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Cyanogenmod brings Android 7.1 to Nexus 4

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jules Wang

The developer community is keeping the Nexus 4 alive by delivering an experimental build of Cyanogenmod 14.1, which is based on Android 7.1 Nougat.

If you’re still clutching that glass-backed LG phone to this day and are feeling a little adventurous, remember that you do have to sacrifice a little bit of the stock Android experience in taking on this software set. Also, experimental ROM builds are typically nowhere near functional for everyday use — in fact, there could some brick-worthy bugs in there. So really, you’re looking at a piece of eye candy.

But perhaps you can get a little bit farther around Android Nougat than the HTC HD2 has. Or, you can keep on the Marshmallow train and stick to the nightly builds of Cyanogenmod 13. We may see nightlies come over to 14.1 soon enough, though.

Android 7.1.1 is expected head out to some Nexus devices starting December 6.

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This was the best Nexus of all time

Posted on October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 by Joe Levi

In 1968, novelist Philip K. Dick asked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his book (which was the inspiration for Blade Runner), after war had devastated Earth, a bounty hunter was tasked with “retiring” six escaped Nexus-6 model androids – the latest and most advanced model ever. That got us wondering: what’s the best Nexus smartphone of all ...

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Google praises its partnership with LG for Nexus smartphones

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Jaime Rivera

While many of us have our eyes set on the more powerful and premium Nexus 6P from Huawei, we can’t ignore an interesting fact about its smaller sibling. This would be the first time that a particular OEM builds three Nexus products in a row. Other than that, we’ve only seen as many as two products from HTC, Samsung and ASUS. If you’re wondering why this is, Google sheds some light today.Dave Burke, Google’s Android Engineering VP was in a recent video press conference and three a few ...

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Android 6.0 OTA news: Android One phones, HTC One M8, Nexus 4

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Jules Wang

My goodness gracious, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks in the Android world. We had the Google event in San Francisco prior to the public release of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. CyanogenMod modders pounced on the sugar and started working on the 13th iteration of their firmware. And all of this time, we’ve been getting word of

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow First Look (Video)

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Jules Wang

Earlier today, Android Marshmallow technically dropped on all of us. To be more specific, the public version of 6.0 got pushed and was intended for developers to work with some live software. Google promised that over-the-air updates to devices-at-large would start tumbling out in due fashion.We’ve been wishing hard, praising the ...

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow likely headed for Nexus 7 2013, despite advanced age

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Adrian Diaconescu

To a certain extent, it feels natural for mobile enthusiasts to show a lot more interest in hardware upgrades prepped by Google rather than software makeovers. The two new Nexuses in the pipeline are palpable and, if you disregard the recent rumor flood, more secretive than

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Google’s monthly Nexus security updates appear to be incoming

Posted on September 8, 2015September 8, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Just over a month ago, Google announced a big change to how it distributed updates for its Nexus series of devices. In light of some recent high-profile security vulnerabilities affecting huge swaths of the Android landscape, Google decided that it really had to step up its game when it came to patching holes, and going forward, the company would be issuing new security updates to its Nexus models on a monthly basis. ...

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Google bringing monthly security hotfixes to Nexus devices

Posted on August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

To be able to get the most out of your smartphone or tablet, you really need to be able to trust it: trust it with details about your personal life, your finances, and plenty of other specifics that you’d rather not fall into the wrong hands. The companies behind these devices are growing more cognizant to that fact, and we just heard from Samsung about how it intends to make security a big priority going forward, and plans to deliver monthly security updates to its Android phones. Just after ...

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Will Google release its Android M preview for some older Nexus hardware?

Posted on July 2, 2015July 2, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

A little over a month ago, just after announcing Android M at Google I/O, Google made the first Android M preview images available for Nexus devices. With releases for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, and Nexus 9, developers had the tools they needed to get started working with the new platform release – so long as they had some of this relatively modern Nexus hardware. But what about some of the more senior members of ...

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New Android 5.0.1 Nexus files arrive: factory images, OTAs

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

It’s been one week now since Android 5.0.1 first premiered, as Google dropped factory images for several Nexus tablets. And if you didn’t feel up for starting from scratch (or restoring all your data), a few hours later we had OTA files ready for you to push to your phones over ADB. But like we said: that was a week ago. What’s the latest progress on 5.0.1’s spread? We’re still not even close to the point ...

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Android 5.0.1 hits AOSP, Nexus factory images also available

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

We know that you’re all super-tired with Android 5.0 at this point, it’s just so old. In case you somehow feel that way, we have quite the treat for you: say hello to Android 5.0.1. The update, mainly to squash the various bugs we found in the initial Lollipop build, has been pushed to AOSP and factory images have been made available for select Nexus devices to sideload as well.As far as we can tell, build number LRX22C (which flies in AOSP as Android 5.0.1_r1, by the way), brings no functional changes to Lollipop – it’s mainly a compilation of fixes to a bunch of ...

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Lightning-fast OEM Android updates: an OEM success or a Google failure?

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Joe Levi

Android 5.0 Lollipop, the latest iteration of Google’s mobile operating system, has been rolling out since the beginning of the month. Not everyone has gotten it yet, and some won’t get the update at all. Because of the rapid development cycle of consumer electronics these days, OEMs don’t have much incentive to update “old” devices with new versions of operating systems, it’s much more profitable just to sell you a new device with the new OS already on it.One of the purposes of the Nexus program is so ...

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Nexus 4 on Lollipop gets its LTE restored, thanks to helpful devs

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

One of the big success stories for Android 5.0 Lollipop on Nexus phones is how the Nexus 4 got its official update from Google – especially considering how the previous year’s Galaxy Nexus didn’t even make it to KitKat. Of course, we were eager to check this out for ourselves, and as soon as the update became available, we were quick to flash it and show you how the new software performed. But while this ...

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Android 5.0 Lollipop on the Nexus 4 (Video)

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Joe Levi

With the Motorola-made Nexus 6 starting to arrive in customer’s hands, the Nexus 4 is hardly noteworthy anymore. It’s screen was a measly 720p and measured 4.7-inches with a pixel density of less than 320. With a quad-core Snapdragon APQ8064 processor clocked at 1.5GHz and an Adreno 320 GPU, LG‘s Nexus 4 was a powerhouse – back in its day. It shipped with

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Nexus 4 Lollipop release “locked and loaded,” could arrive any time now

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

In a couple days, this Lollipop update madness will calm down, and we can start turning our attention back to all the other smartphone and tablet news under the sun, but for the moment, Google’s distribution of its latest platform update – and specifically, to Nexus devices – remains a hot topic on the minds of many users. We’ve already seen progress on a few big Nexus models, like the Nexus 5, Nexus 10, and Nexus 7, but what about the Nexus 4? The two-year-old handset is

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