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[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
So, I have a couple of lines on VZW, but they are all used by family members on my account, and I don't have a VZW SIM. The guy who sold me the phone said he already unlocked it, and I believe him, but is the SIM an issue and is there any way to know if the phone is still unlocked? Can an unlock be undone after wiping internal sd?

I'm asking because I think I can just not worry about that step, but I want to double check. I put it back to stock 2.3.4, now showing 5.6.890 xt862 instead of whatever the xt883 was. I did this to get rid of the previous owner's Google account. Edge, calling and text were working on T-Mo when I bought the D3 a few days ago. When I put my SIM in now, however, and change it to GSM/UMTS mode, there are no operators available when I tap on the list and of course it doesn't work yet. I understand this is due to putting it back on stock lol, but I'm gonna go ahead and try flashing the radio and seeing what happens.

It's already rooted using zergrush. Has safestrap and I can boot into it by rebooting/pressing menu, but my /system folder won't back up. That's the only sign that something is wrong other than the fact that no ROMs will flash in safe mode. I've already left comments on Hash's site, so I'm waiting over there too. Figured I'd pop in here again real quick :-)

Thanks.

UPDATE (from the other forum):

My Droid 3 is working on T-Mobile for voice and text. This is exactly what I wanted. Got some great in-depth help on this one, especially from @tspx23. Thanks a ton! This will be my daily driver now until we switch to VZW, at which point this will turn into a back up, unless I fail to find something else worth a contract at that point lol.

I might write a guide later on if anyone wants it. The process is easier than it seems, as long as you have it in plain english lol.

Thanks to anyone who contributed to this!
[Motorola Droid 3] ericerk:
Is it possible to mix this with a current rom instead of flashing a random Chinese one, like infuse with cm7 or liberty?
[Motorola Droid 3] Darksurf:
Tmo has horrible coverage and awful customer service. Cs is all nice to you but lies about everything constantly. They did nothing but screw me. That's the whole reason I'm on verizon now. At least now I have coverage and won't be lied to whether or not I have it, or be told to get wifi and then u can make calls since u don't have service.
[Motorola Droid 3] anathema_forever:
I don't know of anyway besides a sim card to check if its unlocked and I am not sure a verizon one would ask for the sim unlock code even if it was locked but sim cards can be really cheap. If your phone was unlocked that will never be undone, if it was working on tmobile before you reverted to stock then it is unlocked, it would not have worked using tmobile otherwise.

are you using the latest version of safestrap, he released a bugfix version pretty recently? Could you be more descriptive of what you did while in safestrap?

It is not rom specific as far as I know, I am just using the stock one.
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
@Darksurf, I agree. I never had them but before I moved they didn't cover my old town. Verizon may be expensive but at least they tell you they will rape you at front and explain all charges.
[Motorola Droid 3] gierso:
you can also try with at&t in full3g. As they have the same bands the d3 has

Enviado desde mi DROID3 usando Tapatalk

I will see tomorrow if this works with ICS

Radio and build prop edit
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
I'm staying on T-Mo till they go under. They are cheap and I have unlimited Edge, which is all I can get on this phone anyway lol. Only ten bucks a month for data, since I have an older package from before they tried to hike their rates.

My D3 is having some issues after I reboot, and sometimes just randomly, it will lose all signal and tell me that my preferred operator cannot be found or error connecting. I have been just rebooting and sometimes wiggling my SIM around to see if it fixes, and it does.

Only other thing that is a little weird is my phone thinks it's an xt883, even though I'm on the stock VZW ROM. I'm wondering if this is causing some issues that I'm not qualified to really diagnose lol. Usually after I reboot, I have some of my google apps' names in Chinese, but I'm not sure if that is from radio.img, new build.prop, or from changing my bloatware to .bak.

Also, be advised that if you remove bloat, conversations.apk breaks incoming text if it isn't seen by the system. I added .bak to the end of it and could send texts to my wife, but couldn't get any messages. I changed it back and texting works fine. I use Chomp SMS, but that didn't seem to matter.

Have fun :-)

P/S: also, when choosing operators in settings, you have the option for T-Mobile 2G, AT&T 2G or 3G. Just to confirm ;-) probably because AT&T's 3G bands are the international standard, right?
[Motorola Droid 3] anathema_forever:
when you flashed the stock rom back onto it did you delete the /system partition and do a factory reset on your device before you did it?
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
I'd love to see someone put these mods into a ROM, but I'm not sure if any of it is compatible with existing ROMs. I also accomplished this on stock. When I get around to flashing CM7 again (or trying to at least lol), I'll post about how it goes.

