Trouble getting adb to work

[emueyes]

Sorry about the uninspiring title, but after an afternoon of this I'm uninspired. All I wanted to do was root this Xoom so I could take some screenshots..

I can get the tablet to stage where it says

--> fastboot
starting fastboot protocol support.

at which time I assume I can start adb. I've tried the USB drivers from the PDAnet package, but when I plug in the Xoom I get a desktop notification saying 'HTC Exit -1' (sorry, that may not be the exact wording, but the same effect).

in that 'fastboot' state, adb devices tells me there aren't any devices connected

the Xoom show up OK when booted into Android, Windows (7, 64 bit) sees it as a drive, and Device Manager sees an MZ604. adb still doesn't see anything

I started off by using the minimum set of utilities (adb, fastboot and their dlls) and then installed the SDK and used its tools (yeah, I've pathed everything properly, I was writing DOS batch files in 1985... and now am a grumpy old man )

The Xoom is Australian WiFi only, runs Honeycomb 3.2.2, hasn't been rooted (I'm trying to do that)

speaking of old, though, the fiddly volume rockers get that way (and or so ironically are used for screenshots in ICS I believe)

I have a feeling that I don't have the proper USB driver installed, I've uninstalled PDAnet, and the Xoom still shows up in windows, but since I can't get a root prompt on the Xoom have no idea what it's using

Any ideas?

Rob

 

[emueyes]

SD card not found

I may as well get all my woes into the open

When in Recovery Mode, the Xoom won't recognise the SD card, it seems to be trying to mount it on /sdcard

I have some zip files of a rooted Honeycomb image, and was going to triple cjeck whether flashing a zip file was a good idea or not first, but I don't get that far

I can see the card and contents from Windows while it's mounted in the Xoom

I should be able to use the card from recovery mode, right?

Rob

 

[okantomi]

Sorry about the uninspiring title, but after an afternoon of this I'm uninspired. All I wanted to do was root this Xoom so I could take some screenshots..

I can get the tablet to stage where it says

--> fastboot
starting fastboot protocol support.

at which time I assume I can start adb. I've tried the USB drivers from the PDAnet package, but when I plug in the Xoom I get a desktop notification saying 'HTC Exit -1' (sorry, that may not be the exact wording, but the same effect).

in that 'fastboot' state, adb devices tells me there aren't any devices connected

the Xoom show up OK when booted into Android, Windows (7, 64 bit) sees it as a drive, and Device Manager sees an MZ604. adb still doesn't see anything

I started off by using the minimum set of utilities (adb, fastboot and their dlls) and then installed the SDK and used its tools (yeah, I've pathed everything properly, I was writing DOS batch files in 1985... and now am a grumpy old man )

The Xoom is Australian WiFi only, runs Honeycomb 3.2.2, hasn't been rooted (I'm trying to do that)

speaking of old, though, the fiddly volume rockers get that way (and or so ironically are used for screenshots in ICS I believe)

I have a feeling that I don't have the proper USB driver installed, I've uninstalled PDAnet, and the Xoom still shows up in windows, but since I can't get a root prompt on the Xoom have no idea what it's using

Any ideas?

Rob

What USB cable are you using? Try to use your Xoom oem cable. Also, make sure that you try different USB ports, especially the ones tied more directly to the pc motherboard. It's finicky like that. Recheck your drivers. I'm not familiar with that PDAnet source. Motodev is the place to get them from. You may also need the java sdk from oracle.

There are some useful guides on setting up adb/fastboot/rooting in General...you may have to go back a few pages but it will be worth it to make your task easier.

Good luck!

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I may as well get all my woes into the open

When in Recovery Mode, the Xoom won't recognise the SD card, it seems to be trying to mount it on /sdcard

I have some zip files of a rooted Honeycomb image, and was going to triple cjeck whether flashing a zip file was a good idea or not first, but I don't get that far

I can see the card and contents from Windows while it's mounted in the Xoom

I should be able to use the card from recovery mode, right?

Rob

Which recovery mode are you talking about? Have you unlocked and installed a custom recovery, as in a ClockworkMod-based recovery? If so, which one? They have some different behaviors. If it is stock recovery, I don't think it sees the external sdcard at all.

 

[wesamothman]

Also make sure usb debugging option is enabled. And flash another recovery image.
You don't really need to root. Just unlock the bootloader. Push the recovery image. Reboot to recovery. And flash a pre rooted rom from team EOS.

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