[Q] Atrix firmware ROM and booting problems

[bazeem]

Hi,
I am new to this, so I thank you for your patience and time.
I bought a Motorola Atrix 4g unlocked from Amazon. I believe it was orginally ATT.
When I got it, ithere was no "M" Motorola boot icon but a five second timer that booted from RSD. The other options on this screen were fastboot, Android Recovery and a few other options like BP RSD NvFlash etc.
The OS was Android 2.2 and there was no play store. I wanted to install Ice Cream Sandwich, so I install clockwordmod recovery app from the website (downloaded the apk), and tried to boot into it, didnt work and ended up going to Android Recovery and trying to update with the ICS zip file.
This is the ICS ROM I was trying to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836674

Anyway, phone wouldnt boot now, it would stick at screen with options. So i connected to PC, downlaoded and installed RSD Lite v5.6. I then had an SBF named "1FF-olympus_emara-user-2.3.4-4.5.2A-74_OLE-31-release-keys-signed-MERetail-06" which I flashed. The battery ran out so the program didnt complete all the way.
When I booted now, I get M Motorola logo, and have to press the volume down key to get the boot options. I have cut the red and black wires from a USB cable so I am able to give the device power and so get into RSD or fastboot modes.

Now this is my problem, what do I do from here???
I want to end up with a phone that boots and works with ICS, preferably the rom above; but reading this forum, I am getting confused with SBFs, ROMS, images, Stock files, fastbooting, RSD etc.... everything is swirling around in my mind.... please help me!!!

Thanks a lot

[Update]
I followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 and flashed CWM 5, and then copied the above ICS Rom and it now comes up to a boot screen with a blue android and a circling blue circle and it stands there. Is this progress?

 

[ravilov]

Dude, you need to read up more before you do stuff. First of all, that ROM is not ICS, I don't know why you thought it is. It says so right in the thread title - "CM7". (A stable and fully working ICS/JB ROM for the Atrix does not exist, for reasons beyond this post. Read up on the controversy if you want to know more.) Second of all, every ROM takes significantly longer to boot the first time, this is perfectly normal. In some cases it can take up to 10 minutes. How long did you wait?

BTW, what you linked to is MROM-GB, a fine choice for a daily driver. I'm using it too.

 

[bazeem]

Dude, you need to read up more before you do stuff. First of all, that ROM is not ICS, I don't know why you thought it is. It says so right in the thread title - "CM7". (A stable and fully working ICS/JB ROM for the Atrix does not exist, for reasons beyond this post. Read up on the controversy if you want to know more.) Second of all, every ROM takes significantly longer to boot the first time, this is perfectly normal. In some cases it can take up to 10 minutes. How long did you wait?

BTW, what you linked to is MROM-GB, a fine choice for a daily driver. I'm using it too.

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I do read up the threads and if it is long, at least the post and the last page; but I really was looking at several Roms and was interested in AtrICS, but it was late and I went for the other ROM instead; my bad :silly:

I left it for over thirty minutes and a copule of times, but the boot icon remained.
What I later did was to use RSD Lite and flash an ATT Rom onto it, which still hung at the boot screen, so I fastboot the CWM Recovery and then installed Android Breadcrumbs and it worked!!! I had to toggle between HW RSD option, then the SW RSD one, until finally selecting just RSD where the SBF file was flashed.

Thanks again.
Would you recommend AtrICS btw?

 

[ravilov]

AtrICS? No, not really. It is based on the leaked kernel which is unfortunately plagued with all sorts of bugs and issues. Feel free to try it, it's working surprisingly well for some, but personally I would not recommend it.

 

[bazeem]

AtrICS? No, not really. It is based on the leaked kernel which is unfortunately plagued with all sorts of bugs and issues. Feel free to try it, it's working surprisingly well for some, but personally I would not recommend it.

OK I'll follow your recommendation then!
Thank man, cheers :good: