Have any bell Atrix owners been successful at installing gingerblur?
I have been googling the hell out of this, and it looks like a Big ol' no...
I'd really love to whip up a Bell version, but I'm hesitating due to the lack of an SBF file for Bell devices. If my ROM messes up your phone... you'd be screwed without an SBF!
Any way to restore via the cwm? Not sure how that works..
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A custom Bell Atrix Rom would need to be cooked.
If someone gets around to doing this... please fix the HSUPA issue and the microphone driver issue... I would love to be able to use Skype on my phone which I have not been able to do since getting my Atrix. AT&T fixed this last month thanks to firmware updates.
Running Gingerblur 4 right now on my Bell Atrix and it runs great!
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If you flash the french u4_2.1.1 sbf first, you should be able to flash Gingerblur.
I know u could flash Greyblur (and I did) over the french 2.1.1 sbf, so Gingerblur should also work.
Once on it will swap your framework to the AT&T version and then you will no longer have compatability issues with any rom or theme on here, AFAIK.
I haven't flashed Gingerblur myself but I flashed Greyblur and then a theme and it's working beautifully on my Bell Atrix.
There is a thread here on flashing/rooting/deodexing/theming the french 2.1.1 sbf, you should check it out.
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Dammit. I gotta look at the date before posting. What is with all the old threads being dug up here today? Lol
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GibMcFragger said:
Dammit. I gotta look at the date before posting. What is with all the old threads being dug up here today? Lol
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I flashed gingerblur v4 over greyblur on my Bell atrix and it didn't work. Every time I tried to boot it would freeze on the boot screen and give me the flashing red led, and then reboot itself. I am hesitant to try it again.
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I flashed gingerblur v4 over greyblur on my Bell atrix and it didn't work. Every time I tried to boot it would freeze on the boot screen and give me the flashing red led, and then reboot itself. I am hesitant to try it again.
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I think you may have to flash the stock french 2.1.1 and then flash Gingerblur.
I remember reading somewhere that flashing one p-rom over another can cause issues.
Did you do a factory restore/wipe after flashing Gingerblur?
I haven't flashed Gingerblur because of all the issues people are reporting in the thread and I have had zero issues with Greyblur so I am still running it, albeit the themes I have flashed have updated the framework to Gladiatrix.
I know Greyblur is based on 1.5.7 but all the themes out now use the framework from 1.8.3 so it still gets updated.
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GibMcFragger said:
I think you may have to flash the stock french 2.1.1 and then flash Gingerblur.
I remember reading somewhere that flashing one p-rom over another can cause issues.
Did you do a factory restore/wipe after flashing Gingerblur?
I haven't flashed Gingerblur because of all the issues people are reporting in the thread and I have had zero issues with Greyblur so I am still running it, albeit the themes I have flashed have updated the framework to Gladiatrix.
I know Greyblur is based on 1.5.7 but all the themes out now use the framework from 1.8.3 so it still gets updated.
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What's strange is that I had previously flashed gingerblur 3.5 over greyblur 2.1 with no issues. I did do a factory reset after I installed gingerblur 4, but not before. I was more curious than anything. After reading the changelog it doesn't appear like much has been added, and especially nothing that I couldn't live without. On a sidenote, have you experienced difficulty getting your facebook contact pictures to sync into your contacts? It seems like whenever I try about 60% or so sync and the rest don't. Just wondering if you've had similar issues with your greyblur.
Bump an old thread??
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I have successfully flashed grey blur, and then ginger blur on my Bell Atrix. So our can definitely be done. I flashed the ginger blur twice, and then did a factory reset.
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I have successfully flashed grey blur, and then ginger blur on my Bell Atrix. So our can definitely be done. I flashed the ginger blur twice, and then did a factory reset.
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I will have to try that. Thanks!
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What's strange is that I had previously flashed gingerblur 3.5 over greyblur 2.1 with no issues. I did do a factory reset after I installed gingerblur 4, but not before. I was more curious than anything. After reading the changelog it doesn't appear like much has been added, and especially nothing that I couldn't live without. On a sidenote, have you experienced difficulty getting your facebook contact pictures to sync into your contacts? It seems like whenever I try about 60% or so sync and the rest don't. Just wondering if you've had similar issues with your greyblur.
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I have custom contact pics for most of my contacts, but I DON'T use Facebook pics for it, so I have never tried syncing them. In fact, that is the first thing I disabled when I installed the FB app.
As for Greyblur, I haven't had an issue since I flashed it, and that was about a month ago.
It's no longer Greyblur really though. I have flashed a few themes which have since replaced the framework with Gladiatrix versions, so it's only MOSTLY Greyblur now, lol.
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I wanted to know if there is somewhere or some way to get android os with out all the extra stuff from bell and motorola.
