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[Karmuhhhh]

Greeting everyone! I have a small dilemma that I am looking to resolve: In May of last year I purchased the Droid Razr from Verizon. However, my RAZR took a crap on me so when the Windows Phone (HTC 8X) was released, I purchased one of those. I sent the Razr in for warranty replacement and just received a new refurb for a replacement. I do have one small problem, however. I would like to use my Razr for home wifi use/MP3 player for my car, but I can't get past the activation screen! I know most of you would say I should just pop in my sim and activate it, then go back to my Windows Phone, but I cannot do that for one simple reason: I am grandfathered into an unlimited data plan, and Verizon stated that if I switch phones, I will lose my unlimited data forever, even if it is just to activate this phone to use it and go back to my other one.

 

So, I though perhaps I could root my Razr to use without having activating it and use it around the house like I originally wanted to - but how would I go about this? I have scoured Google and could not find anything that would work. The most common remedy I found was to rotate the screen and touch the four corners, however when I turn my phone sideways, my phone does not auto-rotate. I don't know which version of Android I am running, but I am assuming it is a newer version that does not allow rotations during activation.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[xCorps]

You have no idea how many times I've switched the SIM between my phones and still have my unlimited data.

Just today, I switched my SIM between 2 Galaxy S3's and a Galaxy Nexus.

Also, the only way to bypass the SIM activation is if you're on ICS. Not on Jellybean.

You can't root because you have to be fully booted up and be able to turn on "usb debugging" before you can root.

I used to be a sales manager with all the carriers, Verizon's my carrier, and I can concur with Hicks. You can swap your SIM card without worries.

Unless they've changed things in the past six months, but I don't believe so. I recommend swapping your SIM card to your RAZR, "activating" the device, and swap your SIM card back to your normal device.

I say " activating " because it doesn't really do anything if you have a SIM card that's already activated. It basically bypasses the activation screen during the setup process and says thank you for activating. :




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[Karmuhhhh]

Thank you guys very, very much for responding. I will give it a shot and report back with what happens! Thanks again!