Hi. I believe the Morrisoft Gen thread would be better than a new thread, but I can't post there since I'm a new user.
I tried installing the MorrisoftGen v0.7 now, and it stuck in the Motorola screen forever, and not only in the fir reboot. I pulled out the battery at least 5 times, waited several minutes, and it simply doesn't move.
I followed this steps:
moto-fastboot erase system
moto-fastboot erase userdata
moto-fastboot erase cache
moto-fastboot erase preinstall
moto-fastboot -w
moto-fastboot reboot
Apply .zip from sdcard
And then reboot. Then waited a bit in the stuck screen (as said in the main thread), then pulled out the battery, and turned it on again. Nothing. I did enter recovery one more time just to reboot using this option, and nothing. Pulled out the battery two more times, and still.
I just reinstalled the old pieCrust rom I was using, just to have a working phone tonight. At least I now the phone is working, but what I did wrong that MorrisoftGen didn't work?
Thank you very much.
Now I tried to flash Neutrino 2.5 GT, and the same problem happened. Just stuck at the Motorola Screen. Came back to pieCrust 0.7 again, and it works.
You probably need to install a new recovery. Download rom manager from the market and flash that recovery. Or look in the dev section for the atrix specific one and install via fastboot.
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How long do you wait when you reboot after flashing?
Some ROM's take a loooonnnngggggg time.............10-15 minutes to reboot first time after flashing, especially if a new kernel is included in the ROM.
Maybe you just aren't waiting long enough.
I waited more than 20 minutes one time, and both these ROMs were supposed to boot fast.
But I solved that updating my CWM Recovery, that was a bit old. The first boot was a lot buggy, with all the processes closing, but a new cache wipe solved the problem.
Thank you all for your help!
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I was unlocked and rooted and ready to install CM7. I followed all the instructions in the Official Atrix CM7 OP to the T, but when it rebooted, I got stuck on the boot screen with "unlocked" and the red M logo.
I tried to repeat the process several times and ended kind of giving up, factory wiping, and then trying to restore my backup. It appeared to restore successfully, but when I rebooted the phone now wont boot at all. I can't even get it into recovery. No combination or order of button presses or battery pulls / usb plugins will turn it on. I just have a green light like it's charging but nothing is working.
Is it possible to brick your phone even after you have been successfully unlocked and rooted just while you are trying to install CM7?
Please help. I am really desperate here. . .
jimjenkins said:
I was unlocked and rooted and ready to install CM7. I followed all the instructions in the Official Atrix CM7 OP to the T, but when it rebooted, I got stuck on the boot screen with "unlocked" and the red M logo.
I tried to repeat the process several times and ended kind of giving up, factory wiping, and then trying to restore my backup. It appeared to restore successfully, but when I rebooted the phone now wont boot at all. I can't even get it into recovery. No combination or order of button presses or battery pulls / usb plugins will turn it on. I just have a green light like it's charging but nothing is working.
Is it possible to brick your phone even after you have been successfully unlocked and rooted just while you are trying to install CM7?
Please help. I am really desperate here. . .
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are you using the right recovery? romracer or rom manager!
i am using the tenfar CWM included in the Atrix 4G Automatic Unlock script package. will this not work?
if not, how do I replace it with the right recovery if I cant even get into the phone?
jimjenkins said:
i am using the tenfar CWM included in the Atrix 4G Automatic Unlock script package. will this not work?
if not, how do I replace it with the right recovery if I cant even get into the phone?
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no, that the old recovery you can use the rom manager if you have , or romracer latest recovery you can find that in the development section, also ther was instruction in the cm7 thread.
you should have left it alone at the M boot screen because it takes about 5-10min to boot after unlock and flash...
everything you do now will have to be through fastboot DO NOT SBF FLASH ANYTHING!!!
Go here to use Fastboot
then download the system.img and boot.img from here
use fastboot to push the boot.img and system.img to your phone
if it gets stuck at the M boot screen let it sit for at least 10min
EDIT: get Romracer recovery from here and push that through to your phone through fastboot
Yeah youre going to have to fastboot wipe recovery then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Just download rom racers and rename it..recovery.img
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Great. Sorry to be such a noob, but do I decompress the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip file and push the recovery.img file that's inside it? or push the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip itself?
