yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] kamots:
First rule of XDA... Nobody talks about XDA.... Wait. That's not right.. Oh yeah first rule is don't ask for ETA's. Google said L will come out in fall. I assume that is when the source code for the kernel will come out too.?

sent from my nexus 5 running L
[Nexus 5 General] wideasleep1:
Well...when Google actually gets around to it. It's often a few weeks or months after release, much to everyone's chagrin.
[Nexus 5 General] my2sense:
Anyone else not able to unlock TWRP with encryption turned on?

It works fine for android but gives incorrect password error in recovery. I noticed that doing a

vdc cryptfs verifypw 'password'

command in terminal also gives incorrect password error.
[Nexus 5 General] intronauta:
I'm suffering exactly the same problem with L in my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 2013, static IP configs reset to DHCP when reconnect.
[Nexus 5 General] Mextur:
Do we het OTA updates?
[Nexus 5 General] :
I don't see many updates coming. Maybe one or two....but its a preview, not a beta. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] wideasleep1:
AHA! I gave up before noticing this...has anyone downgraded the radio to resolve?
[Nexus 5 General] Mextur:
Are there some google apps which are updated with the material design? I mean like google play music of something? Leaked?
[Nexus 5 General] Hannibal226:
No. Only those which r included.

CHEERS ?
[Nexus 5 General] Baldyl0cks:
Anyone got a working email exchange pin bypass? Wanna see that beautiful lock screen instead of the company forced email pin code :P
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
I used my exchange email and still got the lockscreen notifications. You got the pin screen right around you hit the unlock button. Its not as bad as you think.
[Nexus 5 General] Hannibal226:
Help-Index is now in official Q&A thread and will be updated there:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53780433

CHEERS
[Nexus 5 General] El Daddy:
Everyone, in case you aren't aware, this thread is meant for general discussion about the "L" preview as described in the thread title and in the OP.

For help and troubleshooting questions, please visit the dedicated thread here: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help/android-l-developer-preview-help-t2796217

I've recently added a fantastic Q&A post from [MENTION=3052425]Hannibal226[/MENTION] that will answer many of the questions you may have.

Thanks,

El Daddy
[Nexus 5 General] jvsantosjr:
Been running L since release. Turn off your location if you don't need it and the battery is incredible.. I go all day and I'm a heavy user
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
When officially released
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
+1 I'm getting better battery than Slimkat. I clean flashed and am not rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] derPianist:
I've done so using the Location Quick Toggle. I will test report back after using the device tomorrow.
[Nexus 5 General] Anderson2:
I'm running 4.4.4 on my nexus 5 and I'm somewhat confused. Someone in this thread said he was running 4.5. Is L Android 4.5 or is it something else?

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] Tyrany:
Since Titanium backup is dead can someone tell me if i make an update zip with apps does it restore data too ?
[Nexus 5 General] jvsantosjr:
That's what I do. When I first flashed I was pissed because it felt like the battery wouldn't charge. Turned off location and all good. I used Rom toolbox to jack up the kernel (ondemand/cfq) and turned down the DPI. Buttery goodness! I stare at my phone more than my girl.
[Nexus 5 General] tourbound129:
I only got apps to restore, no data.
[Nexus 5 General] milanmania2004:
TB only restored my apps from update.zip, not data. Now using mybackup pro, working fine.
[Nexus 5 General] thumbnail95:
It is booting now, i'm realy exited to be honest. Preffered a flashable zip but just couldn't wait....

booting takes really long tho.

edit: IT BOOTED

will post first impressions in a sec
[Nexus 5 General] Lloir:
and the last of my image uploads is

HERE
[Nexus 5 General] animaonline:
For the sweet love of god, please stop asking about APKs, they WON'T WORK because they are targeting a newer version of Android, you will have to wait for them to get ported, use your head.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Why don't you ask someone in the Nexus 7 forum? I'm sure people are going crazy over there too
[Nexus 5 General] abell431:
I will upload some apks now
[Nexus 5 General] iamnotkurtcobain:
We all hope.
[Nexus 5 General] GldRush98:
sigh... over 10 minutes now waiting for boot finish. Debating whether to shut it down and try again or just keep waiting.

edit: and booted up. Man, it took a good 15 minutes lol
[Nexus 5 General] greveldinges:
Guys, screenshots really don't do it justice. The effects are really nice, it's not something you can see in a static picture. You really need to test it yourself. Also, it's pretty much lag-free for me, but I don't have many apps installed yet. Everything seems to work fine uptil now.
[Nexus 5 General] Travelawyer:
Damn, it always gets stuck with the Google logo. :rolleyes:

So I guess a clean install with loss of data is necessary?
[Nexus 5 General] DubelBoom:
I guess it will work, but I don't have Linux/Mac and setting up Cygwin is annoying.

