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Short update on current status of bootloader unlock (we reached first goal)

Since we are receiving inquires on daily basis from our readers regarding Motorola Atrix bootloader unlock we decided to give short update on projects
which have for target unlocking atrix bootloaders. Motorola did not provide update to 2.3 Gingerbread for it's flagship smart phone (all competitors
already have available update for their top models) community is trying hard to bypass bootloader lock which was obviously imposed by carriers.
And since most of the phone are being sold trough carriers Motorola does not have here much choice then to have locked bootloaders at least for the phones which are being sold trough carriers.
So currently we have 2 serious projects (actually 3, but third one is under radar for now).
First one is khoulk project which has for target to use kernel function kexec to boot secondary (custom) kernel which should
have ability to read/write all partitions and trough this process possibly debrand devices.
Current status on this project is that khoulk have exact address where secondary kernel should be started and currently is trying to build secondary kernel and more info can be found in our last article regarding this topic here.
(This still needs to be confirmed by khoulk)
Second project is being developed by famous hacker tenfar from China, he is very well known as person who built clockworkmod recovery for Motorola Defy trough exploit called 2nd init bootloader, and partialy working clockworkmod recovery for Atrix.
Currently this is only way to for now to flash Atrix with pesudo ROM's for Atrix. Since tenfar has pretty impressive reputation in this field of expertise as well as houlk we should wait and see who should be first to the Atrix throne.
Also is worth mentioning here that 2init bootloader (bootloader menu) hack for defy is NOT publicly available (closed source, Korean authors claimed that this is due to possible bugs and instability, but it also may be way to prevent Motorola from patching this exploit in further releases) so tenfar has to reverse whole recovery method and try to implement it for Atrix.
tenfar :the 2ndinit is truely developed by Skrilax_CZ .Thank you for your hard work.and i need to make clear that the bootstrap recovery is not develop by me, i just port it to defy and the atrix 4g also i've modify the code to work with this two devices propertyly.but it's Koush's and many other developer who work on Cyanogen Mod to make that progress start from aosp sources. the Android bootmenu project as the OP worngly called "2nd-init" is developed by [email protected]
but the 2ndinit credit should go to Skrilax_CZ! and the credit of bootstrap recovery should goes to Koush and me .sorry for my english.
Again Thanks all the devs who work on those projects to make the world much better........
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Third project is remaining for now under radar and as soon we have approval from it's authors we will publish more info here.
Update 2
OK guy's I think that we need to support dev's, tenfar developed currently only method with clockwork to flash custom pseudo rom's for atrix and he did that without even having atrix.
If we want to have custom recovery we need to show and support this projects.
Price for Atrix in china is around 750$ and since we all already paid hefty sum
for our locked phones I does not make big difference to give few $ to support dev's who are trying really hard to give us full access to our phones.
So goal is the following
1. Raise 750$ by donating tenfar for his atrix.
2. Extend current work to adopt 2init bootloader method for Atrix
3. Have ability to flash custom kernels
So to speed things up here is my contribution.
100$ to tenfar paypal account (Confirmation number: 0DT07904N51875837.)
Who is next ?
P.S. Every $ counts.
Click here to donate tenfar.
Here is the original article about this topic.
http://cookedroms.com/index.html/_/roms/update-on-motorola-atrix-bootloader-exploit-r137
Update 3. In less than hour we manage to raise 200$ I'm really proud to be part of this community.
We need 750$
We have 200$
In percantage 27%
Update 4
We raised in 6 hours today in total 440$ which is roughly 70% of needed amount we need still 310$.
Thanks to all people who donated money!
In less than 9 hours we managed to reach our first goal!
We raised enough to get dev phone for tenfar
Here is the list of donors for today (20.May.2011)
You will notice that some nickname fields are empty (please contact me by pm
with You realname which You used to send donation and I will add it to list)
Also amounts are different than what You actually donated but this
because paypal is taking few $ for them selves.
Nickname Amount
csdalporto 4.5
GandalfGraw 18.92
holtenc 297.61
18.92
papy-polo 38.14
ajmaness 9.31
parabola19 95.8
yiyo 9.31
joeycass 9.31
drumercalzone09 18.92
msfn 23.72
jcrew1228 18.92
23.72
artemalek 9.31
4.5
4.5
zole2112 18.92
jruweaver 18.92
orkan39 9.31
s1mpd1ddy 9.31
Greenbelt 4.5
jiggytom 9.31
yokopol 9.31
rozzco 18.92
scorneil 9.31
tomerbn 9.31
tsouza 23.72
Vangelis13 14.11
CaelanT 28.53
ikenley 47.75
zexbig 95.8
P.S.Sorry for formating WYSIWYG editor is giving me hard time.
Update 4. CWM is working trough charger exploit and we got ADB running.
Screenshots can be found at http://cookedroms.com/index.html/_/android/first-screenshots-of-running-cwm-on-atrix-trough-new-tenf-r138

