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What ROMs can I put on the Bell Atrix 4G?
Everything says "NOT bell"
So in short, what ROM can I use on Bell Atrix?
The bootloader is still locked on Bell phones, so no ROMs are compatible. But you can install P-ROMs like Gingerblur and Greyblur, but you need to do a factory reset after you install or else you'll brick your phone.
Define rom.
You can sbf flash anything below that is international:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
You can't unlock (yet), the leaked gb unlockable bootloader from Motorola is signed for ATT phones, throws a security exception when used on other phones. There are some themes around for Bell, and a way of hacking the OS to use ATT framework and a few themes from ATT.
Cheers!
NFHimself said:
Define rom.
You can sbf flash anything below that is international:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125944
You can't unlock (yet), the leaked gb unlockable bootloader from Motorola is signed for ATT phones, throws a security exception when used on other phones. There are some themes around for Bell, and a way of hacking the OS to use ATT framework and a few themes from ATT.
Cheers!
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so are you saying we can flash T-Mobile UK
on a bell phone and put gingerblur or greyblur on top of it..thanks
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i bought myself an AT&T atrix previously. However, Lately my country Malaysia launched Moto Atrix. I hope to get a stock Malaysian Version rom.
is it possible?
thanks.
no not possible, an ATT Atrix cannot be flashed with a foreign build, It may be possible to flash the boot.img and system.img from a Malaysian rom to your atrix if u unlock the bootloader, however there will probably be incompatibilities and bugs if u do so. Best bet is to just unlock the bootloader and load kenneth's release of gingerbread 2.3.4
No idea why you'd want to flash a malaysian rom when ATT has BL unlock
ops.... My Mistake.
i tot it will be unlocked to all Atrix.
then i think i will start my journey with unlock the bootloader 1st.
thanks bro~
If I unlock my Bell Galaxy S2, does that mean if i do a factory restore it will still be the bell bloatware version? or the same version that comes on an unlocked Galaxy s2?
id just like to remove the bloatware and have the software updates available without waiting on bell to fiddle fart with them before release or having to use KIES to obtain updates
I have a new unlocked version here for someone else in the office and i has the update button and no bloatware, thats what I was aiming for
thanks
wesg79 said:
If I unlock my Bell Galaxy S2, does that mean if i do a factory restore it will still be the bell bloatware version? or the same version that comes on an unlocked Galaxy s2?
id just like to remove the bloatware and have the software updates available without waiting on bell to fiddle fart with them before release or having to use KIES to obtain updates
I have a new unlocked version here for someone else in the office and i has the update button and no bloatware, thats what I was aiming for
thanks
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Well for your first question, to unlock; you have to root first to root you have to flash a custom kernel so when you flash a custom kernel there is no way to go back to the original bell kernel as of yet as bell hasn't released an update for the phone. So you'll be "Stuck" on the rooted kernel with bell firmware KG2 if you choose to unlock. If you perform a factory reset, your firmware will reset (stay bell) but your kernel will stay as the rooted/modded one!
If you want a bloat less experience, the easiest and best way to do that iMO, is to just take one of the generic european roms (such as kG3,kg6) and flash them. When you do this, the phone will essentially become "identical" to the unlocked one you have in your office, same software and hardware (assuming the unlocked one in your office has a generic firmware installed)
Regards
Your network will unlock at a probable cost .
Once unlocked it stays unlocked even if you restored the original networks firmware .
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cant you just unlock with cellunlocker.net?
that just removes the provider lock, but once done will that allow you to remove bell apps, or is that built into the OS
wesg79 said:
cant you just unlock with cellunlocker.net?
that just removes the provider lock, but once done will that allow you to remove bell apps, or is that built into the OS
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Yes, but with that you will be paying roughly 40$ or so. That will only unlock the phone, won't do anything to the bell apps or firmware.
But then to remove bloatware you have to root anyway, so why not just root and have the unlock for free?
