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[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
I don't pretend to understand it either, but I also know that it is true. P3Droid has a Bionic that can get voice, text and full HSPA data on his ATT SIM under the leaked ICS builds. This is inexplicable and is the single known example of this that I am aware of, but it's true.

I haven't even discussed it in the Bionic threads because it is such an outlier for any practical analysis that it has to be discounted.

He has a stock device like mine that we bought at the same time on the first day of release but in different geographic locations.

I have had him dump the NVM and examined it and have not found any significant differences from mine on the same builds.

I also got a PM today from another member who is a professional independent dealer who said he had 7 Bionics running .902 GB and 5 worked and showed signal and 2 other did not and showed no service with the red circle w/ slash.

There are many other examples I could relate from various threads with totally inconsistent user feedback for both domestic US GSM carriers and international carriers.

It's infuriating to try and make sense of and I am really only certain of what I can make work for me on my own devices.

That said, I am also not eager to get involved with donations for a device for me to work on.

I am ambivalent about it for many reasons, although I very much appreciate the gesture.

The Razr I had was given to me by a friend who didnt like the short battery life and had gotten a Maxx to replace it Many months ago.

I expressly got his permission to try what we did beforehand, but I feel pretty stupid nonetheless.

I have seen many times where people have made donations for a particular device or project and things went south after expectations were not met and we have always purchased our own devices for TBH for the most part, with a few instances of individuals giving us a phone as an expendable test unit.

I am also not sure having one will make this happen any faster and I have a D4 which is virtually identical at the board level and baseband firmware is the same. I have had the phone for several months and have not been able to get it to work on either D4 or Razr nor has P3Droid, except on his engineering Razr that can run unsigned Chinese band unlocked radios that allow domestic GSM use.

We have also dumped the NVM from that phone and tried to find the key without success.

Bottom line is that there is plenty that is utterly confusing about this and much that makes no sense at all, unfortunately!

If it were a simple matter, we would all be doing it already, there are a lot of very sharp folks on XDA and elsewhere who have been poking around with this. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Ok, I haven't had time to start a new thread with a full write up of the methods so I wanted to post this so that the OP could try it and send me his output file and anyone else interested could try it as well.

I made some edited screenshots with basic instructions and attached the Full_Dump_Template.NVM file as well.

This is a pretty simple operation and is safe for anyone to try.

You must have RadioComm 11.12.xx installed and current Motorola USB drivers.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
I got a theory on why my RAZR works. I live near Mexico. I think the network Crosses signals so when the Mexican tower senses a cell phone in the US that is looking for GSM signals, it will lock in and give it signal without roaming.

I lost my signal again at work and this time it senses the network but would not lock.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
More phone info:

Using data
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
After pressing "run ping"
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Did you dump the NVM with RadioComm?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
It sorta worked

My droid razr after using this tutorial with an t mobile sim card installed receives calls and texts perfectly. But it cant send texts, calls, or use data and it says no service and has no bars with a red circle with a slash in the center. Am not using any VZW service btw.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
I don't think that a standard GSM device would yield much useful for our needs, but it never hurts to compare and look at what's there.

The thing about the NVM I that it contains a lot of legacy items and extraneous data that is meaningless an you have to sift through and throw out all the differences that you know are not related to what you are searching for and then look for the unknowns and try to see what they do.

Writing complete dumps from one device to another wholesale is both dangerous and usually a poor way to go about it.

@mr noob: That is about as much as I have ever gotten working and even then its not consistent, but your results match those of myself and many others.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
I have not used Radiocomm at all. I do not want to make any changes that might brick or make my razr lose signal. I know it comes and goes but it mostly stays until I go to a location with very weak network signal.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
I could make calls and text domestically as well as internationally in US. As far as data goes, I get a signal but could not connect to do a speedtest.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
Maybe this has been discussed before but I haven't seen it: Is it possible that AT&T has a partial list of ESNs of most, but not all XT912s and it's merely blocking those ESNs from connecting to their towers?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Eraser310:
Does this method work using T-Mobile?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29616557
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
I am sure you are wrong. AT&T towers look at ESNs of GSM smartphones to make sure people are not using old "dumb" phone cheap data plans on smartphones, and then automatically "upgrades" them to more expensive data plans. This is well documented and has been going on for years.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Eraser310:
So are you saying that it doesn't work?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
My SIM card is activated to a GSM dumb phone. I only got the 10 cents/ min deal. Even though I get H on my phone, it did not allow me to connect to data. I mostly use the phone for calls and text anyway plus I have a smartphone that I could use with unlimited data minutes. When ever I need data for my razr, I just turn on WiFi.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
No hes right there is no such thing as an ESN on a gsm phone. But the equivalent is an IMEI. So ATT towers look at IMEI because its gsm based. The second part where att checks IMEI only works i think if you have an att phone but if its unlocked you can probably bypass that by switching to prepaid or using another gsm carrier.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] iolinux333:
yes yes IMEI that's what I meant I need to put down the bath salts

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Did you add an APN and edit/enter all the correct settings for AT&T data connection? You have to do that or data will never work.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
All I did was change the APN to AT&T US using wap.Cingular that is already imbedded in the SIM card.

