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hey, I'm planning to buy Atrix 2 india. currently own a rooted HTC Legend running in 7.2 RC0
I would like to know (xda) opinion on this phone, things I'm looking for is
- phone overall built quality, voice, battery life?
- android developement with current ICS on this phone?
- any other issues ??
Thanks in advance
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I got my hands on finally to new atrix 2, yes it started with this post
I think the battery life is great, I can go days without charging. The quality is good, feels nice, clear voice, great display.
There's supposed to be an official ICS build in the near future, as far as ports and whatnot, I think there are a few in the works right now, and even one that boots, but the locked bootloader prevents any real progress. (Not 100% about that fact, but I know the bootloader is locked, so flashing roms is a chore.)
I have no issues with my Atrix 2, so in my opinion, it's a pretty decent phone.
I think I'm cursed in the battery department because everyone else seems to have great performancecwhile mine is subpar. It isn't bad, I can get a full day out of it, but by the end I'm around ~20% power. I do use a lot of data, though.
The display is great and very bright, even at its dimmest setting. The OMAP 4 is very fast, and some people have been able to overclock it up to 1.3GHz.
The main problem people havevwith this phone is the locked bootloader which makes AOSP ROM's unworkable right now, and hinders development.
Overall, the community is great, and the phone itself has a lot of potential that we're only scratching the surface of and I love it.
Sent from my MB865 on lfaber06's Superclocked ROM V 5, Update 2!
krisxda said:
hey, I'm planning to buy Atrix 2 india. currently own a rooted HTC Legend running in 7.2 RC0
I would like to know (xda) opinion on this phone, things I'm looking for is
- phone overall built quality, voice, battery life?
- android developement with current ICS on this phone?
- any other issues ??
Thanks in advance
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1. Good, good, good
2. ICS coming 3Q 2012
3. Nope
bookhouseboy23 said:
I think I'm cursed in the battery department because everyone else seems to have great performancecwhile mine is subpar. It isn't bad, I can get a full day out of it, but by the end I'm around ~20% power. I do use a lot of data, though.
The display is great and very bright, even at its dimmest setting. The Tegra 2 is very fast, and some people have been able to overclock it up to 1.3GHz.
The main problem people havevwith this phone is the locked bootloader which makes AOSP ROM's unworkable right now, and hinders development.
Overall, the community is great, and the phone itself has a lot of potential that we're only scratching the surface of and I love it.
Sent from my MB865 on lfaber06's Superclocked ROM V 5, Update 2!
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Agree with every word but it's TI OMAP 4430 and not Tegra 2
krisxda said:
hey, I'm planning to buy Atrix 2 india. currently own a rooted HTC Legend running in 7.2 RC0
I would like to know (xda) opinion on this phone, things I'm looking for is
- phone overall built quality, voice, battery life?
- android developement with current ICS on this phone?
- any other issues ??
Thanks in advance
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- good, awesome, excellent
- Q3 2012 https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
- 1 problem: there's no problem with Atrix 2 T^T
Rooting instructions please. I have seen more than one rooting method for this phone here on xda. Will someone please point me to the correct instructions for the Indian Atrix 2. Thanks.
athani said:
Rooting instructions please. I have seen more than one rooting method for this phone here on xda. Will someone please point me to the correct instructions for the Indian Atrix 2. Thanks.
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I used the lazy 1-click in the dev section and works like a charm..
Just look for the thread titled, "Bugs found in Atrix 2." That will give you a general idea of the issues with this phone.
There's also some reported issues with certain class 10 micro-SD cards. Easily avoidable by not buying class 10, but it is there and a real problem that some folks are having. On the plus side of the SD card front though, the Atrix 2 has been reported to work with at least one of the new SDXC super high capacity cards. So that's a good thing.
Another problem, the new version of gingerbread that moto just released has no root exploit, so folks are working around that by downgrading to the older rom using the FXZ files, then rooting, doing and OTA root keeper mod and then doing the OTA update getting the latest official ROMs and keeping their root. It's still possible so it's not really a problem, it is just a lot more convoluted than before to get root.
