Problems with Sprint WORLD Unlocked Radio

[htcboy]

Is anyone having problems with the unlocked radio? Yesterday, I installed Mighty ROM and didn't like the way it ran. So, I reflashed backto the stock Sprint Rom and Radio. I then proceeded to unlock my Radio Rom and installed the Sprint World Unlocked Radio; I had to pay for the SIMM unlock software ($25). Ever since I installed it yesterday, my battery life is terrible. I charged my phone this last night and woke up with 40% battery left. Any clues? Maybe just a bad flash. By the way, I tested an AT&T Sim Card and it worked perfectly.

[Rager02]

could be the radio?

[GoodThings2Life]

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!

[TNTRMSKD]

Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life

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!

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.

[cmonex]

Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life

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!

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.

[freeza]

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

[htcboy]

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!

[htcboy]

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

[2kmy477]

Originally Posted by htcboy

Is anyone having problems with the unlocked radio? Yesterday, I installed Mighty ROM and didn't like the way it ran. So, I reflashed backto the stock Sprint Rom and Radio. I then proceeded to unlock my Radio Rom and installed the Sprint World Unlocked Radio; I had to pay for the SIMM unlock software ($25). Ever since I installed it yesterday, my battery life is terrible. I charged my phone this last night and woke up with 40% battery left. Any clues? Maybe just a bad flash. By the way, I tested an AT&T Sim Card and it worked perfectly.

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.

[Boo Boo]

ask the person who made your cooked rom