That's an awesome update.
Thank you so much.
Sent from my Atrix (in Australia)

Yes!
We all want to know what's going on!!
Nice post!
Why just tenfar help kholk?
Keep first post updated please!!
It will be sticky by the replies!
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

an update/summary of this kind was much needed.
Thank you very much for the same.
patiently watching the development for atrix.
hoping that moto releases gb for atrix by may end or in June.

Thank 4 the update..
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

zexbig said:
Second project is being developed by famous hacker tenfar from China, he is very well known as person who built clockworkmod recovery for Motorola Defy trough exploit called 2nd init bootloader, and partialy working clockworkmod recovery for Atrix.
Currently this is only way to for now to flash Atrix with pesudo ROM's for Atrix. Since tenfar has pretty impressive reputation in this field of expertise as well as houlk
we should wait and see who should be first to the Atrix throne.
Also is worth mentioning here that 2init bootloader hack for defy is NOT publicly available (closed source, Korean authors claimed that this is due to possible bugs and instability, but it also may be way to prevent Motorola from patching this exploit in further releases) so tenfar has to reverse whole recovery method and try to implement it for Atrix.
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There was somebody else claiming to implement 2nd-init??? Because I was the one who implemented that for the Milestone originally, and the binary is universal: http://and-developers.com/2ndinit

thanks for the update, here's hoping both methods come through at the same time LOL.

Skrilax_CZ said:
There was somebody else claiming to implement 2nd-init??? Because I was the one who implemented that for the Milestone originally, and the binary is universal: http://and-developers.com/2ndinit
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Also is worth mentioning here that 2init bootloader hack for defy is NOT publicly available (closed source, Korean authors claimed that this is due to possible bugs and instability, but it also may be way to prevent Motorola from patching this exploit in further releases) so tenfar has to reverse whole recovery method and try to implement it for Atrix.
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the 2ndinit is truely developed by Skrilax_CZ .Thank you for your hard work.and i need to make clear that the bootstrap recovery is not develop by me, i just port it to defy and the atrix 4g also i've modify the code to work with this two devices propertyly.but it's Koush's and many other developer who work on Cyanogen Mod to make that progress start from aosp sources. the Android bootmenu project as the OP worngly called "2nd-init" is developed by [email protected]
but the 2ndinit credit should go to Skrilax_CZ! and the credit of bootstrap recovery should goes to Koush and me .sorry for my english.
Again Thanks all the devs who work on those projects to make the world much better........

Tenfar thank You for updating thread, Can You give us some timeline or current status of Your project ?
P.S. If I understand Your signature correctly You don't own Atrix 4G but You are developing recovery for it ?

