[ale] droid bricks if mod'ed

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 13:45 -0400, Greg Clifton 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.

Wait!  You can take a Droid phone to metropcs?  I own a metropcs smart
phone, samsung finese, (which is pretty nice, but no droid and I have no
contract and $50/month unlimted everything) because I thought they did
not do droids, only the phones that they had lined up.


>  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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>         in chains.
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