How to Restore and Relock a Motorola Xoom Tablet to Stock:

Posted by shoemakerbrian on

So you’ve received a rooted Motorola XOOM from a friend and you are tasked with getting it back to normal, below is a step by step tutorial on how to restore your Motorola back to factory state.

WARNING: Use this Guide at your own risk!

Requirements:

  1. The USB cable for connecting your XOOM to the computer.
  2. Drivers by Motorola for 32 bit Windows | or | for 64 bit Windows; restart PC after installation.
  3. Fastboot tool. (Part of Android SDK.)
  4. System image for XOOM’s original build.

Procedure:

  1. Download the Android SDK, Resource | http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
    1. This will take some time so be patient, Unzip it in a temporary location. (ex. C:\Temp)
    2. Make a directory, C:\Android (it really does not matter what you call the directory)
    3. In the Temp directory where you un-zipped the SDK Bundle, locate the “platform-tools” directory and copy all the files in this directory to C:\Android.
  2. Download the official system image for the Motorola XOOM, Resource | http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Motorola_Xoom
    1. Unzip the files and place in the C:\Android directory, the same directory as fastboot.exe and adb.exe, you should have a boot.img, system.img, recovery.img, and userdata.img.
  3. Connect your XOOM to the Computer.
    1. Boot it up in fastboot mode, this is key and a bit of a pain, once accomplished you will be able to proceed.
  4. With Windows 7 open the command prompt in an elevated mode (Run as administrator)
    1. Navigate to the directory you just created, (ex C:\Android)
    2. At the command prompt type the following in this EXACT order:
  • o fastboot erase boot
  • o fastboot erase system
  • o fastboot erase recovery
  • o fastboot erase userdata
  • o fastboot erase cache
  • o fastboot flash boot boot.img
  • o fastboot flash system system.img
  • o fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
  • o fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
  • o fastboot erase cache
  1. Now that your tablet is back to stock we need to relock it.
    1. Still at the command prompt type the following: fastboot oem lock, enter and wait for the menu, press the volume down button and then press the volume up button.
  2. The device will take a few minutes then reboot into the stock and locked Motorola XOOM that you remember booting the first time you powered it on.

NOTE: Also you will likely have a lot of updates to apply once back in the stock state.

Enjoy.

2 responses to “How to Restore and Relock a Motorola Xoom Tablet to Stock:”

  1. Brian. Your instructions were almost exactly what I needed. I bought a used MZ602 and the seller never mentioned that it was running a broken ROM. After the buy he was no help in restoring it to factory. This was perfect, worked great, and if I could I’d send you a couple bucks for your trouble.

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