How To Upgrade Motorola XOOM To Android 3.1 Honeycomb


Do you have a Motorola XOOM tablet PC? If yes, then it’s the time to upgrade Motorola XOOM to Android 3.1 Honeycomb. This Android 3.1 update might come to other tablets after a month or so, but for XOOM owners, here is the update for the OS.

Below are some of the features that Android 3.1 Honeycomb update would inject to your Motorola XOOM tablet PC:

  • You can resize home screen widgets
  • You can expand the list of all the recently used apps
  • It would feature an app which would let you rent movies and stream them from Android market
  • Updates for all the default apps
  • Better user interface
  • Better WiFi support
  • USB connectivity for gamepads and digi cams
  • And much more to explore

Upgrade Motorola XOOM To Android 3.1 Honeycomb

All you need is a rooted Motorola XOOM tablet PC, ADB setup on your computer and official Android 3.1 update on your computer. Once you are done with all the above mentioned things, you can go ahead with your task to upgrade Motorola XOOM to Android 3.1 update.

  • To start with, connect your rooted XOOM to your computer
  • Now, rename the downloaded zip file of Android 3.1 update to update.zip
  • Copy the folder that you have renamed in the above step and paste it in the Tools folder in Android SDK directory
  • Now you need to hit few commands on the command prompt. So, run cmd from RUN which would launch the command prompt, and hit the below commands

adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
adb shell
su
cd /cache
mkdir recovery
cd recovery
echo ‘–update_package=CACHE:/recovery/update.zip’ > command
cat /sdcard/update.zip > update.zip
reboot recovery

That is it! Now your tablet PC would reboot in Recovery Mode and will complete the update. This is how you can manually upgrade Motorola XOOM to Android 3.1 Honeycomb update.

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May 16, 2011 by: Prasanth Chandra

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