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4.4.3

Just upgraded. Everything went smooth. My phone has been slowing down on the boot up lately, so I may go ahead and do a factory reset and start 4.4.3 with a clean slate.
 
bjacks12 said:
Just upgraded. Everything went smooth. My phone has been slowing down on the boot up lately, so I may go ahead and do a factory reset and start 4.4.3 with a clean slate.
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I plan to do a factory reset after I get the update to start with a clean slate as well. I seem to always get my OTA on the first Saturday following rollouts (just dumb luck), so hopefully I'll get it this weekend as well.
 
Medion said:
I plan to do a factory reset after I get the update to start with a clean slate as well. I seem to always get my OTA on the first Saturday following rollouts (just dumb luck), so hopefully I'll get it this weekend as well.
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If you plan on starting over anyway, why not just use the factory image?
 
lunatic59 said:
It's actually easier than applying the update. :D
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And makes sure that there aren't any pre-existing issues that may cause problems down the road. I generally like to flash the factory image every 4-6 months to make sure every file system gets cleaned up, particularly before any major ROM updates. :thumbup:
 
I'm the opposite. I never reinstall the OS from scratch anymore. Just let the OTA update do its thing. Never had a problem many times on many devices. Starting over just seems like a waste of time.
 
Crashdamage said:
I'm the opposite. I never reinstall the OS from scratch anymore. Just let the OTA update do its thing. Never had a problem many times on many devices. Starting over just seems like a waste of time.
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Granted, I'm pretty much never stock. I flash kernels and ROM updates on a weekly basis, so can (potentially) end up with a lot of bits and pieces scattered about the file system. That's the reason I like the periodic factory flash; I definitely would not do that as regularly if I was actually running the stock OS - only as a troubleshooting measure when I ran into issues I couldn't figure out.
 
In my early Android days I flashed ROMs, fooled around with kernels, overclocking, etc etc. But the last 3-4 years the hardware has gotten so good, stock kernels are so well optimized and vanilla Android is so nice and reliable that I just no longer feel like there's any need. It all got to be way too much hassle for an increasingly limited reward. I've just lost interest. Better things to do with my time.
 
Factory images are easy. I wasn't going to do it for a couple of reasons 1) I had re-locked my bootloader and didn't want to wipe(now I do, lol). 2) My USB drivers on my computer are finnicky. I'm pretty sure it would drop the connection in the middle of it and brick my phone.
 
I finally went for it. Used Wug's tool to set up drivers, etc. on my work PC. Had a couple of issues trying to get the update to sideload (again, using Wug's kit), so eventually ended up fastboot flashing the stock 4.4.2 system image (on it's own) and then sideloaded the 4.4.3 update on top of that.

Once it booted up (and finally finished optimising all apps), I booted in to bootloader and fastboot flashed TWRP. Went in to TWRP and booted back to system, where it asked me if I wanted to flash Super SU before rebooting which, of course, I said yes to.

Simple as that... bingo-bongo - bang up to date and fully rooted as before! :)
 
D-U-R-X said:
I finally went for it. Used Wug's tool to set up drivers, etc. on my work PC. Had a couple of issues trying to get the update to sideload (again, using Wug's kit), so eventually ended up fastboot flashing the stock 4.4.2 system image (on it's own) and then sideloaded the 4.4.3 update on top of that.
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Why didn't you just skip a step and flash the 4.4.3 image? :confused:
 
bjacks12 said:
Why didn't you just skip a step and flash the 4.4.3 image? :confused:
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Got the notification this morning that the OTA was available. Tried to let it do it's thing and it didn't work. Tried to sideload the update (having downloaded it from Google) and it wouldn't take either :confused:

Wasn't sure if I could just flash the new system.img over the top of 4.4.2 (thinking about it now, I guess it wouldn't really matter though) and did a quick bit of searching and found similar error messages to what I was getting and it seemed that I'd need to flash the version I currently had (sounded like it could have been to do with me having removed a system app (can't remember doing that though)) - thought it worth giving a go... the sideload then took, so must've been something wrong!

Just out of interest, as I've never done it before, I should be able to unzip the factory image and then fastboot flash the img files (except recovery, as I'd want to keep a custom recovery), shouldn't I?
 
Awesomesauce - makes things a little easier then!

Would it be best to flash all img files, except recovery then?
 
For the nexus 5, all that changed were the radios, system, and boot, so those were the only ones needed.

You can likely skip user data and cache as well, as well as recovery.
 
Rxpert83 said:
If you plan on starting over anyway, why not just use the factory image?
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Google/Samsung don't release factory images for my phone. And I'm patient enough to wait for the OTA. I won't have time for a factory reset until next week anyway.

I'm only in this thread for the broader 4.4.3 discussion :)
 
Just did my factory reset. I wish I didn't have to switch back to ART again afterwards...that takes forever.
 
It didn't take too long after the ota. It was quicker than when I did the reset, lol. Anyways, I think 4.4.3 is an improvement. I'm seeing what looks to be good battery life, better connectivity, etc. Bluetooth works better as well.
 
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