Motorola RAZR

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Disclaimer

  • I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING YOU DO WITH THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE. THIS INCLUDES:
    • DAMAGE/DESTROY YOUR PHONE AND/OR COMPUTER
    • DISABLE FEATURES OF YOUR PHONE
    • VOID YOUR WARRANTY ON YOUR PHONE
  • no guarantee or warranty of any kind is extended.

Useful Refrence

Website Links

Threads

Quote from this thread.
Q: "I recently purchased this phone and am dealing with the bs OBEX being disabled. I noticed there are several forums and I am not sure if it is even possible. Do I need to be looking at the V3X stuff?"
A: "no you need to be looking in Motorola the Various. You have the updated version of CDMA v3c. Nothing in the v3x forum will work."
"Treat your phone like the v3c but keep in mind that you have transflash slot to allow you to play music on it."
  • "I couldn't find any instructions in the documentation on how to transfer songs from my Windows PC to the phone, but I eventually made my way to Motorola's site which informed me I needed to browse on the phone to the SYNC MUSIC feature under GET TUNES & TONES menu. Then I launched Windows Media Player 10, and it found the phone just fine."

RAZR Notes

  • The RAZR V3M is the V3c without the MicroSD slot.
    • Flashing a V3m to a V3c will:
      • Enable file transfer via bluetooth (Enable OBEX File Transfer)
      • Remove the Memory Card feature (TF/MicroSD will be GONE)
      • Remove Verizon Music Player
      • Remove VCast Music Support
      • Possibly remove other features
      • Link to source thread
  • Press [*], [#] and Power while the phone is off to determine your boot loader version.

Useful Software

  • Motorola Phone Tools Official Software for phone (Limited features)
  • Motorola RSD Lite v2.x Official flash/upgrade software.
  • BitPim Useful software for uploading to many phones. Not sure if it will work with V3M.
  • Part of the RAZR V3 Unbranding Guide.
    • Unbranding Guide: Replace various animations with your own custom ones.
    • P2KMan (Download) - "used for accessing system files and uploading/downloading SEEMs"
    • XVI32 (Download) - "used for SEEM editings"
    • V3 Unbranding Pack (Download) - Files needed to unbrand the motorola phone. You can't take the ass out of verizon, but you can take the verizon out of the phone.

Hacks, Exploits and Easter Eggs

Ringtone Copy/Paste Method (Works on V3m)

Make a mp3 a ringtone without hacking your cell phone.

This trick requires a little work but worth it. This is a better method than the "Email Technique" or "Seem" method because it's playing your ring tone as a MP3 file and not a verizon audio compressed file. So the sound quality is better and louder and you are not hacking your phone .

Before doing anything, your file extension in windows must be set as visible. Go to START, CONTROL PANEL, double ckick on FOLDER OPTIONS, VIEW TAB, uncheck "Hide Extensions For Known File Types"

  1. Make sure your Transflash card is in your phone.
  2. On your phone go to "Get Tunes & Tones"
  3. Select "Record New"
  4. Select "Options" and switch the storage device to "mini-SD Card"
  5. Go back to "Record New" and record a simple audio. It does not matter how long, I did it for 2 seconds.
  6. Go back to "Get Tunes & Tones" and scroll down to the bottom and play (to make sure it recorded something) the new audio recording.
  7. Shutdown the phone and put the Transflash into a PC.
  8. Copy a mp3 file into the root directory of the Transflash card.
  9. select one of the recorded voice file, right click, rename, copy the file name including the extension (.qcp)
  10. Delete this recorded file you just copied
  11. now go to one of the mp3 files, right click, rename, and paste that recorded file you just copied. (all you're doing is replacing the voice file you've recorded as an mp3 audio file. Your cell phone will still think it's a recorded voice files but in reality it's an mp3 audio file)
  12. Repeat step 3-11 for every ringtone you want to add. One voice recording = One ring tone.
  13. Once the Transflash is back into the phone assign the file as a ringtone to any contact.

DO not try to rename the ringtone you just added in your cell phone. If you rename it the ringtone, it will not work anymore.

  • Thanks to djteva on forums.afterdawn.com Link to Thread
  • Confirmed: Works on RAZR V3m
    • Allows you to use MP3s as ringtones.
    • Does not allow anything to be added to My Music or Manage Music.

Access Hidden Menu

Has anyone tried the hack that works on the VX8100 to get mp3's to work (v7 firmware) - essentially

Steps to reproduce:

  1. press the menu buton
  2. press 0
  3. enter 000000 (all zeros) for the password
  4. and then at the bottom select music player or mp3 or something like that and enable mp3 support
  • From this thread. Thanks to MrKite
  • Does not works on RAZR V3m
    • Seen this work on another phone

Access the Secret Menu

To enter the secret menu mode flip open phone and quickly enter:

  1. #073887*
  2. then enter the phone security code
  • 000000 by default
  • 236197 for a Bell Mobility Phone
  • Thanks to Hardware Forms
  • Confirmed: Works on RAZR V3m
    • Menu items are not very easy to understand and are not documented.

Access the Debug Menu

  • Note: I went into the debug menu once and now every time I turn my phone on it goes directly into the debug menu. There is no clear exit to the debug menu, I just have to keep pressing clear/next/previous until it goes into normal phone operations.
  1. go to the main screen and type: ##33284 (aka ##DEBUG)
  2. The 4 will not display. This is ok.
  3. Hit the <END CALL> key to return to the main screen.
  4. Quickly enter <CLR> and then the left soft key. This will display FTS. Hitting <CLR> <left softkey> again will return to the main screen if you'd like to cancel.
  • Thanks to Hardware Forms
  • Confirmed: Works on RAZR V3m
    • Menu items are not very easy to understand and are not documented.

Fix for Media Player

“ I spoke to Motorola at great lengths yesterday.

They are aware of the V3M problem. They have a fix / patch posted here.

http://promo.motorola.com/exe/mtpfix.exe

I had to get my phone (V3m) recognized as a modem first. That meant turning off the phone and plugging it into my PC and then installing the USB driver that came on a CD from Verizon. (Use the Wickdaddy driver here.)

Open up the the Windows device manager and make sure it says Motorola Modem.

Leave the phone turned off.

The next step was to run the fix I downloaded from them. Then when I turned on my phone it was recognized as new hardware as an MTP Media Player."

The main thing was to make sure the PC sees the phone as a modem. Make sure it is still turned off otherwise windows will try to install the V3c drivers before the patch is applied. After you apply the patch turn the phone on and then you should be able to install the drivers needed to let windows see it as a Media Player

”

—From This Thread. Thanks RJGrobbel, MTP Fix Link.

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