Motorola Responds to DROID X Bootloader Lock

[awood28211]

Most won't even be affected by this as they will never consider/know about/want to flash their phone this way. Sorry to say but those they are offending are in the extreme minority of users. A point of a percent of overall purchasers.

 

[cknobman]

Eh I went and looked at the droid x this weekend in person and it seemed kinda cheap if you ask me.

The four buttons on the front did not look they would withstand much use before giving out.

Overall unimpressed.

 

[eyemaster]

Motorola phones have always been a pain in the butt for me. Had 3 of them, and never again.

 

[Parrdacc]

"Motorola confirmed the discovery in a recent statement. "The technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user that the device only runs on updated and tested versions of software," Motorola said."

""Motorola has been a long time advocate of open platforms and provides a number of resources to developers to foster the ecosystem including tools and access to devices via MOTODEV at http/developer.motorola.com," the company added."


So in other words: We are doing this for your safety. We are doing this to benefit you. Yeah, thanks but I'm not a ten year old child and can think and act for myself. So much for open source, apparently Motorola has no concept of what that means, and thinks its potential customers are stupid enough to buy into what Motorola's definition of open source is.

 

[kyeana]

Uh... no.

All they did was load the boot loader up. To hack into it would mean that we would have a way to install our own bootloader instead of that one, and could thus have full control of the phone.

 

[gnice3d]

yeah... that's horse shit.

 

[i7Rocks]

seems to me that most people are overreacting to this, 99.8% of the world could care less, including myself. I have been looking into doing this with my droid and honestly haven't found 1 thing I would gain to make it worth my time. For those of you who want custom ROMS just buy a phone that allows it, simple as that.

 

[joe gamer]

"The company added that checking for a valid software configuration is a common practice within the industry to protect the user against potential malicious software threats."

Yeah because Mal ware is always trying to install malicious ROM's without you noticing >.>

Bet a hundred bucks this came from Verizon to protect their right to rip you off for tethering.

 

[ksampanna]

Cool one

 

[BulkZerker]

[citation][nom]i7Rocks[/nom]seems to me that most people are overreacting to this, 99.8% of the world could care less, including myself. I have been looking into doing this with my droid and honestly haven't found 1 thing I would gain to make it worth my time. For those of you who want custom ROMS just buy a phone that allows it, simple as that.[/citation]

How's about increased battery life and performance from thee phone by dynamically underclocking the phone when its running idle? Yea, kinda need root to do that.

 

[Guest]

quite frankly, I don't get it. Can someone please explain what this means? How will this affect my experience with the Droid X??