Hacking Motorola RAZR2 V8

[Irkan]

Hacking Motorola RAZR2 V8

http://www.phonesonline.ie/img/phones/motorola/motorola_razr2_v8.jpg

Motorola Razr2 V8 is built on a Linux-based Operating System, The handset have a lot of potentials because of that, its "open source", people can change every little "bit and byte" in it. However Motorola limited that freedom by putting many constraints and gave the user just a little bit of freedom.

if anyone have the stock Motorola V8 your menu will look like this

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5086/gsmarenalv4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9824/gsmarenas003qy0.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/1032/gsmarenas067on5.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)


The interface you saw will have to stick to you, because using the stock firmware that phone came with, the user cannot change or modify the look and feel of the phone, (when i bought the phone i had 2 themes, both with same icons and structure but different color)

but a Linux-based OS cannot be that limited, it has to have more, and thats exactly what i found :P

The idea is to replace the limited stock firmware "OS" (came from the factory) with a modified/customized one that have more flexibility, those modified firmwares are not created by Motorola, but by people who wanted to change their phone's look and feel. anyone can user this customized firmware (for Motorola razr2 v8 handset), only small things should be learned first.

your Motorola RAZR V8 can look like this after replacing the stock firmware

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4331/snapshottr0.png (http://imageshack.us/)http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4236/snapshot3zi7.png (http://imageshack.us/)http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4283/snapshot1sg7.png (http://imageshack.us/)http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5595/snapshot2fh4.png (http://imageshack.us/)


those screenshots was taken from my mobile after modding it and customizing it to my liking, everything you see is customizable from the icons, colors, structure, ... etc

After modding the phone with the appropriate firmware, the phone can "unlock" the following features that are not in the stock firmware:

1- Be able to reply an SMS from the external screen without having to open the phone (with the three sensitive buttons that was used only for music in the stock version)
2- Be able to have an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) session with your computer (exchange and replace files and system files in your phone easily)
3- Be able to add, delete, modify skins
4- Be able to change the "font" type of the whole phone (you can put any font you like on your phone)
5- Be able to install the famous linux video player (MPlayer) so you can play more video file extensions (.flv, .wma, ... etc)
and much more, ..

I just started to "mod" my Motorola RAZR2 V8 couple of months ago, so i am not exactly an "expert" in it, but its nice to learn new things about the phones that we have right

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اول شي .. ما اعرف انا فهمت صح و لا خطأ يعني انت الحين غيرت نسخة نظام التشغيل لنسخه فيها اضافات ؟ لأن النسخه الأصليه ما تسمح بالتغيير ؟ كذا صحيح :icon_wink:

<< و اذا كان اللي فهتمه صحيح .. هل في هذي الحاله تكون الـ security بنفس المستوى!

و الشي الثاني .. مثل ما قلت ان الجهاز يستخدم نظام التشغيل لينكس و هو مصدر مفتوح .. يعني هل انت نفسك تقدر تعمل تغييرات فيه .. مثل ما قلت ان النسخه اللي نزلتها هي نتيجة تطوير بعض الأفراد الذين يرغبون بالتغيير ؟
يبي لنا نجرب .. بس على تليفون من :icon_wink:

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[Irkan]

Hey

yes, what you understood is exactly right. .. and what do u mean by security, do u really need security if u have extra features? :P

latest version of the modified firmware can actually CHANGE the frequency of the CPU of the phone manually, which is very interesting, that will unleash the handset with its full power.

and yes, anyone can make his own "distribution" - if i may say- of the phone, i haven't tried to make my own because from what i know it takes lots of time to and lots of "trial and error" and i really dont have time for that, ur welcome to buy ur own motorola and try for urself though :P

for more info: www.modmymoto.com
thanx for passing by

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قصدي يعني بما انه النسخه الثانيه تسمح لك بتغيير كل شي بسهوله و ان البيئه مفتوحه مو بهذي الطريقه تكون نقاط الضعف واضحه للكل فيقدر اي شخص يخترق النظام :icon_wink:

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[Irkan]

viruses doesn't exist in linux :P
and that is the whole point, to be able to hack the system and change things in it. now ofcourse when i say hacking the system i mean "the owner of the phone hacks his system". someone out there changed the system and put extra features and distributed it. hmm think of it like linux distributions, u know u have fedora, ubuntu, openSUSE mandreva, ... etc.
and there is no security issue here, i mean it's a phone and it is not accessible to multiple users on a network like computers

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