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[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Hi all,

After using the Xoom 2 for a while as stock, and having experience rooting and installing custom ROMs to android phones I have, I decided to root my Xoom 2. I used Dan Rosenburg method and all was ok, got SU and installed Titanium backup and did full backup of system + user data. I know its always a good idea to backup

I have been on the lookout for a custom ROM for this device for a while but the bootloader is still locked and there is (to my knowledge) currently no way to unlock it, so that was out of the question.

After rooting and still having lag/performance issues, I decided to use ES File explorer in root mode to rename a few of Motorola's bloatware apps with the <insert bloatware app name>.apk and .odex to <insert bloatware app name>.apk.bak and .odex.bak.

I was following a list of apps that had been trial-removed by a developer and he had success. (I can't remember where I found the list).

All was still ok.

All these apps were in ~/system/apps by the way. I then renamed one starting with Moto, can't remember exactly, thinking it was bloatware, and the system crashes and now I am stuck in a boot loop and I can't access anything other than Fastboot Flash Mode, and even to get to there, I have to let it run dead flat, insert charger, wait for it to get to about 10%, then hold vol down key whilst pressing power. I have tried getting to recovery mode multiple times following instructions on motorola site, but each time it just gets stuck in boot loop.

Anyone got any ideas on how I could fix it?

I'm not really sure on how to use fastboot program on my PC, but when i enter "fastboot devices" in to command it just shows what looks to be a serial number. And "adb devices" returns a blank list, ie. not recognising anything plugged in.

Thanks in advance.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Hold down both vol + and vol - then press and hold the power button. Should take you to recovery mode. Pressing vol - to scroll and vol + to select. May have to do a factory reset if you have accidently edited a system file. Re-root install TB and hopefully your back up is still there...

Edit: im also an aussie telstra branded mz616 and have had to do this before so it will work for you.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Thanks for the reply, what you said did help somewhat as I was able to get to to the boot menu. Problem is now, when I go to Recovery mode, it comes up with three following:

Invalid Flash Mode (S) (Boot Failure)

0A.6C (sha-c79f1fc, 2011-12-19 11:35:56)

eMMC Info: Size 32G

Device is LOCKED. Status Code: 0

Battery Low

Cannot Program

Connect USB

Data Cable

Invalid CG HAB (CG: mbr, status: 0X0056)

Any ideas?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Also, I think it may be doing that because, before I found out how to bring up that menu (because the poor instructions I followed on the Motorola web site) I tried using fastboot mode to flash a recovery image I found on the internet and some commands in the batch file were successful but some failed.

If I didn't know any better, I think I may have bricked it.

I may be up for a new motherboard for it

: (
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Dont worry about the flash failure i have same thing from my noob days not realising i couldnt actually flash anything to it....

When you hold down all the buttons it should appear with a screen showing some info plus a menu with options to reboot normally, reboot in safe mode, wipe data and so on. Hit wipe data. And it will perform a factory reset.

Make sure you are hitting vol - vol + and then the power button last. Not all at the same time.

The screen you described is basically like download mode. Not the recovery screen.

---------- Post added at 01:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:28 AM ----------

If you manage to get to recovery and wiping everything doesn't work a new board is probably your best bet.

Tbh i would chuck the xoom 2 and put some cash towards a tab with flashing abilities. Or you could wait till at some point in the future for motorola to bring out a bootloader unlocking tool.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Ok, thanks heaps for your ongoing help. Which one of these options would be safe mode?

Screen says:

Boot Mode Selection Menu (0A.6C)

Vol Up Selects, Vol Down Scrolls

Available boot modes:

Normal Powerup

Recovery

AP Fastboot

BP SBF Flash

BP Only

BP HW Diag & Boot AP

BP Tools

I tried going into a few of these and most of them end up leaving me on the Fastboot screen I described before. One of them, can't remember exactly, I think it was BP Only, leaves me with just the red Motorola logo and stays there.

I think I'm running out of options as the battery level its low and it doesn't seem to want to charge... : (

One last thought, its there a way I could reset/ wipe it using Fastboot, as that seems to be the only thing I can use...

Edit: The other thing it does other than Fastboot mode is comes up with a similar screen saying Invalid Flash Mode (S) (Boot failure) up the top... The rest of the screen looks like Fastboot mode
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Just a general question.... If I was to use Fastboot to erase all the partitions, in effect all I could access would be Fastboot and nothing else, correct? And if so, would I then be able to flash a new recovery.img file to then use? Or for that matter, a new system.img and boot.img and the rest? Or would the fact that the boot loader is locked interfere with that?

