D2 New Front
The Motorola Droid 2 was the successor to Verizon's popular Droid smartphone, which made Android what it is today with it's ubiquity, business-ready fashion sense, and hackability.
But due to Verizon's demands, the new Droid 2 was shipped with an encrypted bootloader that did everything to prevent a developer community from ever springing up again.
The result for you? A dearth of custom ROMs, improvements, and updates, difficult rooting methods, and danger at every turn. The Droid 2 and Droid X are the most developer-unfriendly devices the world has ever seen, even compared to other Motorola smartphones. Lube up; it's going to be a painful journey.
- Status: Developer Unfriendly
- Developer Community: Lethargic
- Short Name: D2
It's time to begin your long journey. In this guide, we only support methods that work on the newest firmware, 2.3.4, so update your phones accordingly.
- D2 Introduction - Exactly what makes the Droid 2 so developer-unfriendly and what can be done to beat it?
- Flashing an SBF - If things go wrong and you're stuck on the dreaded bootloader mode, you can try and flash a stock SBF. Just make sure that you don't downgrade!
- D2 Rooting - The least we can do is to root the Droid 2, so you can at least enjoy the power of rooted apps.
- Installing a Recovery Image - If you want to go even farther than rooting the stock ROM, you can install a recovery to get custom ROMs. But due to the locked bootloader, there aren't much options.
- D2 Linux - Lo and behold, pure, unadulterated Linux works on these Motorola phones.
- D2 Sources - All the programs used, the sources for the files, etc.
Note: All non-Android projects have moved to the BASLQC Wiki.
- Introduction - A quick intro to the rationale and ideals of this guide, and smartphone modding in general.
- General Setup - Learn how to install and run the tools you need to succeed.
- Device Guides - Customized, fully decked out guides for rooting each and every device we could find.
- General OS Customizations - General customizations that work on all devices of a specific OS.
- General Guidelines - The ideals that you should uphold while working with and editing this guide.
- Device Guide Templates - Templates and general guidelines for creating customized guides for a device.
- Linux - Run a full desktop OS on your little mobile device; research is being made to make it comfortable to use in the mobile space.
- Glossary - Contains all the crazy acronyms and word soup that you'll need to wade through when using this guide.
- Android Buying Guide for Modders - While modding can fix up an outdated device, it will make your life easier to buy the right device from the start.