it was stuck trying to reboot and pulled battery.