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[Atrix 4G General] lonepal:
bootloop problem.

hi all.

i was using an unlocked and rooted atrix.Today i wanted to flash 2.3.4 sbf to my atrix because i was planning to send it to technical service for some power button issues.After flashing sbf the phone started to stuck on bootscreen.it bootloops after blinking motorola animation.During the flash there was no problem it said it finished and passed.i have an international atrix and the sbf file which i flashed with rsd is correct i am sure.because i did this before.tried twice but same problem its bootlooping forever.i can enter the selection menu for rsd/android backup menu with pressing volume down button during power on.What can i do for it?please help.
[Atrix 4G General] yokozuna82:
What's nvflash recovery mode
[Atrix 4G General] PAulyhoffman:
nvflash is a tool for tegra2 devices. You will need Dev cable you can make or buy and SBK. when you get that I'll tell you how to use nvflash.;)
[Atrix 4G General] anomaly460:
People returning their bricked phones for a warranty related replacement, is the reason why Moto did not want to unlock the bootloaders in the first place.....I hope the people that jumped in too soon and bricked replace their phones by honest means...
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
you make it home to try it out yet?
[Atrix 4G General] Ilkinansr92:
yeh i hope i can get my phone replaced but its not that their bootloader briked our phones its flashing back to 1.83 that did it.
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
they had to have changed something i wouldn't be surprised is we don't end up seeing a new rsd, but of course thats purely speculation right now.
[Atrix 4G General] munchy_cool:
the only thing I can think off is the partition sizes ..
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
don't try the 1.26 i just read this

jnl- over on irc tried and it bricked
[Atrix 4G General] geishroy:
has anyone tried going from the OTA update to the 2.3.4 cwm rom? if so does it work?
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
that makes since, so that means even if one uses samcripp's method to revert back, you still couldn't use sbf on any of the older builds right?
[Atrix 4G General] kennethpenn:
This "method" will not take care of this problem... it just flashes your system back to 1.8.3. You still have a brickable phone.
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
Do you think this will be the release build? If so we may be stuck for a while!
[Atrix 4G General] NibblerWeather:
Surely moto is aware of this? Perhaps they will update the "get your phone on official software " sticky on the support forums. Kenn, thanks for posting this, saved my phone.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
you are not stuck on anything, you can return to 183 by flashing system and boot img, just dont use sbf. theoricly speaking thats what kenns rom does, he flashes all the imgs except bl and radio (the radio as you see is a secondary flash). i really dont see how thats much different. no one is stuck. just dont use sbf to flash back. and you are cheddar!

with that said, this looks to be the OTA official, and the support that kenn got an sbf of it. once this goes live, this will be the norm, no flashing back.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
it is safe to use kenns rom, give it a chance is very nice. make sure before you do that, to pull the boot and system imgs of your phone
[Atrix 4G General] players_inc17:
i to had a hard brick. phone wasnt booting. only thing was red indecation light keep blicking. sbf back to 1.8.3 didnt do anything. THIS IS WHAT I DID TO FIX IT. i sbf all the way back to 1.2.6 that got my phone back functional finally! then manually update with ota's till i reach back up to 1.8.3. then fast boot oem unlock again, then fastboot cwm, then flash gb 4.5.91 and now everything is back up and working.
[Atrix 4G General] the2dcour:
Compilation of info from bricked users: some started from fresh clean 1.8.3 (no pudding), kenneth started from 2.3.3. Everyone went to "official" OTA 2.3.4 from moto test server. Kenneth and another went back to 1.8.3 without eating their pudding, bricked. Another went to pudding after 2.3.4 failed to flash/softbricked but retained RSD/Fastboot, then flashed 1.8.3 and bricked as per other users.

THEORY: Flashing 1.8.3 with pudding built in may fail but leave you with RSD/fastboot intact. Do not try this unless you have a throwaway atrix (throw it at me?)

FACT: fastboot flashing system/osh/etc is completely SAFE (for now?) That is, kennethpenn's CWM update version is safe, and other CWMs constructed as such.

