Upgrade to Radio 1.41 - Page 16

PolloLoco · #**151** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 10:12 AM

Sorry about my continuing the confusion. I'd noticed several posts on this thread stating that bluetooth was improved by updating the radio stack - but I thought it used completely different hardware. That's where I was getting my wires crossed. Sorry.

Dwimmerlaik · #**152** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 11:43 AM

Has anyone else noticed a decrease in battery performance with this new radio stack? My battery seems to be draining awfully quickly with this new radio, and I'm not honestly seeing a lot of improvement over the 1.10 radio which is what I had before. I'm going to downgrade to the 1.27 radio and see if the battery performance is any better.

**luv2chill** · #**153** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 12:38 PM

You gotta take peoples' opinions with a grain of salt. Bluetooth is highly unlikely to be affected by this update as all this does is affect the device's ability to communicate with the cellular chip inside it.

Bluetooth and wi-fi have nothing to do with it. People just don't know any better and see what they want to see. If you want my real opinion I think most of the people seeing magical reception increases with this radio rom are suffering from the same placebo effect. Software just cannot have that great of an effect on something like the reception of a cell phone.

But flash it if you want to, if only to satisfy your own curiosity. But it's got nothing to do with bluetooth, wi-fi, or the price of tea in China. It's simply some code that interfaces the cell radio with the OS. That's it.

**schettj** · #**154** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 01:43 PM

I have noticed my teeth are whiter, however

Anyhoo... 1.4.1 + latest PRL + latest helmi kitchen OS (with phoneext dll patch from mr wonderful luv2chill) has finally given me a slight improvement in bars (might indeed be running the radio at slightly higher power there, chill) and about the same battery life as I was getting before, with the old R4 3.5 helmi rom, previous PRL and radio...)

phoenx06 · #**155** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 01:50 PM

Yeah, I didnt originally get much more service from just the radio, but the radio-prl-new kitchen combination has definately increased it. Yes, yes people are getting more bars in places they only used to get a few, but I have new areas that I used to no tbe able to call from available. I work in a big concrete building in an area where even outside the service is sketchy. Needless to say, I had no service in the building itself. But now, I can make a call while walking through majority of the building. So if its a myth, and just being blinded by happiness, it works for me. I'm happy.

phoenx06 · #**156** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 02:14 PM

It not my radio, Im sorry that I included Phoenx06 in the file name then. People were just talking about radio upgrades, so I packaged one and put it in a forum. I'm sorry if it has annoyed people. I just grabbed the radio from the bellmobility aku and packaged it for upgrade. Some people dont understand that it flashes the same way everything else does, and it uses the same RUU files. If it bothers you guys that much, go ahead and delete the topic. I just thought I could help.

soundwave123 · #**157** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 02:57 PM

DUDE GUYS NO JOKE I'M CONNECTED TO THE MATRIX WITH NEW RADIO UPGRADE!!!! NEO IS TALKING TO ME RIGHT NOW! UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE!!!!

jfol01 · #**158** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 03:19 PM

My work involves driving a lot in mostly country and rural areas where there is not very many people and I used to not have any signal in a lot of those places. But after upgrading to 1.41 and updating my prl yesterday, I noticed today that I had reception throughout my entire route today - normally on this route I don't have any reception at all for almost the entire route. Thanks again for the upgrade

Dwimmerlaik · #**159** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 04:08 PM

Hmm, after seeing the information on doing a PRL upgrade (I'm with Verizon, so I did the *22899), I've decided to stay with 1.41 for the moment since I'm using the 3.5 (1.02 Kitchen) ROM.

Does anyone know how to do a PRI version upgrade? I'm sitting at 1.12_002 at the moment, but I see some folks are at 1.14_002.

Dwimmerlaik · #**160** (**permalink**) 07-19-2007, 04:17 PM

I had an older PRL version (50850) and I did the *22899 and after a soft reset, it updated to 50855. I am curious about the PRI Version though and what the process is for updating that. I've seen a few Verizon users with a 1.14_002 version number.

I'm not entirely sure what the PRI Version refers to, so I don't know how much of a difference there is between 1.12_002 and 1.14_002. I've done some searches for PRI Version, but I haven't been able to find a great deal of documentation.