Android 5 Lollipop.

[smilodon]

Just pushed lollipop to my Nexus 7 and it's a really nice experience. It seems to run quicker than KitKat, and looks amazing. Too many new things to list but very impressed.

[Tutonic]

I grabbed the OTA zip and installed it on my N5 this afternoon.

Ridiculously slick in almost every way, its very impressive.

[TeaLeaf]

I'm looking forward to the battery life improvements on 5.0 too, Faust was saying they are equally good when he was running the dev version pre-release.    I'm being lazy though and waiting for it to be pushed out to my N5 & N7.

[smilodon]

I run both my N4 and N7 rooted but up till now with stock android 4.4.4 so I can use the xposed module and run things like no lock screen on trusted wifi networks etc. I root and flash mostly using Wugs Nexus Tools tools which makes rooting nexus devices easy to the point of being trivial. The N4 hasn't had official lollipop released yet so I'm still running 4.4.4 on that.

I'm toying with the idea of upgrading to a 2nd hand N5 when people start moving up to the N6 and there are lots of cheap N5's on CEX or Ebay.

[Vargen]

Still no upgrade in sight for my S4

[Snokio]

January for S4 i believe

[TeaLeaf]

January for S4 i believe

Or right now:

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occam

Download link for Factory Image "occam" for Nexus 4 - Android 5.0 (LRX21T)
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/occam-lrx21t-factory-51cee750.tgz

Guide to Flashing the Image:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/how-to-flash-a-factory-image-to-your-nexus-device/

[smilodon]

Outstanding, I'm on the case.

[Tutonic]

I used the same method for my N5, it works a treat but I had to install the Google USB drivers before the SDK would connect to the phone:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

[smilodon]

Wugfresh basically automates thewho thing from driver downloads to choosing images and flashing. It can lock and unlock the bootloader, root the phone and everything else. Just for Nexus devices though.

[TeaLeaf]

Lollipop OTA update pushed to my Nexus 5 overnight, so I'm now updated.

[Twyst]

My Nexus 7 (2012 version) was updated as well. SLOW AS HELL!
I mean really slow. You can see screen re-draw pixel by pixel.
Performing a factory reset brought some semblance of speed back again, but I really shouldn't have had to do that.
Am considering what to do with the wifes newer model - should be safer but I need to check a factory reset wouldn't lose anything.

On the plus side, I find the new interface a lot cleaner.

[TeaLeaf]

My 5 took to the update fine with no problems, I'll check my 7 to see if it has similar issues as I have not pushed the button to install on it yet!

[Twyst]

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/to2BHjmhh-I

Hopefully your nexus 7 upgrade will go fine!
Mine appears to be stable now with minimal slowdowns. My son tested it's stability by playing every star wars and angry birds game on it this morning

[smilodon]

I pulled the image directly from Google's servers lats week and flashed it to my Nexus 7 which included a full reset. At first it was very smooth and responsive..... for about a day! Now my tablet is painfully slow and frankly it's a horrible experience on the 2012 model. When I get a moment I'm going to flash it back to Cyanogenmod 11 on which I never had an issue. I've always suspected that the 2012 Nexus 7 was built with something inherently wrong with it. It's required a factory reset every few months to stop it bogging down and I'm reading lots of reviews and comments that suggest it's got something seriously wrong going on under the bonnet. Maybe that's why Google released the 2013 model. It was just a fix for the 2012 that they wouldn't admit to being broken.