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Modding Motorola in OS X.

by poetic_folly

This guide is meant to go hand in hand with the info to be obtained in our Modding with a Mac forum. Discussion and questions can be submitted there, its a great community for Motorola modding! That being said, LETS START MODDING!

Since MotoModding began, the Mac crowd has been pretty much out of luck. A few hard to find and tough to understand guides and such have been created, but for the most part us Mac users have been out of luck! This guide is by no means all original content--I will be borrowing useful tidbits from many of the forum guides as well as adding much of my own content. The purpose of this guide is to make an EASY TO NAVIGATE and DETAILED guide which walks you through the following steps of modding a Motorola phone (whether it be a Razr, Slvr, Pebl, or different P2K phone) in OS X:

get connected.
flashing/flexing.
seem editing.
So, you own a Motorola phone. Odds are you have been roaming around the web reading random sites, getting blurbs about "seems", "flashing", "flexing", and more. And the thing is, its all PC. Every post you've read has said nope, gotta be on a PC. Well you're in luck--it doesn't! Us Mac users are able to mod as well now.
Lets talk about modding Motorola phones, like the Razr, Slvr, and Pebl. First off, why mod the thing at all? Well, lots of reasons! First, its cool. You can personalize your phone (change the outer picture, make it louder, use different fonts, change the look of it all, etc). Also, changing the software on the phone can increase your reception, increase your volume, the menu speed, and much more.

So how do you mod? And what are all those terms? Ok, here's the scoop. You're familiar with computers a little, I assume, if you are attempting to mod a phone. So, I'll lay it out here.

The Flex

The flex is the files and branding of the phone. It contains all the carrier specific menus and images, like T-Zones for T-Mobile, or whichever graphic branding and text links your carrier puts in the phone.

The Flash

The flash is the part we change most often. By now we have several types, but basically, the flash is the software of the phone. When you change the flash, it adjusts features, menus, and more. Also, things like the way your phone handles reception or menu speed are handled by flashes. Flashing your phone will not erase any of your media or settings. Then there's the seem.

The Seem

The seem is the individual pieces that make up the operating system on the phone. Every individual feature on your phone (SMS on/off, will the call end when you close the flip, can you access the web from your phone, etc) is all editable by changing a seem. More on that in the seem editing section, but basically seems are what you will change when you want to change one feature at a time.

So what should you do?

First off, all this is detailed in the rest of this guide. That being said, generally the first thing you will do is get your phone connected to your computer. Then you will want to flash (which is what we call it when you change the software on the phone) with a MonsterPack (which is a flex AND flash in one file) to get you up to date, then reflash with a "reflash" file, which is similar to a flash, to get you to the current software version. After you have accomplished those two things, then you can start getting into the feature specific things you would like for yourself personally.

Thats about it, lets get started by going to the Get Connected page!

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