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[Nexus 6  General] Shano56:
I always see that message when updating. Since I doubt there are new radios and bootloaders every day, I assume that it just flashes the bootloader and radio that's included with the ROM.zip, regardless if it's any different than the current ones installed!
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Yeah I'm hoping that's not the case as I really don't like the idea of reflashing the boot loader every time I flash an update! Can anyone verify whether it checks and flashes if required, or just flashes every time?
[Nexus 6  General] Circaflex:
they have been doing it for a while now, dating back to kit kat. Their theory was it kept everything consistent across users, so less bugs would be reported. I believe it checks and only flashes if it doesn't detect a certain bootloader
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Yeah it makes perfect sense as one of the biggest pains in the arse with running custom roms is having to flash back to stock on some devices to flash radio, bootloader, etc.

I hope it is a check and flash if required rather than a flash every time!
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
Is there a place were we can see how far they are with creating cm12.1 with android 5.1?
[Nexus 6  General] EasyDeath:
try to look here: http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/forum/1150-google-nexus-6-development/

i didn't found nothing, but maybe you can find something interesting
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
They are working on stuff from what I see here https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cm/tree/staging/cm-12.1
[Nexus 6  General] avetny:
damn..... so many people are down.....cuz that fcking bootloader 5.1.
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
It's crazy. Theres so many bricked devices. At first it seemed like the issue was just people flashing CM12 after upgrading to 5.1 bootloader. Now people are bricking just running the OTA from google on a stock phone.

As for me, I got my phone 5 days ago and flashed it to Cm straight away, now I'm terrified to change anything. lol
[Nexus 6  General] hutzdani:
I just flashed 5.1 and correct bootloaders / radio and made a full nandroid, to flash back a full nandroid of cm12 I make a factory reset and restore back to CM12.

I don't understand how people can't just do this for gods sakes ? We know using the wrong boitloaders and radios can cause issues and we know you can get a bad install and we know not wiping certain things can cause a bad install, so just negate these make full nandroids and full wipe between restores between 5.0.X and 5.1 !

TBH 5.1 is not worth flashing, it has a new memory leak and so far the battery life is worse on 5.1 at least it has been for me In the last few days, a standard days usage while at work used to land me 50% by around 7PM off the charger at 7.30AM, with 5.1 I'm below 50% by midday via a OTA flash via the .bat file I. The factory image.

Stay on 5.0.1 until google fix lollipop its still buggy and 4.4.4 is still better right now !
[Nexus 6  General] coldconfession13:
Wait till you flash a new nightly and you'll be bricked. As you got away with it doing a nandroid updating to a new nightly will brick it as it will flash the bootloader and cm. That is what is bricking phones the cm way.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
So when CM releases 5.1 how do I flash from 3/13? (Which sucks with battery life BTW)
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
When CM release a 5.1 update, it will include the correct bootloader and radio, so no problem.

The issue now seems to be people flashing CM12 which contains the 5.01 bootloader over 5.1 update.

But theres also reports of people bricking with the OTA.
[Nexus 6  General] krazyflipj:
Wouldn't hurt to start clean
[Nexus 6  General] mak213:
well i suppose the smart thing would be to stay on 3/11 nightly till theres a further nightly after 3/13
[Nexus 6  General] psychomaniac189:
can somebody tell me what is wrong with 3/13? I'm running 3/13 just fine.
[Nexus 6  General] kergefarkas:
apart from ****ty battery life, nothing so far
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Yeah battery life on 3/13 is pathetic. I lost 20% in an hour yesterday.
[Nexus 6  General] BobbyHill:
Anybody know if there's a mirror where I can get 3/11? I restored my backup but it is on the 3/8 build and I'd like to put the 3/11 on there rather than 3/13.
[Nexus 6  General] Enigmafied:
I have 3/11, working great, and am uploading to my Google Drive, but don't have much for upload speed and I'm wicked busy today. Hopefully find some time between now and end of day to get you a link.
[Nexus 6  General] THIRSTY GNOMES:
I am currently on 12-2015 03 12. Sounds like 13th build has battery issues. Any benefits worth the battery life risk?
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
I haven't noticed anything change other than the sad battery life from 11 to 13.
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
Just to make 100% sure we can't flash this atm on a phone running 5.1 correct? kinda wish I hadn't flashed 5.1 if so. only reason I did was to see if it fixed the sound issues.
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
Are the sound issues a android thing or your phone specific because I haven't had sound issues on 5.0.1, 5.0.2 or 5.1 so what sound issues are you speaking of?
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
it's mainly with one notification sound and the ringtones. afaik it's an android thing as others have managed to replicate it by following this. it does happen by itself but to actually hear it straight away this should work.

