yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus Player General] tamanaco:
It's failing because the installation process checks to make sure that the /system partition is virgin (not modified) I flashed the 5.1 "Factory Image" over a rooted 5.0 NP without wiping, but I ended up with some irregularities and stability issues. Since I had already backed up all my apps using Titanium, I decided to do a Full Wipe Flash and all the issues went away with the core system. Only issue right now, is that I can't restore my apps because Titanium on 5.1 is missing the menu options that allows one to restore. If this isn't resolved promptly, I will start re-installing all of my apps from scratch. The only app I that installed that had a lot of addons installed and configuration changes is Kodi. But I made a separated backup using an backup addon for Kodi. Hopefully, this backup addon will still work on 5.1.

If you want to do a non-wipe (at your on risk) just don't use the "-w" option in the fastboot command as you flash the boot, recovery and system images.
[Nexus Player General] Bejbe01:
thanks for the explanation

I tried in the past titanium with my NP but was not able to understand what where how backup so I'll wait till 5.1 will be really necessary or till I find out how to work with titanium backup as I dont want to setup again everything, loose my savegames and fight again with netflix and dns
[Nexus Player General] tamanaco:
Outside of a full Nandroid Backup (we still don't have a custom recovery "TWRP" for the NP), I believe Titanium is the best option to backup and restore elements from rooted Android systems. It's very straight forward. I usually backup EVERYTHING, but then restore only those apps and elements I want. Hopefully the developer will find a way around the menu issues. I'm still waiting for his reply. I don't plan to be working on my Nexus Player until Sunday anyway. I will post here if I hear anything.
[Nexus Player General] phin586:
when using titanium to backup, are you just backing up to a USB Stick and then reflashing and restoring?

Thanks!
[Nexus Player General] tamanaco:
As I mentioned before, I could not get Titanium to restore the apps that I backed up using 5.0 because some of the action buttons are missing for the taskbar. Namely, the search, batches and Menu options that are supposed to appear on the upper right corner to perform most of the actions. I was able to use Titanium to backup and restore apps while on 5.0. So far, I have not tried backing up or restoring to/from the USB stick with the Nexus Player because I notice that the mounting folder for the USB stick changes name (USB200x where x ranges from 2-6). I've used Titanium to backup and restore to/from a USB stick using my Nexus 7 or to External SD Cards with Smartphones. Currently with the NP, I backup to internal storage, but copy the TitaniumBackup folder to the USB stick if I need to wipe the system. After wiping and flashing, I sideload ES File Explorer APK via adb command. I then use ES File Explorer to copy the TitaniumBackup folder + License file to the internal memory of the NP and install the Titanium APK from the USB stick. I then restore the missing Apps with data "if" I'm restoring to a different (newer) version of the ROM or "sometimes" I might try restoring missing apps + system data "if" I'm restoring to the same version of the ROM.

I have yet to hear back from the Titanium developer, so I decided to install all my apps, one by one, on LP 5.1
[Nexus Player General] habskilla:
Another way is just remove the "-w". "-w" is what wipes userdata.
[Nexus Player General] bozzykid:
It will also cause a lot of instability if you do it when upgrading to 5.0 to 5.1.
[Nexus Player General] metaljr81:
To those having titanium issues, have any of you tried helium instead?
[Nexus Player General] GabbyWC:
Shortly after it was posted by Google, I did a clean install of the Nexus Player's Android 5.1 factory image using the Nexus Root Toolkit. Aside from the new restart option in the device settings, here's what else I've observed.

* The Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) option now uses the push-button method to connect to a wireless network. On Android 5.0, it only offered the PIN method.

* The Nexus Player startup time from a power cycle or reboot is now faster at just under 30 seconds before the home screen loads.

* The inability to access hamburger or dot-based menus inside apps can be quite frustrating. It was one of the first things I noticed. The developer of DroidMote Server released a new version of his app with a redesigned settings button that works on Android 5.1 so let's hope that other software developers do the same thing for their apps.

* This update still does not offer the ability to connect directly to Bluetooth audio devices such as sound bars. That's a feature I'd very much like to see (or should I say hear).
[Nexus Player General] myshyak:
UPD: Found the link to factory images and restored device successfully
[Nexus Player General] andyshinn:
Have you found a solution to this yet? I got the OTA update on my Nexus Player and it no longer shows up as a Chromecast device on my Nexus 6.
[Nexus Player General] asutton13:
Yes. My issue was caused by dirty flashing the factory image. Simply doing a full clean flash with wipe fixed the issue.
[Nexus Player General] TTgowings:
I'm not having any issues finding it with my N6 or N7 2013. N6 is on 5.1, still waiting on on the N7 update, I know in the one sub menu CC will only show CC, You have to go to the main menu of the phone and pull down and cast screen, hope that helps.
[Nexus Player General] furius:
I don't know if you are aware of this, but from titanium backup on 5.1 you can restore every single app from the "backup/restore" section ... it's not possible to do batch operation though and this is quit annoying ...

