Hi all
I am in urgent need of help to fix my Atrix 4G.
The Story:
I have an Atrix 4G. It was on 2.2.4 then official update came and I updated it to 2.2.6.
Then I was wondering about installing custom rom. This was my first time to install a custom rom. So I googled and found.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398819
Neutrino ROM V2.9 [14/08].
So I rooted and unlocked my fone. My fone was successfully rooted and unlocked and I restarted it and there was Unlocked written on Booting Screen.
In this procedure I had to reset the phone so it was back to 2.2.4.
After that I downloaded the above rom put in in SD Card and Downloaded Recovery APK from market and it asked to restart the phone with power adapter plugged to start so I did the same. And recovery started. Then following the instructions I installed the custom rom and it was installed successfully it was my first time so I didnt took any backups unfortunately. So after installation the phone did'nt actually start. It was stuck on Booting Screen with Moto Logo.
So I again googled and started to find the solution some said restart some said remove battery some said wait I tried all but no result.
Then I tried to install the stock rom.Following this
Code:
http://androidforums.com/atrix-4g-all-things-root/510778-flashing-back-stock.html
When i start to run RSD lite it says Creating Image and then throws an error like Unable to send RAM files.
Now I want to fix my Atrix 4g and there is no backup and no recovery mod.
My fone can go into options like Fastboot and RSD Protocol Mode. I mean I can access options on pressing Power and Volume Up/Down buttons.
Can any one please tell me solution? I will be very very thankful.
In fastboot flash recovery
fastboot devices
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot falsh recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Go to recovery mode, try to wipe data, cache and dalvik. If you have Neutrino rom on your internal SDcard you can flash it with recovery.
ovitz said:
In fastboot flash recovery
fastboot devices
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot falsh recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Go to recovery mode, try to wipe data, cache and dalvik. If you have Neutrino rom on your internal SDcard you can flash it with recovery.
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I have erased data many time from the Android Recovery
And I think there will be no recovery.img. Where can I get it??
There is option of data and cache partition wipe but there is no option like Dalvik.
Can you please guide me it was my first time with custom roms and I didnt took any backups.
in fastboot package is recovery...
ovitz said:
in fastboot package is recovery...
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Thanks, Fortunately my senior has installed Custom rom in it. And it is working fine with custom rom.
I am new to cell phone mods. My goal was to gain some experience by rooting and replacing the os image on my Atrix 4G. I use it for my alarm clock which uses an application that won't run on newer version of android than v2.x.x. I successfully rooted and installed super use. I then installed Titanium Backup and did a full backup to sdcard. I installed Rom Manager, chose ClockworkMod Recovery and then the correct image, and told it to flash the recovery partition. Rebooted. Got an error with the android logo and a circle with a triangle. Went back to all the how to's and attempted to install unlockable_bootloader. It now comes up to rsd, seems to fail, then goes into fastboot. Fastboot devices sees it and I can reboot from fastboot but it goes back to the same place. HELP.
Forget about any and all automatic methods, including ROM manager and similar. Good old-fashioned manual methods work best.
Try this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262869
ravilov said:
Forget about any and all automatic methods, including ROM manager and similar. Good old-fashioned manual methods work best.
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I think I have read all the posts and how to's on manually flashing. Temporarily recovered but persued my goal of learning something. Only thing it can do now is fastboot when I hold the volume key UP while restarting. Used to be down but that's gone. RSD protocol is no more. Says "Failed to boot 1" when restarting. Something I flashed apparently relocked the boot loader and who knows what else I've screwed up. Fastboot -w indicates it cas erase the cache and userdata partitions. Surely there is still hope for this as I can still access fastboot. Can you give a little help please?
Phatdaddy said:
I think I have read all the posts and how to's on manually flashing. Temporarily recovered but persued my goal of learning something. Only thing it can do now is fastboot when I hold the volume key UP while restarting. Used to be down but that's gone. RSD protocol is no more. Says "Failed to boot 1" when restarting. Something I flashed apparently relocked the boot loader and who knows what else I've screwed up. Fastboot -w indicates it cas erase the cache and userdata partitions. Surely there is still hope for this as I can still access fastboot. Can you give a little help please?
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Ỳou need to download the image of the recovery partition and flash it using fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
flash recovery failed
andresrivas said:
Ỳou need to download the image of the recovery partition and flash it using fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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I previously found a thread that described that process and tried it. Fastboot reported it failed flashing recovery.
That usually happens if the BL is not unlocked (properly).
Phatdaddy said:
I think I have read all the posts and how to's on manually flashing. Temporarily recovered but persued my goal of learning something. Only thing it can do now is fastboot when I hold the volume key UP while restarting. Used to be down but that's gone. RSD protocol is no more. Says "Failed to boot 1" when restarting. Something I flashed apparently relocked the boot loader and who knows what else I've screwed up. Fastboot -w indicates it cas erase the cache and userdata partitions. Surely there is still hope for this as I can still access fastboot. Can you give a little help please?
