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i have a Droid 1 and i actually want to brick it because i just got done reading this story that says if you managed to brick your phone in the process of updating to froyo, they will replace your droid 1 with a droid 2!! so i hope if i brick my phone i will get it replaced with a droid 2
link to this article i read : http://phandroid.com/2010/08/20/dro...step-you-up-to-the-droid-2-for-a-replacement/
I'm wondering this too.....I really want to brick my incredible
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jdkoreclipse said:
I'm wondering this too.....I really want to brick my incredible
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just read this sentence out-loud to myself and i started laughing... sounds like something some super rich guy would say.
xmetl said:
i have a Droid 1 and i actually want to brick it because i just got done reading this story that says if you managed to brick your phone in the process of updating to froyo, they will replace your droid 1 with a droid 2!! so now i want to brick my phone for a Droid 2, can someone please tell me how i can brick it? also i am rooted
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So you want to commit fraud? Not really wise to be posting about that on a public forum where law enforcement might see it.
lol sounds good to me, this D2 is great. Hint Hint never buy a 1st Gen. Finally a Touch & KB w/ satisfying speed, you know? I have no complaints w/this D2 yet!
xmetl said:
i have a Droid 1 and i actually want to brick it because i just got done reading this story that says if you managed to brick your phone in the process of updating to froyo, they will replace your droid 1 with a droid 2!! so i hope if i brick my phone i will get it replaced with a droid 2
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My D1 and wifes Eris were both replaced for D2 due to problems with the phones
That's hoping you don't want the global, (rotten Red brings this to us after 'we' the D2's bought this great Droid)!
Here is to hoping you get an LG.
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Haha lol Sneaky when i did that with my hero they were cheapskates and just replaced the motherboard and everything else no legend for me
Here are a few quotes from good ol birdman-
KeithBlak Keith Black
@_mrbirdman_ Mr. Sir, everyone has been real quiet about the dX bootloader, and it seems some are giving up. Is there still hope?
_mrbirdman_ Stephen Bird
@KeithBlak There is hope....just you wait and see
_mrbirdman_ Stephen Bird
Im not quitting work on the Dx, I'm just not releasing anything for it until a certain thing gets released.
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Many of you were already aware that birdman was up to something interesting. I am posting this to reinforce hope in our small Droid X Community. Good things are just over the horizon.
I just want 2.1 back. I should have read further before stupidly, and blindly, just upgrading to the OTA because I could. I really hope this is what is being worked on.
he is waiting for the 2.2 sbf to modify the bootloader.. but with motorola keeping it close to chest, its hard to get a hold of.. SOMEONE SEND IT TO HIM!!
He tweeted a lone tweet last night, "certain thing". Sounds like he may have obtained the Samuel Bravo Foxtrot! Let's hope for some news soon.
thepolishguy said:
He tweeted a lone tweet last night, "certain thing". Sounds like he may have obtained the Samuel Bravo Foxtrot! Let's hope for some news soon.
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i think we need to refer to it as such for now on..
I WANT THE NEW "Sierra Bravo Foxtrot"!!
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He tweeted a lone tweet last night, "certain thing". Sounds like he may have obtained the Samuel Bravo Foxtrot! Let's hope for some news soon.
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That would be awesome.
What is it that everyone is looking for?? I like the OTA and what I can do with it.
Yeah.. I can't mess with the kernel or bootloader... but I rarely do that anyway. What I do on a normal basis.. can already be done.
MrDanger said:
What is it that everyone is looking for?? I like the OTA and what I can do with it.
Yeah.. I can't mess with the kernel or bootloader... but I rarely do that anyway. What I do on a normal basis.. can already be done.
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Everyone is looking for phone customization. What may be fine for you may not be even close to enough for others.
Does anyone know the IRC channel birdman uses? I would love to offer assistance in the cracking of the bootloader in any way I can...
InfamousDX said:
Everyone is looking for phone customization. What may be fine for you may not be even close to enough for others.
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This I understand... I was asking what more phone customization was ppl looking for?
dekend said:
i think we need to refer to it as such for now on..
I WANT THE NEW "Sierra Bravo Foxtrot"!!
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For the life of me I could not remember "Sierra" - so I went with "Samuel". Sierra Bravo Foxtrot - much better.
As to,
What more customizations could people want?
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How about the removal of blur? Or the simple ability to flash a vanilla Android 2.2 the way Google designed it?
Not a biggie foe me- but there is a lot more people could want.
thepolishguy said:
How about the removal of blur? Or the simple ability to flash a vanilla Android 2.2 the way Google designed it?
Not a biggie foe me- but there is a lot more people could want.
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Eh, his point is you can already do that, and in his defense, he is pretty much right. However, we cannot modify the kernel, and thus cannot have a true Rom, this is something I would like to be able to do.
Once the bootloader is unlocked/bypassed we will then be able to have true built from source Rom's/Kernels and unlock the true potential of the DX. Cyanogen has said he will support the Droid X/2 once its unlocked, CCR is already building an AOSP Rom but with the Moto kernel for obvious reasons so there is hope on the horizon. A leak of the "Sierra Bravo Foxtrot" will be found, then the fun begins for everyone as we will all have a way back to safety.
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Eh, his point is you can already do that, and in his defense, he is pretty much right. However, we cannot modify the kernel, and thus cannot have a true Rom, this is something I would like to be able to do.
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Once the bootloader is unlocked/bypassed we will then be able to have true built from source Rom's/Kernels and unlock the true potential of the DX. Cyanogen has said he will support the Droid X/2 once its unlocked, CCR is already building an AOSP Rom but with the Moto kernel for obvious reasons so there is hope on the horizon. A leak of the "Sierra Bravo Foxtrot" will be found, then the fun begins for everyone as we will all have a way back to safety.
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That's what I was looking for.
So to sum it up:
We can already customize the Droid X like any other android phone on the market (remove bloatware, theme frameworks, play with root priveleges, etc)... but some ppl are wanting more.
The ppl that are wanting more... are wanting to get to the brains (kernel & bootloader) so they can build a ROM from scratch, get some CM lovin, TRUE overclocking, BF scheduling, UV'ing, TRUE recovery, etc.
I understand that... and always understood it lol. I just always wondered why I saw so many posts asking for things that can already be done.. and have been.
Not to sound ignorant, but why is the 2.2 SBF so hard to come by?? Dosent every Verizon store in the Nation have the 2.2 SBF file in there tech support department? You think it would of been leaked by now considering the people guarding the worlds secrets are run of the mill, 12 dollers an hour verizon workers in every store you go in
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Not to sound ignorant, but why is the 2.2 SBF so hard to come by?? Dosent every Verizon store in the Nation have the 2.2 SBF file in there tech support department? You think it would of been leaked by now considering the people guarding the worlds secrets are run of the mill, 12 dollers an hour verizon workers in every store you go in
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A. most of us work for Flextronics not VZW. B. make a lot more than 12 dollars per hour. C. The SBF is not on any of our PSTs, if it was you would have it.
Joe92T said:
Not to sound ignorant, but why is the 2.2 SBF so hard to come by?? Dosent every Verizon store in the Nation have the 2.2 SBF file in there tech support department? You think it would of been leaked by now considering the people guarding the worlds secrets are run of the mill, 12 dollers an hour verizon workers in every store you go in
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Motorola has a team searching the intertubes (internet) for any mention of a leaked Sierra Bravo Foxtrot and have had their lawyers send them nice cease emails to both the poster and the fourm owners warning them to remove the links and delete any uploaded software.. I have had 1 thread deleted from here just because i asked for it..
hope that explains it.
edit: I didnt mention this before.. but it was already leaked twice.. and taken down twice.
dekend said:
Motorola has a team searching the intertubes (internet) for any mention of a leaked Sierra Bravo Foxtrot and have had their lawyers send them nice cease emails to both the poster and the fourm owners warning them to remove the links and delete any uploaded software.. I have had 1 thread deleted from here just because i asked for it..
hope that explains it.
edit: I didnt mention this before.. but it was already leaked twice.. and taken down twice.
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You'd think it would be on rapidshare or something by now if that was the case. I find it really hard to believe that 2.2 sbf has been leaked at all.
Do a google search for "droid x 2.2 sbf" and look at your first couple hits.. you will see that the moderators have removed the posts because of threats they received from motorola.
as for improving our chances of finding it we need the actual file name..
Get the file name and we have just up'd our chances by 10x.
