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[Nexus 5 General] n1njaG:
I downloaded Developers Preview of L and followed this guide http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701 and my phone just booted in KitKat. What am I doing wrong?
[Nexus 5 General] RayLovesick:
I'm getting a lot of "Miscellaneous" usage here as well. Not sure what it is (also just replaced with a new battery after flashing the preview image), and haven't seen too many people talking about it either.
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
Dont use a developers perview
[Nexus 5 General] hungmung:
I'm really not understanding all the people that don't get that this is the developer PREVIEW. It literally says when you first boot it this is an unfinished test product that means not all features are there and it is not going to work with everything. This is only actually meant for developers to test their apps in to get things running right before the real release in the fall.

Sent from my Keurig...
[Nexus 5 General] Doktaphex:
Nope, all storage is shown correctly
[Nexus 5 General] micmor_:
I flashed L yesterday, and i came back to cm11 coz the PC didnt recognize my nexus 5, bit now on cm11 and even on stock 4.4.4 i cant transfer data from my PC to the nexus. What to do now?
[Nexus 5 General] Strelok1987i:
Is anyone having issues with mobile data? Mine was working fine yesterday but has been refusing to work since about 7:30 this morning. AT&T GoPhone. Icon in the quick settings shows LTE but it's red and won't turn white.
[Nexus 5 General] jaisonguru:
Did the fastboot for boot.img but now the nexus5 is not booting up..Any help?

I downloaded the boot.img and then used fastboot; but now the phone wont reboot. Any solutions..? I had given fastboot reboot ...

Its blank...

Any help?
[Nexus 5 General] Reyden:
Had some trouble with mobile data, too. Switch on flight mode and back off made it work again for me. It also eats a lot of battery.. But for a developer preview its pretty good :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] Doktaphex:
Unfortunately you will probably need to format your whole data partition. I had some weird issues with data and decided that it was about time to start from a totally fresh formatted phone again.

I do of course have a full backup of all the data that I had so it wasn't really an issue.

Hopefully you have a backup, then just format the thing!
[Nexus 5 General] AvivEliyahu:
i do :\
[Nexus 5 General] micmor_:
I backed up my photos and music before to flash l, so now in cwm mounts and storage- wipe data partition?
[Nexus 5 General] RobLudo:
So irritating
[Nexus 5 General] bluffking:
Did anyone try transfer of large amount of data using USB on android L

I am facing a very slow speed of transfer :(
[Nexus 5 General] bazzi12:
Your "favourite" app doesn't work because THIS IS A DEVELOPER PREVIEW BUILD. So stop asking how to fix it unless you plan on using the release for "developing".
[Nexus 5 General] Ep3n3wp:
Sounds like "L" is pretty good minus apps that aren't "L" Ready.... Just wondering how long does it take devs to make their apps ready?
[Nexus 5 General] :
What's new in Security tab? KNOX feature inside?

UI from Mobile network settings and Dev tools tabs are updated or still with a ICS/Jelly Bean style?
[Nexus 5 General] ridobe:
Holy crap this thread is a loller. Some of these questions...

-I started by copying everything from my "sdcard" to my computer.

-Fastboot flashed everything in the folder(s) one at a time. Rebooted bootloader inbetween.

-Flashed the modified boot.img and flashed the current TWRP.img instead of the stock ones.

-adb pushed SuperSU (not the modified one).

-booted into recovery even before I booted the system and flashed SSU.

-signed in and copied everything over to the SD while all apps loaded.

I don't have any issues (hardly) at all. No fc's on anything including camera, camcorder, etc. Plume, Reddit sync, Solid Explorer all work fine. The only two casualties I've found are Dropbox and TiBu. I just use Solid Explorer to access Dropbox.

I see a lot of people complaining and going back to 4.4.4. That's a great version, but this one is fantastic. Absolutely a daily driver.
[Nexus 5 General] freezer2000:
Are you able to view your /sdcard/ contents... Not able to view them at all...while they are there as confirmed through the File Manager in Recovery...
[Nexus 5 General] xgrind:
Same here
[Nexus 5 General] philipped346:
i have installed L5 with multirom and all work for me for now except twiter,dropbox,multirom manager and i can see the containt of my sdcard .
[Nexus 5 General] WhiteWidows:
I tried to enable bluetooth tethering but it broke my data connection which required a reboot. On Sprint. tethering work for anyone out there or does the source code need to be released to get free tethering?
[Nexus 5 General] samersh72:
From where did you get L images??

Wipe data and cache, or reflash userdata and cache images

No problem here.

After experiencing fresh android L and getting less problems after booting. here I will show you how. And do it with the same sequence:

Boot into fastboot

fastboot erase recovery, erase boot, erase system, erase userdata, erase cache

Then

Fastboot flash bootloader (no need if you had the same version)

Fastboot flash radio,

Fastboot flash recovery

Fastboot flash boot

Fastboot flash system

Fastboot flash userdata

Fastboot flash cache

After each flash don't forget: fastboot reboot-bootloader

Unplug, boot into recovery manually and wipe data and cache, reboot and wait...
[Nexus 5 General] Benthemad:
There are even iphone 5/5s users aking for android L!I can't belive it!
[Nexus 5 General] Hannibal226:
Are u able to go into recovery mode (TWRP or CWM?)

If not flash the TWRP recovery and after this, use the more easier way then fastboot etc.:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=53717855

CHEERS
[Nexus 5 General] nirlav:
Go to settings - storage - press the three points and then use computer - enable MTP:laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] burninitup:
How can i reduce the size of navbar?
[Nexus 5 General] thecryof:
Root your device, then edit /system/build.prop to:

ro.sf.lcd_density=320
[Nexus 5 General] philipped346:
for a beta, it's still not bad.:fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] DualSportDad:
Yes. You must not have flashed the image properly. If you read through this thread you will find that is case.
[Nexus 5 General] rohitgarewal:
Some other changes I've noticed.

1. The battery drain in the settings is now represented as a literal, not a relative. For example, if your battery is down to 95%, and its because of screen time, the settings will now show display - 5%, whereas before it would a always show display 100%.

2. The battery percentage isn't in the settings dropdown anymore.

3. Definitely runs a little warmer on my nexus 5.

4. The space bar on the new keyboard is much wider, making it easier to type for people with big hands like myself.

5. You can't stay on battery saver mode for location. Always takes you back to high accuracy.
[Nexus 5 General] burninitup:
Yup i did around 20 GB. Speed was fine actually better than kk.
[Nexus 5 General] gasparzim:
Not here.
[Nexus 5 General] freezer2000:
Ok so here is what happened... After flashing the image and completing the setting up process with all apps downloaded from Play Store everything was fine till this stage and I was able to see my files in /sdcard using Root Explorer, I went to recovery (TWRP 2.7.1.1) and flashed the modified SuperSU for root. After booting back the phone, I tried taking a screenshot and it did not save any. When I checked Root Explorer, it could did not show any file.. Booted back to recovery the Files were there under the same location of /sdcard/

So its the root which seems to be causing the challenge or corrupting something...

To add further I had a Nandroid of the system before I rooted, even restoring that did not resolve the issue and have also tried Deleting cache using Stock Recovery...still no resort
[Nexus 5 General] RayLovesick:
So what do you think "Miscellaneous" is, then?
[Nexus 5 General] ptr_hamilton:
Fastboot flash cache cache.IMG

Where cache.img is THW one from the developers package oft Android l
[Nexus 5 General] DualSportDad:
Have you tried formatting data? This is just a suggestion, not sure if it'll actually do anything. I'm just running the stock image for now. Only thing I can see doesn't work for me is MMS.
[Nexus 5 General] SilentGaia:
I seem to have more battery drain than normal. Anyone know what Miscellaneous in the battery descriptor is? Also, how I know it's draining faster is because I went from 100% to 84% (13% due to miscellaneous) in one night with Wi-Fi and data turned off and I can usually make my phone last one and a half days with data on unless I'm using Wi-Fi sporadically.
[Nexus 5 General] burninitup:
But changing the lcd density will effect visual experience ?
[Nexus 5 General] andrewpmoore:
I've had a few reports of that, but many people reporting its working quite well (it's working reasonably for me too)

