Nexus 4 Owners Thread - apps, tips & tricks!

The Black Oil · 03-06-2014 10:44PM

Yep and yep. Play Store just sits there circling. Twitter and Viber connected via wifi, not the PS, though.

Slevster · 04-06-2014 12:22AM

The Black Oil wrote: »

Yep and yep. Play Store just sits there circling. Twitter and Viber connected via wifi, not the PS, though.

I have had similar problems with play services once or twice before, but it was usually related to me messing around with kernels or Roms. Clearing data usually works, or else a wipe if rooted, or factory reset if not. (Also a reinstall of gapps if rooted)

NegativeCreep · 05-06-2014 12:16AM

Does anyone know when 4.4.3 will be available for nexus 4?

same ol sh1te · 05-06-2014 12:23AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Does anyone know when 4.4.3 will be available for nexus 4?

It's already available, my wife got it on hers earlier, I've a nexus 5 and still haven't got it on mine. You have to wait, it'll show as being available soon.

BionicRasher · 05-06-2014 06:48AM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Does anyone know when 4.4.3 will be available for nexus 4?

Got it OTA at about 7pm last night. Stock unrooted phone

jozi · 05-06-2014 09:25AM

I'm not having any battery drain problems stock but rooted.

ionapaul · 05-06-2014 09:38AM

BionicRasher wrote: »

Got it OTA at about 7pm last night. Stock unrooted phone

Got mine at the same time last night. No sign of it for my Nexus 7 (2012) yet.

natnifnolnacs · 05-06-2014 10:05PM

Got mine this evening at around 8pm. Hopefully will sort battery drain

Colemania · 05-06-2014 10:08PM

natnifnolnacs wrote: »

Got mine this evening at around 8pm. Hopefully will sort battery drain

Still haven't got mine. Mines rooted by the way. I tried doing it manually yesterday but failed!

Colemania · 08-06-2014 09:09AM

Still haven't got my update....

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 09:53AM

Updated myself last night. Phone is rooted so had to flash the factory image. I didn't flash the userdata img file so I was able to keep all my data. Thankfully it worked out fine.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 10:22AM

jgbyr wrote: »

Updated myself last night. Phone is rooted so had to flash the factory image. I didn't flash the userdata img file so I was able to keep all my data. Thankfully it worked out fine.

I rooted my phone recently and downloaded the factory image for 4.4.3 and all the tools needed but I can't seem to do it. Dunno what I'm doing wrong to be honest. There's no flash-all.bat file in my directory so when it got to that step I didn't know what to do

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 10:39AM

Colemania wrote: »

I rooted my phone recently and downloaded the factory image for 4.4.3 and all the tools needed but I can't seem to do it. Dunno what I'm doing wrong to be honest. There's no flash-all.bat file in my directory so when it got to that step I didn't know what to do

Flash-all wouldn't work for me, it seems it can happen so I flashed the files individually. I'm out at the moment but when I get home I'll get the list from the laptop & post them for you.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 11:04AM

jgbyr wrote: »

Flash-all wouldn't work for me, it seems it can happen so I flashed the files individually. I'm out at the moment but when I get home I'll get the list from the laptop & post them for you.

Thanks very much

Basq · 08-06-2014 11:18AM

Don't know if it's been a problem for anyone else but reception and data coverage has been definitely affected since I downloaded update on Friday.

Have one bar at the minute around my house.. always been 3-4 bars before this update.

Walked in for a few pints last night - got "lost connectivity" message trying to use the Net / Spotify. Restarted phone, turned Airplane Mode on / off and it eventually kicked in.

Maybe it's network issues but I'm doubting it!

EGriff · 08-06-2014 11:35AM

Google Play Services is still draining my battery after the update.

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 12:30PM

Colemania wrote: »

I rooted my phone recently and downloaded the factory image for 4.4.3 and all the tools needed but I can't seem to do it. Dunno what I'm doing wrong to be honest. There's no flash-all.bat file in my directory so when it got to that step I didn't know what to do

Ok,here's what I did to get the update. First of all make sure you have a nandroid backup. Then at least if it all goes wrong you can restore using CWM or TWRP.

The Factory image files need to be extracted to the same folder as the ADB/Fastboot.

I removed userdata image file from image-occam-ktu84l.zip,as I wanted to keep my data. If you want to keep a custom recovery then also remove the recovery image file.

Then opening a command prompt in the folder, I entered the following commands (waiting for each to complete in sequence).

This is the syntax I need , not sure if its the same for everyone.

fastboot-windows flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz30d.img

fastboot-windows reboot-bootloader

fastboot-windows flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-cefwmazm-2.0.1701.02.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot-windows update image-occam-ktu84l.zip

Once it completed the phone rebooted & I put the SuperSu zip on the internal card & flashed in recovery to get root back.

