Nexus 5

The annual releases final assembly software updates like Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat – that’s a feast during the plague. No matter how much joy this event bore no owners flagship devices, it is, like it or not, and becomes the last nail in the coffin of the less modern, but sometimes more sought-after devices. For example, Nexus 5, which the fans, however, did not want to bury favorite gadget and still upgrade to Android 7.0.

On successful experience of enthusiastic developers wrote edition of Android Headlines with a link to the forum XDA . It was there, according to the journalists, there was the first mention of Nexus 5 running Nougat. As evidence of the successful porting of the experiment, participants provided quite high quality screenshots look of the system. At the same time, according to the developers themselves, to achieve absolute performance update set they still failed.

The system refuses to activate certain functions such as Nexus 5 camera or Bluetooth interface. In addition, there are some problems with the “OSes” stability at random reboots smartphone or refusing to launch a separate application. However, these experiments have taken place in the past and were crowned with success in the end. Let us hope that this time the developers intention to extend the life of such a popular smartphone will not go in vain.

Install Android Nougat on a Nexus 5 is at your own risk, you can now. For instructions, please refer to the special section on the XDA forum. Revision AndroidInsider.ru in turn strongly recommends to refrain from such experiments, if you are not confident in their ability to return everything to its original state. Beware of bricks

. Nexus 5 upgraded to Android Nougat