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[Motorola Droid RAZR] lrrc29:
are you using a micro sim or you had to cut it? is it activated?. i had the same issue with tmobile sim and you have to be sure if you cut the sim card the contacts are in the right position. if you look the verizon sim card and the tmobile you are going to notice you need to cut a lot in the upper side the contacts need to be very inside the phone.

sorry about my english im doing my best to help everybody.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lrrc29:
so was the problem? if you read my first post i said i was running the first leak of ics i had to be back to gb because the charge only pc mode issue and tonight i running the new leak and still recognizing both sim cards.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fade79:
I used a regular T-mobile SIM that I cut. The card and the contacts match up to my VZ microSIM. I tried leaving the phone on for a while since people in the Bionic forum reported having to leave it for a long time before it detects the network but it didn't work for me. I might try it with an ATT SIM tomorrow to see if that makes a difference.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lrrc29:
this is the way i had to cut tmobile sim card to make it work. it was a little tricky but i made it work.

the larger one in the left is verizon micro sim and the other is the cutted t mobile sim
[Motorola Droid RAZR] radiohead7778580:
i can try to cut one ... but i i have a micro sim card from tmobile that come with my htc one s
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fade79:
Other then the editing done in RadioComm did you do anything else?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] lrrc29:
if you notice the of contacs area on vzw sim are larger than tmobile sim you need to cut almost all the upper side of the sim and yes sometimes takes a while but once you are going to have apn settings menu. are you sure you did all the steps right? specially the step you have to change the first 16 digits because for me that was the trickiest part

one more thing i did is i downloaded phone info app from the play store and i put my phone in gsm only
[Motorola Droid RAZR] scottdanpor:
If your razr's are GSM type *#06# in phone or go to System settings>About phone>Status>IMEI

It should be 15 numbers
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
IMEI incorrectly reporting

My razr is a xt912 and it shows 14 digits while my sidekick shows 15. On the box and the sdcard door is 15 digits. Is there a way to see what the phone is reporting to the cellphone towers? I just got the sgh-i535 and when I pull up the IMEI it is 14 digits / 2 digits. I am thinking that their is a way Verizon has encrypted the IMEI in some way to only roam on other towers. Just call me crazy but I feel it has to do with the two radios being connected. What is the actual hardware difference between each model? I would like to help with these phones but really a noob in the programming of these phones. Is there anyway to break it down like I do with software for computers? You can email me at blackice25@yahoo.com. The devices that I have are two Sanyo zio m6000, two Droid razr xt912, one Samsung s3 sgh-i535, one sidekick slide, and one Acer a100. None has been rooted or altered as of yet. Have computer programming skills in several languages and want to give a hand any way I can.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ValtheBatman:
Droid Razr Maxx works on Straight talk.!!!

There is Droid Razr Maxx on Amazon that will work with Straight talk, at least one of the reviews has posted that it works! That is super awesome!!!

I can't post the link because I haven't posted 10 posts yet haha.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] monta990:
This works with all razr/maxx gsm cellphones for example razr´s shiped in méxico? and ICS
[Motorola Droid RAZR] traitor123:
flash asiaretail (not psh asiaretail), best motorola rom with best battery life
[Motorola Droid RAZR] shaerdil:
huh

Gentlemen,

I am not sure if the following information could help diagnose the issue at hand; though I suspect that so called Black list is to be blamed.

**********

Equipment Identity Register (EIR) - The EIR is a database that keeps tracks of handsets on the network using the IMEI. There is only one EIR per network. It is composed of three lists. The white list, the gray list, and the black list.

The black list is a list if IMEIs that are to be denied service by the network for some reason. Reasons include the IMEI being listed as stolen or cloned or if the handset is malfunctioning or doesnt have the technical capabilities to operate on the network.

**********

It is possible that VW has assigned such designed IMEIs that AT&T and T-mobile GSM networks are designed to automatically deny service to. For example, the IMEIs due to have check digit that if added, will make the complete IMEI number divisible by 10. What if VW made a play at this formula? just a thought.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] acslam:
Just a wild guess but it would seem that if this were true, that it might be some kind of action that violates FCC guidelines in such a way as to give us justification for a complaint? That would be awesome if it were indeed true......

Really want my phone to be able to handle both CDMA and GSM domestically, and theres NO legal reason that VZW can prevent us from doing that.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sprke:
Do the developer versions sold from Motorola have the GSM radios unlocked for use on ATT? I thought I read somewhere they were... I'm thinking specifically of the Motorola Razr HD that just came out.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] blackstar1744:
Just wanted to bump this thread to see if anyone found access to an unlocked developer edition baseband. Droid 4 + T-Mobile sim card = major frustration.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sprke:
Find it hard to believe that nobody has a developer version that has tried using a North American GSM sim...this is xda lol :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
The baseband firmware is signed to the hardware. You can only run baseband firmware intended for that specific hardware.

