Nexus 6 speculation

Zorachus said:
Not bad now, pretty much getting 6.5h SOT ;) And this was on the 4G network all day, no WiFi. I unplugged the phone off a full charged at 6:30am, and took this screen shot pic at 7:00pm. Also using Auto Brightness.

*SNIPPY*
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What ROM are you using on your phone?
 
Zorachus said:
I am getting sick battery life on this ROM ( AOSiP 5.1.1. ) + hells-Core kernel b3.

Last couple of days, each day has been about the same for battery life usage. Unplug phone off the charge around 6:30am with 100% charge, and then do a full workday and night with pretty heavy use most of the day, I plug it back on the charger around 10:30pm, and says I have around 40% battery left, and at the time usually have 3.5h Screen On time. So if I ran that down to 0%, I would probably get over 6h to maybe 6.5h SOT.

When I do check the full usage on very heavy days, when the battery gets to the single digits %, I am typically at 5.5h SOT, sometimes close to 6h.

My point is, this ROM + Kernel, can easily give me 5.5h Screen on time, and lately closer to 6h SOT. That's pretty frigging good in my book.
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OK, nvm I got my answer... lol
 
Google dropped the price on the Nexus 6 today, to $499.

And with the 5.1.1 update it runs smoother then ever, with much better battery life, than the original 5.0.1 it launched with.
 
Zorachus said:
Google dropped the price on the Nexus 6 today, to $499.

And with the 5.1.1 update it runs smoother then ever, with much better battery life, than the original 5.0.1 it launched with.
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Pulled the trigger on a $550 64GB model to replace my unrootable, un(bootloader)lockable AT&T Note 4. Very excited about it! Now with a Nexus 6 and on T-Mobile I'm much happier overall.
 
I have had my Nexus 6 like six months now, and I still like it a lot. I just love stock Android, with no bull crap bloat, and heavy UI's like Touchwiz or Sense, that lose the whole idea of Material Design, and the minimalistic purpose of stock Android.

Plus the Nexus 6 is so freaking smooth and fast, and with 5.1.1 has pretty good battery life. I average like 5.5h Screen On time each charge, and get a full days battery life.

I am typically a phone whore, always looking to get a new smartphone, or the next hot thing. And right now, there is not one phone I would trade my Nexus 6 for. Zero other phones I'd take over this Nexus 6 today. Only phone on my lsit of looking at maybe getting is the OnePlus Two and Nexus M by Huawei the 5.7" Nexus phone


Right now running this new ROM, all the buzz is that this ROM is the new must have, and best rock solid smooth ROM out there;

The Pure Nexus Project;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/rom-pure-nexus-project-t3148214

TimberWolf - Layers Theme
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitsykolayers.TimberWolfFree&hl=en

This is my fav theme, and it works flawlessly on this ROM
 
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I have to agree with Zorachus. My N5 broke last month and I need a temporary replacement phone while LG fixed it and since there weren't any local N5's I could pick up quick I opted for the 6. Maybe it's because I'm a giant but the size is nicer than I thought it would be and I've fallen in love with it.

Pros: Quick Charging is a must have in any future phone, it's my favorite feature. I don't have to charge the phone while I sleep anymore. Instead I plug in to the quick charger in the car and it's enough to get me through a significant portion of the day. Pretty good camera, fast lag free performance, and I like the extra rows of icons. Oh and the speakers....every phone should have front facing speakers.

Cons: Lollipop is still a complete and utter disaster. While the curved back is nice in the hand it's difficult to use on a table. The color saturation on the screen is terrible. The DAC in this thing is atrocious as well. Qi charging is hit or miss on smaller chargers so I have to pay attention to where the phone is resting. All in all that's a short list of complaints though.

In comparison my wife's Note 4 Edge is a laggy turd in comparison. I honestly planned on buying this phone and selling it when my N5 was fixed but at this point I'm not getting rid of it. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the next Nexus. I planned on skipping the 6 and waiting for a smaller phone but at this point I'm pretty damn happy.
 
I also have grown to hate Lollipop. I think it's the memory management. Especially after playing a game that uses up a lot of memory, the phone will be slow until I restart the phone. I also have multiple wearables on me, so I don't know if they are also at fault. KitKat was pretty consistent throughout the day. I've hardly ever needed to restart my phone with KitKat. Now it's on a multiple times a day basis...

As for Quick Charge, USB 3.1 Type-C almost guarantees that your phone will be charging at a faster speed than the current Quick Charge 2.0.
 
CHANG3D said:
I also have grown to hate Lollipop. I think it's the memory management. Especially after playing a game that uses up a lot of memory, the phone will be slow until I restart the phone. I also have multiple wearables on me, so I don't know if they are also at fault. KitKat was pretty consistent throughout the day. I've hardly ever needed to restart my phone with KitKat. Now it's on a multiple times a day basis...

As for Quick Charge, USB 3.1 Type-C almost guarantees that your phone will be charging at a faster speed than the current Quick Charge 2.0.
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Haven't had an issue with Lollipop.
 
Have you been on 5.1 yet, Chang3d? I was experiencing the same inconsistent lag on the stock 5.0.1 Sense ROM on my M8 and just decided a couple days ago to load up the 5.1 GPE ROM for the M8 and it has been pretty friggin fast so far. I wish I had tried this a long time ago, but I thought I would miss some of the Sense features too much. I still don't care much for the stock multitask card interface (much prefer Sense's tiles), but other than that, it is a pretty drastic improvement. Battery life seems a bit better too at least while I'm using it. I haven't tested it on standby much since I usually keep it plugged in at work and in the car.
 
I have both the OnePlus One and Nexus 6, obviously never ran kit Kat on the Nexus 6. But I will say that when I ran Kit Kat ROM's on my OnePlus One, battery life was SUBSTANTIALLY better, by a good amount.

I have tried a dozen different Lollipop ROM's and different kernels on my OnePlus One, and none of them, come even close to offering the battery life like the Kit Kat ROM's did.
 
T4rd said:
Have you been on 5.1 yet, Chang3d? I was experiencing the same inconsistent lag on the stock 5.0.1 Sense ROM on my M8 and just decided a couple days ago to load up the 5.1 GPE ROM for the M8 and it has been pretty friggin fast so far. I wish I had tried this a long time ago, but I thought I would miss some of the Sense features too much. I still don't care much for the stock multitask card interface (much prefer Sense's tiles), but other than that, it is a pretty drastic improvement. Battery life seems a bit better too at least while I'm using it. I haven't tested it on standby much since I usually keep it plugged in at work and in the car.
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The M8 with Sense is currently officially on 5.0.2. I might have to root again and see if things will be better with GPE, or even get the M9-based ROM. I might try the M9-based ROM before the GPE first though. I do actually prefer Sense thanks to all the cool widgets... (But I suppose I could download Beautiful Widgets on GPE.)

This Lollipop BS is the primary reason why I'm looking into the iPhone 6S now. But I could always pull a Deandre Jordan...
 
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harsaphes said:
Why do you feel Lollipop is a disaster? I can't find any fault with it.
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I have a lot of little complaints about it. For instance,

The notifications are a mess. The scrolling ticker in kitkat was much better as it didn't interrupt whatever you're doing. I'm happy that someone texted me but I don't need it to cover half of the screen to tell me that. I love it when I'm playing games and it covers the pause button so I can't stop and clear the damn message so I can see what I'm doing. It's especially annoying when I'm working a spreadsheet on my phone and texts are flying left and right covering what I'm trying to do

Sound management is a complete disaster. Let's say you're in the car in the morning listening to bluetooth and realize you forgot to turn your ringer back on. There's no way to do it without going into the settings menu since the volume rocker controls the bluetooth sound and they've completely eliminated the power button long press menu.

There isn't any way to dictate what is priority and what is not. I was in the movie theater last week and my phone was running out of juice. The sound was completely off and my phone decided to announce to the world that the battery had dropped below 15%. Same thing at night....the wife is asleep and I can't plug my phone in because it wants to announce that it's been rested on the charger with a big loud ding. What part of silent do the people at Google not get?!?! Same thing in the middle of the night....I want to check the time but God forbid I pull it off the Qi charger to do that because I'm in for another loud alert when I put it back on.

The power toggle widget is gone. It's the single most used part of the phone for me. Now there is no quick way to toggle the location settings. The pull-down toggle either turns location complete off or high accuracy. There's no way to toggle the battery saver without slogging through the settings menu.

I could go on and on about the little things that they completely broke in Lollipop. I don't know anyone that's updated and kept Lollipop. I literally know one person out of a hundred or so that has kept it....the rest have reverted back to Kit Kat.

I mean seriously, does the team that came up with Lollipop even use their phones?
 
CHANG3D said:
The M8 with Sense is currently officially on 5.0.2. I might have to root again and see if things will be better with GPE, or even get the M9-based ROM. I might try the M9-based ROM before the GPE first though. I do actually prefer Sense thanks to all the cool widgets... (But I suppose I could download Beautiful Widgets on GPE.)

This Lollipop BS is the primary reason why I'm looking into the iPhone 6S now. But I could always pull a D'angelo Jordan...
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Yeah, I meant to say the 5.0.2 ROM, I couldn't remember which version the stock ROM was on.

I always use Nova Launcher anyways, so I never used any of the Sense widgets. What I liked most about Sense was the multitasking UI, and native DLNA support so I can easily send the movies I have on my phone to my TVs in the house. I discovered BubbleUPNP and it works even better because it supports non-DLNA compatible formats (most AVIs for example) and transcodes the vids for the TV. All of my Xposed modules seem to be working fine in Xposed as well despite the Xposed framework still being an "Alpha" version for 5.1 (which I think was the same case for 5.0 anyways). So with the GravityBox module, I pretty much have all the same tweaks I like with Sense Tools (similar to GravityBox, just for Sense ROMs) and then some extras as well. That ROM has most of the other Sense apps included as well though, so you may be able to still use them on it.
 
Blown 89 said:
I have a lot of little complaints about it. For instance,

The notifications are a mess. The scrolling ticker in kitkat was much better as it didn't interrupt whatever you're doing. I'm happy that someone texted me but I don't need it to cover half of the screen to tell me that. I love it when I'm playing games and it covers the pause button so I can't stop and clear the damn message so I can see what I'm doing. It's especially annoying when I'm working a spreadsheet on my phone and texts are flying left and right covering what I'm trying to do

Sound management is a complete disaster. Let's say you're in the car in the morning listening to bluetooth and realize you forgot to turn your ringer back on. There's no way to do it without going into the settings menu since the volume rocker controls the bluetooth sound and they've completely eliminated the power button long press menu.

There isn't any way to dictate what is priority and what is not. I was in the movie theater last week and my phone was running out of juice. The sound was completely off and my phone decided to announce to the world that the battery had dropped below 15%. Same thing at night....the wife is asleep and I can't plug my phone in because it wants to announce that it's been rested on the charger with a big loud ding. What part of silent do the people at Google not get?!?! Same thing in the middle of the night....I want to check the time but God forbid I pull it off the Qi charger to do that because I'm in for another loud alert when I put it back on.

The power toggle widget is gone. It's the single most used part of the phone for me. Now there is no quick way to toggle the location settings. The pull-down toggle either turns location complete off or high accuracy. There's no way to toggle the battery saver without slogging through the settings menu.

I could go on and on about the little things that they completely broke in Lollipop. I don't know anyone that's updated and kept Lollipop. I literally know one person out of a hundred or so that has kept it....the rest have reverted back to Kit Kat.

I mean seriously, does the team that came up with Lollipop even use their phones?
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Dayum, other than the heads up notifications, I have none of those issues on my 5.1 GPE ROM on my M8. What phone/ROM are you on? I'm guessing Samsung by the charging/low battery sound (which my wife's GS4 does too and I hate it as well). I fixed the heads up notifications in my stock ROM with HeadsOff though. Everything else isn't an issue in stock Lollipop from what I've seen. At least my M8 didn't make a sound when you plugged it in, unplugged it, or when it was dying in stock form or on this GPE ROM I'm running now.
 
T4rd said:
Dayum, other than the heads up notifications, I have none of those issues on my 5.1 GPE ROM on my M8. What phone/ROM are you on? I'm guessing Samsung by the charging/low battery sound (which my wife's GS4 does too and I hate it as well). I fixed the heads up notifications in my stock ROM with HeadsOff though. Everything else isn't an issue in stock Lollipop from what I've seen. At least my M8 didn't make a sound when you plugged it in, unplugged it, or when it was dying in stock form or on this GPE ROM I'm running now.
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Stock Lollipop on a Nexus 6. I had the same problems on stock Lollipop on the N5. Give me some credit here, no part of me ever wants to own another Samsung phone ever again.

I saw headsoff but haven't installed it yet. I don't like adding apps to my already crowded app drawer just to fix something the idiots at Google couldn't get right in the first place.
 
Blown 89 said:
Stock Lollipop on a Nexus 6. I had the same problems on stock Lollipop on the N5. Give me some credit here, no part of me ever wants to own another Samsung phone ever again.

I saw headsoff but haven't installed it yet. I don't like adding apps to my already crowded app drawer just to fix something the idiots at Google couldn't get right in the first place.
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I'm surprised you're not rooted then. Gravitybox let's fix/customize literally all of your issues. My ROM came with Xposed and Gravitybox installed already, so I guess that's why I don't have those issues.
 
Blown 89 said:
I have a lot of little complaints about it. For instance,
There isn't any way to dictate what is priority and what is not. I was in the movie theater last week and my phone was running out of juice. The sound was completely off and my phone decided to announce to the world that the battery had dropped below 15%. Same thing at night....the wife is asleep and I can't plug my phone in because it wants to announce that it's been rested on the charger with a big loud ding. What part of silent do the people at Google not get?!?! Same thing in the middle of the night....I want to check the time but God forbid I pull it off the Qi charger to do that because I'm in for another loud alert when I put it back on.
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I honestly have never had any of the above happen to me. My phone never announces anything. I take my phone off the wireless charger and back on and it alerts nothing.
Are you using the Priority screen, when you hit the volume down button the none, priority, all window should pop up allowing you to set what notification will sound an alert?
 
harsaphes said:
I honestly have never had any of the above happen to me. My phone never announces anything. I take my phone off the wireless charger and back on and it alerts nothing.
Are you using the Priority screen, when you hit the volume down button the none, priority, all window should pop up allowing you to set what notification will sound an alert?
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Priority. It happens when the media volume is up. So my nightly ritual is Drag Down -> Settings -> Sounds -> Media Volume Down -> Home -> Volume Button -> Priority. That's an absurd amount of steps to do such a God damn simple thing. My Nexus 5 behaved the same way.
 
Blown 89 said:
Priority. It happens when the media volume is up. So my nightly ritual is Drag Down -> Settings -> Sounds -> Media Volume Down -> Home -> Volume Button -> Priority. That's an absurd amount of steps to do such a God damn simple thing. My Nexus 5 behaved the same way.
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Or you...could...you know...just setup a Notifications quicktile and tap it a few times to set to silent. Or tap the volume key once and select silent in the popup that appears (can't remember if that is in Stock or if my ROM dev integrated that).

You like making things difficult in order to complain about it I suppose. ;)
 
Skripka said:
Or you...could...you know...just setup a Notifications quicktile and tap it a few times to set to silent. Or tap the volume key once and select silent in the popup that appears (can't remember if that is in Stock or if my ROM dev integrated that).
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As far as I know it's not in the stock os.

You like making things difficult in order to complain about it I suppose. ;)
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Not everyone enjoys spending their lives dicking with their phones to get something that should be there out of the box. That's something tech people have a very hard time understanding.
 
I have this option on my 5.1 GPE ROM:

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No messing with toggling volumes at night. This feature has pretty much been on all my phones/ROMs in some form, but don't think it was in stock andriod until lollipop.
 
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I have that screen too and set up priority notifications. There seem to be a ton of sounds that come through from media. On kitkat I'm able to mute everything with one touch.... media, alerts, system notifications, everything. On L however even setting it to "none" still allows media volume and system sounds through while blocking things like alarms but the charging beep and battery notifications remain. It seems to be only changing calls and message notifications. That aside, the volume switch just isn't practical and the lack of fine control of notifications out of the box is insufficient.
 
