Lost My Radio - A current Saga

turdlarsen · #1 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 03:12 PM

I've been up for 3 days trying to flash/smash my radio and protocol back into my phone. I've used all the techniques described in this forum (using the search) to attempt to get it to work. As it stands, I have wm5 back on my phone using utstarcoms original rom (sprint) using no ruu. Phone boots up, but nothing next to "P" and "R". My question is, if its a hardware issue, can I take it to a cell repair shop and have the nvram or cdma qualcomm chip replaced? I called a place I've gone beftore to replace my rf modulator and he acted like he had what it took to fix it? Whatdayathink?

**weedahoe** · #2 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 04:45 PM

time to file an insurance claim.....

**Success100** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 05:08 PM

insurance claim is gonna be your cheapest option. if you take it to someplace else not only are they gonna charge you more than 50 to fix it, more then likely they are gonna void your warranty.(even though you already did). if i were you id call up sprint and tell them that you reset your phone and now its not working, that way they can replace it under the factory warranty. But technically you did void your warranty.

What usually causes this is a incorrect bootloader, also, trying to load one of the roms based of the 3.35 upgrade, but using an old radio(i.e. 2.17 or 3.15)

justpctech · #4 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 05:23 PM

think you're thinking Mogul there Success, not Apache. different radios/bootloaders. but wrong bootloader still could apply to this i think.

**Success100** · #5 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 05:43 PM

your absolutely right. jeez, good catch dude. I was talking about the mogul the whole time, i so did not see that.

turdlarsen · #6 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008, 12:07 AM

Well insurance was not an option so I ended up buying a neused 6700 on ebay the other day. Not being able to stop thinking about my old phone...sad and unfunctional... but seeming full of life at the same time, I wondered if my suspected hardware issue was not what it seemed. Could the phone have just dumped its memory by extreme software error and/or physical trauma, but still be viable to force radio, prl, device id (snaz-blah blah) stuff back into the nvram via QPST? Anybody familiar with a QPST method and the neccessary stuff that goes in the nvram space?