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l0nwlf on July 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod ...

That's Motorola's policy and it's clearly documented ( http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/MOTODEV-Blog/Cust... )

"Securing the software on our handsets, thereby preventing a non-Motorola ROM image from being loaded, has been our common practice for many years."

It's really depressing :(

veemjeem on July 15, 2010 [–]

And people say Apple is evil... at least Apple has never put fuses like this into their hardware. If Motorola had any kind of market share, they'd take evil to a whole new level.

stcredzero on July 15, 2010 | [–]

No fuses, but there was a rumor that they would be overwriting mods in the future. (On-air updates.)

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