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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] planoman:
Good info!

We have some of the same taste in phones apparently. I had the Captivate and the Atrix also. I currently have a SGSII which I got on launch day using my upgrade.

I am interested in the Atrix 2 and even more so that you do not need to sign in on motoblur to use! I have enough in Best Buy gift cards to buy the Atrix off contract (450) so I can try it out.

I have not noticed that the SGSII is faster than my OG Atrix in practical tasks so I expect the Atrix 2 to be plenty fast enough. Some issues with the SGSII are the camera while being good quality is sooooo slow to take a picture! The GPS is also not as good as my OG Atrix and I use the Navigation a lot. Also Battery life has not been very impressive for my usage patterns. I am in sales so on the go all the time and cannot be plugging in my phone all the time. With the SGSII I am thinking about recharging by about 4 pm.

I think the only way to know which is for you is to do a trial for 30 days to see. I will try to get the Atrix 2 today and check it out. If I really like it I will return my SGSII and keep my upgrade for something in the future.

It will probably not be this mythical Nexus Prime- I had a Nexus S and a 5 mp camera that cannot zoom? No thanks... Plus 4.65 inch screen...not for me.

Just my two cents.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] antiochasylum:
Sgs2.

Sent from my Insanity powered SGS2
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asjdwf:
OK after messing with the ATRIX 2 I went and got it. The phone just feels good In the hand. Its very snappy too.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Victor B:
Post some pics. I want to see more of this phone. Also, does it get hot like the OG Atrix?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodger-sp:
I uploaded a video to You-Tube here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMZ6RLtGic
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsungcaptivates:
I returned my sgs2 this morning and got the atrix 2 now if i could just get the darn thing rooted ?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DroidRunner:
Stick to one thread when you ask the same question bro

Sent from my Atrix
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iRobby:
Get the GS2 if you don't like take it back and get the 4S ;)

If you don't like that get the ATRIX 2... etc...

Id try the ATRIX 2 last since you already have an ATRIX

Sent from my CM860 ;)
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g2tegg:
Cant be that much faster then the original Atrix. Same ram, same processor speed. I still cant see this being a "upgrade" in any way.

To the OP. I still have to say the SG2 has to be the fastest phone on the market. Battery life is brutal, but once rooted it can be underclocked/overclocked (all the way to 1.5Ghz!). And the picture quality is outstanding. I have never seen a phone take better pictures then the S2.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheetablaze:
Sir, that was a very nice review. Now I really want this phone!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsungcaptivates:
I actually exchanged my sgs 2 for the atrix 2 this morning due to extremely poor picture quality with the sgs 2 my infuse took way better pics maybe i had a bad one but the camera on the atrix 2 rocks its loads better plus a dedicated camera button
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
I played with the Atrix 2 at my local AT&T store this afternoon for about 30 minutes.

The word that describes the Atrix 2 to me is "solid". It feels solid, it isn't flashy, and it just seemed to work well.

While the new version of Moto's UI is much better than the previous MotoBlur (no motoblur sign up required) it is still fairly basic and if you want more customization options you'll want to install a replacement home app.

Most of the AT&T bloat can be removed.

The screen looks great and with Launcher Pro was large enough for me to use a 5x5 grid. I was very impressed with the display.

So the Atrix 2 seems to be a fast, well built, solid phone. Nothing to get overly excited about but a big improvement over any single core phone I have tried. I think it says a lot about how far Android phones have come when a device with the specs and performance of the Atrix 2 is just an incremental step forward and not a leap.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asjdwf:
So the atrix 2 I have just got from the store this morning has a problem. The screen has a big white blotch under it! This is the same reason I returned my SGS2 twice! So now I don't know what to do. Take the Atrix 2 in for another Atrix 2 or go with another SGS2?

Thanks

AJ
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rayan:
In my case I decided to stay away from any AMOLED based screen, no matter if it's the latest and greatest super amoled plus, they are overrated, oversaturated screens, but worst than anything, they DEGRADE with normal use.

Please do some research on Super Amoled Screens and you will discover that people have reported screen burn-in problems because blue pixels degrade faster than the rest, thus image ghosting or burn-in appears (specially on areas where things stay for longer periods of time like the taskbar)

But if I need to decide between the Atrix 4G and the Atrix 2, I would stay with the Atrix 4G since it has better battery, more memory and above all, a fingerprint scanner that really works great!

My two cents.

