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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Thank you!

I managed to install Ubuntu and I really like that.. tried from there too and it wasn't working. So I think it's definitely a problem with my dumb ass. If and when I get it working (I'm determined!...... and sort of stuck lol) then I'll post a guide. :cool:
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Fuuuuuuuuuuck!!! Still not working!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallchild:
Yeah.. i ended up wiping with stock recovery and still a no go. Still no lower half of the screen or buttons. Sucks big time
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Once ADB can be run in the recovery menu I think it should be fine.

Tenfar said he's fixed this problem but I'm no sure where he's run these commands. I feel bad after sending him a ton of PMs so I'm just waiting until he updates his Recovery app.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sgtmedeiros:
You could try restoring your sbf in rsd
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
That's been mentioned and tried multiple times.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] das8nt:
I have a simple script written with the command lines from Tenfar, but I am getting his input via PM to make sure it's correct and when exactly to run it. Hopefully he'll be able to direct me on how to get it done. Unfortunately, even if he says it looks right it's going to be completely untested. :-/

Sent via rooted Moto Atrix using Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
There's still a glimmer of hope, buddy. Once we get ADB access in Recovery I think all should be well.. unless partitioning this block somehow corrupts and kills the digitizer or something.

I actually couldn't wait any longer. Ported to Bell and got a new Atrix so if things go bad I'll have an easier time swapping. When I fix this AT&T one I'll sell it to pay off my cancellation fee with Rogers. Or, if I end up sending it to Motorola I can go back with my buyer's remorse period and go back to Rogers.

Hope you've got a backup phone or something to use in the meanwhile, man. This issue drove me INSANE!! :(
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] das8nt:
Hope is good, but this isn't necessarily for me. That's why I can't test it; this didn't happen to my phone. I have just been trying to help those who this did happen to. I'm also sure it will continue to happen if the CWM port for our phones isn't preset to format correctly.

Glad you were able to get a working phone again, but too bad a phone had to go back under these conditions.

Well, I'll keep trying to figure it out; waiting on another reply from Tenfar. Our schedules don't mesh too well, so if there's anyone else that might have experience in formating via ADB any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sent via rooted Moto Atrix using Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meneomic:
I have the same problem, I just wanna know if anyone found a solution to fix that?

Also, I live in Belgium (Europe), I bought the atrix in usa a month ago during my honey moon. Motorola Europe doesn't support yet the atrix, I don't know what to do!

The phone is not usable anymore, like someone said: "clicking on the soft button area registers as a click on the bottom of the screen". So, the back button don't work anymore (you have to reboot when your stuck in a menu!)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
hi guys i'm currently with a reflashed stock 1.83 rom, i can use android recovery (there the bottom screen portion works) and i can run wipe data/cache.

but no matter how many times i tried when the phone finally boots up it starts with motoblur setup and i cannot pass it, all the buttons work like the bottom of the visible screen and i cannot raise up the keyboard to turn the setup off...

i read in the sbf thread that would be possible to flash or not some particular areas, so if the problems is the wrong partitioning of the /dev/block/mmcblk0p18

maybe some of them could create a sbf replacement toreflash only that partition

other side i was talking with bongd and he says he had problem with the psd.bin file that is in the mmcblk0p03...

so what is the current status of this? adb seems not to work even in early enumeration usb mode...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
what if we execute the script using the update.zip function?

i can access my sdcard from windows in storage mode

if we put the script in one signed update.zip into the sd the phone should be able to execute itself?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Tenfar told me it was mmcblk0p18 but it's actually mmcblk0p03 which needs to be corrected.

