Hey guys!
I have some questions about this phone:
-If the GSM comes factory locked for other countries, can it be unlocked?
-Do Photon roms work on the electrify? (unlocked bootloader)
-Do all Photons/electrifies are Gsm built? I have an ebay seller saying electrify is not a GSM phone...
I'm planning on buying a unlocked bootloader photon/electrify, or one with 2.34 so I can unlock it myself!
Regards
brunomcf said:
Hey guys!
I have some questions about this phone:
-If the GSM comes factory locked for other countries, can it be unlocked?
-Do Photon roms work on the electrify? (unlocked bootloader)
-Do all Photons/electrifies are Gsm built? I have an ebay seller saying electrify is not a GSM phone...
I'm planning on buying a unlocked bootloader photon/electrify, or one with 2.34 so I can unlock it myself!
Regards
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gsm is not locked for any country outside of the US.
the electrify and the photon are the same phone (minus 4g) so of course the roms work.
it is a gsm phone. but it won't work on US networks. (unless you flash a new radio to an unlocked device, if you're a n00b and never have done this before, it's not recommended unless you don't care about messing up the phone)
also the electrify cannot be unlocked for GSM use in the US. photon can though.
na7q said:
the electrify and the photon are the same phone (minus 4g) so of course the roms work.
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About the lack of 4G on the electrify, is that a hardware or software limitation?
thx
brunomcf said:
Hey guys!
I have some questions about this phone:
-If the GSM comes factory locked for other countries, can it be unlocked?
-Do Photon roms work on the electrify? (unlocked bootloader)
-Do all Photons/electrifies are Gsm built? I have an ebay seller saying electrify is not a GSM phone...
I'm planning on buying a unlocked bootloader photon/electrify, or one with 2.34 so I can unlock it myself!
Regards
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If you want to unlock you bootloader and go with the Photon, make sure it has Android 2.3.4 on it. I just bought one used and it came with 2.3.5 which cannot be unlocked apparently.
InsanePostman said:
If you want to unlock you bootloader and go with the Photon, make sure it has Android 2.3.4 on it. I just bought one used and it came with 2.3.5 which cannot be unlocked apparently.
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Thanks for your comment!
Unfortunatelly I did buy one with a locked bootloader on ebay.
Will sell the one I have right now and buy another mopho with unlocked bootloader.
Or maybe just get another phone!
Now I just wounder if with a specific radio, we can get 4G on the electrify.
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Ok first off I want to thank everyone for all the great info, I have been able to root my US Cellular motorola electrify but I recently realized that it did not work like my droid X (Verizon) when I Auto rooted it and flashed Liberty Rom for it.I tried flashing cm9 ROM several times and bricked my (electrify) phone each time but luckily I was able to figure out how to sbf from rsd from team us cellular. I realized I need to unlock bootloader (pudding) my electrify which is running android 2.3.5. I have tried everything in this world to unlock it and I cannot seem to get it. I have tried with RSD 5.6, 5.5, 5.4.4 5.3 and I also tried with different sbf files from here on XDA. none go through and on my phone I always recieve an error. I know everyone says its ok its suppose to be like that, well I follow instructions and go to cmd and do fastboot and it says infooem unlock is not implimented okay? [0.002s], there is only one thing I have not tried and I cannot seem to find the large pudding_stock_unlock.sbf ANYWHERE! I believe it is 403mb. I have searched for hours for it using everything I can and I still get to the 1mb file which does nothing for me. I even tried using 235pudding.sbf but still nothing. I need someones help please. sorry i posted here but Devs wont let a "noob" post in development section. I really really want ICS cm9 beta on my phone. please help
As far as im aware if your on 2.3.5 your SOL for unlocking.. Unless someone pretty recently has found a new exploit for it that I haven't seen. And this IS the proper place to post questions like this, the Development Section is for Roms/Kernels and the such. Basically big dev things, not questions about how to do things.
No unlock solution for 2.3.5.
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O feel your pain. O switched recently and I came from Samsung. With the new electrifies on 2.3.5 the boot loader is locked. We are stuck till the next update. Sucks, but its a reality for us
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Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
caseythebeagle said:
Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
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You've got your unlocking confused. They're talking about unlocking the bootloader here, the Photon and Electrify are not SIM locked (but are restricted from working on North American GSM networks with compatible frequencies, for example, AT&T). The CDMA radios will be carrier locked to Sprint or US Cellular for the Photon and Electrify respectively, those doesn't get 'unlocked' per se - it's possible to flash CDMA phones to different carriers, but it isn't easy.
Bootloader locking is completely different, it's a sort of failsafe that checks the kernel and/or ROM for a certain signature before it'll boot the device. Locked bootloader means no custom kernels, which in turn means certain ROMs or distributions like Cyanogenmod will not function properly as they require (or simply benefit greatly from) certain elements of custom kernels.
If you want to change the bootscreen, just root your phone and replace bootanimation.zip from /system/media.
