Ok so Motorola is confirming the worst part about eFuse. It won’t prevent you from installing the 3rd party ROM, it just will prevent the phone from booting after the unapproved ROM is installed. I guess the good news is you can restore the phone without involving Motorola or Verizon. Oh well such a great device gone to waste. If you looking for a hacking friendly device keep looking past the Droid X. I know I will be.
We know there has been continued interest in the topic of bootloaders on Motorola’s Android devices as well as how we make use of the eFuse technology on DROID X and other handsets. We’ve recently released a company statement with additional information which you can find below.
Regards,
Lori
Motorola’s primary focus is the security of our end users and protection of their data, while also meeting carrier, partner and legal requirements. The DROID X and a majority of Android consumer devices on the market today have a secured bootloader.
In reference specifically to eFuse, the technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user that the device only runs on updated and tested versions of software. 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. Checking for a valid software configuration is a common practice within the industry to protect the user against potential malicious software threats.
Motorola has been a long time advocate of open platforms and provides a number of resources to developers to foster the ecosystem including tools and access to devices for developers via MOTODEV at http://developer.motorola.com.
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[Source Motorola]