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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MeetFace:
I've been out of the flashing game for quite some time, and this is my first non-Samsung phone.

I'm on Chroma now with elemental, looking to possibly try out Pure.

Can someone enlighten me about baseband, build, vendor.img, etc? There are a few different things in seeing you need to make sure are flashed properly or in a specific way.

For instance, I'm on MDB but I see a vendor.img on the Pure thread for MDM. What's the benefit of going to MDM (I'm assuming MDM is the next version).

Thanks for your time on advance, I appreciate the clarifications and advice.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ozark_8125:
Couple of questions for y'all

1. Titanium Backup is just sitting there on reinstall. Dug around and tried moving old backups from my previous device to the folder that tibu made, but on reinstall, it's hung. Running supersu 2.64 and I didn't give twrp permission to change system permissions, so not sure if that's the problem or not.

2. I'm testing out Project Fi and don't want to port my ATT number to my Google number just yet until I see if the service works out in my area. I looked up on the att site the mmi code **21*phonenumber#, but it reports back 'invalid mmi code'. Is there another trick for forwarding numbers?

Merry Christmas all!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holydevil27:
Hey guys,

Noob question but how can I check through the battery app exactly how many hours my phone has been on on battery? Like how many hours it's been running without a charge.

Thanks!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asj0422:
it defs seems like it would work (at least, i don't see a reason it wouldn't) but it sounds like if you want to change anything, you'd have to have your 6p hooked up to your computer, or have a command prompt thingie installed on your phone. (which isn't hard/bad, but i feel like you'd want to be able to readjust be just touch-and-drag)

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also: is there a way to transfer all my old smsmms messages to the new phone?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] holydevil27:
Hey guys how do I know how many hours my phone has been off charge?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fury683:
I don't think this stat is available from the stock battery usage information. Try GSAM Battery Monitor or BetterBatteryStats.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asj0422:
not exactly, but the stock battery graph can give you pretty good rough estimate. don't your suggested apps require root?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rythu_u:
Hey guys i bought one yesterday, everything works good except the video camera, the 120/240 fps seems so choppy with lots of grains and also when i change orientations from landscape to portrait it lags for a tiny second.

Anyone have any idea or fixes?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elsworth1983:
Hi guys/girls, I've just got myself a n6p & the device is brilliant I have one issue & am wondering if there is a solution to it. My Bluetooth won't find my universal Sony car stereo, wont find my son's bt headphones it will find his m7 & my htc m8. Things I have tried are clearing bt app cache & rebooting, settings location 3 dot menu, I've booted into safe mode & tried to connect and I've just flashed elementalx kernel to see if that would solve it which it hasn't.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ozark_8125:
Found out that ATT had to update IMEI information on their end to get forwarding to work (from the phone/settings/call settings/always forward). Still not sure what is going on with tibu though.

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Edit - shut the front door on my foot... I think I might have missed an update and the old backup might have been a previous version of tibu. Working fine now. Mea culpa.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sean1218:
Why did Chainfire say "If TWRP offers you to keep /system read-only, indeed keep it read-only." in his post about systemless root? I chose not to do that since I was planning on installing xposed and figured it wouldn't work if system was read-only. I had some weird issues initially like being unable to open things without getting a crash e.g. 'the process android.process.media has stopped' every time I tried to open the downloads app (hadn't installed a file explorer yet), but they went away after a few restarts. I also noticed that despite being rooted, TWRP still offers to root for me every time I reboot from TWRP.

Is there any limitation or something I should look out for after not keeping /system read-only (running systemless root and xposed)?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm on stock odex systemless rooted rom and I want to flash cataclysm mod and another kernel. How do I do this and still have root? Thanks in advance.

Sent from San Antonio Tx- Nexus 6p

Answer: Flash whatever supersu I was already on after flash and root stays. Problem solved. Tks. ;-P
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrman:
Check the app permissions for Clock and make sure storage is enabled.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hubahubaab:
Where i can download Nexus source code?

I want compile kernel with some options.

e.g. for samsung is opensource.samsung.com

for nexus is ... ?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fury683:
https://source.android.com/source/requirements.html
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LittleDomi:
Hi guys - I'm thinking about getting a 6P in the next few days, but slightly worried about the size. I've tried to get a feel for it in stores but they won't remove the security tag so it's impossible to know how this thing is to use.

Was a bit sad to discover there isn't an in-built one-handed "reachability" mode. Been looking for ways around this.

Would this work?

http://www.xda-developers.com/enable-one-handed-mode-using-a-script/

Any thoughts?