Blown 89 said:
I have that screen too and set up priority notifications. There seem to be a ton of sounds that come through from media. On kitkat I'm able to mute everything with one touch.... media, alerts, system notifications, everything. On L however even setting it to "none" still allows media volume and system sounds through while blocking things like alarms but the charging beep and battery notifications remain. It seems to be only changing calls and message notifications. That aside, the volume switch just isn't practical and the lack of fine control of notifications out of the box is insufficient.
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Back in March I started a thread that substantiates what you have written.

Lollipop's "non-priority" sounds breaking through continues into Android 5.1

It has been posted as an ongoing bug on Android Open Source Project - Issue Tracker.
Issue 80154: Lollipop Priority Mode not respecting priority interruptions setting

Issue 79744: Notification for battery saver plays sound in priority mode

Issue 79457: Whatsapp, Viber and possibly others allowed to bypass priority notification settings.
 
Interadasting.. I have no (unwanted) sounds come through with priority mode enabled on my M8. I guess that bug was fixed in either the stock 5.1 GPE ROM or maybe one of the mods the dev did to the ROM.
 
BTW, Blown, from your suggestion, I did root and installed GPE 5.1 on my M8. (I thought there was a M9 rom, but I think I was just confused.) So far so good, I haven't had the need to reboot yet (other than installation/restore stuff). But I don't know if that's got to do with reformatting the internal storage; I've resetted the stock ROM many times and it didn't fix the eventual lag. In any case, I've tried to make it lag like I did before, by playing Family Guy and Doctor Who, browse a few tech websites, and use Dolphin to watch pr0n. Working fantastic lag free still.

Google really fucked up 5.0...

P.S. 5.0.2 didn't lag unless I do play something memory intensive.
 
That was my suggestion, Chang3d. :p

Did you just install a straight port of the GPE ROM or one based on GPE with some tweaks/Aroma Installer? I started having some major lag on mine last night, but I think it was because it was updating some apps in the background while I was playing a game. I haven't seen a phone/ROM yet where updating apps almost makes the phone unusable while the apps are updating/installing, which is very annoying. I would normally blame memory I/O speeds, but there has to be more to it for it to have that much of an effect on performance. iOS doesn't seem to have this issue at least, even on an old iPad 2 I've tested while updating apps. I guess Android has a pretty bad file management system or something. I saw F2FS support for the kernel that came with my GPE ROM, but have no clue how much better that supposed to be or how it's supposed to help anything over the stock kernel, or if F2FS is even enabled by default.
 
Oh, sorry, y'all look alike! I'm on the straight GPE port.

It's started to lag for your?!? So, this is what I'm kind of scared of.. Cause when we first got the stock 5.0.1/5.0.2 update on the M8, everything was fine too. It's like after three weeks or so when things started to lag. Then it got really laggy, so laggy that I had to reboot the phone to get it to work.

Let's see what's coming in the next few weeks...
 
Well maybe I just found the culprit, one of my friends sent me a screenshot of Snapchat using like 5 hours CPU time in his battery stats, so I check my System Panel app and sure enough Snapchat has my CPU pegged out at near 100% constantly. Uninstalled. I can't believe we're still dealing with shit like this 12 major iterations (or names at least) into Android's development. No app should be able to consume that much resources in the background like that unless you explicitly allow it somehow.
 
Here's a good one for y'all...
Whenever I am picking up a call on my nexus 6 now, the phone just automatically hangs up on people. I've already done a factory reset on the phone, no change in behavior.
I'm on a stock rom and no major tweaks or anything.
Anyone else experience this?

EDIT: got a warranty replacement phone. Let's see how long this one lasts...
 
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JSClark said:
Here's a good one for y'all...
Whenever I am picking up a call on my nexus 6 now, the phone just automatically hangs up on people. I've already done a factory reset on the phone, no change in behavior.
I'm on a stock rom and no major tweaks or anything.
Anyone else experience this?

