I was trying about 10 days to install any 2.3.4 based rom on my AT&T atrix!
Everytime i trying to flash some rom (mostly i've tried Alien's and Cherry) i see bootloop: red circle with "M" >at&t logo >"M">"M">"M"... I have an unlocked bootloader, can see the sign "Unlocked" ot top of the screen, Rooted And CWM Recovery by tefnar installed, BUT EVERY TIME i flashing some rom i stucking on that bootloop. I was trying to search on xda a lot of time, still cannot find the answer. That makes me real sick of it, i'm not sleeping at nights, pleeeaseeee heeeelp!!!
How long are you waiting for your phone to boot. It can take a while. 10+ minutes.
I waited until yesterday to update to 2.3.4 because I was on call.
Things I did.
1) Made sure that I had the lastest CWM.
2) Made sure I had the latest pudding.
3) I installed 2.3.4 pudding first. Note: I had to re-install CWM after this. Not a huge deal since it installed from fast boot.
4) Followed the ROM install steps here
5) Installed the recommended radio.
6) After that it should work. I had to install the webtop and the ad block but have had no problems since.
I am now trying to decide what Kernel to mess with.
First install rom racers recovery. Two. Make sure youre wiping everything before and after you flash, unless youre upgrading the same rom, you dont have to but still recommended. Three, be patient on initial boot of a fresh flash. Sometimes it can take awhile and might reboot still.
I voided my warranty.
lemortede said:
How long are you waiting for your phone to boot. It can take a while. 10+ minutes.
I waited until yesterday to update to 2.3.4 because I was on call.
Things I did.
1) Made sure that I had the lastest CWM.
2) Made sure I had the latest pudding.
3) I installed 2.3.4 pudding first. Note: I had to re-install CWM after this. Not a huge deal since it installed from fast boot.
4) Followed the ROM install steps here
5) Installed the recommended radio.
6) After that it should work. I had to install the webtop and the ad block but have had no problems since.
I am now trying to decide what Kernel to mess with.
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I was waiting approx. 5 minutes, but is that suppose to be like that? I mean flashing screen on a bootloop? Because fading screen, when reboot looks like if i take battery out everytime. Besides, i've installed any of gingerblur or greyblur easily, but when trying to install 2.3.4, see that crap again.
I'm using all latest (CWM, Divers, RSD...)
Are you wiping both the system cache and dalvik cache before you flash the rom?
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Are you wiping both the system cache and dalvik cache before you flash the rom?
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I Do. Maybe here some thing i've missed before. Now I have 4.1.83 on board, and can install any of 2.2.x, but NOT 2.3.4 Why?
Is the OTA update only wayout??
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OK i have to say i m not a noob anymore. And i m pretty confident.
Having said I am coming from Vegan 5.1 and tried many times to download the new Vegan Ginger. But each time I got stuck at the "birds" screen.
And yea I do all the same steps for when i was ROMing to Vegan 5.1
So my questions are: why isn't it working this time?
Do i have to be on Stock Rom for it to work?
Any suggestion?
Thank you
Its always a good idea to start from stock and then going to custom rom. I suggest you use nvFlash to go back to stock, then flash cwm .8 and then try to follow your steps to install it.
enjoy
Best way to flash a new rom is to fully wipe data cache dalvik ect ect do that in cwm then install zip from disk. Works every time and usely it take like ten minites to fully install. If you need help just look around or ask.
Good luck
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You guys are awesome
I just Nvflash and Install the ginger edition easily
Thank youuuuu
I'm having the exact same problem. Even fully wipe data, cache and davik does not help.
I noticed that, when ClockworkMod Recovery showed that it was installing update, the progress bar stayed grey, not changing or moving at all.
Guess I'll have to try nvflash.
Yeah do that
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I'm having the exact same problem. Even fully wipe data, cache and davik does not help.
I noticed that, when ClockworkMod Recovery showed that it was installing update, the progress bar stayed grey, not changing or moving at all.
Guess I'll have to try nvflash.
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Yea do that, cause it looks like this ONLY works on stock rom. And after that just do your usual process, and you should be good.