it is really bad that some apps are missing previous functionality because of this missing taskbar buttons ... I suppose it is happening only on android TV and not on other 5.1 devices, right? how can we report this behaviour to Google? or have we to wait for apps developers to find alternative ways to show the buttons??
[Nexus Player General] metaljr81:
When you guys are flashing "all the images individually" - which items are you flashing? I'm only seeing droidboot.img and splashscreen.img. Shouldn't there be a system.img and a couple others?
[Nexus Player General] ghus:
5.1.1

Ok just updated to 5.1.1 and the root doesnt seem to work right. The original zip Root-Nexus-Player-fugu actually did get installed right and the player rebooted. However when I launched the SU app which asks you to update the binary did not complete successfully.

I actually did it twice and both attempts failed. 1st time it installed the binary with success but the player never booted, got stuck to the boot sequence. 2nd time around the binary installation failed and SU app gave me an error to retry after reboot. However still never got to reboot after this scenario as well, got stuck in the boot sequence once again. So something is up. Ended up to flash system img and just skip the root for now until further notice.
[Nexus Player General] colafloat:
can I update with rooted 5.0 ?
[Nexus Player General] sldier11:
Same, hoping for a fix
[Nexus Player General] mskip:
I fixed this problem with rooting 5.1.1 last week in my Android Toolkit *HERE*. The problem with SuperSU not showing in the Apps bar is fixed if you adb install the Superuser.apk file that was used to root. If you have already rooted and have installed the Toolkit you can go to section 19 from the Main Menu and select the Superuser fix (option1) to extract the Superuser.apk and adb install it.

Android 5.1.1 is also fully supported in the Toolkit with automatic download/flash/root available.

I did post in Chainfires support thread to let him know about the 5.1.1 rooting problem but I guess he has been away on a well deserved break.

Mark.
[Nexus Player General] etnpnys:
Hey I'm glad I found this here. I, too, flashed the LMY47V stock image and was expecting to root it... but I ran into problems using Wugfresh's tool and the original root.img from Chainfire. I've never used your tool, though - so can you answer a question for me first: is this like a one-click method or can I specify some options? For example, I'd prefer to keep busybox and a custom recovery off of my device. I basically want root back for nothing other than expanded storage with Stickmount/FolderMount. Can I do that with your tool?

Thanx in advance!
[Nexus Player General] mskip:
The auto rooted boot image I made installs the busybox binaries automatically but I can easily remove that from the image so it just roots and nothing else and then give an option in the Toolkit (root with or without busybox). The image is booted from fastboot (same as chainfires root image) so it doesn't need to touch recovery.

I will do it tonight or in the morning and post back.

Mark.
[Nexus Player General] etnpnys:
That would be fantastic. I don't need you to go making any changes to your tool at all just yet - I have no problems using fastboot if you would like to have me try it out. Just point me to the file!! ;)

I'm psyched to be getting this up again! I was playing around with the tool today and I used it to at least flash the stock LMY47V image that I downloaded straight from Google - I put it into the proper folder and voila it was flashing. (Not that I couldn't do that by myself but I was trying to use the tool)
[Nexus Player General] mskip:
Ok this skiproot boot image has busybox taken out. Just download the image *HERE* and copy to the root\NexusPlayer folder in the SkipSoft Android Toolkit, overwriting the original (assuming you have installed the Toolkit, selected the Nexus Player and chosen the 5.1.1 build already). You can then root via the Toolkit skiproot option and when the Nexus Player has booted back to Android select the Superuser Fix from the App/Program/Device Fixes, Developer Tools Section (option 19 in the Main Menu).

If you want to do it manually then boot to fastboot and fastboot boot the image above, let it reboot to android and then adb install -r "Superuser.apk" the SuperSU 2.46 file (which you can download *HERE*) to fix the app not showing or asking to grant root permission.

Mark.
[Nexus Player General] etnpnys:
Boom! It's working great! I also used the tool to sideload ES File Explorer, because we can't do that from the Play Store anymore for some reason... Hoping for a fix, but I have it on there now!

MUCH appreciated, sir! (Can I point others here for this also, or do you want to wait until you have a cleaner solution built right into the tool?)
[Nexus Player General] mskip:
I will change the procedure in the toolkit tonight so the superuser apk file is automatically installed after the root procedure, that way there will be no knowledge needed to make everything work. I will update the public module to include this and will post back when its done.

Glad everything went smoothly for you.

