As you all know, the time for an Official 2.2 release is upon us. We may see the update launch as early as tomorrow, more likely this week. And if not you can bet it'll be sometime in the next 2 weeks or less.
With it is most likely going to come some patched up holes to methods we currently use to hack, mod and theme our phones. As of right now no one knows just how sealed up 2.2 will be once it finally is released officially, but there's one thing I have read that's pretty much breaking news that has me decided firmly on what MY plans are for my phone: Mr. Birdman (the guy who gave us root for our phones) has a possible exploit to finally crack the bootloader. This is amazing and if it becomes true it means we can rest assured that our phone will have years of support from a dev community, adding cool new roms and custom kernels that I can guarantee you will stretch well beyond Verizon's slated end-of-life date for our phones.
Once the time comes where Motorola stops updating our phones, if this bootloader isn't cracked, you are SOL. You will be stuck with whatever the last update was for your phone even if its 100% possible to run the next update. All because Motorola and Verizon want you to abandon your X and buy the next best phone.
So whats my point? My point is, if you have ANY intention of hacking and modding your phone, and you intend to keep the phone for 2 years, I IMPLORE you to install the leaked 2.2 right now. Why? Because there is no automatic update to the official 2.2 from the leaked version. This is your get out free card from getting a patched up system. Think of it like having a hacked Xbox 360, and then Microsoft goes and pushes an update to it over the internet that closes up all the security holes. Well this leaked 2.2 is our way of avoiding that locked up bootloader (and possibly even locked up root.)
I can guarantee everyone here that when official 2.2 launches root will be gone and it might not be back for awhile. It would be nice if we can still use the same methods to re-root as we do with the leaked 2.2, but I am skeptical. So be aware of this. Good luck
Update: So the OTA is not worth going to. It has no real benefits over the leaked 2.2 posted almost a month ago, and it has the same problems (ie - borked battery usage, no option to remove slide-to-unlock, etc.) There is a big warning that if you go to the OTA, you CANNOT SBF back to 2.1 EVER AGAIN. So those of you who followed my advice and are running leaked 2.2, you are safe and have basically the same system as those who made it on the official OTA without problems. Just sit tight for awhile until some more information and capabilities are released. I will keep updating this post when big things happen as far as updating the phone is concerned. For now stay on your leaked 2.2 with root and SBF capabilities.
With it is most likely going to come some patched up holes to methods we currently use to hack, mod and theme our phones. As of right now no one knows just how sealed up 2.2 will be once it finally is released officially, but there's one thing I have read that's pretty much breaking news that has me decided firmly on what MY plans are for my phone: Mr. Birdman (the guy who gave us root for our phones) has a possible exploit to finally crack the bootloader. This is amazing and if it becomes true it means we can rest assured that our phone will have years of support from a dev community, adding cool new roms and custom kernels that I can guarantee you will stretch well beyond Verizon's slated end-of-life date for our phones.
Once the time comes where Motorola stops updating our phones, if this bootloader isn't cracked, you are SOL. You will be stuck with whatever the last update was for your phone even if its 100% possible to run the next update. All because Motorola and Verizon want you to abandon your X and buy the next best phone.
So whats my point? My point is, if you have ANY intention of hacking and modding your phone, and you intend to keep the phone for 2 years, I IMPLORE you to install the leaked 2.2 right now. Why? Because there is no automatic update to the official 2.2 from the leaked version. This is your get out free card from getting a patched up system. Think of it like having a hacked Xbox 360, and then Microsoft goes and pushes an update to it over the internet that closes up all the security holes. Well this leaked 2.2 is our way of avoiding that locked up bootloader (and possibly even locked up root.)
I can guarantee everyone here that when official 2.2 launches root will be gone and it might not be back for awhile. It would be nice if we can still use the same methods to re-root as we do with the leaked 2.2, but I am skeptical. So be aware of this. Good luck
Update: So the OTA is not worth going to. It has no real benefits over the leaked 2.2 posted almost a month ago, and it has the same problems (ie - borked battery usage, no option to remove slide-to-unlock, etc.) There is a big warning that if you go to the OTA, you CANNOT SBF back to 2.1 EVER AGAIN. So those of you who followed my advice and are running leaked 2.2, you are safe and have basically the same system as those who made it on the official OTA without problems. Just sit tight for awhile until some more information and capabilities are released. I will keep updating this post when big things happen as far as updating the phone is concerned. For now stay on your leaked 2.2 with root and SBF capabilities.
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