EDIT: got a warranty replacement phone. Let's see how long this one lasts...
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Annnnd the warranty phone is doing the same thing.

Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere I have to update? It seems like when a call comes in when my phone is in sleep mode, I can swipe to answer (or click my Bluetooth call button to answer) but it hangs right up. Also, seems like sometimes when I answer from an interrupt it hangs up too.

Is this a known flaw with 5.1.1? Anyone else on nexus 6 experience this?

For what it's worth, I also have a first gen pebble smartwatch too. And my LG Tone headset. Both are on smartlock.
 
JSClark said:
Annnnd the warranty phone is doing the same thing.

Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere I have to update? It seems like when a call comes in when my phone is in sleep mode, I can swipe to answer (or click my Bluetooth call button to answer) but it hangs right up. Also, seems like sometimes when I answer from an interrupt it hangs up too.

Is this a known flaw with 5.1.1? Anyone else on nexus 6 experience this?

For what it's worth, I also have a first gen pebble smartwatch too. And my LG Tone headset. Both are on smartlock.
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Have you tried a new SIM card? Just the last outside the box option I can think of.
 
Zorachus said:
I have had my Nexus 6 like six months now, and I still like it a lot. I just love stock Android, with no bull crap bloat, and heavy UI's like Touchwiz or Sense, that lose the whole idea of Material Design, and the minimalistic purpose of stock Android.

Plus the Nexus 6 is so freaking smooth and fast, and with 5.1.1 has pretty good battery life. I average like 5.5h Screen On time each charge, and get a full days battery life.

I am typically a phone whore, always looking to get a new smartphone, or the next hot thing. And right now, there is not one phone I would trade my Nexus 6 for. Zero other phones I'd take over this Nexus 6 today. Only phone on my lsit of looking at maybe getting is the OnePlus Two and Nexus M by Huawei the 5.7" Nexus phone


Right now running this new ROM, all the buzz is that this ROM is the new must have, and best rock solid smooth ROM out there;

The Pure Nexus Project;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/development/rom-pure-nexus-project-t3148214

TimberWolf - Layers Theme
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitsykolayers.TimberWolfFree&hl=en

This is my fav theme, and it works flawlessly on this ROM
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Are there any steps on how to unlock, root and flash this? I looked all thru the xda thread on this. I'm not exactly new to the rooting thing but haven't rooted a device since like 2009.
 
JSClark said:
Are there any steps on how to unlock, root and flash this? I looked all thru the xda thread on this. I'm not exactly new to the rooting thing but haven't rooted a device since like 2009.
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Just go to the Nexus 6 subforum on XDA and look at the stickies. I'm sure there are detailed directions there as there are for virtually any other phone.
 
JSClark said:
Are there any steps on how to unlock, root and flash this? I looked all thru the xda thread on this. I'm not exactly new to the rooting thing but haven't rooted a device since like 2009.
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T4rd said:
Just go to the Nexus 6 subforum on XDA and look at the stickies. I'm sure there are detailed directions there as there are for virtually any other phone.
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Further Nexus devices are stupid easy as Androids go to root. Turn on OEM unlocking on the device in Dev Options, and then go to town with Nexus Root Tool or ADB command line.
 
JSClark said:
Are there any steps on how to unlock, root and flash this? I looked all thru the xda thread on this. I'm not exactly new to the rooting thing but haven't rooted a device since like 2009.
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I always follow this guys instructions. Just follow the step by step tutorial, and is easy as pie :)

VIDEO;
How to Root Nexus 6! [Win/Mac/Linux][Android 5.1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTClxlvrInE

WEBSITE;
http://highonandroid.com/android-howtos/how-to-root-nexus-6-windowsmaclinux/

Open up both pages, to show them side by side on your monitor. The YouTube video on one page, and then his written instructions on another page. The whole process should take less than 15 minutes, and you will be rooted, with Custom Recovery.

And then downland the ROM, and the GAPPS, and throw onto your phone's storage. Reboot into Recovery, do a full system wipe first, and then flash the ROM, and immediately after that, flash the GAPPS, reboot, and then setup up your phone, and profit.
 
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