07-24-2007, 07:26 PM
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Ok... I have seen some of the guys on here post up that this radio upgrade won't do anything for us at all... I have seen the terms placebo effect, etc. NOW, while I understand that a new radio driver won't make towers just magically spring out of the ground - I think it alters the way the PRL file is read. My reasoning is conclusive in my testing. Currently I am sitting in a service plaza (rest area) right about mile marker 53 on the West Virginia Turnpike (Interstate 77). I drive truck for a living, and I tend to drive through here A LOT. Every trip I have ever made through here, I lost ALL service - Sprint and Roaming included - between mile marker 73 to somewhere around the 40 mile marker. Nearly 35 miles of my trip is dead silent with nary a peep from a tower roaming or otherwise. Last week sometime I flashed the radio back to the 1.27 version because I had originally attributed some stability issues to the new radio (later found out it was something different...) Anywho. Today as I was driving along the Turnpike and I noticed that just like usual, my signal was gone at the 73MM. After 20 miles of nothing I got the idea to stop and reflash the 1.41 radio just for giggles. I expected no gain from it at all really since I could never get ANY service through here. Before I flashed, there was no service at all. After the flash back to 1.41 - I had full service. It is roaming service mind you, but it is FULL SERVICE. The debug menu shows the RX Power at (-65db - -73db) and the Ec/Io is at a nearly steady 7-8.
WOW, I figured something was screwy there. So I flashed back to 1.27 and confirmed no service again. Back to 1.41 and all is well! So though this radio update may just be driver tweaks to the cell chip, it obviously does something else or there is no way I should have went from nothing to all like that. Like I said above, maybe it just reads the PRL file differently or something but it really does work. Matter of fact I am online right now through whoever's service I am using ATM tethered to my laptop. Current SID# is 4379 ( I will look it up later to figure out what service I am on...) Anyway, just my two cents. Perhaps somebody with a better background in cell tech can step up and explain this little wonder. Later ~Krayzie 
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07-24-2007, 07:33 PM
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Just checked the PRL and this is the info on the tower's SID I am on...
04379 PCS RM NTELOS (NID 00002) SCAN 500B 1075C 850F 825F 675B 600B 750E 775E 1175C BTA104B Danville, VA BTA266B Lynchburg, VA BTA284B Martinsville, VA BTA374B Richmond-Petersburg, VA BTA376B Roanoke, VA BTA430B Staunton-Waynesboro, VA
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07-25-2007, 01:55 AM
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Anyone else noticing that the phone freezes sometimes when dialing out now?
If I pull the phone out of suspend mode and go to dial a number, it will freeze once I tell it to dial and I have to soft reset it. Its pretty annoying.
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07-25-2007, 02:09 AM
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Actually I was just on my way in here to post my most recent findings... My EV-DO sessions are hard locking on me. They are not locking the whole unit up, but the data sessions refuse to send or receive packets and require a soft reset to make the connection work again. I can put the phone in flight mode for like 20 seconds, and that will log the session out (obviously since it kills the radio) but until I soft reset, I cannot connect to the data network anymore as it will error out. My notebook as a general rule stays tethered 24/7 whether its moving packets or not - its just on and ready to use. So with the new radio I am finding that I need to soft reset every hour or less to get the internet working once again... Flashing back to 1.27 remedies this issue for me.
Its a love/hate scenario here. Of course I love having the phone working ALL the time without 24 soft resets a day, so its back to the old radio for me.
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07-25-2007, 02:19 AM
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Hetal's link is broken...
does the Apache Radio 1.27 Sprint.zip in the Updated Radios folder work?
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07-25-2007, 12:10 PM
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I am not sure about the one on the server. I attached the one I just used to flash with to this post. Its only the radio_.nbf file, so you will have to drop it into a kitchen update folder.
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07-25-2007, 01:29 PM
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Ok so i just did this Upgrade and all went well, did a hard reset in the end 'cause i was already cleaning out my phone so i already had all my data baked up right before doing this, and it restarted the phone and in the little red fonts it did say 1.41 and I also did the PRL *22899 thing right after.
Now i don't really c all that amazing increase in signal like some others have stated, but it has improved a wee bit better. Just figured i'll put that up. I'm using xv6700 btw w/ stock verizon rom
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