HTC Desire Radios

by veera, 138 comments

As requested by many many many people in the XDA forum, I have uploaded the radio drivers, so that people would stop posting about dead links. I’ll try to be as up to date as I could be, but not promising everything. Credits goes to the XDA legend ‘AdamG’.

I have compiled a list of FAQ with their answers. Before commenting please read this post and ask further questions there. 

32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 (ed8e50f28f7d7aa1063e9d8ce1d5230d) (Latest)  

32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08 (8f8a27febb22dac3477770411545be83)  

32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17 (48bab65d6035177478a83fe32fb81d89)  

32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27 (f4f0bad3f53b2d973aa7a9b735e9ec14)  

32.48.00.32U_5.11.05.14 (b2e216c0cb18abb8dd96eb4615844040)  

32.47.00.32U_5.10.05.23 (ac5c714184d1181e4df75ed468f2ec21)  

32.46.00.32U_5.10.05.17_2 (340be4a732c2d529c77fdce23037cd96)  

32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2 (ebc878a180b260f00f7ae433bed51334)  

32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20 (332797ee123be77f7833c38299f17b0a)  

32.42.00.32U_5.09.00.08 (9a78458aa9717075d57b4ad020603950)  

32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04 (4c5203bfb8163b6bd9f45d405b30c2a0)  

For your convenience, I have included AdamG’s tutorial on how to flash: (Original here)

How to flash the radios:

1. Make sure you have the usb driver installed from the android sdk
2. Turn your desire off
3. Hold the back button and turn your desire on
4. When you are at the white screen, make sure BOOTLOADER is selected and press the power button
5. Wait a few seconds then press volume down to select RECOVERY and press the power button again
6. When you are at the screen with the red triangle and the phone, plug in the usb cable
7. Run the recovery-windows.bat script from modaco r5 root pack
8. When the recovery menu appears select ‘Flash zip from sdcard’
9. Select the radio zip file and press the trackerball to confirm
10. Press the trackerball over ‘Reboot system now’
11. When the radio image has finished being written unplug the usb cable
12. The phone will reboot a couple of times and then return to a normal state with your new radio

Or here is my version (useful when no computers are around):

1. Download the radio to your SD card.
2. Turn off the phone fully,
3. Hold down VolDown key and press the power button once. Keep on holding the VolDown.
4. When you see the white screen, let go.
5. Wait for a few seconds .. usually count to 7 would work.
6. Scroll down to ‘recovery’ using the VolDown VolUp keys. Select using power button.
7. You get to the black page, with a few lines of text. Now start using your optical pad.
8. Go to “Install zip from sdcard”.
9. Navigate and select the zip.
10. Accept and flash.
11. Phone will restart a few of times, then you will come back and boot up again with your new radio.

There maybe times when either methods wont work, but that would be when you have changed the internal partition sizes (e.g. cache size), and therefore you should be pro enough to know how to flash radio’s without the need of recovery (i.e. through Fastboot).

Comments (138)

1. Leo Kroonenburg

   11 March 2012 at 9:31:54 AM

   Hello,

   thanks for this list, I have one big question:

   I recently bought a HTC Desire which now has Android 2.2, has simlock removed but is still Orange (Spain) branded.

   And off course, I am troubled by the “Limited Service” bug.

   Do you know whether this is related to one of the radio-versions?
   Mine has the following software:
   Android: 2.2
   Baseband Version: 32.48.00.32U_5.11.05.14
   Kernel version: 2.6.32.15-ge2c73db
   htc-kernel@and18-2 #1
   Build number: 2.22.75.3 CL274424 release keys
   Software number: 2.22.75.3
   Browser version: Webkit 3.1

   Maybe you can shine a light on this?

   Thanks,

   Leo
   • Mo

     11 March 2012 at 9:41:58 AM

     Hello.

     Sorry but I cannot help you out with this specific issue for two reasons:
     1) I don’t own a Desire anymore.
     2) Never had that issue on my previous handset.

     However from a slight technical perspective (and some very vague memory), the specific radio that you are currently using was from a ‘bad’ batch. So I would suggest you either downgrade to 30_2 or upgrade to the newest one available.

     If all fails, try a new ROM?

     Sorry couldn’t be more help,
     Good luck,
     Mo.
2. Elias

   10 February 2012 at 3:58:51 AM

   Realy helpful!!! Tanks!!!
3. ciscokid

   19 December 2011 at 4:00:54 PM

   Hi,

   When I try to flash the radio using either method described I do not get any option after powering on and holding down either the volume down key or the back key. It just shows the HTC screen and loads to my phone. Is there something else required prior to doing this?
4. Hao

   13 December 2011 at 8:16:14 PM

   erm, somehow i got an error flashing the latest radio stating that amend scripting is no longer supported as it was neccesary to be removed in CWM 3.0 GB based recovery. It asked me to switch to edify scripting to create working update zip file..? i am using CWM v5.0.2.6…. please help..
   • Mo

     14 December 2011 at 10:24:07 AM

     If you look in the comments, you will see the answer to your question. However for the sake of making your life slightly easier, here is an answer that *might* work…

     Install Rom Manager, and flash the zip file through ROM Manager. Rom Manager will automatically do the rest for you.

     Good luck.

     Reply
     • Hao

       14 December 2011 at 2:32:22 PM

       solved, i reflash back my CWM to CWM 2.XX and successfully flashed the latest radio..
       thanks for the reply~~
     • Ankur Jana

       8 February 2012 at 6:37:36 AM

       Hi Mo, I tried installing the radio from the ROM Manager, but I still get the same error, is there any other way to do this?(I am using Cyanogen Mod 7)
       • Mo

         8 February 2012 at 7:14:31 AM

         Hello.

         You could extract the radio.img file from the zip file, and use fastboot to flash the radio.

         Have a look at my next post for more details:

         http://www.mofirouz.com/wordpress/2011/04/htc-desire-radios-faq/

         Mo.