yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xoom General] HDCS:
On browsers and avoiding the dreaded mobile content format, try installing Firefox with the Phony add-on. This add on lets you fake your user agent so the servers will give you standard content. Once the add on is installed along with Firefox, go into the Firefox preferences menu and select your User Agent option of choice. You can even do iPhone if you're feeling wacky.

It would be nice of the Googlers out there would consider adding the User Agent setting in the default Android browser (is it Chrome, I don't know). Hint, hint :D
[Xoom General] PlinXoom:
The Sdcard is now enabled via Tiamat 1.3.0
[Xoom General] wase4711:
for root users ONLY...
[Xoom General] Scott ISH:
Steve, yes please! This has been driving me nuts. Mine came like this out of the box; I didn't even do a factory reset.

Thanks!
[Xoom General] spollock:
Sent you a PM since I still cannot post links yet... I need to post a few more times

it seems
[Xoom General] mr_wrong_0:
Never fear there is a new wpa_supplicant file that can enable ad-hoc networks on the Xoom. This thread talks about how to install it. I did it on mine and it works great! I can tether fine from my Rooted Epic.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1033314
[Xoom General] spollock:
I did this on my WiFi xoom yesterday. It now tethers to my samsung fascinate running Wireless Tether!

This is a good day!
[Xoom General] sangreal06:
nevermind.
[Xoom General] mhausig:
Some tips and app lists for music and video players for the Xoom and Honeycomb tablets I put together. I plan to keep it updated as new options become available.

Here

Updated to add UPnPlay
[Xoom General] Mikefm:
how to make a folder on home screen?

Does anybody know?
[Xoom General] Bigmille:
The current version of Honeycomb does not yet support folder like android smartphones. However, there are many free and cheap folder widgets on the market place.

Some I’ve used are:

Folder Organizer

Simi Folder widget

Circler Launcher

Because those are add on apps and not native app, there is a slight delay for them to open, but its very minor issue, plus they look MUCH better than stock folder option on android smartphone and have more Customizable abilities.
[Xoom General] Mikefm:
All of this app's hamper!

It was an issue on XDA how to make folders using root, but I can't find it any more!
[Xoom General] onedowg:
I downloaded quikpic gallery from market, since then dont have any problems as i use as Default gallery

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Xoom General] crackmulah:
i HATE that there arent folders in honeycomb. and to be totally honest, no offense to the developers, but all the third party folder apps are total crap and not really worth trying in my opinion. if you want folders on your xoom i suggest you use ADW LAUNCHER EX, as it just got updated for honeycomb.
[Xoom General] foszor:
I hate asking this question, because the answer is so simple on my Nexus One... but how do I rate/review apps on the Honeycomb version of the Market? I cannot figure it out for the life of me!
[Xoom General] stevebakh:
You can't, unfortunately. You'd need to browse to the web interface of the market and do it that way.
[Xoom General] drahyrt:
You would have thought this was a simple process within the market and a good option for 3.1, logging into the market is the only way, and a pain, meaning many ratings just aren't done, meaning less feedback and honeycomb users more in the dark.

Hope they fix this SOON.
[Xoom General] rjoudrey:
There should be a way Honeycomb users could see only Honeycomb users ratings!
[Xoom General] rschenck:
As far as I know the SDXC is software based, so theoretically any system that has a SD slot that can use SDHC cards can take SDXC after a driver update.
[Xoom General] Sir Schwanzelot:
Want to quickly access history and bookmarks in the stock browser?

a. Go into the stock browser

b. Tab & hold the back icon

c. Now you see the recent history and bookmarks
[Xoom General] vn_soft:
"Q: How do I lock my xoom display in Poirtrait"

I have lock rotate in setting but in only in landscape, PLZ
[Xoom General] lZooZl:
a confusing question

i baught the XOOM yesterday

on the box it is saying it is a wifi version

but when i watching it from all the angles, i saw a place where i can put a card in it

does it work? or it is only built in as standard in the two versions?

please help i want it to support data connection, if not i will return prior the return period
[Xoom General] UKseagull:
Can you post a photo of the slot? Are you sure you're not looking at the MicroSD slot?
[Xoom General] rschenck:
The casing of the WiFi and 3G models are the same...so you have a slot for a SIM card on both. The difference is that on the WiFi version there is no 4G antenna...so the slot is good for storing something the size and shape of a SIM card but that is about it. However, just above that is where you insert the microSD card, behind the same cover.

