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For those of you whose device failed to boot (after waiting several minutes), do the following like I did.

If your Nexus 7 rebooted to Android correctly, you can transfer SuperSU.zip to your device as you normally would. Of course you do! Confirm this notice and be on your way. It will ask you whether or not you want to permanently enable root. Reboot and Confirm Rootįind the Reboot option within TWRP and select it. Now, use the volume and power buttons to select Recovery Mode. fastboot flash recovery ~/Downloads/TWRP.img Obviously replace the path and file name with whatever yours is. This next command tells the device to flash the img file TWRP.img from the downloads directory.

Since this is a Nexus device the bootloader is easy to unlock, and can be done with a single command. This voids your warrenty (apparently) so there is no turning back. The next step is to unlock the bootloader. The following command will reboot your device to the bootloader menu./adb reboot bootloader Here are the steps I took to get my Nexus 7 (2013) rooted. MANDITORY DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible if you fuck up your shit. I found a great XDA post showing how to root the new Nexus 7 (2013) on Windows, so I made some slight modifications and got it working from my Linux terminal.