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You'd think it would be on rapidshare or something by now if that was the case. I find it really hard to believe that 2.2 sbf has been leaked at all.
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The SEMI-2.2 SBF is leaked out.. and still available. I never did see a FULL 2.2 SBF.
Good news tonight fellow sholes (motorola, X, D2, etc) users... Christmas may very well come early
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lilmoney30 said:
Good news tonight fellow sholes (motorola, X, D2, etc) users... Christmas may very well come early
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for those of us who don't know him, please give a hint or at least a link....
Nenolod and Birdman and others are working on the bootloader and seem to have a plan in place.
RT @nenolod progress and FAQs on the sholes bootloader unlock attempt: http://nenolod.net/~nenolod/sholes/README
This is very exciting!
Yup, that panned out well.
The update to the README makes me a sad panda...
wow that sucks....
Sooooooo should I sell my phone and get an easier hackable phone or not??? A simple yes or no will do
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So did any one see birdman's latest tweets?
"...I am not giving up yet. But it looks bad..."
"...does anyone have a fascinate for sale..."
That sounds real bad for the X community.
Here's some more bad news:
http://nenolod.net/~nenolod/sholes/README
Compromising the BP proven to be a waste of time. We are working on
implementing kexec instead - this will take more time.
However, my suggestion would be to sell your hardware and just get
something from anyone else instead. HTC, for example, is a lot less
hostile towards software freedom.
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InfamousDX said:
Here's some more bad news:
http://nenolod.net/~nenolod/sholes/README
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Until you get a G2 which rewrites its system partition at any attempt to root.
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Until you get a G2 which rewrites its system partition at any attempt to root.
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lol ya. soooo lets all get incredible HD's when they get released. on birdmans dime :X
Yea I saw this earlier and almost spit out my drink. The X is a great phone but do you know how sick this thing would be fully unlocked!! Ugg MOTO makes me sick!
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The fascinate is garbage..really light..feels cheaply made..everything on it is ugly ..obv you can change the status bar and whatever u want idk it just seemed like a really corny phone
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Meh, maybe I'm the only one but I'm happy with the X the way it is (unlike my old Touch Pro 2, no amount of custom ROM's could save that thing from being slow).
Get use to it, guys, beyond maybe Samsung, it seems many phone providers are going the route of locking down their phones.
http://twitter.com/#!/P3Droid/status/26768478343
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/4296-motorola-droid-x-23-update-flash
So this was rather funny. I have a friend who just got he Droid X yesterday and he used to have the Droid since the day it came out. He always has to outdo everyone and have the best. I got a text this morning that said: "Got the 2.3 software update B*tch". So I looked it up because I know it isn't true and sure enough find out Verizon called this update 2.3.340. And we all thought that we were getting teased with Gingerbread LMAO! Epic fail on Verizon's behalf. They have seemed to screw up on a lot of things lately. Did you guys see where they put a Droid X ad with the phone showing the IPhone version of Google Maps?: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/30/verizon-sucks-at-photoshop-confuses-the-droid-x-for-an-iphone/
Must suck to be on Verizon!
That's because it's referring to the phone's 2.3.340 system version...not android version. It's still 2.2 android froyo
Silly version numbering policy.
You can also laugh at your friend because he pays about $40 more a month so he can have 3g in the desert.
mattykinsx said:
Silly version numbering policy.
You can also laugh at your friend because he pays about $40 more a month so he can have 3g in the desert.
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Eh, kinda important in these parts of Arizona....Yea, people actually live in the desert.
Does anyone here really care about Droid X, or any other phone?
nabbed said:
Does anyone here really care about Droid X, or any other phone?
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Yes I got a laugh out of it. If you don't care, Why did you open it. Move along, nothing to see here folks.
The point of this wasn't to refer to the Droid x at all. I love my evo I just thought it was hilarious that Verizon called the update 2.3. They certainly got a lot of ppl excited over nothing.
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Honeycomb is going to be awesome!
off course
If they lock the bootloader down like they did the Droid X Motorola can keep it.
I hope to see custom rom, but affraid that there wil be a lock
painter_ said:
If they lock the bootloader down like they did the Droid X Motorola can keep it.
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I'm hoping that the Tegra 2 doesn't have the eFuse lock either.