There's no ADB in recovery right now. Tenfar's apparently got it working but hasn't released it yet.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
I also guarantee you can bypass the Motoblur setup as well. Hit these keys:

?123

ALT

ABC

e

?123

ALT

ABC

e

b

l

u

r

o

f

f

I'm positive because I've literally flashed every SBF and I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting this issue.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
really i cannot open the keyboard while i'm in the blursetup screen, i keep pressing the menu button but it highlights only the emergency call and after many seconds it chance to emergency call screen...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nosit1:
At this time, your phone is 'bricked' since we can't get ADB access.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
we don't have adb access but i tried and we can use the update function in the stock recovery...i tried to put a update.zip of my old milestone and the process worked till the sign verification that failed.

in the milestone that update.zip is used to run the updaterscript that launches the openrecovery by skrilax_cz, that works like the recovery of tenfar

i guess that if we have a correct update.zip for atrix and we put in it the script we need, it should be run.

unfortunately i don't have the knowledge to build the correct script and don't have access to a signed update.zip for atrix.

if we only could gain some interest of the devs i think our problem could be solved in short time...

edit: i sent 2 pm to tenfar but did not reply, maybe someone has more luck...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Are you holding the button down? If you hold it the keyboard will pop up.

It's not bricked, bro. He can boot into RSD mode and flash SBFs. It's just that he's stuck at the Motoblur setup... not sure why he just doesn't enter a Motoblur account or skip the setup to enable USB Debugging though.

I screwed up my old Atrix the same way but got further.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
really...i'm dumb enough to try that damned partition option...but not so dumb :)

the phone boots up -> motoblur setup "choose your language" -> keep holding that damned white button with little squares, but it simply highlights the button on the screen above to make emergency calls and after many seconds (5-10) it moves me to the dial screen...

wifi connection does not work keep sayin "obtaining ip adress..."

data connection i'm not in us so i should manually enter my apn settings before, but i cannnot enter the apn menu because i cannot complete the setup :(

edit: i don't know why i tried removing the security from my router and the phone could connect, so completed that hated setup!!

ok now i can play adb working.

i already tried with the first commands, i succesfully format the xxx18 but no results...

no i'll try the next steps, for the moment i installed root and tenfar recovery if can be useful...

EDIT2 : if you use the partition option, then the phone returns "failed to boot 1", then the only chance is to flash the sbf again, so how could tenfar solve launching the android recovery to format the data partition? he had flashed a stock rom first? can i know the steps he made?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
for the moment i have a workaround to regain 90% of functionality

i just remapped the volume up and volume down to be menu and back

unzip the file and overwrite in /system/usr/keylayout using rootexplorer.

don't forget to fix permissions using rootexplorer, rw-r--r-- (first column select ALL, second column only the first, third column none)

reboot.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
No need to reformat anything. Just need to get those serials in a working PDS now.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
which commands u used to extract the psd.bin?

can u give me the lines?

i can mod, but my programming career stopped when i could not calculate the area of the triangle with pascal :)

the final step would be someone that can read your bin and edit to replace your imei with mine or the others, but i guess the tool is owned by motorola people only...any chance to get help from your friend again? :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/data/local/tmp/pds.img

...

..

# chmod 666 /data/local/tmp/pds.img

# exit

C:\adb> adb pull /data/local/tmp/pds.img
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
Thank You!

mmm you converted the whole block to an image?

you should have the correct image too, size is the same i guess, did you try to mount them to see the differences?

edit: i tried to extract with unyaffs returns me broken image...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
No mount.

10 char
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
i can't understand...mine seems empty, i mounted it, ext2 2 megs..nothing inside.

i'll try tomorrow within ubuntu, thanks for now :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
The file does look very empty but I assure you that it's not.

Now you have to figure out how to get your serials in there and write the file back.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
i opened with ++editor full of null.

hex editor, full of 0.

at this point i don't have knowledge/skill needed.

i think guys working on the bootloader could handle these kind of images.

i have only the doubt that using the partitioning tool of tenfar i just wiped out my psd partition with everything in it...

when you gave the file to your friend to fix, did he ask you any infos about the phone?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
I don't have the entire PM exchange but I believe I just gave him the serial, IMEI and WiFi address... something like that.

