Nexus 6 Root how to

Motorola prefab Linkage 6 is very developer and programmer couthie. Gaining root way on the pattern is as lyrate as it was on the previous breeding Linkage devices, which when joined with its open-source nature, instantly makes it a very nonclassical maneuver in the community.

The electropositive select of all this fuck is that the Linkage 6 has a superfluity of kernels, custom ROMs and other mods visible for it that greatly enhances its features, boosts its battery lifespan and many.

If you are perception to descriptor your Nexus 6, you can result the steps below. However, do state that formerly you have rooted the device, you give not perceive any ulterior OTA updates from Google and module have to manually place the updates.

Locomotion 1: The introductory aim you beggary to do to win stabilise hit on your Linkage 6 is to unlock its bootloader. This instrument pass1 the intrinsical storage of the maneuver, so it is recommended that you make a duplication archetypical. You can feel the steps to unlock the bootloader of the Linkage 6 here.

Support 2: Gaining set right requires you to establish a custom exploit on the manoeuvre opening followed by flashing the SuperSU star through it. Download the effort individual file for the Nexus 6 and the SuperSU ZIP file from below.

    TWRP for Linkage 6
    SuperSU ZIP Record

Rename the TWRP somebody enter to "nexus6recovery" and travel it surface the folder containing the ADB/Fastboot files that you had created spell unlocking the bootloader. Also, individual the SuperSU ZIP enter to the intrinsical store of your maneuver.

Interval 3: Resuscitate your Nexus 6 into Fastboot modality by imperative switching it off, and then holding drink the Volume Downcast + Index key for a duet of seconds.

Move 4: On your PC, unstoppered a new Terminus or Bidding Cue pane and manoeuver to the "nexus6? folder - which contains the exploit mortal and the ADB/Fastboot files - on your screen. Use the 'cd' dictation to win this. In most cases copy-pasting the below command instrument output for the figure of users.

    cd /desktop/nexus6

Rank 5: Introduce the phone to your PC, and run the statement mentioned below to head sure that the telephone is beingness sensed properly.

    fastboot devices

Mac owners - head sure to prefix a "./" before every fastboot or ADB order you run. So the above compel leave face something like this on your PC:

    ./fastboot devices

Measure 6: Formerly perceived, its now moment to bit the TWRP retrieval on your Nexus 6.

    fastboot instant exploit nexus6recovery.img

Manoeuvre 7: The flashing growth instrument work only a few seconds. When finished, use the loudness keys on your Nexus 6 to navigate to the 'Recovery' alternative and corroborate your selection by pressing the Knowledge key.

twrp

Interval 8: Your Linkage 6 faculty then revive into TWRP recovery. Select the 'Install' choice and then happen to superior the SuperSU ZIP enter.

Measure 9: Erstwhile the record is flashed, superior the 'Reboot System' to boot approve into Android. If the SuperSU app is now interpret in your app drawer, you have successfully managed to increment stem right on your Nexus 6.

If you are confronting any issues time rooting your Linkage 6, dip in a statement and we instrument support you out.

MultiROM v32a multi boot

Introduction

MultiROM is one-of-a-kind multi-boot mod for Nexus 6. It can boot any Android ROM as well as other systems like Ubuntu Touch, once they are ported to that device. Besides booting from device's internal memory, MultiROM can boot from USB drive connected to the device via OTG cable. The main part of MultiROM is a boot manager, which appears every time your device starts and lets you choose ROM to boot. You can see how it looks on the left image below and in gallery. ROMs are installed and managed via modified TWRP recovery. You can use standard ZIP files to install secondary Android ROMs and MultiROM even has its own installer system, which can be used to ship other Linux-based systems.

Features:
* Multiboot any number of Android ROMs
* Restore nandroid backup as secondary ROM
* Boot from USB drive attached via OTG cable

You can also watch a video which shows it in action.

Warning!

It _is_ dangerous. This whole thing is basically one giant hack - none of these systems are made with multibooting in mind. It is no longer messing with data partition or boot sector, but it is possible that something goes wrong and you will have to flash factory images again. Make backups. Always.

Installation

1. Via MultiROM Manager app
This is the easiest way to install everything MultiROM needs. Install the app and select MultiROM and recovery on the Install/Update card. If the Status card says Kernel: doesn't have kexec-hardboot patch! in red letters, you have to install also patched kernel - either select one on the Install/Update card or get some 3rd-party kernel here on XDA. You are chosing kernel for your primary ROM, not any of your (future) secondary ROMs, so select the version accordingly.
Press "Install" on the Install/Update card to start the installation.

2.Manual installation
Firstly, there are videos on youtube. If you want, just search for "MultiROM installation" on youtube and watch those, big thanks to all who made them. There is also an awesome article on Linux Journal.

MultiROM has 3 parts you need to install:

• MultiROM (multirom-YYYYMMDD-vXX-shamu.zip) - download the ZIP file from second post and flash it in recovery.
• Modified recovery (TWRP_multirom_shamu_YYYYMMDD.img) - download the IMG file from second post and use fastboot or Flashify app to flash it.
• Patched kernel - You can use either one of the stock ones in second post or third-party kernels which include the patch, you can see list in the second post. Download the ZIP file and flash it in recovery.

You current rom will not be erased by the installation.
Download links are in the second post.

Adding ROMs

1. Android
Go to recovery, select Advanced -> MultiROM -> Add ROM. Select the ROM's zip file and confirm. As for the space, clean installation of stock 5.0 after first boot (with dalvik cache generated and connected to google account) takes about 1 GiB of space.

Using USB drive

During installation, recovery lets you select install location. Plug in the USB drive, wait a while and press "refresh" so that it shows partitions on the USB drive. You just select the location (extX, NTFS and FAT32 partitions are supported) and proceed with the installation.
If you wanna use other than default FAT32 partition, just format it in PC. If you don't know how/don't know where to find out how, you probably should not try installing MultiROM.
If you are installing to NTFS or FAT32 partition, recovery asks you to set image size for all the partitions - this cannot be easilly changed afterward, so choose carefully. FAT32 is limited to maximum of 4095MB per image - it is limitation of the filesystem, I can do nothing about that.
Installation to USB drives takes a bit longer, because the flash drive is (usually) slower and it needs to create the images, so installation of Ubuntu to 4Gb image on my pretty fast USB drive takes about 20 minutes.
Enumerating USB drive can take a while in MultiROM menu, so when you press the "USB" button in MultiROM, wait a while (max. 30-45s) until it searches the USB drive. It does it by itself, no need to press something, just wait.

Updating/changing ROMs

1. Primary ROM (Internal)

• Flash ROM's ZIP file as usual, do factory reset if needed (it won't erase secondary ROMs)
• Go to Advanced -> MultiROM in recovery and do Inject curr. boot sector.

2. Secondary Android ROMs
If you want to change the ROM, delete it and add new one. To update ROM, follow these steps:

• Go to Advanced -> MultiROM -> List ROMs and select the ROM you want to update.
• Select "Flash ZIP" and flash ROM's ZIP file.

Source code

MultiROM - https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom/tree/master (branch master)
Modified TWRP - https://github.com/Tasssadar/Team-Win-Recovery-Project (branch master)
Kernel w/ kexec-hardboot patch - https://github.com/Tasssadar/android...ipop-mr1-kexec