Hello all. I have been using rooted but stock KitKat for quite awhile now because everyone has always said it's the most stable ROM to use. Lately, however, my OPO's screen has been dimming but not completely turning off (it just sits in a dimmed state) and draining the battery. Also, it has been randomly rebooting, and WiFI says it's on but never seems to connect unless I completely turn off my mobile data (e.g. LTE). Looking at GSAM for the battery problem, it seems that the "android system" is the culprit. I have looked also used Logcat Extreme, but admittedly, don't know enough to recognize a major issue.
I know that Marshmallow still has kinks in it and Lollipop has been somewhat abandoned (in favor of Marshmallow), but are most of the major issues worked out? There's no point in my opinion of changing Android versions if I'm only swapping major issues for other major issues. However, I also fear that as Android moves forward, then apps will need to adjust and render some of the apps less compatible with KitKat.
I would like to have a fairly stable and battery friendly ROM, that has very minor, if any, issues. Does Lollipop or Marshmallow fall into that category? Should I upgrade to Lollipop or Marshmallow (or any related ROMs)?
Thanks for any and all thoughts and info.
Short answer: find a different KitKat rom. Slimkat for example.
Long answer: mobile radio active bug plagues all roms from lollipop and upwards so your battery life will suffer if you use mobile data a lot. There is no fix for this bug and Google ignores its presence.
What wrong with your kitkat ROM? Maybe clean flashed again. I always come back to cos11s 44s every now and then. Battery is awesome, my phone's battery is 1.5 year old and still got 5.5-6.0 sot.
Thanks again for the help and advice.
Is there a recommendation for Kitkat ROM? I'm looking for stability and battery life that surpass stock. Extra features are a bonus, but stock works well enough. It might be easier to just reset the ROM of there's no real major benefits from changing ROM. Thanks
I stayed on Slimkat for the longest time due to the MRA bug. I used this kitkat ROM more than any other. It is the leanest and fastest with the best battery I found. However, the SlimSaber 5.1.1 build has worked just as well for me. I usually get 7 hours screentime (sometimes more - as much as ten - sometimes less - as little as 5.) So it's comparable to Slimkat. No problems except sometimes the screen won't display while talking on the phone without a power button push, perhaps since I keep off ambient display. And it's a little bit snappier and just as stable with almost the same high level of customizations.
Calkulin's 3.7 is perfect... OEM rooted, smooth, quick, battery optimized and no issues. Run it on my 3 OPOs.
Yes, I'd upgrade.
Thanks for the suggestions
i would say yes upgrade. i want to downgrade back kitkat due to bad battery life but will miss may stuff like the new dialer and cant find a stable image to reflash back to kitkat. i used a onepluse one flash kit to reflash but dont use it as i cant find a proper image for it
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Hello,
I know there are some topics like this but they were not clear for me.
Sinds already a really long time i have serious draining problems.
when i look at my battery usage, i see android OS just as high as the consumption of my screen.
I changed to every (ICS) ROM you can imagine, but the problem always comes back.
Is it normall that android OS is using between 20-50% ?
Does everyone have this problem?
Better battery stats says: audio out_3 and alarm manager is causing it.
But i can't really remove them can I?
I noticed the back of my phone is always warm, it just doesn't cool down.
I think one of my apps is causing this drain, but I really don't know how to find it.
Do you have any suggestions?
thank you!
You could try a slimmed down version if something like AOSP then see without installing any apps if the problem still occurs.
As for heat mine is always warn too even undervolted and underclockdd to 972mhz it can get warm.
Sent from my pyramid...
when I still had my MT4G, someone found out that if you delete "Google Backup Transport" that the Android OS would go back to normal along with battery life. Im not sure about the Sensation, but make a backup of the file and try deleting it to see if it helps
AOSP had the same problem, but it could be slightly better.
I will try google backup transport.
i have the same problem with AOSP based roms, i normally get around 7-9 hours from a AOSP rom (even tho i have an extended battery) but im currently using rdejager's miui sense rom (undervolted by -100) and im can normally get around 24-30hours from one charge
I flashed Cyanogenmod (opensensation) and i'm really happy with it. I also formatted sd card. Android OS is working normall for now, but it might come back (usualy does :S)
Also i'm buying an anker battery, so i hope the problem is solved!
