yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 General] adaduk:
tgz Downloaded.

Unzipped.

Edited the bat and removed the "-w".

Nexus rebooted into fastboot.

4.4 update aplied.

Used N-CRY Nexus 4 toolkit to re-add TM recovery and root.

All done in about 15 minutes.

Hurrah!

:o
[Nexus 4 General] jubo1236:
Hi! I'm on 4.2.2 . unlocked boot loader, stock ROM and Franco kernel. What are the available options for me the update to 4.4? Can I use the method in the first post?

Pardon me if it has been asked before...
[Nexus 4 General] adaduk:
Yup.... I was running stock/unlocked/rooted/franco and just followed the first post!

All done in about 15 minutes at the most...
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Sorry but you are incorrect.....You would think that people by now would know better.

You can have an unlocked bootloader and still get the OTA. It's a universally understood fact of life....Stop trying to misinform people. Thanks.
[Nexus 4 General] Ibrahim.Rahman:
Cheers!

Flashed and installed GEL Launcher!
[Nexus 4 General] hamedunix:
The file I downloaded is a .tar file not a .tgz . is that a problem?
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
You can have a custom recovery as well.

Nope, it's a .tar.gz, but Windows is hiding the .gz
[Nexus 4 General] gd6noob:
WTF... the cmd is stuck on <Waiting for Device>
[Nexus 4 General] nithin1992:
Nope, not a problem. You could Just change extension to tgz and unzip with 7zip if you like or proceed as it is.

Yup, you could flash recovery as well if you want stock recovery. Or else you could just keep your custom recovery. It doesn't matter.

Yup, shouldn't be a problem
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Well you can...and I have in the past. I've found updating via OTA over top of a custom recovery is a bad idea. It removes the custom recovery and replaces it with a broken stock recovery(red exclamation).

So no...you can't......I mean you can but it would be pretty dumb as it serves no purpose other than to give you something to fix....:good:
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
isnt gel launcher in stock 4.4 image? is it diferent from stock launcher2? i just do a flash image with fastboot as it says here in first post,but i cant get to work voice google search from homescreen. when i type on it and then say ok google,then it works. in setings englich usa anh hotword on
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
Stock recovery isn't broken, you just don't know how to use it.
[Nexus 4 General] nithin1992:
Nope it isn't. Might be released as an app on the playstore eventually. For now, you may install the GEL apk to get the GEL launcher
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
So then you agree it's pointless to update over top of a custom recovery.

And yea man I'm an idiot. Don't know how to do anything.
[Nexus 4 General] maryisk:
delete
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
so is this reason why ok google dont work from homescreen in my case? can you send me link of gel launcher?
[Nexus 4 General] Pouzito:
Can anyone test if accepting an incoming call while in the middle of another one is working normally? I flashed the img and everything went alright, until i tried to answer a call while already at another one... I drag my finger to the accept call button ( green phone ) and it freezes for 2 secs then the cursor goes back to the middle and nothing happens. It just keeps ringing as if i did nothing, and i could not accept the call. I had to end the first one and then accept the second.

Mine is still not working... any ideas on how to proceed? And i dont know if it helps, but 4.4 is not running THAT smooth now... couple apps taking longer than 4.3 to open, and getting some hickups when doing trivial things such as opening the multitask list etc
[Nexus 4 General] torresfelipe:
GEL ~> http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ina0fd8fwki5fo/GoogleHome.apk
[Nexus 4 General] jagroshan:
Does flashing this factory image preserves /sdcard data..?

Does -w option formats only /data ,/cache....
[Nexus 4 General] Marcb:
what about the notification issues? Is that solved?
[Nexus 4 General] barfuss:
it was helped me!! thank you!
[Nexus 4 General] Sumit.K:
How to change the app drawer to 5 X 4? its currently 4 x 4 and looks pathetic. Also, do you guys face lag while opening and closing app drawer?
[Nexus 4 General] metpage:
will these instructions work rather than flashing that script?

