Thanks to numerous toolkits, firmware like CyanogenMod on Windows is a breeze the rooting and installing a custom. Mac OS and Linux users have there more difficult. You must perform the procedure on the Terminal and the Android Debug Bridge (ADB). How this works, shows the step by step guide.
The installation of an alternative Android distribution on a nexus device is relatively easy. You must unlock only the boot loader to play on a different recovery image, then install a Custom Rom like CyanogenMod, as well as the Google apps in the last step. Admin rights (root) are there in this way automatically.
While Windows users can rely on so-called toolkits, which save a manual typing of commands in the Terminal and the breeze are thus the rooting the device and/or the play of an alternative version of Android, Linux and Mac users must make the uncomfortable way via the Terminal, to perform the necessary steps via the Android Debug Bridge (ADB). Uncomfortable but not difficult means. It is only slightly harder than with a toolkit and GUI. It has all the components available, so not long takes nexus 7 nexus 4 or the tablets and nexus 10 with CyanogenMod boot.
In the following, the installation is described by the most popular with over a million installations Android distribution CyanogenMod on Mac OS on a nexus 7. The procedure can be applied also on Windows. But will you prefer the much more convenient way with a toolkit only for academic reasons.
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