I am very disappointed . my android experience has been nothing but a headache... I have had a Samsung continuum, Droid x2 and now the Droid bionic.. ALL in which have been left out in the cold by VERIZON... It just Burns me up that I finally thought this device would be the one to finally get special attention but ha I was wrong... It was a flagship device now it's just a ugly stepchild... next thing you know this device won't get OFFICIAL ICS anymore. I wish just once I would luck out on a device for once. Feel free to let out your android woes I was just venting a little.
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To the contrary, I am very happy with my Bionic. It ran fine on stock .905, but I have flashed the .232 ICS update and it's even better. I think it is extremely likely we'll get the official ICS update. I don't think the phone needs special attention. It stands on its merits and I don't think I would be happier with a Razr, Galaxy, or some other phone.
I can understand that but by special attention I meant bootloader unlocking.. It is a good phone though.
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Yeah if Moto doesn't step up to the plate and unlock the Bionic I will be pissed off. And I will vote with my wallet when it comes time for another phone! However, I honestly believe ICS is not too far off into the the future and the .232 leak is quite nice.
As I recall everyone always knew Bionics bootloader was locked and no one ever promised it would be unlocked.
Unfortunately I didn't know so I guess I'm that 1% who didn't..
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Dougau - your recollection is faulty, and your post is pointless and unnecessary. Moto did announce that they would
unlock the Bionic bootloader.
We have kexec, overclocking, and a crap load of roms!! Official ics WILL be here. Did I mention safestrap? Isn't this enough support and development?
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It is the most development I seen on any other phone I had. I wasn't bashing the developers It was towards Verizon. If I didn't make that clear...
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Dougau - your recollection is faulty, and your post is pointless and unnecessary. Moto did announce that they would
unlock the Bionic bootloader.
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The second part of the post was unnecessary, apologizes to all. Link to where Moto (or Verizon) officially announced the Bionics bootloader would be unlocked would be greatly appreciated.
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Moto did announce that they would unlock the Bionic bootloader.
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When was that announced? I love my Bionic even with it's locked bootloader but if you have seen something the rest of us haven't.... link please
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The second part of the post was unnecessary, apologizes to all. Link to where Moto (or Verizon) officially announced the Bionics bootloader would be unlocked would be greatly appreciated.
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They never did. They were ambiguous on whether it would be unlockable or not. Some people took that ambiguity to mean it would be unlockable.
I for one Love my bionic. I'm also in the 1% not knowing about the locked bootloader but I blame myself for not researching that before I purchased the phone. I'm rooted and on ICS .232 and LOVE it.I don't need to be rooted. I had CM7 on my last device but ICS is everything I wanted and it works so smoothly. Plus it bumped my clock speed up to 1200Mhz. Honestly the specs on this phone is top shelf and was free with a 2year contract (got it June 28th). No other phone was priced this way that was 4g dual core with a gig of DDR2 ram except the LG Lucid ($30). My only complaint is the screen. 720p resolution would have been nice but for what it is and what I paid I could not complain.
Your in the same boat as me I also did not research about the bootloader... So I blame myself also on that part.
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I came from a HTC and may go back to HTC or Samsung when the time comes, but I've got almost 14 months till I can upgrade and a lot can change in that amount of time. For now I don't have the upgrade bug. The Bionic works terrific for me. Well, thats a lie. I want the OTA ICS update lol... but don't we all.
i just received my new droid razr today, it did NOT come with a sim card. I went to Best Buy and bought one.now I get please wait this may take a few minutes. I have done this multiple times i never get past this. any help would be appreciated. I am trying to use this with pageplus
THANKS
robertr0 said:
i just received my new droid razr today, it did NOT come with a sim card. I went to Best Buy and bought one.now I get please wait this may take a few minutes. I have done this multiple times i never get past this. any help would be appreciated. I am trying to use this with pageplus
THANKS
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This is not the Droid Razr forum, its the Razr i forum.
Anyways, heres the link to the Droid Razr forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1360
As the title says I have an xt861 I wanted to modify the radio with the xt883 radio for use on at&t. I was able to do this successfully twice with mine and my girlfriends droid 3s however they are showing some signs of age and I was able to pick this up pretty cheap in brand new condition as a replacement. My question is should I use the debrick method found in that thread to put the droid 3 rom on it before beginning the process or would it work with the xt861 rom that is on the phone now? If it didn't would I be able to use the one step debrick on the phone to restore it to a factory droid 3 state at least and then start again from there? Unless someone tells me its a bad idea I was gonna try this anyways but I thought I would ask in case someone had any experience trying it with this phone. Another question I've wondered is why can't we install the radio from the xt860 and just use it that way? Is there a difference in the hardware of these two phones?
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As the title says I have an xt861 I wanted to modify the radio with the xt883 radio for use on at&t. I was able to do this successfully twice with mine and my girlfriends droid 3s however they are showing some signs of age and I was able to pick this up pretty cheap in brand new condition as a replacement. My question is should I use the debrick method found in that thread to put the droid 3 rom on it before beginning the process or would it work with the xt861 rom that is on the phone now? If it didn't would I be able to use the one step debrick on the phone to restore it to a factory droid 3 state at least and then start again from there? Unless someone tells me its a bad idea I was gonna try this anyways but I thought I would ask in case someone had any experience trying it with this phone. Another question I've wondered is why can't we install the radio from the xt860 and just use it that way? Is there a difference in the hardware of these two phones?