Mark.
[Android Studio] CuilTheorist:
In the activity.xml:

<ToggleButton

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:id="@+id/SoundToggle"

android:textOn="Music is Off"

android:textOff="Music is On"

android: onClick="ToggleSound"/>

in the java.xml:

public void ToggleSound(View view) {

boolean toggleMusic = ((ToggleButton) view).isChecked();

if (toggleMusic)

{

titleSound.stop();

}

else

{

titleSound.start();

at this, the titleSound (Which is a song in the background) Will stop playing when I toggle the button to ON (Which is what I want it to do), however it will never start playing again, no matter how long I wait (up to 10 minutes, at least) and how much I spam the button...
[Android Studio] CuilTheorist:
An extra note:

I changed the titleSound.stop(); to titleSound.pause(); and this seemed to work. The only issue, if any at all, is that I cannot make the song play from the beginning again... I tried putting titleSound.reset after the titleSound.play, but this broke the program in the same way having titleSound.stop did. Is this a glitch, or am I just really bad at using this software? Thank you :)
[Android Studio] Raylon00:
Did you try to put titleSound.reset() before titleSound.play() ?

The way you have this coded will make the sound start and then immediately stop it.

You may consider putting the reset directly after the pause so it will clear out even if decide not to start the music again.
[Android Studio] CuilTheorist:
Thank you!

Now that this works, my next question is this:

How would I get the toggle button to toggle titleMusic if titleMusic was a song that started up in a different activity? If there even is a way to control variables in other activities with a toggle button, that is...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] mort29:
I have just received a replacement universal after the screen cracked. After unlocking the extended ram again and using Sprite backup everything is back to where I was amazingly quickly.

BUT the status of unread messages are no longer showing on the Toady screen. In Settings - Today - Items there is no "messages" option as I am sure there used to be.

Any registry hack to fix this?

Thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hello all, after spending many hours Googling, rebooting, retrying, and staying up way too late, I am stuck. Hopefully someone can provide some guidance as I'm lost.

Yesterday I received my 64GB Nexus 6 from Motorola. I'm on Verizon. Popped in my SIM and was in business. Got it set up in short order, and it applied 5.0.1 OTA almost immediately. I downloaded the .zip for 5.1 and wanted to sideload it as I didn't want to wait for the OTA to hit my phone who-knows-when. Downloaded all the proper utilities and got the phone to show up when executing adb devices. I followed the sideloading guide and was golden up to the point of adb sideload xxxxxxx.zip. Error is "device not found". I uninstalled and reinstalled more drivers than I can shake a stick at, and the phone just won't show up in Device Manager once it's in Recovery. I did my fair share of Googling before posting here and there are many suggestions - most of which point to the driver - but none of them seem to work. I even tried the NRT by Wug and while it gives me two thumbs up as far as drivers are concerned, no dice once the phone is in Recovery.

I am on a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine.

So my questions are:

What the heck am I doing wrong?

Is there a way to sideload with the file on the phone already and not have to use adb?

Any help, suggestions, "hey dummy you forgot this", etc., is most welcome . Thank you in advance!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam30era:
[MENTION=4219692]Lucky Armpit[/MENTION]

When you are in recovery, at the adb sideload screen, unplug your N6 and plug it in again.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xplicit84:
Use Wugs toolkit to install drivers. It has a great step by step set-up to make sure it works and it tests everything so you know it works..
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi cam30era, I tried that but it didn't help. I didn't try it after using Wug's toolkit so it's worth another shot.

Hi Xplicit84, I used the Wugs toolkit provided in the NRT to install the proper drivers (it worked fantastic, by the way... mad props to Wug). That didn't help unfortunately.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
try a different usb port

goto the device manager in windows and see if everything is good (no ! by a device)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi apristel, yup, tried that too, as I had read that perhaps there may be an issue with USB 3.0 ports. I don't think I have USB 3.0 ports (my laptop is a 2012-era Alienware M17x R3) but I tried a different port for the sake of doing it and it didn't make a difference.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teddyearp:
Where did you get the 5.1 .zip file? Give us the exact name of the file because the 5.1 VZW .zip file that has been posted here that ends with .xml.zip is not designed for an adb sideload command. I.e., not designed to be flashed in recovery at all.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi teddyearp, I downloaded it from a link on Droid-Life. I don't remember the exact name of the file because I renamed it to something much shorter, but here's where I got it from -

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/03/1...s-for-nexus-devices-4-5-6-7-9-10/#more-163271

Edit - Here's the direct link (the one I used) - http://android.clients.google.com/p...ed-shamu-ota-LMY47D-from-LRX22C-fullradio.zip
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Any luck, having the same problem and it's driving me nuts.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Are you selecting "apply update from ADB" in recovery and then hitting power?

