Owners of Motorola Milestone try to hack the bootloader

One of the ugliest stories with the update version of Google Android takes place in Europe with the Motorola Milestone. His American version of the Droid was updated to 2.2 back in August, and the Milestone update has not yet been launched (although it is almost identical in terms of hardware), and the dates have already been postponed twice (now to the first quarter of 2011). And this is despite the fact that the launch of the smartphone a year ago was accompanied by the statement “flash ready” (and it will receive flash support only with this update).

A separate story is with Russia, where Motorola stops working since New Year: since every update is tested with operators before launch, there is no one in Russia to do this, it is not clear whether Russian phones will be updated at all. I tried on facebook.com/motorolaeurope (where the typical comment now looks like “I'll never buy Motorola phone again”) to get an answer to this question from Motorola, on the second or third attempt I received a comment from her “Evgeny hi there, let me check on that one. I'll come back as quickly as I can ”, followed by a deaf silence (at the moment it has been going on for a week now).

At the same time, Motorola also blocked the bootloader for all of them, in order not to install third-party firmware, but they would partially solve the problem. As a result, the MilestoneRSA project appeared on cracking the bootloader protection with distributed brute force. As the creators of the project honestly admit, the chances of success are low, but they decided that it’s worth a try - so if you have Milestone (or you just sympathize with those who have it) and a productive computer, you can connect to the project.