There's also the custom ROMs that folks here are building. All that said, I really enjoy the phone, and it plays the 3D games that I've downloaded from the market with no issues. Performance seems plenty fast.
krisxda said:
hey, I'm planning to buy Atrix 2 india. currently own a rooted HTC Legend running in 7.2 RC0
I would like to know (xda) opinion on this phone, things I'm looking for is
- phone overall built quality, voice, battery life?
- android developement with current ICS on this phone?
- any other issues ??
Thanks in advance
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If you get this phone you will love it.
-Build quality is very nice, voice call quality is superb, and the battery life is great (especially if you're coming from an HTC phone)
-ICS is due for us in Q3. CM9 is in the works but it's stalled while we wait for a different phone with our same radio to get ICS or for Motorola to push early builds of ICS to their servers for us to intercept
-There is a thread in the general section containing a VERY large amount of issues with this phone. Most of the issues discussed there are NOT phone-wide. Probably the biggest issue I've seen with this phone is that it can be quirky with microSD cards. Many class 10 cards are not fully functional with the A2. Also in the first version of GB we couldn't put apps on the SD card. That has been kind of fixed in the latest GB update but it still is buggy. Contrary to what's said above, there IS a root exploit that will work on our latest version of GB. One thing that you might consider a problem is that its bootloader is locked... this means that we can't flash custom kernels or radios.
Awesome phone. Built well. Very good screen,very good sound, cam quality totally ok. Talking quality very good. Battery life is fine and so far everything is just working flawless here. You will like it. It is definitely one of the best handset you get for that price. :beer:
Sent from my ME865 using XDA
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Contrary to what's said above, there IS a root exploit that will work on our latest version of GB.
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Thanks for that correction. I see the FAQ thread has updated links but did not see a new root thread so I missed that update. So that part of my comment is no longer relevant.
Hey Guys, I got my A2 today. The one problem is that the capacitive backlight does not turn on most of the time. Kind of comes on at its whim. Is it a known issue or shall I get a replacement?
athani said:
Hey Guys, I got my A2 today. The one problem is that the capacitive backlight does not turn on most of the time. Kind of comes on at its whim. Is it a known issue or shall I get a replacement?
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Take your free hand and cup the top of the phone making sure to cover the front facing camera. I'm not sure where it is, but somewhere there is a sensor. The capacitor lights should light up in a normally lit room indoors with your hand covering the sensor. Take your hand off and the lights should turn off. This is how my phone behaves. At least that's one test you can run.
Sent from my rooted Atrix 2 SuperCharged V5
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Another problem, the new version of gingerbread that moto just released has no root exploit
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Not true. There is a root exploit for 2.3.6, the method u described was only needed the first few days following the release of the update.
Sent from my MB865 using XDA App
KEB64 said:
Take your free hand and cup the top of the phone making sure to cover the front facing camera. I'm not sure where it is, but somewhere there is a sensor. The capacitor lights should light up in a normally lit room indoors with your hand covering the sensor. Take your hand off and the lights should turn off. This is how my phone behaves. At least that's one test you can run.
Sent from my rooted Atrix 2 SuperCharged V5
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Thanks. I've just discovered that the problem occurs only when the phone is charging on the mains.
A2 is very fast, beauty and WebTop is a very good ideia, Motoblur is sucks!
This phone, A2, is worlds more beautiful than the OGA. It even has the better, to me, GPU. Its slick and smooth with just enough lube......i mean, its awesome. Im a power user and average 18-22 hours between charges. They also took away that PenTile display. Ill hold on to my 150 brand new Craigslist phone till ICS this year.
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It's only my second Android phone, but it's a beauty. Fast, no MotoBlur crap, all the bells and whistles you could ask for. Dropped a 32GB card in it and I'm happy. Some have had problems holding a wifi connection, but mine is solid. A keeper!
Hi guys
I have been experiencing a very annoying buy on my one xl when I run on JB roms.
I experience image artifacting (screen flicker) when I try to do any sort of movement using google maps.
Note that this does NOT happen on sense-based JB roms, only AOSP/AOKP roms.
It doesn't matter what non-sense JB ROM I use, the same issue happens (though it's more pronounced on some ROMS over others).
