Ya, another thing, the "OK, google" only works in Homescreen, so, I think the battery will not be effected much by it.

But if want to turn it off, just go to Google Now (Swipe from left), scroll all the way down, see the three dots, click that option, Setting, Voice, turn off "Hotword detection".

ya... that's the new design from kitkat... all icon bigger, easier to access with 1 hand operation for me.. the layout is now 4x5 instead of 5x5 in jellybean. it's the same even in high res phone (1080p) in N5.

yup. doesn't matter if you on Custom ROM/Kernel. should work.

ya, there is already link in the Android Police. my md5sum from n5 firmware:

MD5: 9d2a84831bf537a48fc630b8a219fbf4

if it's the same, i should be safe.

after i executed "adb reboot bootloader" you should see android bootloader like this:



then only u can execute the rest of the commands...

flash-all will delete your app/data, u sure u wanna do that??!!!

from what i can tell, it's working

but if you use flash-all.bat, your image-occam-krt16o.zip must be in the same folder.

should not take more than 10 minutes.

after every reboot, you should see that same android "Start" bootloader screen in your phone. if still not working, capture your "fastboot" folder, just wanna check what kind of files you have in that folder.

is your phone showing that Android bootloader image? if not, you need to boot into boot loader. to do so, just reboot the phone. and re-run this:

"adb reboot bootloader"

funny i don't have those problem...

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Nov 17 2013, 06:42 PM

Stock ROM / launcher... then install GoogleHome.apk. nothing else. i thought your guys talking about that. sorry.

boot into Custom Recovery. use adb to backup anything you need.

Boot into recovery:

1. Power off your smartphone completely.
2. Press and hold Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously.
3. Release the buttons when the Bootloader / Fastboot mode menu appears.
4. You will the Start button listed on this screen, press Volume Down or Up until the ‘start’ text changes to Recovery Mode.
5. Press Power to confirm that you wish to boot into Recovery Mode.

Once in your custom recovery, chose Nadroid to recovery your phone (boot and system).

Or, to backup stuff, connect to PC, use "adb" command:



For example, to get everything from /data/data (which contains all your save files, etc)



That will copy everything in your phone's /sdcard into your PC.

ps: to backup APK, copy stuff from /data/apk, to backup APK's data or saved files, copy from /data/data

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Nov 18 2013, 01:05 AM

Personally, I don't recommend using any version of Titanium Backup. Many problems I've seen are result of user using the tool to backup/restore their app.

I always just use backups from CWM / TWRP. Has everything I want. You can always open those backup files (IMG) using some tools to find what you need; app, data, etc.

Alternatively, Android has it's own backup solution: https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry60202371

How to put those data you pull from adb?

If apk, you can re-install the apk then, copy the data back to it's /data/data/ folder. Remember to "chmod" the UID of that folder and everything inside to the new UID of the APK.

If data, just copy it back.

For SMS, restore this file:

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases

*WARNING* a lot of things may go wrong, especially if you are not careful when restoring it by hand (like this). After this, I hope you remember to use custom recovery to backup before your flash anything.

you mean to say Custom ROM can get better signal?

i think even developers of that custom ROM themselves will tell you that you are hallucinating ..

to copy data back to phone, use "adb push <source> <destination on phone>", i.e.:



but unfortunately, things in /data/data are mainly used by Application. so, by simply copying everything back will not restore the setting in your app such as game progress, saved files, SMS, settings.

so, you need to restore them 1 by 1 and chmod their folder respectively as per my previous post.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Nov 18 2013, 12:59 PM

with root access, any file manager (or ADB) can access /data/data

chmod - a command to change the access control of files / folder.

basically, /data/data contains all your stored preferences, saved game, data from various APP in your phone. for example, say you have an App i.e. GoogleHome.apk. When you install the App, the APK will be copy to /data/app/com.google.android.launcher-0.9.6.886092.apk

Each App in Android will be assigned an UID. To find out about that UID, just do "ls -l /data/app/"

Once you get it's UID, to restored it's preferences, saved files, etc. Copy the /data/data/com.google.android.launcher-0.9.6.886092 back to the phone. Then, you need to change the owner and permission of that folder and everything insider.

"chmod -R" allow you change the permission of that folder to the UID of that App and all it's folders inside. You may also need to use "chown" to change the owner. These are standard Unix command.

Alternatively, file browser such as Root Explorer allow you to change permission and owner via GUI without these commands.

Tested the built-in screen record function of Kitkat. Now, recording gameplay could not been easier

Another thing that give me a pleasant surprise... for those who use Terminal / adb a lot will be delighted to know the shell now support auto completion! Thanks heaven!

remove all icon in that screen... and voila! it's gone...

fixed. i m a happy stock ROM user. for kernel, i like to under volt it for tiny bit of better battery life and over clock it for performance when i need it. i also like to tweak the color to my liking.