My pleasure! And thanks for keeping the thread bumped. I wish it would get stickied.
Are you still having problems with this or have you resolved it?I completed the entire procedure without an issue..
fastboot oem unlock - OK
fastboot flash recovery recovery-solarnz-100611-1150.img - OK
Rooting the Xoom with Universal Root - OK
When I reboot the Xoom after this it stays on the Motorola Dual Core Screen and nothing happens...
What is wrong?
How do I fix this?
Thanks
Guy
You will love the roms that are available for the Xoom...especially EOS nightlys...Wow... this guide was great!! Everything worked... I had some issues but mostly because I am a noob. I became a member of this forum to say thanks!! Next step is adding custom ROM's.
Do not relock! After your Xoom boots back up and goes into the setup screens skip setup and enable usb debugging. You may then allow just the OTA updates to take you to HC 3.2
Proceed to Step 4.1, above.
@kofrad, it is very possible that you are correct, and that it isn't needed to take those ota updates. If it can be confirmed, I would like to revise that section of the guide to correct it. That part was not written from my own experience, as I rooted very early-on, before these security files were included to make flashing a custom recovery so difficult. Glad it worked for you. Do you have any advice for yotamleo11?I believe this may be incorrect. I restored to stock and then accepted the OTA to 3.2 but still found the files in question under /system. I didn't want to risk anything so I simply restored back to stock and proceeded on without issue. I really don't think any of the ota updates are needed if you have the microsd adapter to load your roms/zips onto the sdcard via your pc before you begin the process. Clockword Recovery will see the sdcard regardless of whether or not Honeycomb will.
Either way, thanks for the guide. Especially including that quoted bit about those ota updates. I followed through your guide until I got clockword recovery flashed and from there I just did a nandroid and flashed over SteadyHawkin's CM9 rom with no issues at all. Thanks for putting this together and helping me free my device
I'm so glad that the guide could be of some assistance. Enjoy your rooted Xoom!Recently got my xoom and generally knew what i was doing to root and all but the guide helped make it clear. A big thank you!
Sent from my ZTE-BLADE using Tapatalk
@yotamleo11, I'm sorry that you are struggling with this. It is possible that, as kofrad says in the post below yours, that you don't need to allow those ota updates once you've flashed back to stock. Just make sure that you have your command window opened from within the folder where you have the image files you wish to flash.
Keep at it. You will get it.
@kofrad, it is very possible that you are correct, and that it isn't needed to take those ota updates. If it can be confirmed, I would like to revise that section of the guide to correct it. That part was not written from my own experience, as I rooted very early-on, before these security files were included to make flashing a custom recovery so difficult. Glad it worked for you. Do you have any advice for yotamleo11?
Thank you very much...I have removed that line regarding taking the ota updates. I don't want anyone getting confused or having to do extra steps.I'm offering my confirmation here that the OTA updates aren't needed. Once I returned to stock using the motodev images, I let OTA take me to 3.1 and did an "adb shell ls /system" and saw the recovery files in there. I reflashed the motodev images and ran the same command. This time the recovery files weren't there. From there I simply flashed recovery and flashed my rom from the external sd card with no issue.
My assumption is that the lack of sd card support on pre-3.2 xooms is a kernel issue. Missing module or configuration for it. Whatever Koush has got going on inside of clockword recovery seems to load it up and initialize it just fine for me without sd card support in the stock images.
I did it, my man!!!!!! Wooooow. I'm just a noob, but I did it. Thank you so much.
I'm testing the last EOS Nightlies because of you, thanks again.
on solarnz recovery, you will only lose the user apps and data, which can be restored fully through Titanium Backup. Your media files will not be touched.Are the contents of /mnt/sdcard lost in the wipe and need to be restored, or do they remain as they are?
Thanks
"The green bot of !
there is one problem that exists with all xoom roots/cwm hacks. I had this problem as well as a bunch of other people when trying to flash CWM. If these files are present after an OTA update, then your xoom when entering recovery will show the green android robot with a exclaimation point instead of CWM.
[...]
Or, if you do not already have root on your xoom when you get the green bot of ! then you have to do the following with the stock moto files for your device (from moto dev).
(This Wipes your Xoom )
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot -w
fastboot reboot