If anyone had this issue I'd love to get a locat from the boot process up to where it reboots.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
I was actually surprised. I charged it and unplugged right before bed. It went from 100%-99% in 7.5 hours. Wifi off, location on device only.
[Nexus 5 General] SomeGuyDude:
Can report MMS also not working on T-Mobile.
[Nexus 5 General] jordanyork:
:laugh::good: Thanks so much!! Do you have a boot.img for the Nexus 7 as well?? :) About to roll this out to my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] gravityy:
well yes, but in the next boot after i restored my nandroid backup via twrp, it's like booting forever..... :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] KerryWood34:
Don't know if this has been answered or not, but you can press the ringer icon and it will change to vibrate. If you long press it, it will change to silent. All you have to do is hit the volume keys once to bring up the slider.
[Nexus 5 General] Koragg618:
You sir are a god. I was mad that the silent icon was gone but now I'm not :P
[Nexus 5 General] SilentGaia:
That's weird. I'll see how long it takes to go down to 15%, and then see what the Stats say.
[Nexus 5 General] idriff:
Anyone tried flashing one of the existing kernels?? Are they working?
[Nexus 5 General] thecryof:
FYI for root

I flashed SuperSU-v2.00-AndroidL.zip via CWM recovery and now have root.

See this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53710864
[Nexus 5 General] KanapLi:
i can not use titanium backup!!!!!!

he said i am not root!!
[Nexus 5 General] thecryof:
Indeed, there is something wrong someplace... no one quite knows yet.
[Nexus 5 General] Koragg618:
This ^ is the problem I believe...
[Nexus 5 General] idriff:
Yeah its some security changes they are doing, u can't use titanium or install busybox
[Nexus 5 General] zequav:
I managed to install Docs and Sheets. The problem was caused by the re-declaration of com.google.android.apps.docs.permission.SYNC_STATUS, so I removed Drive from an adb shell in recovery and installed Docs and Sheets from the play store without problems. Now I can edit documents and sheets.

The problem is... I can't install Drive now because it obviously gives error -112 :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] Akr706:
So anyone found any workaround to bring the battery graph back ?
[Nexus 5 General] billybrison:
What sort of problems are people running into with Android L. I've just done a fresh install then restored my days through adb. For some reason the system is having a hard time reading my personal data for example my music.. And the battery takes forever to charge
[Nexus 5 General] bydal:
Sorry my english. What is this "flan" and the "key lime pie" in the eastern egg of android Android L???? I understand the key lime pie, but not the flan.
[Nexus 5 General] rednit:
can you shear with us how did you do that

i would relay like to restore my backed up apps
[Nexus 5 General] gpvecchi:
Why my damned SD continues disappearing?
[Nexus 5 General] Akr706:
I am getting heads-up notification for incoming call even on homescreen. Atleast on homescreen, it should show the incoming call on full screen.
[Nexus 5 General] Johmama:
Just had my first issue. Was scrolling through some forums on Chrome, while playing a Pandora song cached yesterday (Pandora gets funky with cached songs sometimes) and it hard froze. Chrome froze, then I tried pressing home or back or anything and wasn't getting anything back, but the song was still playing. I let it sit to see if it actually crashed or was just trying to catch up. After about a minute, the song stopped. Still no response from UI. Eventually hard powered it down by holding power button for 10 seconds.

Still, pretty smooth experience for a beta. Will continue to use as my daily driver. Might try to reproduce error to see if it was a fluke or not.
[Nexus 5 General] :
There are 2 possible ways here

One is to use the kernel kitchen and hack the kernel or the second possible way is to enter a daemon su in data partition to hack the kernel as like geohot did with the towelroot. SuperSU need to be updated and Koush should be updating the superuser or get back working on it.

in koush's su binary there are uid formats present there like systemui has value 1001

Datauid doesn't have something and radio uid has 1002 I tried entering datauid at 1003 and some process were better then before but still no system write permissions

A possible way is to either hack the kernel to set selinux to be permissive so that we can easily install busybox and use mount to set system write permissions.

I recommend ppls to use 4.4.4 rom until some great news or until sources are out so we can make some patched kernels with SuperSU

My possible predictions are custom rom developers will possibly will revert those selinux commits in system_core, kernels, and libselinux. Expect a difficult time ahead and expect a generation of new developers.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
So after a night of using this I have come to really like this build. I am not having the problems that a lot of people are having.

