Folks who just bought Motorola XOOM and are into hacking side of things will be pleased to know that the world’s first Honeycomb has been rooted. Care to guess the person behind this feat. We address this and provide the root guide after the jump.
Koushik Dutta is the name which needs no introduction to the Android hackers universe. And as the man said, the first Honeycomb Tablet being a pure Google experience offering device didn’t pose much of a challenge in reaching the rooted stage. But hey if I’m getting a rooted XOOM, I would consider it a big achievement.
Steps to root Motorola XOOM
Step 1: Download the XOOM root zip.
Step 2: Unzip the package.
Step 3: Put your junk in the box.
Step 4: adb reboot bootloader (skip the next 3 steps if you have already unlocked via fastboot)
Step 5: fastboot oem unlock
Step 6: wait for reboot
Step 7: adb reboot bootloader
Step 8: fastboot flash boot rootboot.img
Step 9: fastboot reboot
Step 10: wait for reboot
Step 11: adb remount
Step 12: adb push su /system/bin/
Step 13: adb shell ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su
Step 14: adb shell chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
Step 15: adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/
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