Does flashing using flash-all.bat wipes my Internal SD?

Never flashed a factory image before haha
[Nexus 5 General] -Raffa-:
The jeyboard is just awesome

wow
[Nexus 5 General] ha789di:
how to install this????

It is hard to install
[Nexus 5 General] Batfink33:
They're beautiful.
[Nexus 5 General] Dungeon47:
If you don't want fc festival, yes.
[Nexus 5 General] obtained:
I've never witnessed such smoothness...
[Nexus 5 General] Jimlarck:
That's not Linux or Mac, that Windows.

Right? Or am I seeing things?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] mm_david_mm:
Somebody have tryed deleting "-w" on flash-all file before install?

I'd like to try it without losing all my data...
[Nexus 5 General] thesteef66:
i like the new ui very much. the new notification area is a little getting used to but it's very intuitive!
[Nexus 5 General] iamnotkurtcobain:
Seriously? Smoother than Kitkat? iOS like?
[Nexus 5 General] Batfink33:
Yes.
[Nexus 5 General] Rusty!:
Use Nine/Touchdown instead of the stock email app.
[Nexus 5 General] ConMcCRay:
How would you go about returning to 4.4.4?
[Nexus 5 General] Wakamatsu:
It's the same process as flashing L but with the 4.4.4 image.
[Nexus 5 General] ConMcCRay:
How do I do it without wiping my entire phone?
[Nexus 5 General] Mkvarner:
If you don't want to wipe don't try it. It's just going to be painful.
[Nexus 5 General] Pyro96:
There is no way if you don't want to have problems
[Nexus 5 General] :
Or again....install multirom and install as secondary. Nothing ends up wiped, not even your current ROM. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] DoesntPostAThing:
For the wifi static IP not sticking bug go to this link and star the issue: https://code.google.com/p/android-d...tatic ip&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary
[Nexus 5 General] philippsp:
which gallery app are u guys using?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Utacka:
QuickPic

Skickat från min Nexus 5 via Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] bazzi12:
Kit kat stock gallery
[Nexus 5 General] 1ManWolfePack:
QuickPic is amazing and has come a LONG way. I haven't used it in years and it may be my go-to gallery app from here on out.

Excellent UI.
[Nexus 5 General] X-15:
Android L is "L", anyone calling it 4.5 or 5.0 is getting ahead of themselves.
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidInsanity:
As soon as FIFA 14 works on it, I am downloading it again and running it full time!

I LOVE Android L, Google have have full on gave IOS8 a slap in the face :P
[Nexus 5 General] hikarugo:
It's a system settings so it can get its permissions to add to quick settings without root.

And a regular root app cant do that

You need an app like Gravity Box with xposed

Or a custom rom that adds that ability to the system settings.

It's not a bug dude. You checked that "restore known wifi connections" when you add your Google account in the first boot. That's an option.

Unfortunately, you can't uncheck it unless you sign out your device from your google account and then sign in again. Make sure you don't check that option.
[Nexus 5 General] Anderson2:
OK. So is it supposed to be the next Android version after 4.4.4?
[Nexus 5 General] cferra:
Is it me or is charging painfully slow even with the stock charger? The only decent charge speed I get is with an iPad charger. Anyone else experiencing this? Or have any ideas?
[Nexus 5 General] jvsantosjr:
I was and it was driving me crazy.. Turn off your GPS and it will charge normally
[Nexus 5 General] cferra:
Gotcha. - cool at least its not just me. I'll try that.
[Nexus 5 General] msanabria:
This thread is dumb and pointless now. Time to unsubscribe.
[Nexus 5 General] rahsaanabdul:
Peace out!

Sent from my Nexus 5/Android L
[Nexus 5 General] kevincaja:
DSP Manager for Android L

off topic. since i can't seem to make viper4android work on Android L (which is my favorite EQ), I decided to use CM's DSP Manager as a EQ for L for a moment while waiting viper4android to be compatible with Android L. I extracted CM's DSP Manager apk, system libs and confs and made a CWM flashable version of it, works well with Android L. Mind you that CM's DSP Manager has bugs regarding about distorted bass if you crank it up too much so for now, just enjoy a good music using DSP Manager.

