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Xoom bricked

Hi there everyone,
I have a huge problem. Last night i bricked my xoom. I was following a tutorial on this forum. and after unlocking the bootloader it told to flash a file called boot.img after doing so and typing fastboot reboot, the device wouldnt start behind the motorola logo. i tried allot of thing and also did flash some other stock android 4.0.4 boot.img files now with the last one mentioned i managed to get the xoom (wifi) to boot a little further. because the ripple movie with the motorola logo is shown. but it stucks at that movie.
Does anyone know if i can flash an image on the xoom that will atleast fix the problem of not rebooting so i can try another tutorial.
I have searched the internet for solutions, many of them linked to threads on this forum. but almost all download links in these tutorials are old and broken.
Can someone please help me unbrick my device? And maybe a link to a good working unroot tutorial for my xoom wifi with android 4.0.4.

Try get back to Stock.
Download from HERE
and do some OTA updates afterwards so everything will be up to date.
Then wipe and try again from scratch..
Worked for me perfectly just a few days ago.

If you can still get into fastboot, then its not bricked.
Get some stock images and flash them via fastboot and you'll be fine.

Cubanluke88 said:
If you can still get into fastboot, then its not bricked.
Get some stock images and flash them via fastboot and you'll be fine.
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Indeed it worked. i downloaded the official images and flashed them im on android 3.0.1 again and all seems to work just fine now.
Next problem is i cant find a descent tutorial on this forum how to root the xoom. all download links are either removed due to copyright issues or the links are just broken.
How does it work actually?
1. I unlocked the boot loader wich is very easy.
but then? Do i need to flash a rooted image over the existing? i dont really understand how this works. I rooted my Desire HD with a good tutorial in minutes. Not many people seems to really know how to root the Xoom.
Also i would like to know if the different tutorials are for different android versions or can i aply all tutorials of rooting when i stay on android 3.0.1?
I also tried to flash a recovery.img to the recovery partition and press volume down 3 seconds after the moto logo apears but when i do i get an android robot with a big " ! " on his belly and it takes 5 minutes to load the menu. when im in it tells me there is no sdcard present when i try to flash a rooted rom (zip file).
Is there someone reading this thats willin to explain to me how to do a root the easiest way? Please if links are posted be sure everything on that thread is working. Im pretty sure i will pull it off with some push in the right direction.
Thank you!
(edit) omg im stupid, offcourse the sdcard wont work... it never worked at 3.0.1. on the xoom. can i follow this tutorial:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/451-how-to-root-the-wifi-only-xoom-301/
Could someone read over it and see if this is a good tutorial? last time i flashed a boot.img the whole xoom got stuck... is that because i had the wrong boot.img on the wrong android version? or should boot.img always work?

Do you plan on flashing to a custom rom after rooting? If so, you can just skip rooting altogether.
I say this because I'm not particularly familiar with that rooting method you linked (though reading through it, it makes sense, all its doing is pushing the necessary files for root access to the xoom via adb). I used a rooting script flashed through a custom recovery over a year ago - unfortunately the download link seems to be broken (I might have a copy at home).
So there's a few things you can do:
1. If you just want a custom rom - download the rom zip file and store on your device. Flash TWRP (my preferred recovery) in fastboot. Boot into TWRP and flash the rom zip file.
2. If you want stock OS root access -
a) Follow those steps you linked and see what happens. If things go wrong, you should be able to just flash those stock images again.
b) Wait for me to get home and see if I have the root script. You'll need to flash a custom recovery though in order to use it.

Cubanluke88 said:
Do you plan on flashing to a custom rom after rooting? If so, you can just skip rooting altogether.
I say this because I'm not particularly familiar with that rooting method you linked (though reading through it, it makes sense, all its doing is pushing the necessary files for root access to the xoom via adb). I used a rooting script flashed through a custom recovery over a year ago - unfortunately the download link seems to be broken (I might have a copy at home).
So there's a few things you can do:
1. If you just want a custom rom - download the rom zip file and store on your device. Flash TWRP (my preferred recovery) in fastboot. Boot into TWRP and flash the rom zip file.
2. If you want stock OS root access -
a) Follow those steps you linked and see what happens. If things go wrong, you should be able to just flash those stock images again.
b) Wait for me to get home and see if I have the root script. You'll need to flash a custom recovery though in order to use it.
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Ok thanks for your answer. Ill try to unroot with that method flashing directly to the recovery.img i also know now what i did wrong. i flashed the recovery.img not to the recovery partition but to the boot partition LOL. thats why the xoom didnt boot anymore
I see allot about Nightlies Eos, 4.1.1. is that a good rom? Does it look like the stock version?