make sure your SMS app is out of memory and open it and go to change the ringtone now press and listen to the "hangouts message" sound and notice how it doesn't play properly then press it again and it'll play right.

with the dialer change the ringtone to anything and notice how quiet it is and then it suddenly changes to a different volume. surely ev this was a feature it would slowly raise up and not just flick louder? you can barely hear the first few rings.

also if you have touch sounds on the speaker stays on for a little bit after it plays a sound and you can hear the speaker switch off after a few seconds the sound ended.
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
I'm on the latest 5.1.0 (LMY47E) stock with elementalX kernel and just tested everything you said and have none of those things you spoke of. I tried a few times and nothing. What are you on at the moment having the issue?
[Nexus 6  General] the_rooter:
U will brick if u do
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
Happening on 5.0 5.0.2 and 5.1 :( talked to 2 other people and they had the issues too so we all figured it was a software issue.

Figured as much....Can't stay on stock much longer hopefully cyanogen figure it out.
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
I understand the versions but are they running stock odex roms untoched or custom Roms?
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
all stock too mate not even root.
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
Totally weird I am still trying to recreate the issues and haven't been able to. I'll keep messing with it to see if I can recreate the issue your having.
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
it's strange you're not having it. from day 1 i've had the "Hangouts message" notification sound be all screwy. for a while I thought it was me but I tried again there and it's still happening. same with the ringtones in the dialer those still play quiet at first then suddenly get louder - after the first time the rest play fine until I exit the app and go back in and lo and behold the first one i choose is all quiet for a few seconds like before.

oh I should mention it happens with the alarm sound too. first real quiet then suddenly jumps up. and that (well this hasn't happened as of yet on 5.1) That i used to get very distorted sounds on my phone after the sound would lag. I would get a text and the sound wouldn't come out but it would vibrate and then a second after the sound would play but all distorted and crackly

EDIT: Hey I just noticed the bug report I made on the android bug tracker is now gone
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
I'm not having any battery issues with 13/3 (c;lean install).
[Nexus 6  General] jmaa_:
Seems like shamu has completely disappeared from download.cyanogenmod.org...
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
And from: http://www.cmxlog.com/12/shamu/

Are they not supporting us anymore? Big shame if so.
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
it's just because of the current situation no point in letting it build until they work out the issues I guess. don't want uninformed people flashing it and bricking their phones. Hopefully when they merge 5.1 everything will go again.

Have to say if it doesn't come back that'll be the final nail in the coffin for me on the N6
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Everything for me has been fine with the N6 up until 3/13..Minus dev settings killing my Moto 360 battery
[Nexus 6  General] Enigmafied:
Here it is on mega, not Google Drive. Figured this would be better.

Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for anyone flashing this and bricking their phones, especially if they came from 5.1

https://mega.co.nz/#!FJkSgCyQ!MnuZiLGpF_BreW86a5qfQb-G7AZ24JlJdzNDRLlhW-4
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
How about isntead of making assumptions, we wait for OP to update us.

CyanogenMod are a business now, and they can't afford to have their roms bricking devices, expecially Nexus devices.

Clearly we have established there is a compatibility issue when trying to flash a rom that contains a 5.0 bootloader once the handset has already been upgraded to 5.1 bootloader.

I'm sure we'll have more info soon, but I'm confident we'll see it come back once 5.1 is merged.
[Nexus 6  General] Johnny424:
anyone who is interested, euroskank has up a 3/16 build up. I would just say express caution flashing it if you have been playing with the whole 5.1 deal. I personally haven't messed with anything 5.1 and won't until cm merges it so doesn't concern me but just throwing it out there
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Looks like this one checks the bootloader and reports if there's a mismatch, rather than auto-flashing the 5.01 bootloader, so it should be safe to flash... But will fail for anyone running 5.1 bootloader.
[Nexus 6  General] BobbyHill:
Are you able to open up the copy on your end? When I clicked on mine it said invalid zip file.
[Nexus 6  General] Alarbus:
If you follow the discussion on http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/91181/ they're checking for the 5.0 or 5.1 bootloader at http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/91683/ and accepting what's there. I checked LMY47E, it has the same bootloader version as LMY47D.

