[Q] HELP! (NOOB) Cannot Root Atrix

[Trevinator110]

I have an AT&T Motorola MB860, or by its regular name Motorola Atrix 4g running gingerbread 2.3.6, and i have tried rooting this thing so many times its making my head spin. The device just wont root no matter what i try. It is in USB Debugging mode and i unmount the SD card every time i attempt a root. I have tried super one click, Z4 Root, Rescue Root, ICS Root, and unlock root. In super one click it has an OS version check failure asking if my os is 2.0 or higher, and fails from there, and in ICS root the device shuts down completely once the process has started preventing it from rooting. I have updated all my motorola usb drivers as well and im still getting nowhere. In Z4 root which im using 1.3, i installed off of a website supplying the .apk file, it gets to shell rooting and the program fails completely. I have to reboot to retry and every time it fails. I put the phone in windows media sync to attempt the root each time and its just not working. The devices Boot loader is also still locked if that makes a difference in the devices rooting ability, but its infuriating me and I just cant get this to work! My plan is to root the device to make a full image file so that i can install full ubuntu dual installation alongside android. If the device soft bricks then i have the image file to recover android. please help if you can. I also have trend micro internet security installed on the phone if that makes a difference which i believe it shouldn't.

 

[desarenezitic]

I think you need to unlock the bootloader to root and you'll want a custom recovery on there also. Maybe try a more manual rooting method, these all in one tools are great but you don't really learn anything or fully understand what you're doing to your phone.

My advice to you would be spend time reading up on the very useful threads and guides here at xda and then find a method for your phone and current software / firmware and then go from there.

 

[Trevinator110]

I think you need to unlock the bootloader to root and you'll want a custom recovery on there also. Maybe try a more manual rooting method, these all in one tools are great but you don't really learn anything or fully understand what you're doing to your phone.

My advice to you would be spend time reading up on the very useful threads and guides here at xda and then find a method for your phone and current software / firmware and then go from there.

I heard that unlocking the bootloader will cause a 100% user data wipe through the ubuntu wiki page on installing ubuntu. In a way if thats true its backwards because i need to root the phone to make an image file but unlocking the bootloader will wipe the personal data and then im stuck with losing all my apps progress and data. Do you know any active threads explaining how to do a manual root of the MB860?

 

[jorno88]

only rooting your phone can be done with super one click root (google it), make sure you have the proper usb drivers for the atrix
I did it before unlocking bootloader and it worked just fine

 

[chepe263]

When i unlocked the bootloader there was no user data wipe.

To root try googling the preinstall method.

 

[teerypark]

only rooting your phone can be done with super one click root (google it), make sure you have the proper usb drivers for the atrix
I did it before unlocking bootloader and it worked just fine

Super One Click also did it for me
2 things I found that was required before it worked...
1 - turn on USB debugging (as frequently noted)
2 - when connected to PC via USB - use Motorola Phone Connect option

Also - re unlocking
google "atrix 4g unlock_v4.2.zip" and follow instructions using the said zip file
use IHOP_Bell when it comes to RSDLite part (for Telstra MB860)
(connect via Motorola Phone prior to beginning)

use all precautions with RomRecovery noted in forums

watch plenty of videos first