hello, i am new here, i have been considering for some time to root my nexus 7 but have been unsure, a few people i know have already rooted thier devices (phones, tablets) and have said it is worth it. i have asked them how its done but htye have stated that they got someone else to do it for them.
I used to be an apple fan and have experience in jailbreaking from ios 3. but that is totally different to rooting.
can anyone help how to root this device? many thanks
AlphaDawg
Device information : Nexus 7 (2012)
Andriod os : Kitkat 4.4.4
current status : unrooted
Hi there,
I'd consider reveiwing this thread: [GUIDE] Unlock and Root a Nexus 7
HEY GUYS , what version of android would You think will Be the last for pur nexus 4?
Personalul im a Little pesimistic and i say the 5.1.0 is the last for us
This is my first post, hope you can help me :- Hope its in the right place
I have just acquired a nice nexus 10 and managed to upgrade it to android to 5.1.1.
I am a complete novice when it comes to anything to do with rooting or custom ROMs and have always been scared to tackle anything like this, but it seems a pity that I am stuck with Lollipop when my phone is showing me the benefits of the latest nougat upgrade.
So do I chicken out again or do I ask for advice from the experts in this forum to hold my hand while i upgrade to nougat ?
I see a post by Trafalgar Square "how to install android 6.0.1 marshmallow" and although I don't understand much ( at the moment ) about what the developer is telling me to do I think that if i could have my hand held with a similar GUIDE for Nougat then I think i would have the guts to have a go. I see a posts by Sooti who is advocating using AOSP [7.1.1_r4] ( Again I am unsure what he is telling me to do ) and without an absolute basic guide I dare not consider that.
So what do your experts recommend that I do ? Can I be helped ? or must I allow the general fear of "bricking" my device to stop me again as it always did before .
Must I be so afraid of bricking it or could I be helped to recover from a bricked device should the worst happen ?
Download the Nexus Root Toolkit by wugfresh. It makes rooting and flashing custom ROMs as well as custom recovery a breeze! Plus if you brick it, it's most likely going to be a soft brick (bootloop) and the Nexus Root Toolkit will easily fix it. (Trust me, I've been there a few times.)
If you'd like Android Marshmallow, I might recommend OmniROM, unless Lineage has fixed the battery drain issue. (CyanogenMod 13 was terrible on battery.)
Lineage 14 can be found around here which is based on Android Nougat. It's supposedly really fast and battery efficient. Though it has some bugs, most notably the camera is disabled because the camera server keeps crashing and kills the battery otherwise from what I understand. So if you don't care about a camera, Nougat is available, otherwise stick with Marshmallow.
Since I use my Nexus 10 for Skyping on occasion, I'm stuck with Marshmallow. If Lineage 13 has fixed the battery drain issues, I'd definitely be interested to know.
Thank You Rochester. As I type this post I have followed your recommendations and managed to root the nexus and installed busybox. I will now follow the next section and decide whether to choose nougat
Sorry Agent orange I am new to forums :laugh:
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Sorry Agent orange I am new to forums :laugh:
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Aye, no problem! I'm glad I could help, and welcome to the forums!
AgentOrange96,
I Chose the OmniROM route like you. Wugfresh has done a marvellous job with his Toolkit, and I will be saying thanks to him too !!!
I am all up and running now and my experiences with your forum has removed my fear of Custom ROM flashing and Rooting, so much so that my nexus 6P will be rooted and customised next.
Many thanks to you ( and Brandon your Chief Admin ) for welcoming me as a member !!!
Very good surprise this morning, I've just received Pie update from Xiaomi.
I'm in France, my MIA2 is not rooted
I have just got android P update a few munites ago. After restart, My Phone required password as ussual. But it doesn't appear keyboard .... That's amazing ! Now i'm crying over my phone =((( just see , can't touch ! Anybody with knowlege tell me how to solve this problem ! I have no idea now and not good at deeply system. I just bought phone and use it , no root , no unlockBoatloader so far !
I am Power user the day i got one plus one in 2015 rooted it and flashed custome roms. One plus one got great developers community which made available latest software and kept this device still alive. Mean while in 2018 i upgraded to one plus 6 so i handed over my one plus one to My wife she used it till mid of 2019 after that we baught samsung tab so she handed over device to me and again my journey of flashholic starts again flashed and used android 10 on this device.
Every thing is fine but still there are some hikups here and one day i messed up device not able to boot in To recovery and only solution to solve this is to flash stock firmware.
So Downloded and Flashed cynogenmod 13 used it while and what i can say its a masterpiece created for one plus one i Just in love with this device agin and again.
What do you think using cynogenmod 13 in 2020 makes any sense?
I made small video on that how CM out performs lets take a look and please give your suggestion and tell who are still. On CM and there views regarding same
https://youtu.be/0ALftL9a3bI