It's been a couple of weeks now since my Nexus 4 sort of died.  It took a tumble from my bike and hit the pavement in such a way that the touch screen no longer responds to input.  The rest of the phone seems to work fine, but without an ability to do input it's not all that useful.  So, I pulled out the old Motorola v3xx phone (aka razr 3G) from the drawer, powered it up, and put my SIM card into it while I await for the new Nexus phone to be released.  Sadly, at the Google I/O conference last week there was no Nexus announcement, so I am waiting to see when that will hit (or when the next Moto X Pure will be announced and released).

The phone is branded to AT&T, since Cingular had already commenced with the branding change at the time I got this, although the CV button was renamed from Cingular Video to Cellular Video. M'eh. When I switched from AT&T I got this phone unlocked, but I really should have also sent it somewhere to debrand it.  There is a lot of AT&T junk on this phone that is totally useless, and I really would like the phone debranded.  I am wondering if it's worthwhile finding a way to do this, or if it's just a waste of time.  Maybe it can be a Weekend Geek project over the summer.

The SMS settings were on the SIM card, so as soon as I plugged in my SIM was I was able to make calls and send messages.  I haven't quite worked out the MMS settings for some reason I am not able to send or receive MMS messages.  Not that I send a lot of MMS messages, but it's nice to have the option until I get a new phone.

Using this phone for the past 10 days has been an interesting experience. I've gotten used to looking up things on the fly with a smartphone, and now I am back to using paper maps and jotting down notes to look things up later.  At the same time, there is something satisfying about that "CLACK" that you hear when you flip the phone shut.  Good call on keeping this device as a backup :)

Does anyone have any resources to debrand this phone?