Comments on: DROIDX2 Sees First Custom Recovery, Now We Wait for ROMs

By: EricErK

EricErK — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:26:00 +0000

Cuz i was on a mac, don’t be mean

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:55:00 +0000

I agree and look forward to the day when I can stop “bitching”.

By: Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:16:00 +0000

yeah its annoying that bootloaders are locked, know what else is annoying? bitching about it on every freakin moto post on this site

By: Roseann Chase

Roseann Chase — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:52:00 +0000

I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:17:00 +0000

Even if they did, it took a year for the X. I won’t buy a new phone knowing it will take that long to do something it should do out of the gate. And that other phones do.

Makes your point moot.

By: Rayman411vm

Rayman411vm — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Link?

By: Lonnie Kerchief

Lonnie Kerchief — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Actually, they found a way to side-load custom kernels, so even that point is moot now.

By: RaptorOO7

RaptorOO7 — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Custom ROM’s are great, custom kernels are as well, until some newbie fries their phone because they don’t know what they are doing. Bootloaders are the safeguard against warranty claims that the mfg should NOT have to eat.

That said I have rooted every phone I have had in the Android world over the last year and I have learned with each one what is and is not safe to do. I have been fortunate and patient to let the Zen Masters of the droid world to make it safe and make it great.

I do hope that Moto does allow the bootloaders to be unlocked going forward and including the Droid 3 & Droid Bionic, if they don’t they will continue to see the enthusiast market go elsewhere.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:46:00 +0000

someones just angry cuz they never owned a D1…

By: Manicfof

Manicfof — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:40:00 +0000

Can you people stop bitching about locked bootloaders already.. GEEZZZ.. its getting old. we get it.. Moto has locked phones. MOVE ON!!.

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By: Lonnie Kerchief

Lonnie Kerchief — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:44:00 +0000

Maybe someday Moto will realize we’re getting ROMs onto the devices anyway, so they shouldn’t bother with the locked bootloader. That’d be the day.

By: Lonnie Kerchief

Lonnie Kerchief — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:42:00 +0000

Just in time for me to ditch this for the Droid 3!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:28:00 +0000

Cool, then you get what we mean. We are happy that we at least have some ability to customize. But coming from the D1 we are upset with what they took away. They made it so difficult and upset so many when they could have continued to ride the happy wave from the D1. I loved my D1 so much that I would have never left Moto if they hadn’t done what they did.

HTC never locked their phones until their first attempt with the T-Bolt and then Incredible 2. But at least they have officially stated they will no longer lock their phones. Moto keeps playing this game that they will leave it up to the carrier. Seems like nonsense when other phone manufacturers can seem to not lock their phones.

By: chmcclellan

chmcclellan — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:27:00 +0000

I think its probably your comment that “I guess people just complain because of all the hoops we have to jump through” that made it seem as though you didn’t understand the difference.

I for one would not buy a phone without an unlocked bootloader because I can’t afford to upgrade more frequently than my plan allows and kernel tweaks have proved to be one of the keys to future proofing my og droid.