[Atrix 4G Android Development] zexbig:
Since we are receiving inquires on daily basis from our readers regarding Motorola Atrix bootloader unlock we decided to give short update on projects

which have for target unlocking atrix bootloaders. Motorola did not provide update to 2.3 Gingerbread for it's flagship smart phone (all competitors

already have available update for their top models) community is trying hard to bypass bootloader lock which was obviously imposed by carriers.

And since most of the phone are being sold trough carriers Motorola does not have here much choice then to have locked bootloaders at least for the phones which are being sold trough carriers.

So currently we have 2 serious projects (actually 3, but third one is under radar for now).

First one is khoulk project which has for target to use kernel function kexec to boot secondary (custom) kernel which should

have ability to read/write all partitions and trough this process possibly debrand devices.

Current status on this project is that khoulk have exact address where secondary kernel should be started and currently is trying to build secondary kernel and more info can be found in our last article regarding this topic here.

(This still needs to be confirmed by khoulk)

Second project is being developed by famous hacker tenfar from China, he is very well known as person who built clockworkmod recovery for Motorola Defy trough exploit called 2nd init bootloader, and partialy working clockworkmod recovery for Atrix.

Currently this is only way to for now to flash Atrix with pesudo ROM's for Atrix. Since tenfar has pretty impressive reputation in this field of expertise as well as houlk we should wait and see who should be first to the Atrix throne.

Also is worth mentioning here that 2init bootloader (bootloader menu) hack for defy is NOT publicly available (closed source, Korean authors claimed that this is due to possible bugs and instability, but it also may be way to prevent Motorola from patching this exploit in further releases) so tenfar has to reverse whole recovery method and try to implement it for Atrix.

Third project is remaining for now under radar and as soon we have approval from it's authors we will publish more info here.

Update 2

OK guy's I think that we need to support dev's, tenfar developed currently only method with clockwork to flash custom pseudo rom's for atrix and he did that without even having atrix.

If we want to have custom recovery we need to show and support this projects.

Price for Atrix in china is around 750$ and since we all already paid hefty sum

for our locked phones I does not make big difference to give few $ to support dev's who are trying really hard to give us full access to our phones.

So goal is the following

1. Raise 750$ by donating tenfar for his atrix.

2. Extend current work to adopt 2init bootloader method for Atrix

3. Have ability to flash custom kernels

So to speed things up here is my contribution.

100$ to tenfar paypal account (Confirmation number: 0DT07904N51875837.)

Who is next ?

P.S. Every $ counts.

Click here to donate tenfar.

Here is the original article about this topic.

http://cookedroms.com/index.html/_/roms/update-on-motorola-atrix-bootloader-exploit-r137

Update 3. In less than hour we manage to raise 200$ I'm really proud to be part of this community.

We need 750$

We have 200$

In percantage 27% :)

Update 4

We raised in 6 hours today in total 440$ which is roughly 70% of needed amount we need still 310$.

Thanks to all people who donated money!

In less than 9 hours we managed to reach our first goal!

We raised enough to get dev phone for tenfar

Here is the list of donors for today (20.May.2011)

You will notice that some nickname fields are empty (please contact me by pm

with You realname which You used to send donation and I will add it to list)

Also amounts are different than what You actually donated but this

because paypal is taking few $ for them selves.

Nickname	Amount

csdalporto	4.5

GandalfGraw	18.92

holtenc	297.61

18.92

papy-polo	38.14

ajmaness	9.31

parabola19	95.8

yiyo	9.31

joeycass	9.31

drumercalzone09	18.92

msfn	23.72

jcrew1228	18.92

23.72

artemalek	9.31

4.5

4.5

zole2112	18.92

jruweaver	18.92

orkan39	9.31

s1mpd1ddy	9.31

Greenbelt	4.5

jiggytom	9.31

yokopol	9.31

rozzco	18.92

scorneil	9.31

tomerbn	9.31

tsouza	23.72

Vangelis13	14.11

CaelanT	28.53

ikenley	47.75

zexbig	95.8

P.S.Sorry for formating WYSIWYG editor is giving me hard time.

Update 4. CWM is working trough charger exploit and we got ADB running.

Screenshots can be found at http://cookedroms.com/index.html/_/android/first-screenshots-of-running-cwm-on-atrix-trough-new-tenf-r138