There is a chinese engineering baseband that can only be run on NS engineering models that has an unlocked radio.

This cannot be run on stock hardware due to failing signature checks, unfortunately.

I have an NVM dump from an engineering unit running that baseband and have tried various editing of the NV on a stock Razr to match the dump, all without any success.

Most of this work was done many months ago and I have not revisited it recently.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] oGotRiceo69:
Verizon Motorola

Hello to everyone who is a razr fan. Ive been trying to unlock my phone the last 3 days. Been calling Verizon and Motorola going back and forth. Im trying to get Moto to flash my phone to a state where they have it unlocked. What ive found out that its unlocked until Verizon gets it and turns it off. So what im thinking about doing is download the ICS update and go through the files one by one and see if i can find the line that has the GSM lock. I got some linux skills and Window apps that will help me open and find file or files and change some code. Ive found the origeial flash file for the whole system. So i hope with some time ill be unlocking this phone myself with out Verizon permission. If you think this a dead end think to yourself the last 40 pages of post and yet know has tried just going in the root of the problem and fix the software that is killing it. I understand change the radio with radiocomm does work but its Verizon software that is telling no GSM in the U.S. I spoke to Motorola and they say the phone is fully unlocked when it leaves the factory.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Verizon Locked

I have tried a few things and found that the phone is being rejected by the cell tower. T-Mobile will not comment on it but some thing from the phone sending connection information to the tower makes the phone be rejected. It is not from T-Mobile and my s3 from Verizon will connect voice but not data and it is not rooted using the same sim card in both phones. Could someone provide an untouched rom to try and break this issue down with others. I am not looking to outshine anyone but whoever can point me to the software to decompile the rom then I am willing to give my findings to that person and give them the credit since I need this help. I am not against any carrier but would like to create roms that are just as pure as you can get.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dabflyboy:
Has anyone got this to work on the Rezound?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Okay here goes my dumb ideas again. Has anyone tried to find any code that is not java, c++, Linux, or the basis of android. I have searched and come up empty handed on finding how to decompile the rom further then what is listed above. I know that it has to have some type of additional code to make it locked from other carriers. When I lock PC computers from certain functions the code to allow the function to complete is not residing on the system but on some other removable storage to complete the commands needed. Could Verizon have done this to the phone? Just throwing some ideas in the wind to see where it goes.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] shaerdil:
What I suspect

Gentlemen,

I have been using HTC Imagio (Verizon) dual band phone for a year and a half. I purchased this phone unlocked with clear sim and it worked perfectly from day one. However, I haven't been so lucky with the Motorola Droid Razr xt912. I suspect the IMEI to be the culprit in this scenario. WHY?

The IMAGIO IMEI No. is 35##########46 + (the check digit) 4 = 35##########50 which is divisible by 10

The XT912 IMEI No. is 99##########47 + (the check digit) 9 = 99##########56 which is NOT divisible by 10

Thus it is being rejected by the GSM Towers. I suggest that the gurus look in to it and tell me if I am right or wrong.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] PhoenixOnFlame:
Details

Please tell me how to use bootstrap to install this? I downloaded the file, but I do not know what to do with it. I just installed bootstrap on phone. What next? I have a razor xt912 on which I am attempting to use a Net10 sim card. I am running ICS. Please let me know any other information you would like in order to tell me what to do next.

Thank you for your work and thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

---------- Post added 18th November 2012 at 12:04 AM ---------- Previous post was 17th November 2012 at 11:33 PM ----------

Sorry for being such a newb...how do you flash it? Do you put it on the external sd? Then what?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
yes, you get it. so many people wasting so much time, when only changing the IMEI will work.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
How will you keep from getting double IMEI settings to phones if people did that. I am wondering what is under the AKEY menu in the ##program. I have been looking for a way to get the answer and QPST will not even get to it. Tried to see if that is how the phone is locked to prevent us from using US carriers. I know that the IMEI can not be the issue if the phones do work overseas with non US carriers. The issue is with the CDMA radio and the GSM radio not working as two different radios to do the same function. I have tried with Linux and with Windows to decompile that system but can not get it fully broke down. When I try to read the source code I am not getting all of the characters correctly. Do I need to learn the characters of another language?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Okay confirmed it is not the imei blocking. Called T-Mobile and got to a supervisor who confirmed that the phones are not blocked by imei but by the sim card. Imei is only saved for stolen phones and will turn on but traced to be recovered by police.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
Does the signature check get ran by the phone itself on boot, or by RSD lite when you try to flash the firmware?