I don't really need data to work on the razr.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] joshw0000:
Using a Verizon unlocked phone will trick AT&T's network. I upgraded my brother and his friend to 3G phones from flip phones. It took several months but AT&T finally caught on. I swapped their AT&T phones with unlocked D3 and Bionic and both are back on $10 unlimited data plans.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] navygtab:
I got mine to work. I messed around with turning on and off the radio and waited and waited, then next thing I know I locked to AT&T network. I lose signal once in a while though. I also do not get data.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
Does it say your connected like you see the ATT logo or/and you have Bars? It works on tmobile but i think the phones default network is Verizon so it just doesn't recognize it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
My phone would not connect using WCDMA preferred but now it only connects with GSM (PRL). At lease I got my phone working again on at&t network
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
Mine says AT & T in the lock screen and also in the drop down notification menu.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] sid3091:
If i get a verizon droid razr, will i have any trouble using it with GSM in India?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] joshw0000:
You shouldn't. It's a global phone that's protected against US GSM carriers.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Munst3r:
i've tried numerous things myself on my droid4 its a headache is what it is, haven't been able to lock anything in yet for att but one time at start up it said att for a sec on the lockscreen i'll keep playing with this ... does it matter or not that its never been activated with verizon ?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
Sorry, can't help you there (never been to India to test phone. If it's in ics, just get local SIM and it should work. No promises though.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
Try changing the phone info from WCDMA preferred to GSM (PRL)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Munst3r:
Ive tried that plenty of times and im on ics also, i even took files from the xt910 "the gsm patch they use for cdma roms) just swap my build prop and repackaged it build prop edits also but yeah i believe the bionic was somewhat made like the d2g, droid pro, thats why bionic works on att/tmobile, so yeah droid razr xt912 and droid4 the answer has to be in our radios somewhere, if only we could flash a different radio... fck vzw...i hate you

Sent from my DROID4 using Xparent sky blue Tapatalk 2
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
I have been playing around for a while and left my razr maxx on the stock 4.0.4 on overnight with my at&t sim in a close to roaming area with no avail. But tonight I opened the build.prop and edited a few text strings, and booted up the razr with my sim once again and left it sitting for about 45 minutes on gsm preferred. When I was about to change my sim out back to my droid 3, I noticed I had 3 messages but it still had the no signal sign and calls went to voicemail, I will upload the file for anyone who wants to try it. I also spoofed location using location spoofer, to south america. And in the build.prop I changed the ro.telephony.gsm-routes-us-smsc = 1 to 0

And I flashed the zip from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25967009
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Munst3r:
You know what that's something I haven't tried I didn't even know about the app, I'm gonna give that a try fck vzw ;)

Sent from my DROID4 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
It was getting signal, close to my atrix and sometimes showed an accurate location
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kintwofan:
I was wondering had anyone tried to flash the gsm patch or a gsm ROM to see if it would work. I was reading how they got the s2 to work on different carriers by flashing a ROM designed for that carrier.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN, THIS IS JUST AN IDEA.

I would try it, but I'm on Verizon so couldn't test anything. However I'm thinking about switching to boost mobile and would love to find a way to take my Maxx with me.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
I thought boost was cdma? I think there's tutorials for flashing different cdma carriers. And it would have to be a cdma/GSM from like the Droid xt862 and xt883 or else it would brick. Unless I'm wrong?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kintwofan:
Ya I wasn't sure that's why I asked. I was thinking like rsd a international ROM. And boost is on the TMobile network so it's gsm just thinking out loud.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mc732:
I've been running TheArctic v3 for gsm on my 912 with no new functionality.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kintwofan:
Interesting, and it still works on Verizon. Have you tried an different Sim?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mc732:
I cannot attest to whether it works with Verizon, though I'm guessing no. I tried it with a Straight Talk AT&T sim. Same lack of service. This has to be a radio issue.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
According to boosts website they run off sprints cdma and wimax. I had a friend who's parents owned a cell shop, so I could have sworn seeing cdma. And I wonder if the kernal plays a part? Since I have a Droid 3 thats subsidy locked and theres no way to unlock it period. Wouldn't it have to do with the kernal, since the standard radio.img and build.prop change didn't work. Correct me if I'm wrong I'm a newbie though.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kintwofan:
Not sure about the build pro changes. However you're right about boost being sprint. I looked at so many I mixed them up. I was going to just switch to TMobile prepaid, funny think out actually has a name.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
You basically spoof the Droid 3's radio and build.prop to make it think its the Chinese xt883 which is identical phone hardware except there is no lock. I'm wondering if there's a similar Chinese Droid razr that we could flash the radio.img from and then play around with kexec bypasses and build.prop tweaks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] kintwofan:
That's kind of what I was wondering.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] RAZR2GS3:
Just an update: I went to Northern CA this weekend and brought the RAZR with me. I could not get my phone to lock to AT&T network. Now that I am back home, the RAZR is again locked in. I think it's the towers in the area that my phone connects to.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] joshw0000:
+1 on this. Been getting all my family (at least the AT&T side) Verizon global phones and unlocking. Buy the code, flash the radio, change build.prop, switch to GSM, reboot and enjoy. I haven't had success on an ICS rom, only GB. Also set up a D2G this weekend as well. Had to sbf back to Froyo, flash tbh radio hack, then update the kernel and flash a GB rom (only required if you want GB).

