# Flashing an OTA update onto your Nexus

DevFeed: [Flashing an OTA update onto your Nexus](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/flashing-an-ota-update-onto-your-nexus-38374.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://meedamian.com/post/flashing-otas/>)

Author: hi@meedamian.com (Damian Mee)

Published: 2015-10-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Damian Mee | Blog | Portfolio | About](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/damian-mee-blog-portfolio-about.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [adb](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/adb.md>)

Tags: [adb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adb.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [flashing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/flashing.md>), [ota](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ota.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explains how to manually install an over-the-air update on a Nexus phone, including obtaining an OTA package and applying it through ADB. The supplied text is incomplete and omits some commands and steps.

## Source excerpt

Mandatory intro OTA stands for Over The Air. Those update files are usually delivered wirelessly directly to your device, but as it usually happens gradually, you might get your update couple of days, weeks or even months after the rollout starts. Luckily there are ways to accelerate that process. Among all the people who get OTAs first there usually is couple of people willing to manually extract them from their device, and share with others on websites like Android Police.