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Here's a video tutorial on how to download the image of the filesystem from your Motorola V3c or V3m CDMA phone (Verizon version), on a Windows 10 x64 machine, and extract the games and application files from it for preservation purposes.

PRE-REQUISITES

1) You will need drivers for your phone and a tool named revskills.

Motorola x64 phone drivers: https://mega.nz/file/ibABnY7Q#ZM-yMF1VLbBsaM4ZdhbMnOP_fAoaJntj1r4dxdPj0FU

Revskills: https://mega.nz/file/ibgh2IIB#1ZVD7oxFCwMamJ1_oO4MLH-RRyDGJETFNUeJFo3W8_E

2) You will need to have your phone connected to PC via a direct USB-A to mini-B USB cable and detected by the Windows Device Manager as Motorola USB Modem. This is the default behavior if you connect a Verizon's V3c to a PC running Windows 10. If it does not, install the drivers.

3) Please install the tool, use the attached key provided by its author.
Please note that the tool has been discontinued and unsupported by its author years ago.

NOTES:

Motorola CDMA phones back in the day had different firmware version for different carriers. Sometimes these could be cross-flashed between phones, sometimes these were incompatible and required extra steps. The example here is used for Verizon's firmware.

Pre-requisite steps are not shown in the video as these should be self-explanatory.

Please view the video before you do anything, and use only the functions which are shown, the tool can potentially erase all data if you use something like Write Memory or similar functions.

Unless you are making the backup for yourself, please remove any sensitive data which you don't want to share PRIOR using your phone menus prior to making the backup. These could be phonebook, call history, messages, photos, videos... However, please don't use the phone reset function! Or the game files will be lost forever...

The video shows how to remove most user-identifiable data from the backup. Note that some of those folders with numbers may contain your photos and/or videos.

Reading the EFS image will take some time! Please be patient until the tool shows that the image was successfully read. Don't do anything on the PC during this time, and, obviously, don't let the PC hibernate, sleep etc. Also please do not touch the phone or cables during the backup.

Some of the files might fail to extract (they will be empty). In most cases their content may be restored from other sources, or manually from the raw backup.

Good luck!