Otherwise JB must solve it right?
audio out_3 ? you can uncheck Key tone,or download One Power Guard or It will give you some optimization tips.
Hi all, just got my 11yr old son a ChaCha. He wanted a Blackberry for the keyboard, but managed to persuade him to have the ChaCha. Anyway, it seems to have this infamous dialer bug.From reading throu the forums, am I right in thinking that if I put a custom rom on, it will get rid of the dialer bug? He curently takes it to school, at 100% power, and generally comes home with the phone on around 10-20% power!! He is only allowed to use it at break and lunchtime!! Also, as it's for my kid, I would like it to be as close to stock as possible. Any recommendations? As I already own a customised Desire, I am happy to 'play about'. I have already unlocked the bootloader, and rooted, so that I can use link2sd. Without that he could only install 3 apps on it before it got the low disk space warning!! And as he's only 11, he likes to put a lot of junk on his phone!! Any help would be most appreacited. Thanks.
Like I mentioned here, I don't think that the dialer bug really exists. It's just the battery statistics that are not very clear.
The overall battery performance of the Chacha is very bad, so if you play some games they could drown the battery within an hour. There only thing you could do is rooting the phone and using another ROM. You can win a little with this, but for playing games, Chacha has a very bad battery performance.
Best performance was with CM7 - there my battery live was 1 1/2 days (without playing games), with CM9 now it's less then a day again.
So for better battery performance and keyboard I guess the Motorola Pro is the only phone, or non-Android phones.
I agree. There is no dialer bug. Those are many processes that show as Dialer. I don't mean to offend you, but have you considered that your son is using the phone not just at break and lunchtime? It is hard to resist, especially when it comes to new things. You should test it yourself and see if battery drains that much in that specific time frame.
Regards
Custom ROM would be a good option, but as he's 11, he's probably not old enough to appreciate the faster speed of CM7 or CM9, over his front camera. I'm guessing he'd want his front camera to keep on working lol
But when I was using the stock rom, I just turned my 3G data off whenever I was not using it, and that makes the battery last miles longer
For easyness (lazyness). Create a widget on the homescreen, under Settings and Mobile Internet. And then you'll have a widget you can just tap to turn on and off the mobile data as long as your son can get the hang off turning it off when he's not using it, then that should work a treat
go for CM Roms
IMHO I do believe that there's a dialer bug in stock Chacha, I think it is caused by the dialer's continuous polling of the proximity sensor (this bug has been reported in a lot of htc stock gingerbread phones, the app dx battery helped me confirm this.) Custom ROMs helped me solved this bug but only those that are CM-based (stock-based roms still has the dialer bug). CM7 is very stable and has the best battery life for any Chacha ROM but CM9 just looks so damn good and the battery life is still way better than stock (in stock, I get battery drains even if my phone is just idle, wifi off)
Thanks for the advice guys. I think we will leave it a couple of weeks and see how it goes. May end up putting CM7 on it at some stage, as I have a CM7 based ROM on my desire. He is only allowed to use it between lessons, otherwise it's detention!! He also uses it to listen to music to and from school. And yes, I have notice that the battery goes down rather quickly, when I was setting it up for him.
Well, there sure is a bug in the stock rom that drains it within hours. IMO it's coming from the 3G connection... Sometimes, when my coworkers drive me crazy, I turn off the 3G... I live in a neighbourhood with a bad network connection, this means that it is reconnecting all the time. My battery normally went for about 15 hours, with 3G off it works for over 20 hours. But since I've installed CM9 it stays alive for over 40 hours...
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So, I don't know if my problem here in particular is unique or new, but this issue started about a week ago.
My Nexus 5, is rooted, and running Cyanogenmod 11, (was) running with ART Runtime, and I was getting pretty decent battery life with the phone. Usually nothing less than 2-3 hours of screen on time, with pretty typical settings (location off, sync off, etc).