I'm thinking that when I wiped my phone, the unlock remained but the radio.img that was on the Chinese ROM was undone or lost. Flashing it was easy though, using cmd mentioned earlier in this thread. I just needed help figuring out how to set it up, since I'm a noob at command line lol.

After that, I downloaded adb and tried to use other commands I've found (which claimed to work, but didn't for me somehow) to change out the build.prop. This failure was likely my fault lol but I found it easier to just use Root Browser lite to back up my original build.prop then replace it with the modified one.

I figure that if my SIM doesn't work after flashing some other ROM, I'll just try the two main steps again and see if it works then. If anyone really wants to do this, it isn't too hard or not worth it in my mind. I also figure this phone will be relevant enough for a while longer, considering I am cool with Edge speeds, I certainly won't mind being stuck with VZW's 3G whenever we change over. I am in no hurry to get LTE battery suck or bulkiness either. I'll wait for a little more refining to be done on that end before I upgrade from this phone :-)
[Motorola Droid 3] newshook:
I am interested in making the phone compatible on T-Mobile / ATT by flashing XT883 radio. I have one question: Will the "unlocking" turn the phone completely GSM phone so it can no longer work on CDMA network?

Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
Probably until you flash the Verizon ROM back I would assume.
[Motorola Droid 3] ich511:
No. XT883 is also CDMA compatible, so the ability to use CDMA should stay. You might need to do *228 though.
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
You unlock the phone via carrier unlock code, e.g. they give you a code via email or over the phone allowing your gsm functions to work with foreign sim cards (other than the one they come with). After getting the unlock code and flashing the xt883 radio.img (and changing/replacing your build.prop) you can still choose to use cdma. Flashing this radio (which I'm currently using on T-Mobile) doesn't make your phone incompatible with cdma and is reversible. You would simply have to flash the original radio.img and change back your build.prop, or just flash a regular cdma ROM. I plan to do this some time next year if/when T-Mobile goes under and my wife and I switch to Verizon. In the mean time, I only get edge on T-Mobile (using it on AT&T will get 3g), but I have cheap and unlimited data (legacy data plan $10) and a great phone with keyboard. I'm using the stock ROM, rooted, but will eventually try CM7 with the gsm tweak. I will likely have to reflash the xt883 radio.img and change my build.prop (I think).

Droid 3 with stock xt862 ROM working on T-Mobile via xt883 radio.img
[Motorola Droid 3] ericerk:
i wasn't able to flash the chineese rom, idk why it just wouldn't let me :/
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
I don't know why you'd want to flash xt883 ROM as it's chinese and comes with a bunch of Apps you probably don't want. You can use the info in the thread found in the dev section about flashing just the xt883 radio.img and changing out your build.prop which will allow you to use any ROM, as far as I know. I'm using the stock ROM and my phone works on T-Mobile just fine. Find the thread and follow its instructions if you want GSM in the US on the D3.

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[Motorola Droid 3] jawsofire:
I have my phone running on T-Mobile as well, but when I do a network scan I also see T-Mobile 3G. However, when I select the option it says unavailable. My phone has the XT862 radio unlocked for US GSM. I was looking at the specs and I noticed that I should be able to pick up 4G. I was wondering if I needed to contact T-Mobile in order to get 4G or if that was still locked.
[Motorola Droid 3] prop7459:
I you will not get T-Mobile 3G or 4G service due to a missing frequency from the D3 radio. T-Mobile uses the 1700MHZ Band aka AWS along with 1900MHZ band for their 3G & 4G service. You should be able 3G on AT&T since the D3 has both 850MHZ & 1900MHZ bands.
[Motorola Droid 3] jawsofire:
I called T-Mobile and they said I just need GSM/WCDMA mode. They said that I need the 1900 band. Is there way to get the phone into GSM/WCDMA mode instead of GSM/UTMS?
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
According to T-Mobile wikipedia page, they use 1900 for Edge. 1700 is for 3G, and 2100 is also for 3G, but you can't use it on the D3 because it's missing 1700. I may be wrong, but I've asked this question before to more knowledgeable users and they said you need two frequencies to get 3G/4G on T-Mobile, not just one. I believe 1700 MHz is the key here, and we simply don't have it.