Thank you very much for the update!
Someone previously started another thread asking the community to donate money to supply an Atrix to developers like Tenfar who currently do not have one. I would support this idea, and am willing to contribute, not just to help us get the Atrix "unlocked" in whatever manner, but as a thank you for all the hard work.
<edit> Found original thread! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076504

This is why I love xda
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zexbig said:
Tenfar thank You for updating thread, Can You give us some timeline or current status of Your project ?
P.S. If I understand Your signature correctly You don't own Atrix 4G but You are developing recovery for it ?
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Yes, i still dont have a atrix 4g. i am borrow my friend's when i need to test my. there is no time line that i can provide. i will use my free time to do this.

OK guy's I think that we need to support dev's, tenfar developed currently only method with clockwork to flash custom pseudo rom's for atrix and he did that without even having atrix.
If we want to have custom recovery we need to show and support this projects.
Price for Atrix in china is around 750$ and since we all already paid hefty sum
for our locked phones I does not make big difference to give few $ to support dev's who are trying really hard to give us full access to our phones.
So goal is the following
1. Raise 750$ by donating tenfar for his atrix.
2. Extend current work to adopt 2init bootloader method for Atrix
3. Have ability to flash custom kernels
So to speed things up here is my contribution.
100$ to tenfar paypal account (Confirmation number: 0DT07904N51875837.)
Who is next ?
P.S. Every $ counts.

tenfar said:
Yes, i still dont have a atrix 4g. i am borrow my friend's when i need to test my. there is no time line that i can provide. i will use my free time to do this.
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Tenfar, I just donated $50USD.
I believe in this work and want you to do the best you can, please make sure to notify the community of how much money you have for the cause so we know how much more you need.
I still reserve $150 AUD for the first person to load a custom Kernel so this means I will have contributed close to $200 for this.
Please let us know what you need and what else can help us to free our phones.
Cheers,
Irwin

Irvin You are the man

$30 USD from me, Confirmation number: 7MY394202T758501V.
That's in addition to $20 I sent him a couple of weeks ago!

Hi there,
Will contribute towards an Atrix for Tenfar, however: why don't we buy it in the US at an AT&T store, off contract & then ship it to him? Much cheaper, phone can be sim-unlocked quite easily. A moderator from the US can perhaps take the task?
Just a thought. I'll contribute either way.

zexbig said:
Irvin You are the man
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If you know of me outside of XDA, you know what I'm trying to achieve. Look at my signature if you're not sure what my non-dev contributions are.
I believe everyone has the ability to help no matter what their skill set.
Agreed!
Vangelis13 said:
Hi there,
Will contribute towards an Atrix for Tenfar, however: why don't we buy it in the US at an AT&T store, off contract & then ship it to him? Much cheaper, phone can be sim-unlocked quite easily. A moderator from the US can perhaps take the task?
Just a thought. I'll contribute either way.
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Tenfar, can you organise to get yourself the AT&T version of the device, recruit the services of one of the contributors to help you if needed.

Regarding shipping from US to china there are significant problems which involve domestic custom office and it can delay significantly whole process, so I recommend that we skip that for now.

Irvin,
I'm well aware of Your good work, and I know that motorola internally is also aware of this
Just keep up with great job!
ikenley said:
If you know of me outside of XDA, you know what I'm trying to achieve. Look at my signature if you're not sure what my non-dev contributions are.
I believe everyone has the ability to help no matter what their skill set.
Agreed!
Tenfar, can you organise to get yourself the AT&T version of the device, recruit the services of one of the contributors to help you if needed.
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Kernel request to Samsung

