Latest Radio Upgrade with Fresh 2.1.1.

[apollomaker]

Hey ya'll --- just a quick note to let you know the radio upgrade that Flipz has posted on his site installs and functions fine with Fresh 2.1.1 -- and other ROMs as he notes in his details about the upgrade. I flashed it under RA 1.6.2.

Geek For Me – Android CDMA Sprint Hero

If you wish to upgrade, go to his site above -- download the zip and complete instructions are there. It is an easy flash but MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!

Cheers -- Bob --

 

[redandblack1287]

Just read this--2 minutes later, new radio =P

Thanks for posting, will post back with results after a little while

 

[redandblack1287]

So I did this and initially my signal was worse than before in my room, however, it went back to normal after I updated my PRL.

Make sure your PRL is up to date!

 

[apollomaker]

So I did this and initially my signal was worse than before in my room, however, it went back to normal after I updated my PRL.

Make sure your PRL is up to date!

If you are up-to-date on your PRL, it should show version 60664.

Here are a couple of paragraphs for those that are unfamiliar with the significance of the PRL in your phone....

PRL

(Preferred Roaming List)
The PRL is a list of information that resides in the memory of some kinds of digital phones. It lists the radio frequencies the phone can use in various geographic areas.

The part of the list for each area is ordered by the bands the phone should try to use first. Therefore it's a kind of priority list for which towers the phone should use.

The PRL helps determine which home-network towers to use, and also which towers belonging to other networks to use in roaming situations (areas where the home network has no coverage.) When roaming, the PRL may instruct the phone to use the network with the best roaming rate for the carrier, rather than the one with the strongest signal at the moment.

Since a PRL tells the phone "where" to search for a signal, as carrier networks change over time, an updated PRL may be required for a phone to "see" all of the coverage that it should, both with the home network and for roaming.

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[Fenga Papit]

So I did this and initially my signal was worse than before in my room, however, it went back to normal after I updated my PRL.

Make sure your PRL is up to date!

Where do I access the PRL? I looked through all of the settings but didn't see it. I really don't know what "PRL" stands for either!

 

[apollomaker]

Where do I access the PRL? I looked through all of the settings but didn't see it. I really don't know what "PRL" stands for either!

Hiya Papit ---

(1) Read the prior post by me. What PRL stands for.

(2) Settings --> About Phone --> System Updates --> Update PRL

That should get you up to speed

Cheers.

 

[Fenga Papit]

Hiya Papit ---

(1) Read the prior post by me. What PRL stands for.

(2) Settings --> About Phone --> System Updates --> Update PRL

That should get you up to speed

Cheers.

Lol...I didn't even look in system updates because I thought that was for updating Sprint's versions, so I didn't want to go there! The jokes on me.

Thanks for spelling it out for me!

 

[TheGman124]

Hey has anyone had the new radio update for fresh 2.1... give a error that the zip file was bad?

 

[330D]

Hey has anyone had the new radio update for fresh 2.1... give a error that the zip file was bad?

Sometimes they get corrupted when downloading..... Try to re-download it and see what happens

 

[NotSure]

Upgraded to new radio - my download speed went from 1m to 2m

 

[chinkster]

is it ok to flash back the STOCK radio with fresh 2.1.2? i flashed the new radio but it seems as tho my connection consistently jumps up and down? also my PRL right now is 60663 but someone said it was suppose the be 60664...when i try to update the PRL some error box pops up "the application OMADM (process com.htc.android.omadm) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again." please help.

 

[330D]

is it ok to flash back the STOCK radio with fresh 2.1.2? i flashed the new radio but it seems as tho my connection consistently jumps up and down? also my PRL right now is 60663 but someone said it was suppose the be 60664...when i try to update the PRL some error box pops up "the application OMADM (process com.htc.android.omadm) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again." please help.

Yes, it is ok to flash back to the stock radio. I would reboot, and try again to update your prl.

 

[jwpilly]

How would you flash back to the stock radio? Is there a zip file out there for it?

 

[330D]

How would you flash back to the stock radio? Is there a zip file out there for it?

Download: Radio Baseband 1.04.01.09.21 for Sprint CDMA Hero [Stock] Geek For Me – Android CDMA Sprint Hero

That is the stock radio.

 

[chinkster]

Yes, it is ok to flash back to the stock radio. I would reboot, and try again to update your prl.

i've rebooted but it still says the same thing?? is there another way to do it?