1. My storage is fine and I can access all my files.

2. My computer recognizes my phone just fine.

3. I havent once seen the battery graph disappear.

4. Phone calls work as they should.

5. I havent tried to send or receive MMS but SMS works fine.

6. The LED works.

7. Wifi tethering seems to work on my work computer (Mac)

8. Nothing lags at all

I don't know why people are having so many issues. But if you didn't do a proper wipe and install, that's probably your problem and you should do that before posting your issues. I don't think I have seen any bugs in this so far. Just features than may still need to be added or apps that need to get fixed by the app creator.
[Nexus 5 General] ridobe:
Use "busybox on rails". It has the option to install via recovery.
[Nexus 5 General] miketigerwoods:
Just tried downloading an MMS (I get the MMS notification to download, but can never successfully download it) and watched the logs as I tried all the APNs listed in Hangouts after resetting the system and Hangouts APNs to defaults. I'm on AT&T.

Here's the log of an attempt to retrieve an MMS: http://pastebin.com/qwebmjbu
[Nexus 5 General] idriff:
Just charge to full and check
[Nexus 5 General] neriamarillo:
Can you try using Hello SMS. I tried last night and I got my own MMS messages. Haven't tried with anyone else but that's the only app that I got MMS from.
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
Has anyone tried tb with the flashable busybox?
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
What i hate about the keyboard is that the space button is too small, atleast on my lg g2 . But i can tipp very fast , faster than the lg keyboard. Also is there a white theme for this keyboard
[Nexus 5 General] miketigerwoods:
You know I tried Hello SMS and Textra last night but never got it working. After doing the steps above then trying Hello SMS I can receive my own and others' MMS.

For what it's worth, the last thing I did in Hangouts before installing Hello SMS just now was select the very last "Phone" APN. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
Setting selinux to permissive doesnt work. L introduced barriers to writing /system. We need a custom kernel that allowd it
[Nexus 5 General] idriff:
White theme is KK appearance u can set themes in keyboard settings
[Nexus 5 General] FishFan319:
On Mac, I can get Wifi and Bluetooth to activate, but I receive a "SelfAssignned IP" (169....) when connecting.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Battery sucks a bit or its me???
[Nexus 5 General] _Infamous_:
How are people flashing ROM with multirom
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
I think the spacebar is the same size its always been. The spacebar image is just smaller. The pressable area is the same. And you can change to the old look in the keyboard settings under advanced and color scheme. There is not a white keyboard though.
[Nexus 5 General] jparnell:
Yep, mine isn't great but just got to accept it at the moment.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Ok...i never had the best battery only 2.30H - 3.00H SOT but im having drain even with the screen off....and what are those Miscellaneous drain in battery history???
[Nexus 5 General] saman0suke1:
If I install the developer's preview, Will I get any future update as usual? Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] DarknessWarrior:
anyone?
[Nexus 5 General] :
That what I said and had a word on Franco about it and confirmed that chainfire and some kernel devs have to work in collaboration with each other I have had experience in compiling Roms and kernels in the past and even with the su binary. I will try it out when the original android L is surfaced.
[Nexus 5 General] jblazea50:
You can use Chomp SMS. Under SMS & MMS setting>MMS Settings> check T-Mobile Wifi Calling Fix

This will turn off wifi and receive/send MMS and once that's done, wifi will be back on.
[Nexus 5 General] tingen:
I think you will have to flash the new image. But if Google is doing it the exact same way as Apple, you will get an OTA. Who knows?

Sent from my (L)exus 5
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Noone knows!!we hope so!!
[Nexus 5 General] saman0suke1:
I mean, I hope that I can get the OTA as usual, I know I can download the image, but this is my first nexus and I like how I receive the newest updates right away instead of looking for them manually as I was used to with my old phones, thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Images are released much faster than OTA some users get their 4.4.4 OTA last night!!
[Nexus 5 General] respider:
installed today and seemed very stable for daily use

but since titanium backup is not working yet, I restored my nandroid

as soon it gets working I'll reflash L :good:

nice job google
[Nexus 5 General] adiliyo:
holy crap, that worked! i didn't reflash the script, but just the radio and now mms works as long as wifi is off, and (what seems to be) consistently. :D:D
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
If you are on the latest 4.4.4 then you will get an OTA when the next release is available. This is a developer preview. Separate from the official releases. We have never gotten one of these before from Google so we don't know how they are going to update this preview, if at all, before the final release.
[Nexus 5 General] tingen:
This is a developer preview. I don't think you will get the same options as public. Sorry.