ADVICE: Unlocked users should not flash anything without unlocked bootloader BUILT IN. If in doubt, use fastboot and avoid radio/bootloader updates till further notice.
[Atrix 4G General] ricko2169:
I bricked mine with the 1.5.7 SBF after installing the official 4.5.9.1 update too. I flashed the update only 1.8.3 SBF, did the 4.5.9.1 update and was having small issues with already installed programs so i thought I'll do the 1.5.7 full SBF then update OTA to 1.8.3 and voila hard brick :(
[Atrix 4G General] congtin2005:
Is there anyway to fix hard brick?
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
Please explain further. How did you achieve the initial brick?
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
Same here man..:(
[Atrix 4G General] markpaiz:
Possibly brick fix

Found this in a forum related to the Ginger-Gate situation.

players_inc17::i to had a hard brick. phone wasnt booting. only thing was red indecation light keep blicking. sbf back to 1.8.3 didnt do anything. THIS IS WHAT I DID TO FIX IT. i sbf all the way back to 1.2.6 that got my phone back functional finally! then manually update with ota's till i reach back up to 1.8.3. then fast boot oem unlock again, then fastboot cwm, then flash gb 4.5.91 and now everything is back up and working.
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
wouldnt this be considered a soft brick.. I Had dat brick earlier today.. And did exactly wat he did, and got my phone back running.. But just a few hrs ago I made a mistake and rsd 1.26.. Now I hard brick.. No RSH or Fastboot option..
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
I am curious about how he achieved his "brick"
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
OH ok, well when I was on hktw 2.3.4.. I rsd back to 1.8.3.. after it flashed I just got stuck with the red indicator light flashing.. think dats wat happened to him as well
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
Oh you're probably right.
[Atrix 4G General] players_inc17:
yes thats what happened to me. i was on htwk and tried to install new gingerbread after wiping and that soft bricked it. So i sbf to 1.8.3 and that frigged up my phone completely.

o yea then i quickly flash 1.97 radio after updating and everything is good now
[Atrix 4G General] jgu71424:
I bricked my phone it showed--> SVF:105.1:2Failed to boot 0X1000 <--and when i plugged it in in RSD it shows fastboot but then i keep trying different things and now it shows SE Flash im going back to 1.26.... lets see how it goes????

Update:

Okay I got Moto screen back on....

Update:

OMG Im excited!!!!

False alarm same old error IDK guys but i tried? :/
[Atrix 4G General] ricko2169:
How did you get RSD to see it?

What are different things?
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
could you please tell us the steps in details to make this repeat, it showing up on rsd!?
[Atrix 4G General] jgu71424:
False alarm it didnt work it went back to the same error---> SVF:105.1:2

Failed to boot 0X1000 <--- and now its says fast boot again..

Things I did:

1. power+vol dwn and it did this blank screen and turn back on

2. samething as step 1

3. took battery off

4. power+vol up and hold then its showed.....

IDK if it was by luck or what ?:confused:
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
Can you flash via fastboot?
[Atrix 4G General] jgu71424:
it shows fastboot on the RSD.... and IDK howto flash fastboot?:confused:

update:

I kept trying and now its not going into SE in RSD.... IM so PISSED but hey the bright side is that we learn from mistakes and become better...

P.S just trying to brighten up my night and try not to sleep piss off lol
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
can someone tell me how to get the img images to fastboot..
[Atrix 4G General] jgu71424:
YES, me too PLease... :)
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
IF this helps I notice if u have the phone plugged in the wall and battery out u will get to fastboot..

but says battery low
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
I was referring to this method may want to wait for a more experienced user. I'd hate to break your phones more.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
fastboot flash boot boot.img for boot image

fastboot flash system system.img for system image
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
Requires the moto-fastboot, correct?
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
how do i get the boot and system img
[Atrix 4G General] kakwvu:
1.8.3 didn't work for me when I soft bricked my phone. I went original retail SBF and got it back just fine.

Datblkbro - For what? If you're looking for the HKTW 2.3.4 files, go to that thread. Otherwise, just use RSDLite and go back to the retail build. Then flash back up.
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
Im hard bricked man.. I just wanted to know how.. I have no options to rsd or flash but I notice when phone plugged into wall I get fastboot option showing battery low..
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
You updated your phone to 2.3.4 via android recovery and the update.zip file and then you were able to flash the 4.1.2.6 file via RSD Lite?

