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Install Android 4.4 KitKat On Your Galaxy Nexus Device

As you all might have heard that the Android 4.4 Kitkat has been launched a few days ago and they also told that not only Nexus 5 all the Nexus products such as Nexus 4, both editions of Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 would soon be getting the taste of KitKat, but the disappointing fact s that the Gaaxy Nexus will never has the latest Android.  There were two reasons behind this decision: a) Texas Instruments – the chipmaker behind the SoC that the device uses – has quit the mobile SoC market, and will not be supporting the device in form of the proprietary binaries required to get a fully functional build, and b) the device is no longer in the 18-month update window that Google promised, and is therefore not eligible for any future updates. And the entire credits to the developers at XDA that now we have a couple os Android 4.4 KitKat Roms available for the device.


As per known both these builds have been compiled from AOSP source. The first build is named as A taste of KitKat which has been developed by XDA Senior Member Grarak. And the second one is a part of the SlimROMs series by kufikugel and team, and is named as SlimKat. Both of these are based on AOSP code while the former focuses on staying as close to a pure Android experience, the latter does include some of the characteristic features of all SlimROMs such as a dark theme, notification drawer shortcuts, SlimCenter etc.

These builds should be basically considered as alpha for now, and may not provide an experience suitable for day-to-day use.That said, most features are working and the only issues so far seem to be in form of some graphical glitches experienced when rotating, locking (CRT effect) and taking a screenshot.

 Disclaimer : Attempt this at your own Risk! Recommended that you may please read the detail Disclaimer before your proceed. By reading this you may Please accept our policies to get the instructions leading you root your Device.

Requirements

  • > Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GSM variant)

  • > The ROM of your choice and its Google Apps 
package:
A taste of KitKat | Gapps
SlimKat | Gapps

Procedure

1. Transfer the ROM as well as its Google Apps package to your phone.

2. Reboot your phone into recovery.

3. To be on the safe side, perform a backup from recovery.

4. Perform a full wipe data/factory reset, followed by wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache from advanced.

5. Go to mounts and storage and format /system.

6. Install the ROM, followed by the Google Apps package.

7. Reboot your deviceAnd after youre reboot the all new Android 4.4 Kitkat will running on your Galaxy Nexus device.

 Source   XDA-Developers ,  Addicitive Tips 

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