rooting nexus 4 on OSX

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1. Make sure device USB debugging mode turned on (Google around for the latest instructions)
2. Install Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download (Follow direction kinda outlined here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237 adjust as necessary because these instructions probably will be outdated.)
3. Create ~/android
4. Unzip the sdk into ~/android
5. Make sure tools and platform-tools directory are there, if not install, by running ~/android/adt-bundle-mac/sdk/tools/android.
6. Make sure adb and fastboot are installed in ~/android/adt-bundle-mac/sdk/platform-tools/
7. Export $PATH to include ~/android/adt-bundle-mac/sdk/platform-tools so we can access adb and platform-tools from anywhere
8. Download CWM Touch and place it in ~/android - http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
9. Install Android File Transfer app - http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
10. Download latest version of CWM-SuperSU-v0.99.zip and put in on the phone's SD card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
11. Reboot into bootloader adb reboot bootloader
12. Unlock bootload (This supposedly wipes everything) fastboot oem unlock
13. Flash CWM Recovery fastboot flash recovery ecovery-clockwork-touch-X.X.X.X-mako.img
14. On the device, press volume-up or volume-down twice to select the RECOVERY OPTION, and then the power button to enter it, and you'll be in recovery
15. Once in Recovery, do a backup.
16. Install SuperSU from the zip we copied onto the zip file.
17. Install Zip from SD Card
18. choose zip from sdcard
19. 0/
20. CWM-SuperSU-v.XXX.zip
21. Yes - Install CWM-SuperSU-v.XXX.zip
22. Clear Cache (from home menu)
23. wipe cache partition
24. Yes - Wipe Cache
25. Clear Dalvik Cache (from home menu)
26. advanced
27. wipe dalvik cache
28. Yes- Wipe Dalvik Cache
29. Reboot - be sure to say yes to Fix so that stock rom doesn't revert to stock recovery