Download Nexus 4 Marshmallow update now! [Android 6.0]

It’s easy to imagine Google broke many hearts when it said that Nexus 4 won’t get Marshmallow love. Quite according to the plan, there are no Marshmallow factory images available for Nexus 4 users. But worry not, the custom ROM based on Marshmallow is here, which means if you have TWRP, you have — you guessed it — Marshmallow!

To install Marshmallow on your Nexus 4, you have to thanks Dimitry Grinberg, who cooked the ROM from Marshmallow AOSP sources.

Downloads

• Marshmallow custom ROM — Link | File: MakoM_bin.zip (245.0 MB)
  Uh, here’s a mirror link with faster download speeds, but know that this is Dimitry Grinberg work, and we’re only providing better download host for this. We are not to thank for this, Dimitry Grinberg is. Uh, link to be given when the man approves it.)
• Google Apps (Gapps) — Link (not available yet, you will have to live without them for now)

Supported devices

• LG NEXUS 4, model D820 and D821
• Don’t try this on any other device than the one having model no. specified above.

Warning!

Warranty may be void of your device if you follow the procedures given on this page. You only are responsible for your device. We won’t be liable if any damage occurs to your device and/or its components.

How to Install

Required: You will need to have TWRP recovery installed on your device to be able to install Google Apps (Gapps), while ROM can be flashed directly using fastboot commands. Check out our page on Nexus 4 TWRP recovery for flashing Gapps.

• Power off the device. Wait for 4-5 seconds after screen goes off.
• Press and hold Volume Up + Power button together until you see anything on screen. This is bootloader mode, and you will see FASTBOOT written at the top.

1. Open that Nexus4update folder and then left click on empty white space in the folder.
2. Now, while holding shift key, right click on empty white space to get a pop-up as shown below.
3. Now choose Open command window here option from that.

You will see a command window open up, with location directed to Nexus4update folder.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot reboot bootloader

fastboot flash radio modem.img

fastboot reboot bootloader

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot reboot

Wait for Nexus 4 to finish booting up, it may take some time. Once it does, check the Settings > About device. You should have Marshmallow under Android version. Congos!

→ Btw, if you face force close on apps a lot, or device lagging too much, then do a factory reset using TWRP recovery to solve that problem.

• Power off the device. Wait for 4-5 seconds after screen goes off.
• Press and hold Volume Up + Power button together until you see anything on screen. This is bootloader mode, and you will see FASTBOOT written at the top.
• Now, use volume down two times to bring up recovery mode, and then power button to select it and boot into recovery mode.

You will enter recovery mode soon, and should see TWRP recovery. If you see 3e recovery, then you need to install TWRP — linked above — first for this.

That’s it.

Let us know if you need any help with this, via comments below.