[RECOVERY] [TWRP] Official TWRP Custom recovery and ROOTING guide for Google Nexus 6 Codename SHAMU

A custom recovery is the world to some beautiful custom ROMs for your device.
If you agree with me then you do understand the need of a custom recovery for a device.
Google Nexus 6 was recently released to market and today we have the TWRP custom recovery for that.
With this first custom recovery you will also see some custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod 12, Paranoid Android and more for Google Nexus 6 in near future.

WARNING:
Installing custom recovery on your device may VOID your warranty and may delete all your data.
Before proceeding further you may consider backup your all data.
Understand the fact that you are the only person responsible for everything that you do with you device.
If you blame me for a disaster that happened to your device then I will simply laugh at you.

Before going into details make sure that you have the following things in hand to start with the installation guide.
Required things:
- Driver for Your Nexus device
- Fastboot and adb binaries
- SuperSU v2.27 Flashable package by chainfire
- Recovery image for your corresponding device from the following links:
      TWPR custom recovery for Nexus 6 SHAMU
- USB cable
- Enough time with a smart and cool brain

You may follow the below link to backup all the data on your android device:
Step by step guide to take full backup of your phone data

[Installing TWRP Custom recovery and Rooting guide for Nexus6]

STEP by STEP ROOTing guide for your Nexus device:

The complete process will be split into three things as following:
- Unlocking the Bootloader
- Installing a custom recovery
- Installing the ROOT package using the custom recovery

Unlocking the Bootloader:

STEP 1:

Turn the phone off.
Then boot it into the bootloader/fastboot mode by holding volume up + volume down + power.

STEP 2:

Open a command console and go to the directory where you have extracted adb and fastboot
Type the following command in the console:

$ fastboot devices

NOTE:
This command will list the connected devices.
If your phones serial number shows up you are good to go and may continue.
If the phone is NOT listed this indicates that your drivers are not installed correctly.
In order for you to continue you must configure your drivers properly so that your phone is listed under fastboot devices.

STEP 3:

If the phone has been recognized by the command above, proceed to unlocking the bootloader with the following command::

$ fastboot oem unlock

WARNING:
Remember that this step will wipe EVERYTHING off the phone.
If you have not taken a backup of your phone data then do it here:
Step by step guide to take full backup of your phone data

Flashing a Custom Recovery:

STEP 1:

Find out the appropriate custom recovery for your device.
Copy the custom recovery into the directory where you have kept the adb and fastboot files.

STEP 2:

Now type the following command to install the custom recovery image onto your Nexus device:

$ fastboot flash recovery <recovery_image_file.name>

Place the recovery image name in the <recovery_image_file.name> field.

$ fastboot reboot

Rooting guide:

NOTE:
Rooting guide will only work only after the custom recovery installation.
If you will SKIP the custom recovery installation process and perform only these steps then rooting will not be done.

STEP 1:

Copy the SuperSu zip file to your SD card(By using a USB cable or via adb push command).

STEP 2:

After copying the SuperSu zip file to your SD card you have to go to the recovery and there you have to install this zip file.
To do so use the following command:

$ adb reboot recovery

STEP 3:

Touch on the Install software button
And then Select a zip file to install.
Select the SuperSu binary zip file where you have kept in the SD card.

After successfully completing all the above mentioned steps your device will be rooted.

Have fun and stay tuned to get more updates.

Author : Modder

I am an embedded software engineer by profession and an advanced Android user who knows a little more than many out there. I work on creating and promoting GCam APK which is a modified APK done to get several extra features on the stock app in Android. Basically this is done using reverse engineering the original app file. I work on publishing about GCam APK Port, custom ROMs and some Linux how-to guides. I use this YouTube Blue APK and the NewPipe APK as a daily Youtube apps.

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