[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Welder my friend, my friend, my friend, my friend! :D

"Awesome" does not even come close but it is the only word we know that comes close. :laugh:

Thank you [MENTION=5057697]welder73[/MENTION] [MENTION=3305649]OldBaldy[/MENTION] [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] and [MENTION=6309629]dtiger1138[/MENTION] for your ongoing support and to help me make up my mind that this really IS the phone I want. With all I know about it, this phone will last for several years and not become obsolete like the Razr did, or at least not for a very long time.

I did lose my Asurion insurance from Verizon, they did not sell me the phone so they will not insure it. I have to find another cellphone insurance plan. Beware, many of them warranty damage such as cracked screen, liquid damage, etc. but NOT a lost phone. So if it gets stolen or even if you leave it on the sink at McDonalds while washing your hands, the phone is gone and insurance will NOT pay! I also need a case. For now, I am using my EX-GF's ankle sock, works pretty good but does not offer much protection from dropping.

You want a personal review of the Moto-X Pure Edition 32GB version? You got it!

In The States, we have Christmas and Santa Clause on December 25th. Major Christian Holiday, birth of Jesus, but the US is pure capitalism and it has become a day of buying and giving gifts. All US kids can *never* get to sleep on Christmas eve, we pretend to sleep, get up for the bathroom constantly, hoping to find Santa Clause under the Christmas tree, putting presents for all of us. We even leave cookies and milk for Santa.

That is exactly how I felt when I found a way to get not only a new phone and cut my Verizon bill nearly in half and I could not think of anything else! Amazon shipped it fast, it was here by day 2, cost $400 for the 16 GB device, another $50 for the 32 GB sdcard. I got the 32 GB, since we all know that a portion of that internal storage is used by the phone so you never get the full amount. And unlike the 2nd Gen crap that Verizon offers, this one has the 5.7" screen and ext-sdcard slot, I popped in my 64 Gb sdcard. It also takes a "nano SIM card", smaller than the standard SIM card. This phone would work, out of box, if I simply put my old SIM card in it. You can buy a sim cutter or use scissors and a template to cut your own SIM card to nano size, but like Baldy said, take it to the Verizon store and they will give you a new SIM for it, free.

The phone is NICE. No two ways about it. Yes, a bit large but not too large to be a cellphone, but with that big screen, youtube, pictures, recorded videos, games, and everything else is pure joy to look at. You know me as a rooter and rommer and by gosh, if I could not root this phone, I would NEVER have gotten it. [MENTION=6309629]dtiger1138[/MENTION] actually got me interested in this phone. I know so much about the Razr and Droid X because I owned and rooted these phones. Of course I will learn everything about my own phone that I plan to root without bricking it. But when it comes to "What new phones are out there which are really good and can be rooted?", I have no clue. That is where I go to my friends to see what they have, use, and most important, can or have they rooted it. No root, NO WAY! Everything in the Verizon store could not be rooted. He showed me the Turbo, we all know how that went, then the Samsung Note S5 and Edge, I wanted them BAD, but before I would take it home, I drove home, looked them up, and no way can they be rooted. Some kind of Knox Security is now on Verizon and AT&T phones so if you root it, it might work but it will never light up again. So much for a Verizon store phone. :rolleyes:

Tigger is a decent guy so we talked about getting a new phone quite a bit, he wanted desperately to get the Moto-X Pure Edition. I never even heard of it, I was still thinking of a Samsung Galaxy because I saw how nice and big the screen was, not to mention a super fast and very powerful new smartphone. Tigger and I moved the conversation to PMs, he was not good about giving Thanks for helpful posts, actually, I don't think he knew about it, and I worked hard to get a high Thanks rank so that maybe one day I can become an RC or some other position at XDA. Tigger immediately went back to tag a Thanks on the posts that went by. I really don't know "what new phones are good" because I do not research them until I own one and have to root it. The Moto-X Pure is probably the best Android phone I have ever seen. Not locked, rootable, use anywhere in the world, not tied to any carrier. This is the stuff alright! :D

There is a lot to say about this phone but let me say one thing right now that would be music to any Razr owner's ears. Listen up:

There is no such thing as "Tap And Wait" on a Moto-X Pure. There is no such thing as black screen while waiting, missing calls, or arrows that spin around and around. You tap and BAM! The app is open before you remove your finger. Also, as [MENTION=4519260]TStarGermany[/MENTION] pointed out, there is a Moto voice commander app that is absolutely perfect! I say "OK Moto X" and it does anything I want. Open Pandora, navigate home, call Jean Claude mobile, Wake me at 8:30 am tomorrow. All of it, "just works" and it works exactly as it should.

There is an awesome toolkit for this phone that will unlock bootloader (Must do this first, will factory reset the phone.), install TWRP recovery, and root the phone. The tool will download the necessary files you need depending on what choice you select such as phone make and model. You will now get a startup logo that is really annoying once you do this, looks like this:

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Toolkit is here:

[TOOL] WinDroid Universal Android Toolkit v2.5 | Unlock | Root | Flash | 100+ Devices

The toolkit cannot fix that. To get your nice boot animation back, you must flash a bin file with ADB over USB. It is not as hard or scary as it sounds. There is a great page of instructions with all file downloads such as the ADB Platform Tools you may need. This is pretty easy because you just copy and paste into a Windows Administrator command prompt window and they tell you how to open one by holding the shift key. Let me see if I can find that page for you. Yeah, this page will give you everything you need to get rid of that annoying message:

[LOGO][FIX] [clark] Remove unlocked bootloader warning

Welder, I can go on and on about how great this phone is, it is clearly the absolute BEST choice of a replacement for the Razr. New smartphones cost $699 now. The Moto-X Pure Edition was only $400 at Amazon for the 16 Gb internal sdcard, and the 32 Gb internal sdcard was an extra $50 or $450 total. Even if you get a new phone from say, Verizon and pay more each month, you will still pay full retail, $699. Plus, as [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] pointed out, NONE of the Verizon phones can be rooted anymore, it is a thing of the past. Buy your own phone, use it on your Verizon plan, and you own it and you can do what you like if you get "a good one" like the Moto-X Pure.

[MENTION=6309629]dtiger1138[/MENTION] thank you SO MUCH for talking me into this phone. It was not so much talking me into it as it was informing me that there is a totally *****ing phone out there, extremely powerful, a Motorola, and it can be rooted and you can unlock the bootloader.

If you guys get a new phone and use the toolkit to unlock your bootloader, do it rather quickly because this WILL factory reset the phone. No sense in spending weeks installing and setting up the phone the way you want, because it will all be gone when you unlock the bootloader. So, I did mine on day one. Took me about an hour to do because I never did it before. Took me another 15 minutes to get rid of the unlocked bootloader startup logo because I had to do it by hand, but it was very, very easy.

To close up, here are some very useful URLs for getting the Moto-X setup. Save this list!

[INDEX] Moto X Pure Resources Compilation Roll-Up

[TOOL] WinDroid Universal Android Toolkit v2.5 | Unlock | Root | Flash | 100+ Devices

Unlock/Recovery/Root for the Moto X 2015 Pure Edition (Easy) YouTube Video

[LOGO][FIX] [clark] Remove unlocked bootloader warning

[EXPERIMENTAL] Unofficial Xposed for Android 5.1 - v74 / 20150911 / SDK22

I will stay here at the help desk and to talk to my friends. The Moto-X threads are not seemingly as friendly as we have here, but they are not hostile or mean. What we have here is something very, very special. :highfive: