I want to use my cell phone overseas. How do I unlock my motorola razr V3 so I can use a new sim card?

Question

Carrier in Canada is Rogers.

Answer 1

You can try contacting Rogers and tell them that's what you're going to do and see if they will give you the code. Otherwise, you could trust an online unlocking service. There are a few people in Toronto who will do it in person too for around $20. If you want to do it yourself, you can if you have a USB cable. I used one that fit my digital camera and flash card reader to unlock my Motorola phone (different model). Here's how:

*You need to downgrade your boot loader - this is very risky - no liability is accepted for any problems that may occur*

Ensure your phone is fully charged before starting.

I recommend before beginning you first make a backup of your phone as described in the How To: Use Flashbackup To Backup Your Phone topic in the tutorials section at forums.mobilemedia.com

This assumes all necessary drivers are already installed.

1) Start in bootloader mode (hold # and * while powering on)

2) Identify your current bootloader (e.g. 8.26 or 7.E0)

3) If you have bootloader 7.D0 already skip to step 6

4) Download and extract http://www.poeticfolly.com/motoguide/gurus/unlockit/bl_826-828_to_07d0_for_V3_by_Archy.V2.shx

5) Use RSD to flash the file to your phone

6) Download and extract the Moto Unlocker software from http://www.poeticfolly.com/motoguide/gurus/unlockit/Motorola_Unlocker_2005.zip

7) Start in bootloader mode (hold # and * while powering on)

8 ) Run Moto Unlocker click connect and yes

btw I cannot take any credit for this - credit is due here:
http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?p=53127#post53127
and to Scotty2 and Archy for the bootloader downgrade

Answer 2

I didn't know they locked due to it being a flip phone. Hmmm interesting.