Root Nexus 4 rooting

[drphysica]

Hello fellas I have tried to root my nexus 4 phone using Linux as it runs on my computer and I hit a problem. I followed this link with instructions but cannot install supper user app because when I boot my android in recovery I get this "No command" message??? Does anyone know how to fix this and why am I getting this?? Thanks

 

[lunatic59]

Which recovery did you flash?

 

[Thom]

Welcome to Android Forums.

I moved this thread to the sub-forum where root-related questions about this phone are discussed.

... Thom

 

[drphysica]

Which recovery did you flash?

I used this file "recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.7-mako.img" to flash recovery for my phone. Any suggestions?

 

[acejavelin]

I used this file "recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.7-mako.img" to flash recovery for my phone. Any suggestions?

Yes. Use TRWP and SuperSU... This is literally simple, flash or boot recovery, flash SuperSU, reboot, and your rooted. Not sure why this is giving you fits.

 

[drphysica]

Yes. Use TRWP and SuperSU... This is literally simple, flash or boot recovery, flash SuperSU, reboot, and your rooted. Not sure why this is giving you fits.

Yes I'm not sure why this happens but again I can't install SuperSu because the phone in recovery mode has a "No command" message.

 

[acejavelin]

I'm not sure I understand... Do you have TWRP installed? Just go into it and select install, navigate to SuperSU zip file on the phone and flash it.

Or are you still trying to get recovery loaded? You use fastboot commands from the bootloader screen or after selecting Fastboot (sorry, been a while)

 

[alfick3]

it almost sounds, to me, like you don't actually have a recovery flashed.

 

[drphysica]

Yes it seems that flashing the clockwork recovery or TWRP doesn't work that is why I can't get to clockwork recovery mode to flash SuperSU.zip. I just did factory reset on the phone and the same issue.

@intel-i7:~/Nexus4$ sudo fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-mako.img
[sudo] password for :
sending 'recovery' (8074 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.257s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.468s]
finished. total time: 0.725s

It should work there is no errors???

One thing I need to mention that I had Ubuntu touch installed on the phone but I rolled back to android with no problems.

 

[acejavelin]

Are you rebooting directly into recovery after flashing, or booting into the OS? The stock Android OS has a script that replaces the recovery with the stock one, if its been modified, on each boot. Most root tools rename the file as part of the rooting process.

Try just booting recovery and flashing SuperSU... In fastboot, use the command

fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-mako.img

Then flash SuperSU immediately