yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] jasjamming:
I guess it is subjective.

For me, best means finding the right balance of stability and speed.

I tried both cingular and TEST roms and I have stuck with the test ROM. Reason: I dont see any difference in performance gain with the cingular ROM after installing my apps and today plugins. In addition, I havent had any issues as mentioned in regards to the cingular ROM. Thirdly, the TEST rom isnt bloated with operator-ware, so the TEST rom is compact and neat.

No crashes so far on TEST rom, the device is more responsive, I have no complaints, well maybe 1 complaint - no WPA2 yet (same as cingular ROM).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] simple:
I have installed the 2.05 TEST ROM on a JasJam + Radio 1.27. I left the imate Extended ROM (which incidentally will not auto install when hard reset) for the time being and I will edit it later.

Phone froze when rebooting after installing MS VC 1.6 once, but having rebooted again I do not have any issue, I was unable to reproduce the issue.

It has been three days now and I am satisfied with the improved speed and functionality!!

Simple.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] fone_fanatic:
I'm using the cingular 2.06 and its running perfectly fine on my device. No issues, just the usual reg hacks and a couple tweaks to your needs and you'll be good to go. I haven't tried the 2.05 test rom because i'm on cingular and i kinda want the operator-ware that jasjamming mentioned. Although i have editted the ExtRom and gotten rid of 5 cabs which are useless to me (good email, express email, telenav, mobitv, and bbconnect.)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RoadToNever:
After trying out a couple of roms and kernels I eventually get unresponsiveness and random reboots, persisting even after restoring a nandroid with stock rom and kernel The only solution has been to flash a factory image and start over.

Anyone else experience this? Would it be worth doing an ODIN flash? Is my hardware wonky?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RoadToNever:
Tried this sequence:

Run trim on system, data & cache

Wipe cache & dalvik

Run trim on system, data & cache

Performance is back!
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
Have at it boys!

http://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-lrx21p-factory-93daa4d3.tgz

MD5: e68948c23c918436680bd28fc6aaf983)

http://goo.gl/aYbCwf
[Nexus 7 General] Mikey:
IM guessing we can flash only system and boot...since the bootloader is the same. Plus, we don't wanna reflash the factory recovery.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash radio radio.img

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

fastboot flash system system.img

ADB and Fastboot files attached below, if needed.
[Nexus 7 General] tom1807:
Don't think that radio needs to be flashed on the N7 ;)

Cheers

Tom
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
I wouldn't flash the recovery partition, either.

The recovery-from-boot.p is in /system. I renamed it before the first boot using TWRP's file manager. I also flashed supersu. It's booting now...need to get to bed, though. Will report tomorrow.

Edit: Boot is successful. L.

Edit: This is my first go around with L. The checking for updates thing at sign on is interesting.
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
Flashed via fastboot and setting up now. I will report back with initial results and fire away any question you may want specifically answered.

FYI, first boot took about 6 minutes...
[Nexus 7 General] Mikey:
there is no radio in this....its wifi only....... the commands are generic ;)
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
Hmmm...I am not getting supersu to work. Flashing the 2.16 zip in TWRP. The app says the binary is not installed.
[Nexus 7 General] tom1807:
Probably needs a patch like for the N9.

Cheers

Tom
[Nexus 7 General] Mikey:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chainfire-releases-quick-root-fix-android-5-0-lollipop-preview-builds-how-install-1470680

https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/ZzXaU1W7Uzm
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
Yep...thanks.

Hmmm...this is not all that useful without Titanium. Will go back to KK in the AM and wait for a patched kernel.
[Nexus 7 General] tom1807:
Have to try probably, not sure whether this will run on a newer build of Lollipop

Cheers

Tom
[Nexus 7 General] demolition23:
Kernel version?
[Nexus 7 General] ffejy462:
Any major differences than the couple of versions built from source?

Fyi, you will probably need SuperSU beta 2.19 and modified boot image for root. There is a titanium backup that works with l (beta). There may be a command that reflashes stock recovery on reboot (it's in /system /bin).

Tibu:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwj2Hf45t6uMSElfSXR6YXdVdVU/edit?usp=docslist_api

SuperSU:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2868133

Nexus 7 5.0
[Nexus 7 General] tom1807:
Not good, the Boot.img is for Nexus 7 (2013)

Hangs at the Google logo.

Back to original Boot.img

Cheers

Tom
[Nexus 7 General] enel_:
Can I use these steps to clean flash the factory image?

I want to wipe everything and start from a fresh and clean flash.

I haven't flashed a factory image for a long time so I'm out of shape ?
[Nexus 7 General] Dasmikko:
Could someone make a flashable zip for multirom or normal flashing. ?
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Nexus Root Toolkit

has anyone tried flashing this via nexus root toolkit? that software recently goot updated to 1.9.3 and has the abiloity to flash the Lollipop factory preview on those devices that got it.:D
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
That is exactly way I did. Started fresh and running smooth so far!
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
I used the toolkit to flash latest TWRP but that was all.
[Nexus 7 General] PunishedSnake:
I was just going to ask about the boot time lol taking forever
[Nexus 7 General] rhcreed:
overclock

any tools we can use to overclock the cpu on this build (rooted)?

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
This was just posted today. Im going to try it out a bit later.

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-7/orig-development/lollipop-phantom-kernel-r1-t2943679
[Nexus 7 General] andw93:
I'm the only who have the headphones working in mono intstead of stereo? I flashed two times. In the first flash the audio from headphones was in mono,so i reflashed and the headphones audio was finally in stereo,but today its mono? I'm the only one with this bug? How i can fix this?
[Nexus 7 General] evobb10:
I just got OTA Lollipop. I hope it's fast and no lag.
[Nexus 7 General] Skrazz:
Did you save the Update.zip? Could you upload it please?
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Custom Kernel?

is this a custom kernel for our lollipop? sorry for the confusion. and how is this different to the kernel we are using?
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
Yes this is a custom kernel. He lists the optimizations is his OP. I have been running yesterday and any lag I had is completely gone.
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Wow thanks mate! :D mind, one more question. On the download link, there are 2 files. 1 is a bootimg and the next is a (i think?) Flashable zip called a kernel (i know what it is though)..so with that being said i tried extracting that kernel zip to see what's inside the box, and i saw another bootimg there. So how should we do these? Flash kernel in twrp and flash that separate bootimg?
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
"Note- boot.img is only for All-F2FS partition users while zip can be used for all partition types(ext4, data-F2FS, all-F2FS)"

Flash kernel only and you should be good to go. Enjoy!
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Thanks a bunch!:D i am a very cautious device modder. if there are things i am skeptical about, i only try it when i am beside my computer and my nexus root toolkit is configured and ready (my laptop is on deepfreeze so i reinstall NRT everytime i need it, while all the data that it needs i backup on my external haddrive.:D).:D
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
This resolve was from earlier in the thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56692071&postcount=75
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Flashed latest twrp eversince the official images went live and the nrt was at 1.9.3. Flashed no problemo. Now i am on twrp multirom coz i need a non L backup to use freedom which doesn't work on L yet.:D
[Nexus 7 General] ge1026:
N7

Factory image flashed successfully 1st time. Using all flash method.
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
This boot image should make root work, flash in recovery:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/y7nofqvjgwccpjv/root-5.0-boot.zip
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
I was impatient for sure!
[Nexus 7 General] fil286n:
:confused:

Not sure the system image or this boot image make my N7 16GB become N7 8GB :| How can I fix it?
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
"This boot image should make root work, flash in recovery:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/y7...t-5.0-boot.zip"

I am supposed to flash something before or after this? Still cant get root access after installing in latest TWRP.
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
Wipe and flash cache in fastboot. Its a known nexus bug when flashing factory images
[Nexus 7 General] spasypaddy:
i cant seem to flash this, the checksum from the androidpolice link doesnt work...
[Nexus 7 General] Metalschnulli:
What do you mean with Wipe and Flash Cache in Fastboot? There is no cache.img ... or what should i do?

I've wiped the Cache Partition via Android Stock Recovery but nothing happend with my Storage, still 6,02GB Userspace on my N7 2012 32GB Nakasi
[Nexus 7 General] John Hagensieker:
Downloaded it and rooted it, works great! Thanks! Now patiently waiting for the Nexus 7 2013 Lollipop (running the developer preview)
[Nexus 7 General] John XX:
I ended up in the same situation after flashing just system, boot and userdata. I tried to find a way to fix the partition size, but eventually gave up and just ran flash-all.sh which replaced my install of TWRP with the stock recovery and sized all my partitions correctly. AFAICT, the stock recovery does something clever to fix the partition sizing. If it works correctly, you should see something like this during the fastboot flash:

formatting 'userdata' partition...
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 30080499712
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8160
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 32768
Label:
Blocks: 7343872
Block groups: 225
Reserved block group size: 1024
Created filesystem with 11/1836000 inodes and 159268/7343872 blocks
sending 'userdata' (139157 KB)...
writing 'userdata'...

