[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Jim Kinney]

I'm still digging for details but it's quite possible the original droid
uses a similar, but likely older, version of the OMAD chips.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> The article referenced the NEW Droid X, you have the original model. I just
> bought one with bad esn on Ebay that I was planning to take over to Metro
> PCS. Surely that will be "safe" and I hope your older one is too.
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/1317205/Droid-X-Self-Destructs-If-You-Try-To-Mod
>>
>> So the Motorola Droid I bought doesn't really belong to me. Somewhere I
>> missed the "and Motorola reserves the right to destroy your device on a
>> whim" clause in the paperwork when I bought the it.
>>
>> <tinfoil hat>since verizon can push any update to the phone, it is
>> possible to brick this thing remotely for "Terms of Service" violations as
>> well. The "Internet kill switch" has been pushed out to the users. What does
>> the iphone, blackberry and the htc series of stuff have?</tinfoil hat>
>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
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