There's also a change to re-enable Shamu nightlies.

Edit: User builds don't include the bootloader, so if you roll your own, it's not an issue, since there's no bootloader to flash in the event of a mismatch. Which is good, because I compiled and flashed one as this started happening, but was totally fine.
[Nexus 6  General] coldconfession13:
But why does cm need to flash bootloader and radio for every nightly that is my question. Must have a reason to do that. I'm just curious as I thought the bootloader and radio didn't matter when using a different rom.
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Because they get so many people reporting issues while running incompatabe radio and bootloader.

However it seems much smarter to check if it's required rather than just brute force flashing everything every time, which I can confirm it did for the 11/03/15 ROM.

Below is the updater script, you can clearly see there are no checks, it jsut flashes it no matter what.

From what I've read, this methodology is being reviewed in the newer builds, which is why the ROMs have been temporarily removed, to protect people from backward flashing their bootloader and bricking their phone.

I'll certainly be checking this script before flashing another CM nightly. It makes sense for stable releases, but no nightly ROM should ever brute force flash critical EMMC partitions IMO.

EDIT:

The latest discussion states that they are removing the brute force policy for flashing firmware and will start compiling the rom again on the next run.
[Nexus 6  General] br125:
Sounds like anecdotal evidence that cm developer settings is killing your moto 360 battery. Before making that claim you should probably get a logcat to see what's going on.
[Nexus 6  General] Enigmafied:
I am not able to open it and that is the one that I flashed and TWRP figured was ok... I did have to download it 4 times before it worked :/

My phone seems to be alright with it anyways, so I am going to leave it for now.

Just checked with my phone, I still have the capability to download 20150310, 20150311, 20150312....... I am downloading 10 right now, will redownload 11, and will download 12. Will have to upload them over night.
[Nexus 6  General] psychomaniac189:
Oh yeah. I noticed that. Thought it could have been Google play services. Glad to hear its not.
[Nexus 6  General] kergefarkas:
I've been following this whole 5.1 fiasco, and one thing is really not clear for me: if you flash 5.1 stock from factory image, why would anyone go and flash 5.0.1/2 CM12 version over it? Why upgrade it then to 5.1 in the first place?

Or am I missing something obvious here?
[Nexus 6  General] psychomaniac189:
Maybe that's the definition of a true flashaholic? Lol
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
Lol, agree! I've flashed stock 5.1 to get rid of my flash addiction.. Everyday flashing nightlies is really addicting! But I need to spent my time on other things... So I'm going to try stock for a while. Really satisfied btw, 5.1 runs really well.
[Nexus 6  General] majordallas:
So I flashed the 3/13 build over from Rooted 5.0.1 and when I got calls I couldn't hear anything? Is this a bug that was being worked on before the 5.1 situation? I went back to Rooted Stock 5.0.1 because of that.
[Nexus 6  General] kergefarkas:
Calls are working for me on 3/13, updating 5.0.1 builds when they came out.

Didn't flash 5.1 so far
[Nexus 6  General] mikkelwe:
Unrecoverable brick?
[Nexus 6  General] the_rooter:
I believe so. If u upgrade the bootloader to 5.1 and then go to flash the cm12 it will flash a 5.0x bootloader with the rom which will cause the brick. Motorola nexus 6 cant downgrade bootloaders
[Nexus 6  General] Alarbus:
Well, my two factor auth app for work was installed on CM, and actually has proper security, so I had to restore my CM12, since I couldn't restore just the app via titanium backup into stock 5.1 and have it work.

