Android 5.0 and Nexus announcement thread!

Professey Chin

pedatron wrote: »

Much work? I've used Android SDK before just don't wanna get too bogged down as It's my sisters phone and she's even more impatient than I am. It won't interfere with future OTA updates will it? Does it perform a full wipe on the device? (not a deal breaker just want to make sure she knows.)

Performs a full wipe.
Piss all work if youve used the sdk before. Extract the zip to the folder with the adb/fastboot programs. Reboot into fastboot. Open command prompt. CD to the right directory. run flash-all.bat

WeleaseWoderick

laoisfan wrote: »

The factory images for Android L (5.0) are available here.

I installed it on my Nexux 7 (2012 WiFi model) this morning.

Any idea when this is rolling OTA? Apologies if answered previously

Amalgam

Following on from Professey Chin's post, there's a, at most, 5 click, Unlock, then Flash Stock process, using Nexus Root Toolkit, hosted at:

http://www.wugfresh.com/

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The process of unlocking and/or Flashing a stock image, erases your phone/device..

Edit: The Play Store update bars on the lock screen, small but neat feature.. in fact, the information fed to the lock screen, as a whole, is a big change for me.. much needed.

Mayo Yid

WeleaseWoderick wrote: »

Any idea when this is rolling OTA? Apologies if answered previously

Nobody knows until there are reports of owners receiving them

illdoit2morrow

Amalgam wrote: »

Following on from Professey Chin's post, there's a, at most, 5 click, Unlock, then Flash Stock process, using Nexus Root Toolkit, hosted at:

http://www.wugfresh.com/

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The process of unlocking and/or Flashing a stock image, erases your phone/device..

Edit: The Play Store update bars on the lock screen, small but neat feature.. in fact, the information fed to the lock screen, as a whole, is a big change for me.. much needed.

+1 for this, used it a few times on N7 and N4.

Be sure to go through the 'Initial set up' process to get things in order before doing anything to your phone.

smackyB

OTA zip now available for Nexus 5!

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/13/flash-all-the-things-lollipop-ota-update-zip-file-roundup/

AlanS181824

I've Android Lollipop Developer Preview on my Nexus 7, I'm doing to have to flash it now and fully flash it to install the final version right?

AlanS181824

For anyone who wants to sideload the official update to their Nexus 7 2013's.

Just click on 5.0 under Nexus 7 here.

BonnieSituation

As stated before my N5 is acting the maggot the last while so I really need this to be updated pronto. I can waits no more. Any news on anyone in Ireland getting it OTA?

Riesen_Meal

BonnieSituation wrote: »

As stated before my N5 is acting the maggot the last while so I really need this to be updated pronto. I can waits no more. Any news on anyone in Ireland getting it OTA?

Flash it yourself, its handy on Windows....

I flashed it last night on my N5, full day battery so far with heavy enough usage, bout 12% left at this time is great - will it last though...

wotzgoingon

BonnieSituation wrote: »

As stated before my N5 is acting the maggot the last while so I really need this to be updated pronto. I can waits no more. Any news on anyone in Ireland getting it OTA?

Fieldog wrote: »

Flash it yourself, its handy on Windows....

I flashed it last night on my N5, full day battery so far with heavy enough usage, bout 12% left at this time is great - will it last though...

It is probably even better to do a clean install yourself rather than an update.

EvanKelly6

wotzgoingon wrote: »

It is probably even better to do a clean install yourself rather than an update.

Is installing the OTA zip file anyway 'unofficial'?

wotzgoingon

EvanKelly6 wrote: »

Is installing the OTA zip file anyway 'unofficial'?

No the exact same as installing it OTA, but when i said do a clean install I meant flash the factory image.

EvanKelly6

wotzgoingon wrote: »

No the exact same as installing it OTA, but when i said do a clean install I meant flash the factory image.

Thanks. Might go ahead with that later!

projectgtr

Fieldog wrote: »

Flash it yourself, its handy on Windows....

I flashed it last night on my N5, full day battery so far with heavy enough usage, bout 12% left at this time is great - will it last though...

tried to flash mine twice using a walkthrough, both times i just ended up with a fresh install of 4.4.4 think il give it a go tomorrow when im a bit more fresh headed


edit***
Im an idiot hahhahahaha cant believe how stupid i am, i thought i just had to match the build number but i just downloaded 4.4.4!!

theres only one build on the dev page ( 5.0 (LRX21O) ) i take it i just use that

BonnieSituation

The only thing is the "Erasing all data on target device" thing.

That's scaring me.

corkie

BonnieSituation wrote: »

The only thing is the "Erasing all data on target device" thing.

That's scaring me.

If your bootloader is already unlocked, it is possible to flash a factory image with out wiping your data. Instructions are here.