Required:

-DSP.zip

-TRWP

-root

how to install:

1. Make sure you have TRWP installed and boot into recovery.

2. go to Install and select DSP.zip

**optional just to prevent problems**

3. power off and boot into bootloader

-run this command:

fastboot format cache

4. Power off your Nexus 5 and power it on again.

Play music on your headphones and see if you can run any effects or EQ.

Thanks:

@CyanogenMod for the CM and DSP Manager

@Chainfire for SuperSU and root
[Nexus 5 General] mmidgley:
I have had my L preview install boot up and appear to have an uptime around 8 seconds before rebooting. I've had this situation a couple times. The first time I shutdown, went into recovery, and formatted cache. Seemed to work to get it going again.

Today, that solution did not work for me. So I tried booting up in Safe Mode (tap and hold the Power Off for that option). It booted into Safe Mode and worked. Then I shutdown and booted into normal mode. Some widgets were restored and some not. I worry that one or more is causing the reboot issue, so I may or may not add them back. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to figuring out which (if any) are not playing well with L.

I like the preview for sure. I've been using it since release (clean install; actually first time doing oem unlock on my N5). Things I'm sad about: tethering, anmoney FC, fb transparency, home button (and swipe up for Now) stopped working once (then I rebooted to get it back and ended up in the bootloop discussed above), Recents and Notifications hard to get used to.

---------- Post added at 09:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:49 PM ----------

The fact that http://developer.android.com/preview/support.html states, "Initial Release of the L Developer Preview" gives me hope that Google may provide newer previews. It wouldn't be to support non devs to have something to play with, but it certainly makes sense to have devs trying to get their apps working with what is more closely resembling what L will be released as.

m.
[Nexus 5 General] ivan08v:
1,2,3,4,5,6....s?

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[Nexus 5 General] nadiros:
Hey thanks for sharing. Does this remove the stock "music fx" ?

---------- Post added at 09:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:20 PM ----------

Sounds like you dirty flashed or restored data from KitKat that's conflicting with L. Try it clean and just install a few apps at a time. L also runs ART by default and not every app is compatible...just take it easy and keep in mind that this is a preview build, for testing, development and troubleshooting. Its not a daily driver or for anyone's expectations outside of this.
[Nexus 5 General] kevincaja:
Nope, but you can manually remove it if you want to as all the libs are now for DSP Manager.
[Nexus 5 General] DoesntPostAThing:
For one thing, I didn't have it restore anything. I always uncheck that button. For another, even when I accidentally did check that when installing previous versions of Android, static IP still works. This is definitely a bug in Android L. Also, so what if I did check that option? It should still let me configure static IP afterwards, even if I have to forget and re-add that network, which I did. Otherwise, it's a bug or something that needs to be improved upon.
[Nexus 5 General] philippsp:
is it just me or is quickpic lagging with Android L?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] monkeypaws:
I have a 7. Did you dirty flash?
[Nexus 5 General] ivan08v:
Fastboot flash, wiped userdata, it appears sometimes, yesterday i had a 7 too
[Nexus 5 General] coolzhunkie:
Does anyone know if we can use widgets on lockscreen? I dont see the option anywhere
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Chat between a Nexus and a non-nexus user:

:D :p
[Nexus 5 General] ptesmoke:
Lol pretty much sums up a lot of my convos
[Nexus 5 General] zeph_syk:
Hi All,

I flashed "L" , everything seems to work except CAMERA the App freezes whenever i take Pic, i cleared the data on both camera and Google+ still no go. Looked around this thread but no solution is present with an exception of reflashing the whole ROM again.

Guys can you please help me out with this one :(

Edit: Alright on further research, please disable "NuPlayer" under developer options and "Reboot" your phone, Camera works again!
[Nexus 5 General] noisecast:
twitter is not working on "L" for me. also, unable to install google sheets/docs.

:silly:
[Nexus 5 General] AA1973:
Use Twitter Beta from Play Store, works fine for me.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...p-now-to-get-new-features-before-anyone-else/
[Nexus 5 General] Wakamatsu:
This one was bugging me.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
How to go back to android 4.4.4...3g isnt working on android L.
[Nexus 5 General] Flav106:
Thank you this is working well. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] oifi:
no idea, but flashing a preview... ftw
[Nexus 5 General] samflorin:
It is working. LTE too.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
Not working for me...

