Except it is not at all. Android is built to function with WiFi on all the time. The transitions should be less intrusive by default.
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Except it is not at all. Android is built to function with WiFi on all the time. The transitions should be less intrusive by default.
If you do not want dissenting opinions, do not look at this thread.
I have to be missing something, link is less than a dozen disgruntled tweets (actual Android fans???), the newest tweet is a month old ......
Lollipop is running fine on all my devices, including both generation Nexus 7's.
It's not about dissenting opinions, to me criticising something because of one setting that can be turned off in 5 secs is not a valid criticism.
Overall opinion on Lollipop?
What takes an enthusiast five seconds takes my mother in law and other normal users significantly longer.
The real world doesn't live and breathe lollipop like you.
What takes an enthusiast five seconds takes my mother in law and other normal users significantly longer.
The real world doesn't live and breathe lollipop like you.
I would hope you have similar feelings about reduce motion on iOS ?
Wtf with the personal attack?
If the back ground is black instead of white, or an option to set the colour. Not everybody prefers white colour than black colour.
Overall opinion on Lollipop?
Like others have mentioned, Lollipop loses form over function which isn't so much of a bad thing, just not what we're used to from Google. Frankly, android was due an aesthetic makeover and I'm enjoying the new look.
Like others have mentioned, Lollipop loses form over function which isn't so much of a bad thing, just not what we're used to from Google. Frankly, android was due an aesthetic makeover and I'm enjoying the new look.
Lollipop looks sweet. Going to wait until some devs implement pie controls, dynamic status bars, lockscreen widgets, and true silent mode. Sticking with my custom kitkat rom for now.
My biggest beef with Kitkat is that if you have wifi on while streaming music to your car, your music would start skipping whenever you come across saved hotspots. Hoping Lollipop has fixed that.
Is Tasker stable with Lollipop?
My biggest beef with Kitkat is that if you have wifi on while streaming music to your car, your music would start skipping whenever you come across saved hotspots. Hoping Lollipop has fixed that.
Is Tasker stable with Lollipop?
Are you being serious???
I play music in my car via BT from Note 4 to my car's audio system and wondered why sometimes the music sort of stutters now and then, so it means it happens whenever I pass an 'AlwaysOn' hotspot, many restaurants, cafes, waiting rooms, hospitals etc...down here have AlwaysOn WiFi and us Samsung users have free 1GB monthly usage of it for 12months with each new Samsung we get, and I have WiFi at home and work, so I leave mine on constantly, now it all makes senes, lol.
Thanks a lot!
Yes, clearly there's a massive conspiracy where everyone on Twitter is not an actual person......
not having those issues people are talking about on twitter
it just looks like the same ios b*tchfest that goes on on these forums
everything is a flop if you listen to everyone
all versions of android and all versions of ios
it just looks like the same ios b*tchfest that goes on on these forums
everything is a flop if you listen to everyone
all versions of android and all versions of ios
I agree but Honeycomb was really a flop, the rest were fine. I didn't really like the Holo design much but that's subjective.
I have to be missing something, link is less than a dozen disgruntled tweets (actual Android fans???), the newest tweet is a month old ......
Lollipop is running fine on all my devices, including both generation Nexus 7's.
Lollipop runs fine for me as well... about 99% of the time. The other 1% is dealing with app force closures and the ocassional 2-3 second freeze. Very similar to what my iPhone 6 experiences on iOS 8.1.2.
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Yep. I still consider Honeycomb the absolute worst OS update ever made in the history of OS's. There were times I literally wanted to throw my Samsung tablet against the wall.
I was going to flash the AOSP 5.0.2 ROM (Ivan) but I figure you are right. I am no rush with Lollipop even though Material Design does look really, really cool. The best-looking Android version so far.
Usually by the time I try out a new update, nearly a year would pass by. By the time I am tasting Lollipop, Android Muffin is already announced. I give it a year until they iron out all the bugs. For now, I will enjoy the more stable KitKat's Project Svelte for the next 8+ months or so. Lollipop 5.0.4 should more be refined by then and available in alot more phones.
Garbage, just a waste of engineers to prettify but ignore function. White on white on freaking white, I don't think night or dark places exist at Google. Going backwards on functionality like the recent screen overlays where you can't see each window anymore. Not fixing missing functionality in Hangouts. Not working more towards Google voice integration, etc. If I had to use vanilla lollipop I think I'd go crazy, thank god for touchwiz.
I still like it - but annoyed over missing basics.
My biggest bug bear though after weeks of it being in my moto X 2014 is....
Standby Drain.
It's awful. Seriously. Phone in airport mode (albeit with WiFi on only) at start of day. Without using it at all (not even going near it) by the end of the day I'm down to 65% !!!!
My iPhone would be down maybe 5% under same circumstance.
Battery profiler just says android system as biggest drain.
So that and aggressive memory killing are major sores with Lollipop 5.0 on my moto.
Hopefully 5.1 comes out soon.
My biggest bug bear though after weeks of it being in my moto X 2014 is....
Standby Drain.
It's awful. Seriously. Phone in airport mode (albeit with WiFi on only) at start of day. Without using it at all (not even going near it) by the end of the day I'm down to 65% !!!!
My iPhone would be down maybe 5% under same circumstance.
Battery profiler just says android system as biggest drain.
So that and aggressive memory killing are major sores with Lollipop 5.0 on my moto.
Hopefully 5.1 comes out soon.
This!
I was really looking forward to Lollipop, but after some weeks of usage I was more than disappointed. Apart from some nice design choices, what really changed? Project Volta? I couldn't see any difference to Kitkat, standby drain is still a big issue with android. The absence of a mute function is insane.
Any idea where to start ?
edit ... googled wake lock and lollipop and seems to recognised as an issue when wifi is left active - so I've changed that setting and will see what happens.
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Android has always had a wonky wifi wakelock, but my S5 is solid. I set wifi to only stay on in deep sleep when charging, makes a difference. Though yours is extreme, shouldn't be that bad. Download Better Battery Stats and monitor what's happening in that situation, leave the phone as you would, and then check BBS and see what wakelock issues your having. Could be something else. Can post what you find in the BBS thread on XDA.
Well since doing that it seems to have solved the majority of the drain. Where it would be down to 70% by now previously - it's at 93%
Still more drain than an iPhone but at least acceptable now.