Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 won’t brick themselves after all, they’ll just get stuck in Recovery Mode

A couple of days ago we allow you to know just how serious Motorola is ready not letting you run any custom ROMs on their Droid X and Droid 2.

Not only were these phones confirmed to have locked bootloaders, however it appeared that they were also employing a technology called eFuse, that might effectively brick your device if it detected a kernel, bootloader or ROM that was altered in any way.

And now Motorola has stepped up and officially made this story funnier.

So, they are saying, this stuff that were facing the blogosphere aren’t true. The phones won’t brick themselves, they’ll just only ever boot in Recovery Mode until an “official” software version has been reloaded.

And I assume technically it’s true. The Droid X and Droid 2 won’t become bricks in case you mess with their software components.

But they’ll be exactly as useless as bricks, because you can’t use a tool that only boots to Recovery Mode.

It’s still off to Verizon and/or Motorola to reload ‘approved’ software, in the event that they will indulge you.

So it’s like I said before. in case you’re the kind of individual that can’t wait to root the Android device you’ve just bought, and need to attempt as many custom ROMs as possible, don’t buy the Droid X or Droid 2.

Other Android smartphone manufacturers are a good deal more relaxed about these things, though warranties generally don’t apply in any case in case you’ve got a custom ROM – keep that during mind.

Via Engadget Via Phandroid