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  • I am also trying to unlock a droid motorola
    Thanks for all the help, seems like it will be a long journey

  • I would like to see this working for the Droid RAZR. Anybody have any ideas how to do this for droid razr??

  • This is actually a good thing for those very VERY few towns that don’t have VZW coverage, but do have T-Mo or AT&T. Otherwise… why even bother?

    • It’s literally just a Razr + big battery. The ROMs are all identical for both.

      tl;dr: yes

  • Hey Kellex, I just love how every thread on here instantly becomes about the GNEX even though it is directed towards Moto devices. Im not knocking the Gnex but im tired of reading how the gnex compares to all the other phones. I dont see moto users trolling sammy threads

  • nice! as a current owner of both a droid 2 global and a droid 3, both working on gsm networks in my country (chile), 15 minutes after reading this news, checking out xda, etc., i went to ebay and ordered a droid 4 🙂 sadly they took out the search and “@” keys but… whatever, it still beats any qwerty-competition, captivate glide? pff

  • I run the same test at the same time on my LTE Galaxy nexus rooted, no other mods or custom roms, just for fun.

    Results:

    1. Kept up with the quad core phone until the graphics test and even then it was only a few seconds behind.  My nexus was blown away in the sd card io test.  

    2. My Nexus dominated the dual core until the sd card IO test then it fell way behind.  

    3.  Galaxy Nexus finished 44 seconds after the quad core and 14 seconds after the dual core.  

    4. The sd card IO test really cost my nexus the test compared to the quad core.

    My over all score was about 300 higher than the dual core and about 3000-4000 lower than the dual core.

  • T-Mobile is actually a darned good carrier. Had it right before I got my Razr for a bit checking out the GS2 which is a nice phone and the speeds in my area on T were faster than on Verizon. No LTE here

  • Is Verizon offering any apologies for selling me the DROID disappointment? Bionic shouldn’t even be on boost mobiles network!!!!

  • So you’re saying it’s possible to take the world’s most locked down MOTO phones and now I can use them on the suckiest/slowest networks around.  This truly is the best of both worlds.

  • I’m interested if only because pretty much everything is cheaper than Verizon (yeah yeah, unlimited data, amazing service etc) but man, its expensive. Its good to know that this option at least exists. 

  • Saying this is huge, is an understatement. Especially in the secondary market….AT&T customers on craigslist ALL want the Droid line…

  • Damn people are so simple minded! Its not about going to an “inferior carrier” its about the principle of not being constricted to one carrier and being limited by them. Thats the way things should be anyway, thats how things are in other countries and how it should be here as well. The moral of this story is having the freedom to use your phone how you please not how youre told…

  • I have a Bionic laying around, it would be an improvement for my gf’s Tmobile my touch: I’re interested

    • I wish I had a Bionic just laying around. This is definitely an improvement, and I’ll be buying a Razr or Bionic if this is all successful. 

  • Maybe if you would learn how to spell, you would see how good Motorola’s build quality and radios are.

  • Why would anyone want to leave Big Red’s LTE network for AT&T and T-mobile’s inferior network?

    •  They don’t. But like me, it would be VERY nice to have all those GSM bands for when traveling over seas. I’m just curious if you just swap the LTE sim for a standard gsm sim (micro sim of course..)

    • O really? I think it makes perfect calls and actually holds a signal unlike some other phones. Plus it’s rooted, overclocked, and has custom ROMs.

      The screen may not be the best, but it’s fine for those of us with bad vision who actually want to read our phones in the sunlight because we actually go outside. Now please, sell your Nexus and move out of your mom’s basement.

      • ROFL “holds a signal” no it doesn’t, not a data connection. it’s a turd, jokes on you fatty I live in a shed

        • Since the updates in Nov/Dec I haven’t dropped 4g hardly at all when in a 4g area. Sometimes a switch is still an issue but my phone doesn’t random reboot all the time and works perfectly. How would you know if it has a good data connection, do you secretly have access to our phones? Didn’t think so.

          • having owned one and still owning one is the reason I’m bitter. Even after moving on to the nexus, motorola never be forgiven. 

          •  I don’t know I have a Bionic, and my brother has one. Neither of us have any data problems at all. My n# is small but from what I have heard after those updates the Bionic really has no more major issues. I love this phone.

          • Are you kidding me? LMAO!!!

            This fool claims he doesn’t see anyone else claiming data drops on the “G-Nex” 

          •  Read about 10 blogs back even kellex was complaining about the reboots and data and the fact the ANDROID DEVELOPER device hasn’t had an update since launch (until just now)

          • Unless I am in a Verizon area data sucks.  One area just down the road my wifes RAZR gets 3G no problem,  I used to on my DX2.  I am going back to Motorola after having this piece of moneky crap they call a galaxy nexus.  Random reboots more than any of my 4 previous Motorola’s ever did and its has the worst reception I have ever seen in a cell phone.  Selling it so I can buy a RAZR.

          • It’s even more stable with Eclipse/ Liberty. Also frees up some more RAM and makes the phone zippier. Haven’t cared enough to mess around with ICS Beta ROMs, I’ll just wait for a stable release from Motorola.

        •  Mine holds data just fine. Ohh you must be referring to the the 5.5.886 firmware. You know the one that’s been fixed for about 6 months now.

          Or maybe if you stopped throwing it at a wall it would hold data. Motorola DOES have the best build quality….but it’s not designed to be thrown at a wall.

        • It holds a data connection if you disable the feature that turns off data after 15 minutes of inactivity, just a matter of going into settings -> battery & data manager and changing the battery mode and data saver settings. Or you can go with the battery savings of leaving said feature on.

          Also, who lives in a shed? Gazebos are obviously far superior.

          • I’ve never had that dumb option on, it would never switch between 3g and 4g and sometimes it would not connect to 3g ever, not to mention times it would just drop data when it wanted

          • Well, I can’t attest to 4G holding a connection or solid hand-offs as there is no 4G close to where I live, but 3G signal never drops unless I tell it to. Maybe I just live near good towers.

    • Yikes! Yet another spoiled tech brat. The Bionic is still a really great device to this day. Sure there are many out there that far better than it, but even so… it’s still an awesome phone.

  • Hey Moto/VZW–maybe the devs wouldn’t mess with the radios if they were given an unlocked bootloader to play with…

  • Why on earth would anybody buy an off-contract Moto phone to use on AT&T-Mobile when you can now get a Galaxy Nexus for around the same price built for that network, with bootloaders which actually allow you to own the phone?

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