[Nexus 5 Original Android Development] Natakranta:
Short story:

Few days ago I was coming back from L to Slim and mighty Google restored all my user apps from Play Store.

Long story:

I was on one of Robbie’s 5.10 builds from late last week. Probably on Thursday night I fastboot flashed L factory images with flash_all.bat. I was lazy, it was late, too tired to manually fastboot flash every single img file. So I’ve got full factory L on my N5. Long booting due to ART compiling but all good. I let it download all my user apps from Play and update some Google apps. I adb rebooted to bootloader and fastboot flashed TWRP 7.2.1.1. Booted to recovery and flashed SuperSu 2.0 (at that moment I didn’t know I need the cracked L_boot.img for root to work). I rebooted to android, this time quick boot as ART was already compiled. To my disappointment SuperSU was not working, I don’t remember exact message, probably it was binaries. No root = no go, so back to recovery. As it was late and I wanted to have fully operational phone for next day I did a nandroid of L (to play it later on) and clean flashed (wiping cache, data, system and dalvik) newer Robbie’s 5.10 buid and latest available Slim normal beta Gapps. Slim booted fine as on normal clean flash. I connected to my WiFi, logged in to Google account and so on. About a minute after home screen appeared system started downloading and installing my apps from Play. I restored some user apps data from Titanium (copied from my PC to phone after L was flashed wiping everything).

Next day Slim working fine. No problems. Reading about the special L_boot.img needed for SuperSu to work on L. In TWRP I did nandroid of Slimkat and I restored the L nandroid. I booted fine. Back to recovery, I flashed the special L_boot and SuperSU 2.0. L booted fine. Root was working at least as far as it is now in L. At this moment I noticed ES File Explorer does not see my SD card content (I’ve read about L different mounting point, whatever that is..) Settings storage was showing that there are few Gigs of space used (what I copied from PC, audio, Slim zips, Titanium backup, pictures).

Later I installed LMT and upon granting superuser to it system rebooted. I’ve got a boot loop with L boot animation flying dots for about 20 minutes until I gave up. Hard reboot to recovery and restore SlimKat nanadroid. Slimkat booting fine. OK. Back to recovery and restore original L nandroid. Boot loop again. I gave up on it.

I restored Slimkat nandroid, download MultiROM, install, download voomer’s L flashable zip and back to MultiROM TWRP. I flashed voomer’s L zip as secondary ROM and SuperSU_L.2.0 streight after (no special L_boot .img at this time as special SuperSU_L is supposed to work without it as far as I understand). Initial L boot took about 5-7 minutes compiling ART and when I thought I have a boot loop (again !) Android appeared . L downloaded most of my apps from Play and installed. Root is working at least for AdAway which whith some hiccups but finally placed modified host files. I didn’t try with LMT this time. I installed Bussybox from Play this time, as I’ve read its needed on stock rooted ROMs. I tested doing few reboots and MultiROM is handling this configuration fine: SlimKat as primary and L as secondary (to show off to friends). Later on I dirty flashed SlimKat 6.0 as primary over Robbie’s 5.10 build.

So far so good.

Robbie’s build with kufi’s heads-up is waiting in my downloads folder to flash in the evening together with latest Danko’s beta Gapps.

Well It’s hard to catch up with you guys :D