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the day is upon us marshmallow has graces with its presence but you go to download it and what's this it's a tgz I just want marshmallow on my phone well don't you worry I'm our birth center we're TechnoBuffalo and we are going to flash stock Android on your Nexus device first things first we're going to need to head to the Google factory image page and grab the appropriate download for your device in this case we're flashing my Nexus 6 so we're going to grab the marshmallow build for Shamu which is the codename for the device we're going to leave the link to this this page in the description down below and we're going to do the same for all the other links in this video so check the description for all the good stuff that you need while we're at it let's also go download the Android SDK if you already have fast food and a TV setup on your computer you can go ahead and skip this step if I'm speaking gibberish to you then you're going to want to pay attention ADB is the Android debug bridge it allows you to run commands on your device from your computer fastboot allows you to do the same thing but while your device is in fastboot mode while it's off that allows you to flash or install that's the fancy word for it new software on your devices partitions that it's using while it's actually on and running once you've downloaded the SDK we're going to need to run the Android executable that's located in the tools folder this is the Android SDK from here we're going to select the most recent SDK and the tools you're going to check them all off and go ahead and hit install it's going to take a few minutes if you're on a Mac and you upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite you may need to download the Java Runtime from Apple without this patch the executable might not work so if you're getting a few errors head to that page make sure you're running the most recent version of Java while that's all downloading let's make sure that our device is ready to go go ahead and head into your settings on your phone tap on about and tap on the build number until you become a developer congratulations you did it you can now develop apps not really this just enables the developer options inside the phone head into the developer options which should be revealed now in the settings and ensure that USB debugging is enabled Wow look at you you're doing so great I'm so impressed okay now let's grab ourselves a USB cable plug that sucker right into your computer I'm going to be doing this on a Mac but you absolutely can do this on a PC as well you just need the right drivers for your OEM and you can omit the period and slash at the beginning of the commands that we're going to get to in just a minute pop open your terminal or HL prompt if you're on Windows and if this is where you get a little light-headed stay calm this isn't terribly hard and if you've never done it before it'll be a great great learning experience for you just follow the instructions and you'll be running marshmallow in no time well you can install ADB and fastboot on your computer we're going to do it the harder way here it's important I think to learn what you're doing so you don't break your device all your computer is doing is issuing terminal commands when you're clicking on things in the UI all we're going to do is cut out the middleman of the UI and work directly inside the terminal while we're not going to install ADB and fastboot let's at least make our lives just a little bit easier in finder go ahead and move your new Android SDK folder to your Applications folder then make a new folder on your desktop you can call it anything you like here for the video we're going to call it marshmallow move your stock image that you just download into it then open up your Android SDK folder and copy ADB and fastboot to your marshmallow folder now we need to make sure that terminal is looking at the right folder so in the prompt go ahead and type CD and then users your username desktop marshmallow and hit enter what this is going to do is change the directory that terminal is looking at to focus on the folder that we're working inside of CD means change directory in Unix so let's make sure that that worked go ahead and type LS and hit enter that's going to list all the files that are inside that folder so that if you see what we're looking to work with you're in the right place what you're looking for is the image ADB fastboot if you see them great job we're almost there now that we know that we're in the right place let's make sure that our computer can see our device we're going to use ADB the Android debug bridge to see if we can see our device as it's plugged in go ahead and type period slash adb devices if the computer can see your phone you'll see a device in the list if not make sure that you're running the correct drivers on Windows and that USB debugging is indeed turned on on your device if you can see your phone let's move on now do you compress the tgz file and inside you're going to find a bootloader image a few flashing scripts the up image and the radio image go ahead and shut off your device and while it's off boot it into fastboot mode by pushing and holding the volume down and power buttons until you see the android with this little belly open look at that you're doing so well we're almost done you're also going to want to go ahead and decompress that image file that you see there you'll get five other files inside of their boot cache system recovery and user data ignore those flash files in the folder that got decompressed we're going to flash these one by one your device has multiple partitions on it and we're going to need to flash a few of them from here we're going to be dragging files into the terminal window for ease of use otherwise we're going to be typing and we're going to be prone to typos first we're going to need to make sure that your bootloader is unlocked if it isn't this command is going to unlock it and it's going to wipe your device in the process so make sure your stuff is backed up on your devices screen check on the bottom if it says device is unlocked you can skip this step making sure that your terminal window is always pointing at the marshmallow folder go ahead and type period slash fast-food om unlock enter after each command we're going to reboot the bootloader by typing period slash fastboot space reboot - bootloader you can get to this command quickly by accessing your previous commands in the terminal window by pushing the up arrow since we're going to be doing this more than once first thing we're going to flash is the bootloader so all of these commands are going to be basically the same except for the actual image file the name is going to change so for this one we're going to do fastboot flash bootloader and then the path to the actual file that needs to be flashed like I said we're going to be dragging these into the terminal window just for ease of use but feel free to type it out if you think you can do it next up we're going to flash the radio again same deal type in fastboot into the terminal command flash Radio this time and then drag in the radio and hit enter next up we're going to flash the recovery you guessed it we're going to type fastboot flash recovery drag the recovery file in and hit enter we're also of course going to flash that boot partition so yep fastboot flash boot and that file hit enter of course after each and every step make sure you're rebooting the bootloader and finally we're going to flash the system fastboot flash system and the system image file and you're good to go you can see all the things that fastboot can do just by running regular old fast food without any other commands we didn't wipe the device here so this is a dirty install you're going to keep all your data but if you want to start from scratch just append a dash W before the command that you want to wipe the contents of the partition for for example let's wipe our devices system and user data before we flash a new version of Android just remember this will wipe your device clean fastboot - W flash system and then the system image is going to make sure that that system partition is nice and clean before any of the system files for Android are installed and that's it you're all done you made it now you just need to type fastboot reboot and enjoy your new sweet treat it'll take a while to boot up the first time but don't worry it's just doing some work under the hood if it does get stuck at the boot screen wipe everything clean and using what you've learned now try again and make sure you follow the steps if you're interested in learning more about the command-line I highly recommend checking out the command-line crash course by Zed Shaw it's totally free and you're going to feel a lot more prepared the next time you're looking to flash stock Android or a custom ROM as I mentioned at the top of the video links to everything mentioned are in the description below everything from the links to the Google factory page to directions and you can also check out the article on the site if you want to find the commands so that you can copy and paste them thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys learned something let me know in the comments how it goes for you and what you think about Android 6.0 marshmallow thanks again for watching be kind to one another and I'll catch you in the next video