Droid Bionic on AT&T or T-Mobile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QdCxoEbbho

First download these with everything you need:
http://www.consolediscussions.com/youtube/drivers.zip
http://www.consolediscussions.com/youtube/bionic.zip


NOTE: Before continuing you will need the phone in a working state, so if for example if the phone was factory reset and it's Verizon and you want to go to T-Mobile you will need a Verizon sim card, because T-Mobile sim will tell you incompatible until it's modded. Otherwise it won't let you boot up, saying a sim card is needed to complete startup process.


Here's how you can unlock the Motorola Droid Bionic:
1. Install drivers
2. Update stock rom to newest version
3. Make sure Debug Mode (settings->apps->development->usb debug) is ON and it's connected as CHARGER ONLY (not Mass Storage)
4. Root the phone with motofail (click the run file)
5. Install Bootstrap by moving BionicBootstrap.apk or RazrBootstrap.apk if you have a Droid Razr to sd card,
enable external sources settings->apps->unknown sources, install,
and run install bootloader, and after success exit
6. Ensure USB is connected as PC Tools mode (not Mass Storage)
7. In Radiocomm go to MA->COMMON->MDM 6x00
8. In Radiocomm go to Settings->USB->PST USB Driver
9. Click the FTM Common 1 Tab, on the upper right side in the NVAccess, scroll to NV item 1877 NV_RF_BC_CONFIG_I
10. Read the value from the device
11. Replace the first 8 bytes (16 digits) with: 8703E80400000200
12. Write the data to the device and powercycle.




*To disable GSM/UMTS, perform the same 7 steps, but replace the 8-byte data with: 0700000000000000

hey johnny i got this working on the bionic with straight talk , but i still cant get it working on the droid razr xt912, and i did everything the same but still doesnt work and i tried using the at&t sim so do u know if this is working on straight talk.

Did you download the drivers for the Droid Razr?

Hello Johnny, I follow the instructions and it works with an AT&T Sim but will NOT work with Tmobile Sim. It says no service. Can you please help on this? I'm anxious to get it working for Tmobile. Thanks so much! I posted the same question in your youtube video as well. Thanks!

Hey Johnny, I have a Bionic and have done what you said here but im trying to use straight talk and its not working. Can you help with that?

hey my 4g is not coming on, i cant only get edge

I have a question: I followed the directions above on the article and everything worked great. I was using T-mobile with my Droid Bionic phone. However, I made the mistake to to do the OTA. Now, I have ICS but I can't use my Tmobile simcard.

How can I go back to what I had or bring the phone back to Gingerbread to do these steps again? I hope to find an answer to my bid mistake. I was happy with my phone. Thank you.

It worked for my phone until i UPDATED it.. I got it to work again but i cant send TEXTS! What do ido?

My bionic has been updated to ICS. I've never rooted, or hacked the gsm chip. So can I still modify it to work on GSM networks? I see some people updated, and broke the gsm hack, but I'm wondering if that's only a problem with updating after the gsm hack, and doing so after update would or would not create problems? I want to put my phone on straight talk.

Hi Jhonny, i did all you instructed and i still cannot get it to recognize my straight talk sim cardf please help i am lost first time hacker here

Got it working on ics

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Just gotta change a few things in the build probs xda has the guide

dude you are the man i did exactly what you said and it worked perfectly i in boxed you cause wasn't working but that was my bad had the wrong radioncomm version

I'm trying to brick my verizon bionic droid need some help and body

hi jhonny , my bionic was working fine until i update the rom to VRZ_XT875_6.7.246.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml and now its no data an the signal its only one bar. can you help me please thanks

Is that the latest out now? Are you saying it was unlocked and then you updated or you haven't even unlocked yet, updated, and now only one bar?

Hi,
Where do i find the bootloader. I've done all the steps and it now says tmobile, but when i enter my sim it still says no sim card/unknown sim

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Is that the latest out now? Are you saying it was unlocked and then you updated or you haven't even unlocked yet, updated, and now only one bar?

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1 I unlock the phone with your description .Was unlocked and I used with Tmobile for like a week .the data and signal was perfect ,fast untill I update the phone after that have 1 bar of signal , data work but I cant send mms and 4g also don work

Hey johnny im trying to get my droid bionic up and runnimg is there something that im missing plz help.

What step are you at?

Hey
I followed the steps seeral times it worked he first time until i updated to ics now i have completed the process serveral times after factory resetting several times but now i only have a one bar connection with edge and cant send texts im currently trying to use trmobile i havent had any luck from anywhere. it worked perfect on gingerbread is there a way i could go back or any help?

I clicked "restart" on radiocomm while my droid bionic is connected through usb and now the chip is messed up and it says encryption unseccessful, please help, i need the phone back working now!!

right off the bat, thanks for sharing the knowledge. so i followed your instructions and it doesn't recognize SIM card. i even replaced the original 8 bits, wrote that, reboot, then replaced the 8 bits with the numbers you specified. and still nothing

any ideas?

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also, something strange. when i put t mobile sim the notification bars shows 4G LTE with no bars but when i put verizon sim it says 3G w a few bars ???

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*To disable GSM/UMTS, perform the same 7 steps, but replace the 8-byte data with: 0700000000000000

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Hi Johnny!

About a month and a half ago, I successfully followed this procedure for my Bionic (including the build.prop edits mentioned), to go onto Straight Talk.

Only problem was, AT&T's coverage map is a lying *******. And I found I just can't function with only 2.5 GB/mo of high speed internet.

So I went back to Verizon. Reflashed the cdma_targa_9.8.2O-72_VZW-22_cfc.xml, and all seemed peachy.

But no, I don't get 4G. When I open the 'info' screen in the testing area, (OK I use the LTE On/Off for HTC Thunderbold app from the play store to get there) it shows me that GSM is still on, and my high speed radio is reading eHRPD, NOT LTE! Under the radio setting tab, GSM/CDMA auto (PRL) is selected. I can select LTE/CDMA but that doesn't do anything.


So I tried to reverse this procedure, but what I've found is it won't connect. Do I need to be running stock ROM, be booted into recovery, or what? Right now i'm on CM10.2, and I love it, but I don't have LTE in either stock or CM (not even before installing safestrap).

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I clicked "restart" on radiocomm while my droid bionic is connected through usb and now the chip is messed up and it says encryption unseccessful, please help, i need the phone back working now!!

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You're hurtin' for certain.

I had to re-flash my phone back to stock jellybean after I did that. But now I'm on CyanogenMod, and love it. So it was an overall positive experience.

OK Tried to do this again. I didn't even hit restart. I followed the instruction to unplug and replug the phone if the read box turned red.

I got the dreaded "encryption failed" bootloop.

But at least I had enough foresight to do a TWRP backup of my phone before trying this procedure. So I still have everything...

Throw us a bone, here, Johnny! :)

Did you have 4g beforE?