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You might do some searching around but the 861 is the same phone as the 862 I think.
I wanted to come back and confirm that the xt883 radio swap found in developers section on this forum for the xt862 does indeed work on the xt861. If I could thank everyone on this forum twice for this I would as I've been using an xt862 with this tweek for the last year but knowing it works with the xt861 as well opens up the market for replacement phones as I live in an alltel area that is switching to at&t soon and should lead to a flood of the market on used xt861's. I believe a carrier in virginia called blue ridge wireless also carries this phone I hope this will help someone else looking for a deal on a used phone. I did not have to put the droid 3 firmware on it before doing it so it is confirmed working with the 861 firmware and which seems like a much more stripped down version than the verizon firmware. Didn't really see any bloatware on the phone other than blur lol. I did have to use motofail to root the phone as petes one click root didn't work but everything else worked just as described in the guide. Have only used it for a couple hours and haven't run into any issues yet but if I do I will certainly come back and report so everyone will have all the info to decide if they want to go this route or not. Once again, thanks to all the developers on here who take the time to write up these step by step guides and one click tools to help out those of us who are good at following instructions but don't have the brains or time to work this out for ourselves. Now that I have an extra slightly worn out d3 I wont be using I'm going to do some reading on some of the custom roms some have developed and see what I might like or not about those and which ones will work with the xt883 radio. These phones are still very capable for what I need them to do but I'd really like to see just what the phone is capable of when tweeked by the great minds on here. If there's anyone in the hickory/asheville area of nc that needs a d3 to experiment with let me know and I would be willing to loan out my extra one to maybe look over your shoulder and learn a little.
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every1nosme said:
I wanted to come back and confirm that the xt883 radio swap found in developers section on this forum for the xt862 does indeed work on the xt861. If I could thank everyone on this forum twice for this I would as I've been using an xt862 with this tweek for the last year but knowing it works with the xt861 as well opens up the market for replacement phones as I live in an alltel area that is switching to at&t soon and should lead to a flood of the market on used xt861's. I believe a carrier in virginia called blue ridge wireless also carries this phone I hope this will help someone else looking for a deal on a used phone. I did not have to put the droid 3 firmware on it before doing it so it is confirmed working with the 861 firmware and which seems like a much more stripped down version than the verizon firmware. Didn't really see any bloatware on the phone other than blur lol. I did have to use motofail to root the phone as petes one click root didn't work but everything else worked just as described in the guide. Have only used it for a couple hours and haven't run into any issues yet but if I do I will certainly come back and report so everyone will have all the info to decide if they want to go this route or not. Once again, thanks to all the developers on here who take the time to write up these step by step guides and one click tools to help out those of us who are good at following instructions but don't have the brains or time to work this out for ourselves. Now that I have an extra slightly worn out d3 I wont be using I'm going to do some reading on some of the custom roms some have developed and see what I might like or not about those and which ones will work with the xt883 radio. These phones are still very capable for what I need them to do but I'd really like to see just what the phone is capable of when tweeked by the great minds on here. If there's anyone in the hickory/asheville area of nc that needs a d3 to experiment with let me know and I would be willing to loan out my extra one to maybe look over your shoulder and learn a little.
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Hi, I went ahead and assumed I'd have to flash the xt883 radio and build.prop. Mine isn't working as is. I'm curious if you had to also replace and tweak the build.prop with your xt861? Mine is the Ntelos version which I believe is the same as Alltel. Also did you have to unlock your phone? Some have said they have had to others have said they haven't. Just trying to get all my facts straight with this minority version of the milestone 3. -Thanks.
UPDATE: This thread was supposed to be deleted, but XDA Staff felt it needed to stay up, so I'll tell the people reading this instead. I've since decided to buy a Moto G, so only reply to help others, not me.
I guess this is sort of my introduction here. Moving from Droid Bionic @ XDA to this one.
So I sold my Droid Bionic the other day, and have been researching a new phone I could get for $50, and stumbled across the Droid 4. I feel comfortable with the phone already, and I haven't even bought it yet. But I did want to check here for seasoned users' opinion of the Droid 4.
First and foremost, I do not plan on activating the phone at all. I only use WiFi, so any data connection concerns are irrelevant. It would certainly help if someone here either upgraded to the 4 after the Bionic, or has both. I plan on using CyanogenMod 11 M12, until M13 is out, and possibly CM12. Anyway, are there any big problems with using the 4? Other than the non-removable battery?
Hello, so i got myself a Moto X XT1058 ATT from an elderly person last week, i have managed to root it and i have been searching around for safestrap and havent found any of it around, even from rootzwiki the links are down i have experience flashing and everything and i just love tinkering around with it lol for nostalgia and maybe have it as a backup phone, and my question is does anyone have a spare APK of safestrap? help would be much appreciated, sadly cant unlock the bootloader in this one same as my old moto g 2013 that i had years ago