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[Q] Help with Atrix Bootloader Unlock

I am scared to flash pudding on stock At&t gingerbread rom (2.34, 4.5.91) to unlock the bootloader. I followed the instructions on briefmobile exactly; http://briefmobile.com/how-to-unlock-the-atrix-4g-bootloader, and I bricked 2, yes 2 atrix phones. Luckily I am within my 30 days so I brought back to best buy with no hassle. I hope att does not charge me for the phones (keeping my fingers crossed).
Anyway, if I flash the pudding file with RSD lite will this happen again? And does anyone know why the hell it bricked 2 phones? I mean really bricked, like fried, no green light no nothing, dead, even tried the usb cord trick directly to the battery and phone, nuthin!
I was on stock rom with 1.83 2.2 froyo with the first two bricks, and yes i tried again because I thought possibly my battery ran out of juice before completing the flash and obviously it was not. I followed the directions perfectly and have rooted many phones, jtagged 360's, jaibroken ps3's, and hacked wii's so I am not new to this game. I also repair electronics so I am pretty good at these types of things, never f&*^%$ up before. Anyway, I want to unlock my BL to put cherry blur on my atrix, but I am really scared to try this again.
Anyone did this on their atrix rooted running stock gingerbread (it came out of the box this way)?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261

tedjacob10 said:
I am scared to flash pudding on stock At&t gingerbread rom (2.34, 4.5.91) to unlock the bootloader. I followed the instructions on briefmobile exactly; http://briefmobile.com/how-to-unlock-the-atrix-4g-bootloader, and I bricked 2, yes 2 atrix phones. Luckily I am within my 30 days so I brought back to best buy with no hassle. I hope att does not charge me for the phones (keeping my fingers crossed).
Anyway, if I flash the pudding file with RSD lite will this happen again? And does anyone know why the hell it bricked 2 phones? I mean really bricked, like fried, no green light no nothing, dead, even tried the usb cord trick directly to the battery and phone, nuthin!
I was on stock rom with 1.83 2.2 froyo with the first two bricks, and yes i tried again because I thought possibly my battery ran out of juice before completing the flash and obviously it was not. I followed the directions perfectly and have rooted many phones, jtagged 360's, jaibroken ps3's, and hacked wii's so I am not new to this game. I also repair electronics so I am pretty good at these types of things, never f&*^%$ up before. Anyway, I want to unlock my BL to put cherry blur on my atrix, but I am really scared to try this again.
Anyone did this on their atrix rooted running stock gingerbread (it came out of the box this way)?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261
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Should be fine, make sure you use the AT&T fix and not the IHOP-Bell one. I had no troubles.
If you try to go back to a lower version after doing this however, you will brick. See Fruit Cakes for more details.
Good luck!

Infuse DIED!

Well after reading the latest GTG V2.2.2 thread changes today I decided to give it a go as I have really been having a ton of problems with my phone since new. Mostly battery issues but also weird stuff since loading Infused 2.1.0. I had loaded 2.1.0 twice after going back to completely stock but the weirdness persisted. So I backed up all my stuff tonight and then fired up Odin and loaded all the necessary stock files from GTG's Ultimate Unbrick which i have done many times. It started right up and then it stalled trying to establish a connection and this has never happened before. I waited a while to see if it would just go anyway but after 30 min. it was still sitting there and had not done anything in regards to loading up any new data to the phone. So I closed Odin and hit the power button on the phone and it came back up with an icon for phone to computer connection so i tried Odin again and once again it started up and tried to load files to the phone but again stalled and sat there. So i waited again for a while and then stopped everything and pulled the battery hoping that the phone could be brought back into download mode but unfortunately it is completely dead now. No lights no power up nothing??? So I guess I got my answer to my constant problems and strangeness it was the phone itself that wasn't any good. So now i have to go to the store tomorrow and negotiate a replacement phone I sure hope the fact that I spend a ton of money there with my clients corporate phone account will get me some good will and they will just swap it out for a new one. We will see as i really liked this phone it just needs some fixing.
I am a bit bewildered that AT&T/Samsung would release a phone with so many bugs in it. The completely stock phone was buggier than all hell and was only marginally better once I updated to a custom rom. The bluetooth has never been right from day one stock or custom it would constantly disconnect my headset and the GPS was the crappiest phone GPS I have ever had and I have had a bunch of them in the last few years. Here's hoping that the GB update fixes and resolves all of the bugs in this very nice phone.

Sometimes duds slip through the quality control process...

