Google Nexus 4



Google Nexus 4 
Rooting Instructions

  • Modifying / replacing your phone's software may void the phone's warranty and may render phone to 'brick' status - meaning your phone will not be worth much more than a brick. 
  • Rooting a phone is entirely at your own risk. No one affiliated with ROMWarez is responsible for your decision to root your phone.
  • Unlocking the bootloader on most phones will automatically wipe all data.
  • Always backup your current Apps/Data/SMS Messages before performing any type of rooting procedure. Find these backup apps on Google Play. If you have a Google account, then backing up your contacts is unnecessary as these are on Google servers. 
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Unlocking the Bootloader
  • Download and install the phone's USB drivers for computer (www.PDANet.co).
  • Download and extract RootFiles.zip into a folder on computer desktop. 
  • Enable USB debugging on the phone (Settings --> Developer Options)
  • Ensure phone is in 'Charge Only' mode.
  • Connect the phone to the computer through USB.
  • From the RootFiles folder/directory created earlier on computer desktop, double click on the 'Open-Command-Prompt' file and type adb devices to ensure phone and computer drivers are installed correctly.
  • From a command prompt on a computer, type the following to boot the device into fastboot mode: adb reboot bootloader
  • From the same command prompt, type the following command to unlock the bootloader: fastboot oem unlock
  • A disclaimer will display on the phone that must be accepted. Use the volume keys to cycle through the options. Pressing the power button should confirm your selection.
  • If the phone doesn't automatically reboot, reboot it from the menu. Bootloader should now be unlocked. Bootloader unlocked can be confirmed by an unlocked icon at the bottom of the Google boot screen during reboots.
  • Since the device resets completely you need to re-enable USB debugging.

 Installing Recovery Using Fastboot

 You can use fastboot to install your recovery image to the device.
  • Download Koush's ClockworkMod Recovery and place in RootFiles folder directory.
  • Download SuperSU.zip to RootFiles folder/directory.
  • Connect the your phone to the computer via USB.
  • Ensure the fastboot.exe is in your path OR that you place the downloaded image in the same directory as fastboot.
  • Ensure the SuperSU.zip is in the same folder/directory as your adb commands.
  • Copy SuperSU.zip to root of your SDCard: adb push supersu.zip /sdcard/.
  • Open a command prompt on your PC and reboot the device into fastboot mode by typing: adb reboot bootloader or by using the hardware key combination for the phone (listed below).
  • Once the device is in fastboot mode, verify your PC sees the device by typing at a command prompt: fastboot devices
  • If you don't see your phone's serial number, and instead see "<waiting for device>", fastboot is not configured properly on your computer.
  • From a command prompt, type: fastboot oem unlock. This will unlock your bootloader to enable installing a custom recovery. 
  • Flash ClockworkMod Recovery onto your device by entering the following command:
  • fastboot flash recovery your_recovery_image.img where the latter part is the name of the recovery image file you downloaded.
  • Once the flash completes successfully, reboot the device into 'recovery mode' to verify the installation. This can be done by typing: fastboot boot recovery.
  • When that finishes, use the volume keys to highlight 'Recovery mode' then press power button to select it.
  • From recovery, scroll to 'install zip from sdcard.'
  • Then 'choose zip from sdcard'.
  • Choose the 'supersu.zip' file and install it.
  • When SuperSU is finished installing, back out recovery, reboot the system.
  • You are rooted!
Note: Some ROMs overwrite recovery at boot time so if you do not plan to immediately boot into recovery to install CyanogenMod, please be aware that this may overwrite your custom recovery with the stock.
Key Combinations:

 Booting into Recovery Mode:
Volume Up + Volume Down + Power to boot into fastboot mode. While at the fastboot screen, use Volume Up or Volume Down to select Recovery mode, then press Power to confirm your selection.

 Booting into Fastboot:
Volume Up + Volume Down + Power
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