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[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
If you're not going to root it, you can skip the recovery step as stock roms replace the recovery on first boot.. Hardly a time saver, but still...
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digitalreflex:
I used the Despair kernel when I rooted on marshmallow the other day. Is there any benefit to swapping it out to use Hells Core? If so, what is the best way? Last night I went into TWCP and tried flashing that and then SU 2.5 but it stayed in a boot loop until I re-flashed Despair. Should I just leave it as is since I don't have issues?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aiiee:
thanks. Which one of those is the ROM?

Or more exactly: where is a step by step for loading a custom ROM? I gett zip files but nobody says anything about whether the zips should be extracted first.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
That's for using fastboot to flash stock images.

Custom roms are zips you flash from recovery.

Head over to nexus 6 general > sticky roll-up thread. Loads of guides and basic info that you should read there.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 93fuelslut:
So I just got my n6 and was wanting a qi charger. So which ones should I not get to make it easier. Unless they don't work for aosp

sent from your moms phone
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Qi is hardware not software dependant.

There are many options for qi. Have a look in the accessories forum.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 93fuelslut:
Not necessarily. The g2's and g3's don't have working qi charging on AOSP. But do on stock

sent from your moms phone
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aslam Driver:
Is there any method available to root nexus 6 running 6.0 Marshmallow ? I am little conufsed to update my n6. If there is no root not to worth update. Can any one tell me how to root n6 with 6.0 ?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efrant:
http://xdaforums.com/apps/supersu/wip-android-6-0-marshmellow-t3219344
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Martend:
Good day,

Since a few days I'm the owner of a Nexus 6 (shamu) \0/ and I tried to follow a few guides to build your rom, (aosp and cm12.1). I only succeeded with the aosp rom, but it did not see the sim card etc. I've read somewhere here, that the sourcecode was lacking a few files. After that I tried to follow the cm12.1 building guide for our phone, but that was a totally no show, since that guide is not complete, it seems you have to build the kernel first etc. Furthemore I ran in a few dependencie problems during setting up my build enviroment for the AOSP guide, some packets given where outdated, replaced etc. for my developing machine running ubuntu 14.04 LTS as suggested in the AOSP guide. So after a great deal hours of trial and error, searching and following guides, I hope there is somebody here who could point me to a guide that is up-to-date and what would work for the Nexus 6. I plan to re-install my Ubuntu, right after posting this, so that I can start once again with a clean system. Would be awesome to have a working guide!

Regards,

M
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stay-down:
Hello everyone, I'm brand new to the Nexus 6, but not new to the Nexus line as I did own, root, and rom the galaxy Nexus (yay me!)

I always get devices with the intention of rooting and romming...always...I'm what some would call a crack flasher. Anyway, I purchased a Nexus 6 from a guy who had already loaded the device with marshmallow, but as I mentioned, I'm brand new to the 6 and do not know the ins and outs of the device yet (I'm researching believe me) but I wanted to know, as far as unlocking bootloader, rooting device and installing custom recovery like TWRP, and flashing roms, is this available at this time (on M) or is this still being worked on for marshmallow?, is it possible to downgrade to lollipop and do it then? Like I said I'm going through forums as often as I can but I just started using the device today and love it, so I'm stoked to start tinkering, any help and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
well, since you owned a nexus, you should know that rooting any nexus device is exactly the same for each nexus, and for android version. its no different. you unlock your bootloader, flash twrp recovery, then flash supersu in your new recovery. when you boot up, you have root. ok, one thing has changed.. when you unlock your bootloader, you have to boot up first and enable the oem unlocking setting in the developer options.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stay-down:
Sweet, I will see what I can do. Thanks for the reply. I will do more research and make sure I know how it's done and get it done.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
ill be honest, you can always use a root toolkit to do it for you. but i always recommend doing it properly first, learning the processes, then next time feel free to use the toolkit. i say this because you learn absolutely nothing from toolkits.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stay-down:
I hear ya, I just left the LG G3 and unlocked its bootloader going through the process, even though there was a toolkit. I do remember I did eventually use the Nexus toolkit on the galaxy Nexus I had back in the day so I do remember it vaguely. Thanks again
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
Allow me to add a point of view about kits. Kits are using scripts. And you are not fast enough to stop this when making a wrong choice. There are threads full of Q's about issues.

