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[Nexus 6  General] stackdaddy:
M preview build

After flashing the m preview I had to flash back to stock. Although it was a great experience the apps I need most for work were unstable, which I knew coming in. The changes were significant in the OS and I would love to use multirom with it if possible.
[Nexus 6  General] hahajoker:
Happened to me a couple times but toggling bluetooth cleared up the issue.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Same as what jodvova posted. Phone trying to lock up in chrome especially when a page has a hard time finishing loading. Even had a reboot once it froze. I think is M related in general because it did it on stock M as well as this. Other freeze is caused when you try to set a custom mp3 ring tone settings will freeze up.
[Nexus 6  General] indianajonze:
any apps that we were unaware of in the app tracking thread?

my experience thus far has been pretty great. biggest issue for me has been with android wear. also, for some reason, when battery life gets low (say under 15%), the phone becomes a laggy mess, and this is without battery saver turned on. otherwise, it's been awesome and i easily use it as my daily driver
[Nexus 6  General] konfidential:
Only issue I'm having is the random lags in animations and signal loss....pretty good for a preview
[Nexus 6  General] mtpease:
What app tracking thread are you talking about? I use "Logbook Pro" to track my flight times at work, and it does not run on this dev. preview.
[Nexus 6  General] mademan420:
http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/themes-apps/m-broke-following-apps-t3121026
[Nexus 6  General] DaMyth:
I'm currently using Android M as a secondary rom with MultiRom... works great!!!
[Nexus 6  General] burkett375:
NFC will randomly go out and not work until a reboot. I've made two embarrassing attempts at purchases now. It worked Saturday at about 10am, then didn't work 2hrs later when I tried at the same exact store.
[Nexus 6  General] derekr44:
Odd. Hopefully the next patch will bring some more stability.
[Nexus 6  General] maddoggin:
Anyone able to block contacts? I used to be able to do this but I guess we can't on android m. Also can't set default SMS app! Unless I'm missing something.
[Nexus 6  General] germanmarky:
To change the SMS app, go to Settings > Apps > Overflow Menu > Advanced > Default Apps > SMS app

Not sure how to block individual contacts though.
[Nexus 6  General] Ryjabo:
Any answer to this?

Sent from my CHROMA & hells-Core powered Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] nhpctech:
Impressive initial preview!

The only real issue I see currently is Google Play Services devouring my battery like a high person and a bag of snacks. Attached are some screenshots of the battery stats. Other than that this build is darn near perfect. A few glitches here and there, but nothing big.

Anyone else with the Google Play Services chomping away?
[Nexus 6  General] mhuntwork1:
I have only noticed when location is set to high.
[Nexus 6  General] ajftl:
mine is a 64gb and after installing android m says 23gb total space anyone else ?
[Nexus 6  General] mademan420:
Its been brought up by several others. Follow this to get it back.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58201783&postcount=106
[Nexus 6  General] nhpctech:
So if I turn down the location settings, it should decrease the usage? What setting do you normally use for location settings?
[Nexus 6  General] mhuntwork1:
I have changed it to battery saving mode and only gained 10-20 min. gain in on screen time, not enough of a gain to sweat it. If I use maps I forget to change it back anyways haha. But I have noticed it doesn't show a huge jump in google service drain..??? But I guess we'll find out in late June for the next preview.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Go to settings, developmental, running services and force close google play services. Seems to reset it once it starts misbehaving.
[Nexus 6  General] nhpctech:
Thank you, I will give that a shot. Used over half of my total battery usage. Even with 3.5 hours screen on time. Pretty solid build otherwise, but can't wait to try Now On Tap when it becomes active.

Eric

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Ah, late June for next preview? Do they do one a month until final release? I've never bothered with previews and I have had a Nexus 4 and 5 prior to getting the Nexus 6.

Even with the Google Play Services drain, I have still managed pretty good battery life. Very impressed. I am not one to run stock. I've been switching back and forth between chroma and cm 12.1.

Eric
[Nexus 6  General] Hereisphilly:
Anyone got adaway to work on M yet?

I'm on hells core M preview, SuperSU 2.49 beta, adaway grabs root fine and works all the pay until it has to copy the hosts file (last step) and then it just fails and brings up an error!
[Nexus 6  General] :
About ready to jump in myself...
[Nexus 6  General] AstroDigital:
Has Google always made preview software available for everybody?

