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How To Root Nexus 5 On Android 4.4 KitKat With CF-Auto-Root

Today Let me help you guys Root your Nexus 5 On Android 4.4 KitKat With CF-Auto-Root. So if you guys are not clear about CF-Auto-Root then don't worry, its nothing much. CF-Root is the Root for "rooting beginers" and it's also something that help you keep your firmware as close to the stock as possible. 



CF-Root is one of the quickest and the easiiest way for your first Root meant to be used in the combination with stock firmwares.Since its just a day since Google revealed the Nexus 5 running Android 4.4 Kitkat, and as expected the device being succesfully being rooted by the ever-awesome Chainfire at XDA.

Here the rooting methords uses the fastboot in first unlocking the evice, then the boot will start using a version of cchainfire's famous CF-Auto-Root which is specialy build for the Nexus 5 as the boot image, so once you are done with booting, the CF-Auto-Root boot image will automaticaly injects the su binaru and SuperSU APK into the device and no other changes shall be made, that means your device wont change anything apart from the root access, and your device remains fully stock. No custom kernel/boot image, recovery or any onther mod will be flashed.


Since the process involves unlocking your device's bootloader, everything on your device shall get wiped, unlees you have beeing already unlocked the bootloader before attempting to root with this methord.

Lets start the Rooting process, get get your Nexus 5 Rooted.

Disclaimer : Attempt this at your own Risk! Recommended that you may please read the detail Disclaimer before your proceed. By reading this you may Please accept our policies to get the instructions leading you root your Device.

Requirements

1. Google Nexus 5 running stock Android 4.4 KitKat
2. Fastboot drivers (can be installed as a part of the Android SDK)
3. CF-Auto-Root for Nexus 5

Procedure

1. Download the CF-Auto-Root package and extract its contents to your computer.
2. Boot your Nexus 5 into fastboot mode by powering it off, and then pressing and holding Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons together.
3. Connect your Nexus 5 to your computer via USB and install any drivers if required, as instructed in our Android SDK post linked above.
4. Run the CF-Auto-Root script as follows, based on your operating system:
Windows: Simply double-click the root-windows.bat file from the extracted CF-Auto-Root files.

Linux: Open Terminal, navigate to the directory where you extracted the CF-Auto-Root package, and enter the following commands one by one:

   chmod +x root-linux.sh ./root-linux.sh 

Mac: Open Terminal, navigate to the directory where you extracted the CF-Auto-Root package, and enter the following commands one by one:

   chmod +x root-mac.sh ./root-mac.sh 


5. Follow any on-device instructions for unlocking the bootloader if prompted, and then let the script do its magic.

You are Done with rooting your Nexus 5!

 Source :   XDA-Developer  
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