In an age of frequent updates, it’s equally important to know or bookmark an article like this wherein this article will guide you on how to roll back the firmware of your Motorola Atrix 4G to the official firmware version of 4.5.91 irrespective of your current firmware. This article comes to the rescue for all the users who are on the buggy or not so stable firmwares as after following this article, the lost warranty too can be regained. Please note that you need to follow the instructions carefully so as to facilitate smoother and safer update process.
Disclaimer: At Android Advices, we have made sure in all respects that all the information regarding the firmware update is mentioned correctly in this article. We hold no responsibility in any manner just in case if any damage happens to your Motorola Atrix 4G which is a very unlikely event if you follow the instructions carefully.
Before proceeding, you need to back up all the data present in your phone so as to ensure that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be easily restored with the help of below mentioned steps.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
Note: This procedure only works on the Windows based computers and not Mac based computers.
Assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now proceed to the next page where we have summed the instructions to apply this stock update.
Procedure to Update Motorola Atrix 4G with Stock 4.5.91 Firmware:
- First up you need to Download the System Image of Motorola Atrix 4G device in your computer along with the Motorola Fast boot Zip package from here to your computer.
- Now, ensure that the device is left with the minimum charge of 60% so as to ensure that device is left with the minimum battery charge of 60% so as to ensure that the pone doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update. Also, after this enable the USB Debugging Mode in your phone path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging” after which you need to tick on the USB Debugging option as shown in the below screen capture.
- Now, turn off your Atrix 4G device and boot the phone in the fast boot mode which you can do by Pressing Volume Down Button and holding this you need to Power ON the device.
- Once the device gets in the fast boot mode, you need to connect to the computer with the help of original USB cable which you got at the time of purchase.
- After connecting, open the command prompt and enter the below mentioned command one by one,
moto-fastboot flash boot boot.img
moto-fastboot flash system system.img
moto-fastboot –w
moto-fastboot reboot
To check whether your Motorola Atrix is on the 4.5.91 firmware or not, the same can be checked from the path “Settings > About Phone > Firmware Version” where it should show the current firmware is 4.5.91 firmware. If there is any other version being shown then you need to apply the firmware so as to root the same.
After this, the device will be rebooting and then you will see that it’s on the official firmware of 4.5.91. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues as we will try to sort out he same at the earliest.
