Motorola Xoom Gets An Android 4.4.2 KitKat Based Custom ROM

Motorola Xoom gets an Android 4.4.2 KitKat based custom ROM

BY Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh is a 26-year old freelance writer from Kolkata, India. He loves to tinker around with his Android devices and flash custom ROMs on them....

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Published 2 Jan 2014

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Back in 2011, Google had teamed up with Motorola to release Android 3.0 Honeycomb – a version of Android OS that was built from ground up for the tablets. Sadly, Honeycomb as well as the Xoom flopped badly and the device was forgotten quickly.

Officially, the device reached its end of life after the Android 4.1.2 update was rolled out to it. Unofficially though, the device manages to live on and has now received an Android 4.4.2 based ROM, thanks to the hard work of developers like Schisu, bubor, flar2 and others.

The build is pretty stable for everyday use and only has a couple of nagging issues, which should not be a bummer for many. In addition, all the low level changes made by Google in KitKat to free up resources works well and the Xoom feels much smoother running KitKat than it did running the official Jelly Bean build from Google and Motorola.

If anything, these ports are a perfect example of how third party developers can increase the longevity of your device, while the original device maker dumps it after a couple of years.

Via – XDA