Need some help with rooting/updating (UK wifi)

[hatworthy]

Hello,

I'm not new to rooting, but the Xoom scene is very confusing at the moment and I just need somebody to direct me to the proper guides and confirm that I'm not going to blow up my Xoom and/or tear a hole in the space time continuum.

Situation is this: I have a stock UK wifi Xoom and want to get to Android 3.1. I'm not willing to wait until 2013 for Motorola to pull the finger out and give their European customers an update.

SO

Obviously I need to root and apply the update manually.

I'm willing to risk the one-click method (I've seen other UK Xoomers have had some success with it).

Where do I go from there? One-click method says it will install tiamat kernel... but I've read that this isn't compatible with 3.1. So is there a guide that will take me from tiamat to 3.1? Do the update methods replace that kernel anyway? Am I going to go completely f*cking crazy if I have to trawl through another 50+ page thread full of conflicting info? (Yes.)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Rovman]

Im not an expert at any of this, just a regular user but heres the guide i followed to get my uk wifi xoom updated. Http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1074609

However you need to be aware that this software is the us version and you will ony have access to American English. You will lose all the European languages.
Also you need to be aware that if you unlock your bootloader with "fastboot oem unlock" you can not relock it. Trying will brick your zoom. (Currently)

If you could do a full system dump of your xoom as is with the UK wifi software that would be awesome as currently nobody has uploaded one and im trying to get back to stock and Motorola have only posted the us images

 

[hatworthy]

Thanks. I don't mind losing the languages. I'm using SwiftKey so I can just download any language modules I need.

I would certainly be willing to upload that if I had the faintest idea of how to do it! If I can get a step by step guide I can give it a go... and as long as I know I'm not also uploading my personal details and authorisation tokens etc along with the software!

Any particular reason you're going back to stock? Bugs or anything?

Edit: the canadian system image has the full set of languages if that's what you're looking for...

 

[hatworthy]

Sorry, didn't have time to wait for a reply, going out in a while.

I did a factory reset and then an adb pull so I've got all the system files etc on my PC. Not quite sure what to do with them, though. They're not in .img format, just in a folder?

Anyway, now rooted and running 3.1. Cheers for the link above.