Those T-Mobile reps you talked to were either confused or didn't know their own network well enough to correctly answer the question.

From wikipedia:

The company owns licenses to operate a 1900 MHz GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) PCS (Personal Communications Service) digital cellular network and a 1700 MHz/2100 MHz UMTS AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) digital cellular network that cover areas of the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It provides coverage in areas in which it does not own radio frequency spectrum licenses via roaming agreements with other operators of compatible networks.

Just because we have 2100 doesn't mean we can use their 3G. We need both 1700 and 2100. Any questions? Lol.

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[Motorola Droid 3] newshook:
I have a question related to use D3 with T-mobile:

Currently I am a verizon subscriber and just got my D3 unlocked after calling Verizon Global support. Saturday I met with a friend who is a T-mobile subscriber. I put his sim card to my phone to make sure the phone in fact is unlocked.

After inserting the sim card to D3, I can see T-mobile on the front so I'd like to think it is unlocked. Then I dialed to my wife's cell number. After a few rings I hang up.

Afterward I checked my wife's phone. Her phone showed the call that I made from D3 with T-mobile's sim while the phone number was mine (verizon #). Here is my question: is the D3 supposed to be "locked" for US GSM carrier like ATT and T-Mobile? What does the phone log mean?

Please share your insights. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
The call went through using your VZW line of service, as is shown by the fact that it was your VZW phone number showing up on your wife's phone. Unlocking the phone will allow any gsm sim card except for the ones VZW blocked, which include AT&T and T-Mobile.

No, IMO it shouldn't be like that, but some people will argue that VZW can do what they want with their phones that they sell us. Well, we can do what we want with them after we buy them lol. If you use this guide, it will sidestep VZW's lock on the gsm functionality, so it can be used on US gsm carriers.

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[Motorola Droid 3] newshook:
So my phone (D3) indeed is unlocked, right? I hope it is otherwise I would be prompted to enter the subsidy code, I think.

Next time I would make sure my wife picks up the call so I know for sure if the T-mobile sim actually can establish the connectivity while air-time goes to the verizon subscriber (the VZW D3 owner).
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
I have no way of knowing if your phone is unlocked other than what you are able to tell me. If you called Verizon, got the unlock code and typed it in, then I'm sure it is probably unlocked. The steps in the guide in the dev section detail how to unlock the phone above and beyond what unlocking through Verizon will allow.

Right now, if you haven't flashed the D3 to the xt883 radio.img (as shown in the guide) and replaced the build.prop file found in the /system folder, then it isn't actually doing crap with that T-Mobile SIM. Any calls you make or texts you send under these circumstances are only using the Verizon account you're still connected to.

Now, if you have taken the steps outlined in the guide, you should change your settings to show gsm/umts is selected under mobile networks, then choose your provider (e.g., T-Mobile). After this, you'll have it working on T-Mobile and not before.

By the way, this is all mentioned in the comments in that thread, as we've all been beating this topic like a dead horse lol. Still glad to help if there is confusion, but it's all been explained before.

Also, are you actually trying to use T-Mobile, or just testing it?
[Motorola Droid 3] newshook:
Just testing.

I think it is unlocked because I don't see the message prompting for subsidy code when inserting the T-Mobile sim.
[Motorola Droid 3] BenSWoodruff:
OK, well, there are some side effects of using the xt883 radio.img and custom build.prop, so if you try them out you'll probably want to have a way to restore ready to go so you don't have to mess around too much to get back to normal.

If you actually use it on T-Mobile, the side effects are negligible for what you're getting, but I wouldn't see any reason to stay with it if you're mainly using Verizon. If you switch back and forth or anything like that, the xt883 radio.img should be compatible for both Verizon and T-Mobile, so you'd just have to keep the SIM in the phone and go into settings to switch back to CDMA.
[Motorola Droid 3] ericerk:
Is there any way to make this work with ics?
[TouchPad General] sooby77:
Hi all,