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz20i.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-cefwmazm-2.0.1700.84.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot

These were the initial instructions for getting 4.3, i just wanted to see if this process will work for 4.4 as well?
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
You can skip the format cache bit, but yes that will be fine.
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
tnx! now works everything. do you have any bug on n4 with this launcher? this is n5 launcher?
[Nexus 4 General] torresfelipe:
This .apk was found on N5 factory image. I don't know if Google will release it on Play Store. No bugs so far. Seems like the Nexus 7 have some bugs when using this launcher, but everything works fine on my N4.
[Nexus 4 General] Ibrahim.Rahman:
The GEL lives inside the Google Search app (3.1.8). All you need now is the launcher app. Download from here.
[Nexus 4 General] hamedunix:
I just flashed 4.4 and it went well. There is an issue thought: Google search doesn't show search results. it says: cant load search results.
[Nexus 4 General] Wassupdog:
Thank you :).
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Well ok I feel like the biggest retard on planet earth.....

I've downloaded the factory image. I have fastboot installed and configured correctly. I right click on the factory image>extract file......and I can't find where fastboot is to extract to!

I really hate being the dumb retard noob but I've been searching for about an hour in hopes of not having to post such a lame cry for help...

Why can't I find it? Please help me!

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] mdaamir1989:
Go to this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

In the attachment section u can find a zip file named platform tools.. When you download that and extract it ul have fastboot.exe inside it. Thank the creator of that threat too ;)
[Nexus 4 General] Shingonati0n:
Maybe this will sound noobish, but, is safe to flash this image through fastboot without wiping user data?? there shouldn't be any troubles right?? I'm on stock 4.3, rooted, unlocked bootloader and with TWRP.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Thank you!!
[Nexus 4 General] rey.ginete:
Mine looks like that as well.
[Nexus 4 General] nithin1992:
Shouldn't be a problem. Do a factory reset on twrp after flashing the image
[Nexus 4 General] dEris:
Gotta love Android
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
[MENTION=3214812]RealiZms[/MENTION]

create new folder to c partition and call it as you wish. in my case android. then put fastboot and adb files(files that start adb and fastboot) inside it. inside same folder extract 4.4 image with 7z and you should have one zip file and couple img files and one file that start flash. start that file and phone will flash, thats it. if you do manualy flash file by file with fastboot, you must first enter comand prompt (run cmd) and then enter in folder where is fastboot and img files, c:/android(in my case) and in that caseit can hapen that you will see less memory when flash phone and this can be repair with stock recovery wipe cash or factory reset.
[Nexus 4 General] Mercado_Negro:
That launcher you're using was extracted from a device with a bigger screen, that's why.
[Nexus 4 General] :
I'm looking to flash a kernel that will allow me to adjust the color and gamma settings, preferably one with good battery life (the Nexus 4 is plenty fast so speed isn't my top priority as I don't game heavily with it). Is anyone using one that they would suggest? Thanks guys!
[Nexus 4 General] _Kyros_:
I know this was kinda mentioned earlier but I need someone to give me an accurate answer, do I need to have Stock Recovery in order to even receive an OTA? I don't mean for it to install correctly, just for it to pop up in the Notification Bar or even in the System updates section so that I know it's available, because I've had TWRP installed ever since I upgraded to 4.3 back when I was completely Stock and I have yet to even get the 4.3.1 OTA notification that I heard had been out.

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franco.Kernel and Nexus 4 Display Control are probably your best bet.
[Nexus 4 General] Rusty!:
Nope, custom is fine
[Nexus 4 General] gn9179767:
Did anyone have the problem for the GEL always ask to set default or just me?
[Nexus 4 General] bucketheadmn:
Wondering if anyone can give a hand here. I am trying to flash-all.sh and this is what I get:

./flash-all.sh: line 17: fastboot: command not found

./flash-all.sh: line 18: fastboot: command not found

./flash-all.sh: line 20: fastboot: command not found

./flash-all.sh: line 21: fastboot: command not found

./flash-all.sh: line 23: fastboot: command not found

I just downloaded the most recent SDK and have all of the 6 files from the zip in my platform-tools folder. Wondering what I need to do to fix this.

I do run a ./fastboot devices and my phone does show up in fastboot so it is working.

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] ChrisDDD:
Can anyone verify if the signal drop issue that was common in 4.3 has been fixed in 4.4? I reverted back to 4.2 because it was dropping the cellular connection dozens of times per day, which it doesn't do on 4.2. I'd update to 4.4, but don't want to do so if the issue is still present.