As far as mmcblk0p18 is concerned, here is the set of commands I ran when the Atrix reported a damaged internal SD:

adb shell

$su

#newfs_msdos -F 32 -S 512 -L MB860 -c 64 -u 16 /dev/block/mmcblk0p18

Again, you've just got to find a way to get the serials into the PDS file and you'll have a working Atrix. I can't remember if I posted my PDS or not but if I did then you just need to pop the serials into that.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meneomic:
PDS.bin is just a image file from a linux partition... What you are searching about it's a ext2 partition containing configuration files, it's mmcblk0p3. mmcblk0p3 is the partition containing the files.

Your partition is damaged, if it's like mine, you don't have any file in it...

It's easy to see it, with a root explorer you can check if you have files in the PDS folder of your atrix. (Yes, the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 - not sure of the path - is simply mounted in /PDS/ folder !)

In http://gitbrew.org/atrix/ you can find a file named "Atrix Engineering Device Partition Dump" (http://gititbit.ch/aEd2) .

In this file there are some .bin or .img files and... mmcblk0p3.img !! Thats our /PDS/ folder ( mmcblk0p3 corrupted partition).

So at this time, i found 3 important configuration files from the /PDS/ folder:

- "\factory\fti" (can be edited in raw format) -> I'm sure here we have to put the serial in this file, but i don't know which number is.

- "bt\bt_bdaddr" -> MAC adress of the bluetooth (raw edit - format 00:11:22:33:44:55)

- "\wifi\wlan_mac.bin" -> MAC adress of the wifi (open with a HEX editor! - format 00:11:22:33:44:55)

One tip: You can mount the file mmcblk0p3.img (file from gitbrew) on a usb stick (using dd command in a linux environnement) to see all the files... (it's the only way i find to rebuild my /PDS/ folder). Then edit these files to put data like serial and mac adress... after that use dd to convert the partition with edited files to a img (like pds.bin)... And finally dd your pds.bin into the /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 partition from the atrix itself.

Screen will be fine!!!

Some things I'm still searching about:

- How to write the serial (number present in a little sticker where you put the battery) of the atrix in "\factory\fti" and what are the others numbers/data?

- How to find the real mac address of my wifi? (I have a corrupted number in place of my mac adress but wifi work fine!) - (Bluetooth mac adress is writed on the box!)

Some infos about the PDS and data to write in those files can be found: http://pocketnow.com/tweaks-hacks/motorola-atrix-4g-how-to-change-wi-fi-and-bt-mac

PS: Sorry for my english, not native english speaker :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
yes but the block 18 is only the internal sd, already been formatted, no issues with that...

i guess that your friend had a blank pds.bin to fill with your device info like mac address imei and serial, but if you cannot share yours anymore there is nothing i can try...

anyway i run some test on screen, basically our visible screen is 960x540 while the touch area is a little longer let's say 1024x540, now my phone lost all the screen calibration data and extended the screen drawing to match the size of touch area forgiving that it should stop at 960 and that below that the touch area is divided in 4 portions acting like buttons (menu home back search)

that's why the more i move from the top of the screen the more become evident the difference between touch point and drawing point.

wouldn't be easier to just find where are stored the calibration/configuration data?

i know many devs could port android even to non android devices, so maybe there is a workaround to this, without reading necessary the block 03...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meneomic:
There is not touchscreen calibration file. I don't know why, but because we have a corrupted /PDS/ , the screen faulty.

If you try like me to repair your /PDS/ (mmcblk0p3 partition), everything will be fine.

I had the touchscreen problem, I repaired (almost) my PDS folder (like I said earlier), and now i can use buttons, touchscreen is fine.

EDIT: the blank PDS.bin file you are searching about is the mmcblk0p3.img file in "Atrix Engineering Device Partition Dump" (http://gititbit.ch/aEd2)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
meneomic u are the man!

i've already mounted the image with -o loop option, yes it's a LITTLE different from the empty image i made of my partition :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
meneomic IS the man! Kudos for explaining things much more eloquently than myself. Hopefully you manage to figure out how to get the damn serials in place. At least the touch screen is working though.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
thank you guys i just dd the img and IT WORKSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

almost crying :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
Awesome! I felt the same way.

