Just bought a used Bionic. VZW sent me a new sim card. When I boot it up, the images shown is what pops up. I have never seen this before on any phone. If I hit "search" to continue, it goes to welcome screen. Then when I touch Android to begin, it says to insert sim card, which is already inserted. If I hit "menu" to go to recovery, and in recovery I select "wipe data/factory reset", It does it's thing, and I'm right back to square one. Any suggestions?
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Alex Wekell
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Odd, it would seem you almost have a blank droid bionic...or a defective one.
First of all, that thing that pops up at the start is Safestrap. It's an incredibly useful alternative to the traditional Clockworkmod/stock recovery and should be replaced by it because it's a lot better.
If you don't know what recovery is or about anything I'm talking about above: here.
So, what you can do is possibly just take to the Verizon store and complain and they could throw a new phone your way, or possibly even fix it.
Also try another sim card or even seeing if (and yes I know this is dumb) you put it on right.
I suggest you take it to your Verizon store and with luck they will either reflash or replace it.
... Thom
... Thom