I'd flash it to test myself, but it's now my wife's phone (since I got my Nexus 5), and her tollerance for my fiddling with her phone is... shall we say... limited. :p
[Nexus 4 General] :
He has a version for 4.4? The one I tried wouldn't allow me to boot after I flashed it.
[Nexus 4 General] Barbatos19:
Try fastboot command, start with the bootloader, radio, system. The rest it's up to you if you want to add it also

Try this also http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47474008

[Factory Image] [mako] Kit Kat 4.4 - KRT16O - Download+Instructions
[Nexus 4 General] marathone:
Nope, the '-w' stands for wipe.
[Nexus 4 General] iggie94:
I'm on 4.4 but I kind of want to go back to 4.3 stock. How do I do that exactly? I managed to flash 4.4 but I'm not sure how to revert back to 4.3. :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
When the instructions say to "remove the -w from the .bat file if we don't want to wipe", does that actually mean that it keeps my app data, or does it only mean that it will not wipe the SD card?

I asked this question before but no one answered me. I'm on stock 4.3.
[Nexus 4 General] Goku80:
Why you want to go back just out of curiosity? Lol I might as well go bk to gingerbread:D
[Nexus 4 General] iggie94:
4.4 is a bit buggy and it bugs me.
[Nexus 4 General] rasengan82:
It keeps your data.
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
App data and folders on SD card? So I don't need to back up anything?
[Nexus 4 General] rasengan82:
Yup.
[Nexus 4 General] iggie94:
I figured out how to go back to stock. It is not that hard. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] _Kyros_:
Sorry I don't remember you specifically asking for 4.4 so I honestly don't know.
[Nexus 4 General] vaibhavx:
Does unlocking boot loader voids warranty?? Can i relock bootloader after flashing factory image?
[Nexus 4 General] MelquiXDA:
1. Yes

2. Yes
[Nexus 4 General] vaibhavx:
i'll get back warranty after relocking right?? Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] MelquiXDA:
Yes, if you use locked bootloader (relock) and a stock ROM, don't void warranty.
[Nexus 4 General] arffrhn:
Yes, as long as you don't have anything custom before you relock.
[Nexus 4 General] Barbatos19:
If you manage to flash to 4.4 maybe using fastboot or whatever tutorials you follow do the same but this time use the 4.3 image
[Nexus 4 General] sordna:
App Ops doesn't work anymore :(

In addition to the keyboard being dumbed down and stuff crashing (my phone crashed and rebooted 2-3 times already).

Seriously thinking to go back to Jelly Bean and stay there.
[Nexus 4 General] Persechini:
I knew I would find a thread like this once I saw new that the new factory image was release :) subscribing to remember this for the next update, thanks OP

Everything went super smooth here, updated using this instructions, used the opportunity to update twrp, and rerooted. The only thing that seem not to work is xposed framework (aka. the portable custom-rom-izator), I am still to check the main xposed thread to see if this is just a quirk or I need to wait for a future update
[Nexus 4 General] illru:
Fastboot over the boot.img and system.img if you what to be safe with your usr/app data.
[Nexus 4 General] marathone:
Yes, it'll leave your data fldr alone.
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
This is so frustrating. Everybody here tells me that if I remove the -w, I can flash without wipe. But then when I try and wipe, I get an error message that my phone is locked.

Then when I look into unlocking my bootloader with a toolkit, it seems that the unlocking process will also wipe the device. Can someone please help me out with this stupidity, so that I can flash without wiping?
[Nexus 4 General] Mercado_Negro:
Try this:

http://www.addictivetips.com/androi...-galaxy-nexus-bootloader-without-wiping-data/
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
That requires that I root. Do I need to wipe to root?
[Nexus 4 General] Mercado_Negro:
No, no need to wipe. What's your set up, please? Stock (what version?) or ROM (which one?).
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
I'm on stock 4.3, no alterations.
[Nexus 4 General] Mercado_Negro:
Download SuperSU from the Play Store to gain root privileges (update binaries if requested) and reboot.
[Nexus 4 General] mwilliams05:
Coming from CM 10.1.2 (4.2.2)

Since I'm a couple versions behind in updates am I still able to follow the instructions in the original post? I want to test out 4.4 Kit Kat since I didn't update to 4.3. Also, if I backup my data/ROM on my pc, will I be able to restore CM 10.1.2 if for some reason I don't like Kit Kat?

I'm using TWRP v2.4.4.0, current ROM is CM 10.1.2 Stable (4.2.2), also have LTE enabled using .33 radio
[Nexus 4 General] montrealguy:
I installed it but it won't open because it tells me that I need to root!
[Nexus 4 General] Mercado_Negro:
It should ask you to update binaries.