Also - every time I am able to get my phone into fastboot mode, it says my battery is too weak to flash anything. I cant seem to get the battery to charge enough to execute any fastboot commands. Any way around this? a powered usb hub?
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Great. Sorry to be such a noob, but do I decompress the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip file and push the recovery.img file that's inside it? or push the CWM-recovery-atrix5.zip itself?
Also - every time I am able to get my phone into fastboot mode, it says my battery is too weak to flash anything. I cant seem to get the battery to charge enough to execute any fastboot commands. Any way around this? a powered usb hub?
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If you can borrow another Atrix user's battery, or take yours to an AT&T store and see if they can charge it for you.
If you're able to get back into recovery then you can just flash the zip.
If not, you'll need to extract the recovery.img to use it with fastboot, or just download it directly from the OP in romracer's thread. (The left hand link is just the .img, the right hand side is the CWM .zip) Then place it in the same directory as fastboot.
So I can literally flash a different recovery from within another?
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So I can literally flash a different recovery from within another?
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yes but it MUST be working proper first ! its ok to use rom managers cwm but i just prefer the otherone alawys have but n e way there are only 2 that are current (uptodate )
thoughs 2 and with romracers you can. chose
a color that you like not just blue
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Its the recovery from tenfar CWM. When I can get it into recovery it seems to be working - with the obvious exception of successfully installing CM7
So I can flash romracer recovery from inside tenfar recovery?
sorry if im being redundant - just dont want to screw it up!
thanks
Just download rom racers cwm. Img, head into fastboot and then fastboot flash recovery recovery-****** (whatever yer recovery image color u chose is)
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I was able after a full day of leaving the phone plugged in, to charge it up. Then I flashed the rom racer recovery, rebooted into recovery (new version), installed CM7, installed gapps, and voila! A working CM7 Atrix. thank you soo soo much guys.
Can't boot android/recovery
ClearFire said:
you should have left it alone at the M boot screen because it takes about 5-10min to boot after unlock and flash...
everything you do now will have to be through fastboot DO NOT SBF FLASH ANYTHING!!!
Go here to use Fastboot
then download the system.img and boot.img from here
use fastboot to push the boot.img and system.img to your phone
if it gets stuck at the M boot screen let it sit for at least 10min
EDIT: get Romracer recovery from here and push that through to your phone through fastboot
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Please help!!!
The phone stuck in boot screen and overheat, then restart.
In recovery mode is just black screen.
Phone has Neutrino 2.6GT+ ROM whit Clemsyn's OC kernel 1.6GHz and it has unlocked bootloader.
Can I change the kernel without booting in os or recovery?
This problem show after I was extracting very big zip file and phone overheat.
firecode95 said:
Please help!!!
The phone stuck in boot screen and overheat, then restart.
In recovery mode is just black screen.
Phone has Neutrino 2.6GT+ ROM whit Clemsyn's OC kernel 1.6GHz and it has unlocked bootloader.
Can I change the kernel without booting in os or recovery?
This problem show after I was extracting very big zip file and phone overheat.
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I am actually having this same problem.
My warranty-replacement (unrelated ear-piece failure) had 2.3.6 pre-installed. Thinking little of it, I unlocked the BL and rooted the phone as usual. After this, I tried to install a couple of the ROM's (Neutrino and Morrisoft) which I was most happy with on my previous Atrix.
After flashing either Neutrino or Morrislee's ROM, the phone hung on the M screen. Waiting approximately 30 minutes with no change, I pulled the battery.
When trying to enter recovery mode, the phone would state, "entering recovery mode..." Then go black.
I ended up using RSDLite and sbf flashing the stock 2.3.6 sbf file back to the phone. Then, I had to re-unlock the bootloader and re-root.
This never happened up to, and including 2.3.4, but did twice last night on these ROM's using 2.3.6, and I've flashed many ROM's and Kernels.
It happened to a lesser extent when trying to flash Clemsyn's stock enhanced kernel to the stock ROM, as I was able to enter recovery mode. Entering recovery mode, it would give errors: mounting cache, mounting system errors, and errors to accessing recovery and recovery log files.
Restore recovery would fail in this state, giving me the above errors as well.