Out of nowhere, about last week my battery life began to be much worse. It'll drain from full to 20% in a matter of 5 or 6 hours, and none of my usage really changed at all. I'm well aware of the mm-qcamera-daemon, but according to my battery usage page, it still isn't really in use or bothering my battery life.
What could cause this sudden change? I'm here at work plugging my phone in half way through the day, when normally I can go about 2 days without charging.
I've tried factory resetting, I've turned off ART, I've tried changing the governor on the CPU, and many other things. Is my battery simply going bad?
If anything has a solution for me, it'd be a blessing.
Thanks.
speedanderson said:
So, I don't know if my problem here in particular is unique or new, but this issue started about a week ago.
My Nexus 5, is rooted, and running Cyanogenmod 11, (was) running with ART Runtime, and I was getting pretty decent battery life with the phone. Usually nothing less than 2-3 hours of screen on time, with pretty typical settings (location off, sync off, etc).
Out of nowhere, about last week my battery life began to be much worse. It'll drain from full to 20% in a matter of 5 or 6 hours, and none of my usage really changed at all. I'm well aware of the mm-qcamera-daemon, but according to my battery usage page, it still isn't really in use or bothering my battery life.
What could cause this sudden change? I'm here at work plugging my phone in half way through the day, when normally I can go about 2 days without charging.
I've tried factory resetting, I've turned off ART, I've tried changing the governor on the CPU, and many other things. Is my battery simply going bad?
If anything has a solution for me, it'd be a blessing.
Thanks.
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If i was on your place I'd return it back to stock and see how my phone would react. Afterwards if issue has to do anything with hardware I'd unroot + relock bootloader and give it to my provider for a warranty and explain them my problems.
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If i was on your place I'd return it back to stock and see how my phone would react. Afterwards if issue has to do anything with hardware I'd unroot + relock bootloader and give it to my provider for a warranty and explain them my problems.
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Hmm..
That's not a bad idea. I think I'll flash stock back on to it when I get home tonight. You know, I have insurance on the phone, but I was expecting to have to exchange it for breaking the phone's screen, not for my battery going bad. I hope Stock ROM fixes the problem, or hell.. maybe whenever 4.4.3 ROMs start coming out, that might do the trick to. I've been careful to take care of this phone, since I broke my Nexus 4 two months after I got it.
Thanks.
speedanderson said:
Hmm..
That's not a bad idea. I think I'll flash stock back on to it when I get home tonight. You know, I have insurance on the phone, but I was expecting to have to exchange it for breaking the phone's screen, not for my battery going bad. I hope Stock ROM fixes the problem, or hell.. maybe whenever 4.4.3 ROMs start coming out, that might do the trick to. I've been careful to take care of this phone, since I broke my Nexus 4 two months after I got it.
Thanks.
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You're welcome. I hope that you solve your problem as soon as possible. If you take a look how your phone does with stock on your diagnose of a problem would be much easier and from than on if the problem was in software you can try some other roms and kernels. I personally am not really a fan of cyanogenmod 11 at least not for nexus 5 since I've had few bugs using for a few days.
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You're welcome. I hope that you solve your problem as soon as possible. If you take a look how your phone does with stock on your diagnose of a problem would be much easier and from than on if the problem was in software you can try some other roms and kernels. I personally am not really a fan of cyanogenmod 11 at least not for nexus 5 since I've had few bugs using for a few days.
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Well, I really liked Paranoid Android for my Nexus 4, and I've had no issues until recently with CM11. :\
I guess stock is going to be my best bet though. I just really hope I can deal with the battery drain issue from mm-qcamera-daemon or whatever.
speedanderson said:
Well, I really liked Paranoid Android for my Nexus 4, and I've had no issues until recently with CM11. :\
I guess stock is going to be my best bet though. I just really hope I can deal with the battery drain issue from mm-qcamera-daemon or whatever.
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I've been using SlimKat in combination with Faux's custom kernel for a few days now and I must say that peformance is as smooth as it was never before, speed is absolutely phenomenal and my battery life is more than pleasing (around 24H + 3-4 Hrs of screen on time).