If you need it to support 4G data or you will return it...then why did you buy a WIFI ONLY version to begin with?
[Xoom General] lZooZl:
i guess returning it would be the best thing :(

and i will ask for the 3G one

hopefully i can get it

thanks mate
[Xoom General] oaz1:
Hold it in portrait and turn the lock rotate on.
[Xoom General] fwempa:
I use Barnacle too and at first it did not work until I selected to skip wpa_supplicant in settings. I had no luck with wifi tether and Barnacle has been all that I found to work for me on my Xoom.
[Xoom General] Majin101:
a cool trick that i learned (dont know if its been mentioned) but when u wanna remove a icon on the home screen hold it with your left finger then put down ur right finger near the remove button and let go of ur left finger without dragging it =P That is helpful if ur holding it with both hands and dont feel like lifting up your hands
[Xoom General] Koulack:
Nice tips, great thread!
[Xoom General] jphillips.hd88:
Please help...possible brick

Hi, I have possibly bricked my xoom...the good news is still goes into recovery, unfortunatley, i have no idea how to fix it....

ok, here are the chain of events...last night I unlocked and rooted via adb...worked flawlessly..

Installed Tiamat-Xoom-Rom-2.0-Manta-Ray...worked flawlessly, i did do a nandroid backup

installed the update 2.1....worked flawlessly

i pushed the ad-hoc via /wpa_supplicant...it was working last night

during my lunch today i fired up the xoom and connected my wifi tether from my revo to the xoom and I could only go to websites and could not access data through apps...here is where I screwed up...I flashed a zip of the ad-hoc and that didn't work either...Then I screwed up more and tryed to reflash the tiamat rom and rebooted.....

fires up the the dual core logo and stays there...

tried a recovery of my backup and the boot recovers but get error message on all the others backed up....

I can reboot into into recovery, and get adb access in recovery, but everytime i try to go to fast boot it knocks off my usb access and gets stuck...cant push anything after that.

anyone have any ideas how I can save this thing? any help would be so appreciated!
[Xoom General] jphillips.hd88:
One more thing, sorry

the SBF file from Multiupload is no longer there,,,i did get the latest version of RSD Lite (4.9) ....if anyone know how to get the sbf fine, please let me know and maybe some directions on how to use the rsd lite program....

Thanks again....I am worried!
[Xoom General] okantomi:
What you did doesn't sound too bad...When you say you can get into recovery, do you mean CWM recovery? If you did all of your additional flashing through CWM recovery, you are probably not bricked. Just do a complete wipe in recovery (user data/factory reset and the caches) and see if you can reboot. If so, you could reflash your rom and kernel if wanted. I thought that the ability to tether was built into the rom. I could be mistaken.

If this doesn't work I or someone else will help with the next steps...
[Xoom General] dellenrules:
you can still enter recovery mode and reflash the stock images. Just check out the return to stock thread for info.

Don't relock your bootloader unless your sure that it boots without any problems.
[Xoom General] GoNYoR:
nice work ... this is what you need to start ... keep going
[Xoom General] scriptx:
heres a tip for those of you using clockworkmod recovery to perform nandroid backups: create a file named " .hidenandroidprogress" in the /microsd/clockworkmod directory, NOT in /sdcard. recovery will read this file and will omit the content listing and progress bar during backups, which will drastically improve the backup speed.

Cheers!!
[Xoom General] jphillips.hd88:
Success! Thanks for the help!
[Xoom General] frigorific:
About video playback

I will no longer be transcoding my videos for playback on the xoom.

Just found out there is finally a proper player that plays normal 720p mkv h264 files with ac3/dts and doesn't stutter or go out of sync. [finally...]

Have only tried on a couple of movies myself - but the general feedback seems to be this is the video player we've been waiting for :)

Dice Player (trial)

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.inisoft.mediaplayer.trial

enjoy

fred
[Xoom General] Tinninches:
Agreed. Just when you think you've caught yourself up on what the thing can do...there's this site/thread(s)
[Xoom General] Jerryatric:
+1 works perfect. I can finally play and seek through HD files with no problems.
[Xoom General] vergil1991:
Thank you! very helpful!
[Xoom General] enmriley:
Wallpapers

Any chance someone can give some advice on setting wallpapers?