Got the link to the the Android M images, ADB, Fastboot and you are good to go.

The problem is this is Developer Software and you run it there will be issues.
[Nexus 6  General] aHanSolo:
Android M does include a Theme Engine. It can be accessed only if your device is Rooted and can be customized using a Layer Manager app. Here is a how-to guide http://www.amongtech.com/android-m-theme-engine-how-to-customize-android-m/
[Nexus 6  General] shugga101:
For me the options to click the "Force Stop" button for Google Play Services isn't accessible. The button is grayed out so I can't force stop it.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Are you looking in apps or developer options/running services. Running services should show you about 4-5 Google play services that you can stop. It will be a stop button and not force close. The only force close button is in apps and it is indeed greyed out.
[Nexus 6  General] shugga101:
Are you talking about the "Google Services" running service it shows? I went to Settings>Developer Options>Running Services then scrolled down and I see "Google Services" as something to click on but no "Google Play Services". Inside "Google Services", it shows GmsCoreStatsService, GoogleLocationService, DeviceConnectionServiceBroker, GoogleLocationManagerService, and PendingIntentCallbackService as things that I can click the "STOP" button for. Is this what you're referring to?

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Sorry yes google services.
[Nexus 6  General] itlnstln:
Check it: http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/general/root-nexus-6-android-m-dev-preview-t3123285
[Nexus 6  General] wazza1991:
i want to return to lollipop but the system doesnt recognise my device in bootloader. It recognises the device when its on. i tries reinstalling the drivers too.
[Nexus 6  General] jt3:
Once you're in bootloader, try unplugging the USB cable, and plugging it back in. I have that problem sometimes, and reseating the USB cable usually fixes it.
[Nexus 6  General] wazza1991:
i tried doind that...for a split second it says usb connected and then again it shows usb disconnected.
[Nexus 6  General] jordanmc109:
Mock location issue

I am using a Nexus 5 on he M Preview. When I open the Lyft App or Uber Partner App, it tells me to disable mock locations. The thing is that the developer options in M are different. There is no longer a toggle for mock locations, just an option to "Select mock location app".

I have uninstalled both apps, restarted, then disabled developer options, cleared data from the settings app, restarted, then finally redownloaded the apps. And when I opened the apps afresh, they told me to disable mock locations, when developer options aren't even enabled or visible!

Any ideas on what to try?? Might just have to flash back to 5.1.1 if y'all can't think of anything else to do.

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] shugga101:
Oh ok, thanks. I stopped them so hopefully that does the trick.
[Nexus 6  General] stackdaddy:
Great new thanks for confirming that! I am going to try that asap.
[Nexus 6  General] ilpolpi65:
Delete
[Nexus 6  General] siniux:
Tried the Google Play Services stop (it's Play Services on my Nexus 6) and it doesn't seem to have worked. Went from 22% battery consumption to 27%. Will try again tomorrow with a full battery.
[Nexus 6  General] indianajonze:
is there any specific reason you're worrying about it? i see it too, yet my battery life is better on M than it has ever been on lollipop. i'm beginning to think the reporting stats are incorrect
[Nexus 6  General] bloodiedwraith:
I don't know why, but the only thing that ever shows in my Battery section is System UI and I have no idea how to fix that. Right now it says that it has used up 7% of the battery, which is all that is drained from my phone right now.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
The only real big problem comes in when you see google services mobile radio piling up the hours. That's when yuou will notice a steady decline in battery and google services starts rising % wise. I try to keep mine between 2-5%.
[Nexus 6  General] sman666:
I was able to go back to Lollipop by using Wug's Toolkit. Info located at http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/development/toolkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-9-8-t2947452

Make sure that you do a FDR after loading Lollipop
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
Hey guys I wiped everything on my phone even userdata to get titanium working and it does now, but now I can't edit build.prop with any file manager like I was able to do previously and I didn't do anything different. Any ideas what happened I know I seen a few people had this issue any fix?
[Nexus 6  General] osi13:
Does anyone have experience with a Nexus 5, and Nexus 6 on M? I ran M on my Nexus 5 for 2 days before it broke Saturday morning. I picked up a Nexus 6 last night, and I'm mostly happy, but it does seem laggier than my Nexus 5. Is this due to the GPU's inability to push the pixels on the 1440p display, or is it from the encryption, or is M laggier than 5.1.1 on the Nexus 6?

