Nexus 5 stuck at Google screen after failed(?) rooting Our How to root Nexus 5 question has no answer, so I followed the most OK-looking Nexus 5 rooting tutorial on the rest of the web, all went well until the step that says:


  After booting into recovery mode, tap the ‘Install’ button and then select the SuperSU ZIP file you had transferred




The trap is that on that tutorial, what seems to be a link to the ZIP file is actually a link to a page containing the real link surrounded by advertisement. So when I pressed "Save Link As" I actually downloaded some HTML rather than the real ZIP.

Realizing that, I wanted to reboot to try again with the real ZIP so I pressed "Reboot", it proposed me to install SuperSU so I accepted, happy to get it done quickly. The phone seemed to install something, then started to reboot.

PROBLEM: The following animation has been looping for an hour already and no sign that it will ever end:



QUESTION: How to correctly finish the rooting?
I am afraid that shutting it down now will brick the phone or something.
This solved the problem:


Download the latest stable SuperSU, it is the ZIP file that can be downloaded at http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu-stable
Restart in TWRP Recovery mode
Press Mount
Delete the faulty ZIP and copy the right one instead (at the root of the filesystem)
Fixed! Now continue with the tutorial normally.


Thanks rjt.rockx and eldarerathis for the tips!