On the upside, I was compiling my own, so I was safe from the whole bootloader fiasco anyway.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
This battery life is getting really annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
[Nexus 6  General] Shano56:
Turn on airplane mode and remove all apps xD

Jokes aside, use an app like betterbattery stats to determine what's keeping the phone awake. Remove location services, disable WiFi when screen off. Make sure airplane mode is on when in buildings if there is low coverage (constantly searching for network eats battery) if none of the above do any effect, it might be a ROM or kernel issue and if that's the case just install a different one
[Nexus 6  General] psychomaniac189:
maybe flash the previous build? im about to do this.

yeah i loved flashing nightlys and it sucks when there are none. on my old 12hr shift with a different phone i could get 2 a day. it was awesome. one before work and one after work.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Anyone have a link to 3/12?
[Nexus 6  General] Enigmafied:
I cannot download 3/11,as I am running it.

But I have 3/10 and 3/12 downloaded, and I can open the zips of both of them.

It's bad timing though, as I'm on vacation right now in Mexico. Will try to get uploaded sometime today yet.
[Nexus 6  General] greasydego:
I havnt been following this thread and 138 pages is a lot to read. Can someone please fill me in!! I am running cm12 20150308 nightly on my nexus 6 with twrp recovery. I havnt seen a cm nightly posted in a while due to bugging issues. I read a post a long time ago that they for the time being stopped posting new nightlies. And that was the last I heard of anything. I tried to install 20150310 and 20130313 and my phone bricked so I factory reset and reinstalled 0308 nightly. Can anyone give me an update on what's going on. Thanks :confused:
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Up until now, Flashing CM also force flashes the bootloader, which hard bricks the phone if you've already updated to 5.1 bootloader.
[Nexus 6  General] BobbyHill:
I've got the 3/8 version and 3/10 versions here. 3/10 was the one with some status bar problems. Might have 3/12 around somewhere too, and of course the 3/13 but that one seemed laggy and ate up the battery.

Somehow the 3/11 one keeps getting corrupt. IIRC I downloaded that one and it was fine, installed it using CyanDelta ok, but then after that couldn't get it to open again. Weird.
[Nexus 6  General] greasydego:
OK so how do I update my phone or are we still waiting for the fix?
[Nexus 6  General] BobbyHill:
Past the 3/13 update we're still waiting
[Nexus 6  General] JasonJoel:
Nope. That is how my 1/8 install looks too.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
I'm not seeing the 1/8 nightly when I refresh the CM Updater menu. How do I see new builds on my phone?
[Nexus 6  General] wrongway213:
as of now you don't, ota is not working for anyone yet
[Nexus 6  General] hutzdani:
The OTA updater is still not showing updates in the about phone section, can't choose what type of OTA to look for.

I guess they have changed it to just look for updates that are newer than your current version, tho that did not work on the 6th or 7th builds
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
1/8 is newer than 1/7...lol
[Nexus 6  General] jxd938:
Verizon Network

Hello

I flashed the 1/7 Nightly last night and when I booted up the Data only stayed in roaming and I had now data with CM12. I tried switching between global and LTE and tried rebooting and all that.

Does anyone have a fix or should I wait?
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Doesn't do that for me on Sprint. Might be a Verizon issue
[Nexus 6  General] hutzdani:
Yeah I know hence why I said it might have changed to show newer updates only, I tried to look for the 7th build from the 6ths build and the same with 7 for 8ths.

Its weird because you'd think an settings thing like this would be an easy port as its just looking at their DB for new files that are dated or named correctly that are incrementally higher and pulling that list back with the relevant list.

Its no biggie tho always use get.cm and do it manually.

On another note still had to flash SU from recovery to get root apps working again using Franco kernel
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Yeah I'm doing it manually now for 1/8.

Quite the drastic size in the zip file too from yesterday to today. 58MB difference. Yay changes!

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Where is the cmupdater folder in TWRP? I'm not seeing it when I go into sdcard... But it's there. Just copied to it.
[Nexus 6  General] JasonJoel:
I ended up having to install SuperSU after all. Couldn't get stickmount to work with the built in CM12 root tool.
[Nexus 6  General] MarcianoS:
Is the option to change color profile available? I loved it on CM11 on my Note 2, and the super-saturated AMOLED colors of the Nexus 6 are making my eyes bleed (as my Note 2 did, pre-CM11).
[Nexus 6  General] kergefarkas:
Not yet. Franco kernel and FKU allows you to change the RGB levels. I read some people do it with TricksterMOD app.
[Nexus 6  General] THIRSTY GNOMES:
Anyone have a pound symbol (#) next to volume?
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
No but when I have notifications, the "Sprint" text in the top left shows up as "0000000"
[Nexus 6  General] THIRSTY GNOMES:
This is what I am dealing with. I am dirty flashing the updated builds. Did not have this after initial 6th build.

http://imgur.com/ieffwJa
[Nexus 6  General] wrongway213:
You enabled SU through Developer Options instead of flashing SuperSu, right? I believe that icon is there when you are using CM built in root
[Nexus 6  General] THIRSTY GNOMES:
if thats the case, then thanks!

