{"id":423,"date":"2012-07-19T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-07-27T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T18:45:45","slug":"the-real-guide-to-rooting-the-nexus7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/19\/the-real-guide-to-rooting-the-nexus7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Guide To Rooting The Nexus 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve looked over the Google results for rooting<\/strong> your Nexus7 and they are all a joke. None that I read would actually work on a Nexus7, so clearly the people posting are just looking for hits. Most of them were copypasta from one of 3 original guides. This is the real deal.<\/p>\n

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I got a Nexus7 yesterday, and I want to be able to share it with my wife. SwitchMe looks to be an awesome app that will let me do just that. I need to root this guy to run SwitchMe. So here we go.<\/p>\n

I have Mac, so this guide is for command line, no other distractions. Get the SDK, expand it and set it up for 4.1.<\/p>\n

Have your Nexus7 ready and be prepared to lose all data on it- don’t worry, Google will sync it back.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/h2>\n

There are 2 steps:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Install the ClockworkMod Recovery<\/a> Tool<\/li>\n
  2. Install the SuperSU script which give your apps the ability to execute root commands<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Lets start. Go in settings and enable the Developer Mode and enable USB Debug mode. Plug in the Nexus7 into the USB port of your Macintosh.<\/div>\n

    1. Install ClockworkMod CWM<\/h4>\n

    [cd into the SDK\/s]<\/em><\/p>\n

    cd ~\/android-sdk-macosx\/platform-tools <\/pre>\n
    .\/adb reboot bootloader <\/pre>\n
    .\/fastboot oem unlock <\/pre>\n
    .\/fastboot reboot-bootloader <\/pre>\n
    cp ~\/Downloads\/CWM-grouper-recovery.img . <\/pre>\n
    .\/fastboot flash recovery CWM-grouper-recovery.img <\/pre>\n
    .\/fastboot reboot-bootloader<\/pre>\n
    .\/adb shell <\/pre>\n
        cd \/system <\/pre>\n
        mv recovery-from-boot.p recovery-from-boot.bak <\/pre>\n
        exit<\/pre>\n
    Install Rooter<\/h4>\n
    .\/adb reboot recovery <\/pre>\n
    .\/adb shell ln -n -f -s \/data\/media \/sdcard <\/pre>\n
    .\/adb push ~\/Downloads\/JB-SuperSU.zip \/sdcard\/JB-SuperSU.zip <\/pre>\n
    .\/adb shell ls -l \/data\/media <\/pre>\n
    * Verify that you see the JB-SuperSU.zip file<\/pre>\n
    .\/adb reboot recovery<\/pre>\n
    * Now navigate on the device and run the SuperSU.zip file.<\/pre>\n
     * choose Apply Zip file from SDCARD<\/pre>\n
     * Choose the SuperSU.zip file at the bottom (you may see a screen full of directories, ignore those)<\/pre>\n
    \"IMG<\/p>\n
    \u00c2\u00a0<\/pre>\n
    After the SuperSU runs you should see this:<\/p>\n
    \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
    \"IMG<\/p>\n
    \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
    Finally, when you are sure it’s there and are ready to resume using the Nexus7:<\/p>\n
    .\/adb reboot<\/pre>\n
    Make sure you reboot only when you are ready – you lose the dev usb setting and must go thru the whole setup and get back into settings and then re-enable the dev usb mode!<\/p>\n
    The tricky part was the re-linking of the \/sdcard. The nexus7 has no physical sdcard, and the CMR wouldn’t read the JB-SuperSU.zip file if you just copied it onto \/sdcard using adb. Only after reading this thread<\/a> did I find the answer.<\/p>\n
    Now just go to the Play store (or install from this link) and install SwitchMe Root Profile Manager<\/a>, and setup some profiles.<\/p>\n
    Files you need:<\/p>\n
    JB-SuperSU.zip<\/a><\/p>\n
    CWM-grouper-recovery.img<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    I’ve looked over the Google results for rooting your Nexus7 and they are all a joke. None that I read would actually work on a Nexus7, so clearly the people posting are just looking for hits. Most of them were copypasta from one of 3 original guides. This is the real deal. I got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[60,70,72,61,59,71,62],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","tag-android-2","tag-guide","tag-idiots","tag-nexus","tag-nexus7","tag-root","tag-rooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":438,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2012\/07\/20\/nexus-7-and-apple-bluetooth-keyboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"Nexus 7 and Apple Bluetooth Keyboard","author":"dillera","date":"July 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Not much to say here, other than it works great, however I had a real hard time figuring out how to pair it. 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