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This shouldn’t take long at all and once you are done you can then tap the Home button to go back to TWRP’s main menu.Īt the main menu, tap on the Install button again, but this time start looking for the SuperSU zip file that we downloaded earlier. Swipe the white arrows to initiate the installation and then wait for it to be completed. Now browse to the Downloads folder if you aren’t already there and then tap on the boot.img file that we downloaded earlier. This will switch TWRP into a mode that lets you flash image files(instead of zip files). Once you are at the TWRP main menu, look at the top and tap on the Install button and then look for a button toward the bottom that says Install Image. Once done, go ahead and boot the Nexus 6P into Fastboot Mode so that you can boot over into Recovery Mode. This means you should have the SuperSU.zip file and the boot.img file in the downloads folder of the Nexus 6P.

You then want to download the SuperSU zip file from the same thread(these are both linked in the tutorial), but this time do not extract the contents. Once the file has been extracted, you can copy or move it into the Download folder on the Nexus 6P so that we can access it later. So, we first need to download and extract the modified boot.img file from Chainfire’s XDA thread.

If Asked to Install SuperSU, Tap the ‘Do Not Install’ Button.

Swipe the White Arrows to the Right to Wipe the Cache.

Swipe the White Arrows at the Bottom to the Right Again.

Browse to and Tap on the SuperSU Zip File.

Tap the Home Button in the Navigation Bar.

Then Swipe the White Arrows at the Bottom to the Right to Install.

Tap the ‘Boot’ Option When Asked to Select Which Partition.

Browse to and tap on the Modified Boot Image File Downloaded Earlier.

Look Toward the Bottom and Tap the ‘Install Image’ Button.

At the TWRP Main Menu, Tap on the ‘Install’ Button.

Extract the boot.img File and Copy or Move it to the Nexus 6P.

Download the Modified Boot Image for the Nexus 6P.

I also recommend that you create your first Nandroid backup so that you have something to restore from if you come across any issues. Since you should have those two things done already, you’ll need to have all of the required steps mentioned in those tutorials before you can root the Nexus 6P. If you haven’t done either of these then you should follow these tutorials and make sure you are up to speed with what is required. It also assumes that you have installed a custom recovery on the Nexus 6P. This tutorial assumes that you have unlocked the bootloader of the Nexus 6P.

Nexus 6p software pc android#

The original method modified the /system partition so if you have done that and you wish to use this method then you’ll need to do a factory reset or revert back to stock Android before you proceed. However, this also means that you should not be trying this root method if you already have root access to the Nexus 6P with the original method. Not only does this make things easier when it comes to accepting an OTA update, but it also makes it easier to revert the changes we are making when gaining root access to the Nexus 6P.

Nexus 6p software pc how to#

I will be walking you through how to root the Nexus 6P and the method I talk about does not modify the /system partition.