MCWood said:
I wanted to know if there is somewhere or some way to get android os with out all the extra stuff from bell and motorola.
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Wrong place to post this. This belongs in Q&A section....
Again should be in Q&A.
This is for ATT but you can get a general idea. If you download a 3rd party launcher and correctly freeze motoblur you can get what you are looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=972459
What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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you can remove allot of bloatware from the phone with titanium backup however if you remove the files any OTA will fail to install
Uh gingerblur.....duh
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What I was really hoping for is a striped down ROM instead of freezing the features.
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The famed zebra ROM?
No ROMs for this phone due to a locked bootloader. We have a pseudo ROM - Gingerblur.
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Smallsmx3 said:
Uh gingerblur.....duh
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Funny only if you read that first line for gingerblur its not meant for the bell version.
y2whisper said:
Funny only if you read that first line for gingerblur its not meant for the bell version.
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At the moment the freezing method is the only option for the Bell Atrix.
Here's a link to Bell specific things you can safely freeze http://canadroid.com/2011/03/20/removing-moto-blur-from-your-bell-motorola-atrix/
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Thats what I was looking at unfortunately everyone who had tried had bricked the phone.
is anyone aware if freezing these apps gets the email client back to regular android?
If you brick it you can ever reflash a stock SBF simply rebooting it in BL Mode (RSD Downloader), using your PC, a brain, an usb cable and RSD Lite...
...and an Atrix SBF, of course.
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If you brick it you can ever reflash a stock SBF simply rebooting it in BL Mode (RSD Downloader), using your PC, a brain, an usb cable and RSD Lite...
...and an Atrix SBF, of course.
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Except that we don't have a Bell SBF at the moment
it's pretty funny people telling him to read/flash gingerblur or use a stock .sbf
too bad almost none of the developments made so far regarding bloat apply to bell
freezing manually is really a bell user's only option ATM.
I have manually gone through and frozen most of the bell preloaded stuff but the big thing I want off is the Motorola email client and back up services.
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I have manually gone through and frozen most of the bell preloaded stuff but the big thing I want off is the Motorola email client and back up services.
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i have Email 2.2.1 and Universal Inbox 2.2.1 frozen, no issues. Not sure if that's the email apps you're talking about though.
Did you have yip use a third party one our does that put it back to stock?
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Did you have yip use a third party one our does that put it back to stock?
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No 3rd party. I am using the Gmail app. I did however also test the Corporate Sync and it still worked fine.
So I froze the email 2.2 application and when I open any of my email accounts it just closes and takes me back to the home screen.
Why is it that the Bell Atrix has no themes?
If I flash one of the themes here that is available, isn't it true that it'll probably break my bell atrix?
If so, it is that much extra work to make the theme portable to Bell Atrix?
If not so, how can I get these themes onto my Bell Atrix (if i'm already deodexed).
Thanks!
Mag
There are themes you just have to dig for them. DO NOT FLASH THE OTHER THEMES HERE unless you know how to recover because it will not work. They are built off of the att framework.
If you want to use these themes flash the french sbf then gingerblur then a theme.
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marko! said:
There are themes you just have to dig for them. DO NOT FLASH THE OTHER THEMES HERE unless you know how to recover because it will not work. They are built off of the att framework.
If you want to use these themes flash the french sbf then gingerblur then a theme.
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Thanks, helps a lot!
What about following this method?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070076
I am now rooted, deodexed, running GreyBlur and have the recovery console as well...
p.s. What is this chilled (or chillin) business... I can't seem to find the refference, is it a theme?
Thanks In advance!
Im not sure which one but I believe they are refering to the cool blue theme or they have the bloatware frozen with titanium backup when they say chillen and what not.
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Im not sure which one but I believe they are refering to the cool blue theme or they have the bloatware frozen with titanium backup when they say chillen and what not.
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Yeah I froze all the motoblur stuff
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Just purchased my 1st Android phone and am getting used to everything. Without sounding like a broken record and having spent some time on the forum, can I please be directed to or have answered how to root an Atrix 4.1.83 v2.2.2 without flashing back?
Does it make sense to wait for Gingerbread to come out or does it make sense to unlock the boot now?
Any input greatly appreciated.
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Just purchased my 1st Android phone and am getting used to everything. Without sounding like a broken record and having spent some time on the forum, can I please be directed to or have answered how to root an Atrix 4.1.83 v2.2.2 without flashing back?
Does it make sense to wait for Gingerbread to come out or does it make sense to unlock the boot now?
Any input greatly appreciated.
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Look for Gingerbreak in dev section to root.
I would unlock and flash Kenneth Penn's 4.5.91. The Moto release in SOAK will stop you flashing back if you want to.
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If you wait and get an update from Motorola and you have your artix rooted on 2.2. How should one proceed? Does one just update and then re-root after that?
Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if I HAD to flash back in order to gain root. As much as I don't like the motoblur bloat, a few items are handy. Any ROMs to look at?
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When I was running 1.83, I used a method from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138204
Check out the third post in that thread. You'll need ADB to get it done, but if you don't have ADB installed you may as well do that.
ROM-wise, I'm using CherryBlur, which is a modified version of the latest 2.3.4 ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160649
And I think it's great. The original HKTW 2.3.4 beta leak had a lot of bugs, many of which have been corrected by community updates and hacks, but Kenneth's 2.3.4 seems to be pretty clean so far. As to whether it's worth waiting for the official release, well... I think it's worth modding your phone just for kicks, and to gain a better understanding of how it works.
Thanks Obscene! Now all I have to do is find the time. In theory; to get bothyour methods done - how long should I expect barring no issues?
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Anyone from Northern Jersey interested in helping out do thus the right way, the first time?
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My Atrix 4g is on 4.5.91 and it is rooted. I did the [MOD] 1% Battery - No Carrier -- 4.5.91 theme. A lot of people's market seemed to auto update to the newest one which mine has not yet. How can I make it update?
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My Atrix 4g is on 4.5.91 and it is rooted. I did the [MOD] 1% Battery - No Carrier -- 4.5.91 theme. A lot of people's market seemed to auto update to the newest one which mine has not yet. How can I make it update?
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try this file
http://www.multiupload.com/ZHAR8K7CGF
ApfelAnanas said:
My Atrix 4g is on 4.5.91 and it is rooted. I did the [MOD] 1% Battery - No Carrier -- 4.5.91 theme. A lot of people's market seemed to auto update to the newest one which mine has not yet. How can I make it update?
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Mate, everybody is avoiding the update like the cholera and you are really trying to get it..?! Stay away from it for now!
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mate, everybody is avoiding the update like the cholera and you are really trying to get it..?! Stay away from it for now!
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rofl +10000000
For some reason I had issues before and since I installed cherry pi, the new market is working perfect... Not sure why though. Maybe they fixed something with it?
so the new market is rubbish are u saying so should i do it or no
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My apps don't update right anymore and the market still says update after I've updated
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yea i did update and the new market kept messing up crashing or loading and going no where. i happen to have TiBackup the old market so i just restored the old one.
I have zero problems with new market on Dorian's Redpill v3. Also have faux's kernel.
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It works on mine too just fine
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Hello all. Stupid question. My co-worker has recently gotten a milestone x2 from ntelos here in Virginia. I know that they run off of vzw towers and wondered if any of the dx2 Rom work for the mmx2? The only things i have found are threads about people asking if cm7 or miui will work and there was one that, the de said he does not ensure that it will work, but that they had removed the security checks
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Maybe the next miui if you NEED Wifi.
If you don't any 235 based rom should be good.
Watch for roms based on 235/413 and they should for everything.
As this works for everything on the Dx2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1507694
Get me?
Cool. Thanks. Its been a while since i had a Motorola product. I had the atrix and forgot that people list the android version along with the Motorola fw version. Ill let him know the great news.
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Hello all. Stupid question. My co-worker has recently gotten a milestone x2 from ntelos here in Virginia. I know that they run off of vzw towers and wondered if any of the dx2 Rom work for the mmx2? The only things i have found are threads about people asking if cm7 or miui will work and there was one that, the de said he does not ensure that it will work, but that they had removed the security checks
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I have nTelos for my service and I have tried several of the different roms out there. Specifically I have tried the Eclipse and Molten. Eclipse ran great I loved the rom... only thing is the wifi does not work. I have tried flashing the CM7 and Muiu and I have not gotten them to work. Everytime I try them it says, "could not load file". I have not tried a lot though so does not mean its not possible.
This has been my experience with each of the roms.
This works But as tested on a 236 mx2 no wifi.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494664
Also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520831
You can flash Miui and the same script mod will let you flash CM7 too.
The 2nd one as it pertains to Miui would be no WiFi also.
CM 7 is prolly no wifi also but who knows?
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I have nTelos for my service and I have tried several of the different roms out there. Specifically I have tried the Eclipse and Molten. Eclipse ran great I loved the rom... only thing is the wifi does not work. I have tried flashing the CM7 and Muiu and I have not gotten them to work. Everytime I try them it says, "could not load file". I have not tried a lot though so does not mean its not possible.
This has been my experience with each of the roms.
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i need to unbrick it at this point. it was on an ota 2.3.6 and now all i can find is the 2.3.5 sbf files. i read somewhere that there is a non-downgrade issue with it and im stuck at the loop. i have wiped, tried to flash..... everything////// boo motorola.... boo...... and thank you go-ogle for the help.......
miui working on 2.3.6
i can confirm miui works great, no wifi, cm9 works but no wifi, have ran both like miui better