1. How can you set a downloaded file to fit the wallpaper without having to resize it. The Xoom always wants me to resize which results in a zoomed-in view that is blurry. I have had the same issue running the Galaxy Tab wallpapers. Here is the catch, if I go view a file (wallpaper in this case) online using the stock browser and bring up the image, then hold down on the image and select set as wallpaper, it doesn't ask me to resize and fits the screen just fine (kinda hints that its not the file, but the device). It makes it difficult as I need to find the images portrayed on-line to set correctly (not easily found).

2. Where is the default location for wallpapers on the Xoom? My goal is to put custom wallpapers in the same directory as the stock wallpapers (I am rooted).
[Xoom General] gonintendo:
I'm pretty sure that the reason why it has you zoom in is that the wallpaper has to fit the screen when you're in portrait mode too. I don't know of any way around this other than adding some latterboxes to your images.
[Xoom General] melch8805a:
thanks muchly for this :)
[Xoom General] nash.android:
Thank you! very helpful!
[Xoom General] musicman1965:
Thanks for this very usefull for a new xoom owner
[Xoom General] The Pieman:
Great, thank you very much !
[Xoom General] kiwipedia:
Cheers to that :D
[Xoom General] musicman1965:
thanks for this very useful info:)
[Xoom General] senyakr:
Hello, Prompt please, how to connect HUAWEI E1550 to XOOM MZ604? Thank you!
[Xoom General] alex94kumar:
very good thread, very useful information here
[Xoom General] amoc1001:
Great guide...thanks for the info.
[Xoom General] chaz81:
Informative to say the least
[Xoom General] drblink:
About:debug

It doesn't seem to go anywhere on my xoom or droid x. Anyone know the new command?
[Xoom General] bbygfy:
It happened to me with one of my USB cables. After switching cables, my Xoom was recognized by my computer.
[Xoom General] okantomi:
You are correct...I had forgotton that. We need to remind people who use windows to make sure the Media Player is downloaded.

I will add this to the top of my Rooting guide.
[Xoom General] Syphon Filter:
Gents,

I have just got a Xoom 2 16GB Wi-Fi only model and seem to be having a problem.

I have read this thread and searched but want to clarify a few things...

1. The charging LED does not light. Apparently it only lights when the unit is powered off. Ok, I can accept that.

2. When plugged in, if I try to power my unit off it powers up again on its own.

I spoke to Motorola tech-support about this and they said that was "designed" behaviour. The unit will automatically power on when the charge level is above a certain threshold.

Is the above true? Does the unit have to be VERY low on battery before the LED will indicate that charging is taking place?

I'm rather confused as all of the above seems totally counter intuitive to me.

Any advice appreciated.

EDIT:

Just realised this is a Xoom thread and not a Xoom 2 thread....:o
[Xoom General] Hawk600:
Great info here!

Thank you!

---------- Post added at 02:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:05 AM ----------

Same thing happened to me but I was not using the stock cable.

It worked fine as soon as I plugged the stock cable.
[Xoom General] kofrad:
This is the way it works for the original Xoom too. I've seen mention of a charging light mod floating around the forums somewhere which enables the light even while the device is on. I'm pretty sure you'll be required to be running a custom rom to use the mod, but I haven't looked into it.

I thought I wouldn't like no charge light while the unit is powered up but after some use feel the light could be distracting if you are using the tablet while charging.

It would still be pretty nice to see this mod integrated into CM9 somewhere ;)
[Xoom General] Neolo:
Eastern Egg ICS 4.0.4 US Xoom

Don't know if anybody already discovered this, but check it out. This this second stage of all known tapping in settings menu. Animated flying android ice cream sandwiches comes after picture of android is growing 2 times. Funny devs. :D
[Xoom General] fasttechelec:
Any sites that sell Motorola Xoom cases?

Does anyone know of any website that sell Motorola Xoom Cases? Looking to get a case to protect my tablet??
[Xoom General] okantomi:
Go to Amazon.com...there are still quite a few Xoom cases available, I believe.
[Xoom General] Voldemaristche:
The combination of power&volume up buttons doesn't work.The screen is frozen and the tablet is locked up(xoom 2 16 gb wi-fi from GB), I can see only the red logo moto(dual core) ,what should I do? At the first stage of work, the tablet was constantly rebooted(once per 2-3 minute). Tablet has the latest program update. I'm looking forward to answering from you
[Xoom General] almost-famous:
Thank you all for the information in this thread!
[Xoom General] charis232:
Does anybody knows how we can add more languages when we use the keyboard?\
[Xoom General] jane999:
You just download one from Google Play (or find the apk file and install it).