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I've been using SlimKat in combination with Faux's custom kernel for a few days now and I must say that peformance is as smooth as it was never before, speed is absolutely phenomenal and my battery life is more than pleasing (around 24H + 3-4 Hrs of screen on time).
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Well, that sounds like exactly I want. I'm not opposed to trying another custom ROM either. Can you PM me a link to the thread with whatever particular build you're using?
If it's efficient and up to 4 hours of on screen time, sounds like exactly what I need.
I'm more than happy to ditch my ROM if I can get better performance, haha.
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Well, that sounds like exactly I want. I'm not opposed to trying another custom ROM either. Can you PM me a link to the thread with whatever particular build you're using?
If it's efficient and up to 4 hours of on screen time, sounds like exactly what I need.
I'm more than happy to ditch my ROM if I can get better performance, haha.
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ROM: http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/d...4-slim-hammerhead-4-4-2-build-4-official-3700
KERNEL: http://faux.romhost.me/hammerhead/kk44/
I'm using non-ultimate version of the kernel which means that it doesn't support overclocking and I'm also using a bit older build which is very stable and works flawlessly for me.
Ah, great. I'm actually going to download it now, while I'm here at work. Also, does this particular ROM work at all with ART Runtime, because if possible, I'd like to continue using it.
speedanderson said:
Ah, great. I'm actually going to download it now, while I'm here at work. Also, does this particular ROM work at all with ART Runtime, because if possible, I'd like to continue using it.
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It does support ART. I didn't try it on this ROM though so I cannot tell exactly whether it's working or not. You'll have to test it by yourself but I am pretty sure that if your phone doesn't have any hardware issues that you won't be disappointed with the performance of ROM + Kernel with or without ART! Hit thanks if I helped you anyhow :laugh:
PS: Though since the ART is still in beta phase of development there is a possibility that it has caused you so much trouble with battery =)
speedanderson said:
So, I don't know if my problem here in particular is unique or new, but this issue started about a week ago.
My Nexus 5, is rooted, and running Cyanogenmod 11, (was) running with ART Runtime, and I was getting pretty decent battery life with the phone. Usually nothing less than 2-3 hours of screen on time, with pretty typical settings (location off, sync off, etc).
Out of nowhere, about last week my battery life began to be much worse. It'll drain from full to 20% in a matter of 5 or 6 hours, and none of my usage really changed at all. I'm well aware of the mm-qcamera-daemon, but according to my battery usage page, it still isn't really in use or bothering my battery life.
What could cause this sudden change? I'm here at work plugging my phone in half way through the day, when normally I can go about 2 days without charging.
I've tried factory resetting, I've turned off ART, I've tried changing the governor on the CPU, and many other things. Is my battery simply going bad?
If anything has a solution for me, it'd be a blessing.
Thanks.
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Batteries Can't throttle. However the do degrade with use. You can replace the battery with ease.
Hi,
I´ve been using GPE 4.4.2 for a while. It worked really good, but when 4.4.4 came out, I wanted to update it.
I did a full wipe and install of 4.4.2 afterwards upgraded to 4.4.4 and then I restores my apps.
I think I´m getting less battery life in 4.4.4 than in 4.4.2.
Also, I got a couple of random reboots during this week.
Nothing huge, but I wanted to know if I´m the only one or if somebody else is facing the same problems.
I´m on stock kernel. Does someone have another kernel and configuration to recommend for GPE? My priority is battery life.
Thanks
BachuArg said:
Hi,
I´ve been using GPE 4.4.2 for a while. It worked really good, but when 4.4.4 came out, I wanted to update it.
I did a full wipe and install of 4.4.2 afterwards upgraded to 4.4.4 and then I restores my apps.
I think I´m getting less battery life in 4.4.4 than in 4.4.2.
Also, I got a couple of random reboots during this week.
Nothing huge, but I wanted to know if I´m the only one or if somebody else is facing the same problems.
I´m on stock kernel. Does someone have another kernel and configuration to recommend for GPE? My priority is battery life.
