[k.electron (OP)]

Thanks to:
Google
birdman
CWM
Team Win
chainfire
and any others whom I am unaware of (please pm and I will include you)

OEM UNLOCK:
WARNING: This will wipe your device. Backup all your photos and whatnot.

• Boot device into bootloader.
  
  
• Open a command prompt in the folder where your fastboot.exe lives. Typically this is the platform-tools directory in the SDK.
  
  
• Type in

  fastboot oem unlock

  and press enter.
  
  
• Follow prompts on device to unlock bootloader.
  
  
• Profit!

BOOTLOADERS:
See Post 2 -> here

RECOVERIES:
See Post 3 -> here

BACK TO STOCK:
See Post 3 -> here

ROOT:

• Load CWM onto your device as described in the RECOVERIES section
  
  
• Download the SU binary for JB
  
  
• Put it onto the device
  
  
• Boot into recovery
  
  
• Install zip from sd card
  
  
• Choose zip
  
  
• Navigate to the file you downloaded and put onto the device
  
  
• Flash
  
  
• Profit!

[k.electron (OP)]

BOOTLOADERS:

HOW TO FLASH:

• Download bootloader to hard drive.
  
• Boot device into bootloader.
  
• Open a command prompt in the folder where your fastboot.exe lives. Typically this is the platform-tools directory in the SDK.
  
• Type in

  fastboot flash bootloader <location/name_of_bootloader_file.img>

  and press enter.
  
• Wait for successful flash.
  
• Type in

  fastboot reboot-bootloader

  and press enter.
  
• Profit!

[k.electron (OP)]

RECOVERIES:

HOW TO FLASH:

• Download recovery to the computer.
  
• Connect the device to the computer.
  
• Boot device into bootloader.
  
• Open a command prompt in the folder where your fastboot.exe lives. Typically this is the platform-tools directory in the SDK.
  
• Type in

  fastboot flash recovery <location/name_of_recovery_file.img>

  and press enter.
  
• Wait for successful flash.
  
• Type in

  fastboot reboot-bootloader

  
  
• Profit!

LIST OF AVAILABLE RECOVERIES:

• CWM -> here
  
• TeamWin -> here

PREVENT RECOVERY OVERWRITE:

• After flashing recovery as described above, BEFORE you boot into device, boot into recovery.
  
• mounts and storage
  
• mount system
  
• Open a command prompt in the folder where your adb.exe lives. Typically this is the platform-tools directory in the SDK.
  
• Type in

  adb shell

  and press enter.
  
• Type in

  cd /system

  and press enter.
  
• Type in

  mv recovery-from-boot.p recovery-from-boot.bak

  and press enter.
  
• Profit!

Edited by k.electron, 28 July 2012 - 07:33 AM.

[k.electron (OP)]

BACK TO STOCK:

HOW TO DO:
WARNING: This will wipe your device. Backup all your photos and whatnot.

• Download the Nexus 7 JOP40D OEM image -> here.
  
• Extract the compressed file to the folder where your fastboot.exe lives. Typically this is the platform-tools directory in the SDK.
  
• Open a command prompt window where your fastboot.exe lives.
  
• Type in the following commands and press enter after each one.
  

• fastboot erase boot

  
  

• fastboot erase cache

  
  

• fastboot erase recovery

  
  

• fastboot erase system

  
  

• fastboot erase userdata

  
  

• fastboot flash bootloader nakasi-jop40d/bootloader-grouper-4.13.img

  
  

• fastboot reboot-bootloader

  
  

• fastboot -w update nakasi-jop40d/image-nakasi-jop40d.zip

  
  
• Wait for the image to flash.
  
• Type in

  fastboot reboot-bootloader

  and press enter.
  
• If you just wanted to return to stock software and not relock, you are done here. Boot into the device.
  
• If you want to relock the device, type in

  fastboot oem lock

  and follow the prompts on the device.
  
• Profit!

[chengww]

Will there be much development, it is running easy to root android with nothing better the sweet goodness of purity. This might be the first device that I will not load a custom rom.

[k.electron (OP)]

there will always be awesome development on nexus devices.

[sfreemanoh]

chengww, on 28 June 2012 - 07:47 PM, said:

Will there be much development, it is running easy to root android with nothing better the sweet goodness of purity. This might be the first device that I will not load a custom rom.

I said the same thing when I got my GNex...but I was oh so very wrong. Just about every ROM out there improves on stock in one way or another (or in all ways). Either better battery life, better performance, both, built-in mods and tweaks, etc etc.

[Mustang302LX]

Stickied and added the "fastboot oem unlock" command for unlocking the bootloader as not everyone will be coming from a GNex or knows how to unlock. :) Great post so far and can't wait to see it once we all have the device!

[sfreemanoh]

Since it's a wifi only device, is the radios section needed??

[k.electron (OP)]

Mustang302LX, on 29 June 2012 - 08:32 AM, said:

Stickied and added the "fastboot oem unlock" command for unlocking the bootloader as not everyone will be coming from a GNex or knows how to unlock. :) Great post so far and can't wait to see it once we all have the device!

thank you sir, i will try to keep it updated as often as possible. right now a little bit of a copy paste effort since i havent actually gotten mine yet. definitely will have lots more details once i get it.

im not sure i can edit the title, if i can let me know how, or else if you would remove the (placeholder) and replace it with "+ Root" or something.