In practice it is 'a few clicks' versus 'typing a few commands'.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
[MENTION=5244502]micmars[/MENTION] did the path Layers are stored in change on M? As per usual I cannot get the app to apply things consistently, so I went into my sdcard/overlay folder and noticed the only things inside are from LP. I tried deleting the overlays folder from /sdcard and deleting and reinstalling Layers. It made another directory in /sdcard/overlay after a reboot, but it still does not appear to be installing anything to it. Did the path move or do we actually have to do it all through the app now? P.S. I tagged you in particular because I'm about to punch my phone in the face. (You read correctly).
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
There are 3 directories for rrolayers 1. On sdcard ' Overlays' - 2. Vendor/overlays' - 3. System/vendor/overlay',

1. Downloaded layers, seems created by layer manager.

2. The active layers.

3. Same as 2., here you can set/delete layers. Becoming active after reboot (copied to 2.).
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Ah, seems something went quite wrong then. Nothing in sdcard/overlays folder. If I delete Layers themes I've purchased it also is saying I need to purchase them again even though they show up under my recent purchase list. I tried installing one of my free Layers themes from the Play Store just to see if it worked and still nothing in sdcard/overlays. :banghead: Back to LP for me I suppose
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
Seems to that the layer manager stores installed layers in sdcard/overlays. But you can extract the layers you have downloaded by renaming .apk to zip. Than you'll find the layer-apk's. Transfer those to System/vendor/overlay with a root explorer.

Before I change a rom, I make a backup of system/vendor/overlay on sdcard.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Check /data/media/legacy

Titanium backup stores there for me on M.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Appreciate the ideas gentlemen, but it appears 100% hopeless. This is the first time since sensor_ind bug on 5.0 that I've been so thoroughly annoyed with something that it's not even a little bit fun for me to try to debug. I seriously want to smash this phone into pieces and run it over with my car. Already got my TiBu folder directories fine, tried the .zip trick and now Layers Manager FCs. It seems I am not meant for Android M yet.. when it stops being fun and starts making you legitimately wanna destroy your stuff I think that's your sign to revert to an old build. Running Cataclysm as well so I know none of this is ROM related.. all reports on Cata are that all is well. Upgrading to M is turning into exactly what I hoped it would not be.. I figured if I waited and didn't even think of touching a preview of anything I'd avoid most of this. Blah. And this, my friends, is what I will hereafter refer to as user burnout.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
Sorry to read the sad things. I can only tel you what I have done with 5.1.1 to 6.0.

Followed the instructions in the OP of the JDX rom.

In short: Download zips (M-bootloader, M-radio, SuperSU, JDXrom). TWRP flash M-bootloader and M-radio. Reboot recovery wipe cache and factory reset.

Flash JDX 4.0.1 rom, SuperSU 2.5.x, reboot, PlayStore -> install busybox.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
try changing your SElinux to permissive, via app or terminal emulator, then reboot.

---------- Post added at 02:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:18 PM ----------

i really didnt, but everything is 100% ok here. i downloaded the rom, supersu 2.51, and despair kernel. then i wiped data AND system(no rom on phone now), then i flashed the rom, supersu, and the kernel, then rebooted. but, i dont just wipe data, ever. i make sure to wipe system to, which will remove your rom.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Unfortunately M was set up all fine and dandy (even had multiple Layers running), Layers manager app just stopped working and now that I tried to fix it manually it seems I'm stuck with no way to fix Layers. The app won't let me just apply what I want within it, it will not install Layers anywhere I can move them manually, and I cannot even restore my paid purchases from Play - only TiBU. Also, I've been permissive - followed all M instructions and have other mods and everything up and running fine.. Layers just kinda stopped working. Oh well, thankfully I had a backup of my LP ROM.. I wish I had taken a backup of Cata before Layers died so I could just restore it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsk108:
Sync new app installs?

Hello,

I'm trying to set up things such that if I install an app on my Nexus 6 (rooted) phone, at some point it will automatically also be installed on my (rooted) Android tablet. I am thinking of using Auto DriveSync, which I am already using for other syncing purposes, and telling it to sync the apps, but I am not sure what folders the apps are in. I am on Lollipop, and from what I've read, I think the apps are in system/app and data/app; is this correct? And, if I just copy the contents of those folders onto the tablet, will that completely install the app on the tablet?

I had read about AppSync in some other thread and it sounded like that would do what I wanted, but I've tried it out and it seems to only sync app data; it won't automatically install an app on my tablet when I install one on my phone. Anyone know if the method I described above will work, if those would be the correct folders to sync, and/or does anyone have another method?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
i dont see why it would work, at least it should not work.

you can always make a backup with titanium, then create a flashable zip of your apps and data with titanium. then just mive it to the other device and flash it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rishman1:
Did you mean to say you don't know why it would NOT work?