Message sent from a Motorola Atrix 4G
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] facetubespam:
Or get your eyes checked?

take it back to the store for another Atrix 2 and see.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asjdwf:
Nah I just have really bad luck lol

What's the lifespan on the ATRIX 2 screen compared to the sgs2 screen?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] athris:
Just wonder what's the processor Atrix 2 using?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spuzzum:
maybe the droid razr will b worthy.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgymnop:
I think you will be never satisfied. Love my GS2 BTW. I have some dark blotches but with normal use I don't see them. I liked my Atrix too. But want more developers support and went for the GS2.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malickie:
According to this website it's a TI-OMAP.....http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3556 and apparently its using the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU according to http://www.pressbyte.com/5627/motorola-atrix-2-specs-preview-powervr-sgx-540-gpu/ that website.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshlycutlawn:
Why would you opt for an atrix 2 when you already have an atrix, they have pretty well the same specs aside from camera, a .3' larger screen and no biometric scanner. If you want an upgrade go with the s2 or else you'd basically be buying the same phone you have over again...

Oh yeah, plus your gonna lose 8gb of your internal storage.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1-8701:
The iphone 4s takes the best pics i've seen, i've tested both(4s and SGS2) in AT&T, both great devices but when it comes to cameras, the 4s definitely beats it
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanghei:
I have the atrix 2, and other then just looking better and slightly larger screen, its not worth getting in my opinion if those two things arent what you are looking for.

I bought for hdmi mirror, and playing videos via hdmi sucks on it. I have been trying different things to make video play smoothly, so far it seems to be an audio codec issue. I have only had it since yesterday, but battery so far is worse then my atrix.

I also have the SGS2, I wouldnt recommend either one of them over the original Atrix.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodger-sp:
Have you playing video thru media dock or the media HDMI and not mirror it may be something with the mirror.

The battery on my Atrix is lasting me longer than it did on the OG Atrix.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sass86:
Isn't the A2's battery smaller? How could you possibly get better battery life on a bigger screen with less maH?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flusshd:
Hey friend, there is one more pros of Atrix which is much better than GS2, its the radio, it includes GSM signal, wifi and especially the GPS. I had a day to experience with these two huge phones. All radio functions of Atrix are excellent, much stronger and more stable than the GS2. Additionally, Atrix has more valued accessories than the GS2, such as the laptop-dock, wireless mouse/keyboard... But at the opposite site, GS2 is more attractive than the Atrix in the look and the bigger screen. Indeed, GS2 looks more stylish than the Atrix. But together the radio quality, an additional bad thing from GS2 made me purchased it not is that: it looks too similar to the iPhone! And more than just the look, it really copied so much ideas from iPhone, such as the Home button, the way the Home app operates and the way icons shows. Though, in fact, I've never haten the iPhone but I hate all the copy actions. Why they, Samsung I mean, had to do that while so many other Android phones got success with their own designs?

Just my own opinions only,
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anupash:
Why not wait for Motorola Droid Razr .. It should be there by early November ..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swiftks:
Verizon phone + locked bootloader = fail
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xploited:
Now that the Galaxy Nexus has officially been announced - there isn't that much choice, huh? :D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
Honestly I'm not sold on the Galaxy Nexus. I'm concerned that you need two hands for it. An even bigger concern for me, I believe I read thar it will not include ext sd support which is a deal breaker for me.

Waiting on more official specs and reviews down the road...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirFork:
These 'next gen' device specs (any of them at the moment) don't seem like enough of an improvement in the Android experience from the original Atrix. The only substantive change from any of these devices would be MOAR PIXELS!! (.3+ inches of more screen and bigger camera).

Why not wait for this? http://briefmobile.com/nvidia-relea...l-video?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chocodough:
wow, I have been really busy the last few days at work and haven't had a chance to check this thread, I'm surprised how it took off.

So I've played with both the A2 and GS2 at work and it was a close battle, but in the end I decided on the Galaxy S 2. I guess it was basically the screen and the extra snappiness of the OS that made the choice for me. I do however miss the extra resolution of the A2.

I do wonder about how someone in this thread mentioned screen burn-in on the AOLED screens. Actually that was the first time I've heard of that issue. Samsung has had these screens out for years, and I read a lot of forums, so I am surprised that if it is that big of an issue why it isn't all around all the forums. Scrolling is much more responsive and smoother on the GS2.

A few things I've noticed with the GS2. It boots up in about half the time the A1 and A2 takes to boot. I was surprised how fast it boots.

The external speaker is louder than I originally thought it was. It is about on par with the A2.

I was never a fan of Touchwiz. It always looked to me like a 12 year old designed it. But the 4.0 which is on the GS2 is really nice and a big improvement.