To be honest, I've never used this application (BootloaderUnlocker) but many users have had good results with it as far as I've read. If you've never rooted your device or flashed a custom recovery I seriously doubt you could unlock your bootloader without some serious hack. I'd make a backup of all my files in storage to my computer and just unlock the bootloader normally and then flash. Less headaches, trust me.
[Nexus 4 General] sordna:
Apparently there's a way to unlock your bootloader without root and without loosing data, it involves “fastboot oem unlock” followed (without rebooting) by flashing of a custom recovery:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37722681&postcount=5

It worked for galaxy nexus, so it could also work on the N4 (no guarantees though of course)
[Nexus 4 General] sumasage:
I flashed this and working smoothly. I have a few questions though:

1) All the android blogs that i follow didnt say anything about this (been following the blogs the whole week and didnt see any news on this). If this is official 4.4 for nexus 4, how come there wasnt much info about it release?

2) how come i cant say "ok google" from the home screen like i see video post on the Nexus 5? also swiping to the left most screen doesnt show "google now" either. Are these two features exclusive on the Nexus 5?

Thanks to the OP for download and instruction links.
[Nexus 4 General] percy_g2:
I haven't flashed the image but in google setting there is an option see ss .
[Nexus 4 General] arffrhn:
1. There are still some bugs here and there in the rom that needs to be ironed out. So maybe this is a test build as we still cannot get it via OTA (correct me if I'm wrong).

2. That feature only works if you have Google Experience Launcher installed. Without that..OK GOOGLE won't work. You can just install GEL to make it work on our device. Same goes for having transparent status and nav bars.
[Nexus 4 General] Cile90:
1.yes

2.a) only on nexus 5 b) install Google experience launcher...
[Nexus 4 General] Lt.Tealc:
thank you. working 100%
[Nexus 4 General] hamedunix:
It won't wipe your apps.
[Nexus 4 General] Lt.Tealc:
i am not seeing the new launcher nor the option to have google now on the launcher is it just me?

edit.. i figured out thx
[Nexus 4 General] Thibaultvw:
I am gonna flash again since some things arent working properly. I got no quick settings, home button doesnt respond, file managers and apps like facebook dont work.

I was on n5 port and flashed every image except the userdata.img since I didnt want to lose my pictures. Would that be the problem?
[Nexus 4 General] evga_I:
Im on Stock 4.3 yet and just updated google search. The OK google feature is now enabled (English US only though), will that change with 4.4? I might test GEL but I like to change to apex soon after that.

And a little question: 4.4 is reported to be buggy (at least for some) when I unlock my bootloader, flash 4.4, and relock it I'll be back on warranty and be eligible for future OTA updates?
[Nexus 4 General] steviewevie:
It's not a test build, it's the official factory image. So the OTA should be coming very soon.
[Nexus 4 General] Barbatos19:
it wont be a problem. just flash it all except for the userdata if you dont want to loose your files :). Or a factory reset might do, if you are having issue. try factory reset first before flashing again.
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
all that you need from sdk to work adb and fastboot are this 4 files:adb,fastboot,AdbWinApi.dll and AdbWinUsbApi.dll. find them in sdk platform folder and put them in new folder in c partition. call that folder as you want. i call it android. put in same folder all files that you want to flash(image files of recovery,and unpacked system image files(you can unpack them all and then have six of them or unpack just half and then you should have 2 images one zip and couple that start flashing for windows and mack)) then in command prompt run cmd and afther open cmd type cd C:\Android. afther this command you can flash all stuf that you put in android folder and so...

if you flash manualy file by file,and if you have nexus4 16gb,then afther flashing phone can show only 5gb free. if it show this you should make factory reset or wipe cache with stock recovery,not with twrp and cwm! then phone will work fine.

i try couple of times manualy flash and always phone show me a half less memory. if you flash automatic then this will not happen
[Nexus 4 General] rajat_red:
Ok, just to clear things up for some people,

> Removing -w in flash-all.bat makes sure that you DO NOT lose any apps or app data. I flashed 4.4 yesterday that way and have all my apps/appdata/settings intact.

> KitKat 4.4 for Nexus 4 does not have GEL. Which means no transparent status bar/keys, no Google Now on last homescreen and no voice commands on homescreen. GEL is a Nexus 5 ONLY feature. That said, you can download the apk unofficially and give it a ride.