I used a Galaxy Note 1 before. I was able to use it with one Hand but its difficult with the N6P. On the other hand I think its nice to hold and still one-hand-usable. Sorry, cant tell about one hand mode...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snappy_x:
Nexus 6P Boot Loop Issue.

Hi,

I'm just looking for some help with my Nexus, i've looked everywhere but can't seem to find the right solution.

I put CM13 on my Nexus 6P, gone to create a backup on twrp, restarted it but it boot looped. So i got AOSP rom it boots up fine, i go to change settings and install launchers but when i re-boot it takes quite a few minutes and looks like it's boot looping, eventually loads but says optimizing apps for x amount of apps until it is finished then states it's starting apps and re-boots again.

I thought it could have been CM13 so tried AOSP instead, but still giving me the same problem tried clearing dalvik and fixing permisions but it hasn't seemed to help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LittleDomi:
I had the same Problem but with unmodified stock Android. I solved the Problem by doing a factory reset
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senthilrameshjv:
I have a stock rom system and boot backup and I'm currently running stock rooted with Franco kernel. Now if I have to flash elementalx kernel which expects stock kernel, what are my options other than download the factory image zip or download a 800+ MB rom.

No wifi for the next one week and my data has only close to 1gb left.

I tried to restore the boot and system and ended stuck in Google Logo. Had to refresh Franco to get in back.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s327374:
I am so sick of getting titanium and backups wrong. PLease help. Is there an absolute noob step by step guide to titanium pro use on the 6P? I need it as the hassle of google play access in china is so time consuming - I seem to bugger up my titanium use every time.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Az Biker:
If I understand correctly, since the stock rom is using the stock kernel, you should be able to flash ElementalX in TWRP. I just flashed it yesterday over the stock kernel in PN, no issues.

[MENTION=4684315]flar2[/MENTION] says this in the ELEMENTALX kernel OP:

Installation

1. Flash in recovery

For maximum compatibility with all ROMs, ElementalX uses your existing ramdisk.

Do NOT flash this over other custom kernels!

You should only flash ElementalX over the kernel that came with your ROM!!!

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What issues are you having? I'm a pretty regular TiBu user, not in China, but I'll do what I can :p
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grimpow:
Just a couple general questions, since I haven't flashed in a while and see some new stuff that I don't recognize. The big one is the vendor flashable. I've owned and flashed several phones, and never heard of this. I see them floating around in threads and one was posted with the latest purenexus update. Do I NEED to flash this, or is this an optional thing I just don't know about?

I also recall reading that one should never make TWRP backups without removing all lockscreen security or else I'll be locked out. Is this still true? Did it only apply to stock, or must I still heed this warning at all times?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fury683:
I believe it is required and will cause issues if you don't flash it. Vendor.img holds proprietary binaries from what I had read online. It is part of the factory image for the Nexus 6p and Nexus 5x, and I believe the Nexus 9 as well.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s327374:
Thanks for the offer... Seems I don't know what's going on ... My TiBu worked 100 percent correctly after all. oops. :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senthilrameshjv:
Correct. But I've stock with Franco. Which alters ramdisk. I think the only option for me is flash boot img. Do anyone here have it and can upload for me?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Randomsmack:
Can someone tell me the requirements I need to finally be able to post something on the regular development thread ,all I can do is give likes ATM but I want to give feed back.

Edit: I'm in thanks Rock on
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Az Biker:
These might help!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63049054&postcount=3
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhipati:
Quick question: I am on stock with Kylo Kernel. I been told that if I want to install any other custom kernel then first I need to flash stock kernel and in order to that I need flash ROM which uses stock kernel. Is there a way to flash stock kernel as zip? Rather than flashing whole ROM
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scoyok:
Yes, there is a "10 post rule", just google "xda 10 post rule" or see the forum rules link and it will cover everything you need to know. I would link it to you but I haven't completed my 10 posts yet either so I can't link anything yet. :)

There is an option to fill out a request to waive the rule. I actually filled it out and then decided against submitting it. I think the 10 post rule is a great idea. I think it encourages the community atmosphere as well gives the poster a chance see the whole scope of xda. I know it is hard to not participate in discussions you have feedback you want to share, trust me I am sitting out of a thread right now and I am the only one with the app in question functioning LOL. I am really enjoying interacting in the non development threads, and you know what, I really don't mind helping some others out answering some basic questions to earn my way into the developer threads here.

I respect earning respect.

Any thread labeled "developer" you cannot post in until you have completed 10 legitimate posts.

Hope this helps!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drothenberger:
You can extract the boot.img file from the stock ROM download and flash it directly with TWRP. Just click the button at the bottom right on the Install menu to toggle between installing zips or img files.

