If you haven’t heard of Chainfire, then you probably haven’t been near any rooting tools, or are not interested in getting root access to your Android device. If you have been, then Chainfire is usually one of the names that you will hear – he’s a certified Android rockstar, an XDA developer with enough cred make him easily one of the most recognizable names in Android development.
He’s back again, and boy, he works fast. He’s just announced on his Google+ page that his renowned CF-Auto-Root files and tools are now updated to work with Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Nexus line of devices – specifically, the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (2012 and 2013), Nexus 9, and the Nexus 10.
Remember, Chainfire’s CF-Auto-Root files need the Fastboot tool – not your regular flashable ZIP files – to be used. That said, some devices may need an unlocked bootloader for this to work.
These new variants CF-Auto-Root are right out of the oven, and they have the SuperSU ZIP embedded. This version of SuperSU – version 2.20 – isn’t available anywhere else yet, just on these files. A second ZIP file (if on Lollipop or newer) patches the current kernel to run SuperSU at boot. So if you have Android 5.0 on your Nexus device, follow it up with a nice root access fix – check for the download links at the source links.