Also, for the Android 4.0.4, there is an option from Settings->Language and Input (or whatever it's called, mine is not in English now). From there, you can add another language and you can change them just like on a computer.

---------- Post added at 01:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:25 PM ----------

If you see the Dual Core logo, you should use Vol Down to select the Android Recovery. If nothing works, maybe you have a hardware problem?
[Xoom General] mrdummy:
Not sure it's already posted here, but i have list of the versions:

XOOM DEVICES

MZ505 = XOOM Family Edition

MZ600 = XOOM 4G LTE

MZ601 = XOOM 3G

MZ602 = XOOM 4G LTE

MZ603 = XOOM 3G

MZ604 = XOOM WIFI

MZ605 = XOOM 3G

MZ606 = XOOM WIFI

XOOM2 DEVICES

MZ607 = XOOM2 Media Edition WIFI / XYBOARD 8.2 WIFI

MZ608 = XOOM2 Media Edition 3G

MZ609 = DROID XYBOARD 8.2 (with 3G)

MZ615 = XOOM2 WIFI / XYBOARD 10.1 WIFI

MZ616 = XOOM2 3G

MZ617 = DROID XYBOARD 10.1 (with 3G)

Should now make clear which firmware you need and which not! Can moved to first post if you want.
[Xoom General] vegasjb1:
auto rotate

I did the OTA ICS update and tablet will not auto rotate it is stuck in landscape. I have factory reset it twice and hard

Rebooted several times. I have toggled auto rotate button and it does nothing. Any suggestions as to what may correct problem?
[Xoom General] b4b4.4l1:
I was wondering why my xoom sometimes couldn't handle 720P videos but some other times could. Now I know the details of this. Thanks :highfive:
[Xoom General] Brendan9967:
Just reading this fixed a couple of issues for me, thank you.
[Xoom General] atloops:
Thanks for putting together this info for us. I, too, have learned a few things from reading it. Definite bookmark material for me.
[Xoom General] csmoore88:
!!MODERATOR, SORRY IF IN WRONG PLACE...MOVE/DELETE IF NECESSARY! !!

I AM EXCITED...XOOM LTE (VERIZON) IS GETTING JB SOAK TEST ANY DAY NOW. AS PART OF MOTOROLA FEEDBACK NETWORK I DID THE ENTRY SURVEY 2 DAYS AGO...HOLD ON TIGHT AND SAVE YOUR APPETITE FOR JELLY BEANS BABY. WOO TO THA HOO
[Xoom General] maxacaille:
hi guy's root for xoom wifi only in us.

I guys i saw that you gave dead link for the universal root may we have another one for the xoom plz. I'm not able to get the fastboot boot boot.img.thx alot guys great work
[Xoom General] Mr.Byte:
Quick -n- Dirty dual boot for linux hackers

If you're doing the linux thing (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1138661) a nice way to avoid reflashing the boot partition constantly to switch back and forth is to flash the recovery instead, ie:

fastboot flash recovery boot.img

Then you can use the power down/up to get into recovery, and it'll boot your linux setup instead.

Or, you could flash your android boot image into recovery and then boot android as above, and have the linux boot image in the normal boot area. I haven't tested this, but I can't see a reason why it wouldn't work.

Yes, I know this probably belongs on that thread, lower than 10 posts, sorry. If a kindly mod would move this, that would be great.

Awesome forum, great job to all.
[Xoom General] pkarza:
Omnirom 4.4.2 keeps the xoom alive!!

TWRP with Omnirom and SU shows that this hardware lives long.
[Xoom General] Phinatic:
Thanks for this thread. I've been away for a while and decided to dust off the old Xoom.
[Xoom General] Seilenos:
That's amazing, YoWindow App gives tablet a second life. Everything works with both custom 4.4.4. ROMs: CyanogenMod & OMNIrom. Many thanks to author par128
[Xoom General] yoshkapundrick:
Second life? What are you using the tablet for?
[Xoom General] Kovaelin:
Out of curiosity, what dock are you using with your Xoom?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cshih2:
It shows installed in the market bit cannot open it and I cannot find it on the phone
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sushiboy:
Same here.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krohnjw:
Working fine here on 2.3.3. It's not listed under Manage Apps at all?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr mystery:
Ditto, under market its shows as installed but wont open.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psp888:
mine has gone too, I don't use it so not really fussed.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffdgr8:
It seems that it is just the shortcut that has stopped working. Try opening it from the app drawer. Delete the shortcut and recreate it and it should work.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psp888:
its gone from app draw...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeffdgr8:
Hmmm, strange. Recreating the shortcut worked for me. Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling it? What about rebooting? I've noticed occasionally apps disappearing from the app drawer, but usually a reboot brings them back.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psp888:
rebooted, no difference.

not in the shortcut app list to place on homescreen

in market, google voice says installed, but the open app button is greyed out...
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenvan19:
Ignore. 10char.
[Desire General] j0r01:
Hi,

I find battery usage a bit high on CM 7(RC1 and nighly).