Trying to mount the cache and system in recovery would fail. Trying to format cache and system then mounting these could occur temporarily, but would revert back to unmounted when a restore was attempted.
For these problems I pushed a recovery through fastboot.
Just one word: Fastboot. See if Fastboot works and flash everything from there. Or, as Alterna suggested, flash through RSDLite, but that a little dangerous and can brick your phone if you don't know what you are doing. Hope it helps.
Problem sloved!!!
Alterna said:
My warranty-replacement (unrelated ear-piece failure) had 2.3.6 pre-installed. Thinking little of it, I unlocked the BL and rooted the phone as usual. After this, I tried to install a couple of the ROM's (Neutrino and Morrisoft) which I was most happy with on my previous Atrix.
After flashing either Neutrino or Morrislee's ROM, the phone hung on the M screen. Waiting approximately 30 minutes with no change, I pulled the battery.
When trying to enter recovery mode, the phone would state, "entering recovery mode..." Then go black.
I ended up using RSDLite and sbf flashing the stock 2.3.6 sbf file back to the phone. Then, I had to re-unlock the bootloader and re-root.
This never happened up to, and including 2.3.4, but did twice last night on these ROM's using 2.3.6, and I've flashed many ROM's and Kernels.
It happened to a lesser extent when trying to flash Clemsyn's stock enhanced kernel to the stock ROM, as I was able to enter recovery mode. Entering recovery mode, it would give errors: mounting cache, mounting system errors, and errors to accessing recovery and recovery log files.
Restore recovery would fail in this state, giving me the above errors as well.
Trying to mount the cache and system in recovery would fail. Trying to format cache and system then mounting these could occur temporarily, but would revert back to unmounted when a restore was attempted.
For these problems I pushed a recovery through fastboot.
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My problem like that and I use automated unlock tool to recover recovery, this recovery show some errors but I successfully flash cwm touch and reinstall Nutrition 2.6GT+
Hey Guys, I first tried searching to see if anyone else had the issue but i couldnt find any related threads. I am currently running either turl's or joxersax11's CM9 rom. The problem is when i try to install a different rom (take gingerblur for example). Ive tried installing new roms by both rom manager and directly through CWM (and I have been clearing my data/caches/dalvik) , but upon first boot after the flash, the loading screen is still the CM9 animation (the one with the rainbow tiles flpping over) and when Android loads up, I'm still on CM9. What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to wipe my phone or flashing roms?
Thanks for your help
Erase system and boot using fastboot commands.
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
reboot to recovery
wipe dalvik
wipe cache
reboot to fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot (to recovery)
flash ROM
That'll do it!
thanks guys, im waiting for my battery to charge to get into fastboot. How often should i erase these things in fastboot? Every flash? Or just whenever something is broken?
Ubers said:
thanks guys, im waiting for my battery to charge to get into fastboot. How often should i erase these things in fastboot? Every flash? Or just whenever something is broken?
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When ever you flash a new rom. If you're just updating a never version of the same rom, usually you don't have to fastboot wipe, unless you have a problem.
Long story short... I soft bricked my phone. My phone won't boot past the Motorola dual core screen. I can boot to cwm, fastboot, rsd. The gingerblur rom is flashable from inside cwm, but it doesn't want to boot to boot after flashing. How do I get out of this mess? I'm not very familiar with flashboot or RSS, or sbf files but I'm sure I could use them if I had baby step instructions.
Ubers said:
Long story short... I soft bricked my phone. My phone won't boot past the Motorola dual core screen. I can boot to cwm, fastboot, rsd. The gingerblur rom is flashable from inside cwm, but it doesn't want to boot to boot after flashing. How do I get out of this mess? I'm not very familiar with flashboot or RSS, or sbf files but I'm sure I could use them if I had baby step instructions.
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Gingerblur... Jesus..... Answers needed below:
- Is your bootloader unlocked?
- What/who's recovery are you using?
- What firmware and/or Android version were you running?
- Do you have a micro/ext. sd card?
- Is your bootloader unlocked?
Yes, when I turn on the phone, unlocked appears in the top left corner
- What/who's recovery are you using?
This is the software I get into when I select "android recovery" from the boot menu right? I'm pretty positive its an up to date version of clockworkmod
- What firmware and/or Android version were you running?