Sent from my Motorola Electrify
Well can someone demonstrate the process on how these things are made so i can unlock mine myself ill figure it out
caseythebeagle said:
Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
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This unlocked means for bootloader unlocked, not CDMA unlock.
Photon can use other CDMA other than sprint, you just must know MSL/SPC.
I don't know about electrify, is it same like photon for inject it with other cdma operator.
I use my photon using cdma in asia, so it not sprint for sure.
I want to buy an atrix from ebay But I'm afraid that I will not be able to unlock it's bootloader because I read a post here in the forum that new/replacement atrix devices are not unlockable because of somthing that motorola did.
since I didn't find any guide for unlocking an unbranded atrix My question is how do I do it? Do I even need to unlock it's bootloader?
if this is just for using your own carrier then no need to unlock it as it is already unbranded, if you want to use custom roms then for now you are out of luck, you might be able to root it tho.
If you get it, try using the steps here. If that doesn't work, well yeah. You would have one that can't be unlocked.
Hi im new to atrix (but not to new to custom rom) .
Im having a little hard time to understand something about used phones
1). I know that my phone is sim unlocked because the phones logo is ATT and im from mexico using TELCEL. Does that means i can still recive the upcoming ICS upgrade and my unlocked sim will still be there? or do i have to reunlock it again?
2). Is there a way to tell if the bootloader has been unlocked? i have root access but dont know if that is normal on the atrix to have it unlocked.
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jerses said:
Hi im new to atrix (but not to new to custom rom) .
Im having a little hard time to understand something about used phones
1). I know that my phone is sim unlocked because the phones logo is ATT and im from mexico using TELCEL. Does that means i can still recive the upcoming ICS upgrade and my unlocked sim will still be there? or do i have to reunlock it again?
2). Is there a way to tell if the bootloader has been unlocked? i have root access but dont know if that is normal on the atrix to have it unlocked.
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I don't know about your sim card problem.
Upcoming ICS upgrade? Probably not coming to the Atrix 1... maybe the Atrix 2. If you want ICS on your Atrix 1 you can go here and install a beta version of CM9. It's relatively stable except for the camcorder: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445052
I have an Atrix 1 (with Turl's version). I can tell that my bootloader is unlocked because at the startup Motorola screen with the red circle, it says "Unlocked" at the top.
Hope that helps.
MattyRad said:
Upcoming ICS upgrade? Probably not coming to the Atrix 1... maybe the Atrix 2..
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So this is not true?
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
Is Atrix 1 = Atrix 4g?
Does the weptop works with that rom? Im having a hard time trying to find out what to do next (to have a custom rom)
jerses said:
So this is not true?
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
Is Atrix 1 = Atrix 4g?
Does the weptop works with that rom? Im having a hard time trying to find out what to do next (to have a custom rom)
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Oh wow. My mistake, it looks like we're getting an upgrade to ICS after all (knock on wood). I was just being pessimistic. Let's hope it arrives on time.
Yeah Atrix 1 = Atrix 4g.
I don't have the webtop so I don't know, but I am going to guess that it doesn't work. You probably want to look that up yourself though.
I have successfully debranded my phone... does that mean it's unlocked? Unlocked meaning i can use it on other carriers?
franchize1989 said:
I have successfully debranded my phone... does that mean it's unlocked? Unlocked meaning i can use it on other carriers?
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No,
Debranding is Software
Unlocking is Hardware
To Debrand all you did was remove the AT&T crap. If you want the phone unlocked you must either buy the unlock code or call AT&T since their supposedly giving them out for free-no contract.
It doesn't matter what ROM your running and whether or not you have HSPL sim unlock is hardware and you must get that code.
Is my understanding that a phone with bootloader unlocked can have any rom installed (i may be wrong). If that would be the case can i install a verizon rom on my unlocked s-off M8 and be able to use it on verizon?
Verizon runs on a CDMA network. AT&T is GSM. Wont work. Wont work for Sprint either for the exact same reason. You can however move it to T-mobile after getting unlocked.
"Is my understanding that a phone with bootloader unlocked can have any rom installed (i may be wrong). If that would be the case can i install a verizon rom on my unlocked s-off M8 and be able to use it on verizon?"
FernandoR211 said:
Verizon
runs on a CDMA network. AT&T is GSM. Wont work. Wont work for Sprint either for the exact same reason. You can however move it to T-mobile after getting unlocked.
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Also - your statement that a phone with an unlocked bootloader can run ANY ROM isn't quite accurate. The ROM must be made for the device itself - model and type (GSM, CDMA, etc.).
DanGeorges said:
"Is my understanding that a phone with bootloader unlocked can have any rom installed (i may be wrong). If that would be the case can i install a verizon rom on my unlocked s-off M8 and be able to use it on verizon?"
Also - your statement that a phone with an unlocked bootloader can run ANY ROM isn't quite accurate. The ROM must be made for the device itself - model and type (GSM, CDMA, etc.).
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I should have clarified. I meant carrier unlocked not a unlocked bootloader.
Thanks guys that explains everything.
Questions threads belong in the Q&A section.
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