I'm hoping that because Google is involved from the outset, like the Nexus phones, that this will be considered a dev device as well as a kick ass consumer product. But as a former Milestone owner, I'm going to be very wary of it nonetheless.
Moto just doesn't understand open.
It's sad what they did with the bootloader on the new line of Droid and the milestone. As my Droid one was so easy to hack it wasn't funny. But there really isn't to much I can do with my x. Although out of the box with a little adw ex my x is sweet. Although not quite like the ole incredible with miui
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i actually got to play with the prototype 2day but i didnt stop to think about the bootloader but its still f-ing awesome
adub007 said:
i actually got to play with the prototype 2day but i didnt stop to think about the bootloader but its still f-ing awesome
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Where'd you get to play with it? Care to elaborate a little more than its "f-ing awesome"?
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i actually got to play with the prototype 2day but i didnt stop to think about the bootloader but its still f-ing awesome
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Um... You're supposed to prove these wild statements somehow, right? I played with HTC's new tablet last week, but forgot to take a picture of it too. Or was it that they confiscated my Dinc and unrooted it after they saw I tethered it for upload the video i took of myself on it's 400 million megapixel ffc? Get the point? I like you, just not that much.
And what the hell does playing with the device have to do with the boot loader? I'm pretty sure you will need a USB cable and at least an incredible to root it, aren't you?
I def understand where your coming from but i got to test the devices cause the motorola rep for my district came to my job with it.
And i had the physical devices in my hands so in theory i would've been able to test the bootloader
No i don't have pictures of me holding the devices so all i have is my word, believe me or not i got to demo it, i guess the next time he comes with the bionic i'll make sure to sneak a picture for hard proof
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Um... You're supposed to prove these wild statements somehow, right? I played with HTC's new tablet last week, but forgot to take a picture of it too. Or was it that they confiscated my Dinc and unrooted it after they saw I tethered it for upload the video i took of myself on it's 400 million megapixel ffc? Get the point? I like you, just not that much.
And what the hell does playing with the device have to do with the boot loader? I'm pretty sure you will need a USB cable and at least an incredible to root it, aren't you?
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Did you heard that it will cost about 799$???
It's too much!!!
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Did you heard that it will cost about 799$???
It's too much!!!
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Engadget is reporting that the price at Best Buy will be 699.99, which is a marked improvement over the 800 that has been making waves. That makes it much more reasonable, but I want to know about the bootloader (aka is it locked) before I buy it.
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Engadget is reporting that the price at Best Buy will be 699.99, which is a marked improvement over the 800 that has been making waves. That makes it much more reasonable, but I want to know about the bootloader (aka is it locked) before I buy it.
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Still is alot.....i could see the $450-500 range and this would def be a competitor for, well any tablet out there!
I just went to Motorola's FB page. I don't think it's a bad idea to start asking them to unlock their boot loaders. Maybe if enough people tell them they want it unlocked they'll start unlocking them. I see no way it can hurt.
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zillahakzor said:
I just went to Motorola's FB page. I don't think it's a bad idea to start asking them to unlock their boot loaders. Maybe if enough people tell them they want it unlocked they'll start unlocking them. I see no way it can hurt.
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I'm up for that!
zillahakzor said:
I just went to Motorola's FB page. I don't think it's a bad idea to start asking them to unlock their boot loaders. Maybe if enough people tell them they want it unlocked they'll start unlocking them. I see no way it can hurt.
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Good idea.
[Motorola's FB page]
Let's do it.
Comment on any/all of their wall posts.
//Edit: you have to "Like" them to post wall comments...
Kov695 said:
Still is alot.....i could see the $450-500 range and this would def be a competitor for, well any tablet out there!
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At that price, it would be way to cheap. We're talking about state of the art tech that completely knocks the winds out of the highest price iPad ($799-$849).
Even though I'd love to buy it for $450, I'd be worried why is was so cheap.... $699 is OK. If I had to wish a reasonable price, I'd say $599.
Damn I was just getting lots of schemes to buy one with my tax money, then you guys have to mention the bootloader!
It might be too late for the Xoom Facebook spam plan though. If its going to launch in a couple weeks they are probably already making them.
Anybody know if any Dev's have said they are definitely going to develop for it yet?
The xoom looks very cool.
but i will not buy this if moto locked the bootloader.