[Atrix 4G General] DeathKoil:
U MAD BRO? LoL. Give yourself a minute and take some deep breaths.

There is seriously very little wrong with the phone itself.

"I got **** build quality, horrible net speed, the finger from motorola, horrific call quality, and a unreliable phone prone to errors that required me to babysit it 24/7"

**** build quality? Did your phone fall apart in your hands? Did the screen shatter while setting the phone down? Did the battery start on fire? Did the phone have any hardware malfunctions at all?

Horrible Net speed? This is a network problem, not a problem with the phone. Did AT&T not allow HSUPA+ on release? Yup, they did, which is not a problem of the phone. Did AT&T cap upload speed? Yup, they did, which is not a problem with the phone. I constantly get 3-5mbps down and 1.25mbps up. I'm sure your speeds were similar, and if not you lived an oversaturated area or an area with crappy reception. Neither of these are problems with the phone itself.

Horrific Call Quality? I've gotta laugh at this one. The quality on my end is excellent on my device. On the receiving end of calls I can't say much since I'm not on that end. I can say that the week I got my phone I was talking to a friend who asked what I was doing, and I said "driving home from the gym", and she couldn't believe I was driving because there was no background noise coming through at all. She said on my iPhone is was painfully obvious when I was driving. So... sorry man, you either had a defective device or are just lying.

Unreliable phone prone to errors that required me to babysit it 24/7? Umm... okay. My phone did have a few random restarts before the first OTA update to 4.1.57. Since that update I have had zero problems. My guess is that you are, again, making stuff up just to make your list of "problems" longer.

I am not a Motorola fanboy by any means. I vowed back when I bought a v400 from Motorola something like 8 years ago that I would never, ever, ever buy another motorola phone. I do not like them as a company, and I had a ton of trouble with that P.O.S. v400. That phone was replaced 3 times in a year before they gave me a v560, which also needed to be replaced once in the following year. After that I was up for a new phone and got as far from Motorola as I could.

That said, their Razer series of phones were wildly popular and solid (I never owned one though). I wanted an Android phone to replace my very aged iPhone a few months back. I read up on Motorola's Androids, as well as HTC's, Samsung's, etc. Motorola had a very good track record so I decided to give them a shot again and bought the Atrix. I am happy to say that I am impressed with the device itself. I am not as impressed with what AT&T has done to neuter of the device, and I am not impressed with Motorola locking the bootloader down so hard. The device itself though, the actual Atrix, is a very very nice piece of equipment.

So please be kind enough to take your crying and forum trolling elsewhere. This thread was created to talk about trying to pressure Motorola into unlocking the bootloader on the phone, not to make up stories and whine/complain.

On topic:

A way has been discovered to bypass the bootloader. There are still issues though as there does not currently exist a kernel that will boot. This project (called the Eternity Project) is a work in progress and you can read more about it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1079097

Those working on the project were given some information that they needed to take another step forward, and I am anxiously waiting to hear about their progress.

The Atrix with CM7 would be pretty awesome, since the Atrix itself is an amazing piece of hardware... but Moto and AT&T haven't done the "nicest" things when it comes to putting in limitations to the hardware.

DK