I tried downloading my Titanium Backup folder and restoring from that but it was taking way too long (and might have frozen the device). I guess that's why the zip might be better?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
making a zip is just easier to transfer that zip from one device to the other. but then it needs to be flashed via twrp. and i meant that it shouldnt work like that.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rishman1:
hmmm ok. so then there really isn't a way to have automatic installation on other devices?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Hi wrongway213, sorry I didn't get to you sooner...have you solved your issue?

I've run 4 different Marshmallow roms, and have had zero issues with layers...however, before I upgraded, I wiped my internal, and installed the new bootloader, modem, and stock rom.

Everything works as it should.

Also, FWIW, I have found that the new layers manager lacks certain features that the previous one had (namely, it doesn't copy the layers apks onto your internal, forcing one to use the layers manager to move theme elements around...real PITA)...so I'm sticking with that older version, and using Root Explorer as my main layers manager.

#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
no, there isnt. i have 3 devices currently, i wouldnt want my all my n6 apps on my other devices, honestly.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Not even close to solved, I actually think I made it worse so I rebooted to my secondary LP ROM with CMTE, lol. Layers have me angry at the moment.. I've been on the verge of actually destroying my device multiple times today so I had to go back to LP for now. So this not copying to /overlays is normal? I am able to just use previous app without issues on M? I have problems because of course Layers Manager only installs what it wants when it wants and without /sdcard/overlays folder I do not know how to move things around. If I understand your post correctly, this is normal behavior and the app is just simply functionally useless now on the new version? I've tried everything to get it to apply from within the app and it just.. does what it wants, lol.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
I hate to ask the obvious, but have you given proper app permissions to the layers apk?

#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Yeah, all it asked was storage. It was defaulted with perm granted because it worked fine installing several themes. I'm also a bit concerned about keeping my backups in TiBu because I noticed for the first time it is treating me in Google Play as if I have not purchased anything that is in my purchase history, so I really can't afford to lose all my paid themes just starting from scratch. I spend waaaaaay more time, like weeks, on sensor_ind bug and never got as burnt out as I am right now.. I seriously feel so burnt out on M that if someone offered me an iPhone I might actually do something other than sell it... I don't know if it's because it worked so easily on LP or because I really cannot stand staring at stock white in my retinas for hours on end or what but for some reason this Layers issue and all the other M issues I've had, not to mention M WiFI bugs.. (I depend on WiFi for literally everything, 3gb shared data plan lol) it all kinda just kinda killed my Anroid upgrade joy.:mad:
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Let's block and tackle this, and finish the job.

I'll hit you up on hangouts.

#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Appreciated. It's been isolated to a Busybox issue with M, Layers app and my beloved UKM. Layers app does not recognize Busybox built into data/UKM for some reason, but if I install another Busybox, it blocks UKM from letting Synapse set on boot, and if I remove Busybox from data/UKM. Synapse loses UCI support entirely. I tried a lot of different stuff messing with it so far but all to no avail.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Martend:
So after following some guides here and the one on source.android.com I finally got a working rom, android boots etc, but has a minimal interface and no sim, does not run the installation you normally see after flashing a rom.

The proprietary binaries are the proper ones, extracted in my source dir, after accepting the 3 licenses. (I did run gclobber after extraction etc.) What am I missing? And which log would show me that kind of info?

M
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Did you flash gapps afterwards?

As for the sim, no idea.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Martend:
Hmmm I did not, since there was no mention of it in the AOSP guide, the factory image comes with every app includes. I did assume an AOSP build from source would be exactly like the factory image. So I'll flash the Gaps, Thank you!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrongway213:
Busybox X allows UKM to work and Layers. Finally fixed!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
aosp and factory image are two different roms. they are both android 6, but they differ in a few ways. and aosp doesnt come with google apps or a play store, as the apps are not open source.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aiiee:
delete. why is there no delete for posts.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Because a deleted post is a useless post.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
So you're saying that you have installed the stock rom but your device doesn't recognize that you have a SIM installed?

Please advise if your actually can boot, etc.

The Gclobber adb command line, I believe, is used for cleaning out older files of the previous operating system.

Some additional info will be helpful.

Many thanks.

#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Martend:
Thanks for the reply,

Somebody pointed me tot the right direction. I flashed gapps after instal of my aosp build and problemen fixed. I assumed the Google Factory image and the home-cooked AOSP would be the same, so i had only the barebones :)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] micmars:
Gotcha. Thanks for the update, and glad you're up and running.

