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Superboot - Nexus 7 WiFi / 3G root solution

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Started by PaulOBrien , Jul 04 2012 08:42 AM

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 01:36 PM

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View PostPaulOBrien, on 18 July 2012 - 01:14 PM, said:

YOu have to 'mount /system' in recovery before you can see what's on it!

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I did ?   Back on stock everything again now,  do I dare try this again .... :) lol

UPDATE:  I dared and it worked fine this time.  Only thing I can think that is different is that I hadn't done the OTA to 4.1.1 this time (did get the update popup after a few mins. but clicked on update later).  So SU in place and just installing custom recovery.

Nice one Paul :)

Edited by ChazW123, 18 July 2012 - 01:55 PM.

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 02:52 PM

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Just a heads up that if you've updated to 4.1.1 (or 4.1) this doesn't work.

Edited by davidhorn, 18 July 2012 - 02:52 PM.

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Posted 18 July 2012 - 03:00 PM

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View Postdavidhorn, on 18 July 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

Just a heads up that if you've updated to 4.1.1 (or 4.1) this doesn't work.
OK, I'll post a version with the updated kernel.

Odd though, it should still work.

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Posted 19 July 2012 - 02:59 PM

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Updated for the latest 4.1.1 release.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 10:38 AM

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I have just received my Nexus 7 and applied google's update.. now it s 4.1.1
how do i get into Bootloader then?
I have turned off, then hold down "volume up" and power on, and it just started the tablet normally. What did I do wrong?

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 03:39 PM

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It is hold voume down on my NX7.

How do you unlock the bootloader? I don't seem to have that option, or maybe I am just being thick.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 03:51 PM

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When I am trying to connect the NX7 to my computer it says "device drives not installed properly". When I do into device manager on other devices I have got "Nexus" appearing but it has the yellow exclamation triangle.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:00 PM

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Must resist the temptation to fling my NX7 against the wall in frustration and anger. Tell you what, whatever oyu think about Samsung they at least make this s*** easy. Rooting my S2 and S3 were walk in the park compared to this bloody Nexus 7.....

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Posted 21 July 2012 - 01:02 PM

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View Postrferrett, on 20 July 2012 - 04:00 PM, said:

Must resist the temptation to fling my NX7 against the wall in frustration and anger. Tell you what, whatever oyu think about Samsung they at least make this s*** easy. Rooting my S2 and S3 were walk in the park compared to this bloody Nexus 7.....

Try manually updating the drivers for the device with the yellow triangle - this was the only way I could get it to work.

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Posted 02 August 2012 - 08:57 AM

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I installed the 64-bit version of PDANet to get my Nexus 7 to connect correctly. I was then able to to unlock and root it with no problem.

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Is the link broken or is there something wrong with my browser. Just keep getting ilivid.exe, female websites, music downloads etc....

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Posted 13 October 2012 - 06:58 PM

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Thanks for the great tool!
Unfortunately lost root when doing the 4.1.2 OTA (although some people on XDA seemed to keep root), would someone braver than me be kind enough to check that this works with Android 4.1.2?

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Posted 17 November 2012 - 03:08 PM

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View Postalexbate, on 13 October 2012 - 06:58 PM, said:

Thanks for the great tool!
Unfortunately lost root when doing the 4.1.2 OTA (although some people on XDA seemed to keep root), would someone braver than me be kind enough to check that this works with Android 4.1.2?
did anyone try it out yet on 4.1.2 ?

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Posted 17 November 2012 - 03:10 PM

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View Postaaww, on 17 November 2012 - 03:08 PM, said:

did anyone try it out yet on 4.1.2 ?

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Or even better 4.2?

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Posted 19 November 2012 - 12:34 AM

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View Postalexbate, on 17 November 2012 - 03:10 PM, said:

Or even better 4.2?
Works on both 4.1.2 and 4.2 !

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Posted 20 November 2012 - 03:17 PM

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 02:37 PM

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Would some please help me? :huh:
I tried to do the super boot with my N7 3g I unlocked it okay and then tried to root, I think it worked I'm not sure as now when it loads up its ask me for a password and something about decryption.
Can someone please please please help me.

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 03:02 PM

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I have NO idea what that means! Tried wiping from recovery? Reflash factory images?

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 05:11 PM

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View PostPaulOBrien, on 05 December 2012 - 03:02 PM, said:

I have NO idea what that means! Tried wiping from recovery? Reflash factory images?

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this is what I get Paul.


so can anyone help me. please ?:(

Edited by FrankieADZ, 05 December 2012 - 05:13 PM.

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 06:07 PM

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I've never seen that before, best bet is to download and reflash the stock images from here - https://developers.g...id/nexus/images

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