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Broken data (3G) on my 32B?! Any ideas?

Hey all.
I picked up a 2nd hand T-Mobile (I think) MyTouch Unlocked a couple of months ago and have been busy about rooting and flashing since. I'm on Telus in Canada, and my 3G SIM works fine for data and voice, practically out of the box. However the last time I flash its rom, about 1 week later the 3G data stopped working suddenly. I tried everything I could reasonably think:
- Called Telus and had them reset my SIM
- Tried a different Telus SIM
- Rebooted/battery pull, whatever I could think of
- Reflashed a bunch of roms, including my 1st working Cyanogen
Its been a month or so since then (I've been overseas) and thought I would try to do something about it before I returned. If I can't get the data working again, I might as well start looking for a new phone. :-(
Fast Boot gives me the following information:
SAPPHIRE UNKNOWN 32B ENG S-OFF H
HBOOT-1.33.2005 (SAPP50000)
CPLD-11
RADIO-2.22.19.261
I'm running RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G for flashing. Right now I've got KiNgxKlair-DroidEris2G flashed, but it doesn't matter as I can't test anything right now. (in Japan)
Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe I screwed up and stuck a 32A rom on my 32B are some point?
What about my radio version? I have never been able to find any great information online about radio versions and never attempted to flash it. Could a reflash to even the same version help?
Any suggestions would be really appreciated. I'm not interested into getting into another 3 year contract and even 2 year old Androids are still selling for $400 used. Plus this MyTouch has been great so far. (until the data died...)
Thanks!

You should upgrade to 3.22.23.02 version radio
Radio & SPL
Both are zipped inside that file. You don't need to flash your SPL if it works for you. But try that radio and see if it's working better for you.

Fast reply!
Kemekill, thanks for the quick reply!
I'll give it a try tonight. Is there a good source for radio related info? I've had a hard time trying to piece together what the story is on radio updates because they typically get mixed in with provider specific stories or 32A vs 32B, etc... I wasn't able to locate a wiki or anything central.
If its all common knowledge then I'm clearly not digging deep enough.
Thanks!

Well here's what i think the issue is. Most myTouch roms only work with specific radios thus your out of date radio is probably the problem
The only real source you'll find on radios is in the main developers thread on XDA and maybe something from Cyanogen's Wiki

I'm so confused. Because I've got a 32B I'm having a hard time finding good information on how to flash just the radio. Every post starts with the radio and ends up only talking about SPL. I've got SPL 1.33.2005 so I should be good, but I need to try to do something about my malfunctioning radio. Is the Android SDK required to flash a radio.img? My RA-sapphire-v1.5.2G supports flashing from zips. Sorry to come off as a newb. My experience with Android rooting and roming has been its easy to get into, but maintaining if you blink for a couple of months is difficult. If I can just get my radio working again I'll leave it alone.
Thanks for any help anything can throw my way.

Forget it. SDK, flash radio, got it.

underto said:
Forget it. SDK, flash radio, got it.
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How did you get 3G speeds on non- AWS network like Telus? Because Tmobile MyTouch only works on AWS- Frequency.
**EDIT**
After reading another post of yours I think you have the rogers version, because of your 32b board. But just for a heads up if its branded "T-Mobile" then that means 3G speeds will only work with Wind Wireless or Mobilicity.

VNPrince said:
How did you get 3G speeds on non- AWS network like Telus? Because Tmobile MyTouch only works on AWS- Frequency.
**EDIT**
After reading another post of yours I think you have the rogers version, because of your 32b board. But just for a heads up if its branded "T-Mobile" then that means 3G speeds will only work with Wind Wireless or Mobilicity.
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The Rogers one is 32A. Just checked mine. All the T-mo MT3G's are supposed to be 32B iirc...

[Q] 3G problems

I just got a nexus one last night. it was previously used on ATT and now i'm using it on TMobile. I noticed right away that it would not connect to 3G, only 2G. today I rooted it via rageagainstthecage and adb because it was already updated to 2.2.1. I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue and what can I do to fix it? Do I need to fix the radio or what? The specs of my nexus one are as follows:
Version: 2.2.1
Baseband Version: 32.36.00.28U_4.06.00.12_7
Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9-27240-gbca5320 android-build(at)apa26 #1
Build Number: FRG83
I experienced these issues even before rooting. I really appreciate any help.

Hi,
When I upgraded to Froyo on my N1 I didn't have any 3G, turned out 3G was disabled, I re-enabled it by going to the phone dialler and type in *#*#info#*#*, go to phone information and scroll down to the bottom, should be set to WCDMA preferred.
Something to think about as well, I recently upgraded to 5.08 radio since 3G was very patchy since moving to Froyo, works amazingly well for me, seems hit and miss for people but well worth a try at least.

how do i upgrade to that radio and will that work in the US?
also, i did the dialer thing and it is on that preferred one already, is there anything else i can do? or should i change it from that preferred one?