Up until a few days ago I had stock 2.3 gingerbread courtesy of at&t. First i tried jokersax cm9 and then i tried turls cm9 most recently before this brick
- Do you have a micro/ext. sd card?
Nope. And to make matters worse I don't believe the SD slot works
Inside your noob guide there is a section titled
WHAT DO I DO IF MY DEVICE WILL NOT FULLY BOOT??? (i.e. Boot Loop or Soft Brick):
This is my predicament right? There is a subsection:
c) If you can boot into fastboot, you can fastboot flash the "stock" 2.3.4 Gingerbread .img/system files by following the instructions on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1163342
*Note: The .img files to install via fastboot are located under "Download Gingerbread Stock Images" on the download page
Should I try this method?
Ubers said:
- Is your bootloader unlocked?
Yes, when I turn on the phone, unlocked appears in the top left corner
- What/who's recovery are you using?
This is the software I get into when I select "android recovery" from the boot menu right? I'm pretty positive its an up to date version of clockworkmod
- What firmware and/or Android version were you running?
Up until a few days ago I had stock 2.3 gingerbread courtesy of at&t. First i tried jokersax cm9 and then i tried turls cm9 most recently before this brick
- Do you have a micro/ext. sd card?
Nope. And to make matters worse I don't believe the SD slot works
Inside your noob guide there is a section titled
WHAT DO I DO IF MY DEVICE WILL NOT FULLY BOOT??? (i.e. Boot Loop or Soft Brick):
This is my predicament right? There is a subsection:
c) If you can boot into fastboot, you can fastboot flash the "stock" 2.3.4 Gingerbread .img/system files by following the instructions on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1163342
*Note: The .img files to install via fastboot are located under "Download Gingerbread Stock Images" on the download page
Should I try this method?
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Try wiping data first in CWM & see if it will boot.
The reason you can't get it to wok with Gingerblur, is b/c that's was for froyo... you might as well delete that .zip.
If you had a micro SD card, you could just stick a fruitcake on it and then flash that.
You might try fastboot installing Rom Racers recovery (see his OP) then installing whatever CM7 or 9 Rom you were trying to install.
As a last resort, you could try fastboot installing that .img file or sbf flashing 4.5.91 sbf... whatever you do don't flash or install a earlier version of the firmware like 1.2.6 or 1.8.3, or you'll hard brick!!! If you go this way, you'll most likely have to unlock your bootloader again.
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Well i tried it and im back up and running again. Thank goodness for your comprehensive noob guide! It took me a while to track down moto-fastboot but when i found it, it was all smooth sailing!
thanks again
Ubers said:
Well i tried it and im back up and running again. Thank goodness for your comprehensive noob guide! It took me a while to track down moto-fastboot but when i found it, it was all smooth sailing!
thanks again
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Good to hear!
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CaelanT said:
reboot to recovery
wipe dalvik
wipe cache
reboot to fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot (to recovery)
flash ROM
That'll do it!
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I'm not an expert at this but doesn't "fastboot erase boot/system/etc" delete the clockworkmod recovery ? I have flashed cm7 roms before with only wiping the data/cache/dalvik and never had a problem, why is it different now when flashing cm9 ?
Thanks in advanced.
I was attempting to get ICS running on my Bell Atrix 4G and seem to have screwed it up. Here was everything I did:
1. Rooted it
2. Unlocked the bootloader
3. Attempted to run CWM, I used the free app but everytime I tried to backup current ROM it would boot like nothing happened. When I tried getting into Android Recovery mode to see it, I always got the Android guy with the exclamation mark.
4. Got the latest system.img from jokersax's page
5. Used fastboot (instead of moto-fastboot since I could not get moto-fastboot to work) and ran:
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
6. I got "sending system" and "writing system" both OKAY on my cmd terminal, on the device some things were written underneath FASTBOOT, but nothing happened after a while, so I removed the battery and tried to restart.
And now I'm stuck on the Motorolla start screen with nothing happening. The options still work (Android Recover - which goes to the error screen, Fastboot, etc...).
What is the best approach to at the least restore my device?
