Droid X without the Verizon service

[freescalpel]

Hello,

My wife had the Verizon Droid X but switched to another phone. Now, I wanted to reclaim the device and use it without the phone service. I was trying to remove all her personsal data but I ended up wiping everything and all I see now is the startup screen "Welcome to DROIDX...Touch the android to begin". As I said, I do not want to activate this phone, but I don't see any way to bypass it and use android.

Thanks for any help.

FS

 

[olbriar]

I wish I knew your options but I do not. You might try asking in the Droid X area and see if they have any suggestions. Here is a link for you to the X area.
Motorola Droid X - Android Forums
Best of luck to you and welcome to Android Forums. I hope you enjoy these forums.

 

[Unforgiven]

Hello,

My wife had the Verizon Droid X but switched to another phone. Now, I wanted to reclaim the device and use it without the phone service. I was trying to remove all her personsal data but I ended up wiping everything and all I see now is the startup screen "Welcome to DROIDX...Touch the android to begin". As I said, I do not want to activate this phone, but I don't see any way to bypass it and use android.

Thanks for any help.

FS

You should be able to click the android and activate it with your gmail account only. this will allow you to download your apps that you have purchased as well as any others you get subsequently. If it asks to call to activate the phone, I think you can hit the call 911 only or emergency only button (not sure what it says) and it will let you in. It should at some point ask how to connect to your wifi device, and once you get this set up, it is a wifi only android device.

If you don't want to connect it to the web at all, then click the four corners of the screen in the black around the little droid (this used to be the way) and you will bypass all of the activation screens.

 

[freescalpel]

You should be able to click the android and activate it with your gmail account only. this will allow you to download your apps that you have purchased as well as any others you get subsequently. If it asks to call to activate the phone, I think you can hit the call 911 only or emergency only button (not sure what it says) and it will let you in. It should at some point ask how to connect to your wifi device, and once you get this set up, it is a wifi only android device.

If you don't want to connect it to the web at all, then click the four corners of the screen in the black around the little droid (this used to be the way) and you will bypass all of the activation screens.

Thanks, Chris.
When I click the android it shows only the option to activate with a 10 digit number. I tried using 911 but it kept asking for 10 digits. When I tried the emergency dial, and then entered 911, it went ahead and called 911.

I did not see an option to enter my gmail address.

 

[Unforgiven]

If you don't want to connect it to the web at all, then click the four corners of the screen in the black around the little droid (this used to be the way) and you will bypass all of the activation screens.

Try the other method I suggested, you will then be able to manually activate our wifi and set up google sync under Settings | Accounts and Sync.

 

[Unforgiven]

freescalpel, I linked to this thread from your thread in the DX forum and asked the guides to merge the two. I didn't realize when I stumbled onto your question that it was in the intros section.

I missed the opportunity to say Welcome to Android Forums

Guides, please merge this with freescalpel's thread in the DX forum so folks familiar with his phone can add to this discussion. Thanks

 

[freescalpel]

Try the other method I suggested, you will then be able to manually activate our wifi and set up google sync under Settings | Accounts and Sync.

Could you explain how to do this? On the Welcome screen, the only things I find clickable are the android, Emergency dial, and Change language.

 

[itsalexaye]

welcome to the forums

 

[Unforgiven]

This is a way around the activation process. Here is a page that explains it with screen shots.

Tip: How to Bypass Android Activation Screen on Motorola Droid – Droid Life

 

[freescalpel]

This is a way around the activation process. Here is a page that explains it with screen shots.

Tip: How to Bypass Android Activation Screen on Motorola Droid

 

[olbriar]

I'm glad you are cured. I hope you will find other reasons to enjoy these forums... barring problems of course