You can grab the radio from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723839
It will work for all Nexus Ones, make sure you have your phone fully charged before you do this as a failure while flashing will brick your phone. There is a couple of ways to flash it. I used fastboot, you just extract the zip file which contains radio.img, then do the following command, fastboot flash radio radio.img

ATT and TMO use different 3G frequencies in the US (1700 AWS for TMO). An ATT N1 can't use TMO's 3G and vice versa.

thanks, and i can do this without having a custom recovery? just use adb? and do i literally just type "fastboot flash radio radio.img" after going into cmd? sorry for all the questions, I just wanna make sure i don't mess anything up

fredz024 said:
ATT and TMO use different 3G frequencies in the US (1700 AWS for TMO). An ATT N1 can't use TMO's 3G and vice versa.
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the N1 was unlocked but was used for ATT, is there something I need to do to change it to TMO frequency if that's the case?

It is hardware. Unfortunately it's impossible.

Right, it's hardware, not firmware. You need a TMO-specific N1.

great...so will upgrading the radio do anything for me? and if so, do i extract the radio.img to the sdcard or to sdk tools folder?

Oops, sorry - forgot ATT and T-Mobile run different frequencies, you won't be able to do anything about it.

bsktballstar3131 said:
great...so will upgrading the radio do anything for me? and if so, do i extract the radio.img to the sdcard or to sdk tools folder?
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no
it's hardware. you can only get 3g FROM tmo on a tmo frequency phone, and only get 3g FROM ATT on a att frequency phone. ... see ?
if you're using att, they're going to slam you with a $30/month fee for smartphones too ;-)

You should be able to trade the phone - the at&t 3G version is no longer on sale, so it is much harder to get than the TMUS version ... you should easily be able to sell it/trade it for a TMUS version.

Debranding

Today I bought a Wildfire that has a branded OS by Telstra, I don't like a lot of the extras and startup screens and junk that is there. So I rooted the phone and flashed it with that popular Puzzlerom but I didn't really like it so I recovered back to my original from a backup. Is there anyway for me to flash it with the latest official ROM from HTC or get rid of the branding on my current Telstra ROM?

So I've done some searching, I found some references to getting the official HTC ROM from Shipped-ROMS. I couldn't find anything on the website, but when looking at the website index directories I found the Buzz folder but I don't know which HTC ROM to download. I want the latest one and I'm not really sure what the difference in versions numbers are as there are so many and all of them are pre-dated before the 2.2 release and I don't know if there is a difference in Radios and I don't want to upgrade to the latest version and have my phone not picking up reception and not being able to possibly revert it as I don't know if 2.2 is rootable.
I'm also unsure If I can simply run the official WWE .exe if my phone is rooted without some kind of corruption.
If somebody could give me a quick guide or point me to a thread which could help.
In a nut shell my situation is:
Telstra Branded Firmware Version: 2.1-update1.
Software number: 1.21.841.3
Kernal: 2.6.28-543e5f81
Rooted
Need to unbrand and get latest official HTC rom.

I too am interested in a fix for this?
cheers

Turns out I'm actually really stupid.
In the Development subforum people post the official ROM and safe .zip versions of it too -_-.

Debrand Telstra Wildfire
Am curious about doing this the Telstra firmware is quite annoying not to mention god knows when Android 2.2 will become available. I have tried all the RUU update i can find none work, get either error 130 or 140... main problem seems to be the model id of my phone is incorrect. I currently have 2.1-update1, baseband 13.55.55.24H_3.35.20.10, software number 1.30.841.1. Anyone got any ideas how to get rid of the Telstra firmware in favour of the standard HTC?

chrisj9898 said:
Am curious about doing this the Telstra firmware is quite annoying not to mention god knows when Android 2.2 will become available. I have tried all the RUU update i can find none work, get either error 130 or 140... main problem seems to be the model id of my phone is incorrect. I currently have 2.1-update1, baseband 13.55.55.24H_3.35.20.10, software number 1.30.841.1. Anyone got any ideas how to get rid of the Telstra firmware in favour of the standard HTC?
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http://www.shipped-roms.com/downloa...5.55.24H_3.35.20.10_release_160191_signed.exe
have you tried this one?
Its Froyo by the way
Or browse in here:
http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=windows mobile&model=Buzz

