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Hack your superphone «Light Flow works with or without root
permissions,butitisdefinitelymorepowerfulwith
root.YoucanenablethisinDeviceSettingsand
Root in the settings area for the Light Flow app.
Grant them when prompted.Grant root permissions
Go into Settings and Enable the Light Flow
app.Nexttapthe+iconinthebottom-rightcorner.
Walk through the steps that appear in order on
your screen, picking an app then assigning a colour
for the light as desired.Setupanapp
Light Flow isn’t just limited to the LED. You
can add different sounds and vibration patterns to
all your apps as well. Ideally you can set it so you
know which app a notification has come from
without touching the phone.Sounds and more
For some reason the LED is turned off by
default. Turn it on by going to Settings>Sound &
notification and tapping Pulse notification light.
Next head to the Google Play store and download
the Light Flow app.Get started
Download the image, connect your
phone and launch the bootloader. In a
command line or Terminal window change the
directory to the location you’ve stored fastboot.
Now typefastboot flash-all. The factory image
will begin flashing. It’ll take a few minutes.Load up fastboot
To lock the bootloader again, repeat the
steps you took for unlocking it. This time
though, type fastboot oem lock. As before, this
wipes everything, including your phone’s
internal storage. Your phone will now be in a
perfect, factory-fresh state.Lock the bootloader
One of the things that makes Nexus phones
so hackable is that Google publishes factory
images. This is the original software and by
fl ashing it you return your phone to its
untouched, unrooted state. Whether you
want to sell your phone or recover from a
serious problem, this is a simple solution.
Note that fl ashing it by default wipes the
phone and internal storage, so make sure you
back up everything you need. Download the
image from developers.google.com/android/
nexus/images?hl=en.your LED
using
Light Flow
The new Nexus phones
have LEDs for
notifi cations. You can
make them more useful
using Light FlowWant to get ever y thing
back to how it was before?
Refl ash the factory image
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