Once again, sorry about all the questions and thanks for the help.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Im not a major flashing buff and my prominent knwledge sits with the sgs2 and ive only recently started researching into the xoom 2.

by the looks of it if normal booting and recovery (factory reset) do not work you have yourself a well bricked tablet. Im unsure about the image dump files being able to be flashed with a locked bootloader. I think it may be your last option and lets face it you dont have much to lose now hey?

As for the charging if your not using the charger that comes with the xoom you will experience very slow charge times. The charger that comes with it is optimized to produce a much higher voltage to charge the tablet within reasonable time... Using a standard usb charger you can face up to 10hrs before the device sits at 100%

Im unsure where you could find some stock image files but have a search around on xda maybe even post up what your looking for maybe someone will know exactly what problems you have and will be able to provide some more help.

But as i said, a locked bootloader leaves us xoom 2 users feeling rather left out with not muvh support when it comes to changing/flashing/fixing any part of the system firmware.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Yeah I'm pretty sure I've got a brick. I'll have to get the motherboard replaced I think.

Yeah I knew about the slow charging if using non genuine charger, but I left it overnight on the genuine charger that it came with, (the wall outlet only one) and still had low battery the next day.... I half expected that because I could only access Fastboot and nothing else and from what I can gather, the device won't charge in Fastboot so short of pulling the case apart and wiring the charger direct to the battery, it's bricked :(

I think I'll leave it to the professionals to fix.

Thanks heaps for all your help.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Just had a quick search around and noticed that motorola have brung out a software tool to unlock bootloaders for their devices.

The mz616 is not yet supported as they are still updating and adding to their website.

But since the xoom 2 is the one device you can not manually unlock there would be great demand for it to be added to their list.

If you were able to unlock the bootloader you would have no problem at all flashing the stock firmware or third party rom to your device.

Have a search on google for motorola bootloader unlock tool and find the website. Keep updated with their changes and hopefully soon there will support for our devices.

:D

If i find any other ideas i'll be sure to post them here for you. I know what its like to have a device that you have spent hundereds of dollars on and cant use it.

My little brother password locked my xoom and then could not remember it before i started becoming aware of flashing/rooting etc. And pretty much used my xoom as a large doorstopper for 3 months haha.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Thanks for that. While I am definitely looking forward to Moto releasing a unlock for it (if they decide to), I think the fact that I can't charge it is going to be the main issue now.

Hopefully it won't cost too much to fix
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
What are you doing to charge it? Are you using the charger that comes with the tab or a standard usb??
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
I'm using the direct wall charger, (not the USB cord with charger attachment) so it should be getting full current charge. I left it overnight with it turned off (ie. black screen)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Hmmm does seem like you have truly bricked it. I would be sendind it in for repair. You may have to pay for it though because motorola will see you have tried flashing something over it which would void the warranty...
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Yeah I rung them up and got the nearest repairer details and just told them what I had done. I figured they could tell that I had messed with it, considering it will only enter Fastboot LOL. I'll send it in and when it comes back, at least I'll know how to fix it if I stupidly brick it again haha.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Haha yeah oh well we learn from our mistakes. All good though sooner or later there will be a bootloader unlocking tool. There the android worl of flashing will be at our fingertips :p
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Indeed, won't be soon enough. Thanks for your time and suggestions, appreciate it.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
No worries. Thought ide give as much info as possible cause there isnt that much support for the mz616, especially Australian carrier locked devices.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] canyonrunner:
The fastboot files are avail now for the Australian xoom 2....do a search for it and you will be able to get it running again....:)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kent_lkc:
You don't need charger ... all you need is Factory Cable. See pic below:-

​

Self made Motorola Factory Cable.

1. Use Motorola Stock USB Cable

2. Jumper Pin 1 to Pin 4
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
I will definitely be trying that tonight
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orkane1989:
Bloody hell! Just as I sell mine too..... :banghead:

Sent from Jelly Fuelled SGS2
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Ok so I have had a little luck......

I attempted to make a factory cable and sort of failed so I bought one off ebay.

It arrived in the post today and I plug it in to the tablet, then plug in to my PC and straight away the tablet turns on and goes straight to:

The fact it now comes up with Battery OK, instead of battery low I presume means that the factory cable is working as it should.

I also managed to find and download the "1.6.0M-281.4-PASTEM_TABLET1PASTUAUTEL_fastboot.xml.zip" file which I believe is the Telstra Australia Fastboot file for the Xoom 2 MZ616.

The problem now is that my computer doesn't seem to recognise it....

Both "fastboot devices" and "adb devices" return nothing.

And it still does say Connect USB Cable on the tablet.

Before you ask.....yes, I do have the Motorola drivers installed, and I also tried getting RSD lite to see it with no luck (although I will admit I don't know how to use RSD)

I

AM

able to (leaving the factory cable plugged in) switch the device off, the hold volume keys and press power to get to the boot mode selection menu with available boot modes being:

I think I have tried all of these modes and they either hang on the Red Moto logo, or they go to a variation on the Fastboot screen I wrote above, in any case, fastboot or adb wont recognise it.

