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Root Custom recovery on x!!!!!!!
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D13
Android Expert
Your guess is as good as mine
D13
Android Expert
oh you shouldn't have done that. Now people will flame you if it doens't happen. you know people don't read smiley!
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I just talked to my guy who works at motorola about this, and they apparently knew this was going to happen. They made the locked bootloader to stop everyone from being able to crack this thing and flood moto with bricked phones, like what happened with the first Droid. They knew the smart devs out there would pop it eventually. Thats what he said when he saw all this on here. They just want the flow of hacked phones that would get swapped out from verizon and sent back to moto under warranty to slow way down.
By no means am I starting a rumor (just daydreaming) but I wish Motorola would realize that they can't stop it and now that it's cracked just open it up for us. It would make everything much easier.
OMJ
Bazinga
I find that an odd stance for them to take. Seems there would be more bricked phones due to the locked bootloader because its so much easier to do. I guess its also easier to see thats what happened and therefor deny the claim though
This is where Motorola is being stupid. Why not use that efuse or some other method. To trip something that makes it easy for them and VZW to know if the phone was hacked and simply turn bricked phones away if the trigger is triggered. Everyone would be happy with that (except users that bricked their phones. But that's on them if they take the risk) win win for everyone.
VIO
Android Enthusiast
Actually I find the whole C&D on the .sbf file the most out of character thing. It is weird to a point that I'm wondering if it really was a full blown C&D
Who throws a C&D at a website for hosting usb drivers (which can be downloaded at any moment from the moto site, android sdk, etc) and an .sbf and Doesn't include in that C&D the OTHER copyrighted files being hosted on the website, like all the Droid 1 .sbfs?
I'm differently grabbing DXR ASAP I may wait a day or two to install but I'm going to make sure I have it.
D13
Android Expert
It does seem oddly quite
I thought I would be be running froyo by now.
That is probably it tough, they want to have froyo ready too, or maybe koush and birdrain combined forces
paul89
Android Expert
They don't want to jump the gun and realese something that will possibly brick our phones. They are taking their time polishing and packaging this thing up so that when its realesed there wont be the need for upgrade versions. So wait patiently because it is coming!!! I never thought I would see a custom recovery, and I was already getting used to the fact of just having root.
I thought I would be be running froyo by now.
Yeah but there hasn't been any communication from any of them in some time now.
Are they hold up in an underground bunker hiding from Moto special ops?
D13
Android Expert
Maybe the MSO took them to a far away island and said try hacking from here
D13
Android Expert
No...I think abducted by the MSO is more likley and I think you should be flamed for such a stupid comment
I knew you would get mad at me saying that... thats why I said it haha!
OMJ
Bazinga
I thought I would be be running froyo by now.
I dont think the DX will be running Froyo until the OTA starts anyway. I dont think you can run Froyo on a 2.1 kernel. On the original Droid if you use froyo with a 2.1 kernel it thinks the battery is dead when its not and bootloops.
VIO
Android Enthusiast
yes, though the Milestone people managed at least to get together a build of froyo that can sit on the old kernel. It is not FroYo in the strict sense, since nothing that requires the new kernel works but it does have everything else.
Ok, so it's not really a counterpoint, but interesting nonetheless