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Want to gain root access on your Galaxy Nexus. Here is a quick guide to help your root your Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone using ADB aka Android Debug Bridge. As ADB is available for all major platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux, Rooting Galaxy Nexus is possible on any PC running any of these three platforms. If you don’t already have ADB on your mac or Windows PC, then check out the tutorial for Windows Here and for Mac here . After you have setup ADB, you will need to download two files to complete the process. Fastboot.ZIP Galaxy Nexus Driver, Root Files STEP 1: Extract both the RAR files that you have just downloaded. STEP 2: Copy the required Fastboot file depending on your platform to ADB folders. For Ex: If you are using Windows, copy fastboot-windows.exe to ADB folder. Same in the case of mac and linux. STEP 3: Turn on USB Debugging on your Galaxy Nexus. STEP 4: Install Driver from the Galaxy Nexus Manual Root folder. File name is Samsung_USB_Driver_

Want to unlock the bootloader of your Galaxy Nexus; here is a quick tutorial that should help you. Being a Nexus smartphone, unlocking the bootloader of Android 4.0 powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus is fairly easy, but you need to be sure by unlocking bootloader wipes your phone, so your phone will be back to factory state after the following steps are completed. So make sure to make a backup the necessary data/SMS/Call log etc. STEP 1: First download this file (r3-galaxynexus-superboot.zip) STEP 2: Download PdaNet and install , it installs the required drivers to work with the following steps. STEP 3: Extract the download zip to a folder using Winzip, WinRAR, 7Zip or any compressing application of your choice. STEP 4: Turn off your Galaxy Nexus STEP 5: Turn on your Galaxy Nexus in Bootloader mode [How to do that – Press 'volume up' and 'volume down' and ‘power button’ at the same time] [See the image below]. STEP 6: Go to the extracted folder and press