[GUIDE] Rooting and Installing Amon Ra's Recovery on the Nexus One

Madoco rooted this phone a week before it was released and shortly after Amon Ra made a new recovery image. With all the new Nexus One's in our community its best to have all this information right here on AC to simplify things. This information was taken directly from his page http://android.modaco.com/content/go...exus-one/Enjoy!!!

Superboot is a boot.img that when flashed, will root your device the first time you boot (installing su and the superuser APK). No need to flash the system partition, no need to use ADB, no messing with the contents of your data partition, no overwriting the shipped ROM on your device, just flash the boot image using the instructions below and you're done!

APPLY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Before download, you need to check your device 'about' screen to determine whether you need a superboot for 'ERD79' (the original shipping ROM) or 'ERE27' (the latest ROM).

Superboot for ERD79 - download MD5: 4e27cf36ebcab51cfb6813d67bbacabe
Superboot for ERE27 - download MD5: 19d302e1bcb18932f009d2a36a3d688f
Superboot for ERE27 with himem enabled - download MD5: 96a33732400d08888c605557c849ec61

Note: If you apply the himem superboot and wish to revert, you will need to reflash your ROM, as the himem superboot includes an updated wifi driver.

An insecure boot image is also available, which allows you to manually deploy su and superuser.apk if you desire - it makes no changes to your system, aside from enabling 'adb remount' permissions.

Insecure boot for ERD79 - download MD5: 3fef6f98f4e86f888a719d638eed7862
Insecure boot for ERE27 - download MD5: 49f01a7d3d8ffc2d9c912a30a02c25b6

How to use Superboot - Windows, Linux and OSX

- Download the Superboot zip file
above and extract to a directory
- Put your device in bootloader mode - Turn off the phone then press and hold the trackball to enter the bootloader
- WINDOWS - double click 'install-superboot-windows.bat'
- MAC - Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-mac.sh' followed by './install-superboot-mac.sh'
- LINUX- Open a terminal window to the directory containing the files, and type 'chmod +x install-superboot-linux.sh' followed by './install-superboot-linux.sh'

Note: If you are using a retail Nexus One, you may need to unlock the bootloader first, as detailed here.

Source madaco.com
Attached Files  1.1-nexusone-superboot.zip

Amon Ra's Recovery

[Recovery] [05-Jan-2010] RA-nexus-v1.5.3
This is a custom recovery based on Cyanogen's recovery source with a lot of things added by me. The purpose of this recovery is to avoid using adb by accessing all features directly from the menu.

This recovery is for the HTC Nexus One only, if you have an :
- HTC Dream/G1 you should go here.
- HTC Magic/MT3G you should go here.
- HTC Hero you should go here.
- HTC Sprint Hero you should go here.

Use the trackball (up+down) to navigate through the menu, press the trackball to select items. Use the Volume-down key to go back to a previous menu.

Always check recovery.log before posting your issues!

Features

• full ADB access in recovery mode
• Busybox v1.15.2
• HW-Key navigation (Trackball + Volume-key) option
• Extended menu :
  • Reboot system now :: reboot your phone
  • USB-MS Toggle :: enable/disable USB mass storage (use when the phone is connected to your PC)
  • Backup/Restore
    • Nand backup :: Make a Nand backup, the following partitions are NOT included :
      • Recovery (to avoid restoring old version)
      • Cache (no need to backup imo)
      • Misc (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
      • Splash1+2 (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
    • Nand restore :: Restore a Nand backup
  • Flash zip from sdcard :: Flash a zip update file from your sdcard
  • Wipe
    • Wipe data/factory reset :: Wipe /data and /cache
    • Wipe Dalvik-cache :: Wipe Dalvik-cache both on /data
    • Wipe battery stats : Wipe the battery stats in /data
    • Wipe rotate settings : Wipe the sensor settings in /data
  • Partition sdcard
    • Partition SD :: Interactive SD partitioning
  • Other
    • Fix apk uid mismatches :: Does extacly that
    • Move recovery.log to SD :: Moves the recovery log file to your sdcard. (Use when you want more detailed recovery log information)
  • Power off :: Powers off your phone
• Scripts available via adb :
  • Nandroid v2.2.1 : enter "nandroid-mobile.sh" to start.
  • sdparted v0.6 : enter "sdparted" to start.

Install

via fastboot -> Requires an unlocked bootloader!
Code:
Copy recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img to a location where fastboot can find it.
Boot your phone into fastboot mode (power on while holding the trackball)
Connect your phone via usb to your pc/mac/...
fastboot devices (to make sure that fastboot "sees" your phone)
fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img
Download

ALWAYS check the md5sum to make sure the zip isn't corrupted.
Click on the Mirror-link if you don't like rapidshare

Latest :

• recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img (Mirror) - MD5Sum: 9110eef47d4e684229768e3646d3171f