I wish I had a better answer, but this at least seemed to work for me. Also, to clarify, I did not have to do a factory reset or wipe cache after the first boot to fix the partition sizes. All I did was install the 4.23 bootloader and run flash-all.sh.

-John
[Nexus 7 General] D-m-x:
My 16 GB flashed correctly, all i did was to Remove recovery.img from the zip File and Delete the lines "erase recovery" and "flash bootloader" from the Batch File.

Btw. i really really really hate Google for Removing the WPS Option to connect to you WIFI in the Setup Process!!!
[Nexus 7 General] 9Lukas5:
Is it ppssible to edit the kernel for F2FS filesystem?

L

Gesendet von meinem One mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] John XX:
You need to flash that kernel image from fastboot, then flash SuperSU 16 (or higher of course) from a custom recovery. I don't think the SuperSU that TWRP offers to flash is new enough.
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
md5sum mismatch!

i tried to flash this via nexus root toolkit but i get an md5 mismatch so everything is cancelled.:( is this the md5sum? e68948c23c918436680bd28fc6aaf983
[Nexus 7 General] Mandrake2010:
hi, i flash as you but how many minutes with bootanimation? my bootanimation is in bootloop :D

EDIT: now boot :D many minutes
[Nexus 7 General] John XX:
Look at the first post in this thread. :P

Never used Nexus ROM toolkit. Is it complaining about the bootloader not flashing correctly? That's a known issue with this image, IIUC. I had to manually flash to 4.23 before I could flash using the flash-all.sh script included. See here for info on the 4.23 bootloader though: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2573015

---------- Post added at 04:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:52 AM ----------

Was somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes for me.
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
no. not complaining about bootloader. it checks for md5sum and it says mismatch and the operation is cancelled. first it analyzes the factory image, then checks for md5 sum (you musht enter it and it then checks for match/integrity. and it just says mismatch. i have contacted wugfresh about this and he says he will fully integrate lollipop on the next release. hoping for it tomorrow.
[Nexus 7 General] lepszy:
It came with free Gravity movie. Nice Google.
[Nexus 7 General] John Hagensieker:
Spoke too soon. None of my USB DAC's are working with this. I have a Nexus 2013 with Android L developer preview and the same DAC's work on it fine.
[Nexus 7 General] stevethewelshman:
yes done mine with nexus root toolkit 1.9.3 works a treat
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
For titanium backup, grab the L test build from TitaniumBackup's Twitter feed.
[Nexus 7 General] hazzamon:
Just a confirmation, as already mentioned in the thread, that the first boot after flashing can take quite some time - have patience and don't assume the flash has failed! :)
[Nexus 7 General] vpraveenis:
What an ordeal I had today trying to flash this image.

First WIndows refused to detect my tablet with usb debugging enabled. Played around with 5 different version of nexus adb drivers (including the one in Nexus 7 toolkit) and after an hours struggle, it detected successfully in windows. Now go and flash the image...Yes!!!

After rebooting the device to bootloader, Windows again popped up "Unrecognized Device".. What!!! not again. I booted into TWRP recovery and adb was now detecting successfully. Boot back into bootloader and it becomes "Unknown device". What Fu**** behavior is this?

Googled all around and browsed different threads and downloaded different versions and after 3 hours, there's no improvement. Fastboot will not detect the device and adb will work only when in recovery or with the device booted into the rom.

I almost gave up, thinking about waiting for a flashable zip to flash from recovery when I changed the USB cable connected to computer and Bingo!!! Fastboot now detects the device. I was litreally feeling like banging my head. How can a cable not work only for fastboot but works for abd in recovery and booted device? Well I moved on since it was working

Now booted into bootloader, fastboot detects the device, run flash-all.bat without reading about boot image issue and BANG...Script fails with some error. recovery and bootloader is now wiped!!! Device can only go to fastboot mode and nothing else. Can it get any better??

Hunt is on again for a stock bootloader image and a recovery image. After hunting for half and hour it looks like there are signature problems with the latest bootloader and I had to flash an earlier version to avoid signature mismatch. Googling further led me to an XDA post with the proper bootloader image.