Ok first off I want to thank everyone for all the great info, I have been able to root my US Cellular motorola electrify but I recently realized that it did not work like my droid X (Verizon) when I Auto rooted it and flashed Liberty Rom for it.I tried flashing cm9 ROM several times and bricked my (electrify) phone each time but luckily I was able to figure out how to sbf from rsd from team us cellular. I realized I need to unlock bootloader (pudding) my electrify which is running android 2.3.5. I have tried everything in this world to unlock it and I cannot seem to get it. I have tried with RSD 5.6, 5.5, 5.4.4 5.3 and I also tried with different sbf files from here on XDA. none go through and on my phone I always recieve an error. I know everyone says its ok its suppose to be like that, well I follow instructions and go to cmd and do fastboot and it says infooem unlock is not implimented okay? [0.002s], there is only one thing I have not tried and I cannot seem to find the large pudding_stock_unlock.sbf ANYWHERE! I believe it is 403mb. I have searched for hours for it using everything I can and I still get to the 1mb file which does nothing for me. I even tried using 235pudding.sbf but still nothing. I need someones help please. sorry i posted here but Devs wont let a "noob" post in development section. I really really want ICS cm9 beta on my phone. please help
As far as im aware if your on 2.3.5 your SOL for unlocking.. Unless someone pretty recently has found a new exploit for it that I haven't seen. And this IS the proper place to post questions like this, the Development Section is for Roms/Kernels and the such. Basically big dev things, not questions about how to do things.
No unlock solution for 2.3.5.
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O feel your pain. O switched recently and I came from Samsung. With the new electrifies on 2.3.5 the boot loader is locked. We are stuck till the next update. Sucks, but its a reality for us
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Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
caseythebeagle said:
Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
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You've got your unlocking confused. They're talking about unlocking the bootloader here, the Photon and Electrify are not SIM locked (but are restricted from working on North American GSM networks with compatible frequencies, for example, AT&T). The CDMA radios will be carrier locked to Sprint or US Cellular for the Photon and Electrify respectively, those doesn't get 'unlocked' per se - it's possible to flash CDMA phones to different carriers, but it isn't easy.
Bootloader locking is completely different, it's a sort of failsafe that checks the kernel and/or ROM for a certain signature before it'll boot the device. Locked bootloader means no custom kernels, which in turn means certain ROMs or distributions like Cyanogenmod will not function properly as they require (or simply benefit greatly from) certain elements of custom kernels.
If you want to change the bootscreen, just root your phone and replace bootanimation.zip from /system/media.
Sent from my Motorola Electrify
Well can someone demonstrate the process on how these things are made so i can unlock mine myself ill figure it out
caseythebeagle said:
Sorry for this noob question, but I am a noob, so i'm allowed ,
Is it the same as unlocking a GSM phone? Will unlocking the CDMA portion of the electrify allow me to use the phone on other CDMA networks worldwide (like unlocked GSM phones)?
If that is not why we are unlocking, why are we unlocking the electrify? What benefits does it have to the intermediate-advanced user?
on side note (may require another thread); I have rooted my electrify. How do I get rid of the US Cellular splash (boot up) screen? or is that why I need to unlock the phone?
thanks in advance,
CTB
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This unlocked means for bootloader unlocked, not CDMA unlock.
Photon can use other CDMA other than sprint, you just must know MSL/SPC.
I don't know about electrify, is it same like photon for inject it with other cdma operator.
I use my photon using cdma in asia, so it not sprint for sure.
I will be buying a used photon that is currently on 2.3.5. I would like to use it for Tmobile. I know the bootloader is locked for 2.3.5 but does anyone know if I would be able to flash the radio still to use for Tmobile?
Thanks.
Hey I've never had a sim unlock device, my friend has a verizon s4 unlocked for tmobile she is still running on either Gingerbread or something that's very old lbs. I was wondering if I root and flash an updated rom with no bloat will it still work on tmobile? also can i flash tmobile roms or only verizon?
SkinnyBiggs said:
Hey I've never had a sim unlock device, my friend has a verizon s4 unlocked for tmobile she is still running on either Gingerbread or something that's very old lbs. I was wondering if I root and flash an updated rom with no bloat will it still work on tmobile? also can i flash tmobile roms or only verizon?
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Verizon phones typically have unlockable bootloaders.
If you have the MDK build you can unlock the bootloader, flash custom recoveries, roms, etc. root and such. You would need to become familiar with using Odin. From your post it would seem you are confusing sim unlock with bootloader unlock. Sim unlocked merely means you can use the phone with any service providers. Provided the radios are compatible.
If the build is other than MDK you may be able to use Safestrap to load custom roms.
All tricky. Do a lot of research first.
All galaxy phones s3 s4 s5 s6 etc are world unlocked you can put a any Sim card in it and it will switch to global network your carriers will not tell you this information