[Q] SD Card required for update/install?

[derchrisuk]

Hi folks,

I might have a stupid noob question, but not able to find the answer.

I got a Motorola Xoom (EU), and I did root it the other day.
All working fine.
Now I get update notifications for 3.1, but I'm not able to install the stock update.
After the reboot, the Android logo is showing an error, and then it reboots to normal OS.

Now the question is, all instructions I found so far require an external SD Card to get a custom rom with 3.1/3.2 installed.

Is a SD card required, or can I get the same done via USB debug?

Thanks for looking at this thread.
Regards,
derchris

 

[okantomi]

Hi folks,

I might have a stupid noob question, but not able to find the answer.

I got a Motorola Xoom (EU), and I did root it the other day.
All working fine.
Now I get update notifications for 3.1, but I'm not able to install the stock update.
After the reboot, the Android logo is showing an error, and then it reboots to normal OS.

Now the question is, all instructions I found so far require an external SD Card to get a custom rom with 3.1/3.2 installed.

Is a SD card required, or can I get the same done via USB debug?

Thanks for looking at this thread.
Regards,
derchris

You need a custom version of ClockworkMod Recovery made for the Xoom. You can flash the solarnz R4c v3.2.0.0 that does require a micro sdcard (even a 2GB is fine) which will appear at mnt/external1, or you can go with Rogue recovery that will let you flash from internal storage (mnt/sdcard) or other options. It's up to you but you must be able to flash the recovery image file through adb/fastboot, since you can't flash a zip file through fastboot.

 

[derchrisuk]

Thanks for the reply,

I used this thread to install recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img, as they had a recovery image file for adb/fastboot.

Looking through the options, I see a "mount USB storage" option, but I ended up in only having a 3 MB drive, and as soon as I exited the menu the drive was gone too.

Do you happen to know a download for an adb/fastboot image of the Rogue Recovery?

I don't have a single SD Card, thats why I would like to use USB or internal memory.

 

[okantomi]

Thanks for the reply,

I used this thread to install recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img, as they had a recovery image file for adb/fastboot.

Looking through the options, I see a "mount USB storage" option, but I ended up in only having a 3 MB drive, and as soon as I exited the menu the drive was gone too.

Do you happen to know a download for an adb/fastboot image of the Rogue Recovery?

I don't have a single SD Card, thats why I would like to use USB or internal memory.

You would have to go to that thread and see if there is an option for initial install via img file. I haven't used Rogue, so I don't know.

 

[derchrisuk]

I figured it out myself

There was an img file inside the zip, which I was able to flash to the Xoom.
Next I used Tiamat Xoom Rom 2.2.2 "Moray" from the internal memory, and have now 3.2.1 on my Xoom.

Thanks for the help

 

[okantomi]

My pleasure.