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[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Hi CellZealot,

I already ordered my razr m dev edition and I'm gonna get it tomorrow or soon after, and I only have a T-Mobile SIM (cut to micro), so no matter the warnings you gave, I'm gonna try this anyway. Also, I think I am in an area that is supposed to be already refarmed (los angeles/pasadena), so I'll let you know if it manages to get 3G/HSPA. I'll probably need some more help as I'm new to smartphones dev/modding, but I'll let you know how it goes...

Also, If there is anything that I can help with (e.g testing...), I'll be glad, let me know.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
IT WORKS WITH T-MOBILE!!! :) but only on edge :/

Just received my developer edition RAZR M (XT907) phone today, tried to put my T-Mobile SIM in it, and of course, I got no network ("emergengy calls only"). I then rebooted, put it into fastboot mode, flashed the aussie radio file, rebooted again, and it connected to T-Mobile network! I tried to make calls, send sms messages, and use internet, and it all works ... but only on edge :/ I cannot say if it's because T-Mobile hasn't refarmed the cell towers here yet, or because the phone with this radio is not able to connect to those, but anyway, it won't pick up any 3G/HSPA signal.

Anyway, to sum up, this phone works on Edge with T-Mobile flashing the radio posted above from the Telstra RAZR M, and I DIDN'T HAVE TO UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER, so this will most likely work on a retail (non developer edition) Verizon RAZR M as well. Of course, I hope there will be a way to use it on 3G/HSPA one day (Japanese Softbank radio anyone?).
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freak4dell:
Have you checked airportal.de to find out if any towers in your area have been refarmed?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Yes I did... and in theory, my area has been refarmed, there are a lot of reports here and surroundings... which is bad news, cause it means the phone its not able to connect.

I'll try to do some research and see if there is anything that can be done, or I'll wait for cellzealot or p3droid to find a way to fix it ;)

In the meantime, I'll just use my phone on edge and wifi.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] safsaf_asm:
Any update here? Do you know if the retail version can work with at&t network including 4g with the australian radio?

Thx
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimmydafish:
To flash the radio you do not need to unlock the bootloader on the phone, but once you do you will only get edge data on ATT or TMO.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Yeah i would like to know that also. I can't find any instructions how to use that tool.

It keeps on Waiting for device ...

I come from the evil apple so i am aware of the concept but i am not even sure if the Fastboot.exe is set up in the right folder and so on.

I just too the Stock Fastboost Image and inserted the BIN into the Zip for RSD to do the flashing.

After doing so i get Amazon MP3 Error ? But i am able to use US sim LOL
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Hmmm seems like you reflashed everything ... you really just needed to reflash the radio, but if it worked for you, that's great ;)

If you come from "evil apple" I assume you have a Mac computer? If so, I have a mac as well, I installed Android SDK for Mac from Google, and fastboot was part of it. I have no idea on Windows. I put the phone in fastboot mode, connect to computer, used the fastboot command from post #4 and voila! it started working with t-mobile (edge).
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
connected ipsing

I have a Mac but this is my Fun Setup for going play.

Ultrabook, Compact cam with Raw ability, External HDD and an Android.

Keep my work world seperated

Mac, EvilPhone, Design Tools, Time Capsule

But yeah i flashed the whole thing, the phone was on 2.3 or whatever anyway.

I know how to get the phone to fastboot. (Is that the part where you set it to AP FastBoot ?)

Connecting to PC with all the correct drivers

Now where do yall place this fastboot command ? (I have Fastboot bat and exe and bunch of DLL in that folder do i need to place it somewhere ?)

Used that command and it just hangs on waiting for device.

Shrugs ... I would like to learn how to use this tool properly. And not have to flash the whole thing hahahaha

Also that tools do ppl use to remove Bloadware ? Unless i am searching for the wrong term, i cant find any. besides what is able to be removed.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freak4dell:
Um...this phone was never on 2.3. You've either got the wrong phone, or you meant you went from ICS (4.0) to JB (4.1).
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
I have the right phone but it was definitely not 4.0 and not 4.1 when i got it today.

I remember a number lower than 4 and everything looked extremely wierd. Sorry for forgetting what it was

(Didnt care much since ICS was the one that supported International SIM also)

Hence i said I wasn't sure (2.3 or whatever), I just needed all the junk off my phone so a full flashed worked out.

And needed it to work with T-Mobile =) I am happy now. Though a link to the correct way to flash just the modem would be appreciated.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freak4dell:
You were probably looking at the software version and not the Android version. The software version is just a random number that Motorola uses. 2.3 is 2 years old now, so Motorola wouldn't have even done a build of 2.3 for this phone.

