If you thought that simply because you were buying a Galaxy Nexus phone you will be ready for a true Google Experience, guess again! There are a couple of different versions . Google’s own build for the Galaxy Nexus is named “yakju”, alternative builds yakjusc, yakjuxw and yakjuux (so far) are from Samsung, not Google. While the experience is mostly the same between the different versions, only Google’s yakju build is guaranteed to ge updates as they happen. Samsung will presumably distribute the updates to their modified build but at a later time.
How to change from yakjuux to yakju
Requirements
- The first thing that you need to do is to download the usb drivers. You can download the drivers from here.
- Download Fastboot to your computer. If you don’t know how to do it, this page will help you.
- Download the android image that you want to install from here. (ITL41F)
- Download the attachment and extract the files into the same directory that you installed fastboot.
- Download the radio that you need. For canadian phones there are 2 options: ugkk7 or ugkl1. Pick the option that you want to use from here
Step-by-step
- Reboot your device into bootloader mode (by turning it off, hold volume up and volume down, and press power) and plug it into your computer;
- Open a command prompt (Shift + right button in your mouse) in the folder where you download all your files.
- Make sure your computer recognizes your device by typing: fastboot devices.
- Unlock your bootloader: fastboot oem unlock. You will see a prompt on your device. This will wipe your entire device.
- Click Accept.
- Reboot by typing: fastboot reboot-bootloader
- Flash the bootloader: fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-maguro-primekj10.img
- Reboot: fastboot reboot-bootloader
- Flash the radio: fastboot flash radio radio-maguro-i9250ugkl1.img or ig9250ugkk7.img
- Reboot: fastboot reboot-bootloader
- Flash the system partition: fastboot flash system system.img
- Flash the data: fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
- Flash the boot: fastboot flash boot boot.img
- Flash the recovery: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- Erase the cache: fastboot erase cache
- Reboot: fastboot reboot
- You are done.
Problems with OTA update
In order to get OTA updates without problems. Make sure that you flash your original radio image (in this case xxkk1) before you accept and download the update, otherwise you will get an error and you won’t be able to see the update notification anymore.