It's not extremely laggy, but there is a lot more micro stutter than I remember on my Nexus 5 and the animations are no where near as fluid.

If anyone can comment I'd really appreciate it. Some aspects of the Nexus 6 seem like a downgrade from my old Nexus 5.

Oh yeah, and Google Play Services is murdering my battery. I'm up to 30% right now from Google Play Services alone. I have disabled automatic photos sync and most of the Gapps are disabled.
[Nexus 6  General] Krazyflipj01:
Anyone get Recently app to work?
[Nexus 6  General] brizey:
Nope. Doesn't do anything, even the close all didn't work.
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
You guys know if there's a way to make the sms app make it;s notification sound when the screen is on? I keep missing stuff cause I set my phone down with the screen on and it'll only vibrate.
[Nexus 6  General] :
Am having the same issue. Did you find a solution???
[Nexus 6  General] Lucke:
i can't get my restored text messages (from SMS backup & restore) to show in Hangouts. mildly annoying since the settings don't show any way to change the default messaging app.

BTW, did a fully clean install and wiped all data to start 100% fresh.

anybody else experience this?
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
Nope :(
[Nexus 6  General] :
You can change the default SMS app to hangouts via hangouts settings. There is an SMS option in there
[Nexus 6  General] Lucke:
i can see that, but why is it not combining the SMS and Hangouts like it used to? i don't want to have to "switch accounts" to send a text vs hangout

*EDIT* nvm i got it. Google just decided to name it stupidly to get it to truly combine
[Nexus 6  General] :
Yeah, I thought it was dumb too initially, however, i kind of like the hangouts app now :)
[Nexus 6  General] forstir9:
I just installed Android M yesterday and Verizon cloud installed everything from Lollipop except my contacts. I went to the cloud and there wasn't any contact there. I called last night and has them go back to an older backup which also had contacts I added yesterday... However some contacts were there 2-5 times. So after deleting all the repeats and older contacts I tried to put the contacts on my phone today but I somehow deleted the contacts yet again and Verizon says they can't access them more though... All they are trying to do is access my info that I can access and I need them to access their backups! They don't get it though!

Anyone else having contact issues through Verizon? Or what other apo should I use for contacts?
[Nexus 6  General] Jhall8:
Have you tried to restore your Google contacts?
[Nexus 6  General] tdamocles:
I've noticed in the developer options there is an option that will keep cellular data active. Does that mean it will use cellular data if wifi is on? I've always had a problem if I try to make a call and WiFi tries to turn on and connect to a network it doesn't make the call. Will this help to make a call?
[Nexus 6  General] jarjar124:
How did people get layers to work? Lol. I pressed install theme and nothing happened. Do I need to change my selinux permission?
[Nexus 6  General] forstir9:
Apparently I don't know how, I have done everything on this build like I would any other time. Everything is on my phone now... Apps, music, videos, documents but not contacts at all. Google or Verizon doesn't have them... But it could just be me missing something.
[Nexus 6  General] :
Can anyone please help me with instructions for installing the preview along with stock 5.1.0 using multiboot?
[Nexus 6  General] michmeister:
Read
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
You rebooted right.
[Nexus 6  General] tjk639:
So far really liking it
[Nexus 6  General] jarjar124:
Yep. Didn't really give me a preview either lol. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Been using layers for awhile too.
[Nexus 6  General] ds78:
I wait "full" version :) ... when oficial date ?
[Nexus 6  General] Rox598:
The official release just happened, did you not get the OTA?

In all seriousness probably around October/November around the time the new Nexus are released
[Nexus 6  General] ds78:
To October/November be several version ? is it the final version ?
[Nexus 6  General] Rebel908:
Quick question....I'm plugging the device in to my computer, but I'm not getting prompted to access internal storage....I can't believe I can't figure out whats doing this. Drivers seem okay, debugging in coming up and what not.
[Nexus 6  General] Character Zero:
Developer options. The toggle is in there for some reasons. Defaults to PTP. I semm to have to change it to MTP every time.
[Nexus 6  General] :
It's surprisingly use-able as a daily driver.