Glad you got it working, though.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Well, unless you got this phone used and the previous owner abused it badly, either you had Android 4.x or it's not a RAZR M. If that was the case, and you flashed a RAZR M radio on another phone, and it works, that would open up a lot of possibilities!

Germanese, what is the model number printed on the back of the phone? Mine says xt907.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
The phone was in meh shape but the Housing and hardware was mint. (Though that person wife though the cam cover was a protector piece and tried to pry it off and cracked the glass while doing so, so i have to find a new back plastic glass piece)

On the back there is only 4GLTE Verizon and the M logo, didn't have that Barcode sticker since it was used.

The ESN is clean when i called in Verizon but i don't care much about that.

But besides that i am still trying to figure out how to set up the fastboot correctly.

I have it sit in C:/FASTBOOT or in C:/USER/.../Downloads/FOSTBOOT

Used the command on post 4 but all it gives me back is waiting on device.

Hence i just modified the whole ICS.zip and flashed the radio through there.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
I'm not 100% sure, cause I have a Mac, but it shouldn't matter where on your drive you put it, if it says "waiting for device", it means it found all the dlls it needed.

Did you put the phone in fastboot mode correctly (power off, press vol up, vol down and power at the same time, then press vol down to select fastboot, and vol up to confirm)?

I'm not sure cause, again, I did this on a Mac, but maybe you have to install some driver on windows?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zanzaras:
Excellent! Thanks for the info!
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samari71:
i have a droid razr m on verizon and would like to go to net10 what do i have to do to make this work
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2166542

This is the method that I used with RadioComm. The method posted in this thread also works.

Both methods accomplish the same thing and that is to edit the NVM in the radio to allow open GSM service on US carriers.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmg512:
deep sleep

I had strange behavior after the upgrade to 4.4.2 on a radio hacked Razr M I've been using with AT&T/Straight Talk for a year. The phone refuses to go into deep sleep when 3G/HSPA is enabled. This causes reboots and fast battery drain. It's fine with data disabled, GSM/2G only, and wifi. Lots of settings fiddling and factory resets. Using RSD Lite to flash stock 4.4.2 hasn't helped. I tried a friend's AT&T SIM and had the same problem, 3G data worked fine but no deep sleep. Anyone else see this behavior after the OTA upgrade?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
There is a bug in the Modem Fast Dormancy app that causes several problems using the M/HD on GSM services and I have found it is best to disable it in the build.prop

along with a few other edits that optimize the radio and remove some of the VZW specific features and settings that can interfere with GSM/WCDMA functions.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmg512:
Thanks for the response. Any tips/links on how to do this with 4.4.2 KitKat? I haven't seen a Razr M root method yet and definitely don't have the skills to develop one.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
No, sorry, I have a Dev edition so I have root. There maybe a way to do it in the NV but I would need to poke around and find it.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidMilos:
Can you post a "how to" on the bug and radio optimization here?

Thank you
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samari71:
i put my tmobile sim card that is activate in my gsm unlocked razr m and turn it on first it says no gsm umt networks and ask if you want to change to global and when i hit no it reads no service anybody got a clue what wrong its gsm unlocked i checked
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camdecoster:
Do you have these edits listed somewhere? If they make my phone perform better, I'm all for it.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 5318008:
+1

- posted from my phone
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
I will be writing this up in my thread but will give a quick listing here.

At the bottom of the build.prop file is a section called ADDITIONAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES and there are three lines that need editing.

ro.mot.phone mode.vzw4gphone=1 change to 0

ro.mot.ds.fastdormancy.disable=false change to true

telephony.lteOnCdmaDevice=1 change to 0 (the first instance of this line higher up in the build.prop can be ignored as this one takes precedence over it)

These changes can be made with any root enabled file explorer or with adb shell but you must always remember to set the permissions properly to rw-r--r--

and always save your original file as .bak to restore in case of problems.

If you do not set permissions properly your phone will not boot and you will need to reflash the system to restore it.

Also removing or renaming /system/priv-app/VzwPhoneService.apk and .odex files will disable the SIM from Unknown Source popup warning.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camdecoster:
Thanks for the information. Could you elaborate on the benefit of making the edits? I understand that disabling fast dormancy will work around the bug, but what benefits do the other two edits provide?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samari71:
unlocked my phone to tmobile works but i am in a 2g area so all i get is phone and text is there any way for me to get data when i hit search for networks it show two networks tmobile and att am i able to use both
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocketrazr99:
I can't find it on Titanium, why not?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
On the new KK build the location is s now /system/priv-app/VzwPhoneService.apk and .odex.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GnatGoSplat:
It's listed under Titanium as "com.motorola.setupwizard.phoneservice". I would freeze it while you're in titanium rather than uninstalling it, so you can take OTAs in the future. That is, if you care about that kind of thing.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Playb3yond:
Will this work on the RAZR Maxx HD?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcaspe1:
Yes it will. Have tested it and works fine.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0rtli:
Dear friend, did you poke around in NV to disable fast dormancy?

