Right since this place has gone android crazy over the last few months, I thought I'd give it a go. Went through all the instructions, updated hspl to 2.08 updated radio to greater than 2.08. Ran android, boot screen shows all the boot up text then melts away into two lines, then....nothing (left it half hour just black screen and green flashing led). Anyway, reading though the 19900 posts on android I stumbled upon a post saying that to run android you need to flash a .50 radio not .51 What I want to know is as I am using the wwe stock 1.66 can I flash a .50 radio with no ill effects or will I have to flash a new rom as well?
If it means flashing a new rom then I'll just stick with WM as I've got my phone running nicely and haven't needed to mess about with it at all (to get it working!) for months
You can flash the Radio ROM only. As you are not using a TMOUS HD2 then there is no problem with bricking your phone.
I am currently using the 1.66WWE ROM and 2.10.50.08_2 Radio ROM.
I don't know how well this works with Android, as I like WinMo.
fred_up said:
You can flash the Radio ROM only. As you are not using a TMOUS HD2 then there is no problem with bricking your phone.
I am currently using the 1.66WWE ROM and 2.10.50.08_2 Radio ROM.
I don't know how well this works with Android, as I like WinMo.
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Ok cheers for that, will give it a go. Won't be using android as a day to day option, just want to try it out see what all the fuss is about.
Be careful: I tried THAT already (updating my radio on my 1.66-ROM Radio 2.06.51.07) to run Android but found out that all upper radios 2.08 and higher) from the radio-thread do partially not work on my HD2 (some of the basic functions Phone/WiFi/Wireless Router/HSPA etc. didn´t work anymore after upgrading).
So after flashing new radio CHECK EVERY function of radio if it´s working as before.
I had to go back to 2.06.51 to get my smooth running of my HD2 again with all Radio features working flawless.
troed said:
Be careful: I tried THAT already (updating my radio on my 1.66-ROM Radio 2.06.51.07) to run Android but found out that all upper radios 2.08 and higher) from the radio-thread do partially not work on my HD2 (some of the basic functions Phone/WiFi/Wireless Router/HSPA etc. didn´t work anymore after upgrading).
So after flashing new radio CHECK EVERY function of radio if it´s working as before.
I had to go back to 2.06.51 to get my smooth running of my HD2 again with all Radio features working flawless.
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Got to admit after flashing 2.09.51 yesterday it actually improved things, got hsdpa at home (4 bars as well) never had anything other than gprs as I live in an old quarry, lowest it has dropped to is 2bars of 3g so as far as dial up connectivity is am better off. Not had other issues with wifi, phone or messaging either, not tried bluetooth or wifi router yet but would assume that they are fine also. Obviously if things do start going ary I'll flash the original back
BTW android now boots and runs like lightining!
So I give it a last chance. Didn´t try 2.09.51 (goofed the line and thought it´s for TMOUS). Tx for the tip
Did You change rilphone.dll and if yes to which version ?
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Got to admit after flashing 2.09.51 yesterday it actually improved things, got hsdpa at home (4 bars as well) never had anything other than gprs as I live in an old quarry, lowest it has dropped to is 2bars of 3g so as far as dial up connectivity is am better off. Not had other issues with wifi, phone or messaging either, not tried bluetooth or wifi router yet but would assume that they are fine also. Obviously if things do start going ary I'll flash the original back
BTW android now boots and runs like lightining!
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Hi djingonthenet,
Can you confirm you have flashed the radio to 2.09.51 and not 2.09.50? Any issue observed so far?
I have the same configuration as your HD2 and would like to try the Andriod but worry that the radio may cause unknow issue to my HD2, eg phone,3g, or wifi, etc.
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Posted at PPCGeeks as well.
