What do you mean ?

Well by tweaking here, I mean unlocking, rooting and flashing your own recovery and ROM on your mako to unleash its full potential.

Steps involved:

The whole process can be divided into the following steps :

• Unlock your bootloader
• Flash a custom recovery
• Flash a custom ROM
• Root your phone
• Flash a custom kernel

Unlocking

Unlocking erases everything on your device you changed, be sure to have a backup.

Make sure you have an Android development environment set up on your computer. I mean you have the adt downloaded. I’m using Ubuntu, windows procedure is similar.

• Enable USB debugging on your phone. It’s in “Developer options” in Settings. If you can’t find it, go to “About Phone” and tap the “Build number” 7 times, you’ll get toasts saying you’re a developer now. Go back and enable it.

• Plug in to your computer. Accept when your phone prompts about enabling USB debugging.

• Get there. On a terminal, cd to the sdk/platform-tools directory in your adt.

• Reboot into bootloader what. When you’re ready, take in a deep breath and in write in terminal :

  sudo ./adb reboot bootloader

  Your Nexus 4 should now boot into bootloader. You’ll see “locked” at the bottom.

• Unlock the bootloader. It’s as simple as running :

  sudo ./fastboot oem unlock

  You’ll be prompted by the device if you’re sure. Use the volume keys to select YES and the power button to confirm. Your phone’s data will be erased adn it will be fresh as a new one, just unlocked.

Easy as pie, wasn’t it ?

Further steps in next posts.