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Motorola finally goes live with “Unlock My Device” site

By on August 18, 2012 at 7:42am in Mobile News


A year ago Motorola promised users that they would find a way to unlock the bootloaders on their devices. Today, the site went live. That’s the good news. The unfortunate news for us Canadians, and other countries, is that the list of supported devices is incredibly limited. Currently the only smartphones to make the list are the Spring Photon Q 4G LTE and the Motorola RAZR developer edition. For us Canadians, the Motorola XOOM Wifi has made the cut for an unlockable bootloader. Motorola does state that “additional devices will be added progressively,” but doesn’t give an indication of which ones.

Before you even get started Moto places a massive warning, which might scare some away, that your warranty will be null and void and they are “against unlocking the bootloader and/or modifying or altering a device’s software or operating system. Doing so can have unintended, unforeseen, and dangerous consequences, such as rendering the device unusable, violating applicable laws, or causing property damage and/or bodily injury, including death.”

As for unlocking the bootloader, there’s a few steps, such as installing fastboot and the Android SDK, and installing the latest Motorola USB drivers. Hopefully more devices will be added soon, specifically for the RAZR, ATRIX, ATRIX HD.

Source: Motorola
Via: DroidLife

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Discussion

17 comments for “Motorola finally goes live with “Unlock My Device” site”

  1. lol @ the warning. unless you’re an i***t it’s very hard to brick your phone

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    Posted by Aiden | August 18, 2012, 8:31 am
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  2. I can’t wait to see the first coroner’s report. Cause of death: Unlocked bootloader! :-)

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    Posted by Clayton | August 18, 2012, 8:50 am
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  3. Does unlocking the bootloader also unlock the phone from the carrier?

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    Posted by Proclaimer | August 18, 2012, 8:51 am
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    • No it doesn’t. However, it does make it possible to then enable a way to unlock without a fee in some cases but not all. HTC Desire HD is an example of free unlocking once you unlocked the bootloader.

      This is at least a start in the right direction. Android is all about choice.

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      Posted by Jimbo | August 18, 2012, 8:59 am

  4. Isn’t the xoom already unlockable without some.stupid.Motorola website?

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    Posted by tweak | August 18, 2012, 9:02 am
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  5. I can see this as being potentially something in a few years. Everything starts somewhere… Especially with Google behind motor now, this will be one hell of a service in the future.

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    Posted by Vengefulspirit99 | August 18, 2012, 9:09 am
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    • Buy A Galaxy S3. You can hack the phone and still keep your warranty. There is no need for stupid websites like that.

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      Posted by Hammam | August 18, 2012, 1:45 pm

  6. I will never in the foreseeable future but a Moto device with these type of games played by Motorola.

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    Posted by caanda45 | August 18, 2012, 9:53 am
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  7. why no ics for razr

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    Posted by andrew | August 18, 2012, 11:38 am
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  8. I don’t mind the warnings about my warranty – that is normal and expected – but the lack of devices makes this useless. Motorola has been pathetic and dishonest in their providing of updates, the least they could do is to allow us to upgrade ourselves.

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    Posted by Tom | August 18, 2012, 11:56 am
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  9. Too little, too late. With all the good devices out there, Motorola is not worth the hassle – and can’t be trusted anyway.

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    Posted by PANCAKES | August 18, 2012, 12:21 pm
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  10. I have the Motorola Defy and XDA community has been awesome bringing ICS and now JB for this phone. The threads always mention how much more they could do with unlocked booloader so I hope Motorola unlock good old Defy.

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    Posted by Vladimir Murcia | August 18, 2012, 1:07 pm
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  11. Including death?

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    Posted by Thomson | August 18, 2012, 1:25 pm
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  12. “or causing property damage and/or bodily injury, including death.”

    lol…. careful guys.

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    Posted by Sub-Joker | August 18, 2012, 1:49 pm
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  13. Looks like they removed the including death line.

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    Posted by Matt | August 18, 2012, 1:57 pm
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  14. Death? really?

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    Posted by hbomb | August 19, 2012, 12:04 pm
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  15. Yeah, good try Motorola, you’re just too late. Now maybe i’m asking for a lot here, but perhaps they should add ALL Motorola Android devices to that list, with a locked bootloader. Even though I have put away my Milestone in a safe place, i know i’d unlock it just for fun, if i could.

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    Posted by m82a1 | August 20, 2012, 9:35 am
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