CF-Auto-Root for Nexus 5
Posted on 2013-11-01, 73 comments, 603 +1's, imported from Google+/Chainfire

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Received the device 10 minutes ago, so here's CF-Auto-Root for it :)

XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2507211

Download: http://download.chainfire.eu/363/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5.zip

All CF-Auto-Root downloads: http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/

CF-Root Download

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Abner Torres commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:27:

Holy shit, that was fast

Martin Born commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:27:

You're the man!

Francis S commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:30:

What took so long.... :) nice work, as usual. 

Alp Şehiç commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:33:

Wtf :-)

Derek Carr commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:33:

Well done +Chainfire! We can always count on you!

Tim Struijs commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:36:

+Bert Busch astu!

Peter Radics commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:37:

unbelievable

William Martin commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:39:

About time

Deviantartjr Henz commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:40:

You the man!

Joe Nunez commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:41:

+Chainfire beast

Paul commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:46:

Lol, your slowing down with age :p

Yashar Ahmedizade commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:46:

you are so slow... 

James Passmore commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:50:

Wow. The ink is still wet on the Play Store page. You're the man.

Heiko Mauel commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:51:

Amazing fast ^^

Is the Nexus 5 Dslr Controller compatible? +Chainfire

Jeff Jansen commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:52:

Thanks for the su binary update man.

Zhang Yuchen commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:53:

这么快就出了…

Jeffery Brown commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:55:

Awesome thanks so much

Paolo Garancini commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:55:

Amazing

David Knust commented on 2013-11-01 at 14:59:

nix work! thx

Viktor Vucinic commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:00:

Lol CF, you are crazy dude :)))

Brian El commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:00:

Dayum! Beast!

wang pan commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:05:

大神果然厉害啊！等n4收到4.4推送也能马上root吧

Andrew Price commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:13:

Is USB OTG support working on the N5? +Chainfire

Julio Lagara commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:27:

That was fast! ;) 

Stephen Moberg commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:48:

Damn dude already lol ;) awesome work as usual! Thanks!

Ste Hampson commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:49:

Like a Boss.

Alberto Mendoza commented on 2013-11-01 at 15:57:

Out of this world!

Robert Cusick commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:05:

+Chainfire would you consider doing sudo for 4.0+ devices, please?

Juho Yliriesto commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:08:

That was super duper fast, thank you +Chainfire 

Patrik Karlsson commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:11:

I'll donate a bit once I get the actual phone. You rule man!

necati çetinkaya commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:11:

Please update cf-auto root for 4.3 i9500 pleaseeee

Chainfire commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:26:

+Andrew Price yes

Chainfire commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:26:

+Robert Cusick why? nobody is using that on Android

Chainfire commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:26:

+necati çetinkaya why not use the existing version?

necati çetinkaya commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:29:

+ChainfireBecause Problem is knox. It delete or freeze superuser. I try delete knox programs than appear alot of system problem

Robert Cusick commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:39:

+Chainfire because its a better way of doing privilege escalation. Wouldn't you rather run as a normal user on your daily driver? With the implementation of multiple user profiles, I think having su call a hidden admin profile would be better, right? I don't know how you do it in supersu, but.. The main reason is simple: Create the code that Google can use in AOSP without carriers shitting bricks.

Robert Cusick commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:43:

4.4 has multiple privilege levels, right? Call it s challenge. I bet you 25 bucks you can't create an api or package for sudo like behavior using ICS or Kit Kat profiles.

Mario McIntosh commented on 2013-11-01 at 16:48:

Hold on......Chainfire..really dude....

Marjan Stamenkov commented on 2013-11-01 at 17:01:

How is the audio compared to the S4? Thank you

Lee Smith commented on 2013-11-01 at 17:04:

Cold blooded

NICK KAO commented on 2013-11-01 at 17:08:

Unbelievable speed...

Sean Michael Godseer commented on 2013-11-01 at 17:34:

christ. can you be less fast? ppl have not recived the phone yet :D

Brent Foster commented on 2013-11-01 at 17:46:

Your an animal chainfire!! Keep up the awesome work

Aayush Ambawat commented on 2013-11-01 at 18:00:

+Chainfire can you post a few screenshots of the notification center?