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reflash the pudding sbf to unlock the bl, then go ahead and flash recovery as advised. if I remember correctly, when it says failed to boot 1, its automatically in rsd, which means just hook it up and let rsd lite do its job then fastboot for recovery
flash boot failed
palmbeach05 said:
reflash the pudding sbf to unlock the bl, th
en go ahead and flash recovery as advised. if I remember correctly, when it says failed to boot 1, its automatically in rsd, which means just hook it up and let rsd lite do its job then fastboot for recovery
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Installed pudding successfully with RSD Lite. Attempted to flash recovery with "fastboot flash recovery image_name". Reports "sending recovery" and then "writing recovery". When I reboot, it still has has the stock recovery utility.Otherwise, I'm back to stock 2.3.6 except that it reports unlocked upon rebooting. Am I not flashing the correct thing? Thanks for the pointers.
Phatdaddy said:
Installed pudding successfully with RSD Lite. Attempted to flash recovery with "fastboot flash recovery image_name". Reports "sending recovery" and then "writing recovery". When I reboot, it still has has the stock recovery utility.Otherwise, I'm back to stock 2.3.6 except that it reports unlocked upon rebooting. Am I not flashing the correct thing? Thanks for the pointers.
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hmm, sounds like you're on the 145 build of 2.3.6. Check to see what your phone says in about phone. its going to give you a system version ending in 141 or 145.
palmbeach05 said:
hmm, sounds like you're on the 145 build of 2.3.6. Check to see what your phone says in about phone. its going to give you a system version ending in 141 or 145.
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This one says "4.5.141". Before undertaking to hack this piece, it was 4.5.145. I have flashed preinstall and boot and attempted to flash recovery. I don't know where it stores the build number. Could it be reporting .141 while really .145 ? I am confident the .145 is correct because we have two phones purchased the same day from same vendor and the other reports .145. I also remember it as .145 but my memory is pretty faulty.
Phatdaddy said:
This one says "4.5.141". Before undertaking to hack this piece, it was 4.5.145. I have flashed preinstall and boot and attempted to flash recovery. I don't know where it stores the build number. Could it be reporting .141 while really .145 ? I am confident the .145 is correct because we have two phones purchased the same day from same vendor and the other reports .145. I also remember it as .145 but my memory is pretty faulty.
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ok. I think the file we need to look for in order to fix this is in system/etc. its called install-recovery.sh and that file forces stock recovery to be installed. delete that file and try flashing the custom recovery.
palmbeach05 said:
ok. I think the file we need to look for in order to fix this is in system/etc. its called install-recovery.sh and that file forces stock recovery to be installed. delete that file and try flashing the custom recovery.
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ls of /system/etc/install-recovery.sh says the file does not exist.
When I bricked my atrix i used the xatrix tool to unbrick it. works really well and once unbricked was fully unlocked so was easy to flash new roms
xatrix (dot) webs (dot) com
once on there website click to download tab to get the downloads
This tool will remove everything from phone root, unlock and install cwm. What you do after that is upto you. sometimes its easier to start over then figure out what went wrong when installing a mod.
My problem is now this, I'm recovered, rooted, and unlocked. If I flash recovery with fastboot, it says I am successful but when I reboot the original recovery image still exists.
And thats the part that confuses me. It says 141, but the recovery issue is acting like its a 145. I'm stumped, but i do believe there is an install-recovery.sh script or something thats preventing this thing from sticking after flashing. I'm really baffled by this b/c i ran 141 for the longest time, i did all my rooting, unlocking, and recovery flashing on 141, and got no issues. I could advise that you download and flash the ICS leak (the true leak, not the ROMs we have available) via fastboot and see if that changes the situation, but i don't want to advise you to do something and then a bigger mess appears.
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Phatdaddy said:
My problem is now this, I'm recovered, rooted, and unlocked. If I flash recovery with fastboot, it says I am successful but when I reboot the original recovery image still exists.
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sounds like you had 145 installed and flashed 141 over it without doing a wipe first. i would use cwm recovery and do a factory reset wipe all data and flash the rom you want to run.
overboard1978 said:
sounds like you had 145 installed and flashed 141 over it without doing a wipe first. i would use cwm recovery and do a factory reset wipe all data and flash the rom you want to run.
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he can't get cwm installed. it may say it gets flashed correctly, but he cannot get cwm to show up and be usable.
as a work around, via fastboot, run the commands:
fastboot erase data
fastboot erase cache
that would cover what factory reset does.
palmbeach05 said:
he can't get cwm installed. it may say it gets flashed correctly, but he cannot get cwm to show up and be usable.
as a work around, via fastboot, run the commands:
fastboot erase data
fastboot erase cache
that would cover what factory reset does.