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Pisses me off as well. I hope that's not a "feature".

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Half a dark theme. I'd like to see them do the App drawer and go the extra mile for AMOLED and use a true black theme.
[Nexus 6  General] bigfatrat:
Hi I use an app called Morelocale2 and it needs the "android.permission. CHANGE_CONFIGURATION" permission.

In the past I had been able to do "adb shell pm grant jp.co.c_lis. ccl.morelocale android.permission. CHANGE_CONFIGURATION" to grant the permission. This no longer works under Android M. The command is successful but the permission is not actually granted.

I read the Android M API doc and it SEEMS that this permission still exists and has not been deprecated.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Andrew
[Nexus 6  General] :
Any URL maybe??
[Nexus 6  General] dodgebizkit:
A well respected developer informed me that Hardware Encryption is encoded into M but it's not enabled in the preview, which is great news! I'm not sure if this is actually news to anyone as I haven't read back, but I assume that it's new information here.
[Nexus 6  General] mhuntwork1:
Anyone else getting this?
[Nexus 6  General] mhuntwork1:
Sorry about the double pic.
[Nexus 6  General] Android The Greek:
I did one reboot fixed it
[Nexus 6  General] Lootes:
I am about to flash. Quick question, how do you know if you are calling via WiFi?
[Nexus 6  General] jt3:
I'm really curious to see if there are any app incompatibilities. When the 1st Lollipop preview came out, a ton of apps didn't work, mainly because of ART. With M preview, that shouldn't be the case, and I'd think that most apps would work just fine. If you flash, please run your most-used apps through their paces and let us know what works, what doesn't, and any performance differences you see.
[Nexus 6  General] maddoggin:
screens
[Nexus 6  General] paztine:
give a try..

If I were you just try this dev version and dont mix it with something this is a dev version..
[Nexus 6  General] maddoggin:
very smooth for a preview version. everything seems working all my apps are working. im sure there will be uncompatible apps but thats what the preview is for. for devs to update their apps.
[Nexus 6  General] paztine:
stock..

No you need to flash the system image which will wipe your phone clean..
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
Nice I just flashed booting now looks great so far from the pics.
[Nexus 6  General] jeston:
Two questions...

1) Can we root Android M yet?

2) Does this force encryption?
[Nexus 6  General] paztine:
100%

100% totally agree with you so smooth and new animation very sweet..
[Nexus 6  General] bloodiedwraith:
Can't wait to install this on my Nexus 6 when I get home tonight! Anyone here planning on using it as a daily driver?

Also, if anyone tries it out on VZW please post your experience, I mainly want to make sure VoLTE works and no problems :)
[Nexus 6  General] paztine:
What..

This just came out today enjoy it first before messing around..but you can always try..Its good to be the first one..
[Nexus 6  General] plastikman187:
I was simply asking the questions. When I have more time I will put my phone back to stock. Personally I wish that google would have pushed out f2fs on Shamu, it feels much more responsive than ext4 does.

As for encryption, are the mounts set to force-encrypt or are they set to encrypt-able?

I like the security that encryption gives, but the overall device slowness is just unacceptable.
[Nexus 6  General] jblazea50:
Getting error: update package missing system.img

How to fix it?
[Nexus 6  General] vomer:
folks on M already (n6) - would one of you please send me the /system dump from their manual M installation - please zip up the contents and send me a link via PM?

will help me save some time as im working on the flash able :)
[Nexus 6  General] paztine:
L Preview..

I have tried the L Preview before as my daily driver.. This M version I think is good to go maybe a few minor pieces of the puzzle will be missing other than that my phone seem very happy. All the features that were in L is all there.. Project Fi app comes pre installed..
[Nexus 6  General] JXRT190:
How long do you guys think it'll be until we have a custom recovery flashable zip?
[Nexus 6  General] Zorachus:
Yeah I'll wait for that before trying this out.
[Nexus 6  General] kxhaz:
This is great, I have been having a few issues and was getting ready to do a clean wipe of my phone tonight. Guess I will be flashing the M preview now!
[Nexus 6  General] maddoggin:
unzip the image-shamu-mpz44q.zip and install images using fastboot. the flash-all.bat and flash-all.sh dont work and havnt worked since lollipop. the will flash the bootloader and the radio but wont flash the system. you need to flash manually
[Nexus 6  General] jblazea50:
Was hoping there was another way besides that. Do I have to flash the userdata if I don't want to wipe my device? Will there be any issues?