Hans-W. Steinmann commented on 2013-11-01 at 18:08:

Superfast, the only problem is: My N5 will arrive next week :-((

Lyall Demorrow commented on 2013-11-01 at 18:41:

+Chainfire how do you like the Nexus 5 compared to the 4?

Fabio Adamo commented on 2013-11-01 at 19:26:

+Chainfire How did you do with SELinux in enforcing mode? Do you add a policy?

Ziggy Winnicki commented on 2013-11-01 at 21:39:

Thanks +Chainfire no doubt about ya ;-)

Rick Hultmark commented on 2013-11-02 at 00:31:

+Chainfire do you know anyone who's written a DSLR controller for the Nikon family?

James Ortiz commented on 2013-11-02 at 06:39:

Bloody hell that was fast

Lasha Ramishvili commented on 2013-11-02 at 11:56:

Awesome you ar fast

Lasha Ramishvili commented on 2013-11-02 at 11:57:

Can I ask you? Do you planing to make triangle away for i9500?

Jorge Andres Serrano Ardila commented on 2013-11-02 at 19:15:

+Chainfire man ur damn good !

John Jones commented on 2013-11-02 at 21:52:

how to you make these good work ill donate 10 quid when i get my nexus 5

steve alvarez commented on 2013-11-03 at 02:20:

+Chainfire for President! Still waiting for mine to arrive. Beer coming your way!

Guy Jameson commented on 2013-11-03 at 16:41:

Thank you chainfire. You are the GOD of devs!

Harald W. commented on 2013-11-05 at 13:53:

Works great and fast. Thanks!

Willie Peng commented on 2013-11-07 at 05:00:

How do you make the *.tar.md5 file for Samsung device, especially the cache.img in it while stock ROM doesn't include it. I want to make cache.img with no content in it, but I don't know how to get its exact size. 

Billie-Angel Skjolde commented on 2013-11-07 at 15:35:

wow

Mick Lee commented on 2013-11-07 at 23:12:

Got i9305 guy changed screen now imei null/null rooted it cant write imei back in with z3x no *#9090# menu any ideas please

Manuele Polverini commented on 2013-11-12 at 16:20:

Where can i download the last superuser flashable zip for nexus5?

thanks

Tobias Rosengren commented on 2013-11-12 at 18:59:

And google said they made it impossible to root in 4.4 :D

Ekansh verma commented on 2013-11-13 at 05:32:

Setuped and ready to use...just waiting for my N5 to get delivered...really excited.

Ebo Dawson-Andoh commented on 2013-12-11 at 04:09:

Hmm, all I'm getting in the Windows cmd window is < waiting for device > but the device is plugged in. Any thoughts?

Tomáš Procházka commented on 2013-12-12 at 13:57:

Exist any way how to revert changes made by this tool? before apply OTA update, it fail with root enabled. I mean some way without reflash stock image. I mean only some small zip which I can apply from CWM recovery and then update via OTA?

Meowshen Lou commented on 2013-12-16 at 02:15:

Sorry, I am New user..this root will erase my phone data?(sms phone contact)

and app need to redownload again? 

Tobias Rosengren commented on 2013-12-19 at 14:17:

+Meowshen Blackid Yes it will probably erase your data

KK Wu commented on 2014-01-01 at 14:45:

got my Nexus 5 today and fail to root my  N5 after ota to 4.4.2, can you give me some advice? thank  you so much. +Chainfire 

Meowshen Lou commented on 2014-01-02 at 02:03:

+吴伟康 之前已經用了..cf auto root? 再root多一次..同樣步驟..我試過了..可以..

KK Wu commented on 2014-01-02 at 02:33:

试了好多次了，还是不行呢

Meowshen Lou commented on 2014-01-02 at 07:58:

+吴伟康 哦..這樣..那可能要..試過..其他方法...可以去..apk.tw哪裡找找看..

Dave Handler commented on 2014-02-26 at 05:18:

+Chainfire I have 2 questions (which I would have posted to the XDA channel for this but it won't let me post to developers threads yet and I didn't want to take it to a generic Q&A thread) ... sorry.

If I ever need to un-root my Nexus how do I do it?

And what do I need to do when Sprint pushes an OTA update to the OS?

Other than the I watch the video that Jordan from xda did on applying root to this device using CF-Auto-Root and I was amazed! 

Mashal Afridi commented on 2014-08-10 at 04:13:

Thanks

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