I'd love to see an sim unlock for the Razr. Moto recently announced that they'll be unlocking bootloaders (at the cost of the warranty) on certain devices. ATM, only 4 devices are unlocked and our Razr isn't one of them. I feel pretty sure we could flash a Chinese rom or fastboot if we ever had our bootloaders unlocked which would grant us sim unlock as well. I'm still really hopeful that Cellzealot can do it, but this is another option on the horizon.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
I actually got the texts in north Cali, but no signal ever. What state are you located in normally?

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From what I saw there is no cdma/gsm droid razr they have 3 varients all slightly different that are gsm/cdma but the only actual razr they have is they xt910
[Motorola Droid RAZR] johnfry:
I have an idea.

What if we take the kddi from the xt909 which has cdma/gsm capabilities and flash its kddi on the droid razr, very similar to the guys who unlocked the photon q

Here's an xt909 spec list: http://developer.motorola.com/products/razr-xt909/

Here's the tutorial for the photon q:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1664212

And the xt912 and xt909 and photon q all use the qualcomm mdm6600 chipset
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Lekan Adeyeri:
Aw cool, you try it and see how it works!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mc732:
I'm pretty sure we need our bootloader unlocked before we can experience the joys of switching radios.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] anxxxious8701:
has any progress been made on successfully having data/texts/calls work on the razr maxx with usa gsm networks w/ sim cards?? i've been browsing around and finding bits and pieces but nothing concrete
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MercMan007:
BUMP! I want to use my AT&T sim in the XT912. Is this possible?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mc732:
NO!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] helton82:
Gsm xt912

Has any DeV taken on this project?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] danifunker:
Has anybody tried zeroing out the following fields in RadioComm?

4870, NV_GSM_850_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I

4871, NV_GSM_DCS_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I

4872, NV_GSM_1900_CARRIER_SUPPRESSION_I

Worked for me on my bionic.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] dehtrim:
Something I noticed.

Before I start in on my question; I just want to say thanks to all the DEV's for all the hard work they do!

I've been following this thread for a while, like everyone else I want this to work. After reading cellzealot's last post; I started digging around on my ICS rooted XT912. I opened up Titanium Backup(donation version) and started digging around in an app listed as phone/Messaging Storage(SMS/MMS/APN). I started looking at the system details and to see what all it was doing. I decided to open up SQLite Editor and look up this database. I started with the operator.db and noticed a lot of differences between Verizon and ATT listings.

Has anyone looked here to see if matching some of the switches would allow data to run with the phone/sms? I noticed the bearer marked as 0 for att/t-mobile but is listed as the corresponding the corresponding operator_id from the MNC table for verizon. Looking at the MNC table for GSM att, and all of the other USA/north american carriers for that matter, are not listed.

screen shot of the table:

https: //plus.google.com/photos/117902523190477658151/albums/5803218493677995281

I have a straight talk att sim on the way I will play around with it as well I just thought I would ask about this curious piece.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] rustyxj6:
I'm sure there are hardware that is pretty much identical to the Droid Razr. I know in Mexico they sell the GSM version which I suspect it's the same thing. I almost bought one once. I think that you can buy the GSM version in the US too. I think I saw one on Amazon.

We just need someone that can do all the leg work.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Sorry for OT post, but do you still have your D4 with the broken boot loader?

If so, PM me and I can help you fix it now.

I was able to completely restore the boot loader on my Razr XT 912 using a Linux based omapflash binary.

Thought you would like to know! ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Ok, I am not sure what files you were using to attempt to fix it but we have the signed repair file sets from Motorola for the D3/D4/Razr/Bionic and they have been used successfully on both a Razr XT912 by me and on the Bionic by another user. You can't do it without those signed files.