Kinda dumb though...
[Nexus 6  General] Dego41:
That is only there when you are running an app that is using root, either in the for ground or back ground. If you completely exit all apps with root access it will go away.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Tiny Tower doesn't work on CM12
[Nexus 6  General] simplyTravis:
I haven't used CyanogenMod in years but am thinking about jumping back to it. My Galaxy Note II did not play well with it. I have been trying to find a list of features that it offers but the Cyanogenmod website doesn't really offer that. Is there a good list of features and modifications anywhere online for the different versions of Cyanogenmod? I do realize that there are changelogs but as someone who hasn't used in years (man...sounds like an old addiction) I have no clue what it really is capable of.

I'm really hoping it brings some more tablet based features compared to stock android to our Nexus 6. That would make it an immediate download for me.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Can't believe CM took EVERYTHING down for our phone and rendered it unsupported. This is very odd
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Maybe if you took the time to read the thread you'd understand..... It isn't unsupported. They took it down because it was bricking phones. It will be back up again on the next compile...
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
I've been following this since 5.1 came out. Chill bro.
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
3 pages ago...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59517501&postcount=1359
[Nexus 6  General] noakcess:
integrated software update fails

What I noticed about the related issue is when you use the integrated software update in Android it looks like it downloads the entire file, but it doesn't. Usually missing the radio and random files. That install caused hell and forced me to factory reset 5 times.

When I then downloaded from their site I got the full download. It worked without any issues.

Hopefully it is a website traffic issue and not a build issue.
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Yup. It doesn't look like the updater script performs any sort of checksum verification before attempting to flash, which making using the built in updater pretty risky, especially when flashing bootloader files. :S
[Nexus 6  General] Kimbaroth:
New build is up!!!!

TIME TO FLASH!!!!:cool::cool::cool:

https://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=shamu

http://www.cmxlog.com/12/shamu/
[Nexus 6  General] coldconfession13:
I'll wait till they have a 5.1 os
[Nexus 6  General] MCASTILLO:
Hello, my device has a 5.0.1 can I flash it the new build I don't have any problem with that? Because I don't upgrade yet.

I hope you can help me, please.
[Nexus 6  General] Kimbaroth:
The new build is still 5.0.2, I dirty flashed it over the latest build without any problem.

Everything is working flawless.

:)
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
Confirming 19/3 does NOT flash the bootloader or radio, but rather checks for a compatible bootloader before flashing. This ROM is therefore safe for everyone.
[Nexus 6  General] gee2012:
Can this rom be flashed from stock 5.1?
[Nexus 6  General] Sentinel196:
The CM team reported no issues when they tested CM12 on 5.1 bootloader and radio, so yes THE 19/03 ROM is fine to flash on any nexus 6.

DO NOT FLASH ANY ROM OLDER THAN 19/03 ON A 5.1 UPDATED DEVICE
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
I can finally go back to cyanogen on 5.1? Yay!
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
Is 3/19 safe to flash over 3/13?
[Nexus 6  General] Megaflop666:
It's still not a 5.1 build so be careful if you flash a different kernel or you'll have to flash cm12 again. Just a heads up for those who don't read through all the details.
[Nexus 6  General] agentfazexx:
I use the stock CM kernel but thanks for the heads up. This is a big one...

I flashed 3/19 over 3/13 and it appears to be booting. I see the boot animation. Seems to be taking a long time to boot though... Making me a little nervous.

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Yup. 3/19 will not boot for me. Just spins forever at the boot animation.

I do get the "Finishing boot" thing where I would normally be prompted for my pin, but it doesn't prompt me and then goes back to the boot animation.

Do not flash 3/19 guys. It's broken.