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importing a CA certificate on a RAZR V3

September 7th, 2006
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I have had zero luck so far on importing my own CA certificate into my Motorola RAZR V3 phone. The user interface has a certificate manager application (CertMgr); however, there doesn’t seem to be a way to actually add additional certificates. My attempts to download and import the certificate in either PEM or DER formats have been unsuccessful.

The RAZR documentation has been less than helpful. It is really sad when a Google search for information returns your own site in the top 5 results. Can I be the only person trying to use a self-signed SSL certificate to secure email authentication being sent from my handset? It is annoying to have to acknowledge the certificate warning every time I go to send an email.

Any ideas?

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  1. Nikola
    December 28th, 2006 at 03:31 | #1
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    Hi there,
    I am having the same problem but no luck in resolving it. Did you manage to get anywhere further with it?
    Thanks,
    Nikola

  2. jon
    December 28th, 2006 at 11:10 | #2
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    Hey Nikola,

    Unfortunately I have had no luck at all. It looks like there is not a way to do this via the phone UI.

  3. The Fish
    January 4th, 2007 at 10:44 | #3
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    I also want to do this. I am trying to access the web-based “Outlook Mobile Access” interface to Exchange 2003 and have my own self-signed certificate. My phone (the Bell Mobility version V3c) will not even let me into the site.

  4. martini
    January 21st, 2007 at 04:46 | #4
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    same problem here. as i want to use roadsync with the thing… no avail as no cert… realy suxors

  5. Bond
    February 14th, 2007 at 09:14 | #5
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    I too am trying to use RoadSync Java version on a Motorola v3xx. I am told by RoadSync tech support requires a Class 3 signature since that is all that is on the phone. I would like to use my class 1 free certificate from startcomm.org but would need to install it on the phone. I tried Gmail too, very annoying having to ok the pop-up every message.

    I think I am going to return this phone … what a joke that you can’t authorize/add the Google, my provider, or some other cert on your phone.

  6. Alok S Kushwah
    February 8th, 2008 at 21:16 | #6
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    Hi

    I am working on installing an application on my Motorola RAZR V3T. Application needs file system access to fuction. I did several things to give permission to application. But till now no luck. I am putting down my step, may be somebody will carry on or can give me some clue..

    Motorola allows only signed jad have permission to read/write user data (file system). So I created my own certificate using Java SDK keytool. I signed the application jar with my certificate. Then I generated jad. Signed the jad using
    WTK jadtool.jar. Install the application using moto mid man.

    copied the certificate to my phone using p2kexplorer.

    After all this application is still asking for permission.

    I found out ..my certificate is not enabled as my certificate is not certified by some root certificate…so there is no menu for my application to enable/disable user data permission.

    Motorola maintain registry of these certificates in j2me_domain_registry.sm. I don’t know how to make entry in it. I heard that this file is also signed by Motorola so we cannot change the content.

    so we have to buy certificate from some certification agency. :(

    Please let me know ..if there any solution.

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