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Milestone has root, so what does that mean?

OK so I have been using the Droid since it's release and been rooted and ran just about every rom and kernel combo there is. I have an eris which is also rooted. I got the X the first day and like all been playing with the rumors of "is root a possibility" and if so are we talking like 12 months for it? I hear the boot loader is locked just like the milestone, do to encryption. I look around and the milestone is rooted already. So what exactly am I missing here for rooting only the new X, just trying to bypass the eFuse with a valid signature?
I mainly want root to remove moto blur and other non-useful apps "imho", although, CM6 with an hdmi driver for 3rd party apps would be nice as well.
So what should I be researching for rooting the X besides, when the milestone gets root so will we approach?
thanks,
shaun

slseale said:
OK so I have been using the Droid since it's release and been rooted and ran just about every rom and kernel combo there is. I have an eris which is also rooted. I got the X the first day and like all been playing with the rumors of "is root a possibility" and if so are we talking like 12 months for it? I hear the boot loader is locked just like the milestone, do to encryption. I look around and the milestone is rooted already. So what exactly am I missing here for rooting only the new X, just trying to bypass the eFuse with a valid signature?
I mainly want root to remove moto blur and other non-useful apps "imho", although, CM6 with an hdmi driver for 3rd party apps would be nice as well.
So what should I be researching for rooting the X besides, when the milestone gets root so will we approach?
thanks,
shaun
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From what I've been reading is you can't hack the kernal. You can add kernel modules but you can't hack the actual kernel. That means you can't use roms that are not based off that kernal, you can't optimize the kernel, and other things that most custom roms fix. So no Froyo until Motorola releases it and no changing settings that have already been made.

Droid X rooted, can it be done to Milestone?

I've been reading forums that the Droid X has the same bootloader as the Motorola Milestone. Recently the Droid X has been rooted by Birdman (found on the droid-life website). Just a crazy thought, couldn't this be done to the Milestone as well if both devices are using the same bootloader?

gno1209 said:
I've been reading forums that the Droid X has the same bootloader as the Motorola Milestone. Recently the Droid X has been rooted by Birdman (found on the droid-life website). Just a crazy thought, couldn't this be done to the Milestone as well if both devices are using the same bootloader?
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ahh, milestone has already been rooted for a while, its just that the bootloader is locked and no custom rom, i think the Droid X has a signed bootloader like milestone.

The Milestone has already been rooted, for a while now.
Gaining root access on the phone does not affect the bootloader, rooted or unrooted, we can't load custom ROMs, and neither can the DROID X.

hey , yea the same method used to root Droid X could be used on our Stone in fact his si an old bug and it works on most Android phone ,,, I wonder why we waited 6 month to have root on our stone while this bug was there all along but anyways it doesnt give us nothing new ...

The Milestone has been rooted since 2.0.1 (or 2.0, not sure).

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So I saw in the droid 4 android dev section that someone had flashed artic rom or something to d4 just curious to see if they used razr safe strap or not. I haven't tested flashing a rom but razr safe strap seems to be running fine for me.

hooks405 said:
So I saw in the droid 4 android dev section that someone had flashed artic rom or something to d4 just curious to see if they used razr safe strap or not. I haven't tested flashing a rom but razr safe strap seems to be running fine for me.
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I would assume they probably used safestrap. Personally, I would hold off at least until we get some sort of fastboot recovery option though.

yeah i am also holding off until we have an SBF or at least fastboot recovery... good to see that we do have dev support!

JB on Bionic?

I was reading how Jelly bean was released, how long ago im not sure.
I know the Bionic has a boot loader, and i believe the only way that ICS and ICS roms are only available on the device through a leak.
How hard would it be to put this on the Bionic (since the source was released).?

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I was reading how Jelly bean was released, how long ago im not sure.
I know the Bionic has a boot loader, and i believe the only way that ICS and ICS roms are only available on the device through a leak.
How hard would it be to put this on the Bionic (since the source was released).?
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There's a dev, known as Hashcode0f who along with a few others is working on a kernel which can bypass the bootloader. Once he gets it working (primarily on the Droid 3), he's going to put it on the Bionic and other newer Droid phones, JB will soon follow. It'll probably be a few weeks at the earliest before we see anything for the Bionic though.

[Q] Is there any hope for custom recovery?

I was wondering if there was any hope for a custom recovery with the Droid Turbo. Back when I had a Droid Razr I remember having a safestrap TWRP based recovery and being able to flash all the big name ROMs that were ported like CM, PAC, AOKP etc. So will we ever be able to see this for the Turbo or is the rooted stock image the best we'll get?

Right now, the answer is no, there is no known vector for this. In the future, who knows.

Probably the same chance of winning the lottery. There's always a chance but probably not gonna happen.

That will probably never come around, I don't think this phone will see an unlock or an exploit for the bootloader at all
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