The original post is still correct. You are also correct in that all you need is a bootable image, which consists of a ramdisk and a kernel. Your statement tha

The original post is still correct. You are also correct in that all you need is a bootable image, which consists of a ramdisk and a kernel. Your statement that it requires root to pull it off the device is not true however. Here's the kernel: https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/ https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/ Ramdisk can be constructed/retrieved from any Android recovery build. Here's one: http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/ramdisk-recovery.img http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/ramdisk-recovery.img mkbootimg to construct a flashable boot image. fastboot oem unlock fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img It's rooted. The exploit was unnecessary I think.