Okay, I have never had a problem like this until now. I recently had to replace my VX6800 because of a cracked screen. When I got the replacement, I updated to the newest Radio and cooked a ROM based on 20270. Everything works flawlessly until I am at work. I worked at a power plant where the reception in buildings is very little. The company purchased and installed a few cell phone boosters with the external antennas and the whole nine yards. Before this new phone, new Radio, and new ROM I was able to use the signal from the repeaters, now I can't. My phone sees the signal, but will not use it for data or voice. I can't even dial *228. I can walk outside and use my phone no problem. I am totally confused at what to do next. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions? I am also running PRL version 51056.
Well if you want to experiment, flash on Radio version 3.42.40 via MicroSD (since it's SPECIFICALLY made for this device, and not ported over)
See if you notice any difference doing that.
What were you running before?
That's excactly what I am doing now. After having posted this thread, I am reading more about the .50 and realized that is was from the Vogue. I am in the process of flashing to .40 now. I will let you know.
I downgraded my Radio to 3.42.02 and it still doesn't work. Any other Radio suggetions?
Just thought I would share my experiences to see if it benefitted others.
I have a Vodafone UK HD2 which came with 1.43ROM.
I used HSPL1 and extracted the NBH from the official WWE 1.66ROM and applied that to my handset and I've tried a couple of radio's and am now on 2.09.51
With the above setup I was getting quite a bit of instability still where I would sometimes have to reset the phone a couple of times a day. Calls would sometimes crash the phone, etc it just seemed buggy and instable but just about useable.
Then I saw HSPL2 and didnt think much of it until the other day when I started to look at it and noticed you could pick different HSPL's and spotted 1.66 in the list. Brain says to me you've got 1.66ROM and 1.42SPL. Back on the Kaiser the wrong SPL with a ROM could make it unstable... I wonder...
So I proceeded to install HSPL2 and selected 1.66HSPL option. Since then (2 1/2 days) my phone has been stable, quick and has not needed a reboot except for once with the data dropout issue (which I reckon is Windows/SenseUI App related).
Also battery life seems to have been extended as well.
Its like a completely different handset to me as I was started to get frustrated with it before this but now I am happy again.
Any comments are welcome.
Hi,
It's Darrin from the VF forum, interested to try the 1.66 HSPL, can you plop it ontop of the the existing one, or do you have to re-install everything from scratch?
Any chance you can point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Darrrin
sounds interesting thanks for the post starfury
makes sense aswell
at the end of the day youve always been booting a phone with a 1.66 system with a bootloader made for a different system.
i would try this right now but im using my warranty rights for an exchange atm but will try soon =]
thanks!
pastypacker said:
Hi,
It's Darrin from the VF forum, interested to try the 1.66 HSPL, can you plop it ontop of the the existing one, or do you have to re-install everything from scratch?
Any chance you can point me in the right direction?
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yes you can change spl and it won't affect your rom. download hspl 2 from rom development section, run it as administrator and choose which spl to instal.(choose one with hspl not 0000 of course)
I've been running without HSDPA for a little bit and recently switched it back on and the device locked up twice in a matter of hours. Switched it off again and its fine again.
I cant imagine that Vodafone UK havent implemented HSDPA properly so maybe there is an issue with the HSDPA protocol in the firmware?
the 2.051.08_3 radio will not work on the telestra hd2, using it on USA AT&T 3.5G, will it?
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the 2.051.08_3 radio will not work on the telestra hd2, using it on USA AT&T 3.5G, will it?
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How is that even relevant to the thread?
I was having issues with my HD2 rebooting randomly, and freezing in some instances where I would have to pull the battery to get any response, this was on the TMOUS 2.10.531.0 radio. I was reading on here that to fix that I could try flashing the newer radio, 2.15.50.14, which I did.
This fixed the reboots, but now I have no data services, internet, apps that require data don't work, marketplace doesnt work because of the data.
I can connect to all these with wifi, and everything runs good again, but if I disconnect wifi, i'm back to nothing.
The phone used to show H for the connection, and now i'm down to 3G.