I've contacted my guy for a bit more assistance. Hopefully we'll be able to get it working fully soon enough!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
we have many redundand thread about this problem:

this is the tutorial step by step
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eval-:
I mirrored for you here since gitbrew is down:

http://www.multiupload.com/4JC5NQSZ5S

Please, back up your /pds to img (dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/sdcard/pds.img) before doing anything like re-partitioning. Edgan has INFO thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15026407
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquariuz23:
I dont know if you're still having the touchscreen issue, but I had a similar issue. The problem I think is with either Tenfar's CWFM or his Flashable 2.3.4 release acting up. Either ways, I figured out how to fix my issue, read in the link below towards the end.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15137935
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stratax:
this happened to me but my whole screen was unusable i just went back to stock spb
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bongd:
That looks to be something completely different.

This is regarding partitioning and something haywire occurring with the PDS file.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeRmiT80:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1131649

full fix screen and cpu problem, default wifi and bt mac addresses :)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NFHimself:
Hi,

If anyone is having problems mounting the pds image, try ext4 instead of ext2.

Cheers!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edge929:
Has anyone tried using Skype and or Google Talk on their Transformer yet? If so, were you able to get voice and/or video working? This a big selling point for me (video chat). Any and all discussion around this is welcome. Thanks in advance.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boiboi_67:
I havnt tried but read my short review posted in the forum
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jms_uk:
yep, both work ok.. Skype voice quality is better.. but the app is buggy and lacks video (i hear there is an updated soon though).. video calling over gtalk worked well for me as well though..
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edge929:
Thanks for the replies. Glad to hear one app worked with video. As with all things software, time will make them better.
[Atrix 4G General] mobilehavoc:
Couple of questions for Atrix owners running the latest update. Can I get your feedback on these?

- How is flash performance on the Atrix? Is it smooth or is it choppy?

- How hard is it to enable 3rd party installs (don't care about full root or anything else) just being able to install apps outside Market

- Is the screen really that bad? Saw it in a store and it looks great to me.

- Does the phone every spontaneously reboot or is unstable? I need something that'll be super stable

- I can always replace Blur launcher with LPP or ADWEX but are there other customizations Moto has that are extremely annoying? Anyway to get around them without new ROM?

- How are you overall satisfied with the phone?

- How is signal strength? Lot of dropped calls or none?

I'm looking more for people who haven't rooted and/or just did the 3rd party install hack. I know rooted folks will probably be installing a new ROM but I'm looking for stock experience. I have CM7 running on an Inc and honestly, it's great but there's not a huge difference between Froyo and Gingerbread in most day to day tasks.
[Atrix 4G General] frankiedizzle87:
I wrote something but it will not let me delete so ill do nonsense sorry
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
1. I don't use too much flash, but it seems pretty smooth to me on the sites I have used.

2. You have to root to enable non-market apps. You can always sideload with ADB, but that's different. Rooting was easy.

3. The screen is great for text and graphics, but looks meh to me for videos. My wife's iPhone 4 has a prettier-looking screen, but it's smaller.

4. I had one reboot once. That's in 10 days of ownership. I was using Maps or Navigation or something.

5. MotoBLUR can be annoying, but you can mostly get around it. There is an issue with getting email notifications when using Corporate Sync with Exchange Server 2003. Other than that it's not too intrusive. The accounts set-up is done through BLUR, too.

6. I am mostly satisfied with the phone, but I miss flashing roms and would love to get AOSP on this. MotoBLUR isn't my favorite. Battery life isn't stellar, but it gets me through a day with moderate use.

