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Want To Use The Swype Beta On Your Razr? Here Is How

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 06:12 PM

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If you have been following the news lately you would have seen that Swype received some new Dragon Dictation and advanced language modeling, that may never make it's way to the RAZR. Due to the fact that the RAZR comes loaded with a custom version of Swype and is installed as a System App, we are unable to simply load the Swype Beta onto our RAZR's.

Lucky for all of us a member over at

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found a way to load the Beta installer and has shared it with us all. Now of course you are taking full responsibility for your actions if you decide to do this, as there is a potential of soft bricking the device, but if you follow the instructions there shouldn't be any issues.


Instructions:


*Proceed with caution. If you remove the wrong file, you could potentially soft brick your phone. And Iā€™m not sure there are any files out there to bring you back from the dead for the RAZR.
*You will

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1. Using Root Explorer ā€“ Change your default input method to anything other than Swype.
2. Mount file system as R/W
3. Delete (or move/rename) \system\app\swype.apk
4. Delete (or move/rename) \data\dalvik-cache\system@app@Swype.apk@classes.dex
5. Delete (or move/rename) \system\lib\libSwypeCore.so
6. Reboot
7. Download and Run the latest Swype Beta installer

*Note ā€“ If you run into force closes after installing the beta, try removing Swype and the Swype Installer under Manage Apps, reboot and install the beta again.
You can head over to the XDA thread

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for full instructions and possible hints and tips that others have added.

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