Root Universal Nexus Linux Toolkit

[hstroph]

Have any of you yet used the Universal Nexus Linux Toolkit. Compatible with Nexus 4 ? There have been about 400 downloads so far ... and the mako200.tar.gz file that the script uses does exist on the site.

From the README:

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With this toolkit you will be able to:

- Unlock the bootloader.
- Flash CWM recovery (Standard or Touch).
- Root the phone.
- Lock the bootloader.
- Flash Google Factory Image.

HOW TO EXECUTE:
Please extract the .tgz in the place you want, for example in /home/user.
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However, my "tar xzvf unlt202.tgz" didn't recognize it as a valid tar file; the author apparently tar'd it first and then gzip'd it, so "gunzip -c unlt202.tgz | tar xzvf -" worked for me.

Seems like an easy-enough root of the Nexus 4 if it works properly ... mine's back-ordered.

 

[RDTatel]

It worked perfectly here
thanks for sharing the info

 

[hstroph]

It worked perfectly here
thanks for sharing the info

You're welcome, and it was so easy here too, once I selected the "touch" option. So it installed "ClockworkMod Recovery" (CWM?), and I need to understand more about custom ROMs. Is CWM a custom ROM? Would CyanogenMod be any kind of conflict, please? I have the paid version of "ROM Manager" installed, and wish to understand root things more clearly before proceeding in my attempts to test the possibility of USB OTG.

 

[RDTatel]

You're welcome, and it was so easy here too, once I selected the "touch" option. So it installed "ClockworkMod Recovery" (CWM?), and I need to understand more about custom ROMs. Is CWM a custom ROM? Would CyanogenMod be any kind of conflict, please? I have the paid version of "ROM Manager" installed, and wish to understand root things more clearly before proceeding in my attempts to test the possibility of USB OTG.

STOP!!!!!
DO NOT TOUCH A THE DEVICE !

you installed CWM and didn't unlocked your bootloader, as i understand
1. Unlock the bootloader
2. Root
3. flash CWM
4. then flash the rom you like ( make sure it was made for the nexus 4)
if you flash a ROM with the bootloader locked to the device you will brick it, that is how i understand, go read some more info about this

by the way first time using nexus devices correct me if i am wrong but that is how it worked with the devices i used before.

 

[hstroph]

STOP!!!!! DO NOT TOUCH A THE DEVICE ! ...

Thank-a you-a for that-a Eyetalian advice-a, but your caps-a-lock key is-a stuck-a.

All the steps you so emphatically stated were taken a week ago. My question was whether the CyanogenMod ROM would conflict with the CWM Recovery. "I don't know" is always a fair answer, when applicable.

 

[alfick3]

.....My question was whether the CyanogenMod ROM would conflict with the CWM Recovery.

CWM is a custom recovery, that will allow you to make a back up of the ROM that you have installed (whether that be the stock, or another). The CyanagenMod ROM is the OS of the phone. It is what you look at when you are using the phone. You need the custom recovery in order to flash/backup the ROM's to your phone. The recovery doesn't allow any kind of phone operation; such as making phone calls or browsing the web, etc. That is what the ROM is for.

 

[jprim]

thanks!!! bro WOW u have skilllz b keep up the good work!!!