Just wanted to make sure this worked for you as other user have reported this bricked there phones.
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
im getting the same thing too..

my phone will display "Entering NVFlash Recovery Mode" and then the screen goes black

unfortunately, thanks to the many distractions of living the barracks on Camp Lejeune with other marines.. i totally forgot to look at my battery before flashing 1.2.6 with rsd, and what do ya know my battery dies in the middle of flashing.

im gonna be messing with this non stop until 9am EST when att opens.. to buy a another battery or get another phone (thank god for asurion) as a last resort
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
Yea, and Im bricked liked the others..:(
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
I am also trying to figure out how to extract the system.img and the boot.img from the .sbf file. If anybody knows of a easy way please let me know. I have a spare Atrix to try this on.
[Atrix 4G General] Datblkbro:
do u know if phone will still charge the battery, if ya bricked??
[Atrix 4G General] on21st:
use the boot.img and system.img from the HKTW build. Flash it just like it says in this post.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138092

the downloads are in the 2nd post and the fastboot drivers are in the first.
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
I'm assuming that once I flash to this build of Gingerbread I will be able to flash RSD Lite back to 4.1.8.3 or the shipped firmware. I will give it a try.

I have been trying to follow the information in this post on how to extract the .img files but I have been unable to find a way to do so.
[Atrix 4G General] 2leaponover1:
So it sounds like you guys are working towards a possible fix for this hardbrick, but I haven't seen any of the heavy hitters chiming in. I decided to just chill and not flash anything until there is a matching rom and custom kernel that play nice. Kind of glad I did but definitely hurting for you guys who are having these issues.

So has anybody been able to get the previous poster the two files he needs to see if he can fastboot flash and get out of the hard brick?
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
the phone will not charge the battery while it is hard bricked.

just did a little searching on the forums, and some intensive research.

I've read (what kholk posted this a while ago) that you can use the phone on a PC WITHOUT a battery, if you have a factory cable.

so im going to walmart right now to pick up a soldering iron, and some extra usb - micro usb cables

and i'm going to build me a factory cable. gonna see how this turns out.

in the event that i do get it to work, and to connect the phone to the computer,

does anyone know what steps would be taken to get it back into some kind of workable situation?
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
@AllTheWay

found downloads for boot.img and system.img from HKTW 2.3.4 from this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15020775&postcount=2

here are the link to the files

system.img - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J2VJSGZ7

boot.img - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=12A2NF3O

hopefully this is what you're looking for
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
I was looking specifically for the 4.1.8.3 system.img and boot.img but hopefully these will suffice. I am trying this out right now on the old Atrix at&t sent me. Have to send it back by Monday at the latest.
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
maybe try this?

http://modmymobile.com/forums/1847881-post2.html

it says its an sbf decompiler/unpacker whatever you want to call it,

but can only be done on a linux system and you can only see the depackaged sbf files from a linux terminal.

cant test this out or anything being that i am on a mac, and i am leaving for walmart right now to begin making that factory cable.

how did the HKTW .img's work?
[Atrix 4G General] ezkilla:
i just used those files and unbricked my atrix, got to the motorola logo now just sits there
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
I am attempting to flash the .img files right now but the command prompt keeps at hanging at waiting for device. I will reboot my pc and see if that fixes the issue.

update

I was able to flash the boot.img file but when I try and flash the system.img file I get the following message.

senging 'system' <327554 KB>...

(bootloader) Image is to big, use 0x10000000 bytes chunks

Failed (remote: (00000006))

finished. total time: 0.001s

Update 2

nevermind I got it to work. Once I update to the HKTW 2.3.4 I will try and flash back 4.1.8.3
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
was your phone hardbricked, and is so, could you write the steps to unbrick it?
[Atrix 4G General] the2dcour:
try reinstalling drivers if it says waiting for device. edit: also Image is too big = you need moto-fastboot so get that.
[Atrix 4G General] ezkilla:
Extract this to the root of you C drive and use the following commands in the listed order, one at a time :

Put your device in Fastboot mode by holding the volume down button while booting then volume up

Open up a command prompt and type( ONE AT A TIME )

cd C:\moto-fastboot

moto-fastboot flash boot atrix-2.3.4-hktw-boot.img

moto-fastboot flash system atrix-2.3.4-hktw-system.img

moto-fastboot -w

moto-fastboot reboot

i did this and now im reflashing sbf
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
I never flashed back to 4.1.8.3 using RSD Lite. I updated to the official 2.3.4 via android recovery. I unlocked the bootloader. Flashed to the HKTW 2.3.4.