Though in all other ways it is irrelevant to this thread, one of the methods for rooting a Droid X has you flash an image from the Milestone X (the Global version) using Linux and the SBF_Flash command, which apparently isn't as picky.

Perhaps we could flash the Chinese baseband in a similar fashion? If you can give me a link to the Chinese firmware, I'm willing to give it a go.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jamolloy:
Reply

So, I was just wondering if this has been confirmed working, and if it works on the Razr (xt912) for AT&T. I've tried many times, but seem to just be missing something. Any advice would be helpful.

-Joey
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
No, this will not get you working on AT&T or any other US GSM carrier. So far only international carriers have been enabled. There is a block somewhere on the phone that keeps you from registering with US cell towers other than Verizon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Found the fix

need to unbrick my razr first but so far have got the phone to load up the t-mobile sim card I have. made two test calls and had edge data. I bricked by not charging my phone before flashing back to stock to ensure that it was not a mistake. it is a software lock and OP needs to message me if anyone is still interested in unlocking there razr phone for us carriers.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
I am definitely interested in getting mine running on T-Mobile, and I'm not afraid to get my hands a little dirty. Judging by how many people on this thread keep asking if it's working yet, I think there is still plenty interest.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Soon as I am able to unbrick my phone will test again before letting anyone else try. If you are daring enough then edit the database files under

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases

That is where the phone is locked down. Use the telephony.db from the s3 as your information base. If you do not update the entire folder correctly then it will bootloop till you do a recovery boot then start over. Was not checking my battery level while finishing the tests then wanted to go back to stock to ensure that the program that will update this info while rooting the phone. Did the same to my s3 and working on doing the razr maxx HD. If anyone would like to help just pm me your email and will forward some of the finished work to help speed things up. Now just need the moto cable to fix my RAZR. If anyone would like to donate a moto cable then I will make sure you get a true finished product to just one click the fix.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
I'll give it a shot. I don't have a Moto cable though, or else I wouldn't think twice.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] blackstar1744:
This all sounds interesting, there's a good amount of people looking for a solution to use the Droid 4 on domestic GSM carriers. Hopefully a solution is around the corner!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
I'm having a bad time finding the S3 files online, so I'll just wait for your results. Thanks a bunch.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Will post the files to soon as I can get a way to my RAZR going again. I don't want to post bad files and looking to purchase a moto factory cable. If someone wants to donate one it would be great. Not much money available to develop. Getting ready for a new baby coming soon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drdreww:
Hey so i dont have a cable laying around to send you, but its really easy to make one....

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Tried to make it but not able to keep my hands steady enough. Would like for it to be given to me but not above paying when I can. Black hat has an adapter for the phone but no credit card to order it. Everyone has hard times and just want to help where I can.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drdreww:
Had a few extra minutes tonight and wanted to try it.. sooooo. PM me your address & I will try to send it monday :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
Unbrick

to unbrick use the razr utility select option number one which will flash fastboot files
[Motorola Droid RAZR] blackstar1744:
I did a little research online and FWIW I can say it definitely sounds like gwtapc found the source of this problem. Apparently some people have been removing telephony.db in order to resolve MMS issues.

If we could find an appropriate and unadultered telephony.db from another phone perhaps we could simply overwrite the existing one? Perhaps a telephony.db from an unlocked nexus phone?

Below are some links explaining the capabilities of the Android Telephony Manager. Especially interesting are the public strings getNetworkOperator and getNetworkOperatorName.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zhengpei/archive/2009/10/13/managing-apn-data-in-google-android.aspx

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html

I can't put any time into this effort this week but will play around with this next weekend and see what happens.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rican199:
Google now was updated...has anyone started testing for the Verizon Razr testing? I am willing to test for for functionality
[Motorola Droid RAZR] QuickSkope:
I have a XT910 (Native to Canada), but my friend has a XT912 he bought from the US and found out wouldnt work.