The GS2 is very lightweight, although the A2 being more weighty does feel more solid.

The jury is still out, but so far I am liking the GS2. I still have my Atrix 1 I am keeping for a backup.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevonomics:
I thought they said nexus will be on Verizon exclusively. Kinda blows.

Grumpy people on these forums lately haha
[HTC EVO 3D] 1uk3:
so i just realized i need some cooler friends on my facebook..mostly all i have are old high school buddies and family on there and most of the time they have no idea what im talking about lol. feel free to add me, email is lukeimyourfatherbiatch@yahoo.com
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
You can add me if you want. Email is in the signature. I prefer Google + tho ;)

Sent from the CM powered 3d
[HTC EVO 3D] 1uk3:
invite sent.

i haven't really messed with google+ all that much...still seems like alien technology to me lol
[HTC EVO 3D] jayharper08:
Lol. Gotcha homie. G+ is great. Give it a shot.

Sent from the CM powered 3d
[HTC EVO 3D] jonathaflores:
sent you a friend request but yeah you should try Google plus way better than facebook specially since now the post are like all fck up;)
[HTC EVO 3D] Ruki_Uki:
Go ahead and add me, I like having some of my geek friends on my Facebook :) [ Ronnie0128@gmail.com ] ill be waiting for adds :)

Sent from my double barrel Shooter. BANG!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] samnich:
So yesterday stupid me decided to mess with my rom. I flashed to the starburst ROM and now my signal strength is terrible and my phone laggs so oooooooo bad. It basically can't doanything. I really need to know how to get it back to COMPLETE STOCK. factoryreset does nothing. I could even use a working stock rom. I have Clockworkmod btw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fr0st:
o rly

Sorry the lag is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad. But it sounds like you didnt follow directions on flashing the rom. Did someone forget to format /system?

Anyway, what your looking for is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281287

FYI it was on page 2. Next time at least try to look. mmk?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] samnich:
I really need to know just how to get it back to complete stocj. Im done with these ROMS and roots
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] samnich:
How do i know if it installed the ROM correctly? I formated/data and system then installed the Starburst rom from my SD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
Learn to read before you do anything here ..... None of the roms here are bad you didn't do something right ... Like format data cache and davlik ....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] samnich:
I did that
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bvzxa3:
You'll have to wait for an official update to get a full stock tar. The one that is out is really a kernel. From what was said the one that was on Sanny's website won't get past the 4G screen.

To really go to stock there is Zedomax's, but from what I am told he replaced the animation with his logo.

To get back to stock is on here somewhere. Good luck my friend.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LordLugard:
If the O.P would just browse the development section, it's right there. Stock EG30 tar plus ODIN to get back to complete stock. It can't be past the first page.

Sent from my SPH-D710
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jwhite2005:
This is not my first time to install ClockworkMod on my galaxy but this is my first time to screw it up..

I moved the redbend_ua file to: /system/xbin/

I then cd to /system/xbin/

then i ran: redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml8

all the text scrolled by and phone rebooted

Everything looked normal, i went to market and Install ClockworkMod, download the recovery for my phone, then rebooted the phone and I guess I wasn't holding down one of the volume buttons and the phone never went to the recovery screen it booted like normal, but when the home screen showed up it was blank.. FML.. All my apps, GONE. Even some of the factory apps are gone including the android market..

I dunno what part of the steps I messed up on.. Everytime I reboot the phone it boots up into a clean state giving me the set up wizard.

I just tried doing a back up using CWM and it said it could not mount /data

also when booting into recovery i get an error: can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Samsung Galaxy S Showcase running 2.2

Service Provider CSpire AKA Cellular South.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
I've finally decided to try to root my G2 but can't get past the ADB setup. I downloaded the SDK, but when I open the manager and try to install platform tools it goes through the motions and then tells me nothing was installed. When I open a command prompt and type "ADB devices" it doesn't recognize anything. What am I doing wrong??

EDIT: specifically, when I try to install platform-tools it tells me it couldn't create a directory and nothing was installed.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
66 people have read this and nobody has any suggestions to help?
[G2 and Desire Z General] juvanni:
i think you miss the 1st procedure....

you must have the unknown resources and the usb debbuging enabled.....

then you can proceed to your super one click rooting..... :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Graegor:
I have a problem after rebooting my PC: <Java not found...> Reinstalling doesn't help, adding environment variables too. Any idea?
[G2 and Desire Z General] deliriousDroid:
Just root using the rage/visionary method. No adb needed and very easy to do. Here is the linkhttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=834228

Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
I don't understand? I'm trying to root following the recommended wiki instructions, and I haven't been able to get adb to work so I haven't gotten past that step.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Are you running windows x64? Cause the android installer has issues detecting java on x64 systems.

