This past week has been rather a ride. Announcements, Nexus launch, as well as then the huge Android Lollipop launch. however that wasn’t all! Every single time that a new version of Android is released, individuals look at their handset OEMs with probing eyes as well as only one concern on their mind — when will our updates arrive?
While any type of manufacturer has got a tough time ahead to satisfy their customers’ expectations, the Nexus individuals must truly be readying their claws! The biggest gain of utilizing the pure Google experience is the truth that updates show up almost immediately on them since there is no forking involved. as well as while we are seeing a great deal of leaks all around, specific to some gadgets like the LG G3, Galaxy S3 (and some others too); they are mainly just that — test develops which can barely be termed stable. however this leak is different, the LRX21P Android Lollipop develop for the Nexus 7 2012 (WiFi) we are speaking about, may be the final ‘stable’ ROM we’ve been waiting for!
But that is a speculation, as well as we won’t understand for sure up until as well as unless there is an official confirmation of the same. however Google has been mum till now so it won’t hurt if we try it ourselves as well as be among the early adopters of Android Lollipop! Yeah, we assumption we provided you a great sufficient motivational piece of dialogue, so it’s time for the stuff that matters.
But we requirement to provide you our word of warning first. We should remind you to keep calm while doing these steps, shouldn’t we?
Warning
Things can go truly wrong for your gadget if you don’t understand what you are about to do as well as we’d suggest you to take a great deal of care while complying with these steps. It is a tried as well as tested method, as well as any type of problems,( if they do arise, that is) can only be triggered by your lack of capability in complying with this guide step by step. keep your calm, as well as be careful!
Requirements
Download the factory Image: Google
You requirement to configuration the ADB drivers for Android on your PC by referring to these guides. ADB drivers are needed for linking your gadget properly to the PC for the function of flashing or installing stuff via fastboot mode.
Now download very little FastBoot tool from here and then extract the contents to a folder. This is for quick fastboot setup, which needs Android developmental SDK otherwise. If you have that already set up, no problem, avoid this step!
When you are done with setting up ADB as well as FastBoot, you’ll have to set up your device-specific drivers by linking it to your PC via a USB cable. download these drivers which are in a zip, and manually set up them by opening your PC’s gadget manager as well as clicking on the ‘Other Devices’ button. Then, right-click on Nexus 5 as well as choose ‘Update driver Software’. In the pop-up screen that appears, search to as well as choose the zip drivers you just downloaded. You can likewise refer to this publish if you want your gadget specific drivers.
Enable USB debugging on your gadget in the ‘Developer Options’ menu by referring to the comprehensive guide in this post.
Don’t fail to remember to backup the data as well as fee your gadget beforehand.
Installation
First as well as foremost, you’ll have to unzip the downloaded factory picture data with the .tgz extension. If the factory picture data is shown as a .tar data instead, don’t hesitate in renaming it to .tgz as well as extracting it thereafter.
Now open the extracted factory picture folder, here, you’ll discover one more zip file. Unzip this as well as extract it too.
You have to copy the extracted data to the fastboot folder which you have set up. If you utilized very little Fastboot folder, go to that as well as paste it.
Now reboot your Nexus 7 to the fastboot mode by holding the ‘Power + volume Down’ button for 2-3 seconds when you switch the gadget On.
Grab your USB cord as well as link your Nexus 7 to your PC.
Head to the Fastboot folder to which you copied the contents of the Factory-image zip file. now hold shift as well as right click on an empty area within that folder. From the right-click menu, click on ‘Open Command window Here’.
Now go into the complying with commands in the command timely window (replace the strong ‘filename’ with the name of the data that you extracted):
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-filename.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-filename.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash healing recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
That’s it, you have lastly installed Android 5.0 Lollipop on your Nexus 7 2012! Cheers!
So that’s to it! provide the ROM a try as well as you wilnull