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[PaulOBrien]

Introducing.... Superboot!

Superboot is a boot.img that when booted, will root your device the first time you boot (installing su and the superuser APK). No need to flash any partitions, no need to mess around with ADB, no messing with the contents of your data partition, no overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, just boot the boot image using the instructions below and you're done!

APPLY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

• Superboot r4 GSM - DOWNLOAD (ROMraid) - MD5: 61189eff50bd7af5a09331b0ce6224bb
  
• Superboot r4 LTE - DOWNLOAD (ROMraid) - MD5: 3ee4b381fab24f68123e85c6b6234636

The superboot image is also 'insecure', allowing you to use 'adb remount' as well as having full ADB root access to your device until such time as you reboot after running this process (it's a non permanent ADB root as it's a 'fastboot boot' and not a 'fastboot flash').

How to use Superboot - Windows, Linux and OSX

- Download the Superboot zip file above and extract to a directory
- Put your device in bootloader mode - Turn off the phone then turn on with the 'volume up' and 'volume down' buttons both pressed to enter the bootloader (as pictured below)
- WINDOWS - double click 'install-superboot-windows.bat'
- MAC - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh' followed by './install-superboot-mac.sh'
- LINUX - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh' followed by './install-superboot-linux.sh'

Note: If you are using a retail Galaxy Nexus, you may need to unlock the bootloader first, using './fastboot-windows oem unlock' (or the appropriate version for your machine). Note that the OEM unlock sequence wipes your device.

Enjoy!

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[MonkeyBoy451]

Dont you mean 03 Nov r1 instead of 03 Oct r1?

[maxisma]

Me gusta.

[Mr.Clark]

Paul, on 03 November 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

Note: If you are using a retail Galaxy Nexus

I wish! How did you get one so early?

[Brian L]

For real, this is badass. I wanna get one early I'm in the USA and I'm debating importing one from UK or Europe somewhere because I doubt the GSM version will be out here anytime soon

[wwjoshdew]

oh I hope this comes to T-Mobile. I am holding out until it does!

[Marcos Saraiva]

Hi Paul. Is it possible for you to upload a system dump from Galaxy Nexus? Trying to port ICS SDK to Galaxy S 2 is proving to be very challenging...

[ezangrando]

/me really jealous now...


WTB Samsung Galaxy Nexus

[darksnarfer]

I think the md5 of the first post is incorrect. I've downloaded it twice and it doesn't match:

Size: 5.938.851 bytes
MD5: 1FC270EB2BC67FE81E800DDA4C5A37C6

Can you confirm it Paul?

[solarein]

Since the superboot image is a modified GSM Galaxy Nexus image, am I correct to assume that this won't work on the LTE Galaxy Nexus?

[batting1k]

Marcos Saraiva, on 03 November 2011 - 05:00 PM, said:

Hi Paul. Is it possible for you to upload a system dump from Galaxy Nexus? Trying to port ICS SDK to Galaxy S 2 is proving to be very challenging...

Yes, please! Upload a system dump for us!

[pascanu]

Can we have a review of the phone? I know you don't like large phones so I'm really curious how you feel about Galaxy Nexus.
TIA

[mikehayes]

Tried via your instructions above - hangs on boot screen (Google with unlocked padlock) - bootloader was unlocked. Tried via script on mac was able to reboot by pulling battery and when completed boot no superuser. When I tried via manual fastboot-mac flash boot etc, same thing but this time would not reboot ... so had to manually push the original boot. ... mmm no luck so far

[PaulOBrien]

Retail device or developer device?

When my device arrives I can check whether something changed for retail...?

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[davioxx]

paul ive got a alaxy nexus signing engineering device so i guess it is a developer device, ive tried to flash an ICS build compiled from source failed and now im stuck on Google Logo I can only go to recovery and bootloader any thoughts?

Paul, on 15 November 2011 - 11:08 AM, said:

Retail device or developer device?

When my device arrives I can check whether something changed for retail...?

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[mikehayes]

Paul, on 15 November 2011 - 11:08 AM, said:

Retail device or developer device?

When my device arrives I can check whether something changed for retail...?

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Well, I have the *latest* build and the final hardware version with retail keys ... so in essence its retail version. Anything I should look at my version of boot.img?

[AndyCr15]

I have the phone unlocked, but when I run the windows superboot installer, on rebooting, I don't have root, I don't have superuser installed?  

I've manually installed Superuser, but that and busybox say I don't have the su binary installed.

Edited by AndyCr15, 17 November 2011 - 04:06 PM.

[spences10]

I'm in the same boat as Andy, I run the fastboot-windows.exe boot boot.superboot.img command after unlocking and it just hung on the Google boot screen

[davioxx]

Spences actually when hanging at google logo you have full root adb access so you can push the stuff you need

[AndyCr15]

Okay, so what do you push and then do what?  Please give actual commands if you can please

TO confirm, this will only have root until you reboot, right?