Two questions about sideloading KitKat:
1. Why is it called "sideload"?
2. Is there a way to do this with a Mac? All the instructions for sideloading I've read so far involve a Windows app as part of the process.
Thanks,
Doug@should just be patient
the only reason we call it sideload is because the adb command use keyword "sideload"
its a lot simple to do it on mac... i factory restored my N4 on mac yesterday and it only took 2 min to set up the fastboot and place the image on fastboot...
flashed took 5 min... doing it on windows is a pain in the but
1. download sdk manager for mac. extract it and go to [extracted folder]-->sdk-->platform-tools
2. place the ota file in platform-tools
3. open terminal on platform-tools
4. run the sideloading command on the terminal. thats it
well obviously u have to enable usb debugging from developer option