How to get the Droid 3 on ics with US Gsm capabilities, i know this was possible on gingerbread, any ideas?
Hi,
The Droid 3 can be used only to Verizon in the USA even if you unlock the phone.
There is a thread for using it in tMobile not sure if it works. GSM will work only outside the USA. Flashing a Radio, recovery.. Etc are not possible in it because it has a locked and encrypted. bootloader... Only option is to use bootstrap..
If I'm wrong, please correct me...
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Its possible
Use the Radio and build.prop from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406812
There are two major ICS ROMs, one of them has better GSM support (can't remember which one)
ekramsam said:
Its possible
Use the Radio and build.prop from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406812
There are two major ICS ROMs, one of them has better GSM support (can't remember which one)
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It hasn't been updated with the ics build.prop
First, install the XT883 radio. Then, you can flash this zip I made to get it working.
ChocolateShein said:
First, install the XT883 radio. Then, you can flash this zip I made to get it working.
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If this works i love you
It worked?
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So in five days I am going to italy for spring break. And I have no idea what fixes I need for gsm and what roms work for gsm. So with that being said could some one point me toward necessary files for gsm
Thanks in advanced.
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So I assume you'll be using an italian SIM? Else couldn't you just roam?
For usage with GSM-SIM outside of USA you need to buy an unlock code (ebay, etc?)
Apart from that, you'll have a big change it'll just work.
If it does not:
1) you have an old SIMcard
2) you need to do some edits (e.g. vodafone)
3) stock rom is giving you trouble (for me sometime 3G wouldn't automatically turn on)
Just make sure your SIM slot is unlocked and you will be good. I don't think you will need the AT&T/T-Mobile hack.
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Sweet thanks guys. I don't need any hacks and the sim card is already italy ready. But for ics roms is there a fix that I would need?
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jojo4747 said:
Sweet thanks guys. I don't need any hacks and the sim card is already italy ready. But for ics roms is there a fix that I would need?
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hascodes AOSP ICS should work fine. the AOPK ones might FC I haven't tried them yet.
http://dl3.htc.com/application/htc_vivid_att_RUU_3.26.502.56_US.exe
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Downloaded, thank you.
Im going to lose root after this RUU update?
prerequisite:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562890
and the AT&T section included...
Yes you will lose root and you would also need to relock your bootloader as well.
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MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!
Make sure that if you have a custom recovery that is is updated & double check that it is. Write the version numbers down to confirm, both before & after.
There was an early recovery that could not (CANNOT) be overwritten without flashing a modified PH39IMG file first, then flashing stock or new modified recovery.
If you update with your device with that original recovery, you may be very sorry.
Ok so I put the ICS that Pirate put up before he got mad and took it down. Doing what I had to do in order to get that on my ohone, does that,mean I'm already set to use this RUU and get the "official" ICS update if I so choose?
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No you need to relock the bootloader in order to use the RUU.
Ok that's what I had thought, just all this talk of different recoveries and stuff started to confuse me lol... Thanks for the help
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Stock Vivid and Beyond ICS
After reading some of the posts - I have a few questions.
I have a stock AT&T Vivid. I believe I can just install the following directly - correct?
http://dl3.htc.com/application/htc_vivid_att_RUU_3.26.502.56_US.exe
Then after upgrade to ICS -- can some one point me to the correct direction to ROOT and SIM UNLOCK the Vivid after I upgrade to ICS?
Thank you!
Run the ruu...Unsure of which tools exactly are for just rooting youl, have to either call att for a simunlock code or purchase one from online
mcchico said:
After reading some of the posts - I have a few questions.
I have a stock AT&T Vivid. I believe I can just install the following directly - correct?
http://dl3.htc.com/application/htc_vivid_att_RUU_3.26.502.56_US.exe
Then after upgrade to ICS -- can some one point me to the correct direction to ROOT and SIM UNLOCK the Vivid after I upgrade to ICS?
Thank you!
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Hello, i have a Raider 4G (Korea branded) phone, may i update to ICS by this RUU, i'm in stock rooted 2.3.7 and custom recovery.
No this is only for ATT right now
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ICS Root
Wild Child said:
Run the ruu...Unsure of which tools exactly are for just rooting youl, have to either call att for a simunlock code or purchase one from online
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Thank you
So, just to confirm, I assume that "YES" I can run the update on stock AT&T (no rooting required) and then after I upgrade to ICS any RUU will root -- nothing special to root ICS?
