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kregstrong
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Default Bootloader locked/signed

According to birdmann on twitter and droidxforums the dx has the same encryption of the milestone... bummer

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Yeah, I posted this in another thread. Pretty unhappy about this, but I don't know if it's enough to drive me to another phone (probably the Fascinate).
 
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Yea I think I might get it and taje it back before 30 days and keep my incredible until fascinate comes out or maybe another non motorola phone haha

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Ugh......do I cancel my Droid X Best Buy pre-order and wait for something else, being impatient all the time, or just go with it and forget about root/ROMs...



Decisions, decisions.
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titanfan
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Uh you can still get root with a locked down bootloader.
 
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Custom ROMs and recovery images may be a pipe dream, unless a serious vulnerability is discovered.

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Uh you can still get root with a locked down bootloader.
Right, but root still looks to be a long ways off, (he just estimated 4 months) though obviously nobody knows for sure.

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DROID X, DROID 2 Won't Allow Custom ROMs
 
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the bright side to this is, with it having the same type of encryption as the MileStone devs have had 7 months to figure out what does and doesn't work.

better this than some crazy even more complicated encryption.


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