Marshmallow ROM for Nexus 5
November 6, 2015 12:45 AM   Subscribe

I would like to install a Marshmallow ROM for my Nexus 5. I quite like the default version of Android, my issue is simply that Marshmallow doesn't install on my device. I don't absolutely need Marshmallow, I would just like it. Specifically, I don't want to install a ROM if it is going to have a significant negative impact on performance or battery life, so if someone has run some benchmarks on the ROM, then that would be great.

I'm happy to hear about ROM's that haven't reached a stable version yet, but would I would really like is a ROM that I can install now and which is stable. Does anyone have any suggestions?
posted by casebash to Technology (5 answers total)
 
Is there some reason you don’t want to use the Marshmallow release from Google?

There are download links for the stock OTA updates in this XDA-developers thread.
posted by pharm at 1:16 AM on November 6, 2015


Response by poster: Sorry, I screwed up the version. I have a Nexus 4, not a Nexus 5. Marshmallow doesn't install on Nexus 4.
posted by casebash at 1:53 AM on November 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


You could try the image that a Google software engineer created. You’ll need to grab a Google Apps zip from somewhere else if you want the full Google experience though.

It also looks like there are some fairly stable stock AOSP releases available on the relevant XDA Developers forum.

Me, I’m happy to just track the CyanogenMod releases of L for the moment.
posted by pharm at 2:56 AM on November 6, 2015


Personally, i'd wait until there are official CM nightlies for this phone. I don't have one(or my n5 anymore), but i've seen several places mention that's coming. I've been idly following the progress of this just out of general interest.

That said, i easily found several roms that as far as custom roms for android phones go, or even in general, list essentially no issues("you have to flip this setting if you reboot to get bla to work" being the most serious ones).

Roms in general already seem to be in a pretty bulletproof state because the nexus 7 mk2 and nexus 4 are almost the same device internally. Fuck if i know why google didn't just do an official release if they already went 90% of the way there.

On preview, the ones on XDA are even more square than that google engineer version. They include gapps, and have no real complaints listed.

As i said though, if you run this phone all day as your main phone i'd just sit on it. CM or another gigantic project with autoupdate will come along. There are patches being pushed to 6.0 right now(there's been what, 3 OTAs on the 5x/6p?), and it always irks be to be on some custom rom and not be getting bugfixes when they're pushed to AOSP. That's up to you though. Stable enough stuff seems to be out there.
posted by emptythought at 3:05 AM on November 6, 2015


Why not jump ship on your next 4? You can grab a Nexus 5 for super cheap now, or even go all 2015 and get a 5x or 6p.

I have a 2 year old Nexus 5 - I replaced the battery a couple of months ago - and will be using it for a while yet. It runs Marshmallow perfectly.
posted by 0bvious at 3:21 AM on November 6, 2015


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