Freeing a RAZR V3m from Verizon's Clutches

Filed in archive Mods , Motorola , Smartphones , Software , Verizon Wireless by Rico Mossesgeld on July 25, 2007

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.

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Response from: Dameon Welch-Abernathy (07/25/07 4:04am)

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_recycl
e_them.php

Response from: Rico (07/25/07 4:21am)

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? :)

Response from: Jon Murphy (09/23/08 8:47am)

IVE ALREADY DID ALL OF THIS!!!, it is soooooooooooo worth it, do it if u have a razr

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