Predictions: How long til it's rooted?

[Bestphonever]

Simple question, how long do you think it will take til the Sprint Galaxy Nexus get's rooted? Thinking about setting up a new phone without titanium backup is giving me a headache.

 

[eric3316]

Simple question, how long do you think it will take til the Sprint Galaxy Nexus get's rooted? Thinking about setting up a new phone without titanium backup is giving me a headache.

As soon as you get the phone. A Nexus phone is not like other phones. One simple command will usually unlock the device. No work required.

 

[Paul627g]

Yep done deal. Come home, root it using probably the same techniques that its older siblings are using on Verizon the GSM models.

 

[Brianbgrp]

Mine is ordered and hoping it's home by Friday/Sat and I fully intend on unlocking bootloader soon as it's out of the box. If we have a recovery ready to go that'll be there as well lol. Then run it stock rooted till the euroskank guys work their magic.

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2

 

[Alundre]

Anyone tried unlocking the bootloader yet just using the same method as the verizon/gsm model? I will be getting mine tonight when I get home from work but would like to at least get that unlocked before I start tinkering since it wipes the device.

 

[MrRedJoker93]

Except for the radios, the software should be basically identical right? So it should already be able to be rooted.

 

[Paul627g]

Except for the radios, the software should be basically identical right? So it should already be able to be rooted.

Besides the radios there is some other underlying bits and pieces in the OS that is "carrier" specific, so I wouldn't go rushing right out and try to load up a Verizon ROM..

 

[dmmarck]

Besides the radios there is some other underlying bits and pieces in the OS that is "carrier" specific, so I wouldn't go rushing right out and try to load up a Verizon ROM..

This. Don't worry, i'm sure the devs will follow. I can see AOKP/CM9 getting there first.

Does anyone know what "tuna" designation it is?

Verizon = toro
GSM = maguro
Sprint = ???

 

[Paul627g]

This. Don't worry, i'm sure the devs will follow. I can see AOKP/CM9 getting there first.

Does anyone know what "tuna" designation it is?

Verizon = toro
GSM = maguro
Sprint = ???

I'll just let the man from Google himself explain this...

Jean-Baptiste Queru

11/15/11
"Double fish, what does it mean?"

There've been several questions in this group about tuna vs maguro,
but such questions were buried in the middle on long threads so I'll
try to summarize in a new clean thread.


The Galaxy Nexus family is codenamed "tuna". Using fish names in
relationship to devices isn't quite new, since in the past we've had
goldfish (emulator), trout (G1), mahimahi (Nexus One), herring (Nexus
S) and stingray (Xoom).

There are two actual Galaxy Nexus devices, codenamed maguro and toro.
Maguro is the GSM/HSPA+ variant, and Toro is the CDMA/LTE variant.
Toro is a bit fatter, hence its name.

In the source tree released yesterday, there are two directories
called device/samsung/tuna and device/samsung/maguro. The former
contains all the files that are common to both toro and maguro, while
the latter contains the maguro-specific files. There's no
device/samsung/toro in AOSP yet, that directory will get created when
we release the exact code that actually ships on toro.

device/samsung/tuna contains makefiles as if it was an actual device.
There's no such device in reality, but the abstraction is convenient
for engineering purposes as it allows creating a common system image
that works on both toro and maguro, even though it supports neither
GSM/HSPA+ nor CDMA/LTE. This is only meant for engineering purposes,
and the only real devices are maguro and toro.

 

[dmmarck]

So Sprint will either be one of those, or they'll just create a new tuna name? I haven't found any in my Googling, but I also have no idea what type of radio setup Sprint/Sprint's GN has.

 

[Paul627g]

So Sprint will either be one of those, or they'll just create a new tuna name? I haven't found any in my Googling, but I also have no idea what type of radio setup Sprint/Sprint's GN has.

I would think Sprint's GNex will branch off from the CDMA/LTE version "toro". I would think it will get its own little modified version of "toro" name tag.

 

[dmmarck]

I vote for Sprintoro.

 

[Luca_Blight]

Its already rooted. I rooted mine as soon as I got it

 

[dmmarck]

Its already rooted. I rooted mine as soon as I got it

Can you please state what you used to do it, may it be a guide, etc. Having people know what works will be highly beneficial.

 

[Luca_Blight]

Can you please state what you used to do it, may it be a guide, etc. Having people know what works will be highly beneficial.

Sure I just watch YouTube qbking77 is the name of the guy everything works perfect. Only thing is the link had a bad su.zip after that I found a good one on xda site. I'll try to post all the links for you