[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Formhault:
This happened to me on the third day after I've got the ATRIX - so you could say I was still a bit of a newb on Moto Android stuff at that point.

I was using RomRacer's CWM recovery. When I went to school, I decided I'd wipe cache & dalvik & fix permissions until I put on the shoes. When I got out of the flat, it was all done. I could barely see anything on the screen, but I thought what the hell, I know how CWM looks like, I can navigate through it without too many problems.

I must have selected a line wrong, because I ended up formatting the external SD card. Well, I pressed on it, I selected an option (I didn't even realise what I was doing, ROFL), then... when I saw "formatting SD card", I was like "God, f*** me now". Battery pull, battery pull, BATTERY PULL.

After that, when I was booting the phone, instead of the M-logo with the DUAL CORE TECHNOLOGY text, I got #1 (see the first picture). After a few seconds, it would show #2 (see the second picture), and another few seconds after that, the boot animation of the ROM would appear.

As you can see, it shows "OS will boot in 5 seconds". In those 5 seconds, you can use the volume down key to navigate through those options (which are the options you get to choose when you normally boot the phone, say, to go to Recovery - only displayed in another way, since you have the M-logo boot screen, which I don't have, lol).

Option number 10 (Boot Android (No BP)) boots the OS, but without the baseband. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth work fine (didn't test GPS), but 2G/3G are offline; also, if I'd go in Settings -> About, under "Baseband version", it would show "Unknown" or "Unavailable".

Option number 15 (BP Tools), is enabled by default after 5 seconds, if you haven't selected another option. That turns on the BP (which I believe is the baseband), and the ROM boots after that.

If I wipe the partitions, it will show "No OS detected. RSD mode will activate in 5 seconds", or something like that.

Even though it says "Current choice is mode: RSD", after that, it is powering on the BP, and booting Linux... It isn't actually going into RSD mode. Unless I press a volume key, it doesn't change, and the phone boots normally.

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Notice the PwrReason: SW_AP_RESET text on the top side. It shows SW_AP_RESET because I used the Reboot function that my current ROM provides (Neutrino ROM). If I turn off the device and turn it back on (manual reboot, so-to-say, lol), PwrReason would be PWR_KEY_PRESS. If I turn off the phone and plug in the charger, it would show PwrReason: CHARGER.

If the OS freezes and the phone reboots, PwrReason is AP_KERNEL_PANIC.

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What do you think of this? What might have gone wrong?!

Anyways, this thing is awesome. Now it looks more like the way regular computers boot up (BIOS lines, etc.), which is more interesting to look at, instead of a shiny image which doesn't inform you of anything that your phone is doing RIGHT NOW.

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Some things I haven't stated. After I did that stupid thing in CWM, it was showing "No OS detected". I had to flash the ROM for it to properly boot up afterwards. Also, after that, the touchscreen was malfunctioning (the capacitive keys didn't work etc.), so I had to flash the PDS partition again, as well. But that's pretty much all I had to do.