Flashed the boot loader with fastboot and it went through. Sigh of relief!!!

Hunted for a TWRP recovery image and fastboot flash.. success. Now there is some hope in this world for me.!!!!!

Then properly edited the flash-all.sh to not wipe bootloader and recovery and then finally went ahead and flashed it. This time it went through fine and flash is a Success!!! Some redpemtion to the frustration all day along.

Now the device is booting forever (which is the reason I was able to type this ordeal here... ) and I am hoping all this is worth... What a day!!!
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Lucky dude you are. on mine, nrt fails. See screenshots.
[Nexus 7 General] mdxdave:
Missing camera and gallery app :(
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
Well bro, God must've known that something bad is in the leaked factory image..maybe that's why i had no luck flashing it with nexus root toolkit. On my end i got this:
[Nexus 7 General] stevethewelshman:
same md5

e68948c23c918436680bd28fc6aaf983 just pasted in and went through ok with below link

http://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-lrx21p-factory-93daa4d3.tgz
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
Dont think we ever had a camera app as we only have a front facer, I always installed the app below. Not sure if its going to be compatible with 5.0 though. As for gallery app, Google are probably trying to push people towards the Google Photos app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helffo.cameralauncher
[Nexus 7 General] vpraveenis:
Well Try another download source or download it again.

My device is now fully wiped, booted and restored apps from playstore. Overall, compared to KitKat with ART, i think this is a bit smoother in transitions. Certainly not silky smooth but close to it and there is definitely improvement. And Lollipop has all the nice goodies which is good to use. Overall I give it thumbs up. Will give it a day or two to see how battery holds up.
[Nexus 7 General] Mandrake2010:
I have download BETA.supersu 2.19.zip, so power off and (Volume - power) in fastboot and select Recovery........but android robot with alert.

i can't access in the TWRP recovery....

I have flash factory with fastboot (erase recovery and recovery from zip) for not lost twrp but i cant load it.

p.s:twrp was 2.8.1.0 mod for multirom.

edit: i have flashed recovery with fastboot and flashed betaSuperSu, but su bunary not installed.

cant root device??
[Nexus 7 General] salutcemoi:
My N7 is rooted, stock rom, recovery, etc

Do I need a custom recovery to flash the factory image?

And will it erase my data?
[Nexus 7 General] ichigo_kurosaki:
I got mine from the first link posted on the first page of this thread. File size 371MB. Tried to extract it but it fails. Is that normal?
[Nexus 7 General] lepszy:
No

and Yes.
[Nexus 7 General] salutcemoi:
Thank you
[Nexus 7 General] brizey:
You need to flash the kernel posted earlier in the thread for root to work.

Edit: Also, SuperSU 2.16 is working fine for me.
[Nexus 7 General] Mandrake2010:
thanks. all ok.

only a problem: es file explorer root permission ok but if i want delete a folder app system (hindi keyboard) i can't, no mount in rw.

busybox installed ok (1MB free in system :D ) supersu and trickstermod ok.
[Nexus 7 General] Michael in ATL:
Using NRT 1.93

You were able to flash the image with NRT? Can you provide steps please?
[Nexus 7 General] jolle-pe:
How can i be sure if it's the official build?
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
Because it is from google's server
[Nexus 7 General] t-readyroc:
Whelp, I didn't read the ibtimes article, & just flashed that boot.img to my 2012 WiFi N7 (grouper). Now I'm stuck at the (unlocked) Google logo. Is there a root-corrected boot.img for our device anywhere? I'm going to try to flash the stock boot.img for now...
[Nexus 7 General] gsmyth:
Think the one [MENTION=5293805]GtrCraft[/MENTION] posted should be what you're looking for.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56682458&postcount=21
[Nexus 7 General] mrchezco1995:
6GB free on Nexus 7 16GB??? O_o

After installing the factory image, my available storage was reduced from 13GB+ to a whooping 6GB? I own a 16GB Nexus 7... That's strange......

When I was on Ldroid, this didn't happened.....

Any ideas?
[Nexus 7 General] soyusado:
Is there anybody that has successfully flashed lastest TWRP via fastboot?

Tried but always the Android warning triangle when booting to recovery.

The build is working quite nice and Google's nice gesture to give free Gravity.