eos 4.1.1 is simply awesome and its also pre rooted' so your bootloader is unlocked, all you gotta do now is install twrp recovery via fastboot ( my preffered recovery) then flash eos via recovery
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sygys said:
Ok thanks for your answer. Ill try to unroot with that method flashing directly to the recovery.img i also know now what i did wrong. i flashed the recovery.img not to the recovery partition but to the boot partition LOL. thats why the xoom didnt boot anymore
I see allot about Nightlies Eos, 4.1.1. is that a good rom? Does it look like the stock version?
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EOS is a pretty AOSP rom. No theme, though you can apply one if you like and change a few colors. There are various toggle additions you can add that make the user experience much better. It also comes with an overclockable kernel and is very very stable (despite being a nightly) The team has been supporting the Xoom for over a year and is very committed to the Xoom.
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sygys said:
Ok thanks for your answer. Ill try to unroot with that method flashing directly to the recovery.img i also know now what i did wrong. i flashed the recovery.img not to the recovery partition but to the boot partition LOL. thats why the xoom didnt boot anymore
I see allot about Nightlies Eos, 4.1.1. is that a good rom? Does it look like the stock version?
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As for flashing, just gotta make sure your text is good before hitting the enter key. Recovery flash should look something like this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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Some instructions for flashing can be found here
While that page is specifically for locking and flashing to return to stock, the commands are universal for fastboot. Hell, if you wanted to, you could manually restore a nandroid backup via fastboot and flashing images.

US Tmobile One S failed RUU

After unlock, root install recovery, by following
http://www.htconeforum.com/forum/htc-one-s-hacks/385-how-unlock-root-htc-one-s.html
then I put miui.2.8.24 from official website:
http://www.miui.com/extra.php?mod=download/rom&fid=160
after reboot, install miui, then reboot, the screen stays on the boot picture of miui, never changes, I guess that failed, and too bad, I didn't notice there is back up function in recovery, so I didn't notice,
what I have is: fast boot still talks to the phone, but seems can't mount the phone as a drive, so I can't load other ROMs to try it out.
then I try to follow this one:
http://www.htconeforum.com/forum/ht...c-one-s-back-100-stock-relocked.html#post2817
to restore the stock rom, there was any luck, after long time trying, RUU just failed. what should I do now?
I already relock it, can I still unlock it? if so, is there anywhere I can find stock img, and use fast boot to flash the stock img? is that possible?
Thanks.

Did you fastboot the boot.img of say ROM you're flashing?
If using CWM you need to fastboot the boot.img, just extract the boot.img from the ROM
Using fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img

baseballfanz said:
Did you fastboot the boot.img of say ROM you're flashing?
If using CWM you need to fastboot the boot.img, just extract the boot.img from the ROM
Using fastboot
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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first of all, thanks for reply,
no, but i did try to flash another boot.img, and wasn't any luck, so each rom has its own boot.img?

Ummm.......Yeah. It should be in the zip of rom you flashed.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.

fmedrano1977 said:
Ummm.......Yeah. It should be in the zip of rom you flashed.
T-MobileUS HTC One S running Stock Rooted 2.21.
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thanks, I will try it tonight. by the way, after you rooted, you get better battery performance while running stock rom?

[Q] Htc one s telus RUU?

I made the mistake of running a cm10 rom on my htc one s that didnt work on i so now i can only access TWRP and my phones bootloader from my One S so I'm trying to find my phone's stock RUU but there are so many out there! Can anyone tell me how to find one? Or another way to get into my phone using another ROM? My phone is rooted with Twrp recovery, Unlocked bootloader obviously and S-on. All my phone does is show the htc bootscreen and then go black but I can still enter bootloader and the TWRP menu and I can connect it to my computer fine. Any help would be VERY greatly appreciated!