Everything went so well that my first boot took less than a minute
when updating from gingerblur 1.2 to 1.3 i went into the tenfar's recovery app and clicked Install Recovery again, even though I had already done this before install gingerblur, I want to try out the new grey blur and was thinking bout using recover to go back to my first after root install, but now that I have clicked it I don't want to end up just going back to 1.2
so basically two questions, can I recover back to my first pre gingerblur 1.2 version of atrix, or can I only go back to gingerblur 1.2 at this point since I overrided it?
and yes I know about sbf flashing I just am lazy and would like to know if I have the option to recover from multiple states
Install recovery actually initiates the recovery process....... it doesn't complete till the phone rebotes and you work through the flashing menu..... so pressing it multiple times wouldn't do anything I guess??
as for going back i don;t think that is an option anymore hence the flashing method said " are you sure" and also "This process can not be undone"..... not unless you flash a new sbf, which is can brick if not done properly.
i believe we are confused, you are supposed to click install recovery before loading any kind of rom like gingerblur or greyblur, my question was can i recover from multiple states, or only the very last one, becuase if that is the case I have to reflash stock sbf in order to do a clean install of greyblur since the last time i clicked the install recovery button was after gingerblur 1.2 was installed, while the first one was pre any kind of romming
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i believe we are confused, you are supposed to click install recovery before loading any kind of rom like gingerblur or greyblur, my question was can i recover from multiple states, or only the very last one, becuase if that is the case I have to reflash stock sbf in order to do a clean install of greyblur since the last time i clicked the install recovery button was after gingerblur 1.2 was installed, while the first one was pre any kind of romming
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Ahh yes, sorry, you can flash any rom over the top of gingerblur as long as it is the complete version, not an update( from say v1.xx to v2.xx), it has to be the complete v2.xx zip file.
Yes it is good practice to press install recovery every time you want to flash, just to make sure the process files haven't been altered, so that you don't end
up soft-bricking your phone...
I'm not sure you can recover multiple initial states, or even the last state given the flashing cannot be undone.... (though I've never tried....)
And as for reverting back to stock motoblur you will need to use the sbf flash, this is because no one has made a rom of the core files to restore the motoblur ui...
Sorry does this answer???
well not exactly lol you see I saw a post in greyblur where people were complaining about having to reflash sbf back to 1.2.6 in order to start over fresh n clean from a gingerblur install, and someoen suggested that if you have been using tenfars recovery rom that you could actually use that to recover from an original state when you first loaded cwm and before you loaded a rom, that way you can save a lot of time and trouble in going through and reflashing 1.2.6, rooting, and then updating rom.
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well not exactly lol you see I saw a post in greyblur where people were complaining about having to reflash sbf back to 1.2.6 in order to start over fresh n clean from a gingerblur install, and someoen suggested that if you have been using tenfars recovery rom that you could actually use that to recover from an original state when you first loaded cwm and before you loaded a rom, that way you can save a lot of time and trouble in going through and reflashing 1.2.6, rooting, and then updating rom.
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Yes you can do this. But if you didn't create backups via CWM before flashing any of the ROMS then I think you are SOL. Here's what you should have done:
flash 1.2.6 -> before update root -> update to 1.5.7 -> after update root -> install CWM -> create backup via CWM recovery menu -> flash gingerblur 1.x -> create backup via CWM recvovery menu -> flash gingerblur 2.x -> create backup via CWM recovery... etc etc.
unless you want to do a fresh 1.2.6 SBF flash every time you update to the newest ROM/Theme version. But the point I'm making is backup via CWM after every major flash/change/whatever.
CWM will save the backup on your SDcard in a folder named after the date of the backup. /sdcard-ext/clockworkmod/backup/<date of backup>
I had rooted my TB using TB auto root, and flashed Gingeritis 3d when I first got my TB last month.
I wanted to try out an aosp rom like CM7.
So I dled the rom, dled zoom kernel, and got the MR2.5 radio to be sure.
I flashed the radio first, booted into Gingeritis just fine with signal.
So I then rebooted into recovery, did a factory wipe, dalvik, and cache.
I then hit instal zip from sd, found the zoom kernal zip, installed it, and then did the same for the CM7 rom. But when I reboot, It just sits on the white HTC splash screen.
I had tried it through ROM Manager last week, and it had done the same thing. I thought it was the kernal, but as I flashed the kernel this time.. and it's still doing it. I don't know whats wrong.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I'd really like to get CM7 running on this thing.
Thanks guys
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I had rooted my TB using TB auto root, and flashed Gingeritis 3d when I first got my TB last month.