Go into fast boot recovery and follow this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16365625
Once you have recovery installed then you can install a rom. Saw you on cm9 thread so I'm assuming you want to install that. Wipe and then flash the rom twice without any wipe in between. Lastly install gapps v11
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Hello everyone,
As a new member I would like to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who posts here and that makes working with my Atrix possible. Please forgive any misuse of terms etc. As I said I am new and I truly would like to learn to flash roms and recover easily etc, but I am overwhelmed right now and just want my phone to work again - with any rom!
Last night I unlocked my phone (rooted ATT 4.5.140 - 2.3.6 OTA) using unlock v4.2 and everything went smoothly. I downloaded CWM manager and Superuser and then thought I was creating a backup. I then tried to flash to CM7 and began having what I assume are boot loop issues: The CM7 splash screen with the circling arrow would repeat several times and then I would see the skateboard guy move across the screen several times and then the phone would just shut down. From here I tried to go to Android Restore and restore from the back up but that wouldn't work. I next downloaded Blue 5.0.2.7-atrix5 (because the writing on my screen is blue), moved it to my external SD card via PC, booted phone to Android Restore, then ran the zip. Same issue. Lastly I tried to restore to an older stock ROM (ATT 4.5.140 - 2.3.6). Now I am stuck in a "boot loop" that gets to the dual core screen to appear for a second or two, then repeats itself. I also tried to flash using moto-fastboot with the same results. I can still get to the restore screens and fastboot so I don't think I am dealing with a brick situation.
I am hoping someone can help me get around this. I have read so many 85+ page threads that my head is spinning and I am really no closer to resolving on my own.
Thanks in advance for everyone's patience and any assistance rendered!
Cheers!
Chris
Did you do proper wipes? Try fastboot erase system, fastboot erase cache etc etc. You can search the forums for the various fastboot erase commands. You definitely aren't hardbricked yet
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Hey Aaron
I know I did wipes from the Android Recovery screens - I'll try from fastboot and post back. Thanks for answering!
Chris
bert26 said:
Hey Aaron
I know I did wipes from the Android Recovery screens - I'll try from fastboot and post back. Thanks for answering!
Chris
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What version of cwm recovery are you using? Make sure you have it up-to-date. Older versions don't wipe properly.
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I've executed the following:
boot to recovery
Wipe Dalvik
wipe cache
factory reset/data
boot into fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot
flash ROM in recovery
wipe Dalvik
wipe cache
reboot
The device has been on the dual core screen (steady - not just for a couple of seconds at a time) for over 5 minutes. I will give it a few more and then pop the battery.
As far as I know I am running CWM 5.0.0.8 although I don't know how to be certain. It was the first one that came up in the play store.
but it's not giving you any errors on the logo/bios screen? like Fail to boot 0x00010 something?
i'm out of ideas beyond trying a different rom. you could try the wipe process again and test a different rom like nottachtrix. i'd wait for someone else to post who might have more ideas
No errors at all, just stuck on the dual core screen, even after battery removal. I am searching other threads for this specific issue now. Feels like I'm making progress since it's at least not looping. Thanks again!
Wow! Looks like I just caught a break. Out of desperation I tried to re-flash CM7 and whaddya know! The thing booted right up! I can only assume it was due to the full on wiping that was suggested.
Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction and for taking the time to help a n00b.
Cheers!
Hello ladies and gentlemen. Let me start off by saying I am not a pro, but not a complete noob. Ran into an issue when I was trying to flash Jelly Bean on my Xoom. I pushed the custom recovery without a hitch, and loaded into it just fine. Wiped data, cache, dalvik, and system as recommended. After doing this, I went to select the zip. Funny thing was, it wasn't there. The only files I could see were the internal folders. Thought, no big deal, just mount USB. Didn't work. Then I figured I would just boot into android, and then copy the files I wanted. Couldn't get it to book. Searched around, looked around, and really didn't get the answer I was looking for. Since I knew fastboot was still working, I ended up using the method in post 3 of this thread to fix my issue.
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ooting-flashing-unrooting-under-one-roof.html
Not to spam XDA with another forum, but this sure saved me some heartache.
After getting signed up with moto dev, got my files for the factory software, I followed this:
cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
>>>> Xoom will then reboot into bootloader screen
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock
Got it to boot into the stock system, and felt much better... lol
Re rooted it and I am running the nightly JB Build from EOS. Pretty nice.
I'll be around now that I got my Xoom yesterday, cheers.