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Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last

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According to the Motorola website there are only 4 supported devices at the moment:

- Photon Q 4G LTE Sprint

- Motorola RAZR developer edition Europe

- Motorola XOOM Verizon

- Motorola XOOM Wifi Worldwide

Perhaps a little too early to be taking to the streets singing the praises of Motorola.

But watch out people, you can die!

"WARNING: Motorola strongly recommends against unlocking the bootloader and/or modifying or altering a device's software or operating system. Doing so can have unintended, unforeseen, and dangerous consequences, such as rendering the device unusable, violating applicable laws, or causing property damage and/or bodily injury, including death."

From looking at the page, they don't seem to have the "including death" part anymore. Although Google did seem to have cached in its search results.

When a custom ROM breaks your 911 it is very possible. It has been broken in the past with some Samsung devices.

Add the droid x and ill be happy. You cannot believe how hard it was to install cyanogenmod on this device. If you had a fully updated android os running you must first root the device then revert the device to a previous android verson. Next you had to install a custom cyanogen rom that was designed to work with the gingerbread kernel. A single misstep and your device is bricked thanks to the efuse. Gawh

Oh I know how you feel brother. Fellow DX owner here.

I wish Google was doing this under their own label and for all major manufacturers, the whole process is just silly.

My more than 2 year old DroidX works better than most latest phones. DroidX is one of the best devices of its time. Hope they add DroidX.

Until Motorola has unlocked bootloaders by default, they willl always be the bootloader locker company to me.

This is a step in the right direction no doubt, but they hava a long way to go,

Unless your one of the unlucky people that bought into Motorola dual-core devices too early. My Droid X2, a solid dual-core Android phone, is stuck on Gingerbread and will never get official ICS or an unlocked bootloader. The community has managed to port ICS, but it's buggy and lacks a fully compatible kernel.

Is this also a carrier unlock?

On Android, whenever you have access to the bootloader, you could install whatever Android version (official or unofficial) you want - So yes.

Bootloader and SIM lock are usually not related.

You are right, sorry for the false information.

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