Droid Life Poll: Is the Droid X's encrypted boot loader a deal breaker?

[JD50]

How is that trolling? It is just funny to me that a good number of people have said "it is about the CHOICE to root" while talking about their custom backgrounds and laughing at the iphone....yet here we are now where it isn't an issue anymore.

I can't even imagine the furor if Apple locked down the iPhone and it was no longer possible to JB. Don't even pretend that people here wouldn't be screaming bloody murder.

haha, I missed this one. What a moron.

 

[foghorn67]

Not a deal breaker for me. I might, just might sell the Droid and but the X. But I think I am going to stick to my usual practice of having a phone for 2 years.
-Those reasons not being whether it's encrypted or not. My main reasons for rooting and ROM'ing my Droid is due to speed. Although fun, I don't have the desire to constantly tinker ROM's and kernals. I just got BB .4, and a Chevy kernel that was stable. I am pretty much done. I do want to try Cynogen, but it's more out of curiosity rather than the, OMG NEW ROM thing.

 

[abaez]

Take a look at how many people are going to return/exchange their phone in this thread because of a messed up unRevoked root file that screwed up 4g (that was very difficult to fix):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714846

How many others there and on other forums will be doing the same? I don't blame motorola for locking it down and not having to deal with this.

 

[Bateluer]

Take a look at how many people are going to return/exchange their phone in this thread because of a messed up unRevoked root file that screwed up 4g (that was very difficult to fix):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714846

How many others there and on other forums will be doing the same? I don't blame motorola for locking it down and not having to deal with this.

This is because of how the process works now. If root access was made simpler, say part of the OS itself or through an official update from the manufacturer, it wouldn't be an issue. You download the update from Moto's site, during the process, filling out a form/signing a contract, that annotates that you intend to root and that Moto is absolved from all responsibility.

Also, a handful of people in a single thread is paltry compared to the total number of people who root their phones.

 

[boomhower]

After spending so many years running custom ROM's on WM and now on the EVO I couldn't go back to not having them. From better performance to updated OS long before they are officially released. I was running 2.1 on my Hero long before Sprint released it. 2.2 is very very close to being daily use ready on the EVO. It certainly will be before Sprint get's their version out.