Nexus 7 (2012) 3G & Sony Z Ultra GPe receive Android 5.1 update

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After a brief silence, Google has opened the floodgates of the Android 5.1 update for Nexus and Google Play edition (GPe) devices. Over the last few days, Moto G GPe, HTC One M8 GPe, and LG G Pad 8.3 GPe have received the Android 5.1 updates and now, the search giant has rolled-out the same update for Nexus 7 (2012) 3G model and Sony Z Ultra GPe.

The update is now available over-the-air and will reach these two devices over the coming days. If you don’t like waiting, you can always go to Settings > About Phone > Software update to manually check for the update. Also, here are the Android 5.1 OTA ZIP files links for the Z Ultra GPe and Nexus 7 (2012) 3G, if you want, you can sideload these ZIP files using ADB.

The update brings performance enhancements, stability improvements, bug-fixes and couple of small features.

HTC One M7 GPe is expected to be the next GPe device to get Android 5.1.