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Atrix CM7

I have been really frustrated with my phone lately.  I’ve wanted to flash it with a non ATT ROM for while now however  I haven’t had the time and the Atrix’s locked boot loader has made this project a non-starter for me.  Not to mention that all the tools required to flash Android devices require windows boxes which is beyond me.

When the phone’s blue-tooth stopped working it was the last straw.  I had some spare time today and commandeered my girlfriends windows laptop for a couple hours to give it a try. There is a lot of info out there on how to do do this, however the instructions were still not very clear to me.  After reading a couple different xda forum posts and watching a couple of videos, I gave it a shot. Basically there are three things you need to do: 1)Unlock the boot-loader, 2) root the phone, 3) install a custom ROM.  This post contains a  steps I used to install CM7 on my ATT Motorola Atrix 4g. For more info check out this thread at XDA forums….

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154600

However if you are still confused like I was, here are the three steps that need to be done and the order I did them in……

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