Just bought a xoom! (advice needed)

[ratykat]

Hey guys,

Just bought a xoom (wifi, told it's an mz604?). I'm in the UK but the previous owner has made it get the us 4.1.2 update?

Anyway, I absolutely love it. Best birthday gift to myself by far. But, I enjoy a good tinker with android, so I was wondering if you guys can suggest what to do with this xoom? I've read the cm10 is great on here, but at the moment I don't even know how to check if my bootloader is locked (I feel like a noob all over again).

There's only one issue I've had so far which is that I get some serious over scan when using hdmi, and my tv won't allow me to just scan like my other tv :/

So please, any advice or tips etc you have will be gladly recieved

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[OpKnight]

ROM choices...

First off, congrats on your Xoom tablet purchase... As for ROM choices I would suggest either using Team EOS 4 or CM10 ROMs both provide many useful features and are updated regularly. I am personally using EOS but my phone has CM10 on it so I can say that both are great software. My best advice would be to search this great site under the Xoom Development section and start reading some of the posts. You will find great advice and answers to your questions. Enjoy.

 

[Yuccaman]

I would assume if its got 4.1.2 it was GEDified, which would have meant unlocking the bootloader to install the US images which then allows you to get updates from Google....

The old owner *may* have relocked the bootloader after doing this mind you - I never bothered when I did mine....

tbh, I'm still a real novice so unsure of a way to tell if the bootloader will be locked, but had a google search and the following came back:

"You could try flashing a custom recovery to it. If it works, then your bootloader is unlocked".

For a recovery, I would recommend the latest version of TWRP found in the Development thread. That also contains an img version that you can try to flash through fastboot....

For ROMS, there's EOS, CM10, a new 4.2.1 and Codename Android.... I've only tried EOS so can't comment on any of the others (latest nightlies for EOS are also 4.2.1, but I'm currently running their last 4.1.2 rom, nightly 155).

Hope this helps.....

 

[ratykat]

Hey guys Thanks for the replies, I have been reading but just thought I'd ask some direct questions

Think I just want to gain root atm and look into other Roms over the weekend. Are there any root methods that are none destructive and fast?

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