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Old 29-12-2011, 16:22
morrigg
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Had the Xoom a few days from the very nice people at CPW
Tried to root it but all goes well till load the rootboot.img,get no device found,did run through a few times,fails at the same point.My first attempt at rooting a device,so bit of a virgin at this?:
Any assistance pleeze,can't wait to try a nice Ice Cream Sandwich serving.
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Old 29-12-2011, 17:27
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Why are you so eager to get ICS on it? HDMI, Bluetooth and the cameras still don't work on any of the builds so far.
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Old 30-12-2011, 10:57
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Good place for info on Xoom.

http://android.modaco.com/forum/505-...xoommodacocom/
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Old 30-12-2011, 11:18
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Better as these people are writing the roms etc....

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=945
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Old 30-12-2011, 11:48
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Thanks Folks here's what I am following-

http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/xoo...ock-3-2-a.html

Installed the Motorola drivers on Win 7 64 then follow instructions
and here's what happens in Command Window-

C:\Users\Maurice\Downloads\Xoomwifi-Tools>adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
038820894440c497 device


C:\Users\Maurice\Downloads\Xoomwifi-Tools>adb reboot bootloader

C:\Users\Maurice\Downloads\Xoomwifi-Tools>fastboot oem unlock
... INFO To continue, follow instructions on the d
evice's display...
OKAY [ 60.542s]
finished. total time: 60.543s

C:\Users\Maurice\Downloads\Xoomwifi-Tools>adb reboot bootloader

C:\Users\Maurice\Downloads\Xoomwifi-Tools>fastboot flash boot rootboot.img
< waiting for device >

Any ideas were I am going wrong,help greatly appreciated.
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