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Android L is still very much a developer preview but there's one thing power users have been missing more than anything else I'm Joe Levi with pocket now this is how to root Android L I've gone ahead and downloaded the latest version of the cf-auto-root package and extracted that to my desktop once there you can see we've got a folder that's got a few script files for linux mac and windows i'm going to show you the windows version here and we've got some other directories the image itself and tools just a quick peek in there if you wanted to see what's in there ADB and fastboot will use fastboot here in just a minute and then image is our cf-auto-root with the Hammerhead image hammerhead of course is the nexus 5 so I've opened up a command prompt with administrative privileges and navigated to that folder in fact I've navigated into the tools folder the reason for that i've rebooted my device up into fastboot mode and the way you do that is power off and power back on holding down volume down and power at the same time you guys know how to do that so there's just a quick refresher once you're there we want to check and make sure all the USB drivers and everything are installed so we're going to type in fast boot space devices and here is the serial number of that connection and we are in fact in fastboot mode so we should be good to go I'm going to go ahead and clear my directory navigate back one and at this point really all we should have to do is type in route dash windows hit enter it tells us at this point as some warnings so let's go through them really quick if you have not already OEM unlocked your device which I have you are going to have to OEM unlock it for this process to work that process will wipe everything on your device it's a clean clean Factory reboot the whole thing so this is your chance to abort if you don't want to do that now an item of note for you to flash the Android L Developer Preview you have had to had an unlocked bootloader already so it was possible for you to relock your bootloader but most of us don't do that at that stage of the game so you're probably okay just keep this in mind it may wipe your device after we unlock this cf-auto-root is going to boot we should see a big red Android on our devices screen and we should be good to go so let's press any key to continue you can see it failed because I'm already unlocked that's a good thing don't worry about that it's downloading the boot image rebooting to that boot image there's that big red Android that they talked about rebooting in 10 seconds after that it says that it may take a minute or so for the red Android to appear but mine was almost immediate and I'm going to press any key to continue and that's it my device is now rebooting we'll wait for that to come up and once it does we'll walk through and see if we've got super user and all right we're rebooted and i have downloaded and installed super SU now again this is the management utility this is not an auto Rooter as some people might might assume that's that's not correct open up super SU and we're not getting a warning message like we did in the past when we did not have the superuser binary installed so everything looks good there I don't have any apps that require yet so let's go ahead and fire one up let's go over to our place tour I like clock sync app so let's type that in clock sync we will download and install this now this is a really cool app it's pretty basic it goes out and it gets the the time from the internet time servers and it updates your clock based on that and you can set it to whatever time server you want and have it do all kinds of cool stuff there is a root version and a non-root version it all inside the same app so let's see if this works there's our ntp server enabling auto synchronizations i'm going to change that to every three hours just for kicks and giggles and we'll do that only when the device is awake this is where we could change it into rootless mode if we needed to so once we've got all that done we want to do is synchronize our clocks and this should then throw up a challenge a root challenge for us and we'll see if everything is working the way that we want it to so will synchronize there's our super user request we will go ahead and grant that it's been granted superuser permission time has been synced we're good to go we now have root on Android L that's how you go about rooting your Android L powered device now this could change over time because Android L is not firmly locked down yet also as my old Uncle Ben used to say with routing comes great responsibility so use it wisely the last item of note is that Google is continuing to make changes to the way root access works and putting more restrictions on it to find out more about that make sure you click on the link in the description down below where we'll have an article that describes some of the changes that you can expect in the meantime that's how to go about getting root on your Nexus 5 running Android L if you like the video please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed yet we'd love for you to do so so you don't miss out on any of the cool stuff that's coming up we're also on all your favorite social media networks so you can tell your friends all about us over there for Puckett now showing off root android l and lots of other cool stuff i'm joe levi thanks for watching