As expected when the Droid X hit the hands of end users the attempt to root it began. The bad news is that from what community developers are saying is that Motorola really locked down this phone using the same locked and signed bootloader as the Milestone. Even more bad news we have yet to see an exploit for the Milestone which leaves a grim outlook on having custom ROM’s and recovery images on this new gem.
Sure with every new phone eventually an exploit may be found but if you are into moding your phones like I am you might want to hold off on the Droid X or patiently wait to see if an exploit can be found. I for one am keeping my original Droid until something is found because I change ROM’s and themes daily. What about you? Anyone here have a rooted Droid or other device that they will stick with until confirmation a Droid X exploit?
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To Simon,
Ummm 2.3 is not even out yet, the incredible and the Droid X are shipping with 2.1 but upgrade to 2.2 is out already.
@Jim
I have to agree with you. After having rooted my Droid I cannot go back to the “Vanilla” OS. I have too many customizations and self made skins to go back to the plain old OS
I will be sticking with my original droid oc’ed at 800, runnning jrummy nextang. Will likely wait to see if the experts can root it first…to quote the Afters,i’m “never going back to ok” after being rooted.
@Vicki
Not to mention all the HTC devices are only rudimentarily locked – no encryption there!
@Simon. Yup never buying from Motorola again. Should have stuck to HTC which is my usual brand of choice! (At least the Hero’s getting/got updates!)
@bg
That’s an interesting question – anyone know if any other Android phones other than Motorola’s have signed/encrypted bootloaders at all?
@Vicki
Who knows, with the locked bootloader the equivalent is perfectly possible – Android 4.0 comes out in a year and a half, and Milestone users are still on 2.2, while Droid X users have 2.3.
Okay, Dext users will be even more screwed, but hey… guess you learned not to buy Moto devices any more, huh?
Will Samsung’s new phones be as locked down?
At least you’re not stuck with 1.5 like us Dext users (esp us lot in UK!)
So, new Droid X users… don’t say we didn’t warn you (Milestone user for another 12 months here).
Either return the phones (make sure to complain loudly while doing so!) or get cracking on a bootloader workaround that we can backport to the Milestone