Leaked Gingerbread Radio May Brick

There has been much excitement surrounding the release of the new gingerbread roms, but the leaked radio that is required with these builds might be bricking some thunderbolts. It is strongly advised to revert back to a froyo rom and radio. More details can be found if you follow the link below.

Link to XDA Forum Post

Das BAMF 2.0

Das BAMF 2.0, which is built from the leaked gingerbread rom, has hit and is sporting many of the cool features from sense 3.0 including the lockscreen, weather, weather wallpaper, and more. This build does require the leaked gingerbread radio to be flashed.

Link to Forum Post

Update: Leaked gingerbread radio has been known to brick phones, proceed with caution.

Battery Life Solution

If your having short battery life issues with your thunderbolt, I would suggest buying some cheap batteries off ebay and carrying a fully charged battery with you throughout the day. If your phone runs low, just swap the battery for the fully charged one. Most packages come with a wall charger just for the batteries, so it makes having extra, fully charged batteries very simple. I bought two 1500mAh batteries and a wall charger off ebay for $10 shipped. Yes, they aren't really 1500mAh batteries, but they do last me a good 6 or 7 extra hours after my OEM battery runs out. When I have a fully charged, extra battery in my pocket, I'm never afraid to use my phone to it's awesome potential.

Link to Ebay's Thunderbolt Batteries

CyanogenMod 7.1.0-RC0 Alpha Build

@LayherDaddy just announced a new build is up for cm7 on the thunderbolt. Get it while its hot!

Note:

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by LayherDaddy

According to @LayherDaddy, you might get bootloops if you wipe /data & flash the 20110307 GApps. If so, try lithid's, or another from XDA.

Download Link

Get Gapps Here

HTC Gingerbread Test Build Leaked

This morning a test build for the upcoming official gingerbread update was leaked. It originally was not flashable but @jcase took care of that. Currently, the back camera appears to be broken. Below is a video demo from droid-life and a link to the instructions to flash from androidpolice.

Instructions from AndroidPolice

Update: Jcase fixed many issues with this build, including the camera.

Click here for the FixedSh*t Edition (GingerJane 1.3)

First OTA Update

The new htc update is rolling out to non-rooted devices now, and guess what, it's exactly the same as the leaked update from weeks ago released by jcase. This release has some issues with random reboots but has improved battery life and gps. I've been enjoying the new build and radio in das bamf v1.6.3.

Free Hotspot Till June 15

The thunderbolt has had free hotspot from launch till tomorrow I believe, but Verizon has extended that till June 15th. Since the free wireless tether app has been removed from the market, here is a link to download the apk for after June 15th.

Wireless Tether apk

How to Flash Leaked Radio 1.16.00.0402

In order for this to work, the HTCThunderbolt needs to be S-OFF. Flashing the radio with a corrupt file or interrupting the flash, can brick the device, please proceed with caution.

Note: There have been reports of gps issues with this radio. Although, I have not had any problems myself.

1.) download the new radio Here

2.) You have to check the md5 sum! It should match this exactly. 8e166e93a9a72cb7955440720ba8869a

If you don’t know how to check the md5 sum watch the beginning of my video Here

3.) The file is already named correctly, so you just need to place it on the root of your sd card. Not in any folder or subfolder.

4.) Shutdown your phone. Then hold the volume down button and the power button until your phone boots to the bootloader. It should then find the zip file and ask you if you want to apply the update, select yes (volume up). It will flash, then tell you it was successful and push the power button to reboot.

Link to download more radios

New HTC ROM / First OTA Update

A few days ago htc leaked a new thunderbolt rom that will most likely be the first over the air update for all thunderbolts. The RUU comes with a new radio, and many fixes including

Known Fixes:

SQLite API

GPS Location Services

LTE/3g Transitions

Audio Recodring

Video Playback

Proximity Sensor drain

Link to Get if Rooted

Link to Get if NOT Rooted

Pre-alpha, Pre-release CyanogenMod 7

All of slayher’s hard work on cyanogenmod 7 for the thunderbolt is finally available to try out! Keep in mind this is a pre release, pre alpha build, with some known issues, but still! Finally, a taste of gingerbread on the thunderbolt. Check out the link below to get it for yourself.

Link to Get