IsaacDroid said:
I made the mistake of running a cm10 rom on my htc one s that didnt work on i so now i can only access TWRP and my phones bootloader from my One S so I'm trying to find my phone's stock RUU but there are so many out there! Can anyone tell me how to find one? Or another way to get into my phone using another ROM? My phone is rooted with Twrp recovery, Unlocked bootloader obviously and S-on. All my phone does is show the htc bootscreen and then go black but I can still enter bootloader and the TWRP menu and I can connect it to my computer fine. Any help would be VERY greatly appreciated!
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Don't give up. I had the same issue with my telus One S. I think I fixed it by falshing boot image separately and after flashing CM10. I believe this happens if the phone is rooted but is in S-ON mode, whatever that means. I remember it really gave me a hard time and as I was going to give up i flashed the boot image and it worked. You have to do it through a command window on your PC. There should be an all-in-one tool in this forum somewhere to simplify the steps a bit. Good luck!

Thanks!
new_convert said:
Don't give up. I had the same issue with my telus One S. I think I fixed it by falshing boot image separately and after flashing CM10. I believe this happens if the phone is rooted but is in S-ON mode, whatever that means. I remember it really gave me a hard time and as I was going to give up i flashed the boot image and it worked. You have to do it through a command window on your PC. There should be an all-in-one tool in this forum somewhere to simplify the steps a bit. Good luck!
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Thank you very much! Could you tell me what boot image you flashed and maybe how to get it and also how you flashed it? Thank you so much for the response!

IsaacDroid said:
Thank you very much! Could you tell me what boot image you flashed and maybe how to get it and also how you flashed it? Thank you so much for the response!
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It is in the zip file that you download to flash, i.e. your new ROM. So when you download CM10, open the zip file. BOOT.IMG will be there. Extract it and flash it to your phone. I believe everything was in One_S_All-In-One_Kit_v3.4. Look it up in the forum and it has all the tools you need. I admit that it was a pain and nothing was straight forward. I always root my android devices and install new ROMs. But HTC One S was particularly tricky.
Good luck!

Hello there! Fellow HTC One S user here! Don't give up on CM10! It's way better than stock on your one S! What you need to remember is that HBoot versions higher than 1.09 can't flash the boot while installing the rom, so you need to do that after flashing a rom! The boot for your version is going to be included in the rom's zip file. Look for the boot.img file located in the zip file's root. Every rom should have this. Place this boot.img file in the kernel folder of the One S all in one kit and flash it. You should be good to after that!
Don't hesitate to ask for more help if needed!
Simon

seoman81 said:
Hello there! Fellow HTC One S user here! Don't give up on CM10! It's way better than stock on your one S! What you need to remember is that HBoot versions higher than 1.09 can't flash the boot while installing the rom, so you need to do that after flashing a rom! The boot for your version is going to be included in the rom's zip file. Look for the boot.img file located in the zip file's root. Every rom should have this. Place this boot.img file in the kernel folder of the One S all in one kit and flash it. You should be good to after that!
Don't hesitate to ask for more help if needed!
Simon
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When I try to flash a ROM through fastboot it sends it fine but then it says: FAILED (remote: not allowed), and I tried pushing the ROM with adb but when I tried to put it on the sdcard, it said permission denied, do you know why? I am S-ON, would that be a problem? Thanks!

[Q] boot.img

Hey guys!
I´m trying to get the hang of flashing on my HTC One S. From the beginning I just wanted to get a good deodexed ROM with Sense, but after trying 4.2.2 on a Galaxy S2 I would really like to have it on my One S.
Here´s my question...
I have found some great ROMs that I want to try. I have TWRP 2.3.3.0 and I´m S-on. I know that I have to fastboot the boot.img before flashing any ROM. But is the boot.img the one inside every specific custom ROM (the .zip) or what? Do I extract it from the specific ROM (the .zip) or do I go about it any other way?
I have asked this in one specific thread but no answer. This is really Everything I need to know Before I start flashing... I feel I´m rather comfortable with all other info I have...
Thanx in advance!