Now it looks like the phone is in a endless bootcycle. Goes to the Motorola screen then just reboots.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
i understand you have a phone to play with, please come helps us fix the aids, we may have a possible fix for futrue users we just need someone willing to try it out. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Atrix 4G General] jruweaver:
unnecessary post i guess
[Atrix 4G General] Celidonius:
So what should be done when the real update comes out?

Are we stuck with this until someone finds a true way out of it?
[Atrix 4G General] AllTheWay:
Let me know if this ends up working for you.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
you are not stuck, you can still take advantage of the custom roms on the dev section. just dont sbf. the safest custom rom is kenns. it dosnt flash bl or radio.
[Atrix 4G General] ezkilla:
it did, i got into recovery again, couldnt get the menu to come up, tried to reflash sbf and got failed flashing process, now im right back where i started
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
what are you working on?
[Atrix 4G General] ezkilla:
Extract this to the root of you C drive and use the following commands in the listed order, one at a time :

Put your device in Fastboot mode by holding the volume down button while booting then volume up

Open up a command prompt and type( ONE AT A TIME )

cd C:\moto-fastboot

moto-fastboot flash boot atrix-2.3.4-hktw-boot.img

moto-fastboot flash system atrix-2.3.4-hktw-system.img

moto-fastboot -w

moto-fastboot reboot
[Atrix 4G General] Celidonius:
Is there any possible way to be able to start fresh, other than flashing sbf?

Are you guys trying and working on a fix?
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
we are tirelessly working on a fix for anyone using this OTA at the moment.

in the mean while you could fastboot flash the boot.img and system.img if you want to revert back to 183

unfortunately for those hard brick there is no fix without the sbk.
[Atrix 4G General] Gandalf:
while my method will *probably* not work

i have just returned from walmart with a soldering iron and some cheapo micro-usb chargers

i am going to start working on making a Factory Cable that will allow me to access the phone from a computer WITHOUT the battery.

if i can get this to work, we'll never have to worry about hard-bricking again, just obtaining factory cables :D

wish me luck
[Atrix 4G General] Celidonius:
Doing so will completely make this phone safe again if it's not hard bricked?

Sorry for asking a lot of questions, it's just that I'm not very experienced with this and I'm very paranoid lol.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
its impossible to make any phone unbrickable.

but hopefully a method to return to a safe sbf can be worked out. things are looking up.
[Atrix 4G General] Celidonius:
Wow don't scare me like that haha.

Thank you, I hope you can find a solution to it.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
nah, the guy to be thanked is another gentleman who is very hard at worked.

unfortunately i created this problem and he is def doing an awesome job to fix it. it a method is worked out ill post you guys to the thread and you guys can thank him and to him.
[Atrix 4G General] Paschalis:
Hey guys, can you recover from this hard brick? :|

Good luck everybody..

Thanks god i was messing up with my gf xperiax8 last night, and didnt killed mine!
[Atrix 4G General] the2dcour:
HERE IS THE SCOOPER POOPER from your official forum troll. You will brick if you flash back to previous SBFs. You will not brick if you flash back to previous SBFs that have PUDDING built in. All your phones are belong to pudding so get used to that.

PS- you should just be using fastboot to flash stuff now anyhow ;)
[Atrix 4G General] mramirezusa:
So other words:

Stock 1.83 -> PUDDING unlock -> "Stock" 4.5.91 are stuck on 4.5.91 or used any SBF's with PUDDING on it

What about:

Stock 1.83 -> "Stock" 4.5.91 following your criteria they can flash normal SBF?
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
no normal sbfs, only ones with puddings.

