It's time for Lollipop 5.1

Hi folks,

as unfortunate it is, I'vent been active lately in this olive branch. Since now I've more suitable moment and something actual to discuss, let's start with Google's latest OS announcement.

Google has released new Lollipop 5.1 release with huge promises. Catch up content of unwrapping from Android's official blog,

Since Lollipop 5.1 update was just released, I should wait OTA announcement for my N5 some days, maybe even a week. Therefore I was a bit impatient, to be honest more than a bit. Therefore finally decided to give a shot to install manually Google's official OS image. As I've been keen on XDA Developers community, decided to search instructions and some tips to complete manual OS image installation as smooth as possible. Especially this process need to be taken care of very accurate since even soft bricking my only mobile phone would be extremely crucial since therefore wouldn't have any backup option to use mobile for my daily basis needs.

HOW TO MANUALLY INSTALL OFFICIAL OS FOR NEXUS 5

To share my succeeded process, I'd like to share it among my readers as well. Therefore following part of this post consist of step by step instructions how to complete Google's official OS image installation with Windows OS. Unfortunately I don't have device with Mac OS X operating system, so therefore readers using Apple products have to search help from somewhere else, my humble apologize for that, in matter of speech.

Pre-steps

1. Download and install USB and ADB drivers, click here
2. Download factory image you want to install, click here
3. Unlock bootloader manually via CMD prompt or automatically with suitable toolkit
   NB! Wipes all data from your device, remember to take backup if needed

Actual procedure

Step by step instructions provided by abaaaabbbb63 (recognized contributor at XDA Developers)

Method 1 

OR

Method 2

PERSONAL THOUGHTS

All required steps in entire process was pretty much clear to me as long is able to be enough patient and focused. Method 1 gave my error message while executing flash-all.bat. Whoever decided to give a try for method 2 which gave clear results. As a final closure for this particular post, here's screenshot proving device info of my N5.