Then: adb sideload <filename of update.zip>

?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Yes, as soon as boots into recovery it completely disappears from device manager. If I run the command after apply update from adb it says device not found.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Most likely a driver issue. I can remote in and check it out if you want using teamviewer
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gage_Hero:
Go through the driver setup in wug again, pay close attention when you are deleting any old drivers..... delete anything that says google nexus or android... I had to do it twice.... put the phone into adb side load mode... check device manager again.. make sure you dont have a ? by android device... I did... update the driver from wug ( also I hid the sdk driver folder by renaming it so windows didn't try to pick up the driver from there again... once installed bingo!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
When I run the command reboot bootloader, no problem. But when it is in recovery I watched it disappear from device manager.

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I used CF auto root to unlock the bootloader and root. I do have the NRT on my computer though.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
I still think its a driver issue for you though. I am using the ones you can download here and it works fine.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html#download (Where it says... Click here to download the latest Google USB Driver ZIP file.)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
How do I install it properly? I got rid of some old drivers as well
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Well you can just change them in the device manager.

I'm willing to use team viewer and show you how. (you'd see everything i do) It's hard to write it out for me right now..just had hand surgery this morning and my hand is still completely numb. If you want to download this and run it http://download.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS_en.exe

PM me the id and password and i'll connect up and show ya. Just so you know, it'd be a one time thing connecting, your password changes everytime and you'd have to have that running to connect. I own a computer repair store and use it frequently.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm thinking that's the problem for me too, but I don't understand what I'm missing. When I ran Wug, I removed anything and everything that had the word "Google" next to it. Wug installed the drivers (had to do option #2 before I got no errors at all) and it reports that everything is hunky-dory. But as Mongo23ny said, that's exactly what happens... when it's at the boot menu it's in Device Manager but the moment I select Recovery it disappears.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
I can try to fix your drivers too, just follow the link i posted for him and send me the info. I don't have stock recovery on my phone to replicate your issue.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
PM sent. Thanks
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
I'm connected, please answer on your screen
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
You're gonna be happy.

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Status 7 error
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
It failed and said status error 7?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Yes.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Usually that is from modified system files I believe. What all have you done to your phone? It may be from rooting, I'm not sure.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
It's rooted, that's all.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Then thats why. You'll need to return to complete stock unrooted and then sideload it...

What I would do, is backup anything important on it and then just install TWRP recovery and flash a rom.

Like the ODEX one from here

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/development/rom-stock-rooted-5-1-lmy47e-root-t3057902

That would put you on the latest and you'd be all set. You'll end up wiping your phone though and have to start over.

I don't do OTA's since I like to be rooted and have a custom recovery anyways. - flashing the rom is easier in my book.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Can I flash the factory images?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Factory images need to be flashed in fastboot (bootloader) mode. But YES you can.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Yea, that's what I mean.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
You certainly can! You'll wipe your phone in the process, but you sure can flash them.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Can I get back to fastboot from recovery without doing damage?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Yeah just power it off. Hold the power button and vol down and you should goto bootloader mode.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
What if I just rebooted my phone?

From the recovery menu where it says installation aborted
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
that works too, the sideload didn't modify anything since you got the status 7 error. It quit before it did anything.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
I thanked every one of your posts I think. I'll try the factory images tomorrow I guess. I downloaded a 5.1 tar that was supposed to have them but it doesn't look right. Thank you very, very much for your help.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
thank you!

i can help you tomorrow if u get stuck. :)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Thanks dude, I'm sure I'll need it lol.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gage_Hero:
Issue these commands in adb and you will be fine..... the twrp and SU are optional but I would suggest install twrp.... it will ask you if you want to root... I did because I wanted to add light flow... (LED notifications).... once you have twrp.. make a backup so you have a place to restore to...... instructions below are not mine... i grabbed them from another thread but they work..... in the command window I just copy paste... less chance of typing the command wrong....

Rebooted to bootloader

fastboot flash radio radio.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash cache cache.img (maybe not necessary for such a minor update)

fastboot reboot

Warning: this sets recovery back to stock (even if you don't flash recovery.img) so you have to then:

fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.0-shamu

IMMEDIATELY reboot into recovery by scrolling to the recovery option in the bootloader and pressing the power button

flash SuperSU

Reboot and you're done.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
When in sideload mode and connected to the pc go to windows device manager and install the adb device as an android device.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mongo23ny:
Apristel got me going last night but I got the status 7 error I assuming because I'm rooted. I gotta flash the images in fastboot.

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I wanna keep the stock recovery, do I need to flash the recovery image first in adb?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cam30era:
First, you can't adb any of these. It's fastboot flash for all. Second, you can flash recovery.img, but you don't really need to. When you flash system.img, it'll restore stock recovery.