I searched XDA and found someone else with a similar issue using the HTC One S, and he recorded a video:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2053337
Direct link to vid:
Messing with the dev options for GPU rending does not fix the problem.
It seems to be a fairly isolated but major problem.
Are any devs here aware of this problem? Anyone know the cause, or if there is a possible fix for it?
It's driving me nuts! I vastly prefer sense-free JB Roms, but having glitches in such an important app like google maps is very frustrating.
sorry guys
I just realized I posted this in the wrong forum, should probably be in the QA forum.
Can a mod move this for me, or should I delete/recreate it in the proper forum?
Hey guys so I've got a huge issue. I'm on now my 3rd SGSIII and I'm getting very annoyed. My screen goes nuts randomly. I think I've found a fix, but I'm not sure what's causing it, as most people don't show the symptoms. My screen starts flashing and flickering, whether it's the lockscreen, the homescreens, within an app or in the app menu it does the same thing. I haven't taken a video of it yet, but will if someone wants to see what's happening. I've had it happen only on JB, both roms and stock doesn't seem to matter. The 'fix' is the same one as AOSP rom users use, which is to disable hardware overlay, however I don't know why a non-AOSP rom would need to deal with this. The roms I've used are: Vengeance, CleanRom, Synergy and The Executioner. I've gotten so annoyed that I've gotten Verizon to allow me to switch to the DNA if I want. I've taken a few Logcat's, if someone who can decipher them more than I can to figure out what's actually wrong would be great! I've taken a bunch of logcats, but only have one posted to pastebin. It was taken whilst I was having the issues. Thanks for the help guys!
http://pastebin.com/2SZkQGZJ
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Hey guys so I've got a huge issue. I'm on now my 3rd SGSIII and I'm getting very annoyed. My screen goes nuts randomly. I think I've found a fix, but I'm not sure what's causing it, as most people don't show the symptoms. My screen starts flashing and flickering, whether it's the lockscreen, the homescreens, within an app or in the app menu it does the same thing. I haven't taken a video of it yet, but will if someone wants to see what's happening. I've had it happen only on JB, both roms and stock doesn't seem to matter. The 'fix' is the same one as AOSP rom users use, which is to disable hardware overlay, however I don't know why a non-AOSP rom would need to deal with this. The roms I've used are: Vengeance, CleanRom, Synergy and The Executioner. I've gotten so annoyed that I've gotten Verizon to allow me to switch to the DNA if I want. I've taken a few Logcat's, if someone who can decipher them more than I can to figure out what's actually wrong would be great! I've taken a bunch of logcats, but only have one posted to pastebin. It was taken whilst I was having the issues. Thanks for the help guys!
http://pastebin.com/2SZkQGZJ
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is the show screen updates or something similar on in developer settings?
dragon1357 said:
is the show screen updates or something similar on in developer settings?
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Nope, I don't run that stuff because all of the rendering updates and stuff can get annoying to look at while working. I'm able to get the same issues on a fully stock rom, and a pure flashed rom, with a few programs installed. But the fact that the hardware render seems to be the issue to me is just very odd on a non-AOSP rom.
I have been having screen flickering issues ever since I flashed the latest AOKP build (AOSP) I originally thought that it was because of the kernal and the under voting that I applied but even with a different governor and normal volt settings the screen still flickeres. After some poking around I figured you that it is only happening while I am trying to type and by uninstalling the Swype beta keyboard the screen flicker had been reduced to almost nothing. I do not know why the keyboard would amplify the effect but if I use the system keyboard the flickering becomes almost non existent.
Also, the screen flickers anytime a pop up menu is on screen, such as in the tapatalk app, the menu that pops up to allow you to quote someone..
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
Had been having the same issue on Baked Bean 6, flashed BB7 last night and it seems the problem is gone. BB7 being 4.2.1 I'm guessing whether intentional or not somewhere along the process of updating the "bug" if it indeed was as it appeared was squashed.
I'd be curious to know what was causing this, if by chance you find a definitive answer please post it.
Thanks
Lk
I had a very similar issue for a while, i flashed LEAN KERNEL
Rebooted twice, and problem went away.