Well, if there is no mention of a seperate boot.img in the OP, flash the One inside zip file
If you're stuck in a bootloop, choose the appropriate kernels from kernel threads

So I was right? I extract the boot.img from the rom.zip if nothing else is mentioned in the OT? Then I flash it through fastboot?
HTC One S via Tapatalk 2

Manneman32 said:
So I was right? I extract the boot.img from the rom.zip if nothing else is mentioned in the OT? Then I flash it through fastboot?
HTC One S via Tapatalk 2
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yes
but if your gettin bootloops try kernels from kernel thread

Manneman32 said:
Hey guys!
I´m trying to get the hang of flashing on my HTC One S. From the beginning I just wanted to get a good deodexed ROM with Sense, but after trying 4.2.2 on a Galaxy S2 I would really like to have it on my One S.
Here´s my question...
I have found some great ROMs that I want to try. I have TWRP 2.3.3.0 and I´m S-on. I know that I have to fastboot the boot.img before flashing any ROM. But is the boot.img the one inside every specific custom ROM (the .zip) or what? Do I extract it from the specific ROM (the .zip) or do I go about it any other way?
I have asked this in one specific thread but no answer. This is really Everything I need to know Before I start flashing... I feel I´m rather comfortable with all other info I have...
Thanx in advance!
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Hi !
Just download from playmarket this app " flash Image gui" , with this app you can easy extract kernel, and modules from your preferred rom, and flash them. All this app does automatically, just choose your zip file.
But you can choose another kernel, and flash it over , I.e. bubba vn 4 on Liquid, or Holo black bean.
Just download kernel from dev. tread and flash with "flash image gui" all this is for a few minutes.

As long as I have a Nandroid backup I can use AllInOne tool to flash stock kernel, recovery and my backup, right?
The Kernel-thread you mention... I actually can´t find it. Or am I missing something.
Can I ask Another question? If I want to flash another Radio with S-on... can I do that while in TWRP recovery? I have seen this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684477&highlight=flash+radion
I already have openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.0-ville.img flashed on my phone... so as I understand I can just flash the radion from TWRP-recovery?

Manneman32 said:
As long as I have a Nandroid backup I can use AllInOne tool to flash stock kernel, recovery and my backup, right?
The Kernel-thread you mention... I actually can´t find it. Or am I missing something.
Can I ask Another question? If I want to flash another Radio with S-on... can I do that while in TWRP recovery? I have seen this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684477&highlight=flash+radion
I already have openrecovery-twrp-2.3.3.0-ville.img flashed on my phone... so as I understand I can just flash the radion from TWRP-recovery?
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http://xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2134535
Here is the tread from "RMBQ"
And, I think you can flash with all in one tool, but I have no experience with.
About S-OFF , please read tread in development section.

Thanx guys for all the help!
All went well and now I have 4.2.2 on my HTC One S... sweet!

Modified Boot Image Android L (5.0.0_LRX21P)

Guys, use this modified boot image to flash the newest Android L (5.0.0_LRX21P)
Flash in Bootloader (this is not a flashable zip)!!!!
Flash the stock root able rom, here available on xda.
Don't worry it's for our FLO device, just a name. Sorry, i was in a hurry.
Have fun

Jerome-X said:
Guys, use this modified boot image to flash the newest Android L (5.0.0_LRX21P)
Flash in Bootloader (this is not a flashable zip)!!!!
Flash the stock root able rom, here available on xda.
Don't worry it's for our FLO device, just a name. Sorry, i was in a hurry.
Have fun
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Whats modified about it?

use this, if you want to flash the stock rooted rom via twrp etc...
if you use the stock one, your bootloader is locked after flash the stock rom

Jerome-X said:
use this, if you want to flash the stock rooted rom via twrp etc...
if you use the stock one, your bootloader is locked after flash the stock rom
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Incorrect mate, it's still unlocked after flashing factory images. I flashed factory files yesterday and I only lost root and recovery which I expected to happen.

topgeardave said:
Incorrect mate, it's still unlocked after flashing factory images. I flashed factory files yesterday and I only lost root and recovery which I expected to happen.
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Correct!
Op tell me exactly what you did here? Your talking about one thing but saying another. I dont get it

scrosler said:
Correct!
Op tell me exactly what you did here? Your talking about one thing but saying another. I dont get it
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It's just the latest bootloader.img, he thinks if you flash it separately you won't lock your bootloader before flashing the stock rom via recovery.

To my knowledge, nothing locks the bootloader, except you (via fastboot or a toolkit).

So i can install the stock image i downloaded from google and still keep root? What about recovery?
Sorry for noob question, i've only used custom ROMs in the past.

If you flash the stock L image with fastboot, you lose root and recovery but your boot loader stays locked/unlocked (whatever it was before).
To get recovery back, just flash it with fastboot.
To get root back, flash the boot image from the OP or a modified kernel like ElementalX and then flash SuperSU.
Done.
Sent from my LG-D801

Thanks for the answer.