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Motorola Says eFuse Doesn't Permanently Brick Phones

Posted by timothy on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:48PM from the too-little-distinction-for-my-taste dept.

radicalpi writes "Motorola has responded to claims that eFuse is designed to brick your device if you attempt to mod it or install unauthorized bootloaders. Yes, the device will still not operate with unauthorized software, but it will only go into recovery mode until you reinstall the authorized software. According to Motorola: 'If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed.'"

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Re:Permanently brick sort of like permanently dead by Kenja · 2010-07-16 20:27 · Score: 5, Informative

Funny... cause the USB cable is in the box the phone came with.

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