Project Bootloader Freedom has hit its first milestone

[wormeyman]

Project Bootloader Freedom created by palmercurling

A buggy but working KEXEC kernel swap for the Droid X.

 

[xliderider]

How is this a "milestone" when nothing has been released yet?

 

[wormeyman]

It's being released at 6pm EST Twitter

 

[Bald Steve]

Ho.

Lee.

Sheet.

Sa-weet!

 

[Smitty_82]

Alas, anything can be hacked given enough time. Lol

 

[bear_lx]

this should be big! cant wait to see what becomes of it!

 

[ceriem]

This is amazing. great work guys. Keep stickin it to the man!

 

[slycen]

I'm game just keep the good stuff coming! I'm glad its finally moving forward

 

[wugawug621]

HORRAY sorry just had to get in on the excitement

 

[mac16]

O M G..is this for real? The day has actually come?

Also IMO it will prove the droid X has one of the best and most accomplished community of devs supporting any android phone.

If this happens IMO droid X has just shot up to one of the best phones out there despite all the recent phones coming to market.

 

[wormeyman]

Droid X kexec Kernel Module | aliasxerog

It's out

download link dirLIST - Index of: home/

 

[digitalslacker]

so this means we could see a kernel that bypasses the bootloader?

looks exciting if i'm understanding it correctly.

this is what i get for being a windows guy...

 

[derpudel]

Good news for sure. That's a HUGE accomplishment and congrats to those that worked on this project! I hope that future Moto phones will also be cracked, also. This is important for a number of reasons, most of which is yet to be seen. This indeed, makes the X the best phone out there, including upcoming devices. I love my phone and have no desire to have any other.

 

[digitalslacker]

So I found more info on XDA about this.

Bootloader almost cracked? - xda-developers

It doesn't appear to be a solution that cracks the bootloader...it looks like it's a method used to trick the phone into thinking it's running the stock kernel.

That sounds like it's doing the same thing in the end but I'm not smart enough to know for sure.

 

[JkdJedi]

Man if this happens we'll have a dozen forums on just Roms for the Droid X, CROSSING MY FINGERS!!!!!

 

[cb05stang]

I knew it/ I hoped / It was just a matter of time.
Looking forward to the update.
Thanks Dude !

 

[kajii]

This is exciting, I'm just hoping the dev sees this all the way through. It will change our phones completely.

 

[wormeyman]

Motorolla has unlocked to bootloader themselves? Please Unlock the Droid X Bootloader

 

[ceriem]

Motorolla has unlocked to bootloader themselves? Please Unlock the Droid X Bootloader

I think someone misspoke. But it looks like they might actually start working on something. Who knows? Let's just hope this project succeeds.

 

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