They are called pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin and the omapflash-lnx binary must be used for the pbrdl.bin in 32 bit linux. That allows it to be seen by fastboot as an android device. Then fastboot flashes the brdl.bin which gives you the fastboot bootloader screen and then you fastboot the mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin and its restored.

If you didn't use those file in that sequence, then that's why it didn't work.

The key is the omapflash-lnx binary and the signed repair files.

I will be available late tonight if you want to try to play with it again.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Water under the bridge I suppose at this point, but you need to use a factory cable and there is a timed event after the cable is connected during which the OMAP flash device is presented to the USB port. You run lsusb and you will see the Texas Instruments device and you quickly run the commands to flash the pbrdl.bin and brdl.bin, then mbmloader.bin and mbm.bin, during that event window. ;)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] acslam:
Has anyone tried the route of an FCC complaint? It seems like this is even more directly a violation of the rules than the bootloader debacle.....
[Motorola Droid RAZR] igwtapc:
In order for that to be true you must have a receipt showing full cost of the phone is paid. They still can prevent offering unlocking if the terms and conditions of the device says unlocking is not an option for the device. It is in the device manual for several of the Samsung devices and some Motorola devices claiming doing so can give a person access to systems in the network that will impede other users.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AjStone:
Bump

Hello. So I just got off the phone with Verizon International department. I was going to ask for the unlock code, but the technician informed me that all 4G LTE phones (with SIM slots obviously) are already unlocked. He stated my Droid RAZR (MAXX) would be fine and ready to go to any country that supported its radio technology.

Meanwhile, as my goal was to use it for service with AT&T, I still don't have signal after waiting about 10 minutes. I'm going to gather my patience and read this whole thread to see if there's a solution. I tried the solution near the top (don't remember the poster) but it didn't work yet.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
You can use the XT912 on a GSM/WCDMA network in any other country besides the US and it will work.

The block is for US GSM networks and there is no solution available nor is there ever likely to be one discovered.

Suffice it to say that there his a lot if history here and a lot of time and research has been spent on the problem.

The only VZW Motorola LTE capable MDM6600 based device that has open GSM radios for domestic carriers is the Bionic XT875 and that has its own set of issues with GSM/WCDMA use because the radio firmware is primarily designed and tuned to be a CDMA/LTE device and can only be tweaked somewhat to optimize

For GSM networks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AjStone:
I can confirm that the Motorola Droid Ultra and MAXX work on AT&T and T-Mobile with no modification or settings change whatsoever. I have this phone and routinely use alternate SIM cards. This was promoted as a capability by Verizon when I was in the store.

* Sent via Motorola Droid MAXX *
[Motorola Droid RAZR] cellzealot:
Those devices are not MDM6600 chip set based devices they are MSM8960 based and therefore completely different.

The Droid RAZR M and HD/ Maxx HD can also be made to work on domestic carriers because they are also MSM8960 based devices, although different from the current generation MAXX/Ultra/Moto X chip set, and they require an edit to the NVM to disable the Forbidden PLMN lookup that blocks the MCC/MNC for ATT and T-Mobile and other US GSM carriers.

As I stated above, only the Bionic can be made to work of that generation Motorola VZW LTE devices with an MDM6600 baseband chip set.
[General Questions and Answers] davefromohio:
my mom is looking into straight talk and when you look at their map coverage there's one that says non android with coverage everywhere and a android with no coverage hardly,question is if she gets the Verizon android straight talk phone does that give her coverage everywhere Verizon has coverage or just where the little bit is for straight talk?(make sense?I'm confusing myself.and if she goes non android will she be able to check email with those phones and have any kind of apps that'll tell he local restaurants or anything?thanks for your time
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] androidmonkey:
I wanted to give TouchWiz a chance but I could only deal with it for about an hour. At first I replaced it with Holo Launcher since thats what I used on my SGS Vibrant but it was a bit buggy on the SGS3. I then installed Nova Launcher and its been pretty good.

Whats your favorite launcher to replace TouchWiz?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dave2metz:
Apex Pro, no doubt!

Pebble Blue Samsung Galaxy S3 (T-Mobile Style)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Agreed apex pro
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] KillaHurtz:
Nova Prime hands down.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Madblaster6:
Hands down after testing all of them the lightest and most customizable is adwlauncher ex.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] KillaHurtz:
You're kidding right ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] etherealglimpse:
Hmm just for fun this should have been a poll hehe.

Apex pro for me so far is the best. It's fast, minimal, but feature packed. I used a bunch of other ones but they either too bloated, development is dead, or I noticed my battery starting to suffer. Apex pro is owning hard.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rakeshchn:
Does using an alternate launcher actually avoid loading touch wiz in the background? Asking because i see TW uses about 70 mb of ram and i don't really want two launchers taking up memory in the background.

Sent from my SGH-T999