Freeing a RAZR V3m from Verizon’s Clutches
It's a dying practice, but I don't know why some service providers love limiting what their customers can do with a product or service they've paid money for. I can understand it's all for protecting the bottom line.
But these schemes are ultimately futile. Especially when discovering methods to break through such restrictions are a contact sport for geeks and coders everywhere, and that they gleefully share their breakthroughs online.
Case in point: a Verizon RAZR V3m. You can check out this article on WikiHow, which details steps you can take to free things up. Free to transfer files between the smartphone and Windows XP, via USB cable and Bluetooth.
And I can imagine any enterprising user can adapt the directions to work on similar models. Thanks to Sasha for the heads-up.
Dameon Welch-Abernathy
July 25th, 2007 at 1:04 am #
Now if we could figure out how to let someone other than Verizon activate the phone on their network. Similar to the problem I write about with Amp’d Mobile:
http://www.gadgets-weblog.com/50226711/those_ampd_mobile_phones_recycle_them.php
Rico
July 25th, 2007 at 1:21 am #
That reminds me, there are still lots of companies who limit what people can do with their gadgets. Oh I don’t know, like Apple?
Jon Murphy
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 am #
IVE ALREADY DID ALL OF THIS!!!, it is soooooooooooo worth it, do it if u have a razr