I bought a Telstra Wildfire before Xmas and used the follwoing procedure to debrand it to a stock HTC ROM.
The Wildfire came with ROM ver 1.21. I upgraded it to 1.37. See http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buzz/ for a list of the HTC roms. I used http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buz...3.55.24H_3.35.19.25_release_151892_signed.exe as it is the most recent one that can still be rooted. The next one is Froyo (http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buz...5.55.24H_3.35.20.10_release_160191_signed.exe) however if you flash this one you will not be able to root it unless someone works out how to at some time in the future.
Firstly you will need to root the phone using Unrevoked (http://unrevoked.com/#wildfire).
Secondly create a goldcard (http://android.modaco.com/content/software/308798/pc-application-goldcardtool/)
The goldcard is necessary as, even though the phone has been rooted, the upgrade program will note that the CID in the phone is for Telstra and you are installing a non-Telstra ROM. You will get an error without the goldcard. The goldcard will override this detection and allow stock HTC and custom ROMS to be installed on your phone. Once you have installed the new stock HTC ROM using the goldcard, the goldcard will not be required for future stock ROM upgrades. It may not be required for upgrades to custom ROMS either but someone else may be able to verify this as I have not tried them.
Some people have had trouble getting the goldcard to work using thrid party SD cards. If you use the one that came with the phone you will not have trouble. The only problem with this is, as part of the unrevoked rooting, you will probably have done an nandroid backup which will dump backup files on the card so that you can restore your original ROM if you wish. I skipped this backup as shippedroms has the standard Tesltra 1.21 rom on their site (http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buz...45.55.24_3.35.15.31_release_138758_signed.exe) so that you can restore the phone to standard if required.
Thirdly, install the stock ROM (http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Buz...3.55.24H_3.35.19.25_release_151892_signed.exe) with the goldcard in the phone.
This will unroot your phone but you can re-root it again as you did in the first step above.
You can upgrade to Froyo but read the posts under the Wildfire Android Development section of these forums so that you understand the disadvantages of doing so. Many have been to quick to upgarde and have been caught out!
I am going to wait until unrevoked can root Froyo before I install it.

Has anyone tested that the phone can still communicate at 850mhz after running this process?
The phone I ran this on still works at 2100mhz, but lost 850mhz, which more renders a Telstra wildfire useless (Unless you're a city dweller with ample 2100 coverage)
Is it possible that the radio firmware flashed in with the european image (which is of course designed for the 900/2100 radio) does not work properly with the hardwre in this phone? I've done a lot of searching on this subject and have come up completely empty!

Hey guys,
I bought Eclair Wildfire Telstra-branded only weeks ago, straight away rooted it and installed Sunaabh ROM (a stable, stock-like Froyo ROM). Apart from Telstra splash screen (unable to remove because we have S-On) it is debranded of course. I dunno what you mean about the radio stuff, but I live in faaaaarrrr west Sydney (Wallacia) which is pretty much country and I get 3G. Is that full NextG speed...? I really don't know!
Do NOT install official 2.2 update! It will remove root and install the new, currently unrootable HBOOT!
EDIT: What is this goldcard nonsense? Do your research! Unrevoked3 installs the Clockworkmod recovery and you can then flash ANYTHING.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

I think by now I can say there's 2 ways of debranding a Wildfire A3335:
What I did (don't do this anyone else!):
* Run a stock RUU. Fully fully debrands it (No telstra logos anywhere). Also replaces the radio firmware with an eurpoean version and destroys your phone's rural (850mhz) coverage
What you did (and what I should have done):
* Just replace the ROM. Leave the Radio firmware in place: End result: You still have a phone that works on 850mhz but you've also got an annoying telstra boot screen, and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it until S-OFF is figured out for Wildfire.

jonusc said:
Hey guys,
EDIT: What is this goldcard nonsense? Do your research! Unrevoked3 installs the Clockworkmod recovery and you can then flash ANYTHING.
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The Goldcard is for people who choose to run the HTC RUU upgrade process, as described by lemming999. As you just reflashed your ROM, it is expected that you would not require a Goldcard.
As per my post above. *** Do not run this unless you really don't care about your rural coverage ***

Ok - I've posted a solution for getting 850MHz 3G back again for anyone silly enough to do what I did. Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11559059#post11559059

inaxeon said:
Ok - I've posted a solution for getting 850MHz 3G back again for anyone silly enough to do what I did. Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11559059#post11559059
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Is it possible that you have S-OFF as a result of flashing an RUU? I assume no, because there are no RUU packages which have an "Engineering" SPL included... right?
What about SIMLOCK? True debranding should remove the CID if you can share whether you can use non Telstra SIM cards now, I may pursue the Goldcard/RUU process myself!

I don't have S-OFF at the end of this. But the HTC RUU does have the ability by some means of magic to COMPLETELY debrand the phone (including the first boot screen) and ruin your radio in the process.
So now that I've managed to restore the Telstra radio, I have have a 100% unbranded, fully working A3335 while most people tend to be stuck with the telstra logo at the SPL.
If S-OFF was obtainable on wildfire I think this process would be a lot easier but I got the desired result in the end. Reflashing the radio is pretty dodgy. I've avoid it as if it goes wrong. Your phone is a doorstop.

jonusc said:
What about SIMLOCK? True debranding should remove the CID if you can share whether you can use non Telstra SIM cards now, I may pursue the Goldcard/RUU process myself!
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Yes non telstra SIM cards work. Although, I bought the phone unlocked so I don't know how this came about. as for the CID, it may remain, it may not. I don't know how to tell. There's a fairly good chance it was nuked when I flashed with the Euro RUU.

Fair enough, thanks for the detail. I'm not fussed on SIMLOCK (no vodafone coverage out here anyway), was just curious.
In regards to s-off, it is determined by SPL which AFAIK every RUU has. But again, every PUBLIC RUU would have nandlock. But there are some Wildfire users here who do have s-off, and say they don't remember how they did it (they never noticed until down the track). Odd.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

[Q] Help - can't get service using Brazilian SBF

Hi Everyone,
I recently flashed the Brazilian MS2 SBF (was using Australian Vodafone ROM) in an attempt to get 3G working here in Canada (Rogers; 850/1900).
When I flashed the Brazilian SBF, I was able to get a connection very briefly before getting an error that my SIM is not authorized for this network.
Does the Brazilian ROM institute some sort of SIM-lock? If so, has anyone got around it? I haven't had any problems with UK, Australia or original Chinese ROM (phone eBay'd from HK)
Is it confirmed that the MS2 can in fact properly baseband switch from 900/2100 to 850/1900?
Thank you for your time and help!

vastator said:
Hi Everyone,
I recently flashed the Brazilian MS2 SBF (was using Australian Vodafone ROM) in an attempt to get 3G working here in Canada (Rogers; 850/1900).
When I flashed the Brazilian SBF, I was able to get a connection very briefly before getting an error that my SIM is not authorized for this network.
Does the Brazilian ROM institute some sort of SIM-lock? If so, has anyone got around it? I haven't had any problems with UK, Australia or original Chinese ROM (phone eBay'd from HK)
Is it confirmed that the MS2 can in fact properly baseband switch from 900/2100 to 850/1900?
Thank you for your time and help!
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u should find ur answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940828&highlight=brazilian+sbf

I had a look at that thread earlier.. but no avail. Actually it turns out they released several Milestone 2s, and not all of them are tri-band 3G. Some are dual - this is the risk of getting these phones early off of eBay. Mine is 900/2100 3G - I need 850/1900 3G. Stuck with ****ty EDGE until either 1) I move to a new country 2) my phone carrier changes infrastructure - both not happening soon.
Thanks
agent008my said:
u should find ur answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940828&highlight=brazilian+sbf
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[Q] Android 2.2, no 850MHz 3G band available on X8 E15a

Hi Everyone,
I'm a first time poster here, so please be patient with me.
Just today I installed this ROM onto my Xperia X8 E15a:
MiniCM6-1.0.0 *Released*, Froyo Cyanogen 6.1.3 port for the X8
It works nicely and is a great, except that I can't connect to my mobile phone carrier. I am 99% certain the problem is that my carrier operates on the 850MHz frequency, and I'm guessing that the ROM I installed is supporting the E15i's supported frequencies of 900 and 2100MHz.
My phone can scan for networks and it picks up carriers that use 2100MHz, but doesn't find my carrier, who uses 850MHz.
How can I force the X8 to connect at 850MHz? I know if this can be done it will fix my problem.
Thanks to anyone who tries to help.
JC.

Update Xperia X8 with official firmwares or custom firmwares
Official versions of E15i/E15a listed in this thread. Download the appropriate version and use Flashtool.

Thanks bailey_ca
SORTED
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Thanks bailey_ca, love your work!
Before I encountered the above problem I bricked my phone while attempting to upgrade to Android 2.2. To get the phone to work I used FlashTools to put a 2.1 rom back onto it, but I mistakenly put on a E15i European rom instead of the US one.
The European rom is designed only to work with 900/2100MHz 3g bands, whereas I needed 850/1900/2100MHz bands, like my phone is designed to use.
I flashed back to the 2.1 rom designed for the E15a model, then up to Android 2.2, and it all works great, 3g and all.

how can i know the bands my phone is using?
I'm having a similar problem.