Batter Montor widget or CurrentWidget shows values from 6-12 mAh.

With same radio i have 3-5 mA when using default HTC Sense ROM.

I did full wipe factory reset, dalvik, cache etc..

I need some tips how to diagnose the problem and eventually file a bug report.

I am using lates radio 32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17, but the problem is the same with older one 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27

I don't think the problem is with the radio itself, because it will be problematic with all ROMs (?)
[Desire General] Meaple:
You do realise that you can post in the CM7 thread. You also realise that RC and nightly builds arn't stable releases?
[Desire General] j0r01:
ofc i know that . I also know that if it is a bug, someone will have to report it. That's the goal of RC after all . May be you should read the whole post after all.
[Desire General] p5x:
I seem to be having a similar experience with oxygen rom so would be interested in investigating what is causing this. Tried looking at all the usual stuff in QSI to weed out programs that may be causing this problem but nothing jumps out at me. Plus, i'm having the problem with completely clean rom without any apps installed.

Don't think that sort of response if going to help your cause tbh :rolleyes:
[Desire General] feiyangb:
I also know that if it is a bug, someone will have to report it. That's the goal of RC after all . May be you should read the whole post after all.
[Desire General] ivan_dgo:
same here. battery just runs dry very fast! (after playing a song on youtube, battery goes down for about 6%)
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
Try a different kernel. I recommend ManU kernel (the CFS-HAVS-AXI-version).
[Desire General] alojo:
Same comments in spanish forum:

http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=303281&page=21#402

This guy is recommending aEVViollet (..35) kernell.

I'm thinking about changing into Oxygen.

Best regards
[Desire General] alojo:
It is getting better, isn't it?
[Droid Eris General] Hungry Man:
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2652

Basically (Especially in GB) Launcherpro is forced to redraw every time you go back to Home. This slows things down.

So here's how we fix it:

Open a terminal, type su and hit enter (you must be rooted for this to work). Now go look and see if you have a file called: /data/local.prop

IF NOT, then type this directly into the same su'd terminal: echo ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 > /data/local.prop and hit enter, and then reboot.

IF YOU DO, have an existing file called /data/local.prop already, open it with a text editor, and add a line at the very end (if an identical line does not already exist) with this: ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 and then reboot.

If you don't think it helps and you want to undo what this command does, then either delete the following file (if you had created it by typing the command into the terminal): /data/local.prop or if that file had already existed, then just remove that line we had added to it. That's it, back to before. No skin off your back to try this anyway.

Again, this is from the LauncherPro forum, I just wanted to bring this up for anyone having problems.
[Droid Eris General] tyler1524:
Well I tried this, and maybe its just confirmation bias, but I do feel like it may have helped a little. I didn't have much lag at all to begin with though. Thanks for finding this hungryman
[Droid Eris General] Cheatman1:
+1

i'm on gsbv1.6 as well and honestly there is no lag at the homescreen ever for me.
[Droid Eris General] Hungry Man:
It should be more noticeable when:

opening the app drawer

switching to home from other applications
[Droid Eris General] Hungry Man:
For me personally, the difference in speed when opening the app drawer is pretty large.
[Droid Eris General] hallstevenson:
I've noticed a lag but didn't give it much concern... I'm going to give this a try. If it really works, I'm sure I'll notice an improvement.
[Droid Eris General] spc_hicks09:
Confused, I have no lag.
[Droid Eris General] MoeDee:
Lock home in memory..

Perfomace options..

In cyanogen mod settings

No lag at all
[Droid Eris General] workshed:
I don't see any of this, must be my god like Eris :)
[Droid Eris General] workshed:
Amen, agreed :)
[Droid Eris General] Hungry Man:
The point of it is that the "lock home in memory" does not always work.
[Droid Eris General] workshed:
Hmm, haven't seen that one yet, or seen it reported.