[XYBOARD] Ultimate Guide To Ics Leak Install For Any Droid Xyboard!

[mattlgroff]

Build dates are Tuesday July 3rd 2012. Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4. For the 8.2 and 10.1 Wi-Fi AND 8.2 and 10.1 LTE models.

WARNING: If you are on a Wi-Fi only Xyboard of any size, there are no known fastboot files for you. Meaning if there is a newer leak for ICS or the official ICS 4.0.4 for Xyboard Wi-Fi only is a higher version number, you are STUCK on this ICS unless fastboot files come out.

WARNING 2: If you are on ANY model of Xyboard, once ICS installs there is no going back to Honeycomb. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Now that warnings are out of the way... here are my install instructions adapted from andlaw's Sideload ICS thread on droidrzr.com:

Be on STOCK Xyboard latest Honeycomb update. No frozen apps. No custom recoveries, etc.


Install instructions are using ES File Explorer and Rom Manager (free) from the Play Store download these and be rooted on stock latest honeycomb.

open rom manager free, hit OK, now press the home button.
open es file explorer, press YES, press menu, open settings, scroll down to Path settings and under Root settings: Enable
Up to Root (path settings)
Root Explorer (root settings)
Mount File System (root settings)

"DOWNLOAD THE ICS UPDATE ZIP AND PLACE INTO YOUR PHONES /CACHE DIRECTORY (not /system/cache, but in the root of the phone ~/cache/)"

open ES FILE EXPLORER, locate your /cache directory and then select the Blur_Version.___.___.___.MZ6__.______.__.en.USzip (depending on your version of Xyboard and ICS leak)
(now choose Open With ROM MANAGER)

phone will restart, and begin installation of the ICS leak (takes 10-15minutes)
phone restarts, boot animation begins, Android is upgrading :: Profit success!! Celebrate!!!

Now onto rooting:

1. Connect USB to Xyboard and the Windows PC. Install the Motorola USB Drivers 5.7 or higher (found by an easy google search if you do not have these already installed).
2. On the notification menu set the USB Mode to MTP mode or Camera mode (basically anything besides USB Mass Storage)
3. Under Settings > Developer Options > Hit the "Enable USB Debugging" selection.
4. Run this after extracted the zip file: http://goo.im/apps/mattlgroff/DroidRazrRoot404.zip

DOWNLOADS:
DROID XYBOARD 10.1 LTE ICS LEAK (11.7.279.MZ617.Verizon.en.US) : http://rombot.droidhive.com/ROMs/dr...Blur_Version.11.7.279.MZ617.Verizon.en.US.zip

Motorola XYBOARD 10.1 WIFI ICS LEAK : (13.5.3.MZ615.Retail.en.US) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15093625/Blur_Version.13.5.3.MZ615.Retail.en.US.zip

DROID XYBOARD 8.2 LTE ICS LEAK (12.7.279.MZ609.Verizon.en.US) : http://rombot.droidhive.com/ROMs/dr...Blur_Version.12.7.279.MZ609.Verizon.en.US.zip

Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 WI-FI ICS LEAK (14.5.3.MZ607.Retail.en.US) : http://rombot.droidhive.com/ROMs/dr...ks/Blur_Version.14.5.3.MZ607.Retail.en.US.zip


Note from a nice user:

Hey man.. I'm HussX on other forums.. I don't have enough posts here yet to post in dev forums, but I have something you may want to edit in/sticky. If someone recovers their tab with the fastboot files, the cache size may show it doesn't have enough space to copy over the ICS leak. To fix it, they need to boot into recovery, wipe/format the cache, then reboot. It will then show up the right size and allow them to copy the file over to update. Thanks, dude.
Greg

 

[runandhide05]

Sense it more likely to get a lot of questions here, I'll ask
You say no fast boot files for the WiFi only model,
Do you know something that we don't, are there files for the droid xyboard?
Are you hording the fast boot files for the droid xyboard? Lol

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Edit
works great!

 

[lucasarran]

Sense it more likely to get a lot of questions here, I'll ask
You say no fast boot files for the WiFi only model,
Do you know something that we don't, are there files for the droid xyboard?
Are you hording the fast boot files for the droid xyboard? Lol

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

What's the Moto UI like on it? Any chance you could post a video please.

 

[runandhide05]

What's the Moto UI like on it? Any chance you could post a video please.

Its very clean and as always with ICS much smoother. And I'm looking into the new recovery hijack used for ICS kernel since the old gingerbread method didn't work

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

 

[lucasarran]

Its very clean and as always with ICS much smoother. And I'm looking into the new recovery hijack used for ICS kernel since the old gingerbread method didn't work

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Well very good luck!

