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Ok... I have seen some of the guys on here post up that this radio upgrade won't do anything for us at all... I have seen the terms placebo effect, etc. NOW, while I understand that a new radio driver won't make towers just magically spring out of the ground - I think it alters the way the PRL file is read. My reasoning is conclusive in my testing. Currently I am sitting in a service plaza (rest area) right about mile marker 53 on the West Virginia Turnpike (Interstate 77). I drive truck for a living, and I tend to drive through here A LOT. Every trip I have ever made through here, I lost ALL service - Sprint and Roaming included - between mile marker 73 to somewhere around the 40 mile marker. Nearly 35 miles of my trip is dead silent with nary a peep from a tower roaming or otherwise. Last week sometime I flashed the radio back to the 1.27 version because I had originally attributed some stability issues to the new radio (later found out it was something different...) Anywho. Today as I was driving along the Turnpike and I noticed that just like usual, my signal was gone at the 73MM. After 20 miles of nothing I got the idea to stop and reflash the 1.41 radio just for giggles. I expected no gain from it at all really since I could never get ANY service through here. Before I flashed, there was no service at all. After the flash back to 1.41 - I had full service. It is roaming service mind you, but it is FULL SERVICE. The debug menu shows the RX Power at (-65db - -73db) and the Ec/Io is at a nearly steady 7-8.
WOW, I figured something was screwy there. So I flashed back to 1.27 and confirmed no service again. Back to 1.41 and all is well! So though this radio update may just be driver tweaks to the cell chip, it obviously does something else or there is no way I should have went from nothing to all like that. Like I said above, maybe it just reads the PRL file differently or something but it really does work. Matter of fact I am online right now through whoever's service I am using ATM tethered to my laptop. Current SID# is 4379 ( I will look it up later to figure out what service I am on...)
Anyway, just my two cents. Perhaps somebody with a better background in cell tech can step up and explain this little wonder.
Later
~Krayzie
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