Hi! First time posting, looking for some help!

I've been thinking about rooting my Galaxy Nexus for a while, and then saw a post on androidcentral.com on how to manually install the stock 4.0.4 update. Started doing this, and now ran into some problems.

First, I managed to unlock the bootloader after some trouble. My PC wouldn't recognize the phone when in fastboot moe, but I then got it working and got the drivers updated. I'm not really even sure why it started working all of a sudden.

So anyway, now trying to install the Clockworkmod recovery image (fastboot.exe boot cwm.img in Command Prompt), and this is where it stops and says Waiting for device. I looked around and found some pointers that the device isn't recognized via ADB, but that didn't really get me anywhere.

I did check that ADB and everything is installed. I enabled USB debugging as well, but the adb devices command also doesn't give me any results. I've tried multiple different drivers, ADB/FB Driver Naked Samsung Driver 1.7 from XDA for one, also the Google USB drivers and SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_1.4.8.0 that I found in one of the stickies.

Probably a stupid question with an easy solution, this is all new for me so I hope someone might be able to help out here.

 

It does indeed. I was thinking I'm getting stuff mixed up. Got past the original problem, but not in the clear yet.

I came across this: How to Root Galaxy Nexus! | GalaxyNexusRoot.com and went with that. Easy enough, everything worked just as it should.

However, when it starts to reboot in the end it doesn't. It's been a good 10-15 minutes now and still Google and the unlock mark on screen.

Gonna wait a bit longer, I'm really hoping I didn't break the whole thing.

 

That's exactly what happened, looks good now!

Thanks a lot for helping out!