Hi!
We can fix a lot of Galaxy S Advance I9070 bugs like poor battery life or low audio quality and much much more, but only with your help.
These bugs are caused by OS kernel which is not up-to-date with stock ROM’s and Samsung is refusing to update it. Our previous requests have been ignored by them, and the point is that Samsung have to update it, they are just forced by law and licensing terms of Linux, however they just don’t want to do this because of some unknown reason.
We think that the only way to get an updated source code is to… Show the power of our community and spam them with request messages. That’s the only way to fix A LOT of S Advance bugs still present. S3 Mini community have done this before with a great success, so we can do this too!
It’s a nasty way, but it’s the only thing we can do as a community, because our previous requests had been ignored.
We’d be very pleased if you want to help us. It’s easy, just send them the message provided below:
Contact form: HERE
Inquiry type: Request for Source Codes
Sample message:
I’d like to request the most recent Linux kernel source code for Galaxy S Advance I9070. Source code already available on Samsung Opensource is very outdated and not up-to-date with Samsung internal source code, which can be proved.
According to GNU GPL license you are obliged to publish any source code you had changed in Linux kernel, and you are violating law by not publishing it.
Please, stop pretending that current kernel is up-to-date and just update it. Community have had enough waiting for you to even answer to our requests.
Thanks in advance!
Jadega

jadega said:
Hi!
We can fix a lot of Galaxy S Advance I9070 bugs like poor battery life or low audio quality and much much more, but only with your help.
These bugs are caused by OS kernel which is not up-to-date with stock ROM’s and Samsung is refusing to update it. Our previous requests have been ignored by them, and the point is that Samsung have to update it, they are just forced by law and licensing terms of Linux, however they just don’t want to do this because of some unknown reason.
We think that the only way to get an updated source code is to… Show the power of our community and spam them with request messages. That’s the only way to fix A LOT of S Advance bugs still present. S3 Mini community have done this before with a great success, so we can do this too!
It’s a nasty way, but it’s the only thing we can do as a community, because our previous requests had been ignored.
We’d be very pleased if you want to help us. It’s easy, just send them the message provided below:
Contact form: HERE
Inquiry type: Request for Source Codes
Sample message:
I’d like to request the most recent Linux kernel source code for Galaxy S Advance I9070. Source code already available on Samsung Opensource is very outdated and not up-to-date with Samsung internal source code, which can be proved.
According to GNU GPL license you are obliged to publish any source code you had changed in Linux kernel, and you are violating law by not publishing it.
Please, stop pretending that current kernel is up-to-date and just update it. Community have had enough waiting for you to even answer to our requests.
Thanks in advance!
Jadega
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Thank you for sharing it here..I emailed them the moment I saw it on New Maclaw's site and it's quite amazing they suceeded in receving new kernel Sources..but I personally think this post needs to be in a more relevant thread, where MORE People can see this...

Gr8 news!!!!
Received opensource code from samsung within 24 hrs...
Take a look of attached image below
Will upload the link as soon as possible, currently I'am out for some important work

http://opensource.samsung.com/(GT-I9070_EUR_JB_Opensource_Update1.zip)
Here's the link which I got from samsung but my phone is unable to open it

jadega said:
http://opensource.samsung.com/(GT-I9070_EUR_JB_Opensource_Update1.zip)
Here's the link which I got from samsung but my phone is unable to open it
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Here is a link for as phone http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=GT-I9070

petrix1 said:
Here is a link for as phone http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=GT-I9070
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Didn't you think these are old source codes

jadega said:
http://opensource.samsung.com/(GT-I9070_EUR_JB_Opensource_Update1.zip)
Here's the link which I got from samsung but my phone is unable to open it
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Our phone came with Gingerbread, and when the Jellybean update came, that source you linked was the only thing dropped (because it's GPL), which is the current source code we are using for all the kernels available, including CM11 and CoCore.
I think the only time where the older one was used, was when Shaaan tried to port CM 7.2.
Erm, most of what we don't have it's the modem/RIL, that are not ST-Ericsson but Samsung. Unless Sammy has the 3.4 kernel hidden somewhere (very unlikely), anything that is released from now on, it's pretty minor.

jadega said:
Gr8 news!!!!
Received opensource code from samsung within 24 hrs...
Take a look of attached image below
Will upload the link as soon as possible, currently I'am out for some important work
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I got same link this morning...

G900H Custom rom Bounty

Hey Developers,
I am starting a bounty thread for all the galaxy s5 G900H version users, as there are no developers working for this variant of galaxy s5 i hope this will motivate developers to think of developing custom rom for 900h users.
I will start of by pledging 20$ to one of the most stable and decent custom rom for 900h variant
For further pledges kindly pm me or comment on this thread.
Rules​
All trasactions will be made directly to the developer by the pledger by a private message
The best rom will be selected by counting users votes on the thread
Pledges​
Total as of now- 90$
l3Lack [email protected] -20$
@Salim.Keady -20$
@galaxyL0ver-50$

*reserved*

Awesome news

Add 20 also im in
And also if @googy_anas the great kernel developer can make us an awesome kernel ( just like i9505 ) i m ready to donate also

I'm having problems with kernel development

Hello everyone, I'll start by introducing myself before presenting my questions and information that I think is necessary to recognize the situation. My name is Flavia. I'm a not very experienced and self-taught developer, I've never used xda and this is my first time doing a POST, I come here to ask for help for the developers, be it a beginner or an experiment, I've been trying to compile the kernel for Moto e5 (Nora) and I have had problems during compilation. I'm pretty sure it's due to lack of kernel drivers, camera drivers and f2fs format support, I can not say for sure, because I'm feeling a bit intimidated by this community, but based on the mistakes I can claim to be that. I would like you to help me solve the problems so we can evolve as a community and group.
This is the link from my Telegram to contact: MOD EDIT: LINK REMOVED

nGostoDoXDA said:
Hello everyone, I'll start by introducing myself before presenting my questions and information that I think is necessary to recognize the situation. My name is Flavia. I'm a not very experienced and self-taught developer, I've never used xda and this is my first time doing a POST, I come here to ask for help for the developers, be it a beginner or an experiment, I've been trying to compile the kernel for Moto e5 (Nora) and I have had problems during compilation. I'm pretty sure it's due to lack of kernel drivers, camera drivers and f2fs format support, I can not say for sure, because I'm feeling a bit intimidated by this community, but based on the mistakes I can claim to be that. I would like you to help me solve the problems so we can evolve as a community and group.
This is the link from my Telegram to contact: MOD EDIT: LINK REMOVED
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Kernel already exists on Motorola Mobility Github, why do you need kernel? https://github.com/MotorolaMobilityLLC/kernel-msm/tree/oreo-8.0.0-release-nr
The only problem we have on Nora is the lack of Vendor files. Vendor takes alot of times since you have to type in every vendor file by file. Maybe when @CodyF86 releases the vendor files for Play, we will hopefully have it work on Nora. And with @MotoJunkie01 banned i don't think we will see any more progress since he actually works at Moto Mobility. Kinda sad that the people at XDA banned him..

Regarding custom ROM and Rom development

Respected developers is there any chance to get custom ROMS like RR. Lineage os or mokee ROM in future because lot's of devices in the market are on Snapdragon 636 processors and have great development for that? Hopefully our device having great future in the ROM development.

Currently we have cr droid,los,arrow os and pe. And you can even use any of the gsi. Just one big is common! VOLTE

Where are the links
Where we can get details of these roms.

Himamsh said:
Where we can get details of these roms.
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The posts will be up as soon as the devs find a fix of VoLTE. You obtain them by joining the telegram group. People will assist you.

yes sir soon , just trying to fix volte.

I really appreciate our great developers for theirs contribution in development and their hard work

A stable(daily driver capable) Lineage OS and Arrow is available but with the only bug being no VoLTE. Anyone willing to try it out can get those builds here: https://t.me/onepowerupdates

Site not reaChable
Is your site
Block.its not reachable

Shall we expect future of custom ROMS in our device

Javed ali said:
Shall we expect future of custom ROMS in our device
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the answer to your queries lies here!
Dev DB posts shall be up by next week probably.

Thanks again my best wishes with you keep going.????????. thanks for your quick reply. I salute you ???????