Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus 10 Android 5.0.2 factory images arrive — androidauthority.com

Back in December, the Nexus 7 (2012) received a new factory image with the build number LRX22G, containing an update to Android 5.0.2. Now the Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-Fi and Nexus 10 are following suite, as factory images have just landed for both of these tablets. So what鈥檚 new in Android 5.0.2? Like we saw with the Nexus 7 (2012), the update brings no noticeable user-facing changes and instead is all about introducing bug fixes meant to improve the overall stability of Android Lollipop.聽As XDA mentioned when the update hit for the Nexus 7 (2012), the update specifically addresses issues 鈥渨ith MountService which should now start before performBootDexOpt [and] changes related to NAND have also been pushed. Fstrim, introduced in Android 4.3, caused some serious issues on Lollipop鈥� devices with slow NAND should now have a noticeable performance boost.鈥�/em> There鈥檚 likely a few device specific bug fixes in there as well.

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