Motorola noob here in need of some guidence! - Motorola Droid RAZR

So I've always had HTC's and recently had a One X, but decided to sell it due to no micro-sd slot. I had a backup phone, Samsung Infuse 4G (which I'm using now as a daily) and read up and learned about it and about rooting it, since it was another world from what I was originally used to. Now, coming to the Razr forums, I find myself even more lost than I was on the Infuse forum coming from HTC! I currently own the latin american (latam) Claro Razr Maxx running ICS out of the box, and what I pretty much want to know is about rooting it, sim-unlocking it and (if possible) flashing a jb ota (ICS doesnt really cut it...).
So, from what I managed to read and understand, I first need and have to use the "EPRJ_EasyRootICS_MultiOS_v1.5" to root it (pretty easy according to the video).
As fas as sim-unlocking, I believe the only method is through eBay, paying for the unlock code and sending in my IMEI? (Always been against sending my IMEI, but well.... I have AT&T, so....)
Finally, ROM's... I read that I can ONLY flash latam (latin american) based ROM's, and I didn't manage to fing a jb ota for the latam version (unless I didn't look hard enough??).
So, what I really want to know is if I'm on the right path or if there's something else I should know about to achieve what I need.
Thanks in advanced!!

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Luisit0 said:
So I've always had HTC's and recently had a One X, but decided to sell it due to no micro-sd slot. I had a backup phone, Samsung Infuse 4G (which I'm using now as a daily) and read up and learned about it and about rooting it, since it was another world from what I was originally used to. Now, coming to the Razr forums, I find myself even more lost than I was on the Infuse forum coming from HTC! I currently own the latin american (latam) Claro Razr Maxx running ICS out of the box, and what I pretty much want to know is about rooting it, sim-unlocking it and (if possible) flashing a jb ota (ICS doesnt really cut it...).
So, from what I managed to read and understand, I first need and have to use the "EPRJ_EasyRootICS_MultiOS_v1.5" to root it (pretty easy according to the video).
As fas as sim-unlocking, I believe the only method is through eBay, paying for the unlock code and sending in my IMEI? (Always been against sending my IMEI, but well.... I have AT&T, so....)
Finally, ROM's... I read that I can ONLY flash latam (latin american) based ROM's, and I didn't manage to fing a jb ota for the latam version (unless I didn't look hard enough??).
So, what I really want to know is if I'm on the right path or if there's something else I should know about to achieve what I need.
Thanks in advanced!!
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are you cdma or gsm ? model xt 910 or xt 912 ?

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naifs_br10 said:
are you cdma or gsm ? model xt 910 or xt 912 ?
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Ahh my bad, forgot to add those details... Model xt910 and gsm
Sent from my XT910 using xda premium

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Luisit0 said:
Ahh my bad, forgot to add those details... Model xt910 and gsm
Sent from my XT910 using xda premium
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ok firstly you can update to jb using RSD lite and the fastboot files. for the firmware you currently have. i'll get you the link in just a moment. secondly sim unlocking is not like it is in samsung but you can just pay to get it unlocked.
root for jb is only available on linux there is a thread in development section on it will get you that as well in a moment, you can flash any roms as long as you dont flash cdma by accident. this can be confirmed by other members if possible but im very very sure 99% sure that you can flash gsm roms doesnt matter what region and we dont have a gsm patch yet for cdma roms yet so when we do you can flash cdma roms with gsm patch as well. ok. now let me get you the links
1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231289
this link above is for firmware you will need to download and use rsd lite version 6.0 to flash to get to jb and remember there is no way back to ics once you do that.
2) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246747
this one is for rooting once you have jb. for now its only linux you can sideload ubuntu then delete or wait till they release a windows type method.
good luck

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naifs_br10 said:
ok firstly you can update to jb using RSD lite and the fastboot files. for the firmware you currently have. i'll get you the link in just a moment. secondly sim unlocking is not like it is in samsung but you can just pay to get it unlocked.
root for jb is only available on linux there is a thread in development section on it will get you that as well in a moment, you can flash any roms as long as you dont flash cdma by accident. this can be confirmed by other members if possible but im very very sure 99% sure that you can flash gsm roms doesnt matter what region and we dont have a gsm patch yet for cdma roms yet so when we do you can flash cdma roms with gsm patch as well. ok. now let me get you the links
1) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231289
this link above is for firmware you will need to download and use rsd lite version 6.0 to flash to get to jb and remember there is no way back to ics once you do that.
2) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246747
this one is for rooting once you have jb. for now its only linux you can sideload ubuntu then delete or wait till they release a windows type method.
good luck
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Thanks for this, I'll get to it right away! I don't think I'll miss ICS once I'm on JB
Also, just to be sure... Do I have to root ICS first using EasyICSRoot one-click?
EDIT: I also found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257137
Would it be better to use that method instead of the Linux one?

