Droid X Custom Recovery

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AllDroid tweets @ 8:40am CST:

@mrweeeedbirdman boots alternate recovery on the DroidX. http://tiny.cc/BirdmanAltRecoveryOnDX Please RT.

I believe that deserves a **** YEAH!

Originally Posted by jvward

I believe that deserves a **** YEAH!

lol 10chars

At the risk of looking like a moron.. why is this exciting, exactly?

Originally Posted by lowkee

At the risk of looking like a moron.. why is this exciting, exactly?

It's all good man. Basically...with the encrypted bootloader, only "official" roms would allow the phone to boot. So if a custom rom was flashed, it would stay in recovery mode. With this, if everything goes right, the custom recovery will allow the flashing of roms and booting back into android. Hope that makes sense.

No risk. We're all here to help and learn.

The reason this is exciting is that it is the first step towards custom ROMs.

To explain further: Recovery is used on a stock phone to help you recover when you have screwed something up by taking you back to the same state the phone was in when you first unboxed it by loading the stock ROM. Loading a custom recovery, if 100% successful would then allow you to load custom ROMs. However, the X also has encryption that requires a signature on the ROM that is loaded before it will actually boot the phone with the custom ROM.

I think there is some stuff that I missed here but this is the general idea.

The one thing I'm not 100% certain of is if they're going need to work on the encryption still or if a custom recovery gets around that. In this case for some reason I'm getting the sense that the encryption isn't stopping birdman.

all i can say is gimmmmeeeeeeeeee :P

Great job, keep up the good work. Patiently waiting.

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Koush just tweeted a pic of clockwork recovery on the Dx

Clockwork recovery on droid x... http://yfrog.com/n2hiuj

via koush