Verizon Radio Rom problems

[ImCoKeMaN]

Warning: at this time do not use the VZW radio_.nbf listed in my section of the FTP. It has currently caused at least one phone radio to be unusable. I am starting this thread to track this issue and hope to find a fix.

I will try to keep this first post up to date once we make more progress.


Current info:
the radio rom appeard to have flashed correctly on at least one phone (took 5 mins and progress was shown), but then it still reported no radio. subsequent attempts with the install error out at 0%.

This has appeared to make flashing the stock radio stop working as well. Many things have been tried such as stock program with just radio, no radio. the _noid_ version does not appear to be helpful for the verizon rom at this point.


Thanks

[luv2chill]

ImCoKeMaN - Could you please report where you got that particular file? Did you just copy it out of the official Verizon ROM package or did you dump it from a phone or...?

[ImCoKeMaN]

I got it from the stock rom, but edited it with the HT64 encoder program to try to bypass a country code error that was occurring for another user with the stock rom. This is a similar method to one i used to successfully get the contents of the telus extended rom for Colonel

[kdoweb]

OK here is exactly what happen. The phone has colonel latest nbf installed. I wanted to see why my phone signal was so low sometime. So I decided to flash back to the Colonel3.3beta2VerizonExtRom.zip but I added the radio_.nbf found in imcokeman dir the flashed actually completed OK but after it reboot it display none under the radio version. Now the boot screen display
h/w=2
m=12
u=4
r: none
d 2.11.20 wwe

The phone still boot up with rom and ext rom just no radio stack. and when I try to flash back using the stock Verizon rom I get error at the first part of the flash which is the radio portion, it just stayed at 0% for about 4-5 min. and error out. On the phone it display "upgrade radio stack please wait" and just freeze there. I still have PDA function but the phone part is not on because of no radio stack. I can still flash to different colonel version. I just need to flash the radio version back, my phone has no radio stack. I just need the Verizon radio flash back to the phone. I tried extracting the radio_.nbf from the stock rom but that file won't flash using the MaUpgradeUTnoID.exe, but if I use the radio file found in the imcokeman it will attemp to flash but freeze at 0% and error out some country code error.

kdoweb

[luv2chill]

Yikes. Yeah, ok that makes more sense then as to why that guy's phone is borked. I was thinking that shouldn't happen with just a normal radio ROM file.

You may want to just delete it from the FTP site altogether (if you haven't already) or edit the file name to say "Do not use" or something in case people don't see this thread.

[kdoweb]

Originally Posted by ImCoKeMaN

I got it from the stock rom, but edited it with the HT64 encoder program to try to bypass a country code error that was occurring for another user with the stock rom. This is a similar method to one i used to successfully get the contents of the telus extended rom for Colonel

imcokeman,

you rename the file to test now is this still the same file?
so you use HT64 to decrypt the files? my problem is after successfully flashing this file the phone boot up with no radio stack. is there a way to force the stack to install?


kdoweb

[luv2chill]

kdoweb - man it is possible that you won't be able to get another radio ROM on your device. I didn't know that the file ImCoKeMaN posted had been modified. This is sort of uncharted territory... so it may not be fixable. You might be able to get Verizon to give you a new one if you go in and tell them it just started doing that. It's not the most honest thing to do, but maybe UTStarcom can refurbish it with their equipment. Or if you have insurance, use that.

If any good can come from this I think we now know not to mess around with radio ROMs.

[colonel]

Originally Posted by ImCoKeMaN

I got it from the stock rom, but edited it with the HT64 encoder program to try to bypass a country code error that was occurring for another user with the stock rom. This is a similar method to one i used to successfully get the contents of the telus extended rom for Colonel

What did you do exactly (in both cases)? Perhaps I can take a look at this as well.

[kdoweb]

Originally Posted by luv2chill

kdoweb - man it is possible that you won't be able to get another radio ROM on your device. I didn't know that the file ImCoKeMaN posted had been modified. This is sort of uncharted territory... so it may not be fixable. You might be able to get Verizon to give you a new one if you go in and tell them it just started doing that. It's not the most honest thing to do, but maybe UTStarcom can refurbish it with their equipment. Or if you have insurance, use that.

If any good can come from this I think we now know not to mess around with radio ROMs.

lol I know now not to mess with that radio file. rom and ext rom are easy fix in bl mode but this radio stack drove me crazy since last night. I just filed a claim with my company's insurance, I will be getting a refurb unit for $50 bucks by Tuesday. Thanks for the help. if you guys want to me try anything let me know
kdoweb

[hdiffly]

Exactly the same process as kdoweb got me in the same spot, stuck at 0% on stage 1 of MaUpgradeNOID when using a radio rom.

In the RUU.log file, the errors are "Device CID Error" and "RWipe Data Error."

Thanks.