New Shrine built for Andrew (user name: PocketPCUser) :D

[Raging Idiot]

When everyone else gave up, and others giving answers such as:

Not surprising. Once your device says R NONE at the boot screen you are screwed. I have seen at least ten such occurrances, and several apparent causes (physical trauma, flashing a hacked radio ROM, and some that intermittantly lose the radio). But if you've searched around then you have already discovered that there is no fix for that. You will have to do an exchange if under warranty/insurance or buy a new one.

If anyone has seen such problems (as the above quote demonstrates) then all those devices were likely returned unnecessarily.

Andrew (user name: PocketPCUser) sent me private messages with tons of details of the processes he went through when he lost the radio file. In a nutshell- He tried everything like I did, then got stuck in bootloader mode, then found the program mtty utility - which is used specifically to get out of bootloader mode- and then *poof* the radio loaded and his phone worked...and now mine does too!
So this isn't a one off...this should work for nearly everyone!

I've used that mtty utility before, but didn't realize that it would allow the latest ROM from my carrier (Sprint) to install the radio when all other methods had failed.

And with that, I pass the knowledge on to others and build a shrine in the honor of Andrew (PocketPCUser).