[Xoom Android Development] scribbl:
How to do this with Tiamat 1.4.0

Hi folks,

Posted a thread for how to do this directly with 1.4.0 Tiamat using Clockwork Recovery. Hope it's useful... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13231774

I combined instructions from this with the Clockwork thread and Tiamat thread to work out what I was doing :) No actual original work was done :cool:

The instructions may be more appropriately located here than in a new thread, so I'll repost it here and if a Mod deletes the new thread as a dupe of this one then they're still available...

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Figure I should give a little back to this forum. I bought a UK WiFi Xoom today. Looking at a few threads I've managed to piece together rooting instructions that use the new 1.4.0 Tiamat kernel directly. This might be of use to someone as noobish as me :) I'm using a Mac so I'll talk about terminals etc., but the Windows version should be easy enough to work out, especially if you read this along with the existing root method. Remember to check commands are

Check these threads first of all and grab the files...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1038870

ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.5

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=978013

Tiamat 1.4.0 (second post in the thread)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1010568

Motorola WiFi Xoom Root Zip file

Moto Drivers (if you're on Windows)

Now go to these sites and grab the files for your platform...

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Android SDK

http://developer.htc.com/adp.html

Fastboot

Thanks to bigrushdog and Xaositek who I am just putting in the right order.

Unzip the Android SDK

Open the Tools folder

Run Android

Click Available Packages

Install the Android SDK Platform-Tools

Now you'll have a Platform-Tools folder inside your Android SDK folder.

Copy Fastboot over into the Platform-Tools folder

Copy the recovery.img for Clockwork Recovery into the Platform-Tools folder

Unzip the WiFi Xoom Root file and copy the files into the Platform-Tools folder too

Fire up your Xoom and make sure you have USB debugging enabled (Settings > Applications > Development)

Now you need to fire up a terminal on your computer

Change into the Platform-Tools folder in the Android SDK

Now type this

adb reboot bootloader

Wait for the Dual Core screen with the Fastboot text on it then type

fastboot oem unlock

Now on the Xoom

Back to the computer

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot

Once reset do this to get into Clockwork Recovery

adb reboot recovery

Now use Volume Up and Volume Down on the Xoom to move the prompt and Power to select it.

When the Xoom rebooted (took a while and stuck on looping the cool honeycomb animation for a while) I lost my USB debug mode and had to re-enable it.

Back to the terminal

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
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
adb reboot
adb shell
su
exit
exit

Now just for good measure, and since it was a new Xoom I went into Clockwork Recovery and Wiped the User Data and the Cache. If you want to do this then in the terminal:

adb reboot recovery

And use the volume buttons and power to select the appropriate options.

Now you have Tiamat Kernel 1.4.0 installed, and Clockwork Recovery 3.0.2.5 and have Root access...

Hope this helps someone. I've got a lot from XDA over the years for my Nexus One and Nexus S and figure I should give back :)