XDA devs craft up Android Nougat for Nexus 5, Nexus 7 (2013)

The beloved, if design-maligned Nexus 5 is not unofficially dead just yet.Within a day of Google dropping the Android Nougat images for certain Nexus devices that aren’t the Nexus 5, XDA developers have been figuring out a build for the fan favorite phone. One did so, though it’s ...

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Google providing Nexus OTA packages for ADB sideloading

If you’re just a friendly neighborhood Nexus owner with a slight curiosity about what Android N might offer you, the Android Beta Program was made for you — you could just download the latest OTA package made available at Google’s discretion and enjoy.But if you’re a developer that needs to hop between different preview versions and you hate flashing the full image on and reconfiguring your ...

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Nexus 7 (2013) Groupon takes price down to $100

We weren’t expecting this one for our holiday guide. The ASUS-made Nexus 7 tablet from 2013 has been running at about $200 as of recently. Now, as we hear of another Nexus 7 coming our way via Huawei, we are in house clearing mode as a Groupon slash the price of the old one down by half.$99.99 is the price for the 16GB tablet. It ...

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Android 6.0.1 lands for Nexus devices with a ton of new emoji (factory images available)

Last week, a heads-up arrived that Android emoji fans were in for a big treat, with support for a bunch of new symbols about to hit Nexus devices. Google told us it was nearly ready to land, but kept us in the dark as to a precise date. It turns out that today’s the day, as Google flips the switch on Android 6.0.1, making the release available to all Nexus devices currently on Marshmallow.That’s right: Android 6.0.1 factory images are available for download now for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus ...

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow images land for Nexus devices: how to download now

Last week’s big Google announcements marked the formal arrival of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, as the company revealed the first two handsets to debut running the platform: the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. More than that, though, the event also brought word of the coming availability of Marshmallow releases for existing Nexus devices. We had already heard that Google could get that ball rolling today, on October 5, and its ...

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Android Marshmallow updates for existing Nexus models get an ETA

Tomorrow’s shaping up to be a big one for Google, and beyond bringing us the first official look at the new Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, we’re expecting to see a lot more of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The new Nexus phones will understandable ship with Marshmallow, but what about existing Nexus models? We’ve already heard that Google could be relatively generous with its support this time around, bringing Marshmallow to even older models like the Nexus 7, and now a new rumor fills us ...

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

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

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

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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Cell-enabled Nexus 7 tablets finally get access to Android Lollipop

After Android 5.0 Lollipop debuted with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 last fall, Google was quick to start making Lollipop updates available for most of the rest of the Nexus family. We saw phones and tablets alike graduate from KitKat to Android 5.0, then 5.0.1, and most recently, a few select models have been graced with Android 5.0.2. And while that was great, not every Nexus device was so quick to join the Lollipop party: despite Google making

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Android 5.0.2 OTA update files uncovered for certain Nexus tablets

Google’s latest Android release is 5.0.2, though that might come as a surprise to even many Nexus users, as the company’s been a little slow in getting updates out to its own flock of pure-Android hardware. First the 2012 WiFi Nexus 7 saw a factory image land back in December, and just last week a couple new images arrived for the 2013 WiFi Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10. If you’ve got a locked bootloader and aren’t ...

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Android 5.0.2 rollout continues with Nexus 10, Nexus 7 2013 images

Four weeks back, Google got the ball rolling on Android 5.0.2, dropping a factory image for the first-gen Nexus 7. Despite concerns that it might be a minor, forgettable, maybe even hardware-specific update, a closer look at the code did manage to reveal some important changes, maybe most importantly a fix to make sure that flash file system cleanup occurred as intended. While 5.0.2 is proving to be slow to spread to other models, ...

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Android 5.0.1 OTA downloads: update your Nexus tablet now

Overnight, Google flipped the switch on the very latest Android platform release, getting the ball rolling with Android 5.0.1 for the WiFi editions of the latest Nexus tablets. The company was quick to make available the 5.0.1 factory images for these devices, but as anyone who’s installed one will be quick to tell you, flashing one of those can be a bit of a pain, forcing you to restore all your apps, data, and settings after the fact. Really, it’s OTA updates we’re interested in, but as of last ...

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Android 5.0.1 hits AOSP, Nexus factory images also available

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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Android 5.0 updates now incoming for select Nexus models

It’s a big day for Android 5.0 Lollipop, and following Motorola’s confirmation that this year’s Moto X and Moto G were seeing their Lollipop updates go public, we got word from Sprint that we should be on the lookout for an update to the Nexus 5. As we mentioned in an update to that story, Google has since tweeted that “the rollout has started,” but we were careful to not read too much into what it meant there without getting some further confirmation. Based on a growing number of ...

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