Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta 4 Update for Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 Now Available for Download

Earlier last week we told you that the folks at Paranoid Android releases a minor PA 4.5 Beta 2 update for Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10. As promised, the developers have issued a new Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta build for supported devices. The beta builds are usually released once a week, but the Beta 4 build was made available for download within days after the previous update rolled out.

As you may know, the Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta 3 build has had some issues, the PA team confirming this in their latest blog post. Even though the Beta 4 build was supposed to bring Android L Dynamic status bar, the new build only arrives to fix the issues of the previous Beta build. The new update is set to fix issues with mako WiFi and kernel, issues with Theme Engine causing reboots, and the bug that was affecting hammerhead flashlight. As you may know, the Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta builds are also including some of the design elements of the Android L release. Therefore, you will be able to partly enjoy the Android L interface before the new update goes public.

Besides the Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta 4 update for Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, the PA team has also made the new builds available for other supported devices. You would also be able to download and install the Beta 4 builds for OnePlus One, Oppo Find 5, Oppo Find 7, Oppo N1, or Galaxy Nexus. You can download the Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta 4 builds for the aforementioned smartphones from the PA download page, here.

Even though the Paranoid Android 4.5 builds are labeled as Beta, they are quite stable. I am currently running the Beta 4 build on my Nexus 5 as daily driver and I haven’t encountered any major glitches yet. The builds are usually released on a weekly basis and, as you might have guessed already, new releases are bringing fixes for the bugs found in previous versions.

If you are used to flashing custom ROMs on your Android device, installing Paranoid Android 4.5 shouldn’t raise any problems. After you have properly unlocked the bootloader, rooted your device and installed a custom recovery, you will have to download both the PA 4.5 Beta 4 and Gapps ZIP files from here and here, respectively. After you copy both files on your device, boot into Recovery Mode, go to install ZIP, choose PA 4.5 Beta 4 and Gapps, then flash them. After you perform a factory reset, reboot the device, and you should be running Android Paranoid.

If you have no idea what you’re doing, feel free to check our tutorials on how to install Paranoid Android 4.5 Beta 4. You can find tutorials for Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 here and here, while the tutorial for Nexus 10 can be found here. If you happen to own a 7-inch Nexus tablet you can find tutorials for Nexus 7 2012 WiFi-only, Nexus 7 2012 3G, Nexus 7 2013 WiFi-only, and Nexus 7 2013 LTE here, here, here, andhere, respectively.