When it says 'Can't find java' or whatever the error is, click back, then next again, it should find it the second time around. Well thats what happened for me anyway.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shadow-Nexus:
If you're on froyo just use the app z4 root or universal androot

You can also use superoneclick root 2.11

Its very easy and it only take about 3 minutes

Stewie just said that!
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
I appreciate the help so far, but my problem is I have gingerbread and everything I've read requires froyo for root, and the only way I've read to downgrade uses ADB, so any non-ADB rooting method still won't work for me. I've followed the "ADB for dummies" thread and the other instruction thread and everything seems fine, but when I type in the first command for the downgrading it says adb isn't a recognized command. Am I in the wrong command prompt? I feel like its probably something really dumb I'm doing or not doing but for the life of me I can't figure it out.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nipqer:
Navigate to the folder adb is in.

Hold shift, right click in the folder (make sure nothing is selected)

select 'Open command window here' (or something along those lines)

Adb should work.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
OK, so I'm definitely in the right folder, I read and followed ADB for Dummies thread. Trying to follow this direction:

"Run the following command to verify the exploit has access to what it needs. (Only the first line is the command. The second line should be the result returned if all goes well.)

Code:

$ adb shell cat /dev/msm_rotator

/dev/msm_rotator: invalid length"

When I type that in, should there be spaces between the "adb" and "shell"? Should there be a space after the command prompt and before "adb"? I've tried several variations of it and it keeps telling me "adb is not recognized as an internal or external operable program or batch file."
[G2 and Desire Z General] bombadier:
ok you need to run the command from the folder with adb.exe in it, type it as adb<space>shell<space>cat<space>/dev/msm_rotator

If you are getting an error search for adb.exe and once found try the command again from this folder,if as you say you are in the right folder then I think you will have to reinstall adb as I just ran the command in the form above and it works so if you still get an error then something has gone wrong with the install

P.S Another way to make sure that adb is working and recognises your phone is to type adb devices, if your phone is attached and recognised then it will return a number
[G2 and Desire Z General] kingston73:
Thank you! I had to uninstall and reinstall the package, I don't know what was wrong but it seems to be working now. Also, I knew I was probably doing something stupid, and I was. I wasn't in the platform-tools directory for my command prompt, I was in the TOOLs directory. Just so I'm clear, every command I type into the terminal should be in the Platform-tools directory, correct?

Now, assuming I can follow all the other directions with no problems, once I get to the downgrade pushing steps, I will lose all my current settings, right? It will be a fresh froyo 2.2 like it came to me originally? Other than using Appbrain to back up my current apps, how else should I make a backup?

Final question, do I need to follow the temp root directions and push the downgrade all at one time? Or can I do the temp root and come back at a later time to push the downgrade?
[G2 and Desire Z General] bombadier:
First problem solved then!

Yes but follow this Step 4

Now we need to update your Path variable. This lets you run adb on your PC from a command window no matter which directory you are in (which makes things a lot easier). If you don't setup your Path, then every time you want to run adb, you will either have to type the whole long pathname where you put adb, or cd to where you've put adb and run it from there (which could be inconvenient if you are transferring files to/from your phone).

On your PC, right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". (on Vista, click on "Change Settings"). Go to the "Advanced" tab, then select "Environment Variables". Find the "Path" variable in the list of variables that it shows (you might need to scroll), and then double-click on that entry to edit it. Add the full path of the "tools" and "platform-tools" folders of the SDK to your path. e.g. if the SDK has been installed in "c:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows", then add to your Path "c:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\tools;c:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools" (Please Note - don't put any spaces between the semi-colon and pathname, otherwise it won't work !)if you want to.

Once done you can use ADB from the command prompt in ANY folder,very handy IMO.

If I was you I would set aside enough time and see it through,no point to temp rooting alone.

Get Titanium backup from the market an absolute essential app with this you can backup,upload to dropbox(Another essential app) uninstall apps and a host of other useful tools.

Read the guide first as well,good luck.
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[Member-Found Deals] phullofphil:
Oops I meant to put batteries in the title of this I do not know how to edit this sorry about that. But you do get a point.
[Member-Found Deals] TweetyBear:
so is it 50% or 25% off? your title and OP are conflicting :confused:
[Member-Found Deals] phullofphil:
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By the way i just figured out how to edit a little
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Sent from my 3vo
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