Needz_Android
Android Enthusiast
nevermind guys i got it. my phone is currently sitting on the google screen with the unlocked symbol. how long does it sit on this screen?
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[International / GSM] [HOW TO] Root the GSM/HSPA+ Samsung Galaxy Nexus
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Needz_Android
Android Enthusiast
okay i'm officially unlocked and rooted after only 15 mins following nj02vette's instructions and i'm a total noob at this.
i vote we sticky his thread individually with all 3 files he mentioned in his post. there is no other reason to follow any other unlock and root method.
i tried for 40 mins to follow someone else's steps and it just confused the hell out of me.
props to nj02vette for the great instructions!!
i vote we sticky his thread individually with all 3 files he mentioned in his post. there is no other reason to follow any other unlock and root method.
i tried for 40 mins to follow someone else's steps and it just confused the hell out of me.
props to nj02vette for the great instructions!!
Needz_Android
Android Enthusiast
fwiw, once i re-booted after rooting i hit "restore" and my apps that I had downloaded before unlocking the boot loader were still on the phone. it didn't erase them. thought that was interesting
nj02vette
Android Expert
I'm glad I was able to help you out.
For the command window commands, google is your friend. I had to learn everything 25 years ago when DOS and command line was all there was. Even in this age of the GUI, there still things that can only be done though text commands. Learn them, love them.
For anyone else wondering, cd\ will get you to the top of the drive, then use the cd command to change directories, eg. cd Gnex will get you to the c:\Gnex directory. To get to c:\windows, you'd do
cd\
cd windows
There's some shortcuts to that, but start with the basics. "Dir" will list the contents of the directory.
I was going to talk to Scary Alien about merging my instructions with the first post. We don't want to have too many "this is how to unlock/root" threads, it's starts to get difficult to manage. Best everything stays in one place and the OP gets updated.
I'm trying to catch-up, here nj02vette. Many thanks for your help in here!
Can you quickly tell me your post # and I'll make sure it gets reflected in the OP?
edit: I think its #251, right?
I'm going to start revising and reorganizing...
Thanks!
nj02vette
Android Expert
Yep, 251.
As sad as it is, we also may need a little primer on how to navigate a directory structure with the keyboard.
My elation at rooting and unlocking is over. I seem to have a problem with my power button and I will need to bring my phone back to the store. I'm so upset.
Can someone please put together a step by step guide to how I can unroot and re-lock my phone? I was able to root and unlock by following nj02vette's directions in this thread, but I don't think I could do anything much more difficult.
Thank you in advance to anyone for helping.
Can someone please put together a step by step guide to how I can unroot and re-lock my phone? I was able to root and unlock by following nj02vette's directions in this thread, but I don't think I could do anything much more difficult.
Thank you in advance to anyone for helping.
Instructions to unroot are available here How to: Unroot the Galaxy Nexus, Re-lock the Bootloader and Return to a Factory State
Thanks. I saw that, and that is considerably over my skill level. I can follow steps, but the terminology is not all familiar to me. I was hoping there might be someone who could put together something a little more basic for me.
Ok, wait. I might be able to do it. But when they say SDK/Tools folder, in my case (since I followed nj02vette's method), would that be the c:\Gnex folder?
It would be whatever folder the two .exe files are located in
What terms are you having problems with?
The folder should be called that? Should that be the only thing in it? I'm confused. I thought they had to be with adb and fastboot. I had the unzipped stuff in a folder with all of the other root stuff, including adb and fastboot.
Should I pull those two out, plus the new stuff from the tgz and put them in one folder? Then I should name that folder bootloader-toro-primkk15.img?
Thank you, by the way, for all this help. I'm probably making you want to bang your head against a desk by now.
No the img file you are trying to flash as your bootloader should be called that. I don't know what your folder is named 
Mine is platform-tool.
When you look in the folder you have with the extracted things from the tgz make sure you have one file titled "bootloader-toro-primkk15.img"
I like helping so no banging my head into a desk
Mine is platform-tool.When you look in the folder you have with the extracted things from the tgz make sure you have one file titled "bootloader-toro-primkk15.img"
I like helping so no banging my head into a desk
John Markley
Newbie
The extracted things are named mysid-icl53-factory-65895fa8. One is a tar and one is a tgz. That was all that came out of the extraction.
I just called my folder C:\Gnex. That what nj02vette called his, and it seemed simple enough.
The key here is the instruction "*Make sure they are not in their own folder, but have all been extracted to Tools", where "Tools" is the instructors folder containing fastboot.exe and adb.exe, so in your case it is your Gnex folder.
You need first to extract the file mysid-icl53f-factory-65895fa8.tgz which will give you a folder "mysid-icl53f". You then put the five files from that folder (radio-toro-i515.ek02.img, etc.) into your Gnex folder where you have fastboot.exe.
edit - or where you have fastboot and adb if yours are named that way with no .exe .
I never would have thought that zipped files would have been inside other zipped files. I got through most of them, but appear to be stuck on fastboot reboot-bootloader.
When I finished the previous command, fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip, the phone restarted and showed the set up screen. I then put in fastboot reboot bootloader, it said waiting for device, and the screen went dark. Nothing has happened since. If I hit the power button, the first welcome screen is there. (interestingly, the power button worked that time.)
So... I never got to run fastboot reboot-bootloader or fastboot oem lock.
I assume I need to do these to finish the process, but it hasn't moved from waiting for device.
When I finished the previous command, fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip, the phone restarted and showed the set up screen. I then put in fastboot reboot bootloader, it said waiting for device, and the screen went dark. Nothing has happened since. If I hit the power button, the first welcome screen is there. (interestingly, the power button worked that time.)
So... I never got to run fastboot reboot-bootloader or fastboot oem lock.
I assume I need to do these to finish the process, but it hasn't moved from waiting for device.
After rooting my GNexus using the "(Slightly) Easier Manual Method", I've found some apps no longer work. For example, prior to rooting Asphalt 6: Adrenaline worked, now it shows up as incompatible in the app store. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, have you found a fix?
Edit: After 2 days the issue seems to have resolved itself. Ignore.
Edit: After 2 days the issue seems to have resolved itself. Ignore.