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hey guys it's Joe the Android guy with pocketnow.com if you're like me you either have just received your Nexus 4 or it's in the mail to you now it's fabulous it's great it's a wonderful device so after the first day has passed and you want to do more fun stuff with it how do you do that how do you OEM unlock it and how do you route it let's go take a look so first and foremost anything you do from this point forward you're doing on your own weirdest claiming any and all liability you're assuming the risk this could break your phone it's half the fun next we're gonna talk about unlocking not carrier unlocking because phones from Google come already carrier unlocked or rather they were never locked at all so you don't have to unlock something that was never locked it's just open throw a same in from t-mobile it works for all of us I'm in from AT&T it works through Bell Rogers and Telus orange anybody GSM and it works the way it should be so I'll take a hint on this unlocked phones unlocked phones anyway next we're gonna talk instead about unlocking the bootloader just like it sounds it unlocks the bootloader if you don't know what the bootloader is luckily we've got a video for you that talks about that I'll have a link at the end of this video to that video so you can get caught up just in case you don't know after we've unlocked the bootloader then we want to load up Super User we want to root the device so I'll show you how to do that as well all of this used to be relatively complicated now it's not because we've got a really cool toolkit called the Nexus 4 toolkit you might be familiar with its cousin the Nexus 7 toolkit same type of thing different device works great let me show you how to do it so I fired up the Nexus 4 toolkit it starts up adb sees the Damons not running so it starts it up yadda yadda yadda and then it wants to see if there's an update available well I've already done that so I'm gonna type no yes you have to type the word no we'll hit enter we get a disclaimer some information written by a mark skipping way to go home heart this thing's awesome then it wants me to select my device version and build now I'm running the next version up from Jo p40 see I'm running the D version this will work just fine so we'll hit won by the way this is the 4.2 and the next one's 4.2.1 so something like that I might have gotten those backwards anyway which one do we have 4.2 we're good great next now we've got this huge huge menu first and foremost if you have not installed drivers you can do that with step number one it will take care of that for you but you do want to unplug your device first you can backup and restore your device unfortunately you've got to be rooted to be able to do that so if you've already got everything pre-configured kind of out of luck you can lock or unlock your bootloader so let's go ahead and hit three now before you do this this is going to wipe your device completely totally factory fresh new no pictures no nothing fresh fresh fresh okay all you got to do is one unlock you're good to go I've already done that to save some time in this video so there you go I've shown you how to do it go ahead and do it it's as easy as that step two or not step two but option two is relock so if you are all done and hey you had your fun you want to go back to stock you can go back to stock and then relock the bootloader so it looks just like it was when it came from the factory so great third options what we're gonna do here because we've already done first option that takes us back to the main menu from the main menu what we want to do is come all the way down here dddd we want to where is it root and unroot options number four go into that now you'll notice number four on the side says fastboot mode so to get into fastboot mode we want to hold it down our volume up/down button together sometimes that's easier said than done I'll do it this way so up and down are held press and hold the power button wait until it Wiggles and there you go now we are in fastboot mode we got to get this in connected up to the computer so we've got our nice little USB cable plug that in to the bottom and now we can continue so we'll put the phone down come back over here to our menu and in fastboot mode we can route the device and install busybox so number two we want to do that from here do we want to install Super User by chains D D by the way big props to change D D for an awesome awesome app unfortunately Super you is better right now by chain fire so chain fire hey thanks for picking up where chain Stevie left off super user or super sue is what we're gonna go with and it in fact says this is disabled until it's updated so select super sue on Android 4.2 so we're gonna do that super su enter and now it has a whole bunch of stuff essentially we have to tell it is our device in fastboot mode are we ready to go type in the word yes press ENTER and there we go it takes a total of like not even a second but the procedure well restart here in just a moment it's got this little timeout now on the phone you might hear the computer making little BP sounds the phone has now rebooted out of fastboot mode and it's booting up into a normal mode do you look on the computer back here you can see it's already detected Nexus 4 storage brought that up so it's waiting for USB debugging to be enabled and continuing in 10 seconds so we'll wait 10 seconds and once that's done now it's rebooting back into fastboot mode which of course takes a few seconds now we're back in fastboot mode and we're waiting for the next step to continue this is actually downloading the boot dot image that's the insecure boot image which only took a little bit of time and then it of course is booting up from there like in this device the Nexus 4 boots extremely fast though it may not feel that way while we're watching it on video so just know in real life when you're doing this it's not gonna seem quite as long as when you're watching it on the video but there we are we're back up it now has a 10-second pause while it waits to do the next stuff now what it's doing next it's going to be sending over some of those fun things so it starts up a DVD in route which it was already running enroute pushes the Super User apk pushes busybox binaries to the device and stalls them tests it let me show you down here because the device is boring right now so it's going through showing you what you should see yep that's what it is sending the command to see what commands are available it's great and now once that's all done it has to reboot the device again so if the device doesn't reboot unplug it and hold the power button until it does you can see that mine just did I am unlocked and it's now booting up so we'll let that reboot and I'll come back in and show you that we are in fact rooted so the best way to check and see if you are in fact rooted is to go to an Android terminal emulator anyone will work just open that guy up wait for it to download here downloads really super fast on this device so let's go ahead and I'll launch this thing if I can remember what it was called the over here and the t's terminal emulator from this point we type in su super user and you notice we have a dollar sign prompt press ENTER and it's going to ask for Super User permissions will grant it and now we have this hash sign or octothorpe as our prompt so we are in fact a superuser we have routed the device go ahead and exit that and we just exited Super User by the way and now we're going to exit the terminal and there we go so Nexus 4 all rooted all ready to go now we can do some fun stuff like come in here to rum manager which I have already downloaded and we can flash clockworkmod recovery with just a tap which I have already done in stuff so that's what you need to do before the next video comes out and we start talking about some other stuff and fun custom roms okay for Pocket now showing off routing unlocking they're having all kinds of fun with brand new devices like the nexus 4 I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching if you liked the video make sure you give it a big thumbs up if you aren't following us on Twitter yet we are at pocket now I am at Joe Levi's and of course we are interested in your thoughts on the Nexus 4 toolkit so head over to pocketnow.com and leave your thoughts your comments your critiques your testimonials whatever they may be over there so we can all participate and learn from each other's experience