Any ideas or suggestions?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
EDIT: I fixed it! :)

I un-installed the Motorola driver then re-installed it and my PC then recognised it and I was able to run the Fastboot flash sequence. After it did it's thing, it rebooted and came up with an Android robot with spinning cogs, then it got stuck in the boot loop.....but I now regained the ability to charge it normally.

I turned it off, and then waited for it to get 20% charge, then I tried booting recovery mode....no good, came up with an exclamation in a triangle.

I then ran the other batch file with the erase user data sequence included in it, and after rebooting this time, I unplugged the factory cable and let it boot normally.

After about 5 minutes of Motorola logo it was asking for the SIM pin, entered it and....voila....working again!
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kent_lkc:
Good to know you've revived your xoom2.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Thank you to all for their help and support.

How do I mark this to solved?
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efrant:
Moved to Q & A section.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elderap:
Friend, I am in the same situation as you passed. Please could you describe gotten used'm trying the RSD Lite and have not had success.

Please help me.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4ck3rc1:
Sorry for the slow reply but I am not sure what you are asking. If you need help with RSD Lite I'm afraid I can't help you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lamborg:
Can someone please suggest me a few dual-core android based phones? I was away for some time and so I was not able to keep up with the new releases and with the price drops of the old ones.

I'll be using it outside US so it should be SIM unlocked so that I can put any GSM SIM.

Can be a World phone or GSM only phone.

I can consider buying used or refurb phone.

Should have good dev support. :)

Budget is $150-$230

Considered Motorola Photon 4g. What are my other options? Anything HTC?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KidCarter93:
Please post questions of this kind in the **Device Suggestions Thread**. Thank you.

"Knowledge is power" = Read, Read, Read!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christian Nothing:
I can suggest you to buy lg optimus 2x or an motorola atrix
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_nickless:
how about the Galaxy Nexus ?(http://www.google.com/nexus/#/galaxy/specs)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RomWiz:
He said that he has a 150-230$ budget ;)
[HTC One X] rommark:
will it bring back my STOCK rom?
[HTC One X] redfrog1243:
No, it will only delete the data on your sdcard. Youll be stuck on the same ROM that ypu are currently on

Sent from my HOX running IceColdJelly v1.2 with NCX v0.92
[HTC One X] glukosio:
for return back to stock you have to flash stock ruu, maybe you have to relock bootloader first, i'm not sure
[HTC One X] CubeCloudOS:
Flash stock rom first... Restore stock recovery... then RUU....Relock bootloader

HOS and HOX are so much alike this is how it works on most HTC phones but... doesn't your dev forum have a tutorial?
[HTC One X] Mantenner:
thats actually incorrect, it wipes the internal memory, not the "external" 28gb so all your files will be fine
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tictic:
I have a note gt-n700 of a national company in Kuwait with a sim now I am in Egypt does not accept any SIM of Egyptian and worked search for a network of Kuwaiti line and did not accept any of the networks Egyptian 3
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperseus:
As the title said, can someone mod and post the modded systemui.apk

I would really appreciate that. Xperia P has been ignored totally.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tadhara:
You mean something like in this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852169
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperseus:
Thanks...
[HTC One V] alifa:
Hi

What is vRam? What does it do? Can it harm the device?

How does it function?
[HTC One V] paarthdesai:
vram= virtual ram

Sent from my One V
[HTC One V] alifa:
I meant zRam(in CM 9):D
[G2 and Desire Z General] Toniii83:
I hope somebody can help me, my WiFi is going to sleep when the screen display goes off.

The option that wifi never turns off is on.

When I have i-net connection it's blue, when the screen is on it's white.

So if i'm going on 3g i get my email and whatsapp notice. But on WiFi (also with the blue indicator icon) i didn't get my mail or whatsapps.

I use CM7 ILWT 471, kernel: ilwt 1.8.0 radio: 26.13.04.19_M

Now i'm install wifi fixer, but i thing there must be a other way to fix it.

the wifi fixer does every 15 min reconnect the wifi signal.

I have re install ilwt, if did have a hard reset.

maybe you can help.
[G2 and Desire Z General] blade30p:
Sounds like your data connection is off, & check your GSM settings.

Sent from My Omega powered beast, using Xparent ICS
[G2 and Desire Z General] Toniii83:
No :( that not it, that was the first thing i checked....
[Galaxy S III General] gerome5095:
I currently have a stock standard SGS3, when i put the phone on charge, and leave it the green led eventually shows, i then press the power button to wake the phone and i see a green battery. At this point i cant do anything swiping doesnt do anything and the phone then shows a black screen. I then need to restart the phone. Has anyone else experiencing this issue?
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
It sounds like your charging the phone while it's switched off. Just put it on the charger without turning it off.
[Galaxy S III General] gerome5095:
Thats the problem the phone is switched on while charging.
[Galaxy S III General] Skander1998:
when the "green battery" shows, reclick (hold) the power button again, it should boot.

