Nexus 6: Marshmallow 6.0 Discussion - Images / OTA

[vepac]

I just got the security update 20 minutes ago and it changed my build from lmy48m to lmy48w.

Posted via the Android Central App from my VZW Nexus 6 on Consumer Cellular

 

[ODog2323]

I just got the security update 20 minutes ago and it changed my build from lmy48m to lmy48w.

Posted via the Android Central App from my VZW Nexus 6 on Consumer Cellular

Same here. Got excited for a second :-/

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Nexus 7 2013

 

[Craig Stannard]

I just got the security update 20 minutes ago and it changed my build from lmy48m to lmy48w.

Posted via the Android Central App from my VZW Nexus 6 on Consumer Cellular

I just got it a little while ago also.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[robinepowell]

I just did update to Marshmallow 6 and now I cannot connect to the internet. How do I fix that?

 

[NewAge]

Just thought it was odd that a 5 got the update before the 6's. I always thought that they rolled out to newer devices first, that's been my experience in the past.

That's not been my experience. There is no rhyme or reason to the roll outs other than devices not carrier branded are updated first. Since your Nexus 5 is from Google with no carrier interference it will obviously get the update first.

I just got the security update 20 minutes ago and it changed my build from lmy48m to lmy48w.

Posted via the Android Central App from my VZW Nexus 6 on Consumer Cellular

This is not a security update thread. Are you trolling me or what?

 

[theduder]

Been on a fresh install of 6.0 since last Friday. Still fantastic. Battery is too good to be true and the phone is like new. Really truly perfect.

I knew this update would take weeks. The one thing I'm puzzled by is why Google decided to roll the security update into the Marshmallow update for some phones (like the 5) but others require the security update before the jump to 6.0.

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

 

[LeoRex]

The one thing I'm puzzled by is why Google decided to roll the security update into the Marshmallow update for some phones (like the 5) but others require the security update before the jump to 6.0.

Resources and program management decisions. Google might be a huge company, but they don't have unlimited resources. The dev teams are only so large and can only get things developed and tested so fast. So they have to make decisions based on those resource constraints. The Nexus 5 had a single path that Google controled, so they it is an easy equation to figure out. The 6 had several different flavors, and some of those requred carrier involvement in the process (which is NEVER good for speedy updates). So they must have made the decision that the security update was more critical than getting the OTAs out there....

 

[rickms80]

Been on a fresh install of 6.0 since last Friday. Still fantastic. Battery is too good to be true and the phone is like new. Really truly perfect.

I knew this update would take weeks. The one thing I'm puzzled by is why Google decided to roll the security update into the Marshmallow update for some phones (like the 5) but others require the security update before the jump to 6.0.

Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

This is truly my personal thoughts not fact but here goes. I think the monthly patches somehow skip the carrier testing bureaucracy and the larger updates don't. The larger updates with feature changes and such like marshmallow have the run the carrier testing gauntlet. Of course this is exclusive to the Nexus 6 being that Nexus 5 has already seen 6.0 rolling out. So it makes since to patch 5.1.1 on the Nexus 6. Carrier approval may take awhile....:-\

Corrections are welcome.

 

[LeoRex]

I think the monthly patches somehow skip the carrier testing bureaucracy and the larger updates don't. The larger updates with feature changes and such like marshmallow have the run the carrier testing gauntlet

Astute observation.... a 5.1.1 security update will most likely not touch something the carriers need to qualify (like a new radio baseband).

 

[theduder]

This is truly my personal thoughts not fact but here goes. I think the monthly patches somehow skip the carrier testing bureaucracy and the larger updates don't. The larger updates with feature changes and such like marshmallow have the run the carrier testing gauntlet. Of course this is exclusive to the Nexus 6 being that Nexus 5 has already seen 6.0 rolling out. So it makes since to patch 5.1.1 on the Nexus 6. Carrier approval may take awhile....:-\

Corrections are welcome.

That may be true but that isn't what I was pointing out.

I was stating that some phones (like the 5) didn't have an "a" and "b" OTA. The "a" being the security update. That means for whatever reason, the branch for those handsets were somehow easier to roll those security updates into 6.0 vs having to break it out.

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[Bront]

Anyone have issues where the alarms don't always wake the phone properly? Maybe it's because I'm not using the native alarm app?

Battery life has been awesome though. I get though a 16 hour day with more than 50% of the battery left with 2h15m screen time on average.

 

[LeoRex]

Anyone have issues where the alarms don't always wake the phone properly? Maybe it's because I'm not using the native alarm app?

Do you have an alarm icon on your status bar? If you have an alarm set and no icon up top, your alarm isn't registered with the system, so Doze will stomp on the app and it'll never fire. I ran into this early on, with Preview 1. The alarm application I was using wasn't properly registering an alarm with the system.... First morning that I needed an alarm, it didn't go off until I picked up the phone and turned it on... then the alarms started firing.

So I just switched to an app that does 'official' alarms... Timely (which Google bought at some point).

 

[BlackLogistics]

MRA58K 10/14/2015
OS upgrade to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

OTA update Sprint just arrived

 

[Phil Nickinson]

Happen to snag the URL?

 

[anon(9072051)]

Happen to snag the URL?

Here are instructions for doing that if anyone else gets lucky:

http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/05/download-nexus-ota-url-file/

 

[tonyr6]

Thanks! Many people have posted the exact same thing. I wonder how many more security update posts we will get?

I agree. Lollipop is a security threat on its own. Why push a stupid useless security update which fixed nothing still with Lollipop. Just push 6.0. After which I was forced to sideload it on my Nexus 6 which was a pain and my Nexus 7 (2013) easier and it fixed many issues I had with my Nexus 6. Cell signal is stronger and phone calls on voLTE no longer sound like they are underwater.

Also the issues I had with my WiFi with my old Asus RT-N66W might have been fixed (anyone with this router does streaming music slow down speeds to a crawl like with Lollipop) but I don't know since I upgraded to a Netgear AC1900 I had no choice with Lollipop aka Lollirot.

Also battery life especially standby time is much improved.

 

[jweimn]

MRA58K10/14/2015
OS upgrade to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

OTA update Sprint just arrived

Grab the URL!!!

 

[ybcthanerd]

Re: Post Here When You Get Marshmallow 6.0 OTA

yea i jus got that what a let down lol

 

[ybcthanerd]

Re: Post Here When You Get Marshmallow 6.0 OTA

today i just got the security update

 

[NewAge]

Re: Post Here When You Get Marshmallow 6.0 OTA

I quit