Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

could be the radio?

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I'm in the same boat. I flashed the SIM/Radio unlockers and battery life and performance suffered because it seemed to be trying to acquire a GSM signal inappropriately. As soon as I went back to the stock radio, all is well again. Moral of the story, if you don't have an absolutely need to unlock the radio--- that is, an AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card--- don't unlock it!

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I've only had one lockup, but other than that everything else seems to function the same as it did before the radio patch.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I'm going to try a fresh reflash. So far, I have reflashed back to the stock Sprint Rom and Radio Rom. Additionally, I ran the SIMM unlocker. I'm on the last step of reflashing the Unlocked World Radio. Lastly, I'm going to do a hard reset. I'm hoping for the best. Wish me luck!

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Something is not right with the world Unlocked Radio. After the hard reset, it would not load up. I'm I doing something wrong?

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Not only the battery drained much faster,the phone also ran a lot warmer than Sprint stock rom,I had reflashed between stock srpint rom and the unlocked radio about 5 times since yesterday and still have the same problem,it also lagging a lot if i stream internet radio through my bt headset,the phone performance just so sluggish,the eliteteam needs to re-work the radio,i believe.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

ask the person who made your cooked rom

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I have Unlocked and am also running mighty with the Sprint World radio patch.....My battery life and performance totally kills the stock sprint set up.....Id reflash everything and start over...something doesnt sound right...my device is running PERFECT!!!

EDIT: I am also running a T-Mobile SIM

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Odd you guys are having all these issues. I have no problems. I have a Sprint and a Tmobile sim deployed. Battery life is the same.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Im on the Energy Rom w/Sprint unlocked Sim, IM not having one issue, but I take a different route, Since Im still on Sprint, I have my network set to Cdma only. Might want to try that if you dont have a Att or Tmobile sim.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I think the Sprint World Unlocked Radio must still have some bugs. I just finished reflashing again to the stock Sprint Rom and Radio, and I relocked the ROM for Good measure. I'm starting back basically from stock. What a difference! The internet/data connection seems to be working faster.:headbang:

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Couldn say I have those probs at all, I couldn't get it to hard flash anyway, more than likely got the wrong file for my sprint tp2. It appears mine is already running cdma only and I never set it to that. But after reading some of your complaint about the set up I'm thinking I might not want to do it anyway...I struggle with most things here as it is trying to learn its just one less thing to worry about tho I wouldn't mind trying it just for the learning experience.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

how is this in any way helpful moron?

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

could you please stop posting this in every thread?
i checked your posts and every one says the same thing.

not sure why you are doing this?

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I had the same issue with the unlocked radio on the stock rom. Terrible battery life, the phone stayed quite hot and ran quite sluggish. The only change made was the radio. Flashed back to stock and restored from a backup with the stock rom/radio and all is well again.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

+1.


.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Try setting it to CDMA or GSM only instead of global. Might make it run better.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Anyone know if there is a dump of the original sprint radio outside of the rom package. I'll throw the unlocked radio on again and give it a whirl but would like an easier way to get the stock radio back on if needed other than a flash/restore.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

This sucks that yall are having these issues and most had to pay $25. I almost gave in till i decided someone will come along in the next few months with a sim unlocker. I know i havent been of any help but hopefully others will read this thread before reaching into there pocket. "sad that the developers of the Sim Unlocker haven't posted in this thread" We all know 1 of the 2 have read this! They seem to stick more to XDA although most of the finances are generated from PPC..hmmm

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I'm also looking forward to that too.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I documented some quirks after flashing the radio over at the official XDA thread, but I'll state some here.

If you hard reset with this unlocked radio, touchflo will not load on your initial run ( stage where you set the screen sensitivity and the OS installs itself). Things get really weird when you let your phone go into sleep mode and then try to wake it. Sometimes the backlight becomes unresponsive. I know the phone works because hitting the hard send key, allows me to make phone calls, and the volume toggle keys still ding and scroll from max vol to silent/vibrate. Also, if you go to power off by holding down the top button, after tapping 'Yes' to shut down, I got the swirling quad color 'windows is busy' circle for a few seconds, then it along with the rest of the screen just freezes. I found myself having to yank the battery numerous times while playing with this radio. Touchflo 3D tabs/apps went all kinds of crazy at random times too. Opera would launch and only the outer edges of the screen would show, the center would still be the internet tab/globe from touchflo. SMS/MMS menus would sometimes just lock up, etc etc etc.

As soon as I flashed back to stock rom/radio (1.96.00FW) all my issues went away. I've been problem free since reverting. When the unlocked radio worked it worked great, I was able to use ATT/T-Mobile SIMs (minus data of course). But my phone acted like it was on crack. Staying totally stock until some of these bugs get resolved.

-Mike

PS. I tried setting manually to 'CDMA Only'. In fact that was one of the first things I did when I suspected the radio was faulty. That helped, but didn't make very much of a difference.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

no, moral of the story is: we'll have to release patched version of stock radio! :) the one you are using is not the sprint stock radio (1.96), but the latest radio (2.05) that we found in a WM6.5 test rom.