I keep the stock kernel as an image on my device for just this purpose.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iduser4:
I got my 6p today and updated to 6.0.1. After updating I unlocked the bootloader then installed the latest twrp. When I first booted into twrp I made the first backup then rebooted the phone. Then I turned off the phone to make sure I can wipe/restore, but I couldn't get into twrp. When I hit recovery mode a message pops up that says "no command" I did try the method where you hold the power then tap the volume up button but that didn't put me into twrp. Thanks in advance for whoever helps me.

edit: Nevermind I figure out where I screwed up
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidPurity:
So after doing a system less root I just did a Nandroid back up for the default boot, system, and data. I understand what everything is except for system image, what is that? Is that that same thing as system just in a different format or something? Also what is vendor and vendor image? Are those things important to back up? Just in case I did a back up for the 3 defaults and a separate EFS back up, and a separate vendor (without image). But would still like to understand what they are, to understand in what scenario they would need to be restored. Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Might be a stupid question. I have Nexus 6p with stock 6.0.1 rooted with Nexus toolkit ( got lazy this time ) and from what I can understand its rooted the old fashion way. I would like to install better kernel to get better battery usage when screen of and phone on my pocket and saw many recommendations to kylo kernel. I found the forum topic but found no installation info. From what I could understand it would be go to TWPR, flash the kernel and optionally clear dalvik/cache and thats it. Is it really all you need to do and if not what have I missed?

EDIT: I have used custom roms a lot but this is my first time installing just the kernel and as Im quite satisfied with the stock rom at this moment I dont want to install custom rom yet so bare with me if I dont know/remember how everything works. Plus seems like 6.0 changed quite a lot of things about rooting and customization.

EDIT2: And what kylo file would be the correct for my phone? As I see there is the quite a lot of different ones.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
You can generally just install the zip and not worry about wiping caches with kernels. R27 is the latest version available. You have options in regards to which toolchain the kernel was built with (Linaro or Uber), do some research online if you need to find out exactly what those toolchains mean, Uber is generally more popular though. Then you have the two branches (4.9 and 5.3), 4.9 is considered more mature and I believe more battery friendly, 5.3 is in heavy development and I believe is more performance oriented.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Thats what I tought but was not sure about it. Thanks a lot. Now I just have a funny problem. Toolkit installed TWRP as I used it once but now entering wont work. Reboot into recovery and it just goes in to what I assume is the stock recovery with factory reset options etc. Really weird. Ill first have to troubleshoot this. Laziness comes back haunting as I used toolkit rather doing it myself.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
Just flash the recovery again, I have a guide here:

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Yeah, sadly at work so no computer to use. I assume there is no possible way to do it with the phone itself as I have root already? And do I have to reroot after installing recovery again?

EDIT: I mean does installing from TWRP Manager work? Or is there a workaround.

EDIT2 Already got my answer in root unroot guide.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fikide:
Can i move my sytem, files, settings, apps etc. with backup(TWRP) from my old 32 GB to new 64 GB Nexus 6P?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Is there a basic guide how to setup your custom kernel with Nexus 6P? For example what to set cpu governor, what I/O settings etc etc or am I just better of leaving them alone. I do understand that everyone likes their own setups but just a basic guidelines whats good, whats bad. I found a nice writeup about kernel tweaks but it was a bit older one and didnt go into that deep how to setup but was mainly about governor differences etc. My main issue with this phone is battery usage and I want to maximize it as best as I can without still loosing too much performance. Now running Kylo kernel with a few custom settings but Im afraid that Despair was not that great with documentation on what to set or use with his kernel and Im a bit lost now.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woovie:
I'm looking for hangouts chat heads like Facebook or the hangouts desktop app. Does a ROM exist with this feature?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sneakyzekey:
Pure nexus ROM