And i have this pin lock screen bug after intalling bbm...screen unlocks abd locks again.
[Nexus 5 General] AA1973:
Go in the Dialer and type the following

*#*#4636#*#*

In the next menu, choose phone information

There you can choose your preferred network.

3G (WCDMA PREFERRED) working well here on my end.

If it is set to LTE/GSM, ...change it.

In the mobile networks menu, it is set to 4G (recommended) by default, I think.

Not recommended for my network here in Frankfurt (GER)...
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
Not working it dails and doesnt come up with any menu....

L is amazing specially the keyboard and notifications...but some bugs are really annoying me thats why i want to go back to stable 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 General] AA1973:
Sorry- TYPO!!! Wrong command. My fault ✌

It is just 4636 ...

Not 46363...
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Anyone figure it out whats miscellaneous drain????
[Nexus 5 General] jamel_tza:
Yea, apparently when you lock the bootloader the problem disappears.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Hmmmm strange.... But why.. What the bootloader have to do with drain...
[Nexus 5 General] parker09:
Can someone take a screenshot of Chrome please, I'd like to use the new address bar style for my own project (just a simple HTML/CSS speed dial)
[Nexus 5 General] nixonik:
After installing the application, find the data to be restore in titaniumbackup folder and extract the folder com.* (is in data/data). Copy it in data/data/ using root explorer.

It worked for me.
[Nexus 5 General] Rox598:
Nexus finally arrived and been playing around with L this morning so far its really nice it needs some tinkering but preview yadda yadda and if Google don't put it there I'm sure Cyan/PA will

What baffles me is why Google still haven't made the mobile data tile toggle instead of be a shortcut :S
[Nexus 5 General] Zaldi00:
This bug only appear on spanish languaje.

Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 mediante Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] adnan.makarevic:
same problem.. but try to exclude the folder where your movies are saved, i do that and now no lagging more..
[Nexus 5 General] medkintos:
ILil bit miss the Note community after my Note dead, and you and utacka came here?

This just made my day!
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
Battery life is pretty good for being a preview. Better than kitkat for me.
[Nexus 5 General] RayLovesick:
Right on! I was kinda thinking along those same lines, actually, but didn't elaborate as such for the sake of simplicity. I guess the real question is, why would the system not be accounting for all power draw? This being an "alpha" build, they're probably working on refining that part. I was kind of worried it might be hardware-related at first, but I think it's best to reserve that sort of judgement until the final release.
[Nexus 5 General] nextelbuddy:
how did you get the battery % in the icon in status bar? I can't seem to find it in the quick toggle settings anymore in L preview.
[Nexus 5 General] Freddy Krüger:
Here is it:
[Nexus 5 General] AwesomeEvo:
Has anyone notice that in the I/O they showed the new updated apps from google like gmail, g+ ,etc, arent in the rom yet? I dont know if its been released or is it still being tested?
[Nexus 5 General] AA1973:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent
[Nexus 5 General] caenix8:
Error in Spanish language... Use Spanish USA
[Nexus 5 General] käsebr0t:
The first "kind of custon rom" based on L: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2799573.

Of course, there cannot be much customization, as the sources aren't available, but it's a first step [emoji106]
[Nexus 5 General] Talminator:
So here's the weird thing. I tried the L preview on my N5, loved it but came to the conclusion it wasn't really suitable as a daily driver (HDR+ on camera was slow, comment boxes broken in many apps, etc) and resolved to reflash 4.4.4 and come back to the L preview when more apps have updated to be compatible (and perhaps if Google pushes out a newer L preview).

After flashing KitKat, it just wasn't the same. Yeah the camera was faster and the apps all work perfectly, but I was really noticing a massive difference in smoothness compared to L, particularly with scrolling. I lasted a day on KitKat, and here I am reflashing L as I type this. I'd never ever thought of KK as not smooth, in fact quite the opposite. But compared to L, it really feels like a HUGE step back, enough so for me to justify keeping L as my daily driver even in its unfinished state.
[Nexus 5 General] nextelbuddy:
thank you!

just to make sure, am I going crazy or is there no way to quickly see your battery life in the Android L preview? when I swipe down the quick toggles, battery is not even an option there and theres no way to access the percentage short of either going into the battery monitor OR a 3rd party app?
[Nexus 5 General] kirdroid:
adb shell content insert --uri content://settings/system --bind name:s:status_bar_show_battery_percent --bind value:i:1
[Nexus 5 General] AA1973:
No. Not to my knowledge. That's why I used the app.

