What does Motorola charge?

[Grege50]

If you brick your Xoom, what does Motorola charge to bring it back to life? Is it cheaper to just buy a second hand Xoom off eBay?

If there is anyone who has gone down this path and who wants to share their experience it would be appreciated.

 

[d3athsd00r]

It's pretty difficult to hard brick the Xoom from what I have seen. The worst you will get is a soft brick or boot loop which are both easily fixed with a firmware flash.

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[Grege50]

It's pretty difficult to hard brick the Xoom from what I have seen. The worst you will get is a soft brick or boot loop which are both easily fixed with a firmware flash.

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I have a bricked Xoom, absolutely dead. I can hold down buttons until the cows come home and there is not even a flicker on the screen. If you damage the bootloader you are stuffed. Search these forums, it happens - not very often but it happens. Ironically mine was bricked trying to flash a stock ROM back over EOS by using RSDLIte. This Xoom had been flashed at least 20 times without issue.

 

[d3athsd00r]

Ahh, RSDlite. Yeah, your best bet would have been to use the fastboot images. IDK how much moto would charge but you could probably find a jtag service to fix it. They would probably charge around 60-80 USD.

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[Grege50]

Just for the info of anyone else in this predicament, I approached my local authorized Motorola repairer here in Melbourne. They wanted around $250 and their solution is to replace the entire motherboard. There was not an option for re-flashing the drive. I declined seeing as a refurb is considerably less.

I doubt they had JTAG facilities or the knowledge of how to use it if they did, they just replace the entire guts.

I have found plenty of places to fix an xBox, but not any to fix a Xoom. Sending it half way around the world, repairing it and sending it back will end up costing as much as getting a second hand one.

That is why they are called bricks. I will keep an eye out for a solution, but have little confidence. I should have been more careful. One lesson in flashing - follow the steps and not to rush.