I'm installing what is obviously the security update right now (9+ GB). This seems to be some kind of prerequisite to the 6.0 OTA update.
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If it is you can't sideload the OTA thanks to Google. Only a factory image which erases everything will work. Of course since Google backup service if you can even call it a backup service only backs up your dated wallpaper and dated layout homescreen then I hope you don't have any important game saves or app data because you can't back it up. Don't tell me about third party backup apps if it requires "root" then it means a "factory reset" before you can even use it. It is like fixing up a old car but the only way to save the engine is to trash the entire car and buy a new one.Is your build number LMY48T with the security update?
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Yes they are, I sideloaded it onto mine and my wife's WiFi versions today using adb. No root and didn't unlock the bootloader.Obviously the OTA links aren't out yet still... Even though they said it was
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Yes they are, I sideloaded it onto mine and my wife's WiFi versions today using adb. No root and didn't unlock the bootloader.
Worked great and both tabs are running smoothly.☺
Will I get the OTA 6.0 update if I am still on Kit Kat? Right now I checked system update and it wants to download 5.0.2. Lollipop ruined my Nexus 7 2012 and I don't want to do that to my 7 2013.
The images are available, yes, but the Over The Air updates that one downloads and applies directly (that is to say, not by sideloading) obviously aren't.
The OTA files are available. Android Central has had the links to them since the 5th of this month. ☺ That's where I got them. You do have to sideload them, but they are the upgrade OTA files. I didn't lose any files or settings.
As Jack Wolfe said, those are the images, not the direct OTA.
-- Lots of stuff that continues to miss the point entirely --
Yes, yes, we know about the links to the OTA images that require sideloading. The rest of us have been talking about the actual direct OTA push of the update to our devices that we are still patiently waiting for. That's what Over The Air means.
Today I installed an update that seems to be a preparatory to 6.0.