Originally Posted by glennj99

Its not that.

I ran my Droid3 in Italy on CM10.1 a couple of weeks ago on GSM with both TIM and Wind chips and it worked fine.
I have not messed with the radio code, because I got it unlocked for International GSM use by Verizon and so as long as I don't use it under GSM in the USA I am fine and that works. Only radio hack I ever did was to allow tethering (TBH).

Installing the Chinese radio is only to allow the Droid3 to be used with US GSM carriers, like T-mobile or ATT (bleh). I've never tried that, as I don't want to mess up the tethering in my hacked stock radio.

You said that with a ROM like this http://www.get.cm/?device=solana you can use the GSM Carrier.

What do you mean with 'unlocked for Internation GSM'? Are you referring to the code that we can buy? Like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1406812

Originally Posted by porks

You said that with a ROM like this http://www.get.cm/?device=solana you can use the GSM Carrier.

What do you mean with 'unlocked for Internation GSM'? Are you referring to the code that we can buy? Like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1406812

Yes, it worked fine under GSM with the current (at the time) Solana CM10.1 ROMs I tried. Data, voice, & txt. WIND and TIM sims. Italy, 2 weeks.

About getting it unlocked...I had the phone under Verizon Wireless here in the USA. I called them, got their International support people, told them I wanted the phone unlocked for use in Italy. They said, "Sure, use this code." It was free and it unlocked the phone for international use. I have heard that it would not help with non-Verizon use in the USA - that you would need to replace the radio code with the Chinese version in order to do that, PLUS still you would need a valid unlock code.


I have also heard that buying an unlock code for this phone is not always going to work. I have no information on that.

With Verizon, every 4 months of regular contract payments entitles the customer to one unlock code from Verizon, which will work with that one phone. If you want to use the phone in the USA on TMobile or ATT, you will also need to replace the radio code, which will keep you from being able to use it on Verizon as a CDMA 3G phone.