Stop complaining? Hell forums such as this one wouldn't even exist if not for folks like us jumping online to complain. Heck you're complaining by telling all of us NOT to complain!
LOL
Hey I'll admit it, I didn't know the first thing about a bootloader, what the hell a kernel was, what ROMs were, how to theme, what in the world 'root' meant... none of it, before I bought this phone. This is my first foray into the world of Android, and customizable devices.
Up until about two months ago I had been running the stock ROM, but I had rooted fairly early, removed some of the bloat, sped things up via Droid 2/X Over Clocker. I had SetCPU running, Autokiller set to 'Aggressive', cleared my cache out regularly... all that jazz. I thought my device worked pretty well at the time. Perhaps I should have left well enough alone?
Because in early December my curiousity finally got the best of me, and I flashed Ultimate Droid... my smartphone world changed forever on that day. Even before applying those tweaks my DX changed so completely, it was ultra responsive, impossibly quick, blazingly fast. Intuitive? Heck the thing seemed to know what I wanted it to do even before I did. Suddenly the stock ROM seemed like a complete an utter POS!
Unfortunately, UD was not (and still is not) ready for everyday use. The GPS doesn't work, the camera doesn't work, and I couldn't even watch video's off of the internet. So I flashed some of the other, popular ROMs... Apex, Rubix Focused, GummyJAR, Tranquility, and Liberty. Some of these were better on my device than others. But none could match the sheer transformation value that UD did.
That's pretty much when I decided that I REALLY wanted a device that wasn't held back like this one is. That gave me a taste of what a truly custom ROM must be like, only they must be even better since UD still had to use the same kernel. I want to be able to flash Cyanogenmod, Obsidian, Unleashed, any/all of the AOSP ROMs that are out there. It's ultimate control that I'm after.
I think the DX is just fine for the masses, I don't knock it to anyone else just because I'm at odds with it. Everyone has the freedom to purchase/own whatever they want. I bought this phone, I take responsibility for that. I'm not blaming Moto for tricking me into buying it. I didn't know the difference when I bought it. And I'm still happy I bought it.
But now that I know what else is out there, I'm not looking to buy another device with a locked bootloader. I'm hoping that when it's time to upgrade to another phone Nexus has a well made (think Gorilla Glass), 4.3 inch screen device out with as much built in memory as the DX (that's the thing I think this phone got REALLY right, all that internal storage). That's the device I'm dreaming of. It seems to be built for guys like me in mind. I just want a bigger screen now that I'm hooked on the size of the DX.
Now, I could just be quiet about all of my hopes and dreams and not come in here and mention any of it... but what fun would that be???