7. Never had a dropped call. I had to laugh when I still had full bars and my wifes iPhone said "no signal" the other day while driving. :p
[Atrix 4G General] frankiedizzle87:
Flash is great its like a PC almost

3rd party app enabling is super easy with fool Proff rooting technique. I've had one spontaneous reboot and that was after rooting.... not an issue got phone on release date.changing launcher is easy and no motobblur doesn't have extra crap to slow Yu. My call quality is amazing and I have had 0 drops (Buffalo NY) and the screen is crisp crsip crisp. I love the screen dunno why ppl hate it compares to my iPhone 4
[Atrix 4G General] mobilehavoc:
Even with the latest software, there's no issue rooting and enabling 3rd party install?

Is there a simple instruction thread out there? The only one I saw was rather large and old.
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
Get it, you won't regret it! Hey, I made a rhyme!

Sent from WinBorg 4G via XDA Premium
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
You have to downgrade to the original shipping firmware to root initially, and the script preps the device for the update. Then you do the update. Then you run another script. Then you're on the latest and you have root. Done and done.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016060
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
Yup, very easy. Just make sure you follow the instructions to the letter. I also installed Gingerblur, and my phone is so much better now!
[Atrix 4G General] Man_of_Leisure:
I just rooted last night and did the upgrade. It was really easy so I'd consider doing it as soon as possible. Consider that if you do the OTA 1.5.7 update without root you won't have any backup utilities to save your data if you want to get root, and thus have to downgrade.
[Atrix 4G General] cerps:
Is the issue just with Exchange Server 2003 or is it for 2007 as well?
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
From what I've read on the Moto forums it is limited to Exchange 2003. I have no way to test whether that is true because all I have access to is 2003.

I get notifications sometimes, but it's spotty.
[Atrix 4G General] mobilehavoc:
Thanks for the input everyone, I ended up ordering a LG G2X in the end. Tegra2 and stock Android :D
[Atrix 4G General] tasty_boy:
Gonna buy an Atrix soon, and i need to know which files to download, to make phone better, which updates should i install, or something like that....please help!, didn't know "motorola" world.
[Defy Android Development] johnw.xda:
after remove all files in /pds, rm -r /pds/*

my defy keep to reboot loop.

power on, the screen show the motorola (M) logo, after few second, then reboot.

i can go to bootlooder mode (power + sound up),

or go to wipe data/cache (power + sound down).

and i can flash sbf with rsdlite.

after tried all still keep boot loop

(full power changed 100%)

i tried reflash few different sbf rom

3.4.2-155, 3.4.2-133, 3.4.3-11

i'm sure all sbf rom work fine before.

i did flashed those sbf rom a few times, and all is work.

anyone know why keep reboot loop?

and how to solve it?

what is /pds/* files for?

please help, and thank you.
[Defy Android Development] peetr_:
This was not a good idea. I think someone here on XDA (Tenfar) already tried to remove /pds and his Defy is dead now. Present sbf files probably do not include /pds.
[Defy Android Development] johnw.xda:
OMG, my defy is dead?
[Defy Android Development] Antszej:
How can it be... you did wipe before sbf flash?

Why did you deleted these files?

Sent from Barebones-Defy using tapatalk.
[Defy Android Development] quzo:
yep is dead , pds is Phone Descriptor Security and you delete IMEI number

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=988115
[Defy Android Development] dumrul:
Try to flash the bootloader the sbf files you can find in the forum then it should work if it does not flash with the latest sbf file then it had to work otherwise. My defy had many bootlops and do not start but i got it to work :-) Sorry for my englisch my defy is alive ;-)

Send from my brain using Tapatalk

here the bootloader i used http://uploaded.to/file/ofcxbyhj
[Defy Android Development] johnw.xda:
i did it, but still not work.

thank you.
[Defy Android Development] lilaznfoo21:
wipe you phone :D

turn device off

vol down and power

you should see an android with a ! mark

press on the bottom left or right (im not sure)corner until you see an option to wipe

reboot

hope it helps