Thanks
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I'm satisfied with 4.4.4 but it's true, battery life is less than 4.4.2
Thanks, I returned to 4.4.2
When I tried aerokernel, my phone got stuck, so I decided to go back to 4.4.2
The battery drain is a problem on all 4.4.4 stock ROMs (GPe included). Motorola f'ed something up so the phone is virtually in a continuous wakelock, with the cpu stuck at full clock speed. My new phone came with the 4.4.4 update already installed, battery life is crap compared to my old one that I stubbornly kept on 4.3, which lasted 3 days in standby. The new one with 4.4.4 barely makes it to 6 hours with no use at all.
Might I suggest installing CM when the release M9 - I certainally will when (if) it gets released.
GPS issue draining battery?
Broken_motoG said:
The battery drain is a problem on all 4.4.4 stock ROMs (GPe included). Motorola f'ed something up so the phone is virtually in a continuous wakelock, with the cpu stuck at full clock speed. My new phone came with the 4.4.4 update already installed, battery life is crap compared to my old one that I stubbornly kept on 4.3, which lasted 3 days in standby. The new one with 4.4.4 barely makes it to 6 hours with no use at all.
Might I suggest installing CM when the release M9 - I certainally will when (if) it gets released.
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I am back on 4.4.2 but I found a problem that I had in 4.4.4 also.
I normally have gps off and I just turn it on when I need to use it.
I´ve found in 4.4.2 with OSA maps and in 4.4.4 with TomTom that after I turn off the GPS, if I check the battery stats, these apps appear to consume a lot of my battery because they kept using the GPS for a lot of hours more.
Does it only happen to me?
Thanks
Please post here your experiences, good or bad, with the official stock Android 5.0 update on the N9005 snapdragon.
The majority of reviews I found so far on the web are not really praising, but of course it's also only a few days since the update is available, so it would be useful if we had a thread with all the facts as to know if it's better to wait for the 5.1 update which I I've heard rumors of that it would be on the way already.
If there are some issues it could save some people from wasting a 1.3Gb download, which is in my case almost my complete monthly allowance on my 3G connection.
Official update, moderate use, some application development, some tweaking here.
Responsiveness is good, ART really is zippy, but the stock bloatware seems to be dodgier than usual. Battery life is 4-5h on idle, phone doubles as a hand-warmer. I hope that feature switches off automatically once spring starts.
Phone is really snappy, performance is great . Of course still had to disable the usual Samsung bloatware. But still faster than my debloated KitKat was. Everything is fluid, and the animations are a nice touch.
No multiuser accounts. Not sure why.
I really hate Heads up Notifications, especially with Whatsapp which I use most of the time.
Heads up is one of the main reasons why I would install it, because all the heads up apps from Playstore have one or another flaw.
I hope Kercharon's comment on the battery was made tongue in cheek, because that wouldn't be very promising, but in fact I've read a similar comment on another site so I'm looking forward to more experiences.
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Heads up is one of the main reasons why I would install it, because all the heads up apps from Playstore have one or another flaw.
I hope Kercharon's comment on the battery was made tongue in cheek, because that wouldn't be very promising, but in fact I've read a similar comment on another site so I'm looking forward to more experiences.
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It was, but the battery drain issue is real, and the phone does get hot. It's probably a misconfiiguration that a factory reset would fix - for a start, disabling the unified daemon (eur) service improved battery life expectancy by a factor of two.
I'll be waiting for a debloated ROM myself, preferrably Note4 based, once it gets released.
I came from leaked lollipop to official version. After updating I have done a factory reset by booting in to recovery. Definitely felt snappier than leaked. So I rooted and removed most of the junk from Samsung. Ram usage is lower compared to previous and battery life looks OK. No troubles so far. I'm happy with this update.
I have no problems with battery life after removing bloatware (daemon, Samsung crap, etc)
Sent from my SM-N9005
DeuXGod said:
I have no problems with battery life after removing bloatware (daemon, Samsung crap, etc)
Sent from my SM-N9005
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Can you list some of the things you did after install ?
Your battery life seems great
kpyhere said:
Can you list some of the things you did after install ?
Your battery life seems great
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Removed unified daemon (huge battery drain), removed all Knox crap, removed weather widget and greenified apps that I don't use so much. That's pretty much it.
