Most of the trade in web sites including amazon do not accept rooted tablet. Any suggestions on trade in programs that will accept a rooted (very good condition) tablet. Other than selling it on ebay or elsewhere. I am looking to trade in for another android tablet (nexus 7).
Trade in a rooted xoom wifi tablet
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Why don't you un-root it? With it being rooted, that would not increase the trade value of the tablet by much.
So I just unroot. I was under the impression once its rooted it pretty much loses the warranty forever so unrooting wont help. I will try unrooting and send it back to amazon (where I bought it from), and see what happens. Thanks.
If you return it to stock and relock it they won't be able to tell the diff.
I had sent my xoom tablet to MaxBack and since I did not accept their re-quote they sent me back my xoom. When I powered it on, the colors including the Motorola Logo have a blue tint. And its very very prominent, not just light but a clearly distorted bluish tint.
Could they have damaged display of the device or is it some setting related, anyone know?
Could they have damaged display of the device or is it some setting related, anyone know?
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Could be damaged, or they sent you back a different xoom.
This is really crazy. Just wanted to trade in to get a nexus 7. I sent them a absolutely perfect tablet and I get back a totally damaged one.
Very poor first experience with online trade-in. Will have to see what answer they come back to me over the week,I sent them a note abt the issue.
Very poor first experience with online trade-in. Will have to see what answer they come back to me over the week,I sent them a note abt the issue.
Its weird. Mine had CM10.1 nightlie from Apr 12 when I sent them and the one I got back had the same too. But now after receiving I locked back the xoom to factory settings thinking may be its display settings related. But it has blue all over it. Camera too, when I go into camera blue patches are all over the screen. It definetley seems like messy affair to deal with them now.
Wow, that sucks. If that's the case then they totally damaged it. I hope you opted for the insurance. Let us know what happens.
There was no insurance option atleast not that I noticed. I will share when I hear back from them.
For giggles, reroot it flash an updated ROM. See if it makes a difference.
Things seem to getting only worse with this device. I saw this message and thought to try rooting it again. But only if I could turn the device on. The display wont even come up now. Couple of times it flickered with the display of home screen and thats it now even if I am hard booting nothing happens, display is just blank.
I'll keep trying and will try to root it again if it allows me to.
I'll keep trying and will try to root it again if it allows me to.
Very unfair practice this company has. The supervisor from MaxBack called me and said that they did not have any other xoom in their inventory at that time and the device display issue must be because I rooted the device. I told him I have been using the device in rooted state for months now. He is not willing to accept its because of something they did. He said such issues are imminent when rooted and it could have happened on the day I mailed them the device so its not something that they can do anything about. And he says because the device was rooted they rated the device worth $46 but due to this issue now he is willing to increase it to $56. I just hung up the phone. Its totally unfair and ridiculous of them to so bluntly lie. The tablet was flawless before I sent them and now it wont even power on. And he says its because I rooted. Unbelievable, worst experience the very first time of dealing with MaxBack. Now all I can do is dump this in trash, they totally messed up the device.
I also asked him if they saw any issue when they received the tablet. He said they did not see any issue when they received the tablet. Still he says, we have seen such issues with rooted devices so your custom rom or rooting must have caused the issue not our testing of the device. It was pointless.
I also asked him if they saw any issue when they received the tablet. He said they did not see any issue when they received the tablet. Still he says, we have seen such issues with rooted devices so your custom rom or rooting must have caused the issue not our testing of the device. It was pointless.
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Damn dude, that is ridiculous. That is some shady businesss. Can u charge it? Does the display *even though it's blank ... show with a back light?
Yes it does charge. It shows the white/green light in bottom when charging. And it does show backlight.
before receiving it back from MaxBack, I had already submitted a trade in at amazon assuming I will be able to unroot.
I did unroot after I got it back from maxback although the display was not good and eventually display went completely blank. But I did send it to amazon anyway. I am still waiting to hear from them. I think I may not get anything/much from amazon as I had opted for "no return". Will have to see, they are still processing my trade in.
I did unroot after I got it back from maxback although the display was not good and eventually display went completely blank. But I did send it to amazon anyway. I am still waiting to hear from them. I think I may not get anything/much from amazon as I had opted for "no return". Will have to see, they are still processing my trade in.
lucky for me, Amazon identified the issue with device and evaluated condition as good and credited me with $153. happy ending 
Well that's good, so what was the problem?lucky for me, Amazon identified the issue with device and evaluated condition as good and credited me with $153. happy ending
I see you are at 0 on the thanks meter.
I'll give you your first thanks!
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