If some is experiencing less tablet's memory capacity just type fastboot erase userdata
[Nexus 7 General] Chainfire:
CF-Auto-Root has already been updated... it's the only supported way to root.
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
Reflash the Factory image and Factory reset beforehand
[Nexus 7 General] gk1984:
This happened to me too. Please quote reply me so I'm notified when a fix has been resolved. I have the 32 GB model, but down to 6 GB total storage. Windows even sees it with this little storage.
[Nexus 7 General] Gitah.:
I'm seeing way too many bugs to believe it's the final build, I'll probably wait for the image to release officially.
[Nexus 7 General] tu3218:
Flashing my nexus 7 to stock with toolkit. So I can go ahead and flash the 5.0 files that are found within toolkit? Are those the same as the leak we got from Android Police?
[Nexus 7 General] mrchezco1995:
That was quick.... haha! Thank you! :D
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
Which bugs, it runs perfectly for me
[Nexus 7 General] Mockingbird:
I sugges flashing stock 4.4.4. on yo tablet then use fastboot to dirty flash the boot.img and system.img of the leaked version. It works perfectly for me. Also I have 16gb model and I don't have the issue where it sees only 8gig.
[Nexus 7 General] Gitah.:
Well, read the previous posts. The bootloader thing is pretty weird too.
[Nexus 7 General] t-readyroc:
**edit - got it working. Good ol' NRT.
[Nexus 7 General] GtrCraft:
Those are on every factory image. Its a known things for nexus devices. And the bootloader is the same one, don't need to flash it
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
I was able to flash TWRP via fastboot successfully. Did nothing outside of the normal to get it up and runnning.
[Nexus 7 General] soyusado:
Do this:

fastboot erase userdata

fastboot reboot

I'm assuming you need how to use fastboot and the boot takes the same time as the first boot.

Cheers.
[Nexus 7 General] Cyda:
Superb. Thank you, Chainfire. You're a star!
[Nexus 7 General] soyusado:
There's no need to have a special TWRP, right?

I mean, I get from the developer website and then I flash it via fastboot, get the successful message, then reboot but when I reboot to recovery I get the triangle warning.
[Nexus 7 General] gk1984:
My mistake was probably flashing userdata in the first place. Got it resolved I think.
[Nexus 7 General] cosmickamal:
Its been 30 min. Still on animation. passed google logo.

i just flashed system.img and boot.img.

what should i do?
[Nexus 7 General] hazzamon:
Perform a full flash instead. I and several others got boot loops when dirty flashing the L Preview over 4.4.4 on our Nexus 7 2013s, I imagine full Lollipop, on 2012 N7s, has the same behaviour.

There are so many changes between KitKat and Lollipop that it seems to me to be best practise to perform a full flash, just to ensure it installs and runs ok. :cool:
[Nexus 7 General] steviemch:
When you fastboot flash twrp you have to immediately boot into recovery after the flash is completed, rather than reboot system then reboot into recovery.

Sent by Borg neural subspace transceiver node.
[Nexus 7 General] cosmickamal:
i having same issue . showing 6 gigs instead of 32. should i just perform erase userdata and reboot?

Sent from my Moto G 2014
[Nexus 7 General] bambam1978:
Anyone know what to type in fastboot to flash cf auto root by chainfire?
[Nexus 7 General] soyusado:
Yes, just do that, but if you prefer you can do it via TWRP in advance wipe select data and wipe.

That should work too.
[Nexus 7 General] qualitymove13:
I flashed the last one from here:

http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/grouper

Did you do this?

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot reboot
[Nexus 7 General] soyusado:
Thanks mate, my mistake was that I booted into Android instead of booting to the recovery directly.

Cheers.
[Nexus 7 General] chall32:
Anyone notice that casting from pull down doesn't appear to work?

Both youtube and Plex work OK from Lollipop rom. so not a CCast issue. Son's N7 2013 (still running KitKat -ROFL!!!!) casts OK from tiles / pull down.....
[Nexus 7 General] greatgoogly:
laggy as hell

flashed the image, finding it laggy as hell (tap something on the screen and often it's between 10 and 20 seconds before an app opens). Was pretty bad with KitKat but with Lagfix was able to keep it usable, unfortunately Lagfix is not yet compatible with Lollipop.
[Nexus 7 General] lepszy:
Same here, can't find device.
[Nexus 7 General] guruzen:
It is because of ART (dex to oat) conversation takes a lot of time.