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Yeah, the fact that all models are showing out of stock (without warning), probably means they are updating them with android L. Since they are advertising ships with L, they have to literally update those devices manually that they have on-hand.

Hopefully they will be bringing the 5 back into stock with android L...I didn't get around to buying one yesterday and they are now all out of stock so fingers crossed!
 
OK, install took forever but I have it updated. After installing 5.0 it seems like there are more invisible updates in the background going on for a bit, but after that, everything is buttery smooth.

I wish there is a dark mode... The new ui looks pretty bright...
 
What's better, the Nexus 5 or Moto X 2014? Is the Nexus 5 still viable if I have used the S5, HTC One M8, and LG G3 recently? I would like to get a new phone and I was thinking the Note 4, iPhone 6, or Nexus 6 as the expensive phones that interest me the most.
 
What's better, the Nexus 5 or Moto X 2014? Is the Nexus 5 still viable if I have used the S5, HTC One M8, and LG G3 recently? I would like to get a new phone and I was thinking the Note 4, iPhone 6, or Nexus 6 as the expensive phones that interest me the most.

The Nexus 5 is still a very good phone the main weakness being the battery life which hopefully lollypop will help resolve a little.
 
The Nexus 5 is still a very good phone the main weakness being the battery life which hopefully lollypop will help resolve a little.

That's an issue for me. My S5 had issues with battery life. I am kinda looking for something better than that though.
 
That's an issue for me. My S5 had issues with battery life. I am kinda looking for something better than that though.

Do you still have issues with power saving mode turned on?
We all do not have same usage : some note 4 users manage to get 7 hours of on screen time with 2 days of battery life whereas i managed to get resp. 4 and 11 hours...

Maybe a bad battery that you could exchange ? or go for samsung extra battery kit?
 
The Nexus 5 is still a very good phone the main weakness being the battery life which hopefully lollypop will help resolve a little.

The only good thing about the battery is the speed it charges at. I can get a fully charged phone in about 30 minutes.
 
Do you still have issues with power saving mode turned on?
We all do not have same usage : some note 4 users manage to get 7 hours of on screen time with 2 days of battery life whereas i managed to get resp. 4 and 11 hours...

Maybe a bad battery that you could exchange ? or go for samsung extra battery kit?

Yeah, I would say I got 3 hrs of screen time and my phone would drop to about 25-35% battery even with power saving on.
 
Sigh not sure why my battery life has been so miserable
 

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It isn't discontinued, if they are out of stock right now it's probably because they're getting them updated to Android 5 (and they're probably putting all their efforts into saving the N6 release). If they were going to just discontinue they wouldn't have made a major update to their web page for the 5 including new renderings with the OS update.
 
Not discontinued. If Google is serious about selling devices, they will update the N5 next year.

I'd argue that's more up to LG at this point, given that they manufacture the hardware. I don't think they'll update the Nexus 5 (atleast not an LG version anyway, even though I'd love to see it happen
 
Sigh not sure why my battery life has been so miserable

I'm in the same boat myself, even after Lollipop. I'm thinking about rooting and flashing either the Franco Kernel or Faux Kernel and seeing if those'll improve my battery life... I'm hoping.
 
Has anyone actually gotten an OTA Lollipop update on a Nexus 5? I really don't feel like flashing it myself....

What to do if the Android 5.0 Lollipop update hasn't pushed to your Nexus yet
For better or worse, Google doesn't push updates to all devices at once, en masse. And as we've discussed before, there are good reasons for that. Google likes to take things slow, to try to minimize the effect that any showstopping bugs might have. We've seen updates get halted before (and certainly not just for Nexus devices) so that things can get fixed. Anyon So if you don't yet have the update, it might actually be a good thing. That doesn't mean you won't get it. It just means you haven't gotten it yet. It's hard to be patient. Believe us, we know.

Anyway, I chose to flash it myself instead of waiting for it.
 
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