For an update, I flashed kt's latest kernal and the flashing has ceased.
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hi..
i'm getting this phone since i was tired waiting for the JB port for the captivate glide (and i mean a port which actually works with bluetooth phone), plus, i see that it seems to have a faster processor, and actually official support for JB) still i don't understand why it's considered low activity legacy device. (i don't care much about the camera, at most i just do portal submission to google. )
Um, not to be rude, but where's the question? lol
It's specs are rather mid-range, the keyboard is very niche by now.. so it's a low activity device due to its low popularity?
why it's considered low activity legacy device?
is no one using it?
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is no one using it?
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it's a niche device. far less popular than the big names like galaxy s3/s4, htc one, xperia z etc etc
so is the captivate glide i assume...
and yet it has it's own forum..
Braccoz said:
it's a niche device. far less popular than the big names like galaxy s3/s4, htc one, xperia z etc etc
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emaayan said:
and yet it has it's own forum..
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uh, yes, and this is relay's own. doesn't really matter where they put it...
We didn't choose to put the device here. The mods did.
We're lucky to even have a forum. Despite the fact that low end phones which you've never heard of got forums before they even launched, the mods decided that the Relay was not popular enough to have one. Even once we had a booting CM9 ROM. After 6 months of complaints, they finally gave us one. But they put it here.
Previously we were squatting in another device's forum, so this is an improvement.
but it still looks better then the captivate glide..
i mean it has an OFFICIAL jellybean, and i'm assuming someone made it a stock rom of jelly bean. it has a better processor even.
what i don't understand is why do you even NEED a section of low activity devices, i mean it's not like you don't have enough ROOM on the internet like a library or something.
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i mean it has an OFFICIAL jellybean, and i'm assuming someone made it a stock rom of jelly bean. it has a better processor even.
what i don't understand is why do you even NEED a section of low activity devices, i mean it's not like you don't have enough ROOM on the internet like a library or something.
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Well, I don't know what you'd have us do about it. No one here had anything to do with the decision, or possesses the power to change it.
Jax184 said:
Well, I don't know what you'd have us do about it. No one here had anything to do with the decision, or possesses the power to change it.
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Aye, and to your earlier point we worked hard to get us our own little space.
Had the device gotten it's own forum at launch or before it, popularity would be higher... but that's a cause and effect issue that's long past debating.
Woot.
We got a forum!
~Running CM10.1
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It's just less popular. The phone quite good actually.
Well like I said , I gave up on it: ( wish I could use it.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using Tapatalk 2
I'm going to try something outrageous and attempt to whore this thread to ON topic ..
I'm thinking about swtiching from the captivate glide for the same reasons, i want a jellybean phone with working bluetooth and a physical qwerty keyboard.
How do you relay 4g owners find the keyboard vs. the glide ? easier to type?
How are the cases, number row easy to access?
How are the Rom's ... Fully working, issues ??
I'm pretty comfortable with my phone but i've never been "in love" with teh keyboard like I was on a blackberry.. .i find the keys are too spaced apart and too big for typing without looking at the keyboard.
speed performance etc are great.
camera spec shows 5mp camera vs. 8mp. How are the quality of the pictures vs the glides ??
Thanks much!
my impression were (i've ditched it and returned to glide)
the keyboard does seem easier to type, and glide buttons seem harder to press, i keep getting my fingers stuck in the middle between the keys. the numbers row are easy access cases seem solid.
roms however are a problem, i'm talking about the stock roms as i havn't been able nor to root, or intstall a rom. there seems to be a wifi issue that keeps getting the phone disconnected and re-connected, making internet connection impossible, initially i thought it might be my AP acting up, but the glide didn't have any issues. only the relay.
another main problem, is that performance, or lack of it. to tell you the truth , i didn't notice any difference, in fact it might have been more sluggish then the glide. this off course might have been an issue with all the bloatware i couldn't uninstall not being root, however i noticed that with jellybean you specify disable on each service, and that might have been helfull.
my attempts at doing root, failed. i tried using CWM, (there seems to be only one version for this phone) however this particualr cwm fails at installing everything else on signature verification message. in other cwm mods, and twrp you can disable signature verification, but they are all being installed with cwm (not odin flashable).
