Need clarification regarding Droid X bands

VoidedSaint · October 24th, 2011, 04:26 PM

It is Illegal for Verizon to Lock Some Bootloaders | xda-developers

verizon is technically breaking the law, have a good read, and let me know what you think.

quickaudi · October 24th, 2011, 07:42 PM

Would love for this to apply to the X

trav473 · October 24th, 2011, 08:04 PM

That looks very interexting!!!! Nice find!

VoidedSaint · October 24th, 2011, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by quickaudi

Would love for this to apply to the X

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Originally Posted by trav473

That looks very interexting!!!! Nice find!

i filled out the fcc claim, you guys should too

Metfanant · October 24th, 2011, 10:48 PM

Unfortunately the quoted "laws" are not in anyway broken by locked bootloaders or tiered data plans...

VZW is not removing any features of the RAZR...and they are certainly not denying anyone access to their data network...

To be honest to call the article a stretch would be putting it kindly...

quickaudi · October 25th, 2011, 08:31 PM

They do keep me from using some features, like root file management, backup, etc.

trophynuts · October 25th, 2011, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by quickaudi

They do keep me from using some features, like root file management, backup, etc.

however they can say things like that interfere with the security and integrity of their network. read Droid-Life's take on it.

About that Verizon and Bootloaders and FCC Violation Story That is Floating Around - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Metfanant · October 26th, 2011, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by quickaudi

They do keep me from using some features, like root file management, backup, etc.

Those are not advertized features of the device on any network...and they are not hardware functions of the phone that they are taking away

VoidedSaint · October 26th, 2011, 09:07 AM

meta maybe you can clarify this,
this isnt verizon im speaking of

but at&t was preventing some users from accessing their full hspa+ before right? or was that t-mobile? i remember reading somewhere(*hah, i can read*) and that at&t or t-mobile, which i think is at&t was preventing full download speeds on their network by capping the hspa max download/upload speed. is this true? and wouldnt that be considered illegal if it was in block c?

or say if verizon was cappping the download/upload of the lte network through certain devices wouldnt that be considered the illegal part of the block c statement?

trophynuts · October 26th, 2011, 09:17 AM

another point of this convo is where does the OG Droid come into play on this and the Xoom? neither of which has encrypted bootloaders? Also the G Nex will be without an encrypted bootloader.

My point is that even though i originally thought all this falls on VZW as well, I'm thinking now that it still may have a little to do with the manufacturer of the devices as well.