How to Update Android Marshmallow on Nexus Device via Google ‘Nexus Files for Developer’

As promised earlier, Google has started to deliver the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the Nexus phone. And the update will be provided gradually with a method of over-the-air (OTA).

But for you who can not wait the update via OTA, Google also provides the update files to be downloaded and installed by Nexus user. The download link is in the Google ‘Nexus Files for Developer‘.

In these pages, you have several files of Android Marshmallow updates for several different devices, the Nexus 5, 6, 7 (2013), 9 and Nexus Player. But get ready because this update file has a size large enough.

For example, Marshmallow factory images for Nexus 6, the file size of no less than 1 GB. And the update installation process is also quite complicated, when compared with the OTA update.

But do not worry, because Google also provides a tutorial about manual installation is on the same page, such as quoted from Ubergizmo, Tuesday (10/06/2015).

There are several key features on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Include Doze, which is claimed to reduce battery power consumption when the device is not in use.

Then there Now on Tap, which can scan and analyze anything that is on the device screen. Then it can find a variety of information related to it.

Marshmallow also supports the use of fingerprint authentication through, things that do not exist in the previous version of the Android OS. And certainly a device that has full support this feature are the two brand-new Nexus that Google launched last week, the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.