My Touchpad running Cyanogenmod-7.1.0-tenderloin-alpha3 seems to be using only 1 core. SystemPanel is only showing 1 core active. The second core never shows any activity. Did I do something wrong in the installation? Can anyone help? Thanks.
[TouchPad General] peachpuff:
Move the page up and down really quickly, the second core will wake up.
[TouchPad General] sooby77:
Thanks! I just move my fingers around the touchscreen and sure enough the second core fired up. The reason I posted was because my Galaxy S2's second core is almost always on, but at a very low level. That's why I thought my TP was only running on one core!
[TouchPad General] sooby77:
Another quick question - my WIFI works fine on my TP but rather slow. My fastest download is about 500kbps. My SGS2 frequently go over 1.5Mbps. Is this a known issue?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeming101:
Hey, i've been reading this forum for a while but never needed to register until now:

Basically everytime I try to stream videos or music (via spotify/google music etc) over my mobile connection (Orange UK), the application becomes unresponsive and I have to force close it! I installed the KL1 modem so I think it might be something to do with this.

Here's my current set up:

Hyperdroid Androimeda v3.0 rom w/ Skim Blue surgeon

Android 2.3.5 base

Baseband - XXKL1

Kernel - Androimeda

Any ideas to fix this? I am planning on reflashing to the KI4 modem but just wanted to double check!

Thanks!
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
This is a pointer to the new TWRP recovery. It is awesome!!!

http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/twrp-sunfire-2.0.0RC0.img

Edit: TWRP2 is dead! the sight no longer allows product downloads!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] kusanagi-sama:
Already a thread on it here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1398119
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
So a zip that is "cwm flashable" will also be "twrp flashable"?

UnLocked/Rooted MoPho

[SBF] yay 4 juggs' 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM Build [ROM] jokersax11's skinny rev1

[Kernel] jokersax11's Stable Blur 1.4 OC Kernal

[Theme] KTT16's Blackout Theme v3

[Recovery] romracer's Blue 5.0.2.7-photon3 CWM-Based
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
here it is cwm flashable thanks team win

http://www.multiupload.com/K0QJ7ZE02E
[Motorola Photon 4G] TexasRebel:
No i mean does a ROM have to be specially made to be flashed via TWRP instead of CWM?

UnLocked/Rooted MoPho

[SBF] yay 4 juggs' 2.3.4-4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_7-CM Build [ROM] jokersax11's skinny rev1

[Kernel] jokersax11's Stable Blur 1.4 OC Kernal

[Theme] KTT16's Blackout Theme v3

[Recovery] romracer's Blue 5.0.2.7-photon3 CWM-Based
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
i dont think so
[Motorola Photon 4G] jokersax11:
Google has a recovery standard. All phones use googles recovery which cwm is based off of and hopefully twrp. If so then yes cwm flashables will be fine
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
Both TWRP & CWM will install any flash-able .zip file.

What is not cross-compatible are the backups. You must restore a backup with the same tool (and version) that created the backup.
[Motorola Photon 4G] spleef:
Used this and it worked great thank you
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Don't for get to thank me for the zip ;-)
[Motorola Photon 4G] DWake014:
You can flash a new recovery in cwm?
[Motorola Photon 4G] moonzbabysh:
Fricken Awesome
[Motorola Photon 4G] corybucher:
Can some give me the commands to flash this recovery img through my phones terminal?
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
moto-fastboot erase recovery

moto-fastboot flash recovery twrp-sunfire-2.0.0RC0.img

moto-fastboot reboot

Worked for me.
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
Ya i flashed the sane way...never need CWM

So far its been working great
[Motorola Photon 4G] corybucher:
How do you boot into recovery when the phone is off?

---------- Post added at 08:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:56 PM ----------

Better question how do I reflash the a rom using fastboot? I was flashing Jokers rom and it was taking for some reason so I pulled the battery and know it just boots into the M logo with the unlocked at the top left.
[Motorola Photon 4G] RockoDev:
Hold the volume down and power at the same time for recovery
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
I think that there may be a bug in TWRP 2.0 my battery always shows 10%.

Also if I try and flash a .zip file that is invalid the program stops and you have to do a battery pull.
[Motorola Photon 4G] CharFalco:
I was able to flash this - having followed QBKing's video for unlocking - I also have root via Penguin's AIO root - upon booting into recovery I get an Android guy with the Yellow Triangle. What did I do wrong?

I rooted first, then decided to unlock and flashed this with Moto-Fastboot - did I flash the recovery incorrectly?
[Motorola Photon 4G] roundeye1987:
New problem; it wont mount system for me anymore so I had to switch back to CWM so I could play with ICS.

