Motorola sent cease-and-desist letters to websites that uploaded a leaked version of the Android 2.2 Froyo. My Droid World is one of the sites to receive the letters and it removed the software from its servers. The letters carried the name of Richard Rushing, Senior Director, Information Security, Motorola.
News of sites hosting the leaked version came out on August 20, 2010 and immediately Motorola responded.
Motorola introduced Droid X on July 15, 2010 on Verizon Wireless. Motorola was supposed to launch the phone with the new Android 2.2 Froyo but the phone came with Android 2.1 OS while the handset maker planned to release firmware updates of Froyo in September but many users did not want to wait that long.
The Droid X has been criticized for refraining users to modify the phone and use customized Andorid OS. The Droid X used a new technology called eFuse- a boot loader and chip combination that makes it difficult to modify the phone.
In an official statement, Motorola said, “If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed. Checking for a valid software configuration is a common practice within the industry to protect the user against potential malicious software threats."
Android developers have been able to devise a way to modify the device. Koushik Dutta released the first working recovery of Droid X that allows the user to backup and restore the phone using Nandroid backup which allows users to load custom ROMs onto a Droid X.
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