Motorola Atrix 4G Rooted Before Release, Bootloader Confirmed To Be Encrypted

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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:

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!