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Root Is it possible to remove/disable cell aspect of Ally?

So last month I upgraded my phone and moved away from my old ally onto new and better things.

I was thinking instead of just tossing my ally in the local landfill why not let my daughter have it to play her little learning/math games on. I have a number of apps that I've purchased to keep her occupied while out and about town when we are doing really excited things like waiting for prescription refills.

Even though my ally is no longer activated it does indeed still connect to the Verizon network and it is capable of placing calls. I want to be able to disable this aspect of the phone and basically turn it into a android pda type device without cell capabilities.

The ally is rooted with velocity 1.2 on it. I'm thinking something like flashing/removing the radio files will basically brick the cell functions of the phone while leaving it able function enough so that she can run the math learning apps. How would I actually accomplish this?
 
So last month I upgraded my phone and moved away from my old ally onto new and better things.

I was thinking instead of just tossing my ally in the local landfill why not let my daughter have it to play her little learning/math games on. I have a number of apps that I've purchased to keep her occupied while out and about town when we are doing really excited things like waiting for prescription refills.

Even though my ally is no longer activated it does indeed still connect to the Verizon network and it is capable of placing calls. I want to be able to disable this aspect of the phone and basically turn it into a android pda type device without cell capabilities.

The ally is rooted with velocity 1.2 on it. I'm thinking something like flashing/removing the radio files will basically brick the cell functions of the phone while leaving it able function enough so that she can run the math learning apps. How would I actually accomplish this?

I don't know how to go about doing that but what about switching it to airplane mode?
 
Just hide the contacts and phone app using a different home launcher such as adw or launcher pro. Then they wont appear in the app drawer.
 
I moved your thread over to the all things root forum. You'll probably get better help with achieving this from the Root community. :)
 
I'm pretty sure that if you comment out the following lines in the boot.img, it disables the radio...

service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild
socket rild stream 660 root radio
socket rild-debug stream 660 radio system
user root
group radio cache inet misc audio qcom_oncrpc diag

unpack it with dsixda's android kitchen, open init.rc, comment out above lines with #, repack and flash

UPDATE:
More research suggests adding "ro.carrier=wifi-only" to the build.prop. Much easier ;)
 
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