Hope this helps. It worked for me,others may have an easier way of doing it. As i mentioned earlier flash-all.bat is supposed to run all the above but it wouldn't work for me.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 01:19PM

jgbyr wrote: »

Ok,here's what I did to get the update. First of all make sure you have a nandroid backup. Then at least if it all goes wrong you can restore using CWM or TWRP.

The Factory image files need to be extracted to the same folder as the ADB/Fastboot.

I removed userdata image file from image-occam-ktu84l.zip,as I wanted to keep my data. If you want to keep a custom recovery then also remove the recovery image file.

Then opening a command prompt in the folder, I entered the following commands (waiting for each to complete in sequence).

This is the syntax I need , not sure if its the same for everyone.

fastboot-windows flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz30d.img

fastboot-windows reboot-bootloader

fastboot-windows flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-cefwmazm-2.0.1701.02.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot-windows update image-occam-ktu84l.zip

Once it completed the phone rebooted & I put the SuperSu zip on the internal card & flashed in recovery to get root back.

Hope this helps. It worked for me,others may have an easier way of doing it. As i mentioned earlier flash-all.bat is supposed to run all the above but it wouldn't work for me.

In the factory image file i got there's only one file in the zip. That's not right so is it?

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 01:27PM

Colemania wrote: »

In the factory image file i got there's only one file in the zip. That's not right so is it?

No, there should be alot more. Did you properly extract the contents using the likes of 7zip? In the image file alone there are I think 6 files.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 01:44PM

jgbyr wrote: »

No, there should be alot more. Did you properly extract the contents using the likes of 7zip? In the image file alone there are I think 6 files.

In the zip there's a tar file and that's it

5uspect · 08-06-2014 02:17PM

Basq wrote: »

Don't know if it's been a problem for anyone else but reception and data coverage has been definitely affected since I downloaded update on Friday.

Have one bar at the minute around my house.. always been 3-4 bars before this update.

Walked in for a few pints last night - got "lost connectivity" message trying to use the Net / Spotify. Restarted phone, turned Airplane Mode on / off and it eventually kicked in.

Maybe it's network issues but I'm doubting it!

I haven't noticed myself but I wasn't out much this weekend. I'm on three so ****ty coverage is par for the course.

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 02:24PM

Colemania wrote: »

In the zip there's a tar file and that's it

Then extract that also to get the files inside it.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 02:28PM

jgbyr wrote: »

Then extract that also to get the files inside it.

oh i didn't think there was any files in it. so i use 7zip to extract them? like winrar didn't detect anything

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 02:33PM

Colemania wrote: »

oh i didn't think there was any files in it. so i use 7zip to extract them? like winrar didn't detect anything

I'm not sure if I extracted it or just clicked on it. Either way there are more files in there & you need them.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 03:09PM

jgbyr wrote: »

I'm not sure if I extracted it or just clicked on it. Either way there are more files in there & you need them.

ok i've extracted them and trying it now. i've just noticed that any root related apps like nandroid backup and super su are acting like my phone isn't rooted even though it is......

Basq · 08-06-2014 03:14PM

5uspect wrote: »

I haven't noticed myself but I wasn't out much this weekend. I'm on three so ****ty coverage is par for the course.

Yeah, I'm on Three as well.. and while coverage is patchy at best most days, the route I walked yesterday where I'd no coverage was always a strong area for data in the past.. so definitely something is not right.

jonski · 08-06-2014 03:41PM

Have we not gone through all this before , the sequence with which the Nexus is updated goes something like this . Day 1 : release it to 1% of phones , wait a few days for feed back then release it to 5% wait a few days for feedback then 10% then 25% , 50% and finally 100% . This way they get feedback making sure that some bug that they might have missed gets picked up before it hits all of the phones . I can't remember where I read this originally ( pretty sure it was here though ) and the details I put up aren't exactly right but it is roughly how it goes . I think it's also done by serial number or something like that . Now I sit back and wait to be ( rightly ) corrected .

Colemania · 08-06-2014 03:44PM

Got the update flashed eventually anyway! Thought i did something wrong when it said it couldn't find boot.sig and recovery.sig and then started erasing stuff!

all's good though

jgbyr · 08-06-2014 03:50PM

Colemania wrote: »

Got the update flashed eventually anyway! Thought i did something wrong when it said it couldn't find boot.sig and recovery.sig and then started erasing stuff!

all's good though

Glad it's sorted.

Colemania · 08-06-2014 03:56PM

SuperSu is on my phone but i just checked and it's definitely not rooted. Something must have went wrong in the process but I'm not trying it again! Gave me heart attacks last time!

Anyway, my problem with the phone at the moment is that every 2nd time i turn on my phone, the home button doesn't work and i can't put in my pin code to access the mobile network. once i turn it off and on again its fine. Very odd though

Nexus 4 Owners Thread - apps, tips & tricks!

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