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The Google applications, including GMail and the Play Store, don’t come with CyanogenMod.  If you need them or they get broken by a CyanogenMod upgrade, you can install them with the Goo-Inside.me app.  Once you install it, for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, download gapps-ics*.zip.  If you don’t want to use their OpenRecoveryScript, after you download the Zip you can use ClockworkMod Recovery to install the Zip.  The file downloads to /mnt/sdcard/goomanager/.

Use the RootzWiki instructions.

After copying each img file, create a file with the same name and append an .md5sum extention to it.  In this file, copy the MD5sum number from the web site, followed by two spaces and the img file name.  Save the file, then run md5sum -c radio.img.md5sum.

If fastboot sits at the <waiting for device> prompt forever, make sure your phone is in fastboot mode (power off, hold volume up and down and hold power until the phone vibrates–could be 20 seconds or so; in the lower left of the screen it’ll say “FASTBOOT MODE” in red). If you still get the <waiting for device> prompt while in fastboot mode, your permissions probably aren’t set up correctly.  In that case run fastboot with sudo.

1. Start ROM Manager
2. Boot into recovery
3. Select Backup and Restore, then Backup
4. Copy the backup to your computer
5. Download CyanogenMod
6. Run adb push update-cm-9-20120510-NIGHTLY-toro-signed.zip /sdcard/.
7. On the phone, select “wipe cache”
8. On the phone, select “install zip from sdcard”, “choose zip from sdcard”, select update.zip above.

• Download the appropriate ClockworkMod Touch Recovery.
• Open a terminal and cd to the folder where adb and fastboot are (e.g., android-sdk/platform-tools)
• Run ./adb reboot bootloader to enter Fastboot. You might need to run this using sudo if your permissions aren’t set up.
• Run ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-toro.img
• After a successful flash, run ./fastboot reboot