BonnieSituation

Bootloader isn't unlocked so that's that out of the way. AS I speak my phone just turned off again. It may not be a bad thing to have a factory reset happen.

BonnieSituation

Just did a factory reset myself. The process begins.

EDIT: Reset seemed to freeze and now I just have the Blue, Red, Yellow and Green circles rotating repeatedly on the screen. Phone going nowhere. Can't access boot menu now either. GAH!

EDIT2: Got it to try the format factory reset function again. It looks like it's frozen again. How can I tell either way?

EDIT3: The second reset did the trick.

EDIT4: Giving up. Waiting on the OTA. Happy enough the factory reset seems to have resolved the reset issues my phone was having so not a total loss.

gzoladz

Success... I had to monkey a bit but got there eventually (n10) :

1. Unroot and flashed stock with nrt
2. Tried to root with nrt but it failed a few times
3. Root with chainfire's cf
4. Restore apps and settings with nrt
5. Voila!

Smoother than kitkat, getting ised to the double pull down for settings. All working ok, just researching to enable translucent bars again.

opus

Installed the ota on my stock N7 last night, all very straightforward, definitely seems a bit slicker with the animations, the settings pull down & the recent apps display are the biggest changes I've noticed so far anyway.

EvanKelly6

Got it installed after about 3 hours. Needed to flash it back to Stock android first which took my while. Turns out I just had problems with drivers and I resolved that. Pretty easy after that. Love the new look too. Definitely worth it!

laoisfan

So I've had it on my Nexus 7 (2012 WiFi model) a little over a day. Definitely notice some lagging, one or two crash randomly (could be the app requires updating).

Lollipop on the 2012 Nexus 7: Not great, but not much worse

HellboundIRL

How is everybody finding battery life with the Nexus 5 and Lollipop?

I left the house at 9am with 85% battery, 4 hours later I'm down to 64% and the phone was in my pocket more or less all morning (9m screen on time). This is worse than Kitkat so far.

The apps listed as draining the most were Exchange Services at 10%, Google Play Services at 6%, Standby at 2% and Facebook at 1%. I guess something must be up with Exchange, never drained this much before.

Goolay

Waiting patiently for the OTA but tempted to flash it.

Quick question though - will this invalidate the warranty? I already had to RMA one N5 so wouldn't like to lose the remaining warranty

laoisfan

Goolay wrote: »

Waiting patiently for the OTA but tempted to flash it.

Quick question though - will this invalidate the warranty? I already had to RMA one N5 so wouldn't like to lose the remaining warranty

No.

Goolay

laoisfan wrote: »

No.

Score - thanks! I thought unlocking the bootloader might have caused issues there.

Lovely thanks

Edit: that worked a treat, all updated

laoisfan

Goolay wrote: »

Score - thanks! I thought unlocking the bootloader might have caused issues there.

Lovely thanks

If you follow the link I post a few comments back Google ask you to unlock your bootloader at the start and then at the end lock your bootloader.

marcbrophy

HellboundIRL wrote: »

How is everybody finding battery life with the Nexus 5 and Lollipop?

I left the house at 9am with 85% battery, 4 hours later I'm down to 64% and the phone was in my pocket more or less all morning (9m screen on time). This is worse than Kitkat so far.

The apps listed as draining the most were Exchange Services at 10%, Google Play Services at 6%, Standby at 2% and Facebook at 1%. I guess something must be up with Exchange, never drained this much before.

Unplugged mine at 8am, now at 70% battery.

Screen on time of 38min+. I've been listening to tune in and play music all morning in work. Browsing the web and checking email etc.

I'd say you need a reboot to stop exchange from running, perhaps

Mayo Yid

Nexus 5 OTA update screenshots have started to appear on Google plus

kaisersose77

Whats the easiest way to go from cyanogenmod cm11 to lollipop? Do i need to flash it back to stock kit kat android and then update to lollipop? I'm using a nexus 7 2013.

corkie

kaisersose77 wrote: »

Whats the easiest way to go from cyanogenmod cm11 to lollipop? Do i need to flash it back to stock kit kat android and then update to lollipop? I'm using a nexus 7 2013.

If your going to be flashing, why not just flash the factory image for lollipop?

As your on a custom rom, your going to wipe your device anyway.

kaisersose77

Ye just got it flashed straight to lollipop through nexus root toolkit.

projectgtr

Been running it since yesterday liking it so far, only thing i HATE is the stock gallery app, i just dont like it. So i sideloaded the KK gallery apk and now im happy again , had one random restart but other than that its running buttery smooth.