I wanted to try out an aosp rom like CM7.
So I dled the rom, dled zoom kernel, and got the MR2.5 radio to be sure.
I flashed the radio first, booted into Gingeritis just fine with signal.
So I then rebooted into recovery, did a factory wipe, dalvik, and cache.
I then hit instal zip from sd, found the zoom kernal zip, installed it, and then did the same for the CM7 rom. But when I reboot, It just sits on the white HTC splash screen.
I had tried it through ROM Manager last week, and it had done the same thing. I thought it was the kernal, but as I flashed the kernel this time.. and it's still doing it. I don't know whats wrong.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I'd really like to get CM7 running on this thing.
Thanks guys
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I'm not familiar with cm7 on this phone. I enjoy sense roms so I haven't played with cyanogen.
Are you positive the kernel is compatible with asop roms? If yes, download the ROM again and verify the md5 after you place it on the phone.
Also make sure you delete the radio pg05img.zip or whatever the correct spelling is from the phone as well. Sounds like you already did that but just making sure.
Flash from recovery not ROM manager.
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I'm restoring it now.
I had tried flashing through RM 3 times last week and got the same issue.
And I'm pretty sure the kernels I flashed are aosp kernels.
I searched for CM7 kernels, and I know for sure the zoom one is an aosp kernel.
I've found lots of people with the same issue online, but found no fixes.
I don't know what to do.
I really need some help here guys. someone experienced flashing cm7 or aosp roms.
Does it have something to do with me trying to go from a sense rom to a aosp rom?
I thought all I had to do was change the kernel...?
If someone can give me a link to a cm7/kernel/radio combo they KNOW works, I would really really appreciate it.
Has anyone gotten through this issue before?? If so, what did you do to get past it!?!?!?
Are you positive you downloaded cm 7 for the thunderbolt and not some other device? I would try wiping everything from recovery (system, data, etc.) then install just the rom and see if it boots. And, as stated above, check the MD5. Could just be a corrupt file.
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Are you positive you downloaded cm 7 for the thunderbolt and not some other device? I would try wiping everything from recovery (system, data, etc.) then install just the rom and see if it boots. Are you letting it sit long enough? First boot of a fresh rom can take a while (5 - 10 minutes).
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Well, I've searched around and found: update-cm-7.1.1-Thunderbolt-signed.zip
which I assume is the correct one.
And I know the first boot takes a good while, but it doesn't sit at the splash screen, they take a long time during the boot animation. Which mine doesn't even get to.
And I've let it sit 15+mins. so it's not that.
I'm trying it through RM this time (again) and even though I had the most up to date version of it, I reflashed RM (hoping that was the issue) and i downloaded and im installing CM7 from RM now.
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I found the issue. Well, the only thing I did differently this time was to reflash Clockwork Mod Recovery from Rom Manager.
I had the most current one already, but I did it anyways, and redid all the steps, and now I'm in.
So I don't know if it was corrupted, or w/e, but that seemed to do it.
So for everyone else getting stuck at the white splash screen after flashing: Restore your phone to the previous rom, open Rom Manager, and hit the very top button: Flash Clockwork Mod Recovery (even if its allready updated)
After that, do your flash like normal.
It solved my issue and everything went fine.
I have my phone rooted and BSR/busybox/superuser installed. How do I flash it and actually put the rom on the phone?
(P.S. Its eclipse 2.1)
Well you have a lot of reading to do but let me give you a few important tips:
1) Before doing anything else make sure to go into your BSR and make a nano back up of your stock system. If you do not know how to do nano back ups then read up on that. You will be doing that for different roms. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318083
2) Make sureyour kernal matches the version of the rom. For example you want to flash eclipse 2.0+ this is made for 2.3.5 update. If you are stock you are probably 2.3.4 Some have flashed eclipse 2.0+ and had no issues but it is not recommended.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313103
this thread should help you out a lot also.
3) Once you get your stock Rom backed download the rom of your choice onto your sd card. Go back into BSR and first wipe data factory reset, wipe partion cache, go into advance and wipe Dalvik cache. Once you wiped the big 3 go to install from sd. Locate the rom using your volume buttons and power button to select. Sit back and let the rom run. Once it is done you can reboot now or flash one more safety step. It is the rerecovery zip. This actually allows you to restore your phone easy in the case of something bad happens. If you boot loop or something goes wrong then you just pull your battery and give it about 30 seconds. Put the battery back in and leave the phone off and just plug it into the wall charger. This will bring you straight to BSR. Here is that link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426062
Also remember as long as you can get into BSR you can restore your nano backup of choice. Good luck and have fun. If you run into trouble we can help you out. The phone is pretty easy to fix.
