eFuse in Motorola Droid X

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With the IT press getting hold of information regarding the Droid X (Slashdot story here) I thought I'd start a thread regarding this significant find.

As of posting, this is not confirmed. There's no credible source for this information yet, just a community hacker like most of us. If anyone finds better sourced information, post it here.

Mods: Might want to sticky this one

From the /. article:
"If the eFuse failes to verify this information then the eFuse receives a command to "blow the fuse" or "trip the fuse". This results in the booting process becoming corrupted and resulting in a permanent bricking of the Phone. This FailSafe is activated anytime the bootloader is tampered with or any of the above three parts of the phone has been tampered with."

EDIT: I understand there have been threads about this already, but they've moved down the rankings. Lots of people will be looking for information on this topic, and there doesn't seem to be any. A single thread for discussion and information posting seemed appropriate.

Go to boygeniusreport.com, scroll down and find "Reality Check: Modding the DROID X may not lead to a bricked phone."

eFuses have been in phones with TI's OMAP processors for a while now, but they have not been used to brick phones because of custom modifications to the phone. The phone still has an encrypted bootloader which will be hard to crack like just like the Milestone's but it doesnt necessarily mean that the eFuse will trip if the bootloader messed with.

Again, this is still an educated speculation and cant be confirmed until someone goes around and finds a way to unlock the bootloader and flashes a custom ROM on it (hopefully successfully :P)

i applaude companies that try to beef up security for their own sake. It's sort of like with the PSP, old Xbox, and Wii. They are just trying to protect their own business

We just need to worry about root for now...

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The possibility of eFuse bricking your phone: officially debunked.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/m...sy-says-efuse/

Originally Posted by storino03

i applaude companies that try to beef up security for their own sake. It's sort of like with the PSP, old Xbox, and Wii. They are just trying to protect their own business

Gay


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