Motorola’s Xoom tablet has finally been rooted! An Android developer, Kaushik, has achieved the root access on his Motorola Xoom. The rooting guide is given below.
If you want to root your Motorola Xoom, you will need to have adb and fastboot installed on your computer. Since nonfunctional SD card slot in the tablet, the developer is waiting for Google to release a fix in next firmware update, and then he’ll release the working recovery to use on the device. Please note that ROM manager updates will be available very soon to users.
Motorola Xoom Root Guide
- # Download the XOOM root zip.
- # Unzip the package.
- # Put your junk in the box.
- adb reboot bootloader (skip the next 3 steps if you have already unlocked via fastboot)
- fastboot oem unlock
- # wait for reboot
- adb reboot bootloader
- fastboot flash boot rootboot.img
- fastboot reboot
- # wait for reboot
- adb remount
- adb push su /system/bin
- adb shell ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
- adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
- adb push Superuser.apk /system/app
You’re done!
[Source – My Brain Hurts]