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Luisit0 said:
Thanks for this, I'll get to it right away! I don't think I'll miss ICS once I'm on JB
Also, just to be sure... Do I have to root ICS first using EasyICSRoot one-click?
EDIT: I also found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257137
Would it be better to use that method instead of the Linux one?
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Yeah try that easy method . Its really very easy to root the phone .
We can't say it completely for windows because the stuff is running on vm and phone is connected to samba server but still ya can try this as it is really easy
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways

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anurag.dj2u said:
Yeah try that easy method . Its really very easy to root the phone .
We can't say it completely for windows because the stuff is running on vm and phone is connected to samba server but still ya can try this as it is really easy
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
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I will, thanks! Just gotta wait till the Rogers Canada 4.1.2 firmware finishes downloading... For some reasin it's downloading slow as f**k!!

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Luisit0 said:
I will, thanks! Just gotta wait till the Rogers Canada 4.1.2 firmware finishes downloading... For some reasin it's downloading slow as f**k!!
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Lolz . **** happens so don't worry
I think that easy root method may not work on Rogers Canada karnel . Try it once and hit us back here because ive not yet seen any post about getting rooted by that Dan method .
I hope that would work on ya RAZR too.
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways

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anurag.dj2u said:
Lolz . **** happens so don't worry
I think that easy root method may not work on Rogers Canada karnel . Try it once and hit us back here because ive not yet seen any post about getting rooted by that Dan method .
I hope that would work on ya RAZR too.
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
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Thanks bro, and I will do it too! I was counting on doing it the moment I replied but looks like im gonna have to wait till friday to flash jb and attempt to root it with that method.. Still, thanks for ur help too!

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So finally I have free time!! I rooted my XT910 with easyrootics, so now I'm rooted. Now, I have a doubt about RSD Lite... How exactly do I use it? I mean, I connected the phone via USB but it really didn't do anythin to let me know it detected my Maxx... Also, I clicked the button to browse for the firmware .xml.zip file and chose do decompress it (only option available to click) and it seemed to do so fine, but I really don't know what to do from there... There's a button that says "Start" at the top, next to the browse button, but I wasn't sure if that's the next step. What do I do next?

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Just install the motorola drivers for ya PC and install it and then connect ya phone to the PC it will automatically install all the appropriate drivers of RAZR maxx now once ya done with installing all the drivers . Switch off ya phone ,press both vol- and vol+ at a time and power botton , it ll take ya to the bootloader jist press vol- down and select fasboot (on 3rd no. ) and press vol+ to selct that .
Now open rsd lite and ya can find ya phone model in it connecting into fastboot mode now decompress the .xml fasboot file and hit the flash rsd lite ll start flashing . Ya cell phone ll restart 2or3 times during flashing
Once ya see done in rsd lute just disconnect ya phone from usb now go into the stock recovery and do full wipe data and caches.
Profit
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways

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anurag.dj2u said:
Just install the motorola drivers for ya PC and install it and then connect ya phone to the PC it will automatically install all the appropriate drivers of RAZR maxx now once ya done with installing all the drivers . Switch off ya phone ,press both vol- and vol+ at a time and power botton , it ll take ya to the bootloader jist press vol- down and select fasboot (on 3rd no. ) and press vol+ to selct that .
Now open rsd lite and ya can find ya phone model in it connecting into fastboot mode now decompress the .xml fasboot file and hit the flash rsd lite ll start flashing . Ya cell phone ll restart 2or3 times during flashing
Once ya see done in rsd lute just disconnect ya phone from usb now go into the stock recovery and do full wipe data and caches.
Profit
Thx
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
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huh, had no idea i had to power it off before.. aight so after rsd is done how do i get to recovery? vol-, vol+ and power?
EDIT: finally, would u recommend flashing one of the jb firmwares or one of the rom .zip's instead? or is my only option flashing the firmware? cause i was thinkin of this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2234934

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The link ya attached is not actually firmwares, thats a custom rom made from stock rom . Yeah ya can flash that as well if ya have root privilege.
Just read the op and requirements before flashing the rom because its saying ya need to be on ....................latam (xml).
So check out ya system version in about phone if it matches go ahead to flash that rom . Thx :thumbup:
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways

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anurag.dj2u said:
The link ya attached is not actually firmwares, thats a custom rom made from stock rom . Yeah ya can flash that as well if ya have root privilege.
Just read the op and requirements before flashing the rom because its saying ya need to be on ....................latam (xml).
So check out ya system version in about phone if it matches go ahead to flash that rom . Thx :thumbup:
Hit the thx button if i helped ya in anyways
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aaah i see now.. so basically if i wanna flash that rom i gotta do the same thing u said but with the latam firmware stated on the op? cause the one i was gonna flash originally via rsd lite is also latam, but from canada and 4.1.2... i understand it just has to be latam, so im guessing using the one in the rom thread's op instead of the canada one would do the same thing except keep me on ICS as stated on the op so that i can then flash the 4.1.2 rom?
also, just an fyi, my device's build number is 6.7.2-180_SLC-34 and the firmware on the op's build number is 6.7.2-180_SLC-35
also, my firmware configuration is GAS_LA_SPYDERICSCLALALA_P034 and the firmware on the op's is SPYDERICSRETBRLA, both of em LATAM so im guessin i should be ok flashin that firmware on rsd lite?? so many questions... lol im sorry, just tryin to be 100% sure, i rlly dont wanna mess up this phone.. i love it!
EDIT: as of now, im rooted on ics 4.0.4 and have bmm installed... i just booted into the custom recovery and did a full backup... u never know when its gonna come in handy lol