Unlocking from Verizon

[seventieslord]

Had anyone had any luck getting the Droid 4 unlocked? as luck would have it, I am in Canada, but this is the phone I have lusted over for months. I won't let the fact that it's a Verizon phone stop us from being together. If I am going to go buy a locked one on Ebay for full price, I need to know that it is not a tough unlock.

Anyone?

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[droidbound]

I haven't seen anything on this forum about unlocking it yet. But I would think the folks over at the Droid 4 Hack section would be the ones to ask.

 

[NiteCloak]

Is 'unlocking' different to rooting? If its a rooted phone you're after then...


The Windows version of the exploit can be downloaded here http://vulnfactory.org/public/motofail_windows.zip

Make sure your device is in USB debugging mode, attach it to your PC, ensure you have the latest Motorola drivers installed, extract the entire zip file, and execute “run.bat”. Enjoy.

 

[seventieslord]

Unlocking <> rooting.

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[ScottyDsntKnow]

Unlocking would mean he could use it on Telus or Rogers or some such. It DOES have de-activated GSM capabilities like the Bionic and RAZR do as well. I know there are guys who have gotten those phones to work on GSM so that might be a good starting point?

 

[greekchampion04]

i have heard that verizon will eventually be pushing an update that will make the phone capable of global roaming... it stands to reason then that you could do this yourself.

 

[r314bd]

I'm confused...would the GSM SIM card just go in the same slot where the LTE SIM goes? Because there's only one SIM slot in the phone.

I know the phone has a Qualcomm MDM6600 chip which is theoretically capable of supporting both CDMA/EVDO and GSM/UMTS...but I don't know if it has the necessary SIM slot or necessary antennas.

 

[greekchampion04]

yes, you would just pop the GSM SIM card in the slot. I remember going to Greece a couple years ago (bought a C902--james bond phone for the trip) and just popped in a new pre-paid SIM every time i needed more minutes.

 

[ScottyDsntKnow]

Afaik the global capability is going to be software only as the lte sim slot is microsim instead of the standard size. This would probably mean Vodaphone or bust which is absolutely terrible. This is why I'm getting a d3, it has an actual SIM slot...

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[r314bd]

Afaik the global capability is going to be software only as the lte sim slot is microsim instead of the standard size. This would probably mean Vodaphone or bust which is absolutely terrible.

Well any SIM can be converted into a micro SIM with a SIM cutter

 

[greekchampion04]

2026424[/URL]]Afaik the global capability is going to be software only as the lte sim slot is microsim instead of the standard size. This would probably mean Vodaphone or bust which is absolutely terrible. This is why I'm getting a d3, it has an actual SIM slot...

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droid3 also doesn't have 4G... tradeoffs.

 

[americanz]

Afaik the global capability is going to be software only as the lte sim slot is microsim instead of the standard size. This would probably mean Vodaphone or bust which is absolutely terrible. This is why I'm getting a d3, it has an actual SIM slot...

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i think these are not micro sim

• HTC Rezound​
• HTC Thunderbolt​
• Pantech Breakout​
• Samsung Charge​
• Samsung Stratospher​
• LG Revolution​
• Motorola Droid Bionic​

 

[seventieslord]

So we aren't even 100% sure that this phone can work on a different gsm network?

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[Byakushiki]

So we aren't even 100% sure that this phone can work on a different gsm network?

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Seems like a ton of people think the Bionic, RAZR, and D4 are global as in GSM capable. I'm pretty dead certain they are not. Anyone here with them, enter *#*#4636#*#*, go to phone info, and tell us what you see under preferred network type. I'm 98% certain any CDMA only phone will only display CDMA/LTE auto, CDMA only, EvDo only, and LTE only. No mention of GSM auto, WCDMA only, and GSM/CDMA auto. Funny enough, I do have an "Unknown" option though.

 

[ikari]

All information on the web points out that it WILL BE a global, GSM-ready phone. It is said to have GSM-capable radio. You can't do "global roaming software-only", since it wouldn't have a physical way to connect to any provider that would do the roaming.

For now, it gives me "The SIM card is from an unknown source" and "no SIM" and "no service", having a GSM microSIM card (hey, @ScottyDsntKnow, you are therefore wrong to think that GSMs cannot be microSIM).
Doing *#*#4636#*#* does not work on Droid4 for me, the code just disappears right after the last asterisk and nothing happens.