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Nexus Dirty Flash Checklist

This is a simple step-by-step guide for flashing a minor update (e.g., monthly security update) and re-rooting for Nexus devices.

This is meant to be more of a reminder checklist for those who do this semi-regularly; if you haven't done this before or don't know much about adb and fastboot, you should probably find a more detailed guide (see here for the Nexus 5X or here for the Nexus 6P).

Option 1: OTA Sideload (Recommended)

The easiest way to update your nexus device manually is through the OTA downloads provided by Google.

This contains a few handy scripts for organizing files (particularly video files). First, use ./remove-non-video-files.sh to clear out any non-video files (and optionally non-subtitle files), then use ./org-files.sh to move all files matching a specified pattern into separate folders.

Google Fonts suggests syncing fonts to your computer with a tool called SkyFonts. However, if you're running MacOS and want to keep your machine updated with all Google Fonts without any extra software, you can do this with Git, thanks to the Google Fonts Repo.

To do this, run the following in your terminal:

cd ~/Library/Fonts/
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/fonts.git google-fonts

Done! In the future, you can download new fonts by running:

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This is a JS codemod written in jscodeshift to transform custom String.fmt() calls to template literals. For example:

const firstAnimalType = 'fox';
const secondAnimalType = 'dog';

'The big red %s jumps over the lazy brown %s'.fmt(firstAnamalType, secondAnimalType);

...is converetd to:

	if [[ ! $(which adb) ]]; then
	echo "adb not found."
	exit 1
	fi

	if [[ ! $(adb devices \| grep "\tdevice") ]]; then
	echo "No devices found."
	exit 1
	fi