[Q] Xoom Won't turn on

maduka56 · 26th February 2011, 01:15 PM

[Q] Xoom Won't turn on

New to the forum. Love you guys' work. Been a follower since the G1 days. I got the xoom on Thursday (like a lot of you) and have loved it, until last night. My battery was going low (20% or so) and I used it for about 10 more minutes when the whole thing just shot off. I'm not sure what happened. I tried to charge it and nothing happened. If it was my G1 or Nexus, I would have just pulled the cover off and taken the battery out and rebooted, not so easy on the xoom. I think I might have to take it back, but anyone have any ideas as to how I can get it working again?

Morkai Almandragon · 26th February 2011, 01:19 PM

exact same thing happened to me, I pressed and held volume up and power and it booted up.

maduka56 · 26th February 2011, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Morkai Almandragon

exact same thing happened to me, I pressed and held volume up and power and it booted up.

That did the trick thanks man!

Even4steven · 1st March 2011, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by maduka56

That did the trick thanks man!

Same problem. Same fix

Crankyhobo · 12th March 2011, 07:24 AM

I just had this happen to me today, so as of March 11 its still an issue. The system appeared to be locked in sleep mode and no amount of pressing or holding the power (or any other) button wakes it up. The little light top right just keeps flashing slowly. It wasn't on a low battery either. lets hope all the other users are savvy enough to search for the answer online. I found it here on xda forum in another thread - hold down power button and volume at the same time. Which interestingly is a trick i wouldn't find in the manual, and i couldnt find an explanation for the blinking light in the manual or PDF guide either. There will be some very very worried xoom owners around until this is fixed.

mercurycc · 12th March 2011, 08:12 AM

My xoom does not respond to my touch, so everything seems still alive, and when I hold on the power button it does ask me if I want to turn it off, but since it does not respond to my click, I cannot reboot the system. Same trick as above solved the problem.

Lare2 · 12th March 2011, 02:27 PM

More information would be helpful.

1. Does this happened before or after the update.
2. Rooted, modified in any way etc etc...

AFAIK Mine still working fine. I haven't done anything to mine, so is still pretty stock.

At least there's a way to deal with this.

Zargon335 · 03:12 AM

So this just happened to my wifi Xoom. Except the forced reboot method (volume up + power) doesn't get any response. Any quick ideas before I go exchange this at Costco?

edit: This is a completely stock Xoom.