[Atrix 4G General] android-DEP:
It's not exactly that simple my friend. I just ran through the process of full extracting the 2.3.6 - 4.5.141 SBF. The output file format is SMG and not IMG. Now this is where things get real fogged up as you can spend days searching online for a way to work with SMG files after extracting the SBF successfully. Using the ext2explore tool which you can use to extract system.img and boot.img files correctly as well as webtop.img i believe, it cannot process the SMG files and throws an error soon as you tell it to read the SMG files.

Trick here is to keep going down the list of the extracted SMG files using ext2explore until you eventually get to the file that doesn't give the same error as before. That's going to be either your boot.img or system.img but regardless, you'll be able to extract it now into anynameyouwanthere.img. Now remember that all the apk files at this point will be odexed or as I refer to this as being "obese" so ideally you'd want to deodex the framework folder & app folder respectively to trim the fat by tucking it inside so things like thinner.

Unless you're willing to undertake that project to do it the right way from start to finish successfully, find some patience to sit for a long time to do all this , and I'm sure you and most other people will agree that they wouldn't want to get into something like this, too much work to do and if you don't know what you're doing or have experience working with these files, this task can at times seem impossible to finish avoiding errors along the way.

That's when people resort to just plugging in an SBF file into RSD and let it handle the rest of the work on its own. Although as great of a tool RSD is and SBF can help resolve some bad issues with restoring a phone that will not cooperate, people also choose to flash SBF files simply because it's easy and requires no effort. This makes flashing SBF files a fallacy of composition and just as easily convert a phone into a good hat weight or a door jammer or table leg wedge with no effort either and will not leave any chances of a possible recovery back to a usable condition again.

There were a whole plethora of SBF files up there when this project began. The amount of variations in the roms they included for the different regions, languages, versions, radios, webtops, android versions, i couldn't believe how many different sbf files were available just for the atrix, it was difficult to decypher some of them just by file names to even begin guessing which ones could be the right version to use that were the original files that haven't been "hacked" or "modded" by someone somewhere along the way. Plus the only people that do flash those files on their phones are what we used to be at some point in the past, fully qualified noobanians that got advice from a friend to flash sbf files to root the phone. It's never the guys that have been around for a while that have experience & good knowledge on things, those are the guys that willl avoid SBF at all costs until there's no options left to try whatsoever. Thank god for the custom recoveries that flash roms and mods and tweaks with ease and at the same time take away that risk of ending up taking a trip to Brick City to drop off your phone there.

Personally I'm glad for the decision to exclude those files from the repository as it absolutely and very vividly maintains the truly useful files in a cleaner directory structure. It removes the clutter and mess that those files eventually make in the repository as not everyone follows instructions on uploading to the repository. That would leave just Sam to be on top of all those sbf files dumped into the root of the repository and just left there. That's still happening anyway with everything else being uploaded but with other files it's fairly easy to know by name where to place it properly. Those sbf files are a nightmare to decypher sometimes with never ending files names.

Sam, thank you for allowing permissions for moving files around and copying into folders and etc... From just looking at the transfer logs on my ftp client, it says I've uploaded 608MB worth of files. I tried to help you keep it clean by moving files into the correct folders to keep things clean & organized . I hate seeing the root of any directory to have a laundry list long collection of random files. I also still only uploaded 8 or 9 roms so far, I have a huge list of so many other roms for the atrix that will be uploaded soon. This repository will the most complete, diverse and thorough collection of all the roms that can be flashed on the atrix.

Can you in big words remind people in that first post to follow instructions on uploading files. Not just upload files and dip, leaving the file sitting outside all folders for someone else to eventually have to move it. It's not that difficult to follow instructions on uploading files and keeping the folder structures organized so it's kept clean for the future... thanks for providing this repo for storing atrix files that work in 1 location. For all of us on at&t with an atrix, we' have to ride this thing out til the wheels fall off, the damn deductible for insurance replacement is still $125 plus some other fees... yet the damn phone cost me $0.01 with a 2 year contract, i even got a bill in the mail for $0.01, no tax or other fees. So this repo is a peace of mind knowing everything one could need can be found in 1 location. It should be called project iHoard (international House of Atrix Repositories Domain)