so I called Verizon Wireless today to complain about my phone..
me - my phone reboots on it's own, when are we suppose to get update for it already? isn't that a google phone and we suppose to get updates directly from google? and what's the hold up anyway?
verizon - updates will come from samsung and not google and we have no information on that
me - maybe you can contact samsung on my behalf and inquire about update?
verizon - ok, please hold ...
few minutes passes by...
verizon - thank you for holding blah blah blah, i just got off the phone from samsung they said check samsung website regularly, they'll announce it there, by that time your phone will receive update.
what a waste of time!
You were fed a total line. Your phone's version of Android is "mysid" which is directly updated by Google. However all updates do need final approval from Verizon.
In fact, to verify this yourself, download the free "GN Official Update Checker" from the marketplace (I refuse to say "google play store" fttb) and run it.
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You were fed a total line. Your phone's version of Android is "mysid" which is directly updated by Google. However all updates do need final approval from Verizon.
In fact, to verify this yourself, download the free "GN Official Update Checker" from the marketplace (I refuse to say "google play store" fttb) and run it.
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That "official" update checker is nothing more than a user-created app that checks if your device is running yakju or mysid and, if so tells you your device is updated by Google, and if on another build, it says its not updated by Google. Not even close to being official.
No one knows if non-yakju or non-mysid builds are updated by Google or not. It is just speculation. What we do know is that all updates for ALL builds are pushed from Google's servers.
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i just wish they push update already, so that everyone is start being really happy with that phone, my co-worker just updated his to 4.0.4 and extremely happy with it now, which is great! if by end of this month they wont release anything i'm going to update "leaked" version of 4.0.4 myself!
Sleuth255 said:
You were fed a total line. Your phone's version of Android is "mysid" which is directly updated by Google. However all updates do need final approval from Verizon.
In fact, to verify this yourself, download the free "GN Official Update Checker" from the marketplace (I refuse to say "google play store" fttb) and run it.
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i ran "GN Official Update Checker" and it said exactly what you said.
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That "official" update checker is nothing more than a user-created app that checks if your device is running yakju or mysid and, if so tells you your device is updated by Google, and if on another build, it says its not updated by Google. Not even close to being official.
No one knows if non-yakju or non-mysid builds are updated by Google or not. It is just speculation. What we do know is that all updates for ALL builds are pushed from Google's servers.
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what's the difference between one and another?
@efrant: Well, I never said it was the official update checker either, only that it was named the "GN official update checker"
However, its author does keep up with the official status as shown on the androidcentral writeup here (note what it says about mysid in the photo and the clarification posted later).
@OP once you've checked your build with the above app, feel free to find the actual official answer to your question from Jean-Baptiste Queru who is a Software Engineer at Google's Android Open-Source Project.
A link to his answer on Google groups is located here
@efrant: Hopefully this is official enough for you too. At least the AOSP status is being confirmed for yakju and mysid and the supposition by Jean is that this implies direct updates too.
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what's the difference between one and another?
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yakju is the official GSM build for the GNex. Its variants are yakjuXX where XX is two additional lowercase characters.
mysid is the official LTE build for the GNex. I don't believe it has variants.
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@efrant: Well, I never said it was the official update checker either, only that it was named the "GN official update checker"
However, its author does keep up with the official status as shown on the androidcentral writeup here (note what it says about mysid in the photo and the clarification posted later).
@OP once you've checked your build with the above app, feel free to find the actual official answer to your question from Jean-Baptiste Queru who is a Software Engineer at Google's Android Open-Source Project.
A link to his answer on Google groups is located here
@efrant: Hopefully this is official enough for you too. At least the AOSP status is being confirmed for yakju and mysid and the supposition by Jean is that this implies direct updates too.
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I think there is some confusion here between AOSP support and who updates different builds. JBQ hasn't said anything about who updates any of the builds. And there is nothing official about status shown in that androidcentral article. Like I said, at this point, it is speculation -- no one can say that just because yakju and mysid have AOSP support, that they are the only builds updated by Google.
I'm not trying to be a pain here, but right from the launch, people were making comments about the different builds based purely on assumption, speculation and inference. Case in point: an app was created telling people their device is updated by Google or not updated by Google. But the truth is no one knows. Every OTA update is pushed from Google -- this is all we know for certain about the updates. AOSP is a different topic.
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So it would appear.
New to the custom ROM world and really enjoying it so far! But regarding GAPPS.... doing some searches, my understanding is that they cannot be bundled in with the ROM becuase of licensing issues. That's understandable.... but if google pushes out an update for gmail, maps,etc., will I still get the update via the play store? Or will I have to get updates from the ROM developer when he/she pushes out an updated GAPPS zip and flash that?
Thanks.
You will get an update in the play store for those apps.
Eventually the gapps will be updated to include the updates.
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Thanks El Daddy.... so is it safe to update or will it conflict with the GAPPS delivered via custom ROM developer? Is it best to wait iuntil the developer puts out a new GAPPS package?
Keep in mind Gmail and Maps aren't included in the most recent Gapps any longer since they ARE available on Play. Of course there are some custom versions of Gapps that retain these apps.
Play, Maps and Gmail will update themselves to the latest versions regardless of what version of Gapps you flashed (assuming Gmail and Maps are available in your region).
Thanks!
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Hi,
I see in Android portals news about new Google Play version. I check my version and it always is the latest?
How it updates itself?
Thanks!
Phandroid has extracted the apps from the latest Android L update (LPV81C) and posted them to their google drive. I'm starting this thread as a discussion of using these apps on our phone. I realize different roms will act differently, and wouldnt be surprised if at least some of these apps require kitkat, maybe even a new kernel. Anyone try these yet? Comments? Bueller?
I've installed new google play and services apk but couldn't get keyboard to work. I'm wondering if there's enough devs around here still to maybe get a 5.0 L ROM .
There are already a number of 5.1.1 roms out there. Look around in the forum and you'll find even Android 6.0.1 roms now.
Good move by Google and xiaomi to include this in the latest update .[emoji106][emoji106]
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Good move by Google and xiaomi to include this in the latest update .[emoji106][emoji106]
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Thanks for the info !
Regards
I have that in my phone and have not yet installed November patch.
It's not from the latest update, I even had it on the september update
There are multiple sized updates for each release . May be it came as part of one of these . Unfortunately MI doesn't release change logs for A1 ?
Instant apps is part of Google Play Services update. So any smartphone with Android 6 and above will get it.
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Instant apps is part of Google Play Services update. So any smartphone with Android 6 and above will get it.
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Not true .This option is not available by default in all devices .Device need to support or enabled