Motorola Razr When I insert my sim chip into my new razr it reads the chip and says my phone number when first being turned on, but it fails to log onto the network and reads "No Service" in the signal strength area.

i think you have a network problem.
you can turn off your phone and turn it on again after 5 minutes then try texting again. if the problem still exists, turn off your phone again and remove the battery and sim card. insert your sim card into another celphone and try to text there. if you have successfully sent the message, you can insert back the sim into your razr phone.
see if this helps.

try unlocking it http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic43620.html

It may be caused that when you take out sim from old phome it has damaged, try for old one is it still working? if not then your sim is dead, also old phones made SIM-s to be bend and such SIM-s have difficlt electrical connection with new phones.
Also find if "this sim only" is activated in your phone.
It must give you signal, Insert sim card, or insert proper sim. If insert sim card warning card is damaged or have not enough good connection, if another, then this sim only is activated you first you must unlock it to work .

Have you used the external antenna port? If this is damaged it renders phone useless. Somehow connected to main antenna.

Hi folks - I took apart and totally destroyed my Verizon branded RAZR V3m. There is NO SIM card. Instead, there is a memory chip hard wired to the circuit board. From what I saw, this memory chip is preprogrammed with the phone number and carrier features. The card picture referred to above is for the micro SD card. This card is just for additional memory - for pics, video, and music, dependent on the carrier. I also went to the Motorola web site. They're unlocked RAZR V3's have a SIM slot underneath the battery. Bottom Line? If your RAZR V3 doesn't have a SIM card slot under the battery, forget it. You can not change carriers.

Go to your settings, choose Initial Setup, choose Language and hope English is one of the options you can choose. My Razr is old so hopefully the options are still the same.

sim is the card you were given to work your phone and make calls.
Well it sounds like you need to put your simcard in the phone and it will be working.

If you need assistance you should have a customer rep in store help you.

You May Have Fryd Ur Sim Card Did U Try Puttin It In Any Other Phones Besides The Other Model?

your main-board could be failing but you should have it reflash the firmware on the phone that might solve your problem if not then replaced the phone.

Are you guys serious....

Verizon & Alltel (which happened to recently finalize the merge) use CDMA. CDMA does not use SIM cards.

AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. use SIM cards - wheter they are 3G networks, TDMA, etc.