Sent from my (L)exus 5
[Nexus 5 General] aSquard:
MMS works for me (AT&T) - No SD card issues regarding camera - Root seems to be working also (used a modified boot.img somewhere on here and flashed chainfire's SuperSU 2.00)

XDA Rocks - this dev preview is pretty fantastic
[Nexus 5 General] pwrmedia:
Good news/bad news on the TiBu front, and if it's already been addressed, my apologies in advance:

Good: You CAN restore apps if you've created an update.zip of your apps.

Bad: No data restored AND if your app isn't compatible w/ L, it will FC.

Hopefully this helps those of you who don't want to manually go through the Play Store and get what you had before. Just flash the update.zip in recovery and off you go.
[Nexus 5 General] adiliyo:
so it's having trouble connecting to the proxy, i wonder why. try to manually flash the radio and see if that helps, it seemed to work for me as long as wifi is off
[Nexus 5 General] Orbiting234:
I get the time to charged countdown when on my Qi charger so idk what to tell ya.
[Nexus 5 General] msanabria:
Geez people need to understand that this is a preview release and not a stable release. Stop crying if your apps aren't working properly. Especially stupid apps like Twitter, uTorrent, etc. If you flashed to Android L under the assumption that it's a great daily OS then please go back to Kit Kat and stop posting dumb comments on this thread. It's like every hour this thread gets 10 new pages of garbage.
[Nexus 5 General] Akr706:
If you are flashing the developer preview, then you shouldn't be the one who is worried about the future OTA updates.

---------- Post added at 09:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:39 PM ----------

Same here. During my 5 hours of sleep, it consumed 16% with wifi on and there were no wakelocks. I am also interested in knowing what does "Miscellaneous" include.
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
I saw when i read the rest
[Nexus 5 General] mustafaayubkhan:
Is it just me or the developer preview doesnt look anything like this .. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/a-closer-look-at-the-user-interface-changes-in-android-l/
[Nexus 5 General] saman0suke1:
Thanks! I'll take that in mind if I decide to install it.
[Nexus 5 General] bluffking:
Did any dev try to customize things like navbar or any other stuffs?
[Nexus 5 General] papayayoghurt:
Short questions:

Is Whatsapp working?

Installing this will cause a bootloader update. Can I still return to KK?

Is Battery Life really much worse than KK?

Greets
[Nexus 5 General] derPianist:
1. Yes.

2. Yes after flashing KK Image first.

3. No.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
I think the apps need to be updated in the Play Store first. I'm sure Google will start pushing them out soon.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That screenshots are from the the Design website
[Nexus 5 General] carlphilipp:
What's app is working for me

Did not try to return to KK, but I do not see why it wouldn't be possible.

Battery life looks not good at all. It's probably 'normal'.
[Nexus 5 General] 1ManWolfePack:
Holy smokes.

I did a backup in TWRP and now my phone will just reboot nonstop after booting into the OS. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? I wiped cache in recovery and it 'optimized apps' upon booting into the OS (and seemed to stay for a minute) but now it's just rebooting the second it gets to the lock screen. It worked just fine yesterday and all night, this only happened when making a backup. Is anyone else having this issue?

Not sure what to do. Might flash stock system.img.
[Nexus 5 General] *system error*:
Yes fastboot back like you normally would

says it right under the preview download http://developer.android.com/preview/setup-sdk.html
[Nexus 5 General] aSquard:
This happened to me after flashing the regular SuperSU 2.00 - I cleared cache in Recovery and she booted to Android and reboot twice, but now things are stable. Not sure what happened either :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] bigkevbosky:
Yeah, don't do a backup in TWRP. It screws everything up. After learning the hard way and reflashing the whole system from scratch again, I had new problems. I ran into the "can't send or receive MMS" issue. And then oddly this morning, podcasts that were working fine yesterday in Pocketcasts would no longer play saying the file type isn't supported.

I've given up on "L" for now. Can't deal with the bugs. Back to PA until they figure it out. I understand it's a dev build, but MMS not working is just insane. How could nobody at Google have caught that?
[Nexus 5 General] 1ManWolfePack:
I already did that and it seems to have accelerated it after calming it down for a minute. Now I cannot even get past the lock screen without it looping.

Do you guys think this is recovery based? Seems obvious, but I'm not sure. Everything worked perfectly until I made a backup. I'm going to flash stock recovery now.
[Nexus 5 General] Akr706:
Some screenshots are of apps which will updated via play store. And for other screenshots, I think they will update us in the future releases of developer preview, like app settings, contacts.