Sent from my SM-N9005
Note4 based...
kercharon said:
It was, but the battery drain issue is real, and the phone does get hot. It's probably a misconfiiguration that a factory reset would fix - for a start, disabling the unified daemon (eur) service improved battery life expectancy by a factor of two.
I'll be waiting for a debloated ROM myself, preferrably Note4 based, once it gets released.
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i am running a Note4 based ROM ( Tweaked_PORT_N4_L_TW_ROM_v3.0_by_g00h ) since almost a month on my Note3 SM-N9005 hlte and it runs like a charm. Bloatware? nope Overheating? nope Battery drain? nope
In normal use (on screen about four and a half hours) battery time lasts for about fifteen hours till phone reminds me to charge or go into ultra power saving mode.
You`ll find the ROM here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-t3018509
I am noticing some lags some lags while playing a game called Swing Copters! Is this because the game isn't optimised for L yet, or something else?
It's too early to say but the battery life is very good so far, much better than KitKat.
PS: I have one question, has the default auto brightness changed in L? I mean how many nits is it now? I feel that the brightness is a little bit less than KitKat, I don't like it.
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I am noticing some lags some lags while playing a game called Swing Copters! Is this because the game isn't optimised for L yet, or something else?
It's too early to say but the battery life is very good so far, much better than KitKat.
PS: I have one question, has the default auto brightness changed in L? I mean how many nits is it now? I feel that the brightness is a little bit less than KitKat, I don't like it.
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I have noticeable lag in Hill Climb Racing too.
Btw, turning the screen on isn't smooth. It's looks like two steps from black to ON. Does anyone else see this?
Thanks for posting your experiences so far guys it for sure will help me, and probably others as well, to decide if it's worth to make the large download now or better wait a little for a first update.
I also read elsewhere that many of the stock apps like dialer, gallery, clock and calculator have now a white background vs a black one in Kitkat, and which I personally don't like. Is that easily to change or not?
There is also much to do about the completely overhauled Touchwiz, but I'm not sure if it is included in the Note 3 firmware. if so is it a great improvement over the old touchwiz?
Keep in mind that this thread is about the official update only, not the leaked version, and definitely not custom roms.
Please keep your posts coming.
Lag on recent app screen when you press the kill all button.
Battery drain due to Indexing Service, remove it if you don't use S Search or My Files.
i got screen frozen issue in the past 3 morning, after the alarm goes off, and the APEX launcher is not responding.
Just press power button off/on , then every thing seems fine. feel like the phone is in deep sleep, and need 10 or so seconds / and press On button for it to wake up.
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Please post here your experiences, good or bad, with the official stock Android 5.0 update on the N9005 snapdragon.
The majority of reviews I found so far on the web are not really praising, but of course it's also only a few days since the update is available, so it would be useful if we had a thread with all the facts as to know if it's better to wait for the 5.1 update which I I've heard rumors of that it would be on the way already.
If there are some issues it could save some people from wasting a 1.3Gb download, which is in my case almost my complete monthly allowance on my 3G connection.
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for me exynos it's overheat as fu.cked
lollipop is so boring not easy to do custom :good:
From the responses so far it looks as if it is better to give it a pass for the time being.
Could any of these issues mentioned in this thread be related to the fact that most have installed a firmware that is actually meant for another region as their phone is?
Were there also issues when Kitkat rolled out, which later have been solved by updates?
hi everyone
i didn't like lollipop yet cause i have battery drain problem. my battery draining faster than kit kat. also kitkat's performance was better in task manager and most of apps.
If you have read a few previous comments you'd know that other people have achieved good battery life by disabling Samsung bloatwares.
Now here is my taking on the new rom:
I installed it yesterday. It runs pretty fast, battery life is extremely good as well. What's missing is the ability to block individual notifications from showing up on lock screen. Also my moto360 gets disconnected and reconnected quite often, like 3 or 4 times an hour. GPS icon flashes every couple of hours on the corner of the status bar, but it doesn't seem to affect battery consumption.
If you want to use face unlock, you need to install this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/gapps-smart-unlock-android-5-0-t2962765
Here is mine just some wifi and some internet browsing. Have not rooted it yet still observing and playing around.