I have made my recovery but was told it is ok to install Eclipse 2.1 on 2.3.4. I have the file downloaded but am I going to have to reprogram my phone for service?
If I'm not mistaken, flashing eclipse 2.1 on Android 2.3.4 can cause some Wi-Fi and data problems, so I highly recommend sbf-ing android 2.3.5 before flashing eclipse. Ill link a comprehensive sbf guide at the end of this post. To answer your question, though, you shouldn't have to activate your phone again if you havent sbf-ed or updated android. If you do decide to use 2.3.5, you will have to activate your phone again, though it only takes about 30 seconds in my area (could take more or less time depending on your signal strength).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317707
Hope I could be of assistance. If you need help, feel free to ask. I have no life so ill be here all day.
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If I'm not mistaken, flashing eclipse 2.1 on Android 2.3.4 can cause some Wi-Fi and data problems, so I highly recommend sbf-ing android 2.3.5 before flashing eclipse. Ill link a comprehensive sbf guide at the end of this post. To answer your question, though, you shouldn't have to activate your phone again if you havent sbf-ed or updated android. If you do decide to use 2.3.5, you will have to activate your phone again, though it only takes about 30 seconds in my area (could take more or less time depending on your signal strength).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317707
Hope I could be of assistance. If you need help, feel free to ask. I have no life so ill be here all day.
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I have managed to softbrick my phone. No it is stuck on the "dual core technology" screen and I can't do anything
Spanks906 said:
I have managed to softbrick my phone. No it is stuck on the "dual core technology" screen and I can't do anything
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Have you pulled you battery and tried it again? If you have I'd sbf back to 2.3.4 and then update to 2.3.5 then root it, and then install BSR and go into recovery and like said above, wipe the "big 3," install the ROM and then reboot and see if that helps.
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I have managed to softbrick my phone. No it is stuck on the "dual core technology" screen and I can't do anything
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I tried installing it just now... It gets past the dual core but sticks on the ECLIPSE loading screen... wtf? any idea how to load the original os?
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I tried installing it just now... It gets past the dual core but sticks on the ECLIPSE loading screen... wtf? any idea how to load the original os?
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Sbf back to 2.3.4....its not too hard. Search for it.
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Ok so I rooted and RoM'd my phone a long time ago with Cherryblur which apparently is no longer supported or updated. It has been so long that I forgot what I did and did not do to get cherry on it. Yesterday I spent most of the day researching how not to brick my phone. Today after doing everything I could find, I am stuck at the motorola screen. It is unlocked on the moto screen, has fastboot and adb installed, I can get into recovery and what seems to successfully recover the cherryblur install just results in a bootloop at the custom animation that is past the motorola screen.
I was trying to flash CM7 (tried neutrino as well) non nightly when this happened. After spending all day on here bouncing around while I was at work I found a fruitcake that seems to be the only thing that will allow my phone to boot which of course I cannot send the link to. Its titled [Fruit Cakes] XDA Re-Release [feb\18\2012] if you need to see it. What am I missing, I have clearly searched and searched these great forums (I do love to research, but find I'm at an impasse now) and am not sure what I need to do to proceed. That fruitcake updated my phone to 4.5.91 and I'm pretty sure I was 4.5.2 from the Cherryblur previously.
Thanks for any help!
Update: After getting fruitcake to work, I figured maybe this fixed my previous issues and tried to install CM7 again. Same story, not moving past the first Moto screen. So I tried recovery of the fruitcake and now the M screen comes up, waits a bit, then looks like it's going to load and starts to flash for about a second on, then off for 2-3, then on and so forth. I reflashed fruitcake after this and it is still working as a new install.
You are probably only softbricked. Do you know what "recovery" software you are using? If you are using romracers or one of the better respected recovery software packages, you should be able to use fastboot (if you have a windows machine) to wipe the relevant partitions on your phone and start again. Essentially, you will want to reinstall cherryblur (or install a new ROM - Neutrino, Nottachtrix, CM9s are all excellent) from your sd card. To do this, you will boot to fastboot and run "fastboot -w" from your pc. Then boot to recovery, and wipe cache, and dalvic for good measure, then install cherryblur or another package from the zip file. This will hopefully square you away and get rid of the boot loops.
