Hello friends, as you all know, Google has announced the rollout of Android 5.0 Lollipop for its Nexus series of Smartphones and tablets. Google disclosed that these devices would be the first to get Android updates. The Nexus series is a part of the first wave of devices to get a taste of the latest dessert.
The process requires you to manually flash all the files in the update. It has also led many people reporting errors of missing back buttons and phone memory getting downgraded to 16 GB. Here you do not have any option but to go for a complete system wipe to extricate yourself from the problems. In view of this, we would strongly recommend waiting for the OTA update if you get the system.img error. As you can see from the nature of the instructions, this is a slightly technical process. Here you should be able to update your Android device to Lollipop by following certain steps given below. However, for most users our suggestion would be to just wait for the OTA update to pop up on their Smartphones.
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In this tutorial we will show you how to manually download Android 5.0 Lollipop and force install it on your Google Nexus devices.
- Download and install the latest Android SDK on your Windows computer. This installs two programs: ADB, and Fastboot. This can be accessed through the command terminal on your PC, as a part of the software development kit.
- You can add SDk folder to the path by using following sub-step.
- Right click 'My Computer' and click on 'Properties'.
- Click on 'Advanced System Settings'.
- Click on - System Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables.
- In the Window, select 'Path', then click on 'Edit', and then type in the name of the directory where you installed the SDK, and remember that each entry is separated by a semi-colon.
- Enable USB debugging on your device. First, go to - Settings > About Phone > Software information.
- Tap Build number seven times and Go to Settings > Developer options. Tick USB debugging.
- Download the correct factory image for your device.
- Connect your device to your computer over USB and Start the device in fastboot mode. Once you are done with booting your device is ready with Android 5.0 Lollipop.
