ICS Root Check

[SamuriHL]

Motorola Included a Root Check in the RAZR, RAZR MAXX, and DROID4 With Ice Cream Sandwich – Droid Life

Isn't that nice?! And yes, if you look at the Bionic recovery on the ICS leaks, we have it, too. HURRAY! Oh wait, no, that's no good.

 

[jhom]

So, I assume you are showing qe 1/1?

 

[SamuriHL]

You would be correct.

 

[bbucks36]

but it only does it in the ICS .. so let just say you want to return the phone for warranty purposes... going back to gingerbread then how would they know?

 

[SamuriHL]

If you're on 232 or lower, that's fine. But, 235+ have security that don't allow you to go back to GB. Once the OTA ICS comes out, anyone who updates to it can never return to GB.

 

[bbucks36]

ouch...:icon_eek:...figured it was a lose lose situation when the .235 leak came out...do you think the when the OTA comes out they will do a security lock on that also?

 

[SamuriHL]

Oh I don't think they will, I know they will. They already did on D4 and RAZR already with their ICS releases. I was quite frankly surprised they didn't up the security during the Bionic leaks sooner than they did. So yes, I'm quite certain the ICS OTA will not allow going back to GB.

 

[dautley]

I wonder if I FXZ from 232 to 905 and back if it will reset it to 0/0?

 

[SamuriHL]

I don't believe so, no.

 

[jayrod]

Wonder what the percentage of Bionic owners aren' t already close to warranty expiration..I know I'm up on 9/23.Almost seems a waste of time putting a Root check in ICS for Bionic seeing as it's somewhat the red headed step child the family doesn't talk about.

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[bbucks36]

the leaks are decent .. minor things can be changed.. more UI stuff.. im afraid that if and when ICS comes out and they changed it so much that it now sucks..that i cant go back to just using the leaks... my warranty also is coming up in Nov...

 

[SamuriHL]

I have no idea. I don't much care, either, as I'll be replacing the Bionic once the new crop of Nexus phones comes out. However, yea, I suspect a lot of people are close to their warranty period.

 

[nateohio]

No one knows whether or not the FXZ will wipe or not, i don't believe its been tested yet...


Samurai- what makes you think that it won't? Doesn't rsdlite flash a new recovery as well while flashing the fxz?

 

[SamuriHL]

It's been tried. P3 tried a ton of stuff. Nothing erases it. They're storing it somewhere we can't access. Once it's been rooted, the right value will always show a 1 no matter what you do.

 

[mattjenn]

I saw this story yesterday on my DROID 4 I have which is not rooted it showed 1/1 it has not been rooted since back in march when it had gb on it so I don't know where this info comes from but it is not correct cause mine again is not rooted and hasn't been since beginning of march