Entropy512 said:
Sometimes duds slip through the quality control process...
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I guess so E but man this has been the worst phone from a performance standpoint I have owned in a lot of years I sure hope it is just a matter of a lemon. By the way I see you live in Owego NY is that the same as Oswego? If so do you do any fishing up there???

You probably just got a phone from a bad batch, my phone works just fine.
Like Entropy said, duds slip through quality control, can't catch em all.

Yeah you have a crap phone. But since you modified the software (god forbid on something you OWN!!!!) Samsung or AT&T(/Rogers) won't touch it. They probably have something to scan for modified software at the door that will shoot you in the foot if you try to walk in.
I've used unbrick at least 5 times because the 2.0 Infused ROM kept messing up my phone. Worked perfectly every time.

strychninetwitch said:
Yeah you have a crap phone. But since you modified the software (god forbid on something you OWN!!!!) Samsung or AT&T(/Rogers) won't touch it. They probably have something to scan for modified software at the door that will shoot you in the foot if you try to walk in.
I've used unbrick at least 5 times because the 2.0 Infused ROM kept messing up my phone. Worked perfectly every time.
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Actually, from my understanding, they don't really question you if you bring in a phone to be replaced. If nothing else, do like what everyone did when the Galaxy S line came out and tell them that it crashed during an OTA update or when you connected it to Kies. Or tell them that you were having issues with it freezing up a lot recently and when it frozen the last time, you pulled the battery and it wouldn't come back on.
There is no reason for them to everyone know that you had custom software on the phone.
Good luck.
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Have to agree with Entropy would say u just got a dud.
Had no issues getting my phone replaced after installing custom rom on it. Went the extra step and soft bricked it and made sure it wouldnt boot past samsung screen before taking it to store. (My micro USB was borked) Had to wait on replacement phone but they sent me home with my phone and unbricked it and used it till new one arrived and bricked old sent it in and never heard anything about it afterwards.

I've used this method many times and never had an issue. (May not work if you get zero lights, etc, but worth a shot)
Just make sure you're not on Windows XP
Read the OP completely
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216790

May sound silly, but try a new data cable.
sent from my stock Infuse at Tranquility Base.

You might have killed your battery. I assume you need battery power to enter Download mode. If someone more experienced then I can confirm this then take your phone and battery to your local ATT and ask them to test your battery.

Blackberrynomore said:
I guess so E but man this has been the worst phone from a performance standpoint I have owned in a lot of years I sure hope it is just a matter of a lemon. By the way I see you live in Owego NY is that the same as Oswego? If so do you do any fishing up there???
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An s makes a huge difference... Northern border vs. southern border.
I don't fish, I get flooded by the Susquehanna.

Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.

AdamOutler said:
Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.
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Whoa? Are you serious about that? Because if that's true, it would be really nice of this guy did that..
Sent from my phone. :3

AdamOutler said:
Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.
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Would have sent it to you no problem except that i need to return it to AT&T to get a replacement phone. Sorry I couldn't help.

I went to the AT&T company store that I do all of my bsiness with both personal and corporate. I showed my AT&T girl the phone and that it was dead and would not power up. She tried another battery as I also had done and still nothing. So she tells me becase the phone is over 30 days old i have to go to the device support center to get a new one or call in and they will ship me another phone. Well I couldn't wait for them to ship one as i need my phone for work so I had to drive 35 mi. to the device support center to get another phone. Just strikes me as stupid that they cannot just give me a new phone right then and there. When I got mine I was short of my upgrade period but they gave me a conditional upgrade or something and the phone cost $400.00 so I was pretty pissed off that they were just going to give me a refurbed phone considering what i paid for the damn thing. Actually I didn't pay for it myself one of my clients picked up the tab but I still felt like they really stuck it to me not giving me a new phone. I spend thousands of dollars at their store every year with all of my client purchases you would think they would cut me some slack and give me a new phone???
Anyway I got a "new" replacement phone and it seems to be working fine. The GPS worked far better than my original Infuse right out of the box with the Froyo ROM and UCKD5 modem. I also did a speed test with three bars and got 2735 Kbps Down and 319 Kbps up and it said I was on EDGE?
So I just rooted it and i am going to load up the Infused 2.2.0 and manually install the newer modem and the camera fixes. I am going to hold off restoring most of my apps until I use this one for a few days to see how it performs first.
Oh and the girl at the AT&T support center told me she had to replace my battery because it would not power up the new phone. So it looks like I had both a bad phone and the battery also quit the farm at the same time.