I have razr m with latest ota and use it in gsm network outside of US. There is no root to edit build.prop and it will be great if we can disable FD from NV.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taimur272:
Guys does any one of you has a heating problem with phone heating up 3g data on kitkat .... Cause mine heats up too much my phone when i bought was already unlocked and was on jb then i updated it to kitkat ..... I have seen in cqa test that my phone can't recognized iccid of phone.... Guys pls help....
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
Sounds like an OG Moto Razr XT910. Maybe you should try posting in that group. I doubt the phone would be a Razr M so it would be a bit of a waste of time posting in here.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
LOL Funny

That was not the answer to the question.

I am still trying to figure out how to flash correctly but since,

Either i am not search for the correct terms or I am missing something in my computer, I flash it my way since it works.

And i will continue to post here since it is the correct section =)

And no it doesn't sound like a XT910 thats the huge old Razr / Maxx ones

This is the phone...
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jp1044:
Thinking about attempting this hack on my M, but want to clear some things up first:

1. This will work on a RETAIL Razr M, correct?

2. I can go back to a fully functional VZW radio?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
Sorry my bad mate... :)
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
It should work on a retail, yes, but I only have a developer edition so I cannot try.

The Aussie radio won't work with Verizon, but you can flash a Verizon radio back to get Verizon network capabilities (I don't have the link though, try searching the forum). Again, I haven't tried, but I think others have, successfully.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
yEAH you just flash the 45meg file back on there and its back to verizon or flash the 100 meg aussie file on it and you back on GSM
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Are you using GB with Aussie Radio ?

Or are you on ICS with Aussie Radio ?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
As we said before, there is no such thing as Gingerbread on RAZR M. There is only (so far) Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) or Jelly Bean (4.1).

To answer your question, I'm still on ICS, I haven't upgraded to JB yet.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dumon:
So do you guys get 3g signal on AT&T with AU radio? I would assume no 3g on T-Mobile since it does not have AWS.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
These food names really confusing... I meant JB.

So everyone still. On ICS with the Aussie radio.

Is there anything that prevents us from using the full Aussie ICS?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Full Aussie fastboot image?

Does anyone know where to find a full Australian RAZR M fastboot image, or equivalent image containing all the partitions of the australian razr m (telstra)? Or would be able to create one?

There was a thread about this here, but I've been looking for a link, and I couldn't find any.

Also, still trying to make this phone work with 3G/HSPA on GSM carriers, it would be interesting if anybody could provide a QPST dump of all the NV items from the Australian RAZR M. Could anybody with a Aussie RAZR M be so kind to generate one (I can provide instructions, no need to root/unlock)?

I've been playing with QPST/QXDM, looking at NV items, radio bands, etc., and looking at other similar threads (like the one for the bionic, or SIII), but none of the tricks that worked on other phones seems to apply to this one.

And again, is any of the "big guys" (cellzealot, jimmydafish...) still working on this?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
Definitely still looking at this and still basically mystified as to why it doesn't work with all the bands. They are configured properly and even eHRPD is enabled in the NV of the AU radio image.

I really wish I had a newer version of RadioComm with support for the MSM8960 and newer QC chipsets. I feel certain that it would give us more insight into the problem via Motorola access and tcmd interfaces.

The version of QXDM I am using is somewhat dated as well, but when I did some logging of the radio, it was clear that WCDMA was disabled, just not clear why or where.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Do you have the JB Radio Dump from the phone ?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Same here, I've been playing with QPST and QXDM, but all the frequencies are enabled, phone is set in gsm/wcdma/lte mode (or global), and yet no 3G. QXDM reports the WCDMA radio completely stopped.

I've also checked item 1877 (rf band config or whatever it's called), which was reported to be the one to modify to unlock GSM/HSPA on other phones, but it's already set correctly, or so it seems.

I've found a pretty old version of RadioComm, 11.12.something, pretty much worthless on this phone, and QPST/QXDM work much better for editing NV Items. Was hoping you may have a newer version...

Anyway, this is why I was asking for the full Australian image, maybe we can try flashing other parts and see what happens... Or if we have a qpst dump, we can compare NV Items between Aussie and US versions, and maybe get some more clues.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Confirming AUSSIE Radio from ICS works on JB for Tmobile use.

Though data is the same as before i believe. I cant check since i only have Edge for Picture text.