 

[runandhide05]

Well very good luck!

global network mode has been added along with GSM

new recovery hijack does not work either... err

 

[john9]

It's fantastic, thanks man.

 

[runandhide05]

Everyhing seems to be working flawlessly, face effects work, face unloc works.. smooth as butter
Also found this its double trap home to launch

 

[mattlgroff]

Sense it more likely to get a lot of questions here, I'll ask
You say no fast boot files for the WiFi only model,
Do you know something that we don't, are there files for the droid xyboard?
Are you hording the fast boot files for the droid xyboard? Lol

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Edit
works great!

I am hording nothing lol.
They are on mod2extreme.com I believe the site is, found by a google search or three.

I am uploading utilities (similar to my Droid Razr Utility) for the 8.2" LTE and the 10.1" LTE Xyboards for pre-paring sideload of these leaks and unbricking them, which include the FB files.

 

[runandhide05]

I am hording nothing lol.
They are on mod2extreme.com I believe the site is, found by a google search or three.

I am uploading utilities (similar to my Droid Razr Utility) for the 8.2" LTE and the 10.1" LTE Xyboards for pre-paring sideload of these leaks and unbricking them, which include the FB files.

i had no idea the official fastboot files were out...
theres like 0 info on that site, do you know if those are official fastboot files?
i ask simply cause if they are just imgs someone pulled off the tab itself they will not contain the moto sig and would fail to flash.

 

[big ach]

Well I'm ready to jump on this... But uuuh... I literally JUST got my Xyboard back from Motorola lol

Any precautions I need to do before jumping into this? lol



And PS Last I checked those Fastboot files on Mod2Extreme, they were dead, I tried downloading them and they didn't work - could've saved me shipping my tablet to Moto!


Update: Installing... Engineer Android man is working!! Here's hoping :-D

Update 2: Success, ICS is SWEET!! Video is up on the Xoom General board!

 

[got556]

First of all great job Matt...after all the neglect, I still want an 8.2 Xyboard. Perfect size IMHO.

Maybe now that an ICS leak is out and it sounds like this one is very stable, more development will get going for you Xyboard/Xoom2 guys.

Congrats!

 

[yxcv99]

This will not work with a german Vodafone 10.1 WiFi+3G device, am I right?

Thanks for the screenshots and the video, nice to see this progress.

 

[ezekionokia]

Most likely not.
MZ616 the one you have doesn't have LTE(or 4g network) like MZ617.
You could brick it when the rom boots and sees no 4g hardware.

 

[yosterwp]

Well this looks cool for the xyboard! I kinda like the icons used in the settings too and those home actions as well. And with those new, smaller ics versions of the xyboard's soft keys may possibly make mine obsolete :silly: ...

By extracting some images from some system files from a xyboard, I was able to get the softkeys of the honeycomb xyboard and recolor them. Then I made them ICS-ready. looks brighter in real life... Now the xyboard actually has ICS softkeys!

Anyways great guide for helping the xyboard catch up a bit. It's only unfortunate because JB is coming out for the OG Xoom not to long from now. Nonetheless, this is a great leap for the xyboard! And like others have said, I hope this puts more fuel back into xyboard/xoom2 development!

 

[JonTurck]

Anyone tested this on the EU/UK Wifi only 8.2"? I'm wondering if it will work, it should practically be the same device as the US device; unlike the 3G vs LTE versions.

 

[lucasarran]

Anyone tested this on the EU/UK Wifi only 8.2"? I'm wondering if it will work, it should practically be the same device as the US device; unlike the 3G vs LTE versions.

I'm running the UK 10 Xoom 2. But I'm going to wait for the official OTA or the could be a leak coming from Europe closer it comes to our time.

 

[Casey Rain]

Anyone tested this on the EU/UK Wifi only 8.2"? I'm wondering if it will work, it should practically be the same device as the US device; unlike the 3G vs LTE versions.

Let me know if you pull the trigger. I have the UK Xoom 2 8.2" as well. I'm considering flashing this leak but I don't want to be the first to do it lol.

 

[nitroglycerine33]

Its very clean and as always with ICS much smoother. And I'm looking into the new recovery hijack used for ICS kernel since the old gingerbread method didn't work

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

I just got a 10.1 LTE Xyboard again. Now that there are fastboot files I will see about creating a bootstrap recovery now that I have a fall back.

 

[lucasarran]

I just got a 10.1 LTE Xyboard again. Now that there are fastboot files I will see about creating a bootstrap recovery now that I have a fall back.

Please do!