Fresh Pots

Updated my n4 last night. So far so good. Wasn't crazy at first on the new keyboard but its growing on me. Might stick with it and ditch swiftkey. Love the new intelligent face unlock feature. Am I missing something or is there no way of closing all app tabs at once? I have to swipe each one away individually?

reni10

So will the update to lollipop also come through on the Software Update section on the Nexus device itself so you don't have to update manually?

Fresh Pots

reni10 wrote: »

So will the update to lollipop also come through on the Software Update section on the Nexus device itself so you don't have to update manually?

As long as you are not rooted then it will eventually but you can download and flash the image straight away from here. (LRX21T)

Sonics2k

Gah, went to the do final update from preview to full yesterday but got the dreaded "system .img missing" error.

Bit of a pain!

Mo14

I've been running Lollipop on my Nexus 5 and 2012 Nexus 7 since Thursday (flashed factory image on both). I mostly like it so far and don't notice the 7 any slower than usual (if that'd be possible). I don't like the keyboard at all so it was back to swiftkey with the 'material dark' theme for me.

One thing I find frustrating is that they removed the quick toggles for silent mode from when you long press the power button. So when I'm listening to music, the volume toggles obviously control that, so the only way I can mute the notification sound is by digging through the settings for the 'sound' area. I've since installed a homescreen widget for this, but this feels like a step backwards. Am I missing something?

Fresh Pots

Sonics2k wrote: »

Gah, went to the do final update from preview to full yesterday but got the dreaded "system .img missing" error.

Bit of a pain!

Did you unzip the file and try again? Read that works on android police.

reni10

Fresh Pots wrote: »

As long as you are not rooted then it will eventually but you can download and flash the image straight away from here. (LRX21T)

Don't you have to wipe everything though if you do it manually and if you wait until you get the notification update you won't have to wipe?

Discodog

I hope that it isn't an automatic update. I want to see the reviews before changing.

Riesen_Meal

reni10 wrote: »

So will the update to lollipop also come through on the Software Update section on the Nexus device itself so you don't have to update manually?

It will eventually yeah, its rolling out OTA at the moment, you will have it soon enough I reckon....

Gran Hermano

Talon (lollipop version) and Battery widget reborn both look great on lollipop.

AlanS181824

I'm surprised they didn't fix the weird formatting when you tap on the WiFi network you're connected to on the Nexus 7.

Looks really weird seeing it with the format wrong.

Secu
Rity

Stuff like that

Irlandczyk

AlanS181824 wrote: »

I'm surprised they didn't fix the weird formatting when you tap on the WiFi network you're connected to on the Nexus 7.

Looks really weird seeing it with the format wrong.

Secu
Rity

Stuff like that

Aye, just noticed that now, actually. I expect that and some other little niggles will be fixed in the next update. All in all though, this seems a pretty good update. Got Nexus 5 and 7 updated this morning and have been playing around with them a little. Very fast, and the animations are absolutely beautiful. Not sure how battery will be just yet though.

waynegalway

No sign of the OTA on my 2013 N7 yet. It was rooted at one stage, but I unrooted it a few months ago. The boot loader is still unlocked, though. Would that kind of messing around in the past have any effect on the ota? Would it mean I'll have to manually flash?

projectgtr

Getting a weird issue in chrome , when i click a youtube link it opens in the browser not in the youtube app, tried clearing defaults and app data but nope it refuses to give the the option to open in the app, not the end of the world but annoying none the less

Also had to remove the KK gallery, the gallery works fine but it crashes every time i try to edit a picture. Can anyone recommend a good gallery app?

Gran Hermano

waynegalway wrote: »

No sign of the OTA on my 2013 N7 yet. It was rooted at one stage, but I unrooted it a few months ago. The boot loader is still unlocked, though. Would that kind of messing around in the past have any effect on the ota? Would it mean I'll have to manually flash?

Google stagger the number of devices from a small number initially and increase it every day until it flags them all for an OTA. Don't panic if you haven't recieved the OTA yet as it has taken up to two weeks in past Nexus OTA deployments. It means google can pull the update if they discover any bugs before it hits all devices.

I still have not received the OTA for N4, N7 (2013) nor N10.

waynegalway

projectgtr wrote: »

Getting a weird issue in chrome , when i click a youtube link it opens in the browser not in the youtube app, tried clearing defaults and app data but nope it refuses to give the the option to open in the app, not the end of the world but annoying none the less

I've been getting that issue with chrome for about a month now, on 4.4.4 . Seems like it's forgetting the default action every time I click on s YouTube link in the browser. Annoying, but I don't think it's linked to lollipop.

Just on the gallery, have you tried the HTC camera app? It's a standalone app now, and if you have a device that it'll work on , the gallery in it is really nice.

Another gallery worth looking at is QuickPic. I have an M7, so I'm happy with the HTC gallery, but quickpic seems very highly rated.