AT&T users, rejoice! Brief Mobile has been informed that user DesignGears, along with Getaphixx, has rooted the Motorola Atrix before its official release.
AT&T is notorious for restricting its users to only Market apps. Through rooting, however, non-Market apps can run via sideloading. These privileges also provide an easy way to free users of the bloated social-networking service MOTOBLUR and disable many other unnecessary applications.
Full instructions follow:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/rupmo5.jpg) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8699742&postcount=537)
(http://i52.tinypic.com/2i9pamv.jpg) (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en)
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2mjupz.jpg) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682)
Unfortunately, unlocking the bootloader is still in limbo at the moment – it appears that Motorola has encrypted the Atrix’s bootloader just like it did to the Droid X and Droid 2. Thus, custom ROMs aren’t on the menu just yet.
That’s not to say work isn’t underway; if you’re interested, we encourage you to join the Android IRC team in their efforts to crack Motorola’s bootloader encryption key!