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Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod
An anonymous reader writes with some discouraging news for hack-oriented purchasers of the new Droid X phone: "If the eFuse fails to verify [the firmware information (what we call ROMS), the kernel information, and the bootloader version], then the eFuse receives a command to 'blow the fuse' or 'trip the fuse.' This results in the booting process becoming corrupted, followed by a permanent bricking of the phone. This FailSafe is activated anytime the bootloader is tampered with or any of the above three parts of the phone has been tampered with."
Now people's heads will hurt. Great Job!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Does your phone self destruct if you mod it? Where others don't... Droid does!
Termite? Methinks maybe thermite?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I know I wouldn't be pleased with a termite charge. Imagine all the structural damage!
"If you see a man on a horse, he is likely an enemy. Kill the man and eat the horse."
It's Slashdot's new plan to make people RTFA by picking a random paragraph to quote out of context in the summary, thus forcing them to visit TFA in order to work out what it's about.
Not that it's worked in the past, of course...
Compared to the eFuse, their new iFuse just works, which makes for an infinitely superior bricking experience.
Move along.
twice as deadly!
Metal termites filled with thermite!
Apparently, this is not the Droid you're looking for.
Oh, so we just have to wait a couple of weeks for some teenager to crack it. Awesome.
Where's you god now, Googlebots? WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?
Come over to the iSide, it's shiny!
You're still using a 4-year-old phone? You're not doing HTC any good. :P
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
Eh? It’s just another safety feature.
Mandatory car analogy? Try pulling out an airbag system or modding it.
(For those not already aware, an airbag unit is basically a bomb. Don’t fuck with it.)
A better car analogy would be:
You don't like the rims your new car came with so you decide to swap over to some other ones. As soon as you remove the first wheel the entire car explodes.
That opinion... You're holding it wrong.
eFUSE can blow itself.
Lucky eFUSE!
Tom Geller
They saw all the press Apple has been getting lately, first for "not really having a retina display" then for displaying the wrong number of bars to indicate signal reception strength. They wanted in on this, so they... wait a minute, they had to have started all of this before the iPhone4 was released. Dunno, maybe they're just plain evil.
Please put the blame where it belongs!
Steve Jobs!
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Snowden and Manning are heroes.