Motorola released update 4.5.141 for the Atrix 4G phone recently fixing a few bugs. For those who have updated to this firmware and lost their root, you can use the same instructions from my 4.5.91 rooting process which are below. You will find the files needed and the steps to root your Motorola Atrix on Gingerbread 2.3.6.
How to root the Motorola Atrix with 4.5.141 Gingerbread 2.3.6
- Download the files
- Connect your phone to your computer
- Switch to fastboot mode by turning off your phone, and turning it back while holding down the Volume Down button until you see Fastboot on the screen. Press volume up button and you should see “Starting Fastboot protocol support”. Note: your computer might install new drivers
- Unzip the 5 files to your C:\ Drive under a new folder named “root”
- Open a command prompt on your computer (Windows logo key + R, type cmd) and go to that directory (should be c:\root) by typing cd c:\root and press enter
- Type the following commands one by one:
- Type moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall preinstall.img and press enter
- Type moto-fastboot.exe reboot and press enter
- At this point your phone will reboot. After it reboots completely, type the following on the same command prompt (if /preinstall/dosu does not work, try /preinstall/su):
- Type adb shell and press enter
- Type /preinstall/dosu and press enter
- Type /bin/mount -o remount,rw /system and press enter
- Type cp /preinstall/su /system/bin/ and press enter
- Type chmod 6755 /system/bin/su and press enter
- Type PATH=/system/bin:$PATH pm install /preinstall/Superuser.apk and press enter
- And reboot the phone, it should be rooted
*Please let us know how the process goes for you if you follow these steps. We want to hear from you.