#WhiteUIsMustDie, #EndDarkAppOppression
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yudumcan:
ok here comes my 1st. noob question: Why no one suggests toolkits and says doing it yourself is easier ( I must say I did my first uncloking and installing custom rom with a toolkit couple of hours ago and worked fine)

especially if you're on a mac computer
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
Just go to the Wugfresh thread.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
The answer is in post 2 of this very thread.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faridcboy:
Guys is there a way to downgrade from Stock Marshmallow to Stock Lollipop ?!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
sure, flash the lollipop factory image.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Faridcboy:
Would that work like that?!

Cuz since ihave rooted the phone in Android M, and you know the kernel is different, would that simply work like that ?! I mean just flashing the stock rom?!

Last night I tried to restore the backup I took in TWRP, but however it failed while recovering the system.

"E:Unable to mount '/system'" was the error. So i reflashed Android 6's stock Rom and it works fine now.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yup, itll work. but remember, factory image.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NLBeev:
Did you try: TWRP - first mount than flash
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballisticn8:
Noticed some weird behavior starting on my N6. Running stock MRA58K. Was running the initial 6.0 elemental x kernel and supersu 2.48 but was having random reboots. I don't know how but after my phone would reboot it would lose bluetooth pairing to my car, my headset, and my moto 360. I updated supersu to 2.52 and updated my kernel and the reboots went away. Then I flashed leankernel. Then I flashed back to elementalx. Somewhere along the line I seem to have lost the ability to see my phones internal memory via usb connection to my pc's. I can adb into my phone, I can connect via fastboot, and I can see everything that I have downloaded after flashing leankernel but I cant see anything that was on my phone prior to leankernel... anyone else have something like this happen? any help/suggestions?

tldr: stock android 6.0, updated to supersu 2.52, flashed a couple of kernels (elemental, leankernel, elemental) and now I can only see part of my internal memory via usb pc connection. HALP!! o_0
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yudumcan:
ok here's another question. I'm new to Android world and successfully managed to unlock the bootloader and running the Chroma ROM at the moment. I was flicking through the pages and came across a kernel thread. Now I read a little about Kernels and how they work how you flash them etc.

My question is does a Rom come with a kernel and if it does why people flash kernels separately on top of their ROMs? What makes people think that that kernel is better than the ROM's kernel and if it is why the ROM developers don't use those kernels?

Also does every kernel work with all the ROMs and firmware?

I read that Chroma is running Franco kernel and he says it's the best out there so why do you think I should bother finding a better one and flash on top of it? But Pure nexus is runinng Hells kernel and he says his one is better

Sorry that was a long one..

Cheers
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballisticn8:
Kernel's are what tell your processors how hard or how not hard to work, how much voltage they take, and are basically personal preference. I personally am a big fan of Franco's kernels as well as Imoseyen's LeanKernel series. Every device works differently too so some kernels will work great on one device and not as great on another, so again, personal preference is what it will come down to.

Also in regards to my post, flashed a stock debloated rom and the problem went away...
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jak3All3n:
Problem installing KPPD on rooted Nexus 6 on stock lollipop 5.1.1

Hi guys, anyone have KPPD running on their Nexus 6?

When I flash the .zip file in TWRP, I get this:

[IMG="Error flashing KPPD .zip in TWRP"]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/jakeAllen/Screenshot_2015-10-22-11-56-05_zpswnktaygk.png[/IMG]

I would've posted this question on the KPPD thread, but XDA won't let me post there due to my noobness.

Thanks.

Update: nevermind, did it the adb way and have it running now!
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidriz:
hey people i just shifted to Nexus 6. i m on stock 6.0 i need to root it without ul bl.

any idea how i need some rooted apps to work (LED,TiB)
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
1. fastboot oem unlock to unlock your bootloader

2. fastboot flash twrp recovery

3. flash supersu v2.52 via twrp recovery

4. reboot with root.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkpaw:
Third party messenger woes

I've got a weird problem on my new Nexus 6. To my surprise, my text messages integrated properly (using Titanium Backup). Everything is there in the stock messenger, in order, showing the right "most recent activity". But then I restored Handcent. And while _most_, but not all, of the contacts are in order, the most recent activity is wrong.

Second, now when I edit contacts (such as for my workplace), it places a blank message in Hancent (but not stock).

Thirdly, I can't delete any messages from Handcent.

And finally, it's not just Handcent that's doing this. It's all 3rd party messengers I've downloaded.

Nexus 6, Lollipop 5.1. Rooted. Not sure what other information would be needed, but I'm happy to provide.

Edit: Figured out my problem. The changeover in 4.4 to require a messaging app to register with the system as default. My Handcent was an older version, couldn't do that.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostofdavid:
If I am going to switch my phone from Project Fi to Verizon and I want to apply all the Verizon proper updates/ROM to my phone, which stick file should I download? LRX22C ?