nexus s

Nexus S was introduced by Google in April 2011 . Produced in factories Samsung, smartphone was the second device in the history of the line and worked at Nexus Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Unfortunately, the term support any device limited to 18 months, so in October 2012, Nexus S has received the last update to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. However, this is Android, here ball ruled the community of developers – three years later, Nexus S can again be updated with the right to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

According to phonearena , Android-developer named Dmitry Grinberg managed to port Android Marshmallow on the Nexus S. According to Dmitry, it is his a way to show that even the archaic smart phones can run on the latest versions of the operating system, if they have a sufficient interest.

Of course, not without difficulty, Greenberg had to overcome many challenges on the way to the final build. Probably few people remember it, but older Android-based device has two partitions on the internal storage: large – for a variety of media, and small – for the system and applications. Nexus S, for example, has only 1 GB partition for system files, which, of course, is not enough to install “Zefirki” and all applications. Therefore, Greenberg had to move all the 15 GB mediarazdel.

By the way, recall the technical characteristics of the device four years ago, is now working for the freshest version of Android ( and your last year’s flagship – is not ). Nexus S has a 4-inch AMOLED-display with a resolution of 480 by 800 pixels, a single-core processor Qualcomm Hummingbird at a frequency of 1.0 GHz, 512 MB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage with no memory card support, a 5 megapixel camera, a battery 1500 mAh, and chip NFC. By today’s standards, it is not very thick.

However, if you still use a Nexus S or the “old man” is in your desk drawer, then the link is available for instruction on the firmware on Android 6.0. In addition to the description (in English) of the process of creating your own build, available and ready image that can only flash the device.

Nexus S 4 years after release, you can upgrade to Marshmallow
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