How much longer do Xoom users have to wait...

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JeffG1

24-07-2012

After the Simon Stuart thing, do you still have the standard apps like browser and email? And Google Play of course?

I'd like some idea what is present on the home screen after the update.

Thanks.

GrannyGruntbuck

24-07-2012

Yes, you will still have those.

Anything standard that is not included because of a USA / UK difference, you just download it from market / play store.

Mr. Cool

24-07-2012

Makes me laugh how the Xoom 2 doesn't even have ICS.

Hopefully, things will improve after the Google buyout starts to take shape.

SonyJunkie

24-07-2012

Originally Posted by JeffG1:
“After the Simon Stuart thing, do you still have the standard apps like browser and email? And Google Play of course?

I'd like some idea what is present on the home screen after the update.

Thanks.”

The only thing I found that goes missing is the Office app. Of course you can always purchase it from Google Play.

GrannyGruntbuck

24-07-2012

Or replace it with 'Kingsoft office'.
Free version and its very good.

JeffG1

24-07-2012

Originally Posted by SonyJunkie:
“The only thing I found that goes missing is the Office app. Of course you can always purchase it from Google Play.”

I never used that anyway, so it won't be missed.

Thanks for the info. I shall take the plunge soon.

JeffG1

25-07-2012

Originally Posted by alan1302:
“he means flashing the existing ROM not physically removing it.”

Sorry didn't spot your comment earlier. That's a lot different, then. A ROM is a physical piece of hardware - a chip, so if someone says go out and get a ROM that doesn't mean flashing an existing one in situ with downloaded code.

JeffG1

25-07-2012

I just ran the SimonJStuart stuff, and this is what I got in the command window when I ran the batch file:

Code:

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>adb reboot bootloader
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>adb reboot bootloader

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>GEDify

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash boot boot.img
      sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [  0.757s]
                writing 'boot'... FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 1.337s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash system system.img
  sending 'system' (262144 KB)... FAILED (remote: (00120000))
finished. total time: 0.268s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
< waiting for device >
 sending 'recovery' (12288 KB)... OKAY [  1.056s]
            writing 'recovery'... OKAY [  2.439s]
finished. total time: 3.495s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
sending 'userdata' (139233 KB)... OKAY [  9.173s]
            writing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 21.909s]
finished. total time: 31.082s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot erase cache
               erasing 'cache'... OKAY [  1.959s]
finished. total time: 1.960s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot reboot
                     rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.811s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>

As you can see, some steps failed and some steps worked. During the initial set up, I had a Motorola screen - surely I should not see any Motorola specific stuff any more?

I went to Settings / About tablet and it still says Android version 3.2. When I tapped System updates it said "Your device is up to date. No update is necessary at this time.

Please tell me what happened!

Edit: I did what it said, and tried again. This time the boot.img flash worked, but the system.img and recovery.img both failed. About to try for the third time...

JeffG1

25-07-2012

For some reason I can't edit my last reply any more.

I think my device is bricked. Thank you SimonJStuart. It has now written the boot loader but fails to write the system, so there is no system to boot.

This is what I get now:

Code:

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>gedify

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash boot boot.img
< waiting for device >
      sending 'boot' (8192 KB)... OKAY [  0.770s]
                writing 'boot'... OKAY [  2.233s]
finished. total time: 3.008s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash system system.img
  sending 'system' (262144 KB)... FAILED (remote: (00120003))
finished. total time: 175.129s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
 sending 'recovery' (12288 KB)... FAILED (command write failed (No such file or directory))
finished. total time: 0.003s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
< waiting for device >
sending 'userdata' (139233 KB)... OKAY [  9.715s]
            writing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 21.745s]
finished. total time: 31.465s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot erase cache
               erasing 'cache'... OKAY [  1.950s]
finished. total time: 1.953s

C:\Users\Jeff\Documents\XOOM GEDify>fastboot reboot
                     rebooting...
finished. total time: 0.815s

Any suggestions?

JeffG1

25-07-2012

Yay! I has system!

Don't know how I did it, but I now have a system installed on my Xoom. Cancelling trip to the tip.

Edit: Maybe I spoke too soon. I now get the Welcome screen then it goes off to a Honeycomb-type screen saver then back to the Welcome screen. If I click on Start, nothing happens.

And I can't install the MTP USB device.