I'm new so I have restriction on where to post but I'm running pure nexus ROM and some I enabled it so my navbar stays visible but I think when I first flashed the ROM it done the smart hide. Where's this option at to fix it
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pain-N-Panic:
I haven't used it on the 6p as I am not rooted yet. However I rooted/tinkered with the nexus 5 for the last two years. I initially flashed TWRP with my pc using commands. Every time I updated TWRP I flashed it using the Flashify app. Worked flawlessly every time. Download it from play store and give it a shot!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Yup, Flashify worked nicely.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pain-N-Panic:
So I'd like to install xposed framework. I don't feel like boot looping my newly rooted phone just yet so I came here to verify that I'm planning on flashing the correct link/version in Rovo's OP in xposed for marshmallow. I checked the CPU in the 6p and am confident that the correct link for me to install is the second to last from the bottom. Just wanting to verify. Thanks!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drothenberger:
Yes, that's correct.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
So, I have been wondering about a few simple mods and changes that would be available with Xposed but always keep thinking what it used to be. Had it installed in with one off my phones for a while back in the day and all that it caused was horrible lag. Now phones have more power but they also have more things to do so what is the thing with Xposed nowadays? Does it cause lag and/or battery drain etc. Of course bad module can cause that but using good solid modules is it a problem?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pain-N-Panic:
I used xposed on my nexus 5 for a very long time until lollipop came out and xposed was not available for it originally. I just never went back to it. I ran my n5 stock, rooted with xposed for a good bit and experienced no lag. It has an uninstall fkashable zip that can be executed at any point to get rid of it. I'm a themer. I enjoy customizing the look of my device. Xposed and namely the ever so popular module Gravity Box offer brilliant mods to customize the look of the device. Xposed offer other user friendly modules that do some pretty cool things as well. I highly recommend trying it out.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfly212:
I can't speak to every module but for the most popular, GravityBox, YouTube ad away, chromepie, etc there don't seem to be any downsides at all. Been using them regularly for weeks.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyrres:
Cool. Might have to give it another go as I dont want to flash another rom just for a few tweaks that can be cured with Xposed can help. Last time I tried it might have been on my Galaxy Nexus or some other ICS/JB device and it was lagging quite badly and it took a battery life hit everywhere just with a few normal basic modules like adblock etc and was cured with uninstall of Xposed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfly212:
Definitely give it a shot...GravityBox MM pretty much can mimic everything I used custom ROMs for...works great.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wezman2k:
Cyanogenmod Camera/Pitfalls?

W/ past Android phones I've owned (HTC One m8 and LG G3) there is evidently some pitfalls to running the camera app in Cyanogenmod. I'm not sure if it was quality, missing features, or both... but I know there was some limitation.

Is this the case w/ the Nexus 6p? Can anyone clarify what I'd be giving up by flashing a stable CM release as opposed to running the stock ROM?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mjkb:
Implications of rooting

Sorry I don't seem to be able to find the answer anywhere. What are the negative implications of rooting my 6p? What stops working? I read android pay doesn't work but I don't use that anyway.

Also can the tings that stop working be fixed by unrooting?

Thanks
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android4life92:
Just android pay I believe
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rohit jat:
my phone is showing total memory (ram) 2.6 gb after disabling all the scrolling cache portion !! Is it with me only or all the devices are showing 2.6 gb ram

Note- tested with cpu -z also showing 2.6gb ram
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tfly212:
And android pay can work with root, you just have to add your credit cards before you root.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michalko5896:
Guys, do you have laggy opening animation of Chrome menu too?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LittleDomi:
Yes I didnt recognize before but its laggy
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scartozzi:
i've a question about backup...so i have to backup only system data and boot (no vendor,vendor image and system image)right? then do i need to flash the vendor image only when i'm trying to restore a different version of os (from 6.0.1 to 6.0) or every time a make a restore even if i'm restoring the same os version(from 6.0.1 to 6.0.1)?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidReider:
Couldn't post this in his thread so I'm hoping to get an answer here. I bought Franco kernels updater on the playstore, I was hoping to flash his kernel. I accidentally clicked something in there (I think it was to update his kernel) and it put me in a bootloop & I had to reinstall the stock 6.0.1. I was just wondering if I can flash the kernel from the thread through the install section in twrp? Or if I have to go on my computer and use commands? I'm not really a huge noob just never messed with kernels before until now. Thanks you guys!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhipati:
You do not need to go on computer and use commands.. Just install zip through twrp but also follow instructions regarding superuser after installing the zip. Here is the more information about it http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64218458

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Quick question: I usually charge my phone overnight and usually it is charged 100% by the time I wake up. I was wondering if keep it like that has any effects on battery.. Because it reaches 100% very quickly and stays on charging until I wake up . Is there any new technology in phone which cuts off charging once it reaches 100% to protect battery ??
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zxd3:
Hi, I just got my 6p yesterday, and it seems to have trouble with pushing gmail and twitter notifications. Gmail is more sporadic, and sometimes works on wifi or 3G/4G, but twitter will only give me notifications on 3G/4G, unless I toggle wifi on/off, then cellular data on/off, then turn wifi on while data is off, and it will work over wifi and I can turn data back on. That fix though is temporary, and it randomly undoes itself. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?

Thanks
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidReider:
Ah so since I'm already systemless rooted should I flash unsu then the kernel then su? Sorry for the bombardment of questions as well but if I was to install a custom rom would I do if after all of this?