Comments on: Droid X Source Code Released to All

By: F. Augusztin

F. Augusztin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:01:43 +0000

@Brian: you can’t replace the bootloader. Look how it is done in Milestone and how it is done in Droid X too :

http://and-developers.com/boot:boot_chain

Notice the //signed// notes. Those are things you can’t replace – and the only thing not signed is the hardcoded stuff in the CPU itself, which you can’t overwrite anyway.

By: JBC

JBC — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:31:36 +0000

Can we compile this code to create ROM’s for other devices?

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:53:39 +0000

while everyone is correcting everyone else, the jailbreak for iphone is not root, not even the equivalent, more like less-than root as only certain protocols are brought into public access, kinda like giving your walled garden a small window that you can see through but cant go through. the droid x’s bootloader wont let you load up roms but it doesnt mean you cant replace the bootloader itself, of course moto wont give us the code we need to do that either but im sure someone will figure it out

By: Antimon

Antimon — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:03:34 +0000

Droid X (and likely Droid X 2) have a bootloader that requires a cryptographically signed bootrom. It is not possible to produce a Rom that can be flashed in place of the moto rom, which only moto has the necessary key for signing. Thus, the source isn’t all that useful, since you can’t build and install vanilla Froyo, for example. This kind of restriction doesn’t exist for phones put out by HTC and others. There might be a way to hijack the phone and get a custom rom going somehow, but that hasn’t managed to pan out for Milestone.

So yeah, it pretty much blows.

By: monty

monty — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:58:31 +0000

@Donovan, do you know anything about efuses or are you just echoing what you read someplace?

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:25:23 +0000

Motorola doesn’t stick an fps cap so it doesn’t need to be hacked to remove it :)

By: Donovan

Donovan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:53:28 +0000

@uprooted – ill clear it up for you right now, with the bootloader/eFuse in tact this source code is useless for people wanting to load custom roms like bugless beast for droid..

unless motorola left something to disable the eFuse which i doubt this post means almost nothing to anyone who rooted there X.

By: John Farner

John Farner — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:51:40 +0000

@uprooted – you’re right dude. it’s that “i want to write like a cool tech blogger” syndrome, which many blogs (engadget, gizmodo, etc etc) are afflicted with. “locked bootloaders and efuses aside”….what does that sentence even mean first of all…second, is it necessary other than trying to sound clever “blogging”?

By: itmustbejj

itmustbejj — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:45:47 +0000

This might have some positive effects on improving the FPS cap for Evo’s however. Thanks Motorola, maybe we can steal your HDMI implementation :P

By: itmustbejj

itmustbejj — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:36:06 +0000

@uprooted
“Some careless blogger sees something he doesn’t understand, runs amok before fact checking”

Welcome to the world of tech blogs.

Check out all the PR damage they did to that guy with the wallpaper app…….for nothing.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:01:56 +0000

@hetal Patel

How does that make sense? Jail breaking is roughly equivalent to rooting, which the Droid X is capable of. You’re saying a company is evil for trying to prevent tons of people getting warranty replacements on phones they broke through trying to upload new ROMs? I agree it’s annoying, but let’s not go overboard.

By: uprooted

uprooted — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:35:43 +0000

Would someone please call the Mythbusters to get rid of that inane eFuse misunderstanding once and for all. Sheesh. Some careless blogger sees something he doesn’t understand, runs amok before fact checking and now the bloody issue won’t die.

By: hetal Patel

hetal Patel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:34:45 +0000

Its a Formality

Source Code is useless untill Proper root is not allowed

EVIL MOTOROLA even Apple Phone is Jail Breakable

By: root

root — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:30:22 +0000

Wow that as fast.