blogng/blog/2012-12-06-rooting-a-nexus-7.markdown

---
author: dhananjayishere
comments: true
date: 2012-12-06 18:26:00
layout: post
slug: rooting-a-nexus-7
tags: android, programing, hack, rooting
title: Rooting a nexus 7
wordpress_id: 171074083
---

Lot of posts in the web about this is just bogus, all of them want you
to download a fat rootkit and click on the root.exe :-/

Being a developer device, rooting nexus 7 is easy.

1. Gain developer privilege (figure out yourself :-P)
2. Reboot to bootloader
```
$ adb reboot bootloader
```
3. Unlock the bootloader
```
$ fastboot oem unlock # Might have to be the superuser.
```
4. Download the recovery image for device from [here](http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager)
and flash it
```
$ fastboot flash recovery
```
5. Get the [superuser binary](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053).
6. Reboot the device and put it in the sdcard (or any storage you have,)
7. Reboot to the recovery and flash it.
```
 $ adb reboot recovery
```


Note: People suggested using this to [keep root priviliges](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5wcm9qZWN0dm9vZG9vLm90YXJvb3RrZWVwZXIiXQ..) after OTA -
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`
			`author: dhananjayishere`
			`comments: true`
			`date: 2012-12-06 18:26:00`
			`layout: post`
			`slug: rooting-a-nexus-7`
Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00			`tags: android, programing, hack, rooting`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`title: Rooting a nexus 7`
			`wordpress_id: 171074083`
			`---`

			`Lot of posts in the web about this is just bogus, all of them want you`
			`to download a fat rootkit and click on the root.exe :-/`

			`Being a developer device, rooting nexus 7 is easy.`

			`1. Gain developer privilege (figure out yourself :-P)`
			`2. Reboot to bootloader`
			```
			`$ adb reboot bootloader`
			```
			`3. Unlock the bootloader`
			```
			`$ fastboot oem unlock # Might have to be the superuser.`
			```
			`4. Download the recovery image for device from [here](http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager)`
			`and flash it`
			```
			`$ fastboot flash recovery`
			```
			`5. Get the [superuser binary](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053).`
			`6. Reboot the device and put it in the sdcard (or any storage you have,)`
			`7. Reboot to the recovery and flash it.`
			```
			`$ adb reboot recovery`
			```


			`Note: People suggested using this to [keep root priviliges](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.otarootkeeper&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5wcm9qZWN0dm9vZG9vLm90YXJvb3RrZWVwZXIiXQ..) after OTA -`