I had issues with my first infuse (I'm in FL) and completely blasted it to the point where it would literally not even respond to any button presses soft/hard or otherwise. It was DEAD! COMPLETELY DEAD...I was very sad. Anyway I was within 30 day startup period and they did full replacement no question asked. I told my local att store it froze and I pulled battery and it wouldn't come back on. They acted like morons and gave me a replacement but i feel like they knew what I did. Didn't say anything though.
Needless to say. I take my time now with these custom roms. Rockin Infused 2.2.3 and loving life with my GB and 30fps.
Good luck!
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I loaded 2.2.3 last night and everything about the phone seems better so I am a happy camper for sure.
Infused with Android DNA

Blackberrynomore said:
I loaded 2.2.3 last night and everything about the phone seems better so I am a happy camper for sure.
Infused with Android DNA
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For that price did they not allow you to keep the old phone?
It would help the cause here if they did......

[q] need opinion!!

Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL

jhong91 said:
Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL
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jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.

qkster said:
jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.
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Hello,
thanks for the reply!
if the problem really is, as you may have kindly pointed out, with the circuit board or bad battery terminal, do you think it's unrecoverable even by the AT&T technicians (or mobiletechvideo's jtag service)?
Also, this is my first time dealing with warranties on smartphone.
If they happen to find out that I have voided the warranty by rooting the phone, the worst thing that could happen is not getting a replacement device right? they can't charge me or penalize me right?
Thanks in advance!

You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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did you go to a retail store? or an official device support center?
thanks!

A retail store
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
A retail store
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ok, i thought I was supposed to go to device support center..
i guess i'll go to retail first and then device support center if they should redirect me there..
anyways,
thanks man!

Yeah it all depends on the person, most are pretty cool and try to help.
But others just send you away to support
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[Q] Htc one no bootloader, custom rom, clueless

All right, 1st of all let me apologize if I'm creating a thread to which one or more already exist. Now, a brief breakdown of the situation I am, or rather, put my self in. A couple of months ago, I bought my HTC from someone. It was locked to Rogers ( Canadian HTC ONE ), and I decided to unlock it, because well, I wanted to. Everything was fine and dandy until I finally lost my $#!t when HTC failed to release the update it promised. So I decided to root my phone and install a custom rom into in. Also, I was not a big fan on Blinkfeed. I choose cynogenmod and was happy with it until a few months later, I realized that if I let the phone die completely, It would take 3 days ( YES.... 3 F%^$*NG DAYS ) for it to boot back up. I figure its a defect. Read about other with the same problem. Anywho, I thought if I updated to the latest firmware, It would fix the bugs and glitches the phone had before. Long behold, GAPS was not natively installed on the latest update and I went ape ****. The very retard me, freaked out and tried to downgrade to the old software and it made it worse. Long story short, I went into clockworkmod, factory reseted, erased cache and a whole bunch of other $#!t that basically sealed the lid for my HTC one. Now when I try and boot my phone up ,It goes through a never ending cycle of booting, then shutting down, rebooting into recovery, shutting down, rebooting, shutting down, rebooting into recovery etc etc etc... You get the jist of it im hoping. And if i plug it into the computer, It says " USB device is not recognized or has malfunction". What to do Ooooooo what to do guys???? Any help will be appreciated. Pls and thanks,

A huge help here guys... soft or hard bricked?

First things first... bear with me because the story is long
A friend of mine was trying to update his Xoom 2 MZ608 to some custom rom from here (I really don't remember which one was).... but it seems he is a very anxious person and tried to flash a MZ602 into this MZ608 tablet... well, unnecessary to say he bricked the tablet...
Few days later, after he struggled at all efforts he could find, he totally gave up and sold this device to me.... I really thought it would be an easy job, as long I'm used to do these things.... but, turns out, it wasn't =D
what is happening?
the tablet got stuck on Motorola logo with Dual-Core written below of it...
- i cannot access RSD, for some weird reason
- when I try to go to Android Bootloader, i got a "battery low, cannot program" message ((even if the tablet spent 2 days plugged))
- for some reason, SOMETIMES i can access using fastboot, but, as long something is completely messed up inside, the tablet can't read the battery values property and turn off way before i can send any command to it....
what you guys advice me to do?? I took this tablet into a Motorola certified shop here and they said me they don't do this kind of job anymore.... all 3 shops said the same thing....
any help?? =)
Cheers =)

Are you selling it? I would be interested in buying at a fair price.
I am the one compiling the Xoom roms again for Wingray. (using Schischu's sources)