I don't have a data plan on T-mobile as of right now

I am now running XT907 Verizon US with JB and Aussie Radio
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
I'm happy to help generate the Australian image. PM me.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Is there an Australian Full Firmware Image ?

Or what are you guys using to upgrade to JB
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
No there is not image yet, but we're trying to get some info on how to build one and I'll do it. We're not upgrading to JB at this stage as the Verizon one provides us with a $600 brick.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Great =)

Can't wait, I stitched the JB Verizon with the Australian Radio and it works for my needs so far =)

But it would be nice to see how the Full Telstra works on Verizon. I assume that you have less Bloatware ?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Maybe ... not that I care too much, I really just want this phone to work with full 3G/HSPA capabilities on GSM, then as soon as CM10 is stable I'll flash it and goodbye bloatware ;)

I hope having the full telstra firmware may help figuring this out!
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Yeah i agree ,... there is soo much bloat on this one its not even funny !!!

I been wanting a Telstra firmware ...
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
It is very vanilla, we only have 1 app from Telstra and nothing else. I actually really like the stock ICS experience on this phone.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Omg are u serious ?!?!??! Give me !!!!!

What needs to be done to get it off his phone !!!!!
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
aslomagic is helping me get the image off the phone. Gonna try it tonight our time in a few hours...I sure hope it works as it can help a hell of a lot of ppl and something I'm personally interested in now I've unlocked...
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Awesome I just woke up for work, how did it go ? Got a clean firmware ?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
I forwarded a PM from aslomagic to p3droid and he is going to help them pull the partition images.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
Hi Guys, sorry to disappoint ... I should probably be clear once again: I am an experience developer in general, but I have zero experience with Android or smartphones, so I don't know (YET) how to create a fastboot image, or any image that can be flashed back to restore the system on a different phone... Anyway, we're working on it, we'll figure it out, maybe I'll mess up my phone a couple of times, but it certainly won't take overnight ... for as much as I'd like it to (I have a job and a family, you know).

pjcons offered his help in generating an image, and I started looking at the existing image for verizon ICS looking for clues, and it doesn't seem all that hard to make an image that works, but ... not even that trivial, given the scarcity of information available online. I managed to dump the system partition as well as other partitions from my phone, but I cannot find a way to flash it back (doing this as a test to generate a working image), so I asked cellzealot if he can help.

In the meantime, I asked pjcons if he could provide a dump of the NV Items in his phone with QPST, to see if any of those is different than the ones on out US phones, and that may help unlock 3G/HSPA, at least I hope.

Conclusion: we're working on it, but don't hold your breath for too long ...
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellzealot:
I PM'd pjcons and sent him a link to P3Droid's Toolbox app so he can backup his phone. It's very simple to do and then it can be posted for examination.

Only the Linux restore script works right now, so the images must be flashed manually with fastboot, but this is a very good surrogate for a full XML.zip from Motorola and will let us play with the firmware safely until an official firmware is leaked.
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radiohead7778580:
can this be done with the razr hd if they have the same radio?
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Germanese:
Awwww, No worries =)

But glad there is some progress and there is a Dump of a clean image.

I understand, we all have a life =)

I am mainly only interested in the plain Firmware (No Verizon Junk) and the bin Dump for GSM for US-Tmobile.

But yeah No rush, heck i still have to repair my phone, I bought it with a cracked rear glass that covers the camera and flash.

Which no one is selling ...
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcons:
XML is about 500Mb...uploading as I type...

...EDIT...bloody work internet connection!!!! Will have to wait till I get home now... :(
[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslomagic:
chasing a ghost?

Guys, we might have been chasing a ghost ... I still have my phone in the same exact state as before (verizon rom with aussie radio), and something good happened today :)

I was driving in a part of town where I don't normally drive, and my phone picked up HSDPA signal from T-Mobile!!!! :D

When I said my area had been refarmed, of course I looked at airportal.de, but that doesn't mean it's accurate, maybe my area hasn't and a neighboring area has ...

But, before you guys get excited: the signal was very weak, and disappeared in a matter of minutes. I managed to get into the phone info secret menu and confirm HSDPA, the top bar was saying H+, then it went back to edge. So, unless airportal.de is completely off, and there is only minimal refarm done in Los Angeles, I think there are still problems, but there is clearly nothing that is intentionally "locking" the HSDPA/3G (aka WCDMA) radio off.

What I'm thinking is that one of these two things is true: (1) this phone doesn't have a 1900Mhz capable antenna or electronics, or (2) the calibration or other setting for the WCDMA radio is off. Given that it seems able to get edge, and that T-Mobile supposedly uses the same 1900Mhz band for 2G/edge, I really think (and hope!) that (2) is right.

In this case, my best bet so far is really to get a dump of all the NV Item from a aussie razr m and compare/try it.