[RADIO COLLECTION] - - [UPDATE 06-17-10] Rhodium_W Radio ROMS [Mirrors Included]

[mjodotcom]

Anyone living in the Madison, WI area had any luck with these different radios? On stock sprint ATM. Thanks!

[PhantomApolyon]

Originally Posted by froader

Well, each person might get different results. It is a newer radio and should be better. Best thing is to just try it out. Dont quote me here, but I assume that on sprint this would substitute the hacked for US networks stock radio.

I'll give it a shot and see whats what.

[RED_RAIN]

Can someone explain the technical aspects of these radios?

I'm on Sprint yet I see people flashing other carrier's radios such as the new Verizon one.

Is it that you would get access to other towers or is it that the signal will be picked up better? I'm reading that it could actually go worse and that's why you need to try out different ones.

I guess on my current stock Sprint radio I have no issues for where I live but going out to my friends in the stick, he is on the border of EV or 1X and he some times get dropped cause as it switches inbetween. Would a new radio help that?

What bad can come with switching radios? Seems a bit more risky that potential added performance at least for my needs if my signal is fine.

[drizztzou]

I tried verion new radio but it is terribe on my sprint TP2.

[t0mmyr]

im on sprint and i want to test the new verizon radio, im already unlocked to flash roms which i have been doing for a while but havent flashed my radio yet, is there something else i need to unlock before attempting to flash my radio or am i good to go with just a hspl cmonex 1.00?

[1999TL]

Originally Posted by t0mmyr

im on sprint and i want to test the new verizon radio, im already unlocked to flash roms which i have been doing for a while but havent flashed my radio yet, is there something else i need to unlock before attempting to flash my radio or am i good to go with just a hspl cmonex 1.00?

You're good Tommy.

[2kmy477]

Originally Posted by drizztzou

I tried verion new radio but it is terribe on my sprint TP2.

I have a Sprint TP2,after I flashed the new radio,my phone became so lagging after a couple of hours of usage,had to soft reset every few hours,I'm running Sprint stock rom,what kind of problem were you running into?

[quid246]

Originally Posted by RED_RAIN

Is it that you would get access to other towers or is it that the signal will be picked up better? I'm reading that it could actually go worse and that's why you need to try out different ones.

Other towers? No. If you are on Sprint, you access Sprint towers and ditto for VZW and the others.

What changes in the radio is the DSP functions (Digital Signal Processing) that are used to decode the the incoming signal and separate signal from noise, error correction and so forth.

These radios also probably play with amplification and signal strength, which can affect battery life if they are cranked up by the engineers who write the radios.

I'm not an RF engineer... but this is my best understanding of the radios.

[corey1138]

I am running the new VZW radio and all seems good!

I still show that I am on PRI 1.65_002 was the PRI updated in this last update? I read it is up to PRI: 1.94_00? Is there a way to update the PRI only?

[richc3]

On Telus (Canada).

Fired up a few and while signal strength had a visual improvement, I had more "errors" in terms of sending texts, etc. Could of been coincidental, but interesting nonetheless.