Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Rooting a Nexus 5 (2)

I had rooted my Nexus 5, but the Android update before last made it lose root. I tried to reroot, but I ran into trouble because fastboot didn't recognize my device and the sdcard was not readable when trying to install from that.

I tried again today, this site (as before) proved very helpful.
I installed clockwordmod recovery again, then installed Clockworkmod SU via adb sideload (recovery said sdcard could not be accessed so I couldn't install from there). I used "adb sideload" rather than push the zip to the sdcard. Now the device has root again. In the mean time the device had upgraded to Android 4.4.4 but I don't think that mattered....

Btw, it turns out you can root a device even if it's encrypted. Or, that's what I did.

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