We may have been pretty vocal about the slim chances of custom rom goodness on Motorola devices with locked bootloaders, but it appears that the dev community and perseverance have prevailed. Popular Android dev “Koush”, has managed to get Clockwork Recovery up and running on a Droid X by hijacking the int.rc. Now that the recovery is taken care of, Koush says we’ll start to see custom roms for the Droid X as devs jump on board. With 1GHz of power and 4.3″ of screen real-state, I can’t wait to see what they come up with. (Can you say 1.5+GHz overclocked Droid X’s in the wild!?) The Droid X just became a lot more useful.

**Don’t get too excited too fast. The word from Koush is that while we have root, recovery, and custom rom potential, custom boot images and custom kernels can’t be replaced yet. Though, now that we have /system access, “anything is possible with a little hackery”. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, head on over to Koush’s site to pick up the necessary file(s) and knowledge to get the ball rolling.

Source:
MyDroidWorld