Recently, the "fourth son" Nexus 4 has become a hot buying craze in the mobile phone industry. The Nexus 4 is very popular among players because of its high cost performance and playability. Although it has many small problems that have been questioned, it does not affect its popularity in any way. The reason why Nexus is so popular with players is largely because of its native system and convenient brushing mechanism. Because of this feature, the Nexus series has a lot of third-party ROMs to choose from. How can I play the Nexus mobile phone well? Let's use Nexus 4 as an example.

This article mainly uses the Nexus 4 as an example to explain that Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and other players can follow the same idea.

Unlock

Before brushing the system, first unlock the Bootloader lock (BL lock). The method to unlock the BL lock is simple. Just press the volume - and power on keys at the same time when the machine is turned off to enter the fastboot interface, then install the corresponding drive to connect to the computer, and then use some special tools to unlock the BL lock.

Fastboot mode

Unlocking tool (in addition, this tool also has the root function, but it is recommended to directly import the ROM with root)

After unlocking the BL lock, the words like this will appear on the fastboot interface, Pay attention to the last line of red letters 。

Brush in Recovery

Recovery is the recovery mode, which is used for functions such as system flushing, backup and restore. After long-term development, Android's Recovery function has become more and more powerful, and even many touch screen supported Recovery have emerged, which can be operated directly by clicking.

The adb command for flushing in Recovery: fastboot flash recovery XXXX (recover file name)

The Recovery in the figure supports touch operation.

Brush machine

In fact, the Nexus 4 can be said to be very suitable or not suitable for machine brushing. The reason why it is suitable for cleaning is that Google's powerful new system support and open policy support directly lead to the emergence of various third-party ROMs like mushrooms, although mobile phones have not been launched for a long time. The Nexus 4 is not suitable for machine cleaning because it can neither insert a tf card nor use an OTG, which makes it inconvenient to clean the machine if there is no cleaning package in the machine. however Android 4.2 Of Recovery A new method of machine brushing has emerged“ sideload ”, this kind of brush machine can allow no brush package in the card, and the machine body does not support tf Cards and OTG Brush the machine in case of ， It can be said that this brush machine is customized for Nexus 4.

In adb, command: adb sideload XXXX (the path of the machine cleaning package). After entering the command, it is actually transferred to the mobile phone through the machine cleaning package in the computer hard disk, and then the regular machine cleaning is performed, The function of sideload is actually to build such a bridge. In Recovery, it directly "pushes" the computer's flash kit to the phone's built-in memory card, which is very practical in some special cases.

Here we recommend the Nexus series ROM with the "AOKP (Android Open Kang Project)" series. While maintaining the original simple interface, this series ROM adds a lot of custom functions. In addition, it is recommended to install a third-party desktop NOVA to add personalization as well as many different functions. The following is a partial demonstration.

You can see many improvements on the desktop, such as the customization of clock and power display, and the customization of navigation bar. The customization of the navigation bar is particularly important. Many users scoff at the navigation bar of the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 and think it takes up too much screen space ， stay AOKP 、 CM etc. ROM The thickness of the navigation bar can be directly adjusted inside ， You can also customize functions.

There are many more drop-down options than the native ones

Outstanding customization function of NOVA Launcher

The third-party system of "Xylon" painted by the author can even achieve true full screen display. Not only the navigation bar, but also the title bar is directly hidden, which will bring a unique experience.

The Nexus series, as the "alien" of Android phones, is not about sales. In Nexus, we can see some of the true essence of Android, excellent openness and personalization, which are what many players are looking for. However, if the Nexus mobile phone is used as an ordinary Android mobile phone and only plays with its own system, it is a bit overqualified. The Nexus series, in plain terms, is a dedicated machine for tossing and cleaning.

Unlock

Brush in Recovery

Brush machine

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