[Q]About to try and unlock my BL, maybe... - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When unlocking my BL do I use RSD Lite and fastboot or just RSD Lite? And if only RSD Lite does this sbf (ATT-2.3.4_Pudding_preroot)cover me if Im currently on 2.3.4 OTA and completely stock? Thanks!

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Really, that many responses huh?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600
http://briefmobile.com/how-to-unlock-the-atrix-4g-bootloader
I have personally answered this questions at least 4 times.
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Instructions
1. If you’re on Gingerbread, skip to step 13. 2. Power down your Motorola Atrix 3. Take out your microSD card and SIM card for the flashing process 4. While turning the phone on, hold the Volume Up button until it acknowledges RSD 5. Your device will say “Starting RSD protocol support” 6. Run “RSD Lite” on your computer 7. Press the “. . .” button next to the box labeled “Filename” 8. Load up the SBF file The SBF file is located inside of the .zip file, you must extract it out before loading it into RSD Lite Use WinRAR or 7-Zip to extract the .zip file on your computer 9. Plug your device into your computer Use the USB ports on theback side of your computer for safety 10. RSD Lite should recognize your device and say “Model: NS Flash Olympus” and “Connected…” 11. Press the “Start” button 12. Be patient while the phone reboots. It will take a long time. 13. Open and extract the Fastboot package from above 14. Open a command prompt window On Windows, press Start and type “cmd” then press the enter button 15. Type the following command. Your directory will be the folder where you extracted the Fastboot package. (Example: cd C:\Users\Kenneth\Desktop\fastboot-package)
cd your directory here 16. Power down your Atrix device 17. Hold the power button and the downward volume button until you see “Fastboot” 18. Let go of the buttons and press the upward volume button once 19. You will now see “Starting Fastboot protocol support” 20. Plug your device into a USB port in the back slot of your computer Front slots sometimes do not have enough power to stay connected to the device. 21. Type the following command: fastboot oem unlock 22. You will now receive a warning along with a unique device ID 23. Type the following commands using your unique device ID in place of the ####: fastboot oem unlock #### fastboot reboot 24. Wait for your device to reboot. Congratulations! You now have an unlocked bootloader! from my MB860 using XDA App
I appreciate it but does being on gingerbread mean I've rooted already using a gingerbread sbf and I now move on to step 13 to unlock the bl? If so that means I need to start at 1. But if the 2.3.4 sbf I flash has root installed then do I stop at 12?
These posts don't answer these questions and that is the only reason I posted...

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Two things:
1. Don't skip steps no matter which version you are on 2.2.2 or 2.3.4, you start at step#1 and do all steps up to the very last step. (Original instructions were written with assumption that 2.3.4 comes with unlocked BL already, but it didn't, so don't skip steps).
2. Steps 21 through 23 will have to be done twice. After first time you will get a "failed to boot" and a soft brick (normal behavior for 2.3.4 roms). Go back into fastboot and repeat the fastboot unlock steps, and all should be fine.

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I'm glad what I tried already didnt work then because I had skipped to 13 due to the fact I'm on 2.3.4.
When I was starting the command prompt though and entered in the "cd C:\Temp etc..." It kept saying the path couldn't be found and that's where I extracted fast boot to...? If I run steps 1-12 will then find it automatically using the same cd prompt?
Thanks
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supermerkin said:
I'm glad what I tried already didnt work then because I had skipped to 13 due to the fact I'm on 2.3.4.
When I was starting the command prompt though and entered in the "cd C:\Temp etc..." It kept saying the path couldn't be found and that's where I extracted fast boot to...? If I run steps 1-12 will then find it automatically using the same cd prompt?
Thanks
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Download the fastboot package linked in prerequisites of that article.
Extract it to the root of C: drive.
To start a command prompt in that folder, go to C:/fastboot, right click while holding "shift" inside this folder and select "open command prompt here".

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I will do just that, and thank you for the help.
EDIT: I dont know if you saw that this was the .sbf I plan on flashing with rsdlite. It says it has unlock built in, will it hurt the phone to flash this with rsd and then go into fastboot?
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...m/C0I82IXH7V&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13149735232651 - 2.3.4 full sbf with unlocker and /preinstall root
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That file is a full sbf, it includes an unlockable bootloader AND root in /preinstall. You still have to go thru the step to unlock, and move the su binary from /preinstall to /system/bin
supermerkin said:
I will do just that, and thank you for the help.
EDIT: I dont know if you saw that this was the .sbf I plan on flashing with rsdlite. It says it has unlock built in, will it hurt the phone to flash this with rsd and then go into fastboot?
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...m/C0I82IXH7V&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13149735232651 - 2.3.4 full sbf with unlocker and /preinstall root
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