Maybe I can get in contact with him and see if that can help you out.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] TSRV1:
I have my brother-in Argentina who uses Droid razr maxx 912 on claro network and it works fine.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] srtandroid:
anything new?

any latest news. it would be super awesome to get this thing figured out before christmas.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rootedVette:
Igwtapc figured it out, but then accidentally bricked his RAZR by flashing with a dead battery. Once he gets fixed up, we can expect something solid for everyone. I have some of the files he used as a reference and am trying to reproduce his efforts, without luck so far.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Been working hard on the database but it does not hold in the rom after reboot. Working on using cm10 to flash rom into phone and see if it will hold. The journal file updates the database. Going to try using a trick from the razr HD forum and see if it will work. It is removing the database for the cdma radio and enter the GSM radio information database.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drdreww:
Yes it's in development.. as soon as he unbricks his phone.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Just received the cable today. Hopefully we will have unlocked RAZR phones soon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Okay everyone got to make a test call before the phone app went stupid. Can someone send me the folder data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases from the xt910. The email is igwtahomeandoffice@Gmail.com I am still working on the permanent fix to the database. Also need the phone apk with the odex file. Thanks for everyone being patient while doing this testing. The files need to come from the phone while activated on a GSM network. If you have questions on how to pull the files needed just shoot me an email. Zip the files then change the zip extension to z_p so it will go thru.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] LukeLeBron:
Awesome. Id send you the files but mine is locked to verizon so mine wouldnt be activated on a gsm network :/
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drdreww:
Maybe your request should bee reposted in a new thread. Because presumably everyone interested in the thread has 912's not 910's .. just a thought
[Motorola Droid RAZR] srtandroid:
wow so close. it almost seems too good to be true. ive been following this thread from the very beginning and i am ecstatic about the recent progress. huge thanks to everyone thats been working on this. kinda inspired me to get into developing.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] varianzz:
Awesome,,, it's mean i can use non VZW sim in my xt912 in all arround the world...

can't wait to try....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] drdreww:
You already can use it everywhere except north america with gsm sim
[Motorola Droid RAZR] call2kk:
Lil more info on this

I purchased it from Cregislist last week via my friend to be used in INDIA GSM network.

But I worried that it will not work as many forum says so. Some of them say that I can make call but can not use DATA on it.

If thats not case then I can get it shipped for me and use it

Thanks:angel:
[Motorola Droid RAZR] srtandroid:
and then there was...

any test versions of available yet. ill be a guinea pig. iv got a micro sim activated for t mobile as well as one for straight talk.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Still working out some kinks. The phone apk seems to force a recheck every so often of the CDMA radio. Still trying to get the files requested before.

I wonder if cellzalot might be able to help me with the phone apk.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] chagla:
thanks for your efforts igwtapc. :)

one thing i dont understand. stupid verizon is SUPPOSED to sell all their LTE phones gsm unlocked. taht is required by law. verizon iphone 5 and htc 8 phones are also gsm unlocked, even for USA. so you could buy either and pop in tmobile sim card and it just works. no hacking involved.

how come its not the same case with original moto droid.. $@@^^K verizon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
I would like to help you folks, but I am insanely busy till after the holidays and I am also unconvinced that any modifications to the system are very unlikely to make this work.

It's my belief that it is in the radio image and that modifying system files and build.prop etc. affect how it functions but not if it works at all.

When P3Droid flashed the Chinese eng radio on his eng Razr, GSM service immediately started working on his ATT SIM without doing anything else.

That seems to me to be very strong evidence that it is in the radio image. We did an NVM dump of his device and I compared them to stock in an effort to find the key in the NVM, but as I have said, I didn't find any of the differences to be the magic bullet.

I am not willing to definitively claim anyone is wrong and playing naysayer is no fun at all and I have already done quite a bit of that in this thread and elsewhere.

I have been banging my head over this for many months and would love to see it solved for this device and other MDM6600 devices, but I don't believe it will be without a signed unlocked radio image at this point...very sorry to say.

I do think it would be very useful to explain exactly what you have been modifying and how so we might all better understand your method. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Trying to make it stick is the problem that I have been running into. The radio image from the xt910 is not close enough to the xt912 so that is not the answer. Got the files today and still need the database from the xt910. I think if we get the phone past the CDMA radio to just the gsm then we will be done. So far the main issue is that the database file is missing the gsm information and where the backup is to return it to normal after it runs its check. I even notice some issues with backup assistant being embedded further then just an app in other areas of the programming. Maybe we need to get some type of pre Verizon image to flash.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
I filled a fcc complaint.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] acslam:
come on verizaann!!! You got vat you vanted!!! Give deese people aiyah!!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
Okay, got some things going on here. Phone will not accept any type of adb push nor will it flash. Trying rsd lite 5.6 and the adb in Linux nor windows will push or pull. Tried moto cable in fast boot and even tried with full battery. Will try again to get this working after Christmas. Have a good holiday.

Had to use radiocomm to get the phone back up and going. Still working on the issue of not holding the settings but got some new headway. The database is still needed from the xt910. Got the phone apk to act as an xt910 but it will crash once I try to make any settings adjustment.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] DEATHSIDE:
Hello there I have a Droid 4 and have a T-mobile SIM. But it wont let me use T-mobile since its locked to vzw. How can I unlock it to use T-mobile?