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Issue Free 4.3 Rom for Kid

Hey Guys,
I recently upgraded to the new Nexus 7 and am giving my old one to my little sister. I wanted to update to 4.3 but am not sure if there are any stable roms that she won't need to update or trouble shoot yet.
Any suggestions?
Should i just try the stock 4.3 for her?
Thanks

Alex2x3 said:
Hey Guys,
I recently upgraded to the new Nexus 7 and am giving my old one to my little sister. I wanted to update to 4.3 but am not sure if there are any stable roms that she won't need to update or trouble shoot yet.
Any suggestions?
Should i just try the stock 4.3 for her?
Thanks
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I would recommend stock 4.3
1. Wont need to trouble shoot.
2. Will get a message when Google pushes an update
3. Stable

I agree with kilometers4...
Stock JellyBean 4.3 is smooth, stable and secure.... and has minimal maintenance hassles.
Difficult to recommend anything else really.
Rgrds,
Ged.

Anything with stock kernel is basically reliable in the fact the source is AOSP so everything is opened up to us and is stable. Can't go wrong with stock. I myself am currently using one of the first roms that came out Clean ROM 4.0 and it's just peachy.
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What everyone else said. For a kid the most stable and trouble free ROM is usually stock.
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Will the 4.4 OTA update replace the ignored 4.3 update?

I've been ignoring the 4.3 update prompt, it will never see my phone.
With 4.4 rumored to release tomorrow, if I reboot my phone, will I instead see the 4.4 update prompt? Will I be able to tell if it's 4.3 or 4.4?
I hope I don't have to have a 4.3 phone to get the 4.4 update?
If so, I hope a factory link will pop up soon to flash through stock recovery using fastboot in nexus 4 toolkit.
Thanks.

I don't think it will release tommorow or this week anyway..
But as I know from Galaxy's devices you should update to the version before the new one...then you'll get the new version update.
I guess someone will export it as soon as it goes out and you could flash it stright..

many of the ota updates arent full rom updates, but partial roms. because of this, you would need 4.3. even if someone posts a link to the ota file, if its not a full rom, you would hve to update it over 4.3.

Its not going to come tomorrow it's probably just being announced
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I HAVE THE EXACT SAME QUESTION AND GOOGLE IS NOT ANSWERING ME YET.
Please if anybody knows answer!
Will we receive the 4.4 OTA on a 4.2.2 running Nexus 4?

Updates are incremental, there's a reason to keep our phones up to date in order to receive OTA's
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magued2001 said:
I HAVE THE EXACT SAME QUESTION AND GOOGLE IS NOT ANSWERING ME YET.
Please if anybody knows answer!
Will we receive the 4.4 OTA on a 4.2.2 running Nexus 4?
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If you go to general forum there's a thread with the factory firmware image.
You can use adb fastboot to install it from your stock factory recovery (I'm assuming your phone is unrooted etc).
This will give you a completely new phone with official kit Kat. I just did it with mine.
Then install the new Google Now and GEL launcher apks and your phone will look exactly like the N5.

[Q] Upgrading to Android 4.4 KitKat

Hello. Quick question. I got my Galaxy S4 from at&t and removed the stock TouchWiz ROM and put in the official Google Edition Android 4.3 ROM from the Galaxy S4 i9505G (I believe that model is the Google Play edition S4). I just wanted to know since I have the official Google Edition stock ROM on my at&t Galaxy S4, will I get the update for 4.4 KitKat? Please let me know if a question I am asking is already out in the forms. Other than that, let me know with an answer to this question.

The official 4.3 ota isnt out yet for our we have a long way to go unless someone delevops it
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I believe the OTA wouldn't work, or may brick your device. I'd wait for someone to build it so it doesn't try and replace your bootloader or anything
Sent from my SGH-I337 running Foxhound 2.0

No. Do not take the official 4.4 update. It may brick your phone. Wait for the devs to make a cwm flashable ROM and then flash that.
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The stock OTA in the GPE rom shouldn't even work on our SGH-1337 devices, and if it somehow did manage to work it would probably soft-brick the device. Just wait until 4.4 builds come out for custom roms, it'll probably take a couple months to see a stable release but it'll be worth the wait. On a side note, there is a thread laying around here somewhere with some of the 4.4 apps ripped off a Nexus 5 that will run and function correctly on the 4.2.2 - 4.3.1 builds. I'm using the 4.4 keyboard and I find it a lot more accurate with swipe. :good:

Alright. Now I know. I will definitely wait for the ROMs then.
Thank you so much everyone for answering my question.

[Q] Back to stock before update? Further prerequisites?

Hello everyone,
I couldn't find a thread dedicated to this specific question with a quick search, feel free to point one out to me if I just overlooked it.
I have been using my Nexus 4 with different ROMs for the past year, but I think I'd like to try vanilla again when Lollipop hits net week (it is next week, right? I can't wait...)
I thought I would just download the image from Google's servers. Is this a sensible way to do it or would you recommend going back to the stock 4.4 Firmware before and doing the update OTA? Any up- or downsides either way?
Also, if I am going back to stock in one of the two ways, is there anything else I should keep in mind (besides backup of course)?
Should I also flash the stock recovery or is it OK to keep TWRP and just flash bootloader/radio/system/boot?
Thank you!
ht

dasdreHmomenT said:
Hello everyone,
I couldn't find a thread dedicated to this specific question with a quick search, feel free to point one out to me if I just overlooked it.
I have been using my Nexus 4 with different ROMs for the past year, but I think I'd like to try vanilla again when Lollipop hits net week (it is next week, right? I can't wait...)
I thought I would just download the image from Google's servers. Is this a sensible way to do it or would you recommend going back to the stock 4.4 Firmware before and doing the update OTA? Any up- or downsides either way?
Also, if I am going back to stock in one of the two ways, is there anything else I should keep in mind (besides backup of course)?
Should I also flash the stock recovery or is it OK to keep TWRP and just flash bootloader/radio/system/boot?
Thank you!
ht
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Just flash the lollipop factory image when it comes out
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jd1639 said:
Just flash the lollipop factory image when it comes out
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Thank you!
Now on with the waiting....

Nexus 4 ANDROID M!

Guys, there is enough of Android ROM Stock M on Nexus 4? ..... If you where I can find this ROM?
Thanks for the answers hello

Not quite sure what you are asking. Does this help?

Hey I heard nexus 4 is going to have Android M but there isn't any ROM based in it yet
So wait to the OTA or wait to see the factory image in the Factory Image for Nexus to install it manually

Benjaaa said:
Hey I heard nexus 4 is going to have Android M but there isn't any ROM based in it yet
So wait to the OTA or wait to see the factory image in the Factory Image for Nexus to install it manually
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There is nothing confirmed either way.

There's nothing in the hardware of the phone that would prevent Android M being produced for it. Whether Google will put in the effort is another matter.