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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Android Lollipop for the Nexus 4 is “locked and loaded” to go

Nexus 4 verdict

Yesterday the Nexus 4 was left out of the Android 5.0 update party. This came after Google originally left out the Nexus 4 in the Lollipop update plans, but the later clarified that it would indeed get the latest version of Android. There are still a lot of Nexus 4 users out there, as indicated by the many complaints we saw yesterday. We have good news: Lollipop is coming soon.

An Engineering Program Manager at Android has shared on Google+ that build LRX21T is “locked and loaded” for the Nexus 4. He states that the update will be coming “soon,” but he’s not sure exactly when that will be. We can only hope it’s sooner rather than later for all of you Nexus 4 users. We feel your pain.

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PSA: New Lollipop OTA Procedure Means Your Update Will Fail If Your System Is Modified In Any Way At All

Ever since the beginning, Android OTA updates have worked by patching each file on your system partition individually. With Lollipop, that is all changing, and it has some important implications for those who like to root and mod their devices.

Here's what a pre-Lollipop update script looked like:

As shown, the recovery looks at this, finds each file, checks its signature, then applies a patch to it if it matches. This is the slow way of doing things, but it had a big benefit for rooters and those who like to mod their devices.

PSA: New Lollipop OTA Procedure Means Your Update Will Fail If Your System Is Modified In Any Way At All was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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The Project Tango Tablet Development Kit Is On The Play Store, But It's Not For Sale Yet

It looks like Google's Project Tango AR / sensor-beast tablet is headed to the Play Store soon, packing an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor and a boatload of sensors. Not to mention 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage, for some reason.

This is a development device, though, so despite the beefy specifications, there's probably no reason to buy it unless you're super interested in developing AR / 3D experiences for Android.

The Project Tango Tablet Development Kit Is On The Play Store, But It's Not For Sale Yet was written by the awesome team at Android Police.