I'm having a hard time finding a tutorial to unlock the root the GNex, Verizon version.
Everything I seem to search for leads me back to the toolkit which I rather not use, so if someone can point me towards another way to unlock the boot loader, root, and flash recovery, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
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Adb reboot bootloader
Fastboot OEM unlock
This factory resets once done
Adb reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash recovery name of recovery.img
Boot into recovery flash custom rom or su.zip
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Try http://droidmodderx.com/galaxynexus/manually-unlock-and-root-the-galaxy-nexus-requires-adb.
All you really need to do is make sure you have all the proper pre-rooting tools. Then you boot into boot loader, type in "fastboot oem unlock" then follow some on screen instructions. Then you flash a temporary recovery, flash superuser or su.zip from that recovery, then delete a file to make it permanent recovery and you're set to flash roms/kernels/etc. Su.zip should be super easy to find too.
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Agh UBER beat me to it.
Uh...stickied above.
Or linked in my sig.
This is the manual way to do it, as requested.
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Adb reboot bootloader
Fastboot OEM unlock
This factory resets once done
Adb reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash recovery name of recovery.img
Boot into recovery flash custom rom or su.zip
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Oh wow, that easy?
And if I did miss something easily, sorry, been around the block so I know how annoying repetitive threads can be.
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I Am Marino said:
Oh wow, that easy?
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Yup but OEM unlock cleans the phone completely data and all so backup. Also take a look at the sticky the other person said for actual links and files.
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I just got thrown off by all the toolkit links.
EDIT: Double post, sorry.
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I got familiar with fastboot because the Rezound needed it all too.
Sorry for all the multiple posts, my Tapatalk is freaking out.
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Is the file that I can't remember the name of not in /system anymore where you have to delete it in order to maintain your first recovery that you flashed (otherwise it'll bring it back to original recovery)? In other words, there's no such thing as a temporary recovery for the GNex?
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For some reason my phone downloads the upgrade...and on clicking restart and install...it stays at Google logo...
it is stock unrooted. the phone never has been rooted and has always been stock.
any help/pointers folks??
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afma_afma said:
For some reason my phone downloads the upgrade...and on clicking restart and install...it stays at Google logo...
it is stock unrooted. the phone never has been rooted and has always been stock.
any help/pointers folks??
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Not sure what the issue could be if your device has always been stock.
The only thing I can suggest is re-flash the stock images (see here). That way you will know for sure that everything is OK, and the update will install automatically.
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Not sure what the issue could be if your device has always been stock.
The only thing I can suggest is re-flash the stock images (see here). That way you will know for sure that everything is OK, and the update will install automatically.
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thank you for the suggestion....I am going to wait and see if there are other easier methods...if not ..I will try yours ...
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Not sure what the issue could be if your device has always been stock.
The only thing I can suggest is re-flash the stock images (see here). That way you will know for sure that everything is OK, and the update will install automatically.
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also one more question....I feel the issue is with recovery...can't I just flash the recovery img alone?
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also one more question....I feel the issue is with recovery...can't I just flash the recovery img alone?
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Yes you can!
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so here are the steps I came up with after I went through the thread you has posted..
D. Type in the commands into the command prompt
1) Make sure your computer recognizes your device by typing: fastboot devices
2) Unlock your bootloader (if you have not already done so): fastboot oem unlock
3) You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device (including the /sdcard folder). Accept.
4) Reboot by typing: fastboot reboot-bootloader.
5) Flash the recovery partition: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
6) Reboot: fastboot reboot
does this sound right?
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afma_afma said:
so here are the steps I came up with after I went through the thread you has posted..
D. Type in the commands into the command prompt
1) Make sure your computer recognizes your device by typing: fastboot devices
2) Unlock your bootloader (if you have not already done so): fastboot oem unlock
3) You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device (including the /sdcard folder). Accept.
4) Reboot by typing: fastboot reboot-bootloader.
5) Flash the recovery partition: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
6) Reboot: fastboot reboot
does this sound right?
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Is your bootloader locked or unlocked?
If it is unlocked, you can skip your step 2.
If it is locked, then it will wipe everything anyway, so might as well flash the other images just to be 100% sure you are stock.
Make sure that all the images are from the mysid ICL53F factory file.
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Is your bootloader locked or unlocked?
If it is unlocked, you can skip your step 2.
If it is locked, then it will wipe everything anyway, so might as well flash the other images just to be 100% sure you are stock.
Make sure that all the images are from the mysid ICL53F factory file.
