Originally Posted by albundy2010

You seem to be a little confused with some terms. Root is simply being able to grant superuser permission.

You don't need to root to flash a custom rom on a nexus. Just a unblocked bootloader. You could run aokp or any other rom without root if you wanted to.

Oh, I never knew that, haha. Is it possible to flash a custom kernel with an unlocked bootloader or does that require root access?

Originally Posted by vxZach

Oh, I never knew that, haha. Is it possible to flash a custom kernel with an unlocked bootloader or does that require root access?

No you just need a custom recovery. But using that kernel's mods, like BLN, OC, UV, touchwake, etc, requires apps that need root, like NSTools, SetCPU, etc.

Originally Posted by m1l4droid

No you just need a custom recovery. But using that kernel's mods, like BLN, OC, UV, touchwake, etc, requires apps that need root, like NSTools, SetCPU, etc.

Oh alright. Now I really wanna root + install a custom rom. Do any of you have a full 100% fully working guide for rooting Nexus S and which rom should I flash first? I already know what kernel I want.

http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showth...lick-Root-V4-0

Originally Posted by leap_ahead

http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showth...lick-Root-V4-0

Thank you so much! I rooted my phone with CWM recovery installed and Paranoid Android + gapps installed (: