Flash Nexus 5 with Android 6.0.1 and root

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Rooted my Nexus 5 android following this instruction.

1. Backup the phone (Rooting will erase all setting and personal files on the phone & SD card)

2. Enable USB debugging:
Go to phone’s Setting -> About Phone, then keep tapping on “Build Number” until it shows “You are now a developer”

3. Unlock the bootloader & Flash Nexus 5 with the factory image

  • connect the phone to Mac by USB cable
  • Boot into Fastboot mode by “Volume Up + Volume Down + Power”
  • download the image.
    Factory images can be found here.
    Extract the downloaded file hammerhead-mob30y-factory-7f05cd7f.tgz
  • According to the instructions, normally running ./flash-all.sh will be enough. However this version might have a problem which cause the reboot after this stucks (or maybe just takes really long to boot up). The following way, which is to manually running the scripts, seemed helpful.(Found the solution from here)

  • Open a terminal on my MAC and ran the following commands,

    fastboot oem unlock
    fastboot erase boot
    fastboot erase recovery
    fastboot erase system
    fastboot erase userdata
    fastboot erase cache

    fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz20h.img
    fastboot reboot-bootloader

    fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.2.29.img
    fastboot reboot-bootloader

    fastboot flash boot boot.img
    fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
    fastboot flash system system.img
    fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
    fastboot flash cache cache.img
    fastboot reboot-bootloader

    4. Get Android-studio from here
    twrp from here. This is a better recovery tool.
    SuperSu from here

    5. Install custom recovery
    Go to directory which contains the Andriod-studio files (on Mac)
    #which fastboot
    /Users/myuser/android-sdk/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/fastboot
    #cd /Users/myuser/android-sdk/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/fastboot
    #fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead.img
    #fastboot reboot-bootloader
    Power-off the phone and enter the Fastboot mode again, switch to Recovery mode and proceed, then the custom recovery will be shown.

    6. Root the phone
    On Mac terminal:
    #adb push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.76-20160630161323.zip /sdcard/
    Boot the phone into Fastboot mode then switch to recovery mode as before.
    Click on install, then choose SuperSu zip file and click “Install image”.
    Reboot.

    7. The phone couldn’t get connection from carrier(Sprint) after the changes above, ran the following code on the dial pad, then the problem got fixed.

    *#*#72786#*#*

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