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My boot loader is locked and am already 100% stock...somehow the stock recovery is corrupted ..and I have never rooted this phone..never did any mods...
this is why I want to just try and reinstall the stock recovery alone...if that does not fix my issue then I will install everything...I will keep you posted...thank you.
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Is your bootloader locked or unlocked?
If it is unlocked, you can skip your step 2.
If it is locked, then it will wipe everything anyway, so might as well flash the other images just to be 100% sure you are stock.
Make sure that all the images are from the mysid ICL53F factory file.
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reflashing the stock recovery fixed the issue. thank you much.
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I'm stuck on the white boot screen after trying to flash Miui onto an otherwise functioning incredible 2. I can however access recovery,hboot, fast boot,and all that other good stuff. I unlocked the bootloader via the HTC dev website, which I now hear was a total mistake. To further screw me over, the universe decided that the phone was no longer fit to be detected by my cmd, so I can't use adb or fast boot either. I'm downloading the ruu to see if I can flash it from the sd card, but have no idea if it will work. Do I need to have the bootloader locked? Also, I don't have s-off. Any help is much appreciated, and thanks in advance.
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OK. Look here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435228
you will have to flash the boot.img, using adb now, with unlocked bootloader.
if you are going to flash a RUU you will need to relock bootloader
OK. Look here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1435228
you will have to flash the boot.img, using adb now, with unlocked bootloader.
if you are going to flash a RUU you will need to relock bootloader
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He said he can't use fastboot or adb. Can you get into recovery? Try just wiping everything.
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Giving it a shot with the ruu,. But yeah I can't get in to adb. Thanks for the responses though. If I try flashing boot.img, where do i get boot.img?
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unzip the rom file and look for boot image and put the boot image in sdk tools folder
its all in that link i gave you
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I'm stuck on the white boot screen after trying to flash Miui onto an otherwise functioning incredible 2. I can however access recovery,hboot, fast boot,and all that other good stuff. I unlocked the bootloader via the HTC dev website, which I now hear was a total mistake. To further screw me over, the universe decided that the phone was no longer fit to be detected by my cmd, so I can't use adb or fast boot either. I'm downloading the ruu to see if I can flash it from the sd card, but have no idea if it will work. Do I need to have the bootloader locked? Also, I don't have s-off. Any help is much appreciated, and thanks in advance.
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I've been there with my phone. I though I had bricked it. I was able to get it back. Hopefully you have figured out how by now. I found you can only run a stock kernel with the unlocked bootloader. There are only a few rooted roms you can run with the htc unlock. You can run one of them or obtain s-off. To do that you need to relock the boot loader and follow the instructions to down grade the bootloader. Then you can use the root instructions.
Sometimes I think that HTC tricks people into thinking that there phone has been rooted, and that they can flash ROMs. With the unlock just to teach them not to hack there phones. You are definitely not the only person who has fallen into this hole.
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You can run ROMs with custom kernels just fine, you just need to extract the boot.img and flash it separately through fastboot.
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I have a Galaxy Nexus that yesterday started to reset itself, freeze on the ICS boot logo and then reboot, rinse and repeat. I got it into fastboot mode, unlocked the bootloader to reset it, re locked and attempted to boot only for it to freeze again.
So again I unlocked the bootloader, to attempt to reflash the factory images from the Google, when trying to flash the bootloader I got the error " FAILED (status read failed (too many links))
attempted to fastboot reboot-bootloader and the phone crashed and now won't turn on, computer won't detect it, can't get into recovery or get any signs of life at all.
Any suggestions? Or am I royally screwed?
So you can't even get to the bootloader? If you can, flash clockwork mod then flash the cwm flashable version of the ROM. (Stock ROM that is)
If not, you are pretty much screwed IMO, but you'll never know...
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kyokeun1234 said:
So you can't even get to the bootloader? If you can, flash clockwork mod then flash the cwm flashable version of the ROM. (Stock ROM that is)
If not, you are pretty much screwed IMO, but you'll never know...
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Nope, can't get to the bootloader
Unless you can get to your boot loader there is nothing you can do. Sorry bud but like you said you are screwed.
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Unless you can get to your boot loader there is nothing you can do. Sorry bud but like you said you are screwed.
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This is not true.
OP: do a search for OMAP Flash
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efrant said:
This is not true.
OP: do a search for OMAP Flash
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Ok I found the file, when I plug the phone in it shows up under device manage as OMAP 4440 for about 4 seconds then disappears, so I can;t install the drivers to it. Any suggestions at this point?