My guess is that you did not wipe your partitions completely before attempting a new install, and may be having problems with ext3 vs. ext4 formatting between rom versions. Good luck to you.
Thank you for the reply!
Originally I'm pretty sure it was CWM, through the process of backing stuff up I installed Rom Toolbox from market and that seemed to have changed something? (Not sure here...) The text changed color from what I thought was white to blue and it looked a tiny bit different. The only thing I did not do was the fastboot -w, but I did download the link from [Batch] FFW - Fastboot Full Wipe and ran the fastboot from there, which was supposed to do a full wipe from what I read. Fastboot was previously installed on the phone.
I downloaded the 1.1 version which apparently may not be able to wipe the webtop, though when watching the text during the wipe it seemed to go through. Would you recommend me going to romracers, is it possible that my recovery software is borked somehow or just not compatible with the newer roms? If I got to RomRacer will the process of doing that just get rid of the current recovery software I have on the phone or will I run into issues? As far as the dalvik and cache I did run those, though the instructions for the CM7 said to do that after the install which felt backwards....
Oh yes, and I can't reinstall cherryblur, that rom is gone - you can't even download it anymore. I am doing this because I recently purchased a lapdock and the cherryblur was not doing so hot on it so looking to install a good clean rom (with a nice GUI) that works well on the lapdock as well. Yes, I will put an OC'd kernel on it as well, battery life has never been more than a day on my current rom and I am reading that the newer ones have over 1 day life on them so you could say I'd be used to the battery drain on the 1.3 kernels.
I see...that's frustrating. I think given your situation, I would probably not attempt to go from Blur to CM (at least while attempting to get the phone running again). If I were in your shoes, I would do the following...other more knowledgeable folks may steer you in varying directions, but I have been in your shoes before, and this should work. I am assuming you have use of a PC...if not, this won't be helpful.
1. Install ROMRacers recovery using these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
2. Download Nottachtrix 1.3.1 to your SD card using your PC if necessary, and you will probably want to download the webtop 2.3.6 at the same time. These can be found here: http://www.nottachtrix.com/forum/
3. Boot into fastboot (hold volume down on power up, until fastboot appears, then hit volume up, and use a DOS prompt to do the fastboot commands through the USB on your PC), and do a fastboot -w, then fastboot -reboot.
4. This time boot into recovery by holding volume down on powerup, and hitting volume down seven times (I think) until you see the word recovery, then hit volume up.
5. Use recovery to wipe cache partition, then go to advanced and wipe dalvic cache, and then select factory reset/wipe data. Some of these steps may be duplicative, but I am a belt and suspenders kind of guy.
6. Now go to "install from sd card" and select the Nottachtrix build that you put on your external SD, and make selections using the cool Aroma installer. Once this installs, you can install the newer 2.3.6 webtop (if you need it).
7. Reboot when complete, and you should have the latest stock build in working order, and then you can repeat the process to install Neutrino, CM9 or whatever. Feel free to fire back any questions.
Good luck to you, and if this helps, please hit the "thanks" button!
Ill give this a shot when I get home, darn work blocking the download links for mediafire..... The fruitcake is driving me nuts, no notification bar (my biggest complaint) unless I use ADW launcher, which has for some reason no way for me to get into my texts..... Broken apps, and a real stock feel that is just making me grit my teeth lol.
Can't wait to have a nice ROM on my phone again. Glad the fruitcake got me back up and functional though!
So far so good! Had the notification bar problem like others with the 2.3.6 issue and found that fix (disable email notifications....). When / if I can 'thank' I will! And will keep you updated when I get the time to flash another rom.
Good news that you are back rolling again. Let the ROM flashing addiction continue
So, CM7 is pure sexy - and an OC'd kernel to 1.3 makes me so happy in both CM7 and Nottachrix. Wish I would have done it sooner, I wouldn't have been spending so much time searching for a new phone because my atrix was annoyingly laggy. Lag? What is that? Also, undervolting is AMAZING for battery life, for the first time since owning the phone I did not plug it in last night and even though my usage was in the light to medium area, im still at 66% after 22 hours off charger ! Can't wait to play with CM9.