THANKS

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Thanks Will Notify My Mates about this

Originally Posted by jman316

doh! Hadnt realised that have to click on fastboot to actual go into fastboot mode.

Ladies and gentleman...I now have a proper android phone ( rooted, bootloader unlocked, running CM9)

Good that you've done it. To answer your question on what difference plugging in to the USB port at the back would make, generally the USB ports on the front of the PC won't have much power to stay connected to the phone. I've not experienced this myself, but I've read it in these forums. Why take a chance?

Has anyone had any success using this method on a phone that was recently refurbished or replaced? I have reason to suspect that I bought either a new replacement or refurbished phone but there is no way to know for sure. I have been reading that recently people have been having issues unlocking replacement/refurbished phones on 2.3.6.

I bought this phone about a month ago and as it is my only phone I'm just trying to be cautious.

Everything ok till i get to the android recovery,i press volume up but it tells me ''Starting RSD Protocol support" i press volume down but nothing happens i have to pull out the batt. Plz help???

thanks for the great post, it saved me a lot of time and nerves
it worked on my Atrix like a charm, and it cleared a lot of questions i had regarding other posts and topics, will edit later info about my phone and experience encountered, now I'm off to work, thanks again

Atrix 4g

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unlock my atrix d00.. very cool

Originally Posted by djbuan

Hi, were you able to fix this problem? I have tried to use ROM Toolbox and it didn't see any root access on my phone, and so, I'm not able to delete the file. Do i still need to root my Atrix separately? I've tried looking for any superuser app after the whole process but i can't see it as well.

Please help anyone, thanks!

In Root Explorer, on the top, there's an button that reads "Mount R/W". Click that and it'll allow you to delete the file.

2.3.6 and 4.5.2A-51_OLL-17.8

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I had a rooted Bell Atrix and I was running 2.3.6 and 4.5.2A-51_OLL-17.8

This bootloader unlocking process was successful for my phone.

For you guys out there ****ting your pants nervous that no one has talked about a guide being applicable to the 4.5.2A-51_OLL-17.8, you can use this one, it works.

Thanks jman316! I was stuck like you and also didn't realize that I had to hit the vol-up to select Fastboot. I was on the verge of pulling my hair out!!!!

I would like to note my experience. Everything from the tutorial worked for me except step 9 in the unlocking procedures. When I powered on holding down the vol-down button, the screen would flash for a split sec and then just stay black. I thought I was SOL.

After some trial and error, I figured out that I could pull the batt to restart and just allow the regular startup (which is a list of boot options). Manually choosing fastboot worked for me. I hope that saves someone the heartache that I went through.
Massive thanks to the OP.

One more note: I had to chance the name of the file I downloaded "recovery-dark green-atrix5.img" to "recovery-atrix5.img" for it to work.

Thanks very much for the clear, concise steps to perform the unlock/recovery/flash on an OTA 2.3.4 device, saved me a lot of time and headaches no doubt ;)

Only suggestion is to perhaps add the /etc/install-recovery.sh location to the step where you state to remove /system/etc/install-recovery.sh, as I did not realise this until after recovery failed on first attempt and I looked in that section.

I have flashed NottachTrix 1.3.1 with the Faux 1.3 kernel and everything is running great [I was running rooted Telstra 2.3.4 OTA, FYI].
As I had root on the stock rom I had performed a TitaniumBackup of my apps+data to sd-ext, restoring after the unlock/reflash works great!

Thanks again!