Thank you!
mcchico said:
Thank you
So, just to confirm, I assume that "YES" I can run the update on stock AT&T (no rooting required) and then after I upgrade to ICS any RUU will root -- nothing special to root ICS?
Thank you!
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RUU=ROM Update Utility. These are full builds released from HTC that will NOT have root. A lot of custom ROMs are built from an RUU, but rooted during the cooking process.
thanks works great! a little slow on my virtual machine windows but that's not the ruu's fault, it's my lack of memory. one thing it doesn't tell you is to put it into fastboot mode.
do we know if Rogers Raider can work with this ?
anybody with rogers already flashed this, please confirm.
Look 4 posts up I already said it will only work for att
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ccb101 said:
Look 4 posts up I already said it will only work for att
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my bad, sorry, i went through the thread but maybe its my glasses, thanks very much
GSLEON3 said:
MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!
Make sure that if you have a custom recovery that is is updated & double check that it is. Write the version numbers down to confirm, both before & after.
There was an early recovery that could not (CANNOT) be overwritten without flashing a modified PH39IMG file first, then flashing stock or new modified recovery.
If you update with your device with that original recovery, you may be very sorry.
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What do you mean by this? That before I run the ruu, I need to update CWM to the newest version?
i installed a rom and now my phone has gone roaming, it seems like i have a verizon rom running on my canadian cell in toronto.
can somebody please please please point me to roms that are working with canadian carriers and not gone crazy on roaming
thanks in advance
Well, I'm on Verizon, but this one looks like it's made for the XT860:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465153
doogald said:
Well, I'm on Verizon, but this one looks like it's made for the XT860:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465153
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are there no nice customized roms for bell like i installed steel droid rom GB version and i have to say its soo sweet im drooling all over myself.
so nothing customizable for bell ?
I have used every rom available on my bell xt860 and have never had that issue. Most roms need to have a patch flashed
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20001623
These patches are for gb roms. Make sure you use the correct one for either bootstrap or safestrap
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The patch should fix it. You need a different build.prop and libmotoril.so IIRC.
redsox985 said:
The patch should fix it. You need a different build.prop and libmotoril.so IIRC.
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And apns-conf.xml
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naifs_br10 said:
i installed a rom and now my phone has gone roaming, it seems like i have a verizon rom running on my canadian cell in toronto.
can somebody please please please point me to roms that are working with canadian carriers and not gone crazy on roaming
thanks in advance
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your phone is a xt862 or 860?
check your network settings, i presume you want to be ar CDMA-EVDO, NOT GSM, this may be the problem
After many months of discussions, I was wondering if anybody had ever flashed an XT860 radio on an XT862. I know people were using the XT883 to get Tmo/ATT access on their XT862, but has anybody ever tried using the XT860 radio? Some have said it's different radio hardware. I'm not 100% sure, and would like to hear from experience.
Also, if anybody needs it, the SBF for the Bell XT860 has been released so you can easily pull the radio file from there.
Please let mek now!
Bump, Anyone?
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Curious about this myself. I've heard the same question asked in a couple other Droid 3 threads but it doesn't look like anyone's tried it yet.
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Dunno, but with ATT having the Note (one sexy beast) why would you want a D3 on ATT?
cappysw10 said:
Dunno, but with ATT having the Note (one sexy beast) why would you want a D3 on ATT?
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I'm interested more for the overall engineering process for motorola. Do the different model numbers actually have different hardware on the inside? Or is it all software based?
Also, the note doesn't have a physical keyboard
danifunker said:
After many months of discussions, I was wondering if anybody had ever flashed an XT860 radio on an XT862. I know people were using the XT883 to get Tmo/ATT access on their XT862, but has anybody ever tried using the XT860 radio? Some have said it's different radio hardware. I'm not 100% sure, and would like to hear from experience.
Also, if anybody needs it, the SBF for the Bell XT860 has been released so you can easily pull the radio file from there.
Please let mek now!
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I know this is an old thread but since some time has passed and more people have had time to play with using the xt883 radio on the xt862 I'm wondering if anyone has gotten around to trying the xt860 radio? I have an xt861 I'd like to put the xt883 radio on and don't really have the experience needed to try out the xt860 radio without some idea it would work but it seems to me that if this worked it would be a better solution than using the xt883 radio and having to deal with the few bugs that has then just using the xt860 radio which to my understanding is a straight gsm radio to start with. If there were a way to use the xt883 radio and maintain cdma and gsm then I could see the point but since we lose cdma anyways why not just go with the xt860 anyways? If someone wanted to provide the files and walk me through it I'd be willing to try it either on the xt861 I have or on an old xt862 if you'd rather after I get the 861 up and running on the 883 radio. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree and this has already been tried and didn't work but I haven't seen anyone state that to be the case when I went searching. Anyone have anythoughts on this?