I'm pretty sure the 1.96 patched will work fine. will do this release today sometime! :)

when it's done, please let me know if it helped.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

yes tehre are issues

when switching between GSM and CDMA i get MAJOR lag until i restart my phone..

the GSM network does not auto search..

and i need to manually chose the #777 instead of auto choose so that it can choose between APN and #777...


def,, major issus (it also dies randomly too..)

still great idea though

hopefully radio 2.0 will fix the bugfs!

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

It's really odd that there's such a huge variety of issues. Personally, I flashed the newer radio shortly after it was made available and haven't noticed anything off about the phone yet. It's set in global mode and still has plenty of battery after being off the charger since 11am or so.

Hopefully everyone's issues can get worked out.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

cmonex has added the sprint patched radio in her post, check it out and please report, thanks.........


BIG NOTE: if you have the Sprint branded TP2, then after running this SIM/Sec Unlocker, you'll need to flash a patched sprint radio (in other thread) to finish the process.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

That's an old post from yesterday. That's still the 2.05 radio from the 6.5 test ROM that they patched. Read a couple posts up, she specifically states that they need to patch Sprint 1.96, but haven't gotten around to it yet. All of us who are on Sprint HAVE TO patch the radio to use US GSM, the problem is the only radio available is the 2.05...which again, causes issues.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

I just want to say that those with AT&T or T-Mobile SIM cards (justifying the purpose of unlocking the SIM card and radio) probably won't have problems. I didn't try running 2.05 in CDMA only... that may very well fix the issue, but considering I've always run in Global mode before (and it's the default), I'd prefer to not have to worry about it...

On the other hand, but more importantly, if you were misinterpreting the benefits and thought you could somehow use the Sprint SIM to roam on AT&T/T-Mobile, that seems to be flawed logic. It doesn't work that way (which is too bad really), and it was definitely causing ME issues after 2 reflashes and multiple hard resets (which actually made the problem worse, because I was getting Errors trying to provision the data connection) until I went back to the stock radio... a quick PRL update and profile update, and life has been peachy for another 36 hours now.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

We all do remember that these are just-released devices and that we're doing some serious voodoo to them, right? Early adopter in the tech market ALWAYS involves bugs, trouble, and sometimes serious heartache.

Cmonex will get this worked out, your device will eventually work fine, and if the possibility of bugs is too off-putting to accept, the unlockers, (most) ROMS, and HardSPL's on the Kaiser/Tilt series are quite stable, free, and already work on GSM.

Those of you that came from Touch Pro 1's *know* this device is already vastly more stable than what we came from.

Sooooo...chill, it's gonna work out!

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

I fully know the reprecussions of beta testing things, and none of what I mentioned should be construed as gripes or dissatisfaction. I just pointed out what bugs I came across so the developers have a platform to start with when it comes time to fix the kinks. That's pretty much what beta and preliminary release testing is all about.

I'm also perfectly happy with the stock rom. In fact, had it not been required to unlock the SIM, I wouldn't even have flashed HSPL as I don't plan to upgrade until the official 6.5 is out.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

+1, all the stuff just released is practically beta versions of the rom's, I will wait a month or so, at least so someone can come out with a 6.1 rom.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Unlocking the SIM isn't required to use the HSPL....

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Maybe someone can give me a little clarification on the sim unlocker function, in the sub-level of the building i work at, verizon and sprint(cdma) gets spotty to no radio signal, while att and tmobile(gsm) works through out the sub-level. if i do the sim unlocker would i be able to switch to a gsm signal with the same sprint sim card? or would i be required to use a (gsm) sim card? also would this switch accure automatically or is it something that has to be manuely done?

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

Psst, I think he meant it the other way around... that you need HSPL to unlock the SIM. ;)

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

You will need an AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card, not a Sprint one. I was wishing the Sprint would work too, but it doesn't so hence why I flashed back when I had issues.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

NO, it's not a "just released device". It's been out (and rock solid) for a couple months now. The HSPL and unlockers are, however, just released, and you're exactly right that they are more like beta releases.

But at the end of the day, being functional is a requirement of a device. Nobody here has bashed anyone or anything, but there is no wrong in pointing out faults and problems... especially in "beta" / newly-released software.

Yes, the issues will be worked out, but in the mean time people do need to know where they'll have problems so they can make intelligent choices that keep them functioning.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

You have to get either a Tmobile or ATT card.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

i have a t-mobile sim card and i am not having any problems. Not sure why some of you are having problems

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

My phone lagged so bad that I have to reboot my phone when I switch between CDMA and my ATT SIM card,waiting for a newer patched radio from cmonex,she mentioned that she would release a patched version soon.

Re: Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio
 

i paid for the unlocker, but ill wait for the sprint patched radio, i guess