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+
Hello,
I get an infinite bootloop with my phone, to boot it i did, fastboot reboot-bootloader and fastboot-continue. That worked fine, then i did a firmware update (i was on stock rom, but rooted), then my phone is still doing a bootlop, i tried everything but i now i am not able to detect it in fastboot, so i can't boot my phone in normal mode, and in recovery mode. The only things i get is fastboot but undetectable :/
I would like to know what to do for getting my phone resetted to a cyannogenmod rom.
Regards.
Check drivers... Than you 1st aid ( general forum thread )
I did, but my phone is still not detected, i tried with all OS (win/unix/mac). Everything is installed..I don't know what to do
Teledor said:
Hello,
I get an infinite bootloop with my phone, to boot it i did, fastboot reboot-bootloader and fastboot-continue. That worked fine, then i did a firmware update (i was on stock rom, but rooted), then my phone is still doing a bootlop, i tried everything but i now i am not able to detect it in fastboot, so i can't boot my phone in normal mode, and in recovery mode. The only things i get is fastboot but undetectable :/
I would like to know what to do for getting my phone resetted to a cyannogenmod rom.
Regards.
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it happened to my opt too
ronyjarod said:
it happened to my opt too
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what to do?
Did you check your Volume Buttons? Had this Problem with a friends OPO where the Volume Button was bent and so the Phone only booted to Fastboot.
Teledor said:
what to do?
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solved accidentally. what i did was typed fastboot boot OP2_recovery .img (not in the fastboot mode but at the stuck boot logo mode). i don't know how the img went in but that was the way saved my opt from bricked. anyhow, thank you for the reply
I would really appreciate some help recovering my device without resorting to MSM and having to wipe everything.
I accidentally ran "fastboot flash boot twrp.img" instead of flash recovery...yeah.
Now I've lost access to the bootloader, to the recovery and to my (stock) rom. I've held volup+power and it reboots but it cannot ever pass the "boot loader is unlocked blahblah integrity" page.
I've tried volup+voldown+power to no avail.
I can't seem to even shut the device off, it's always stuck on on that bootloader warning page.
Normally I would just boot into fastboot and flash the correct boot.img but since I can't even access fastboot now, I'm a little stuck.
Any help would be massively appreciated, thank you.
EDIT: It miraculously booted into fastboot on its own, from there I flashed the latest boot.img, used fastboot to boot into the latest twrp, flashed magisk zip and booted back into the system as normal.
try this tool to flash stock boot img.
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try this tool to flash stock boot img.
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Thanks for the reponse but this tool does not/cannot work because I cannot access the bootloader, as I mentioned. I can't access any aspect of the device whatsoever aside from the "bootloader is unlocked.." warning page.
it seems your soft brick phone can only revive after flashing stock boot. And as you mentioned you cant get into bootloader then only option is MSM. Also you mentioned that your phone can't switch off, try draining battery to zero and then volume down-power on it. Check this guy's phone boot to twrp after draining phone battery.
Apcoolboy said:
it seems your soft brick phone can only revive after flashing stock boot. And as you mentioned you cant get into bootloader then only option is MSM. Also you mentioned that your phone can't switch off, try draining battery to zero and then volume down-power on it. Check this guy's phone boot to twrp after draining phone battery.
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I'll try draining the battery and report back afterwards. Thank you very much for your help so far.
EDIT: It miraculously booted into fastboot on its own, from there I flashed the latest boot.img, used fastboot to boot into the latest twrp, flashed magisk zip and booted back into the system as normal.
3dawg said:
I'll try draining the battery and report back afterwards. Thank you very much for your help so far.
EDIT: It miraculously booted into fastboot on its own, from there I flashed the latest boot.img, used fastboot to boot into the latest twrp, flashed magisk zip and booted back into the system as normal.
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So is it after draining whole battery or just randomly booted into fastboot?. Glad your phone data survived.
Phone seemed to get laggy after a couple weeks or so but a reboot fixes it. It got laggy today and I rebooted and now it's stuck in Fastboot mode. This is a ULM phone on rooted stock Pie.
Any ideas what to do? Anyway to get it back without wiping it?
Thanks!
MasterTec said:
Phone seemed to get laggy after a couple weeks or so but a reboot fixes it. It got laggy today and I rebooted and now it's stuck in Fastboot mode. This is a ULM phone on rooted stock Pie.
Any ideas what to do? Anyway to get it back without wiping it?
Thanks!
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u can find boot.img for your model than with pc and fastboot command: fastboot boot boot.img and it wiil boot normaly without data wipe but u'll have same problem after reboot
Hello, so I flashed a patched image of OOS ver 11.0.10.10 and it gave me a bootloop, reflashed the stock boot image and still the same,
after that I wiped the phone and lost USB debugging, now I can't use CMD to control the phone, and can't access the EDL mode, vol +/- and plug do nothing, even connecting the cable alone don't power on the phone as chaging.
any solution ?
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Solved by flashing TWRP from fastboot and reboot to EDL, using MSM tool, now its all okay again
STALKER18 said:
Hello, so I flashed a patched image of OOS ver 11.0.10.10 and it gave me a bootloop, reflashed the stock boot image and still the same,
after that I wiped the phone and lost USB debugging, now I can't use CMD to control the phone, and can't access the EDL mode, vol +/- and plug do nothing, even connecting the cable alone don't power on the phone as chaging.
any solution ?
EDIT :
Solved by flashing TWRP from fastboot and reboot to EDL, using MSM tool, now its all okay again
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if we did something wrong with boot; kernel;.... phone brick stuck at Fastboot or logo.
try to download same firmware version of your phone, payload to take stock boot.img file and try flash it first.
u can save your phone without data lost.
dangtoi1993 said:
if we did something wrong with boot; kernel;.... phone brick stuck at Fastboot or logo.
try to download same firmware version of your phone, payload to take stock boot.img file and try flash it first.
u can save your phone without data lost.
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I had the stock boot img. Flashed but nothing. Maybe it was bad or something.
Anyways thank you for the information. I totally forgot about it.
It's okay about data loss. I was trying flashing roms. And I had backed up my things.
This will be a correction for others in the future.
Cheers
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I had the stock boot img. Flashed but nothing. Maybe it was bad or something.
Anyways thank you for the information. I totally forgot about it.
It's okay about data loss. I was trying flashing roms. And I had backed up my things.
This will be a correction for others in the future.
Cheers
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did you flash both _a and _b part?
oke if phone working now, save backup of the magisk_patched.img (when phone brick need to use it). it saved my life when i flash wrong kernel.
dangtoi1993 said:
did you flash both _a and _b part?
oke if phone working now, save backup of the magisk_patched.img (when phone brick need to use it). it saved my life when i flash wrong kernel.
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Its actually a wrong boot.img it was for europe variant and I have the Global one INAA