Nexus 5 rooted stock Marshmallow update procedure

update_stock_rooted_nexus5.md

How to update a rooted stock Android 6 Nexus 5

To save me from looking this information up everytime, here are the steps to update a rooted, stock Android 6 Nexus 5 phone.

Required files

• Latest Nexus factory image
• Latest TWRP recovery
• Latest SuperSU

Backup

• Reboot phone in recovery mode and make a backup
• Copy the backup to a computer $ adb pull /sdcard/TWRP

Update

• Reboot in fastboot mode $ adb reboot bootloader
• Flash bootloader: $ fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-{version}.img
• Flash radio: $ fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-{version}.img
• Flash boot: $ fastboot flash boot image-hammerhead-{version}/boot.img
• Flash system: $ fastbot flash system image-hammerhead-{version}/system.img
• Flash cache: $ fastboot flash cache image-hammerhead-{version}/cache.img
• Flash recovery (TWRP has been erased): $ fastboot flash recovery twrp-{version}-hammerhead.img
• Every step: fastboot -s $PHONE flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-$BOOTLOADER_VER.img && fastboot -s $PHONE flash radio radio-hammerhead-$RADIO_VER.img && fastboot -s $PHONE flash boot image-hammerhead-$IMG_VER/boot.img && fastboot -s $PHONE flash system image-hammerhead-$IMG_VER/system.img && fastboot -s $PHONE flash cache image-hammerhead-$IMG_VER/cache.img && fastboot -s $PHONE flash recovery ../twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead.img
• Go to recovery
• If TWRP offers it, make /system read-only
• Sideload SuperSU and wipe cache + Dalvik
• Do not let TWRP install SuperSU
• Reboot system (may loop a few times)
• Re-run AdAway