This thread contained the exact problem I had:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671044
This was something I was thinking about while I was at work earlier today. While setting a screen lock and using an app protector app will protect my phone from unauthorized access while it is on, there is currently nothing that I am aware of that can keep a thief who is in the know about rooting and flashing ROMs from booting my phone into recovery resetting it, and modding it to his liking. My question is, is there a way to encrypt my recovery image (I use TWRP) to make it accessible only after a passcode is entered? Or is there a recovery out there somewhere that has this built in?
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Even if you were to password protect your recovery, if you're worried about a tech-savvy thief they'd just have to toolkit flash (or adb if they had a brain) a factory build and poof.
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Even if you were to password protect your recovery, if you're worried about a tech-savvy thief they'd just have to toolkit flash (or adb if they had a brain) a factory build and poof.
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Which brings up another issue I was pondering. Encrypting the bootloader, or possibly flashing one that can't run adb commands without a password.
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Use bootunlocker for nexus devices (on play store) to lock your bootloader and unlock it when you want to flash something. If you do that plus flash the stock recovery and turn off USB debugging, your device will be secure. If someone can't unlock your phone and run bootunlocker, they will have to fastboot oem unlock in order to do anything, which will wipe your data from the phone. It adds more steps if you like to flash and modify things, but it leaves Android's security intact.
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mwalt2 said:
Use bootunlocker for nexus devices (on play store) to lock your bootloader and unlock it when you want to flash something. If you do that plus flash the stock recovery and turn off USB debugging, your device will be secure. If someone can't unlock your phone and run bootunlocker, they will have to fastboot oem unlock in order to do anything, which will wipe your data from the phone. It adds more steps if you like to flash and modify things, but it leaves Android's security intact.
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Stock recovery? So does this mean that the only way I can prevent a tech savvy thief from accessing recovery and flashing a new ROM is by not being rooted?
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tattedupboy said:
Stock recovery? So does this mean that the only way I can prevent a tech savvy thief from accessing recovery and flashing a new ROM is by not being rooted?
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Pretty much. That's why a lot of companies require encryption and unrooted devices for Exchange purposes.
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Stock recovery? So does this mean that the only way I can prevent a tech savvy thief from accessing recovery and flashing a new ROM is by not being rooted?
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You can still be rooted (assuming you use the literal definition of superuser). With the bootunlocker app, you can unlock the boot loader, reboot bootloader, flash custom recovery, flash ROM/mod in recovery, reboot boot loader, flash stock recovery, and relock bootloader again with the app. Unless someone knows your password or pattern, they won't be able to do that. They can only erase the entire phone to gain access.
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Ok, here's another question. How do I flash the stock recovery?
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My Verizon nexus is stuck in boot loop. My volume up button does not work so i cant get into fast boot. Is there any other way that i can get into recovery to nandroid? Or any odin methods i can use to get it back without erasing internal storage preferably? If there is no way possible then i assume i will have to flash stock images.
-Thanks much
Take a look at this... It may give you some guidance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827685
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wisefreakz said:
Take a look at this... It may give you some guidance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827685
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why would you suggest an unsupported tool to reflash/update a fw, of a Nexus? just because it's made by samsung, doesnt mean that samsung supports it, and the flashing through odin.
OP, use FASTBOOT, it's the tool Google INSTRUCTS you to use to recover a Nexus device to factory status.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
bk201doesntexist said:
why would you suggest an unsupported tool to reflash/update a fw, of a Nexus? just because it's made by samsung, doesnt mean that samsung supports it, and the flashing through odin.
OP, use FASTBOOT, it's the tool Google INSTRUCTS you to use to recover a Nexus device to factory status.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
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Really?? Can you read well??
1) his vol up is not working... So no ADB for fastboot commands.
2) i used the word GUIDANCE... Way different from YOU HAVE TO or MANDATORY.
Giz...
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Weel, in order to reach the recovery is quite simple. If i'm not wrong, you just have to install correctly adb driver in your pc and, once installed the driver and plugged in the device, you just have to open cmd or terminal or whatelse depending on your os and write "adb reboot bootloader" without "
Or even easier (but you need root), install rom toolbox (both free or pay, your choice) and inside there's an option to choose where to reboot, bootloader, recovery or simple reboot.
EDIT: @wisefreakz: fastboot it's necessary only for fastboot command, for adb command the device could be running (ie when you get a bootloop you're not in fastboot but, instead of pulling off the battery it's better to prompt a good adb reboot), isn't it?
Thanks much. I used the link provided. Since I'm back on cna I can boot from the power menus. Appreciate your time
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