This wiki was started so we could put together a basic, step by step tutorial for taking an untouched Verizon Razr, flashing it and then restoring all the things lost in the flashing process. A lot of what is in this tutorial will be taken word for word from pages and posts. No one is looking to take credit so if you see your own words, please be thankful that you are helping out your fellow modders and not mad that someone copied and pasted your stuff. This was figured out by lots of people and to thanks to all those who put the time and effort into doing that. The only problem is that for a person to mod and then fix their phone, they would have to sift through hundreds and hundreds of posts over lots of pages. If you are a noob then it becomes a bit daunting. That is where this wiki comes in. This is a collaborative effort so please add your knowledge base to this and improve it where it is needed! Please make your additions as "noob friendly" as possible! This needs your help…all your help!

Flashing the RAZR

Motorola V3c Tutorial: Flashing to Alltel User Interface - HowardForums Wiki

# A Motorola Vxxx Phone (V300, V400, V500, V600, etc)
# A USB Cable for your Motorola Vxxx Phone (no, you can't do it through bluetooth)
# P2Kman, a program to upload and download seems and files to and from your Vxxx
# XVI32, a simple but powerful hex editor
# A list of potential hacks you can perform

Verizon disables OBEX conectivity on the RAZR V3M. You can perform a SEEM hex edit and enable it, in order to transfer files to your phone.

Customizing the Motorola Vxxx - A Guide to Hex Editing

Introduction

This gudie is for unbranding RAZR V3 without flexing. V3 Unbranding Pack contains replacement files as well as files and SEEMs for custom startup/shutdown animation and sound. Don't forget to set the file attributes correctly after uploading files to your phone. For more information regarding how to set the file attributes, click here. Follow the step by step instruction carefully. Especially, caution is needed when you do the SEEM editing. Making errors could result in undesirable outcome. Read this guide to SEEM editing and uploading/downloading SEEMs to/from your phone.

How to unbrand your Verizon RAZR V3. They make it ugly and other

Planet MotoX™ dot Net: RAZR V3 Unbranding Guide

Pre-Hole Hawg, I used to examine the drill selection in hardware stores with what I thought was a judicious eye, scorning the smaller low-end models and hefting the big expensive ones appreciatively, wishing I could afford one of them babies. Now I view them all with such contempt that I do not even consider them to be real drills--merely scaled-up toys designed to exploit the self-delusional tendencies of soft-handed homeowners who want to believe that they have purchased an actual tool. Their plastic casings, carefully designed and focus-group-tested to convey a feeling of solidity and power, seem disgustingly flimsy and cheap to me, and I am ashamed that I was ever bamboozled into buying such knicknacks.

It is not hard to imagine what the world would look like to someone who had been raised by contractors and who had never used any drill other than a Hole Hawg. Such a person, presented with the best and most expensive hardware-store drill, would not even recognize it as such. He might instead misidentify it as a child's toy, or some kind of motorized screwdriver. If a salesperson or a deluded homeowner referred to it as a drill, he would laugh and tell them that they were mistaken--they simply had their terminology wrong. His interlocutor would go away irritated, and probably feeling rather defensive about his basement full of cheap, dangerous, flashy, colorful tools.

Unix is the Hole Hawg of operating systems, and Unix hackers, like Doug Barnes and the guy in the Dilbert cartoon and many of the other people who populate Silicon Valley, are like contractor's sons who grew up using only Hole Hawgs. They might use Apple/Microsoft OSes to write letters, play video games, or balance their checkbooks, but they cannot really bring themselves to take these operating systems seriously.

This is funny. I like Unix and Drills too.

I realize this is an analogy and everything, but its one I relate to. I spent months last year building a house. When running electrical wire, one uses a dril like this with a 1" or so bit. If it catches on a knot, one is in for some pain. The trick is to hold it tight enough to drill, but loose enough to let go if it catches. One does indeed hear stories of people being spun around by these drills. Thats because sometimes you've got to give it all you've got, really lean in there, to get the hole drilled so when it starts spinning, you're committed to spinning with it.

So they invented a drill clutch. You set the tension you want it to cut out at, and when it catches, if you've got it set right, the clutch will let go and you won't get spun around. These drills cost several thousand dollars, and so are only available to dedicated crews who have someone in them with authority who has done got 'spun.' They also add complexity to each drilling operation: the clutch tension must be set.

I don't know how this affects the Unix situation except to say that this problem was addressed in drills, but Unix still can't get undelete?

Unix as a drill Neal Stephenson

Introduction

So you have a perl script. And it's too slow. And you want to do something about it. This is a talk about what you can do to speed it up, and also how you try to avoid the problem in the first place.

When perl is not quite fast enough

Claim: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them.

Status: True.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem

Chained Searches: The Beauty of DBIx::Class And Catalyst

DBIx::Class and Catalyst have made my life much easier since I adopted them. I originally began my $work project with Class::DBI. The transition took some work but I’ve been happy as a moose in a brothel ever since. Aside from the occasional hairy query I don’t think I push the limits of either Cat or dbic very often. There is one feature, however, that I feel has really illustrated the enormous power these projects bring to the table.

DBIx::Class is my friend. My CGI controllers have gone from 1000 lines to 20 using more SQL, DBIx::Class and Catalyst.

Chained Searches: The Beauty of DBIx::Class And Catalyst

AHAH is intended to be a much simpler way to do web development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) than AJAX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29): "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML." Strictly speaking, AHAH can be considered a subset of AJAX, since (X)HTML is just a special kind of XML. However, it is a subset with some very specific and useful properties:

1. The lack of custom XML schemas dramatically reduces design time
2. AHAH can trivially reuse existing HTML pages, avoiding the need for a custom web service
3. All data transport is done via browser-friendly HTML, easing debugging and testing
4. The HTML is designed to be directly embedded in the page's DOM, eliminating the need for parsing
5. As HTML, designers can format it using CSS, rather than programmers having to do XSLT transforms
6. Processing is all done on the server, so the client-side programming is essentiall nil (moving opaque bits)

rest/ahah - Microformats

Optimizing Queries with EXPLAIN

Indexes aren't voodoo, it turns out!

MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 7.2.1 Optimizing Queries with EXPLAIN

A.5.7 Problems with Floating-Point Comparison

floating-point numbers cause confusion sometimes, because these numbers are not stored as exact values inside computer architecture. What one can see on the screen usually is not the exact value of the number.

Field types FLOAT, DOUBLE and DECIMAL are such.

You cannot just match a float variable from a perl DBI call to a FLOAT value from a field in MySQL. Matching will be totally inconsistent. This link explains how you actually do it.

MySQL Manual | A.5.7 Problems with Floating-Point Comparison