Edit again: Sorry to be boring everybody, but I went round and round the process again and now have a fully working system. At last.

spursgalea

26-07-2012

Hi instead of starting a new XOOM thread I put this question in here. Has any one who has ics have this problem when trying to watch certain programs. What happens is the ads play fine but when for example corrie starts I keep getting the round buffering sign in the middle of the player. It something that is puzzling me. I have the itv player app witch i downloaded though a google search and work fine .I know its ics because on honeycombe programs worked as they should but on ics that wont play.I have the latest flash. It just one of things that is puzzling me .what different in ics?

ruddiger

27-07-2012

Just got jellybean . Over the air update for xoom GED .

Magic Cottage

27-07-2012

Originally Posted by ruddiger:
“Just got jellybean . Over the air update for xoom GED .”

Likewise about 4 hours ago! Too early to fully assess yet.

jimky11

28-07-2012

hi XOOMERS

got my jelly bean update this morning, everything looks OK not had a lot of time to explore.
just thought I would let everyone know so you can manually check for updates. I just switched mine on and the update started.

Magic Cottage

28-07-2012

Had mine 24 hours now (see above post). ICS+ Browser now does not work at all. Logical I suppose as the name implies it was for ICS. Firefox for Android now crashes every time it's used, so for now it's back to stock browser.

I know that the official stock browser for JB is Chrome but that doesn't support Flash, which particularly in the next couple of weeks with the Olympics and therefore iPlayer is useless.

Apart from that all seems fine. Voice recognition seems to be massively improved and I love the new search facility already.

jimky11

28-07-2012

Have you tried dolphin. Browser seems to work ok, bbc iplayer. Not working tried to download flash from google play but says not compatible with my system.
Last edited by jimky11 : 28-07-2012 at 12:58

Magic Cottage

28-07-2012

Originally Posted by jimky11:
“Have you tried dolphin. Browser seems to work ok, bbc iplayer. Not working tried to download flash from google play but says not compatible with my system.”

I already had flash installed and it doesn't seem to be affected by the JB update. However, there are various places where the API is available. You would then need to sideload.

boyzie

31-07-2012

Originally Posted by jimky11:
“Have you tried dolphin. Browser seems to work ok, bbc iplayer. Not working tried to download flash from google play but says not compatible with my system.”

Flash
Here you go installed on my Jelly Bean Xoomhttp://www.anonymousbrowse.org/?http...s/a59amf1f5gos

jimky11

31-07-2012

hi Boyzie

downloaded link OK thanks, iplayer still wants me to download flash though and wont let me see anything. tried the rebooting thingy still cant get iplayer to work. what am i not doing correctly.

thanks in anticipation.

jimky11

boyzie

01-08-2012

Originally Posted by jimky11:
“hi Boyzie

downloaded link OK thanks, iplayer still wants me to download flash though and wont let me see anything. tried the rebooting thingy still cant get iplayer to work. what am i not doing correctly.

thanks in anticipation.

jimky11”

Have you tried removing iplayer and reinstalling? Tho I didn't think iplayer was compatable with Jelly Bean yet....
If you need iplayer badly you could try this:
Install Firefox Beta (Firefox 15). At this time the release is still in Beta, obviously when it becomes full release there is no need to install the Beta!
From your device from inside Firefox, download and install Adobe Flash Player 11.1_11.1.115.11.apk
Shutdown Firefox properly and restart it, then go to the BBC IPlayer website. From the top right hand menu in Firefox select Request Desktop Site. Then try it.

jimky11

01-08-2012

hi
thought of reinstalling iplayer but could not find it on play, will try again later on thanks

boyzie

01-08-2012

Originally Posted by jimky11:
“hi
thought of reinstalling iplayer but could not find it on play, will try again later on thanks”

I've just got it running on my xoom I will try and explain a bit later.

boyzie

01-08-2012

Ok try this: install Aptoid http://androidappsio.store.aptoide.c.../BBC%20iPlayer
and when its installed search for bbc iplayer and install it,its the latest version.

boyzie

01-08-2012

Got tvcatchup running also http://www.tvcatchup.com/android.html
If you install this you have to press the back button to get rid of the ad to see the vids.

hig2k

01-08-2012

got JB on mine now but my theme hospital keeps crashing now...
worked fine on ICS and i love playing it while taking a poo... lol!

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