February 25, 2011

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.

Screen shot after the jump...



    12 comments:

    1. Orly Eduardo2/25/11, 12:17 AM

      nice now all that I need is to own a XOOM
      but I would like to have a wifi only XOOM tablet

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    2. Anonymous2/25/11, 8:23 AM

      baxter, you know i don't speak spanish. in english please!

      seriously though, video tutorials pwn text.

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    3. Christopher2/25/11, 11:14 AM

      I agree once the wifi only version is available I might jump on this.

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    4. Stellar Drift2/25/11, 1:39 PM

      Enjoy it whilst it lasts - its probably an oversight on Motorolas part.

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    5. Unknown2/25/11, 8:38 PM

      Nope, not an oversight:

      http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/22/motorola-xoom-will-have-unlockablerelockable-bootloader-for-development/

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    6. Anonymous2/26/11, 1:40 PM

      off topic, I know...sorry.
      Pete- Any chance you will get a vzw Galaxy Tab? I'd pay $100.00 for a BB rom for the tab.

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    7. Anonymous2/26/11, 9:33 PM

      you should port honeycome to the gtablet

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    8. Anonymous2/27/11, 4:30 AM

      Will you be able to easily unroot? The XOOM should get the free LTE upgrade from Moto/Verizon, but if its rooted I can imagine they'd be less than thrilled with that. Just curious, was considering on purchasing one.

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    9. Anonymous2/27/11, 9:15 PM

      FYI SetCPU updated for Xoom =)

      http://goo.gl/Z2M8g

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    10. oldsurferjoe2/28/11, 5:51 PM

      Peter - what are you wanting from the XOOM Rom?

      Maybe turn on phone function?

      Would like your comments?

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    11. Unknown3/6/11, 1:55 PM

      Little help please - when i try step 11, I get "link failed No such file or directory". Any suggestions.

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    12. Unknown3/28/11, 2:00 AM

      Will this work for the wifi only xoom?

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