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android 4.3 was recently announced and is starting to roll out to supported devices over the air I'm Joe Levi with pocket now and this is how you can install android 4.3 on your Nexus 7 or other Nexus device right now so if you want android 4.3 on your Nexus 7 or other Nexus device you can go into settings all the way down here to about tablet and then to system updates you can see here that my system is up to date well no it's not so we'll check it now we'll see if there's an over-the-air update available for me and says as of right now there is not but if we come back and look I'm still running Android version 4.2 point2 and we all know there's Android 4.3 available so what do we do well we come in here and we tap on I believe it's build number several times until you enable developer mode I've already done that so it says there's no need to do that we'll go back now and you can see here in my settings that i have developer options so we're going to go ahead and open that once we're in here we're going to find USB debugging well check that we will say okay it is for development purposes we know that we don't need to do anything else and up in the top we see that there is now a little debugging icon to remind us that we are in USB debugging mode now you do want to make sure that your USB cable is firmly secured because we're going to be doing a lot of work to this actually we're not going to be doing a lot but the software that we're going to be using is so let's go back home we can now do whatever we need to we're going to shift gears over to our computer and run some stuff if you don't already have USB drivers installed you'll need to download those I got mine from the asus website and i'll have a link to that down in the description so i've gone ahead and pointed to it now i'm going to install this software will install it it's installing the driver software which takes just a couple minutes once that's done this little ! next to the nexus 7 should go away now switching over here to our command prompt i'm in this and folder in this android folder if you take a look I've got a DB I've got some DLLs I've got fastboot and that's where I put my drivers so we're going to switch over to a command prompt with administrative access and from here I'm going to run adb see if i can get that better on the screen for you i'm going to run adb space devices to make sure my Nexus 7 is being properly seen by atb and the way you can tell is you can see up here I didn't have the drivers installed so it says list of devices attached and there was nothing ran it again now that I've installed my driver and there is a serial number next up we need to reboot into fastboot mode do you do that by turning the device all the way off then rebooting with the power and the volume down buttons pressed simultaneously until you see this screen you can tell it's in fastboot because right down here it says fastboot mode once that is done we're able to go ahead and run some fastboot commands the first fastboot command we need to run is called fastboot OEM unlock and then run that and what it's doing now is its unlocking the bootloader this is something that's required if you want to flash the factory images but it's okay you can fastboot OEM lock again afterwards so depending on what version of nexus you're using you're going to need to download a different a different package I am running a nexus 7 that's the Wi-Fi version only not the Wi-Fi plus 3G and that is the nkosi code name I don't know what it means but there you go so I've downloaded that it's about three hundred and five min to download and about 320 Meg once it's extracted once I have it extracted I just need to grab all of this and I'm going to copy and paste it over to the directory that I have my fastboot executable and I'll just go ahead and paste those in there you've got to do that because you've got to have fastboot in eighty be in the same folder to make this all work so once that's done since i'm running windows i'm going to run this flash all now this is going to flash everything it's going to flash the baseband it's going to flash the the recovery everything so if you haven't backed up you two already you're probably already too late but now would be a good time to make sure that you've got everything you need backed up so flash all we'll run that to racing boot erasing cash erasing recovery erasing system racing user data you can see this is all going through relatively quickly so I went through and I ran this again because i was running into a failed boot one of the downsides to shooting videos sometimes you don't read everything that you see on the screen and i run into a problem with a loose USB connection while i was sending system and writing system overhears you can tell that should take about two minutes to do all together and i didn't wait that long and the USB cable got loose so i went ahead and flashed it again just reboot up into fastboot mode again I ran flash all again this time everything looks like it's coming across just fine and I'm booting up into Android 4.3 now if you'll recall first boots always take longer than other boots so if you get stuck here at your Nexus loading screen don't be terribly concerned it's setting everything up for the first time and this is going to be completely fresh and stock just like you had purchased it today you'll notice we've got a little bit of a new screen here at least new by my recollection go ahead and set up our Wi-Fi okay once that's done it wants us to set up our google account we aren't going to say yes to this right now but we're going to try and skip this if we can and it won't let us so we'll just say no and not now this point we want to go ahead and share our Google location stuff way we can have gps and other type of information here asking for our name so i'll go ahead and put in my name really quick that's one of the things that would have probably pulled across if we do advise signed in with our google account and setup is complete just like that we've got android 4.3 running on the nexus 7 so let's take the quick wat walkthrough we've got our google play library okay great we'll say a we need to login to be able to see that of course along with these other widgets but while we're here notice we've got pretty quick scrolling back and forth browser that comes pre-loaded with is in fact chrome so let's fire that up you can see here we're actually pretty snappy zooming works pretty well okay said pretty well come back over here and see what we've got panning around also seems relatively fluid a little bit nicer than what we had with the the last version but speaking of versions let's go back and double-check and take a look at what we've got so over here in settings will come down to the bottom I no longer have developer mode because this is no longer a modified if you will set up so let's change that while we're looking at it here's Android 4.3 our build number is JW r 6 6 v so in fact we do have the latest version of android on here will tap this several times we now have enabled developer mode so it's going to our developer options from here we could do USB debugging we are going to go ahead and do that a lot of you have said i don't want to be om unlocked so this is how you go about changing so that your OEM locked again so of course with all fastboot commands we need to reboot into fastboot mode by holding the power button and the volume down button that'll boot you up into fastboot from there we can run fast boot OEM lock press ENTER it waits for just a minute while it's doing it thinking on the device it says locking now I don't want to to mess it but info bootloader is now locked and let's go ahead and reboot and you can see that our unlock symbol is now gone away so we'll go ahead and choose start and that will reboot it no more unlock symbol down here at the bottom so now this is as stock as you can get while still running Android 4.3 so those are the instructions on how you can get android 4.3 the official rom direct from google onto your Nexus 7 device now if you've got something other than a nexus 7 that's just fine the instructions are exactly the same all you've got to do is make sure you have the right USB drivers and the right software from the developer section and again those links are down in the description down below once you actually get into Android there's not a lot of differences on the surface we didn't do an awful lot of walkthrough to show you all the new and fancy things because there really aren't any a little bit early right now for us to tell you whether the battery life has improved as drastically on the Nexus 7 as it did with the leaked version that we showed you on the Nexus 4 got a link to the video of that at the end of this video but stay tuned to pocket now and we'll let you know if you liked what you saw here please give the video a thumbs up make sure you subscribe 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