Motorola has locked the bootloader on its every Android device after the Motorola Droid. It showed no sympathy to the developers and did everything to prevent hacking their devices. All the developers were pleased to hear that Android 3.0 Honeycomb flagship device, the Motorola Xoom will be blessed with an unlockable/relockable bootloader. This was the result of Google personally working with this device and making sure that the bootloader is unlockable which will enable the developers to access the hardware for development along with ensuring that there is no other UI on top of honeycomb like the MotoBlur.
How to Unlock the Bootloader of the Motorola Xoom:
Note: The following process will VOID warranty and will unlock the Bootloader of the Motorola XOOM which will enable you to put custom Recovery and later even Custom ROMs on the Device.
This will also erase all user data of your Xoom!
Be Careful!
Requirements:
- Motorola USB drivers from here
- Android SDK from roid.com/sdk/index.html”>here
Procedure:
- Install the above drivers and SDK
- Power Off the Xoom
- Press and hold the Volume Down button and the power button together until you see some ‘Fastboot Protocol text’ on the top left of the screen
- Open cmd prompt from Start > Run > Type cmd in the text space and press Enter
- Go to sdktools in the cmd prompt
- From sdktools give the command ‘fastboot oem unlock’ and press Enter
- You will get a prompt on your Xoom, read the warning and press Volume Up
That’s it you are done! Now you can flash recoveries and ROM’s whenever they come out for the Xoom.
