[Atrix 4G General] Dcskeete:
Hi Guys,

I am a noob to xda so please bear with me...

Hoping someone can help me out here.. I will try and explain in as much detail as possible and provide you with as much Info from my phone as I can.

Firstly my phones details

Motorola Atrix 4g (UK version) Second phone as busted the last one. Bought outright as a retail sale.

Orange UK

System Version: 45.31.0.MB860.Retail.en.GB

Android Version: 2.3.4 (After UK released update)

Baseband Version: N_01.100.00R

Webtop Version: WT-1.2.0.133_38

Kernel Version: 2.66.32.9 e13392@zch68inxdroid46#2

Ok so, decided to root my phone. To do so I used petesMotorolaRootTools_V1.07 found on the website psouza4.com/bionic/

This worked fine and an app installed from the App Market confirmed that the phone was Rooted and had Superuser permissions.

Next I downloaded ClockWorkMod Rom Manager from the Market Inc Premium, SetCPU, Rom Toolbox & Titanium Backup Free. I had a quick look at these apps once downloaded but didnt really do a lot,

However, when Rom Manager opened it promted me to Flash ClockWorkMod Recovery, Which I did and then selected Back up current Rom. I also did this, (bear with me it gets a little vague here as to what I remember seeing)

Now I'm sure it said something like Nandroid Backup, which I selected. It proceeded to say something along the lines of, Backing up or phone will now reboot??

Anyhow, what ever it said, it started to reboot. The Motorola Red Circle logo came up but then at the top it said reboot failed and something ilse that didnt make sense then froze. I pulled the battery and rebooted. Seemed to work fine. Maybe a touch laggy but nothing to bad.

Next did my research into what ROM I'm likely to want to try. Found a few but seemed from what I have read on various forums that they dont work well for uk phones. Then decided perhaps then flashing should be left alone and went back to PetesMotorolaTools and unrooted. before I unrooted however i removed all apps that required root access first. Possibly a mistake?

I noticed that a few preinstalled apps werent working, nothing important or anything I use but there icons were like Blue settings icons all the same.

Did a factory reset through the handset also, in an attempt to return to factory settings.. not much changed really. Also tried to update software though the Motorola website but it said I was all up to date.

I thought maybe that something went wrong so I rooted again. This time the unroot failed. I then dowloaded all the rooted apps that I had before and then unrooted. This worked. Not sure if coincedence or not but it worked and when unrooting it said unfreezing apps about 6 times, before the complete message. Then uninstalled the root apps again.

Most, not all but most of those preinstalled apps were then working ok.

I read a little bit more bout Roms and decided to have another bash. Found and downloaded a few to comp. Then I place an SD card into phone and Flashed it. then tranferred a copy to its root.

Rooted the phone in the same way as before. Downloaded all the apps again opened CWM RM, Flashed CWM Recovery again as was unsure that the time I did it before would work. Then selected back up Current ROM. Without any message this time the phone started to reboot.

It came up with the recovery screen (Android man and !) From what I have read the next step is to tap the bottom right of the screen to bring up the menu.

This did not work nor did anything else happen. After waiting about 25mins with nothing more happening I pulled the batt again.

Decided I'd boot into recovery mode manually and see if the bottom right of screen would work that way. turned off then held On and down Vol. Fastboot showed at top, Scrolled and selected Android recovery. Same Android Man and ! came up, tried tapping the bottom right of screen again.... It didnt work.

Read more on the forums where someone said that pushing up and down on the Vol buttons works. Tried this and hey presto.. a new menu appears. Shown as follows.

Android system recovery <3e>

Android system recovery utility

reboot system now

apply update from sdcard

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

No back up options so rebooted....

Anyway thought I'd try a few times to use CWM RM to flash a rom to device. Each time it took me throught this same process.

Eventually I though what the hec just try and flash it...

So I selected the apply update from sdcard option.

Then selected the ROM I saved to SD Card.

Then the following text appears on screen in yellow.

--Install /sdcard...

finding update package...

Openeing update package...

Verifying update package...

E:signature verification failed

Installation abborted

I tried this a few times to no avail. even tried downloading the roms from CWM RM with no change.

Read some more on the forums and somewhere read to rename the ROM update.zip

Did this and tried again.... No Joy!!!

Selected Fix permissions in an attempt to clean up and thats as far as I have got...

I'm at the end of my tether and dont know what to do...

Please, please, please someone help me get to the bottom of my dilemma..

Thanks for reading and any help in advance.

Just a little more info to help diagnose

CWM RM Details

Rom Manager Premium v4.8.1.3

Current Recovery: ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0

Latest Recover;ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0

Thanks again peoples for taking the time to at least read this..:confused: