I didn't realize that rooting is not a one shot deal. I thought once I applied root to an android device, it will stay rooted forever. Most tech genius on the net will read this and poke fun on my stupidity. Yep, making mistakes, and then learned from the mistakes. That's how civialization get birthed and evolved. You are welcome.
Anyway, I figured it out a few days before I my trip to Canada, and found that my Nexus 7 couldn't recognize the thumb drive I hooked to the device, and thus couldn't play the videos on that thumb drive. Not good, consider how many hours of boredom I need to endure during the whole trip.
I rooted the Nexus 7 back when it was JellyBean. Now the system already updates to 4.2.1. So I guess I have to do rooting again. The good thing is that since I rooted once, I don't need to wipe my device to root again. So found this tool called "Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.2" (NRT_v1.6.2.sfx.exe), downloaded it and installed it on my Lenovo S12 Windows 8 OS device. Problem came as the app didn't seemed to work. Searched the web, and found out that the app and the driver it uses had problem on Windows 8. No problem since I kept the Windows 7 partition exactly because of this kind of situation.
So I installed the app, and this time I found that it bitched about missing Nexus 7 driver. No problem again, because I had it in my shared drive (usb_driver_r06_windows.zip). After that I followed the instruction, and eventually got a rooted Nexus 7. Now I can watch video during my Canada trip. Yeah.
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