>The GEL launcher functions fine but its definitely not as smooth as what it might be on Nexus 5 (Which no one can complain about since it's an unofficial port from N5 anyway). The non-smoothness of GEL does not translate to KitKat being buggy. The default launcher on 4.4 is smooth as butter.
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
you right 100% :good:
[Nexus 4 General] ichnix:
he is trying to flash from linux. you can see this on the sh. he must download fastboot and put it in /bin than ubuntu knows fastboot
[Nexus 4 General] Cile90:
To enable OK Google text on the search bar on home screen....swipe left get into Google now....press on 3 dots get into settings -> voice offline speech recognition ->all select English us doesn't matter if it says pre installed ->installed select English us download latest - and it should appear...
[Nexus 4 General] Danny.ns:
I flashed 4.4 with flash-all (so it got wiped and everything). I haven't reinstalled anything (only facebook, instagram and whatsapp).

Whenever i bring down the notification shade after the screen has been off it lags alot (looks comparable to a htc wildfire on android 2.1).

Is this a known issue, or have I done something wrong? Everything else with the phone seems smooth and working as should :S
[Nexus 4 General] sujith1994:
made it easy

so here is the download link i have just combined the adb tools in the rom files so you dont have to download sdk place the fastboot blah blah blah just download the rom and select flash-all.bat file and your done. i take no responsibility if u damage anything.

link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/zourkje70bbwuvw/occam-krt16o.zip
[Nexus 4 General] ali_crown:
update well to android 4.4 and everything is good and work fine

but i have just 5.67GB total space of storage

i have nexus 4 16GB

please help:(
[Nexus 4 General] Danny.ns:
Happened to me once, just do factory reset and wipe cache in recvory. You will get 12.XX gb total space left.
[Nexus 4 General] ali_crown:
i do this but my problem is not solved

i lose my storage partion i have just 5.6GB
[Nexus 4 General] miksontije:
read my post from page behind

---------- Post added at 02:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:02 PM ----------

yup. and ok google from homescreen work only with gea launcher. stock n4 4.4 do not have this feature
[Nexus 4 General] MrKaupo:
wow i was shocked that our factory image doesnt have transparency. I even thought i messed up files... WTF google.
[Nexus 4 General] Sobaro:
This is nice but bad news.. it dosnt have the same lancher as Nexus 5 :p

I prefer Nexus 5 port :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 4 General] marathone:
Folks like you shouldn't even attempt this - do not ask questions without giving complete information!

Just be patient & wait for the OTA update. Then you'll have no issues.
[Nexus 4 General] :
So if I understand you correctly, if you put the files in the /bin folder, the commands can be used universally without being in a specific folder in Linux?

For my Windows setup, I have them in a folder I made under my user folder, then I hold shift and right-click within the folder and open a command prompt from within there. No need to cd.
[Nexus 4 General] amartinpascual:
My terminal only works with 4.2.2, will not start, I've tried everything and nothing, it only works with 4.2.2.

4.4. Logs

First attempt - Bootloop

Second attempt - Bootloop

4.2.2 Logs

Works OK

Si hago lo mismo con la 4.2.2 funciona OK

Can you help me?

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] DR-EVIL23:
I must unlock the bootloader to flash factory 4.4?
[Nexus 4 General] TigTex:
Yes, just like if you were flashing a custom rom. Or you could always wait for the OTA update...
[Nexus 4 General] Drmol:
Any ideas why it's taking Google so long to release the OTA update? I want to start fresh with KitKat (wipe and set everything up again), but I'm afraid something's wrong with the current factory images and that's why they're holding off the OTA and I don't want to have to re-set everything twice in case they release a new build, lol. :D
[Nexus 4 General] vaibhavx:
what to do with these files---Nexus 4 binaries for Android 4.4 (KRT16O):confused:
[Nexus 4 General] Psychonut:
Yes, because "commands" are just executable scripts, and Linux searches for executable scripts in $PATH (which includes /bin, to see this do echo $PATH).

You don't need to do anything with those, if you're just interested in installing Android 4.4. Just flash the factory image, the binaries are packaged in the image. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] Coopoo:
/DELETED/
[Nexus 4 General] kr33p0:
I get exactly the same thing. Have you found or received an answer with a solution?
[Nexus 4 General] djsubterrain:
I eventually unpacked the rom and just flashed each img one by one. It worked after that
[Nexus 4 General] kr33p0:
After that you have to flash a custom recover and super su to root right?