[Q] Having issues rooting/flashing custom recovery

[dewni]

Hey everyone, sorry if this has been asked already, I wasn't able to find what I was looking for with the search. I've been trying to unlock and root my Motorola Xoom (WiFi Canadian model, should be the same as the American MZ604, yes?) and haven't had any luck flashing a recovery that works. Unlocking the bootloader went fine as far as I can tell, but when I try and flash a recovery (tried CWM and TWRP) it comes up with a line of text in red saying something about a partition recovery, then 2 lines about flashing recovery and being successful. When I try and boot into recovery though to continue rooting the Xoom, I get the android laying on its back with the caution triangle over its chest. Any suggestions or ideas as to where/what I'm going/doing wrong?

 

[dewni]

Anyone? No one has had a similar problem to what I have been experiencing?

 

[RufusFlambard]

After you flash the new recovery and reboot the Xoom, it is very important to not allow it to boot into Android. If it does, Android will detect the foreign recovery and remove it.

When the Xoom reboots, press (don't hold) the volume down key to get a line of text about entering recovery, and press volume up to confirm.

This time you should see your shiny new recovery.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

 

[dewni]

As far as I know, this is what I have been doing, but I will give it another go around and see what happens. Thanks for the reply

EDIT: That worked! Thanks very much for the tip, I was using the AIO tool and it would automatically reboot on its own without trying to take it to recovery. This would be where I was going wrong.