Sent from my TWRP-a-fied OC'd CM7 Electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Lancerz:
Hmm, same thing just started happening to me now. Was just trying to do a backup and the system won't mount.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ttkyles:
Never mind found my answer
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
well I borked my photon using twrp2. Tried to recover by flashing the .sbf but no luck.

Good thing I have insurance!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] roundeye1987:
You're using your insurance because you want to get rid of TWRP? Because to change that its a simple fastboot command or two, no need to reflash an sbf or turn in an insurance claim.

Sent from my CWM OC'd CM7 Electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
I tried fastboot and adb with no success. Even the sprint tech tried without success.
[Motorola Photon 4G] roundeye1987:
Huh. Never had a problem flashing different recoveries via fastboot. Best of luck I guess!

Sent from my CWM OC'd CM7 Electrify.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
I just read on the TeamWin blog that development of TWRP is stopping. No more releases I am guessing, if this is the case.

boo
[Motorola Photon 4G] :
Thanks just read this switched back to CWM

Team Win Announcement
[Motorola Photon 4G] lucidvtec:
I had twrp I just dl the cwm zip from romracer and flashed it with twrp now I'm back on cwm easy as hell

I left twrp for cwm so I could mess with ICS

sent from my ICS'd Mopho
[Motorola Photon 4G] tcf84:
I had this problem right after I unlocked because I had no service(for a still unknown reason) and I tried to flash the stock .sbf to "re-lock" the phone. Then I realized I couldn't get to the recovery so I tried to reload it through fastboot, but it wouldn't stick. I ended up re-flashing the unlock .sbf, loaded the cwm recovery via fastboot and it stuck. Don't know if that helped but hope it did!
[Motorola Photon 4G] ChadH42:
TWRP2 is dead! the sight no longer allows product downloads!!
[Motorola Photon 4G] njankit:
Its working for me
[Motorola Photon 4G] AKDMA:
Why would you say something so extreme without actually knowing?
[Motorola Photon 4G] cornelious2:
one word.... Trolololololol
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Can someone post a working link. I just bought a photon, and waiting for it to arrive, so I'm getting all the files together to root, and the link doesn't work for me. Thanks for any help.
[Motorola Photon 4G] jrebo:
I suggest you use this instead.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16654262
[Motorola Photon 4G] willysp:
Just tried and link worked fine for me.

BUT - is there a reason you want to use this instead of the CWM 5.0.2.7 that joker supports?

http://www.jokersax.com/upload/joker-recoveryv2.zip
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
I really don't know why I want this. I'm new to the photon, and was just browsing the forums, for some how to's on rooting the photon and a video had this method for recovery. Is there any updated how to's for the photon that I can look at.
[Motorola Photon 4G] AKDMA:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1393519

There's a lot of info. I'd use CWM 5.0.2.7.
[Motorola Photon 4G] ski21:
Boy that's what I get for switching to the iphone for a couple months. I get lazy. Thanks for the link. I appreciate it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] MoPho:
I'm having problems. I install the recovery through the app and it says it installed. Never rebooted during the process and when I click load recovery it comes up failed boot 2 starting RSD Mode. I'm stock, rooted with the newest OTA update. If I battery pull the phone loads no problem.
[Motorola Photon 4G] bullfrog527:
You can't flash a custom recovery on the latest ota. The Bootloader is locked down, you need to check out peetr's thread on sv2 flashing with rsd to recover your phone I think

sent from my MoPhoKing CMX MoPho
[Motorola Photon 4G] MoPho:
Phone works fine. The bootloader isn't unlocked through pudding. I didn't think flashing a recovery would be a problem. The new Photon Q is supposed to have an unlockable bootloader stock. Might have to get it when it comes out.
[Motorola Photon 4G] heywired:
Heres TWRP 2.3 if anybody is interested..
[Motorola Photon 4G] dragontology:
Can it be flashed just like a .zip in TWRP (the last one)?

Thanks for porting it to our phone or at least bringing the good news (not sure which), and happy holidays!
[Motorola Photon 4G] bearw815:
Official thread!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20470127
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jleeblanch:
You beat me to it!

Anyway, in case its necessary, addition link is below.

*Note* Can flash in existing recovery (or extract the img file and flash via fastboot)

CWM Zip: openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.0-sunfire.zip

Previous versions. Just in case anyone is interested :)

Happy Holidays! Enjoy :D