It should come as no surprise that Nexus devices get the best treatment for just about everything. ile provides faster updates to said phones tablets, the development community surrounded the Nexus family is also incredibly large, offering up some great hacks, mods, tools. One such offering are root toolkits that can root your Nexus devices much easier than any manual method you’ve probably ever seen before.
There are a few Nexus rootkits around right now, but for this tutorial, I’ll be using gFresh’s Nexus Toolkit. This program allows you to do just about anything for your hacking needs. You can easily unlock the bootloader, root your Nexus phone or tablet, even flash a custom recovery in a simple, easy to use program.
Once you have the program up running, you’ll need little else. st follow along with the prompts. It really doesn’t get as easy as this.
Download install the Nexus Root Toolkit here:
After the program is installed, a small window will be presented, asking you what device you have what its build number is.
For this tutorial, I’ll be using the Nexus 7 (2013).
To find the software build version of your Nexus phone or tablet, go to Settings scroll down to About phone/tablet. It’s in this menu that you’ll find the build number.
The next window will show you how to enable B debugging:
By going back to the same settings menu, About phone/tablet tap on the build number 7 times. You’ll then see a popup saying, “Yay! You are now a developer!”
ess the back button once, a new settings menu called { } Developer options should be available above About phone. Tap on the new menu option scroll down to B Debugging check the box beside it. A pop up warning will be presented. ess Ok on your phone or tablet, then press Ok on the Root Toolkit window.
As noted in the B Debugging window for the Root Toolkit, you may need to change your B settings if you do not see the following popup after enabling