BUT ONCE AGAIN GUYS. SBFS is never been safe. the safest metho you could ever use is to flash the system.img and boot.img thats truly the safest method of having a new system.
[Atrix 4G General] the2dcour:
If you've never unlocked with pudding you are basically safe from harm but I dunno if that update.zip will flash (probably will). Again that statement is pure conjecture and you are responsible for your own actions.
[Atrix 4G General] GuerillaZhou:
Ok, so here is my story. I was on 1.8.3 stock rooted 2.2.2, and used the "official" update zip in android recovery. Everything updated fine, but when I tried to flash the unlocker SBF, my phone give me the error SVF 105:1:2 Failed to Boot 1000. But I still retain fastboot, and my computer can still see my phone using fastboot. I'll try to flash boot.img and system.img from 2.3.4
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
If the moto logo screen does not show up and you can't get into rsd/fastboot, you are pretty screwed. From what I have read, you might be able to get into nvflash by plugging in the usb cable while it is shutoff. I am not sure how nvflash works though.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
if you retain the fastboot, what you neetd to flash is the bl. the rest of the stuiff is find, 0x1000 is the adress for bl in memory
[Atrix 4G General] GuerillaZhou:
Do you know where I can find the bl?
[Atrix 4G General] msd24200:
So in theory, since I've never unlocked with pudding I could update then sbf back if need be?
[Atrix 4G General] EEE3:
Already tried it. It got me a USB APX driver suitable for nvflash but without the SBK key (more encryption) you can't do anything. No RSD or fastboot mode.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
is a very loose theory, one i would not like you to test!
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
Here are ones that I have. These are from the 1.8.3 sbf. You can flash these directly with fastboot, do not have to change the .smg extension.

The stock recovery, just in case you need it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28723515/CG55.smg

The boot.img

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28723515/CG56.smg

The system.img

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28723515/CG57.smg

I think you know how to do fastboot, but for anyone else that wants to use these, here are the instructions.

-Download the files and copy/paste to the directory with fastboot.

-Using fastboot

moto-fastboot flash recovery CG55.smg

moto-fastboot flash boot CG56.smg

moto-fastboot flash system CG57.smg

moto-fastboot -w

moto-fastboot reboot

Should be good to go, but of course I am not responsible in the off-chance that this bricks your phone.
[Atrix 4G General] vista1984:
i didn't unlock the bl..

since the error code 0X1000 mean something wrong about bl? i would like to try sbf,,,,, only if my 4591 crashed.
[Atrix 4G General] samcripp:
you got to apply the warning to yourself. anything you do you do knowing you could briock, and the only person responsible is you
[Atrix 4G General] lesonal:
then how the hell are we supposed to get back to stock when the real update comes out?
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
Just flash a boot.img and system.img with fastboot. It does the same thing as an sbf. Your phone just needs a boot and system image to run.
[Atrix 4G General] demens13:
And where would one go to find these files. There is a firmware thread with a collection of sbfs. Can these files be extracted from there (i tried with 7zip, did not work).
[Atrix 4G General] briggie108:
You can do that with android depacker. You should know which cgs go to what partition before messing around with this. NFHimself has an awesome thread on how to do it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1059643

I also posted them a couple threads back. Here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=15493409&postcount=128
[Atrix 4G General] Fileseeker83:
Help with Moto-fastboot

So I bricked my phone. I still have fastboot. When I try to flash the recovery, boot, or system I get the following error in red text on the phone Failed to process command flash:boot error(0x180004) and the same thing in the command prompt. Anyone know what I am doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Atrix 4G General] GuerillaZhou:
I think that means your BL is not unlocked. You have to unlock your bootloader in order to flash any img through fastboot. I'm in the same boat as you.

Also, if you unlock your bootloader, you'll lose warranty, so kinda stuck between a rock and a brick right now.
[Atrix 4G General] Fileseeker83:
Crap I just unlocked my phone. It fully recovered it from the brick. Thank God. But No Warranty. It says unlocked in the upper left corner when booting up now. Any way to remove this?
[Atrix 4G General] XCellPhoneSalesRep:
I thought you were supposed to UNLOCK her before you flashed 2.3.4?
[Atrix 4G General] Fileseeker83:
I did that same thing. All you have to do is unlock your phone using the fastboot oem unlock command. Use the directions in the Edible Pudding forum. Skip the Unlocker file part now.
[Atrix 4G General] GuerillaZhou:
Yea, a nice member PM'ed me, and i unlocked my phone. it boots up perfectly now. just need to root this thing now
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
Flashing back, (4.1.26, 4.1.57, 4.1.83), removes the word Unlocked on your boot screen. You still have unlocked bootloader, but it won't say unlocked.

I did a clean install after unlocking the bootloader, flashing back to 4.1.26, then OTA to 4.1.83 a couple of weeks back. There are a lot of posts about the word unlocked going away.