99 replies to this topic

[EddyOS]

Nice one mate, thought it was that simple!

Finally got mine turned on after having it all day in work and not being able to play. It's a seriously nice handset

[GriZlore]

Could anyone please gimme some help?

I have previously rooted/unlock, however after the recent samsung/google volume patch, i have lost root.

what's the easiest way of doing this again please? (without wiping) I am still unlocked.

Thanks in anticipation

sorted - i just did it again - d'oh

Edited by GriZlore, 11 December 2011 - 08:10 PM.

[strikeir13]

I haven't seen any confirmation that this works for the LTE nexus?

Also, could I use the boot.superboot.img in the zip file to manually root my LTE nexus using adb?

Thanks.

[whowland]

I'm locked up in a bootloop, any help out there..

[Ethrael]

Just got the Verizon LTE Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Drivers installed through PDAnet fine, got to bootloader mode, however when I run either install-superboot-windows.bat or 'fastboot-windows oem unlock', I get this error:

... FAILED <command write failed <Unknown error>>

[auzeal]

Got one from Telstra (AUS)

Installed PDANet fine and recognises my phone. Can copy things back and forth fine.

Get to bootloader mode fine too

Whenever I try to do either commands in command prompt, just says < waiting for device > and sits there, until i CTRL+C...

Any thoughts?

[inf]

auzeal, on 16 December 2011 - 03:13 AM, said:

Got one from Telstra (AUS)

Installed PDANet fine and recognises my phone. Can copy things back and forth fine.

Get to bootloader mode fine too

Whenever I try to do either commands in command prompt, just says < waiting for device > and sits there, until i CTRL+C...

Any thoughts?

Was the phone recognized also in the bootloader mode?

[auzeal]

inf, on 16 December 2011 - 04:28 AM, said:

Was the phone recognized also in the bootloader mode?

Ahh... here's the problem...

Can't seem to get it updated... grabbed the Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1_4_6_0.exe already and pointing it to the install location picked up nothing.

I have the Android SDK installed as well... but for some reason, I can't install the Google USB Driver package...
I assume this needs to be fixed somehow?


Downloading Google USB Driver package, revision 4
File not found: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\temp\usb_driver_r04-windows.zip (Access is denied)

[Ethrael]

PDANet fixed the problem with the device not being recognized properly in bootloader mode for me. It's the next step now that my LTE nexus doesn't like.

[Dave90]

Guys I need some help Please! I unlocked the bootloader fine. I use superboot, now Im in a boot loop on the Google screen. Did I miss something. I have the Galaxy Nexus LTE version. Thanks for the future help

[Dave90]

Guys I figured it out. SO I booted in to recovery and got the adroid with a red triangle with exclamation mark. So I used this tut to fastboot CWM and VUALLA!  All good.

Dave90, on 16 December 2011 - 07:26 PM, said:

Guys I need some help Please! I unlocked the bootloader fine. I use superboot, now Im in a boot loop on the Google screen. Did I miss something. I have the Galaxy Nexus LTE version. Thanks for the future help

[thwg]

Dave90,

Can you please elaborate? I'm in the same situation and would really appreciate some more detail about how you resolved.
Much thanks.

Dave90, on 16 December 2011 - 08:03 PM, said:

Guys I figured it out. SO I booted in to recovery and got the adroid with a red triangle with exclamation mark. So I used this tut to fastboot CWM and VUALLA!  All good.

[Dave90]

Sure so basically I ran that superboot like you did and got the Google boot loop. So I went into the recovery and noticed the android with the red triangle with the exclaimation mark. So I said hmm.. is it possible my revocery image got corrupt. So I downloaded and fastboot push the CWM image and poof I was good. Here is the tutorial.
Koushik Dutta  -  Yesterday 8:52 PM (edited)  -  Public

Unlocking/rooting your Galaxy Nexus




This process is similar to all the other Nexus phones, which come unlockable thanks to google:




Download:




Clockwork Recovery for Galaxy Nexus (CDMA):

http://download.cloc....5.0.4-toro.img




Superuser update package:

http://download.cloc...com/test/su.zip




Using a console and fastboot (which can be obtained in various places, look around):




# boot into fastboot by powering off, then turning the phone on with volume-up + power

# unlock

fastboot oem unlock

# boot recovery

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-toro.img

# note the trailing slash when pushing the superuser zip

adb push su.zip /sdcard/







Install su.zip from clockwork recovery like you normally would. This is not a permanent recovery flash. That will be available later today.




In case you flash recovery, you can revert back to stock recovery with this image:

http://download.cloc...ro-recovery.img




Full/official factory images:


https://groups.googl...7c9b41a5d?pli=1

Here is the original source.
Hope this helps.

thwg, on 18 December 2011 - 02:33 AM, said:

Dave90,

Can you please elaborate? I'm in the same situation and would really appreciate some more detail about how you resolved.
Much thanks.

[thwg]

Dave90, on 18 December 2011 - 03:27 AM, said:

Sure so basically I ran that superboot like you did and got the Google boot loop. So I went into the recovery and noticed the android with the red triangle with the exclaimation mark. So I said hmm.. is it possible my revocery image got corrupt. So I downloaded and fastboot push the CWM image and poof I was good. Here is the tutorial.
...

CWM is unable to install su.zip b/c it can't mount /sdcard/. I can get in via adb shell & see the files & permissions are all there. Am I missing something?

Edited by thwg, 18 December 2011 - 03:48 AM.

[318vert]

I installed the volume fix manual and i lost root by the look of it.

I connect to my PC and boot into boot loader and double click install-superboot-windows.bat and my phone restarts but i still dont think i have root again as cwm will not install.

How can i check if i have root? I look in .system.,bin for SU but i cannot see it

Ash


EDIT:

Seems my wifi was playing up and so was taking ages to download CMW so i used my mobile network instead and it works fine.

But while in bootloader i can not connect to my phone with adb. It dosnt show in device list.

Edited by 318vert, 19 December 2011 - 11:34 AM.

[causa sui]

Thanks Dave90 for the guide you pasted (a few posts above mine). I have the boot loop problem and I can report that using your method it seems I have successfully installed ClockworkMod recovery on the phone. Two problems remain:

1) I still have the boot loop.

2) CWM cannot mount the sdcard, so I cannot restore the default ROM.

I am very worried about this and would appreciate any additional advice.

Edit: Turns out I just had a bad USB port. I swapped to another port, re-locked using fastboot, unlocked, reflashed, and now I'm in business! Thanks for the great tool.

Edited by causa sui, 24 December 2011 - 09:48 PM.

[tklr]

@paul

Kthx for the superboot! It worked w/o problems on my GNex running 4.0.1. A few questions if I may. Will root still be working after an OTA to 4.0.2 which should be rolling out here in Europe afaik. If not can I use superboot r3 to gain root again? If not, will there be another version of superboot?
Anyway, thanks a lot again. Superboot made my life so much easier.

T.

[DJTaurus]

supeboot r3 is down...can anyone fix it?

[PaulOBrien]

Link updated pending our new download server!

P

[wills]

PaulOBrien, on 25 January 2012 - 02:24 PM, said:

Link updated pending our new download server!

P

Paul, it seems that zip uploaded to filefactory is corrupted. Can you upload again?