in the end i tried re-flashing the rom with JB, and ended up with wel..not a brick, but ever since then, i can't seem to dial out. there internet seems to be working over the sim card, but not dialing. i'm not sure if i should get another phone to try again, as there doesn't seem to be much support, actually i didn't even see any "bare boned" rooted stable non-alpha roms for this thing yet (or ever be). like the glide has.
as for the camera, i realy don't think there's a difference between 5 and 8 mp, i didn't see any difference.
in short, hardware the phone seems fine, however the rom ,root, etc.. lack of it) doesn't seem to be very common, as of know i'm not sure if i should get another one and try again, or hold off and see if it dies.
yohan4ws said:
I'm going to try something outrageous and attempt to whore this thread to ON topic ..
I'm thinking about swtiching from the captivate glide for the same reasons, i want a jellybean phone with working bluetooth and a physical qwerty keyboard.
How do you relay 4g owners find the keyboard vs. the glide ? easier to type?
How are the cases, number row easy to access?
How are the Rom's ... Fully working, issues ??
I'm pretty comfortable with my phone but i've never been "in love" with teh keyboard like I was on a blackberry.. .i find the keys are too spaced apart and too big for typing without looking at the keyboard.
speed performance etc are great.
camera spec shows 5mp camera vs. 8mp. How are the quality of the pictures vs the glides ??
Thanks much!
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I moved to this phone from the samsung epic. I loved that phone and wanted something similar so I got the relay on a whim. I was able to root and install cm with little trouble. The keyboard is nice but I think the droid 4 keyboard feels nicer. My fiancee has the droid 4, however, and the phone has had many problems with it. Some chargers do not fit well in port, thus not charging the phone. Also the phone gets really hot and read somewhere sometimes this melts stuff inside, thus phone not charging the phone as well. Overall relay is boss, although I rooted and flashed everything before official jb update. So not sure what that entails. The new kernel is still iffy for me. Getting "...not responding" messages for several apps stock and otherwise, but running 6.19 build and everything is smooth.
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Hi I just downloaded Hellraid The Escape and the game keeps crashing I am using mahdi rom 2.8, maybe I should go back to stock? who knows
anyone else playing this game?
I’m back on stock XNPH38R and game keeps crashing so who cares if you have adreno 330 or snapdragon 801 or 3gb ram if you don't have the right rom to back them up? Anyway anyone else that can actualy play the game?
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I’m back on stock XNPH38R and game keeps crashing so who cares if you have adreno 330 or snapdragon 801 or 3gb ram if you don't have the right rom to back them up? Anyway anyone else that can actualy play the game?
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After updating to 38R from 33R, I've found "Hellraid: The Escape" become unstable with many crashes. It's unplayable at the moment. Shame, as it's a nice game.
I've found the update has generally made everything a bit unstable though, not just this game. But I've also got better battery, so it's not all bad news! So should we be complaining to CM or the game's devs?
Bought it today and it keeps crashing after a maximum of 10 minutes :/ seems like a nice game but I hope this gets fixed!
edit: I'm on 38R.
There was an update to the game at the same time as I changed to 38R so I'm inclined to believe it's a problem with the update rather than a change in the OS.
I emailed the developers and they replied:
"We are aware of the issue and working on the fix - we are small team (7 people) so this can take 2-3 weeks - "
The game is great and it plays really well with Opo the only way that I found to play it with our device is by flashing latest international miui rom
akiscoolio said:
The game is great and it plays really well with Opo the only way that I found to play it with our device is by flashing latest international miui rom
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So that tends to imply it's a problem with the OS rather than the game's recent update. I wonder if any other games are affected? If not, then I doubt cyanogen will bother to look into it. Shame, I was enjoying it before the updates.
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So that tends to imply it's a problem with the OS rather than the game's recent update. I wonder if any other games are affected? If not, then I doubt cyanogen will bother to look into it. Shame, I was enjoying it before the updates.
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Correct I had this kind of problem with other powerfull devices that I used to own the problem only appeared with custom roms and never with the official os and although that the cm is the official os of our device it‘s still a custom rom made by developers