Any info on fixing this other than reflashing the old radio that would reboot/freeze my phone is much appreciated
I'm using the stock 16gb card that came with the HD2 at purchase. (US T-Mobile)
Try 2.14 radio and another sd card...SanDisk preferably .. The original sd within tmous hd2 has been reported to have some issues
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redo your APN settings, just incase its gone a bit wonky, use HTC connection setup if you cant do it manually. might work!
Do you possibly have a link to the radio you suggested?, I'm having trouble locating one to download...
Thanks alot,
Michael
Found it in the master radio thread, installing now, to see if it fixes my problems.
2.14 seems to have fixed my data issues. I'll post back after a couple of days to let people know if it also DOESN'T cause the phone to reboot like the 2.10 radio did.
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Do you possibly have a link to the radio you suggested?, I'm having trouble locating one to download...
Thanks alot,
Michael
Found it in the master radio thread, installing now, to see if it fixes my problems.
2.14 seems to have fixed my data issues. I'll post back after a couple of days to let people know if it also DOESN'T cause the phone to reboot like the 2.10 radio did.
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well done for searching! no seriously, very few people bother!
Hi i was wondering since i have the latest radio rom 2.15 i seen this link that has different versions and it said to try different ones to see which one suits my needs. Since I have 2.15 can i go backwards to see if the other ones will work better or will it mess up my phone. Only reason i wanted to try different ones is because i lose data connectivity once in awhile and have to reset it. Thanks.
Tone Loc.
tdepaz said:
Hi i was wondering since i have the latest radio rom 2.15 i seen this link that has different versions and it said to try different ones to see which one suits my needs. Since I have 2.15 can i go backwards to see if the other ones will work better or will it mess up my phone. Only reason i wanted to try different ones is because i lose data connectivity once in awhile and have to reset it. Thanks.
Tone Loc.
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Yes you can use an older radio version. But if gou have a T-Mobile HD2 then make sure the radio has a 50 in the third set of numbers like this 2.15.50.14. The radios with the 50 in the third set of numbers is a radio that is compatible with the T-Mobile HD2. Flashing a non compatible radio to a T-Mobile HD2 will brick the phone. Also it is two exceptioms to this rule, do not flash radio that looks has these numbers in it 2.04.50.xda or 2.05.50.xx cause they were the radios used in the test devices for the T-Mobile HD2 but they were still used on regular HD2's so they will brick a T-Mobile HD2 as well.
Thanks will try it then. I hate have to go to airplane mode then taking it off to get my data connection back. I hear that the 2.12 is pretty good so i wanted to try that and see if i get a better reception. Yes I know not to use anything with a .51 at the end. Thanks for the reply.
I had a nand build of android installed on my HD2, but through various circumstances that phone cracked in half. So, I bought another HD2 this time used and when I popped my SIM card in I noticed it didn't have very good service.
Nonetheless, I was excited to have a working phone again, so I rushed and installed android on it. Now I can hardly get service much less internet, and I've messed around with a bunch of radios and none have helped so I assume it's a problem with the rilphone.dll. Do I have to reset to WM 6.5 to change the rilphone.dll or is it possible on android?
rilphone.dll is a windows file, nothing to do with android, so yes, you would need to be running winmo, however all reports say you cant change it manually (well you can but it wont work) it needs to be cooked in using a kitchen.
In the 20 months ive been browsing the hd2 section, ive never seen any posts saying rilphone made any difference to reception problems.
In that case, any idea why two phones running identical software would get wildly different service?
could be damaged / faulty / dismounted aerial inside, , ever taken any hard knocks?
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In that case, any idea why two phones running identical software would get wildly different service?
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Maybe they got different radio roms?
sp pls check your radio version.
Settings->About Phone: Baseband-Version:
Generally version 2.15.50.14 works best for most of the users.
j4n87 said:
Maybe they got different radio roms?
sp pls check your radio version.
Settings->About Phone: Baseband-Version:
Generally version 2.15.50.14 works best for most of the users.
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i second that, when i was on winmo and changed over to android my signal wasnt at its best untill i flashed new version of radio....
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