Plus, I'd already factory-wiped the Nexus 7, anyway. While it's possible to “sideload” OTA updates via ADB (Android Debug Bridge), thereby preserving the already installed applications and data, doing so is tricky each upgrade to the next Android iteration often needs to be done sequentially, for example, which is tedious at best (and I was many iterations behind at this point). So I decided to dispense with the Verizon intermediary and “sideload” the upgrade myself via a USB cable tether to my Mac. Fortunately, though, in this particular Nexus-branded case, although Verizon conventionally controls the over-the-air delivery of firmware updates, they ultimately come directly from Google.
And if I had a conventional manufacturer- and/or carrier-locked handset, I'd be out of luck. would suffice the only option was to wipe the tablet clean via a factory reset and start all over again (along with, as before, never again being able to install/use the offending app).Ĭlearly, this was an untenable situation. Other times, as with Microsoft Word, no amount of uninstalls, cache wipes, etc. Sometimes, as with Facebook, I could get the problem to go away by deleting (and therefore no longer being able to use) the offending app. From my research, I learned that the issue seems to be a bug in this particular Android version related to third-party application (Microsoft Office apps, Facebook, etc) access to the contacts database. I also was no longer able to access my contacts database application launch attempts would abruptly and rapidly terminate.Īs it turns out, the issues were related. I started getting ongoing popup messages, one every few seconds, indicating that “Unfortunately, the process has stopped” and effectively rendering the system unusable. But recently, the situation became more critical.
#Update nextbook tablet install#
For a while, the O/S-update negligence was little more than an annoyance … some programs wouldn't install at all because Android was out of date, while others wouldn't upgrade to their latest versions … and of course, I wasn't receiving ongoing security patches and bug fixes from Google.