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You can always go back to original radio so there is no risk for you, maybe the latest baseband (newer than Verizon's one) from sbf.droi-developers.org the ACG OR ACG-nTelos will work fine, who knows maybe is US gsm-unlocked, just extract and flash the radio.img, no modified build.prop is neccesary
For the moment I don't have a D3 at my disposal to try the 860 radio but you can try to mount the system.img from the xt860 sbf zip file(mount -o loop) and copy the build.prop if after flashing you have unknown baseband version.
Regards
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Don't flash the 860 radio on an 861/862/883 or vice versa. If you want GSM use the 883 radio, if it will let you.
lucize said:
You can always go back to original radio so there is no risk for you, maybe the latest baseband (newer than Verizon's one) from sbf.droi-developers.org the ACG OR ACG-nTelos will work fine, who knows maybe is US gsm-unlocked, just extract and flash the radio.img, no modified build.prop is neccesary
For the moment I don't have a D3 at my disposal to try the 860 radio but you can try to mount the system.img from the xt860 sbf zip file(mount -o loop) and copy the build.prop if after flashing you have unknown baseband version.
Regards
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The baseband on the xt861 I have is n_03.18.37P . This is different than the xt862 I'm using now and appears to be newer would this cause a problem with using the xt883 radio? If so is there a way to change the baseband on the xt861 to the same as the one on my xt862? Would using the one click unbrick found on this forum change the baseband?
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every1nosme said:
The baseband on the xt861 I have is n_03.18.37P . This is different than the xt862 I'm using now and appears to be newer would this cause a problem with using the xt883 radio? If so is there a way to change the baseband on the xt861 to the same as the one on my xt862? Would using the one click unbrick found on this forum change the baseband?
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It's easy to change it, you only have to write de radio partition with the radio.img file, the user data can remain intact. the ACG version number I remember that it's ending with 37 and the verizon's one is ending with 32
you have to put the phone in fastboot mode and use the moto-fastboot.exe /flash radio radio.img
all the radio.img versions can be found in the zip files from the http://sbf.droid-developers.org/ site, it takes around 5 minutes to do it, but as I said maybe you need a modified buid.prop from xt860, because for xt863 if is not modded you will have unknown version number for the baseband and no radio signal.
When I did this I didn't need to change the build prop. It work just fine for me. It worked while I was in Afghanistan and works on ATT and T-Mobile here stateside.
MrObvious said:
Don't flash the 860 radio on an 861/862/883 or vice versa. If you want GSM use the 883 radio, if it will let you.
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I appreciate the advice and I have used the 883 radio sp successfully several times but what I want to know is why can't we just use the 860 radio? Is there a hardware difference or will it just not work ith the 862 firmware? If the firmware is the problem could we just puut the entire 860 firmware on an 862/861/883 and essentially make it an 860? Have you tried this and it didn't work?
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Gilly Monster said:
When I did this I didn't need to change the build prop. It work just fine for me. It worked while I was in Afghanistan and works on ATT and T-Mobile here stateside.
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I think I read somewhere that with a foreign sim in the phone it will work on at&t and tmo and it would work in afghanistan anyways so I guess my question is were you using a sim from a carrier in afghanistan when you returned here?
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Hello Everyone,
I have successful update my Bionic to 4.1.2 through Verizon OTA update.
Does anyone know how to make the Bionic 4.1.2 to run on Tmobile network? Please help.
(my bionic used to run on Tmobile with 2.3.4 ROM)
Anyone ???
key5000 said:
Anyone ???
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if you ran it (albeit a while ago on gb) on t-mo before, wouldn't the same steps hold to flash it to t-mo now?
I did try the same procedure as I did b4 for GB but it does not work on JB.
Has anyone able run Bionic with JB on TMobile network?
T-Mobile runs on a GSM network. The Bionic is a CDMA phone. So it is unlikely that the Bionic will work on the T-Mobile network unless it has a hidden GSM radio. From what I can tell GB was needed to enable the GSM radio.
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You need cdma software to unlock your radio to work with gsm. Also your phone has to be rooted.
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look up my post on that subject,