Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Rookie Rooting, Flashing And UnRooting Under One Roof

As Everyone Love A Quick, Simple And Straight Forward Guide

Hope This Will Help

Post #1: To Install CWM Recovery And To Root The Official Stock OS (HC & ICS)

Post #2: To Install CWM Recovery And To Install Custom ICS


Post #3: To Return To Official Stock As "Out-Of-The-Box"


Post #4: How To Perform Nandroid & Feel Free To Feedback


Post#5: Rooting Jelly Bean 4.1.1 OTA


How To Flash SBF/RSD Method


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Before We Start

I Would Like To Thanks To Xoomforum, Admins, Moderators, Rescue Squads, Developers And All Our Members
For Making This Forums A Nice, Helpful and Family Friendly Forum

Lots Of Members Here Are Very Helpful And Special Thanks

ggrant3876


Castorshells

Apologize If I Did Not Mention Or Miss Any Of Other Members And Buddies Names That Are Helpful Too

!!! WHAT EVER YOU GOING TO DO - IS ALL AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!

How To Root Using Universal Xoom Root  

Millions Thanks To Solarnz

Original Universal Xoom Root Thread
HERE


What you need to download and what you need to do?

Let get started!


A. Xoom USB Driver: Download and Install:
here
Using original Xoom USB Cable that come with your Xoom is advisable

B. Set Up Easy ADB On Your PC: Need for this process.

1. Download the EasyADB(SDK_tools.zip): here
2. Extract the SDK_tools.zip files
3. Copy the extracted SDK_tools folder
4. Navigate to the root of your PC C: drive
5. Paste SDK_tools folder to the root of your PC C: drive

Note: Ensure USB Debugging is turn "ON/ENABLE" on your Xoom. Settings> Applications> Development> "Tick/Check" USB Debugging


C. Using Universal Xoom Root: You need to have
External MicroSD Card
Download this Universal Xoom Root v1.0 File and place it on your External MicroSD Card: here
*Note: DO NOT EXTRACT THIS Root.zip file.

D. Download this recovery image(recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img) and place it in the "SDK_tools folder" at your PC C:drive: here

E. Once the neccessary file in place: You can start your the process [Installing Recovery and Rooting]

Open command prompt in Windows Start icon (in search textfield type in cmd and press enter)
Once command prompt pop up,type:

cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot reboot

After reboot ensure your USB debugging is enable.
Settings> Applications> Development> "Tick/Check" USB Debugging

Open command prompt in Windows Start icon (in search textfield type in cmd and press enter)

Once command prompt pop up,type:

cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img

Once you have verification on your device that this has been flashed:
- Reboot your device by holding Volume
Up + Power.
- Then 3 seconds after you see the "Motorola logo", hit Volume Down.

You should now see "Android Recovery" at the top left corner.

- Hit Volume
Up to boot/enter into recovery.

Navigate to "install zip from sdcard"
-> "Choose zip from sdcard",
-> then select the Xoom-Universal-Root.zip file that you had downloaded/placed in External MicroSDcard earlier and flash it.
-> Reboot and Enjoy!

Note: Use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select/enter.




How Install CWM Recovery And Flash ICS Custom Rom 
 Millions Thanks To The Developers

Great Thanks To ggrant3876
For advise & assistance


!!! WHAT EVER YOU GOING TO DO - IS ALL AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!
What you need to download and what you need to do?

Let get started!
A. Xoom USB Driver: Download and Install:
here
Using original Xoom USB Cable that come with your Xoom is advisable

B. Set Up Easy ADB On Your PC: Need for this process.

1. Download the EasyADB(SDK_tools.zip): here
2. Extract the SDK_tools.zip files
3. Copy the extracted SDK_tools folder
4. Navigate to the root of your PC C: drive
5. Paste SDK_tools folder to the root of your PC C: drive

Note: Ensure USB Debugging is turn "ON/ENABLE" on your Xoom. Settings> Applications> Development> "Tick/Check" USB Debugging


C. Download this recovery image(recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img) and place it in the "SDK_Tools folder" at your PC C:drive: here

D. Download “Custom ICS”and “Gapps” and place it in your External MicroSD Card (DO NOT EXTRACT THESE FILES)
Choose Your Ice Cream Sandwich Flavor here;
>> Team EOSv2.0.0 << >>CM9/Team Rogue<< >> Others <<

E. Once the necessary file in place: You can start the process

Open command prompt in Windows Start icon (in search textfield type in cmd and press enter)
Once command prompt pop up,type:

cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem unlock
fastboot reboot

After reboot ensure your USB debugging is enable. Settings> Applications> Development> "Tick/Check" USB Debugging

Open command prompt in Windows Start icon (in search textfield type in cmd and press enter)
Once command prompt pop up,type:

cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery-Tiamat-R4c-100611-1150-cwm.img

Once you have verification on your device that this has been flashed:
- Reboot your device by holding Volume
Up + Power.
- Then 3 seconds after you see the "Motorola logo", hit Volume Down.

You should now see "Android Recovery" at the top left corner.

- Hit Volume
Up to boot/enter into recovery.

In "Android Recovery",
- wipe cache,
- wipe factory data,
- go to advance and wipe dalvik cache all within the recovery.

Once Done

Navigate to "install zip from sdcard"
- "Choose zip from sdcard",
- then select the Custom ICS.zip file that you had downloaded/placed in External MicroSDcard earlier and flash it
-
then select the Gapps and flash it
- Reboot and Enjoy!

 


How To Unroot And Return To Stock
Millions Thanks To The Xoomforums

!!! WHAT EVER YOU GOING TO DO - IS ALL AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!

What you need to download and what you need to do?

Let get started!

A. Xoom USB Driver: Download and Install:
here
Using original Xoom USB Cable that come with your Xoom is advisable

B. Set Up Easy ADB On Your PC: Need for this process.


1. Download the EasyADB(SDK_tools.zip): here
2. Extract the SDK_tools.zip files
3. Copy the extracted SDK_tools folder
4. Navigate to the root of your PC C: drive
5. Paste SDK_tools folder to the root of your PC C: drive

Download the Motorola Xoom Official Stock files/images from the link,
Unzip/extract the file and place the contents in the EasyADB/SDK_tools folder:here


Open command prompt in Windows Start icon (in search textfield type in cmd and press enter)
Once command prompt pop up,type:

cd C:\SDK_tools
adb reboot bootloader
>>>> Xoom will then reboot into bootloader screen
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock

Use volume rocker to select ok and then xoom will reboot.

 
At this point you should be back to a factory state which includes being locked and unrooted.

Tested on Motorola Xoom MZ601 working
(Downgrade from Android 4.1.1 to 3.0.1)

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