You could use the following, too, via Terminal.

lol. Ninja'd ?
[Nexus 5 General] nextelbuddy:
I remember this from Kit kat and its nice that in the new L preview that they fixed the white text on white battery percentage issue lol.

thanks guys!
[Nexus 5 General] veritas2884:
I went back and miss it already as well. Two questions.

1. Will Google be pushing updates for it as bug fixes and refinements come along.

2. How is battery life for you?
[Nexus 5 General] kamots:
Flash factory image. Follow directions in the return to stock thread. Or I think there are even instructions how to go back to KitKat on Dev page you downloaded L from. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong please.

Whoops. This was in response to the guy wanting to go back to KitKat cause his 3g wasn't working. Haven't figured out how to quote posts lol?

sent from my nexus 5 running L
[Nexus 5 General] DadOudidOuda:
We you using ART in KitKat or Dalvik. I personally haven't seen a huge diffrence between Kikat ART and Android L in terms of responsivity and smoothness.
[Nexus 5 General] harshalkatakia:
I had rooted the device on Android L. It worked fine for a couple of days till I shut down my phone and started it. Moments after booting up, it started rebooting straight into the bootanimation screen, not even the "Google" screen. I flashed the factory image once, but still the same thing happened.

I assumed that since I'm flashing the factory image, root would've gone and rooted apps that would've caused the reboot would've stopped working. But the phone still rebooted the same way.

Any idea why that happened? And I'm not complaining, I know it a preview and not a public release :)
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
That kept happening to me after rooting. The quick fix was to hook it up into the computer and fastboot flash the cache.img. I don't know why that fixes it but it does. In my opinion, root isnt very stable at the moment. So I started fresh and flashed the whole thing again and am holding off on root until a more stable method is done.
[Nexus 5 General] Tyrany:
I must say the same, i miss the PA and theme chooser but the L UI is really really good
[Nexus 5 General] harshalkatakia:
Thanks, but wouldn't flashing the factory image help my case because if I'm flashing the factory image, I'm also flashing cache, right? So reboots even after that.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
You're flashing the flashable zip? I don't know if there is a difference, but I tested out that theory too. When it happened to me once, I figured I'd try to flash the zip that was made just in case it happened when I wasn't at home at my computer. But it didn't fix anything. The only way I ever fixed it was to do what I said in my last post. Like I said, I wiped my phone and started over from scratch and havent rooted. I havent had that problem since. I think its safe to say that its due to root. The preview build doesnt like system modifications. And until the devs figure out a better root method or Google releases something new, I think people are going to continue having these reboot issues.
[Nexus 5 General] harshalkatakia:
I was flashing using flash-all.bat (after editing the file so that it doesn't erase user data). I think I'll use your method any try it for myself to see if it works. Thanks for the help! :)
[Nexus 5 General] sufibravo:
Promising acknowledgement from the Titanium Backup devs (Twitter):

Titanium Backup [MENTION=243871]Titanium[/MENTION]Backup · 46m

Hi all! We're working on Android L support for #TitaniumBackup - it's tricky. BTW: the dev preview is quite unstable: don't rely on it yet!
[Nexus 5 General] Talminator:
Google haven't really said anything regarding their plans for the L preview, so I can't really answer that with any kind of certainty. However I did notice that when going through the setup guide, there's a prompt saying something along the lines of "by accepting this, you agree to allow Google to install updates to your phone in the future". I don't recall that being part of the setup process previously, so it suggests to me that Google intends to push out bug fixes and updates leading up to the actual L release in the fall. :fingers-crossed:

As for battery life, it's incredible. With heavy use, it will easily get me through the day, the night and about half of the following day, which is plenty good enough for me since I charge every night anyway. Definitely an improvement on KitKat, and a huge improvement on the stock N4 I had up until recently (could barely get through half the day on that). Will be interesting to see how the material theme affects battery life when more apps adopt it though. Dynamic shadows and smooth animations aren't the most battery-friendly features... :p

EDIT:

I used ART but found it to be very unstable at times so switched back to Dalvik. On KK, I didn't notice much of a difference between the two.