Motorola Xoom has been out there for quite some time now but the development for Android 3.0 honeycomb device is going on very slow as Google has not provided the source code for the tablet version yet. Despite Google turning its back against developers the guys at XDA have managed to dish out a custom kernel which supports SD Card on the Xoom .
The kernel is still not perfect and is in testing stage right now, its not possible to swap the SD cards without a reboot but its great work by the developer as now you don’t have to send your xoom to Motorola for about two weeks to get it done. This kernel also has many other functions like USB Host mode, OpenVPN support and Microsoft Netshare support.
Are you interested in flashing this custom kernel, if yes you can follow the steps below.
How to flash the latest version of the Tiamat Kernel:
Requirements:
- Download the files from here http://www.bigrushmods.com/xoom/kernelz/Tiamat_Xoom-v1.3.0.zip
- You should have adb access
- Rooted device
- Unlocked bootloader
Procedure:
- Open Cmd prompt and get adb access
- Type in “adb reboot bootloader” followed by pressing enter in the cmd prompt
- You will boot into the bootloader now you will have to flash the boot image to the boot partition, type in the following in cmd prompt, hitting enter after each line:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot
- Go to the place where you have downloaded the files on cmd prompt by typing “cd (followed by the folder path)”
- Now your device will reboot after it comes on the home screen type in the following, hitting Enter after each line (what you are doing here is pushing the files bcm4329.ko, scsi_wait_scan.ko,tun.ko and cifs.ko into /system/lib/modules folder ):
adb remount
adb push bcm4329.ko /system/lib/modules/bcm4329.ko
adb push tun.ko /system/modules/tun.ko
adb push scsi_wait_scan.ko /system/lib/modules/scsi_wait_scan.ko
adb push cifs.ko /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
adb reboot
- That’s it after rebooting you will be having the kernel and you would be able to use the SD Card
If you have any problems you can let us know in the comment section.
