Question On Flashing New ROM
 

Ok so I have Vin's Plutonium. My phone is fully unlocked and went from Sprint to Tmobile. I'm looking to flash a new rom, but I don't understand the different options when it say's with radio or without. What does that mean, which one do I use?

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stick with vin. u really don't get better than that when it comes to 6.5,eye candy and stability

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well the whole point of that question was because I was going to flash neodium and there are two different options, one with +radio and one without?

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go with the one that comes with the radio. what it will do is upgrade the radio version which can provide a better signal,faster speed or improved battery life.

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careful eric cause he is on t-mo not sprint.

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Yeah, I was just about to say that....


OP use non radio version. Safest bet.

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op please change your phone info under "username" cause alot of us just look there to see if your sprint ect. thanx

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May i ask why does everyone recommend using vin rom? whats wrong with NRG's rom? I'm not trying to start nothing just asking because i would like to know what's the difference between the 2.

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have you tried both with all your apps ect. loaded? most of us have used enrgy but vins stuff is more stable and big difference is batterylife and thats the big one in my case.

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Yea because i am thinking about trying it since everyone say its great. No Lie but NRG's Rom are battery killers. What about the other roms like sharkie?

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honestly its best to try all roms and pick what suits you and dont forget flashing radios can make big improvements. i used sharkie roms and there solid but i always went back to vins roms.

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oh i'm scared to flash radio roms because my carrier is metro pcs so i dont know if that will effect it in a big way.

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your call but you can always flash back. i usually keep 2 roms and 2 radios on sdcard and flash on the go if needed.

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But does it matter about the carrier you use to use certain radio or is it just about if the phone is cdma or gsm?

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Oh damn...yea definitely will do that.

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oh, by the way....I made a thread about this , but why can't I Uncheck the encrypted files option with vin's ROM? I uncheck it, but it comes back?

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I went ahead and threw in my two cents in that thread. Post there if you have any questions to my response.

-Scott

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oh right yea sorry about that. I was watching my Spanish TV show at the time I made that post so I wasn't exactly thinking about that. with that said he should go with the one without the radio

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when you flash a radio, does it change your epst settings?

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Usually not, but I have seen it happen. Hence why I told op to becareful when upgrading on TMO account.

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Oh wow. But do you think it would make a difference because t-mobile is gsm? my phone is using cdma metro pcs.

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Yeah, I see what you are saying. I think you both would be OK but like I said, I have seen wierd things happen. Worse case scenario is you would have to reprogram epst settings after radio upgrade. Thats worse case. best case, no issues upgrading.

I cant be 100% certain as I have not ever placed a phone on another carrier like that.

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Oh ok. Oh yea one more thing, you can use any carrier radio right or if the phone say us cellular you have to us only us cellular radios?

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Your corerct, you can use any carrier radio with like technology. So a Verizon user could use the latest sprint radio and US Cellular user could use the latest Verizon Radio.

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Allright thank you very much. Gold bless you. Its my first time messing around with radios and i just wanna make sure i get the right info before doing anything i might regret. Thank you again.

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint MP6950SP)

Just thought I would chime in and say the most important thing to remember when flashing a radio is whether the radio you are flashing is for a CDMA device if you have a CDMA Worldphone TP2 like the Sprint or Verizon branded models. You never want to attempt to flash a GSM type radio to those devices like a T-Mobile or AT&T radio or attempt to flash a Sprint or Verizon radio to a GSM TP2 like an AT&T or T-Mobile branded version. :)

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do not flash a tmobile (gsm) radio on your phone, if your phone supports cdma (your phone obviously does have the cdma part if it's on a cdma network...)

it would really brick it.

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Hence why including a radio in the .nbh of a custom ROM released publicly is a dumb move. All it takes is someone not to read well, and they end up with a paperweight.