Popular Leather Xoom case on sale

This case used to be like $60 now it is $23 with great reviews! I just picked on up myself as this plastic one is getting annoying.

Got root on your 4G Xoom yet? I do

I will have to give it to Motorola I did get my Xoom back in 6 business days and it came back cleaner than it left. They also threw in a FREE docking station which is supposed to make up for the delay in getting the 4G upgrade out there I guess.

Anyway... after reading a few horror stories about folks rooting their new 4G Xoom in to a brick, some of the smart people over on the Xoom forums pointed to they fact that they were doing it wrong. You cannot use the old method. If you have the 4G upgrade with the new bootloader you need to do it this exact way with these exact files until the devs figure out to make it a bit cleaner.

Also for now, don't flash any other ROMs or kernels. If you flash anything else you might lose WiFi, 3G or 4G. Just sit tight for a few days while the devs get it straight.

Rooting and getting AdFree and Titanium Backup running is enough for me. Makes me happy to get all my old apps back just the way I left them. ;-)

What is really in the Xoom 4G upgrade

Click above image for official notes from Verizon but basically:

• Market update
• Fix for SIM card in Airplane mode
• OTA (Over The Air) upgrades do not break the market
• Book app upgraded
• Market Text now easier to read
• Market will update itself from now on
• Improvements in browser security
• Enhanced 3G/4G connectivity to help prevent stalls

Now that is the official line. Call me a sceptic but... I have a hard time believing that was it.

4G upgrade is more than that

Well it took me a while to get my box to send my Xoom back in for the 4G upgrade. I signed up first day but just got me upgrade box like 3 days ago. I still have 5 business days to wait. But anyway... Engadget is reporting that the lucky folks that did get them back are finding some extras.

What do you get? An upgrade to version 3.2.2 of Honeycomb, a FULLY functional SD card (full read/write access), and new firmware. What else, if anything, they snuck in there is unknown.