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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.

Quick info

Status: Developer Unfriendly
Developer Community: Lethargic
Short Name: D2

Sections

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?

Root/Unlock/Recovery

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.

Miscellaneous

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.