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[Verizon] Rooting tonight, 1 quick question

Danielson2047

Danielson2047

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Hello everyone. Had my Nexus LTE for 24 hours now, so it must be rooted. I like to have all my ducks in a row, which brings me to my question. When returning to stock (unrooting looking at the guide here http://androidforums.com/verizon-ga...gs-root-samsung-galaxy-nexus.html#post3736597) when typing the commands into adb, do i type everything as show including the copyring blah blah at the beginning, or just the part in blue with the commands? Thanx guys/gals!
 
I think when most people are going to return to stock, they'll go the fastboot route. So assuming stock is still 4.0.2, a copy/paste of the necessary commands from ScaryAlien's post is:

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip


Obviously the "sleep" stuff is just added for emphasis to let things settle b/t entries. So if you have your fastboot set up to run globally, you don't need any further explanation. If you do not, then place all the applicable files into the sdk platform-tools folder (most likely) and then proceed to flash the various partitions.

Did that answer your question or no?
 
Fun times ahead Danielson welcome here! I've done it both ways and I like to learn what I'm doing while I do it. They are both "almost foolproof". Either way, good luck.
 
Okay, this is the part i'm speaking of. What would be my first line entered into adb? From the beginning or the "fastboot" stuff?

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
 
Danielson2047 said:
Okay, this is the part i'm speaking of. What would be my first line entered into adb? From the beginning or the "fastboot" stuff?

#!/bin/sh

# Copyright (C) 2011 The Android Open Source Project
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip
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Just to explain a bit fourther, the script you are looking at is a shell script for linux. If you were running linux, you could just run the script like one runs a .exe on windows. In this shell script, the # comments out a line so that the person who write the code can add comments or other information without having to actually run that line.

In case you were interested--hope that made something a bit clearer.

Nkk

EDIT: also, if you are using windows, the sleep 5 command will fail becuase sleep is not recognized on windows (it is a Linux/UNIX command, not a fastboot one). Just wiat 5 to 10 seconds.
 
Yeah, I've done this about 15 times now (:eek: :p ;)) and I basically just open-up the flash-all.sh script and copy / paste the commands into the Windows Command Prompt (DOS window).

Just ignore the comment lines that start with the "#" sign and the sleep lines as nkk alluded to.

The delay doesn't really have to be very long and is presumably put in there for caution / safety reasons :), but a few seconds between each command is certainly advised.

Its pretty painless and works just fine.

Your phone will auto-reboot after the last command (fastboot -w update...). That reboot will take about four or five minutes...just be patient and let it finish (its presumably rebuilding the dalvik-cache, etc., so it takes a little longer than a normal boot and is very similar to what you'd experience if you were flashing a new ROM).

Good luck!
 
VoidedSaint said:
no running win7, and scary i think i did try and run it as a script
Click to expand...

Thanks!

Yeah, I'm just not comfortable myself with a multi-step script that does a lot of flashing steps where some anomaly (warning or error message, etc.) could be missed.

Besides, I wanna watch and get a feel for how long things take, messages displayed, etc.

That just how I roll...;) :).
 
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