How To: Unlock & Root Motorola Xoom Tablet

My faith in Motorola has been reinstated! Once again they provide us with a "Google experience device" that can be easily unlocked for developers to work on. Koush, the legend of custom recoveries (ClockworkMod) and apps such as ROM Manager has compiled a boot.img for the Xoom that runs as "root" allowing us to push the su binary to our device and chmod it properly. To root your Xoom, follow the steps below:

1. Download xoomroot.zip and unzip it
2. Place the files in your SDK tools folder
3. adb reboot bootloader
4. fastboot oem unlock (be sure fastboot binary is in your path)
5. Accept the legal notice then wait for reboot (this will wipe your data)
6. adb reboot bootloader
7. fastboot flash boot rootboot.img
8. fastboot reboot (wait for reboot)
9. adb remount
10. adb push su /system/bin
11. adb shell ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
12. adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
13. Download Superuser app from Market

Thats it, your device is now rooted!

Note: If you do not understand parts of this guide or feel that you need further instructions, it is safe to assume you should not try this.

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