I am looking to buy a nexus 4. I know that the new nexus 5 is coming out, and it is being released with Android KitKat installed. If I get a nexus 4 from a store such as best buy or another one, will my Nexus 4 come with Kitkat? If not, When is KitKat expected to be realised for the Nexus 4. If I am not in a rush to get a new phone, would it be better to by the Nexus 4 now, or the Nexus 5 in a few months?
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Android 4.4 (KitKat) was officially announced on October 31, 2013.  (You can review  at the official Android Developer's site or the .)  Of course, not all devices will get this update right away and others won't get it at all. Each manufacturer and carrier often choose to add their custom modifications which tend to delay the official release.  When will each device get Android 4.4, either officially or unofficially, if ever?  See also:
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I'm trying to deploy and test an Android app on my Nexus 4 from my Ubuntu 11.10 computer, but ADB doesn't recognize it. I think I need the Google USB drivers, but I cannot find instructions on how to install them on Ubuntu.  How can I install the drivers on Ubuntu 11.10 so that ADB will recognize my N4?
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I have a brand new 10.1 inch tablet, made in china. The screen doesn't respond to touch as much as it should, a few other little things and I can't work out some of the onscreen operating icon/button things. The resellers suggested I start with Android Central Forums, as this is the only Android devise they sell so they don't know the answers. I joined up with A.C.Forums, but can't work out how to post. Help and/or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks
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Last day I got the notification to download and install official Android 6.0 Marshmallow in my Nexus 5, which is not rooted, was running Android 5.1.1 and no custom ROM. As I downloaded and installed it, from that point its gone to boot loop state (the four dot animation is endlessly running).  I have already searched the web for solution like ,  and many more, but not tried. Because all those help seekers had tried to manually OS install or phone was rooted or already had custom ROM, but my Nexus 5 did not have any of those.  I had tried "wipe cache partition" and reboot, but it did not helped. As I don't had any data backup of my phone storage, the last thing I will be willing to do is "wipe data/factory reset". As my phone's usb debugging was enabled and I had adb in my desktop, so I have also tried to copy data from my phone using the "adb pull" command in boot looped mood. But also did not got any luck, may be "adp pull" command don't work in booting mood or I am doing something wrong with the command.  Any help to backup/recover the data or solution of the boot loop problem without "wipe data/factory reset" is appreciated. Thanks in advance.....
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I mistakenly installed 5.0 Lollipop on my nVidia Shield tablet, and I regret it. Is there a way to revert back to KitKat? I've tried finding a way, but no luck so far.
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do you have some informations about Ubuntu phone at the moment?  I saw few articles about Ubuntu Edge but I thought that it is dead. Also I saw for UBPorts with Ubuntu Touch.  I was really interested for project Ubuntu Edge. So my question, is there some idea of ubuntu phones in 2019 or everything is dead?
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Anyway....there is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the normal 12.10 version. Is that the same with Lubuntu? On their site, for some reason, they seem to be promoting the 12.10 version while for me an LTS is always more appealing. I am wondering if they have the same ideology as the Ubuntu team.  UPDATE: Is it okay to talk about Lubuntu here at all? I understand that it is a flavour of Ubuntu...but still. Are they 2 very different teams?
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I'm using Nexus tablet on stock Lollipop. For the life of me, I can't find what the "restricted" sign in the top right corner means. I've checked the user manual as well but still not worked out what it means.  What is the meaning of that icon?
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I just wanna ask that after rooting Nexus 5 will I be receiving OTA updates by Google ? Or I'll have to install a custom ROM ?
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I got my Galaxy S4 today (i337M), it's wayyy better than my old SII hehe.  I immediately removed the stock Bell firmware and put the latest snapshot available from CyanogenMod.  I'm wondering if it's possible to convert apps like S Planner, S Note, S Health to CyanogenMod.  Current stock android version available for i337M is 4.2.2. Latest Android version for CM is 4.4.  If I install CM 4.2, can I import/install the APKs and then upgrade to 4.4?  Hope you'll be able to help me :)
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I installed Android L developer preview on my Nexus 5. Now I was wondering if I still would get over-the-air updates. If not is there a way of fixing this?
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I motion to reopen  as there's a lot of evidence It says  If Kotlin becomes more popular in the future, we will reconsider.  Evidence of maturity There's a  from 2 years back, but since then a lot of things have happened, especially to Kotlin:  Kotlin is coming up on its 5th major update widespread adoption in Android (and some backend) Gradle kts build scripts official support from Google.  See also the comments on the rejecting answer.  I think this is a quite compelling evidence that Kotlin is now trending:  Kotlin is in quite notable positions in  especially when compared to , when it wasn't even on the list. 24.8M views according to   Trigger I just asked a  and noticed that even basic highlighting is missing (fun/val are the most common keywords and they're not highlighted).
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We're starting out with some Android development in our company, and I'm working out which  Android versions we should support.    In one of Google's videos from  (22:34 minutes in) there is a pie chart showing roughly a third of users each for Android 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1.    Does anyone have a more up-to-date source for the percentages of active Android devices with each version of the platform?
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I was going to install an app to my device from Google Play on my desktop, when I noticed a "No carrier Samsung GT-N7000" in my device list:    (the Nexus 7 is mine)  Apparently this device is the original Galaxy Note. I've never even seen one of these devices, and there shouldn't be one registered on my account. It doesn't show on Android Device Manager.  Is someone else on my Play Store account, downloading apps/media on my credit card? I use 2FA, so I'm worried about how that could have happened. Is there anything I can do to find out more about this device?
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I had a Nexus S but lost it or it was stolen. I need to find it's IMEI. I don't have the box or documentation either.  I've checked exif data from photos taken with the phone.  What other potential sources are there for it's IMEI?
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Is there any way to receive an update/new version released notification from the Play Store for an app that is not installed in my phone? I'm using 4.3 on a Nexus 4.
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Someone told me that he has opened a phone only 4 days ago, but by the look of it, it is not less than a month.  When trying to buy a used phone, is there any way to check how long this phone is in use? Or the date when this phone is turned on the first time? Or the time of unboxing? Or the time of the first usage?