Edit: flashed it anyways. Wiped it all.
[Nexus 6  General] mhuntwork1:
Yeah..tried, and weird thing when I posted the question it showed two screen shots and now only one. No complaints however, my backup phone is a droid turbo still stuck on 4.4.4 haha so I'm loving my shamu with M.
[Nexus 6  General] bobprobert:
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first flash the M radio and bootloader, make sure you have a multirom compatible kernal , then flash the M build image listed in the multirom thread as your secondary rom. works great for me
[Nexus 6  General] Gzan23:
Has anyone had any luck using the flash all script when installing M on a mac? This doesn't work for me at all and when I flash each one manually 1 by 1 I get a nasty error and have to flash the factory 5.1.1 image.
[Nexus 6  General] jer_ying_fd:
You have to edit the flash-all.sh by replacing the .img or .zip name with the directory of the .img or .zip
[Nexus 6  General] knightr:
System doesn't stay mounted r/w through a reboot, so there doesn't seem to be a way right now to edit the build.prop through a file manager. You can make edits to it in recovery, using a terminal window, or through adb.

Boot to recovery

Go to "Mount" and make sure System is selected

With ADB already set up on your computer, run

adb shell
cd /system
vi build.prop

Edit as necessary (slight vi editor knowledge required... there might be other editors supported, but that's the only one I know), and save and close the file.

Reboot
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
In the root m thread they have the fix I had found it later that day.
[Nexus 6  General] zabihjan:
could someone please confirm android m is suited for heavy daily use such as gps navigation, social and some games and lots of calls.
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
Just flashed the preview... Immediately after restoring apps and settings, the phone was almost unusable because of lag. A couple reboots later and things seem to be speeding up a bit... I'll keep running M for 24 hours and decide I want to switch back, but as of now I'm thinking of staying.
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
What kernel did you use? With a wipe of userdata after a back up of mem gave me better results.

Edit: I use Elite 6/3 kernel all is perfect. I have been on this since day one and had one reboot.
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
Using Elite 5/31. Seems to be running smoothly now. I've gotten 2 reboots but little to no lag remains
[Nexus 6  General] j.bruha:
Is there a reason why each time I do this, it seems like my edited build.prop is reverted back to the original file without the provisioning edit?

Edit: I got it to work, but I had to force rename the file first. I ran "adb shell" then "mv /system/build.prop build.prop.bak" to back the file up with a new extension, then pushed the file back to /system.
[Nexus 6  General] TeldenW:
Question removed....

Further reading helped me answer my question.

NEW QUESTION - is the M Root method difficult for a brand new Nexus 6 user (less than 24 hours).
[Nexus 6  General] Android The Greek:
Perfect for daily use for me and I have high standards. Only major app issue is uber
[Nexus 6  General] zabihjan:
Thank you

No offence but I am glad uber is not working because 1000s of ppl have lost their jobs due to Uber in the UK
[Nexus 6  General] manup456:
Has anyone figured out why android wear only force close constantly when notification access is given? I notice once turned off the fc stop.

The issue I think is the app now because nova notification fc as well once notification access is turned on but not light flow.
[Nexus 6  General] Android The Greek:
Personally I believe they created thousands of jobs as well
[Nexus 6  General] kibmikey1:
Has anyone experienced the phone re/starting in bootloader mode every time? Even after completely wiping the phone, re-flashing via fastboot, bootloader is the first screen I see and then I have to choose start. Any help would be appreciated!
[Nexus 6  General] jodvova:
Lol! You mean those lazy cab drivers who charge you ridiculous amount of money for a short trip ?? Im totally happy that they lost their jobs.

Cheap stuff must remain cheap. User is the best thing that has happened to the UK since the invention of a car.
[Nexus 6  General] Zenety:
Anyone got root working with M as the secondary rom?
[Nexus 6  General] zabihjan:
Will we get anyany updates

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Those lazy ppl are not affected. Ppl working at mini cab offices are affected
[Nexus 6  General] Android The Greek:
Installed ios9 yesterday on my ip6 and battery is garbage. 2 hours and lost 50% for home screen and lockscreen