Verizon Xoom 1st gen, rooting and custom ROM

[fuzzychicken]

Hello folks,

Most likely, I am very very late to the party but here it goes.

My Verizon Xoom 1st gen (OS 4.2.2) has been working flawlessly. To be honest, waiting it to die to justify buying newer tablet to DW, but this darn thing just keeps working. Lately though, it has become atrociously slower. I reset to the factory defaults but after google updates stuff in the background, it becomes crawling slow.

I never bothered with rooting or custom ROM because it was reasonably OK to use. We use it primarily for reading pdf articles and YouTube, thats it. But now it has become really difficult to use. Hence I came here looking for rooting and custom ROM options.

I checked many threads last night and most of the links to the files required for rooting are dead. I am curious if there is anyone with a dump of these files that I could get my hands on.

At the end, all I care is that I should be able to use MoonReader Plus and YouTube. I am OK with other stuff not working, primarily cellular signal and stuff. Does anybody has an idea how I can proceed?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[yoshkapundrick]

Hello folks,

Most likely, I am very very late to the party but here it goes.

My Verizon Xoom 1st gen (OS 4.2.2) has been working flawlessly. To be honest, waiting it to die to justify buying newer tablet to DW, but this darn thing just keeps working. Lately though, it has become atrociously slower. I reset to the factory defaults but after google updates stuff in the background, it becomes crawling slow.

I never bothered with rooting or custom ROM because it was reasonably OK to use. We use it primarily for reading pdf articles and YouTube, thats it. But now it has become really difficult to use. Hence I came here looking for rooting and custom ROM options.

I checked many threads last night and most of the links to the files required for rooting are dead. I am curious if there is anyone with a dump of these files that I could get my hands on.

At the end, all I care is that I should be able to use MoonReader Plus and YouTube. I am OK with other stuff not working, primarily cellular signal and stuff. Does anybody has an idea how I can proceed?

Many thanks in advance.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1fxrnv2ce8fyjyn/AABHGMZcGCYBYqtDSvMMpXC-a?dl=0

 

[fuzzychicken]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1fxrnv2ce8fyjyn/AABHGMZcGCYBYqtDSvMMpXC-a?dl=0

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have downloaded. Hopefully everything is good. Feel free to delete.

I will make a step by step process and post here, just to make sure that I am doing everything right. I hope you (or other folks) won't mind confirming my process. I have rooted all my phones so I am not new to it but older Motorola's particularly do not go easy on me.
Thanks in advance.

 

[merog]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have downloaded. Hopefully everything is good. Feel free to delete.

I will make a step by step process and post here, just to make sure that I am doing everything right. I hope you (or other folks) won't mind confirming my process. I have rooted all my phones so I am not new to it but older Motorola's particularly do not go easy on me.
Thanks in advance.

Did those files work for you?
If so, do you the steps?
Thanks in advance!

 

[fuzzychicken]

Did those files work for you?
If so, do you the steps?
Thanks in advance!

Yes, they did. Not too sure what you mean by if I did the steps.

 

[merog]

Yes, they did. Not too sure what you mean by if I did the steps.

In your original above post you said "I will make a step by step process and post here", so I was wondering if you have had a chance to post the step by step instruction. If it is posted somewhere else, I would appreciate the link to that post.

 

[fuzzychicken]

In your original above post you said "I will make a step by step process and post here", so I was wondering if you have had a chance to post the step by step instruction. If it is posted somewhere else, I would appreciate the link to that post.

My apologies.
A correction to my previous comment. Some of the files didn't work but I think whatever I tried/used I have uploaded on a Google Drive. If you want, I can link those files.
There was a lot of mix up. I was pretty frustrated. I was just flashing every file I could find on the web. So at the end, I myself don't know how or what I flashed that worked. Hence, I didn't post any steps.

 

[readonlyaccess]

I'm looking for details as well. Can you post the additional files from drive?

 

[Laureano89]

My apologies.
A correction to my previous comment. Some of the files didn't work but I think whatever I tried/used I have uploaded on a Google Drive. If you want, I can link those files.
There was a lot of mix up. I was pretty frustrated. I was just flashing every file I could find on the web. So at the end, I myself don't know how or what I flashed that worked. Hence, I didn't post any steps.

Would you happen to have those files still available?, I want to revive my tablet, it's useless at the moment and wanted the kids to enjoy some YouTube and some games.

 

[yoshkapundrick]

What files are you looking for?