When the phone is off and you charge it , it shows that animation.
[Galaxy S III General] gerome5095:
Thanks I have no problem booting the phone from the green battery icon. My problem is that i charge the phone while it is on and for some strange reason it switches off when it is fully charged, surely this is not normal.

I normally leave my phone charging overnight and when i wake it the morning i have to reboot from the green battery screen :(

This does not happen all the time, and i'm using the standard samsung charger
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Your phone may have a problem due to excess charging where something freeze it down after the normal three hour charge .

See what happens on a normal charge .

Otherwise return under warranty .

jje
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stiggy1605:
The storage on my Touchpad for a long time was saying it was wrong, under CM9 it said it had a total of just over 8GB (1.4GB internal, 6.6GB SD card), even though I have the 16GB model. I just ran the webOS Doctor to reset my Touchpad thinking this would fix it, and it says under the device info screen in webOS that I have 16GB memory, but that I have only 4.1GB available. Is there any way I can fix this?
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ve6ay:
There is a thread in the General section (I don't have it handy because I am on my tablet now and don't have the link) that will let you restore your tablet to stock partition sizes - but do note it does a full wipe of everything, as you delete and recreate your partition table. Check it out, it should solve your problem.

73 de VE6AY

Sent from my HP Touchpad, running the latest CM9 nightly, from the XDA Premium App
[TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stiggy1605:
Found it and did it, the amount available is correct now, thanks.

If anyone else wants to fix theirs and finds this thread, I used this guide
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] bejoysam07:
Hey Guyz,

I am new to ANDROID and I am having a Xperia NEO V with a locked bootloader.

I am not familiar with all this rooting and its terms.... I need HELP on rooting my phone and installing a CUSTOM ROM.

Plz help me in this matter with STEP by STEP Guide.

I am actually facing performance issues after UPDATING my android to Icecream Sandwhich 4.0.3

The problems I face are:

1. Takes minimum 5 seconds to open up dial pad.

2. My memory seems to be low (55MB free)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Madfysh:
How about you sit down and read few sticky threads and find step by step instructions.

Being new is ok, we were all new one time, but being lazy is not an excuse.

All info is out there, read it before you start messing with your phone. Its for your own(and your phone) good. ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hossein7292:
why on earth you people are asking your questions without even looking for answer yourself ??

none of us here born an android expert..a bit mean here lol

dude there are plenty of threads in dev section to help you out
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tartloch:
i have an international unlocked Galaxy S2, i am heading to orlando florida in november for 3 weeks and looking for the best option for cheap calls/data

i have checked with my current provider (vodafone uk) and using my current sim will be to exspensive for data.

what are my options att or t-mobile

do they have an sim only plan that can be used for one month that has a decent data limit
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msio7:
t-mobile has very good prepaid plans
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lancez:
But with T-Mobile you won't get 3G on SGS II. See if you can get AT&T prepaid sim
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DJ_Jedi:
With AT&T you have to pay 35 bucks of activation fee and the plan is more expensive than T-Mo, but you will only get edge.

I lived in the US and i got a T-Mobile plan but data connection it's pretty slow.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tartloch:
thanks

will probably go for AT&T(seen that t-mobile connects to edge) , is there apn details that i will need to setup.

checked the AT&T site and can see no way to get the gophone deal without the phone, so might need to just visit a store to see. happy to pay the $60 for data and international calls as long as there is no hidden activation charge
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tibrocks:
Hi, i flashed cwm on a stock ics SGS2 and removed some of the system apps. However some apps left traces, how do I get rid of them?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
boot to recovery and wipe cache partition

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazi_rizwan:
Press left soft key, goto edit mode. There will be "-" signs next to each app. Click the "-" sign and it will be deleted !

PS : The minus sign will be visible only for the system apps u've already deleted using "root" deleting methods !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
that happens to me when i use SystemApp Remover.. i just normally reboot my phone :P
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tibrocks:
I tried everything.. Wiped cache, I managed to remove some of them with edit/- but I still have some persistent ones.. Isn't there a directory where I should search?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] nikeradsn:
Hello

I've read many comments, and when someone has a problem many people say to reinstall the aurora.

I would like to know what do i have to do in order to reinstall it. do i have to downgrade it to gingerbread and then install aurora or do i need to just install aurora and the 4.1updatea?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Valhalla69:
Just needed to go to cwm and wipe data, wipe cache and wipe davilk. Then flash the respective zip file. That's it!