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Glad I bought an Evo, Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it

sagedil said:
The world is changing, customers getting smarter. People understanding what Android is really about more and more every day. It will hurt them. How much I don't know.

Especially with all the chatter about Steve Jobs control fascinations, I expect this will bother far more people than you might imagine.
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It will hurt them little, because the average person doesn't care about it.

Think about some of the simple questions that are asked up here that could be answered with just a little reading or playing around with the phone. We live in an iPhone/fast food world.
 
you have to wonder though if someone will use this as an oportunity to construct a "virus" within a prog that the avg user will download and it "attempts" to change the bootloader thus bricking the phone, not massive scale destruction, but it could catch quite a few.
 
This was probably a smart idea on Verizons half... Now they don't have to worry about problems caused by their customers. Like people hacking into the phone and being able to tether when they are not suppose to. Another example, people not being able to root into their phones and voiding warranty. I have an EVO and I love the fact that I can root... This is my first smart phone, and I dont think a smart phone should be any other way... You have to be able to make smart phones smarter. But on the business side of things (Verizon) made a smart decision.
 
I am more worried that HTC and Samsung will follow suit. I never did like Motorola, so it doesn't really bother me as long as no one else likes the idea.
 
While I understand carriers wanting to lock a phone down on mods especially if it eats into their bottom line (see data tethering). This is absurd. I agree with the writer of that article. Once you own the phone it's yours and you should be able to do what you want with it. If you get caught the carrier should just take means through your contract with them.

I smell a class action on this one if it is in fact true.
 
cabbie said:
i suppose its very likely the Droid2 will be like this.

This is pathetic beyond description. I wonder who is to blame here, big red or Moto. This hurts the android image.

reading the comments on the article, someone mentioned that cyanogen already said 'eff that' to this phone and won't work with it.
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I've never really cared much for Motorola products. all of their phones have been a huge disappointment. shoddy quality, slow and un-responsive.

The original "DROID" was actually an HTC dream known as the Google G1. HTC > Motorola everyday and twice on sunday.. maybe if samsung made a droid? that would be semi-decent.
 
R1_Rydah said:
Verizon has been crippling phones for years, my last phone was a htc touch pro, and verizon users on the ppc forum were purchasing the Sprint version of the phone and activating it on their verizon accts... because the Verizon tp was gimped so badly...
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Despite both having CDMA networks, I thought Verizon didn't allow Sprint-branded phones on their network and vica-versa?
 
ballr4lyf said:
I wouldn't recommend this phone now for one simple reason... The system is just as likely to brick the phone with a "normal" update. I'm sure they think they've thought that through, but it's unlikely that with all the apps on the app market the "normal" updates will be 100% tested on anything but a bone stock phone.
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That's actually a good point. Either no system updates can be pushed out because of this new security software, OR there is a way to get around it through a backdoor, login or something to install updates -- including Android O/S upgrades.

I doubt the first, so if the latter is correct, then someone's bound to figure out a way around it. It would be like playing the old Landmine game. :)
 
No need to get too worried about this. No one has proven this yet and previous phones shipped with the same protection, it just wasn't enabled. I would wait to see what the modding community says before everyone goes nuts.
 
Why would anybody even care about this here. We are in the EVO forum and most of us are proud owners of the best device out right now on a great network with great prices.

Seriously, whether it will be rootable or not doesn't really matter. In the end it will still be a motorola.
 
We are pretty light on droid fanboys (and at least one fangirl) today.


Another one bites the dust?


Next up Samsung Galaxy.
 
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