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New Nexus 7 (2013) Binaries and Factory Images made available by Google

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Friday brought great news regarding the new Nexus 7 and it’s future with support from the Android open source community; the factory image and binaries were released by Google. This happened for the new Nexus 7 much sooner than expected by me anyway. If was only a few days ago that we found out that Google’s Android open source manager, Jean-Baptiste QuĂ©ru (JBQ), would be quitting his due to frustrations with legal issues with making the new Nexus 7′s factory image and binaries available. Nevertheless, we have them now. We don’t have any news at this time regarding JBQ and if the release of these files are enough to convince him to stay. Regardless, we really appreciate what he’s been able to do for our Android community. The factory image for the new Nexus 7 with Android 4.3, build JSS15J, weighs in at 360 MB and contains everything we need to flash the new Nexus 7 back to stock. This makes me feel much more comfortable tinkering with my new devices knowing that if I screw something