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That should do it. If for some reason it doesnt the xatrix tool will wipe everything off the phone and start it over with 141 unlocked bootloader, with cwm. Only automated tool i found that will unbrick phone with rsd lite. Make sure phone is fully charged before starting xatrix tool as it wipes battery fast and if it dies you will need to start over.
Erase cashe was successful, erase data failed. Found reference to additional file to delete but it did not exist either. If I conttinue, I will repost. Thanks for everyone's effort trying to get this working.
I unlocked the boot loader, then I rebooted my phone, then rebooted into recovery mode. Once I install either a custom rom, or supersu, even if it works to install, once i try to reboot, it only reboots to TWRP. Even when I reboot to system it still does that. Is my phone just bricked?
bobbymacy said:
I unlocked the boot loader, then I rebooted my phone, then rebooted into recovery mode. Once I install either a custom rom, or supersu, even if it works to install, once i try to reboot, it only reboots to TWRP. Even when I reboot to system it still does that. Is my phone just bricked?
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No its not bricked.. maybe soft bricked, but not bricked bricked how are you flashing recovery? are you using
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
or
fastboot flash boot twrp.img
2nd way is incorrect. Try
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot erase cache
then boot to twrp and flash rom and let me know what happens. Make sure you are using correct gsm twrp if you are on an att phone.
He probably followed these instructions here which direct you to flash twrp to boot instead of recovery just like you said above.
I don't know why he leaves it up there like that but seeing as it's the first link on Google when you search "root att HTC one m8" , he needs to change it cause I'm sure it's causing plenty of headaches.
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No its not bricked.. maybe soft bricked, but not bricked bricked how are you flashing recovery? are you using
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
or
fastboot flash boot twrp.img
2nd way is incorrect. Try
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
fastboot erase cache
then boot to twrp and flash rom and let me know what happens. Make sure you are using correct gsm twrp if you are on an att phone.
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I did
./fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
because I'm using mac. I didn't erase the cache though. Also on twrp, it says my phone has no os, and installing a custom rom failed to install.
No matter how I try to flash the TWRP recovery image to the recovery partition, TWRP gets replaced by the crappy stock recovery!! This is absolutely maddening!
Specifically, it seems that no matter what method to use to flash the TWRP recovery, it gets overriden by the stock loader when the phone reboots.
My bootloader is UNLOCKED and I've installed a custom rom just fine by using the command fastboot boot twrp.img to boot into the twrp image. This is the only way I'm able to use TWRP at all.
I've tried:
fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Booting into TWRP, and flashing the image over the recovery partition
Flashify to flash the TWRP over the recovery partition from within the rom
Trying to flash cyangenmod's recovery from within the rom (was pretty desperate at this point..)
I've also tried many different versions of TWRP, I can boot into them just fine but none of them stick when I flash them to the recovery partition.
It always says it's successful when I try to flash it, I reboot into recovery, and it boots into the piece of crap EmUI stock recovery screen every time
Anyone have any pointers here? It's not the end of the world but it's pretty aggravating having a completely useless recovery if I'm not near a computer,.
Try using Flashify or Flashfire.
Sadly didn't work. It doesn't seem to matter how I flash the recovery, the bootloader replaces it with the stock recovery when it boots. I'll update the OP to clarify, but thank you
I am having same issue have you found a fix
Have you tried starting completely over? Like, downloading the official MM build (b331, C564D003) from Huawei (Assuming you're on L24)?
On the new, freshly installed ROM, make sure that USB Debugging is and enable OEM Unlock are on in the developer settings.
Then, try flashing this build of TWRP again.
Before rebooting, do a Cache/Dalvik Wipe.
Boot up into the stock rom, then use 'adb reboot recovery' to see what happens next. It should work...
Hi mate,
It'd be easier to help you if you could post a screenshot of your FASTBOOT screen. There will be a line that will say FRP=LOCKED/UNLOCKED something like this.
if it is locked,
you have to install stock rom & enable OEM unlock from setting.
Then relock the boot loader. Then again unlock the boot loader.
For myself, I unlocked my BL unofficially, & this problem occurred . I solved it this way...
Hope it helps.
Cheers!
Okay.. So I flashed TWRP recovery to my 7040n with Flashify, but I forgot to unlock my bootloader first, so I consequently ended up breaking my recovery mode. Knowing that you don't need an unlocked bootloader to flash stock images, though, I tried to flash a stock recovery (also via Flashify). Then, when I try to boot into recovery mode, I end up getting my phone stuck in a bootloop. I mean, I can't boot into recovery or ANYTHING! I could try flashing a new ROM and recovery via PC, but I need to know how to flash the files without a working recovery. If I could flash them via ADB/fastboot somehow, PLEASE let me know!