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Anyone in the UK got the lollipop update?

I literally just got the notification that the update is available (mine's an unlocked M8). Dithering whether or not to install it (seems like it's 5.0, rather than 5.0.2).

My experience with Android L on other devices has been mixed: I had to factory reset my Nexus 7 (2012) after the update to reduce severe lag (not that it was that great on KitKat!). My NVIDIA Shield tablet (32GB LTE on 5.0.2) is experiencing random freezing requiring hard resets, but I think that's more of a problem with NVIDIA's v2.1 of their firmware than Android L itself.

Anyone else taken the plunge and installed 5.0 yet on their M8?

Rhyan
 
Rhyan said:
I literally just got the notification that the update is available (mine's an unlocked M8). Dithering whether or not to install it (seems like it's 5.0, rather than 5.0.2).

Anyone else taken the plunge and installed 5.0 yet on their M8?

Rhyan
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Not available for mine yet. Well keep trying.
 
So far so good. Doesn't look too bad, speed is good. Will be interesting to see if battery life is affected

Don't know why everyone's so excited about it - it's not as if there's any useful new features
 
Same here running it since yesterday afternoon and all is going well.

No bad things to say everything is nice and smooth doesn't seem to have affected the battery life,
Seem to have lost the ability to add a facebook account to my account's and snyc but im thinking a factory reset will probably solve that one.

Has anything else changed apart from the drop down menu and the running apps menu?
 
I don't like the double pull for the drop-down, plus I've lost one of the 12 that were there but I can't work ou which one
 
I'm not too fussed about that as I usually use the two fingered pull to get to that menu which still works, I do appear to be missing one or two off there and not sure which ones either though.
 
The double tap still works to wake the phone up but I never new you could unlock it with a double tap,

But yeah it looks as though the side swipes to unlock straight to blinkfeed are gone,
Never used that personally though as I dont use blinkfeed and have a dot view case.
 
I updated last night and have found I can no longer wirelessly tether my tablet to my phone despite my ee contract allowing tethering. Phone not rooted so will need to read up and see if I can find a solution when home from work.
 
Updated today, to 5.01, on Vodafone Ireland. So far so good, took ages though, at least an hour (download of 638MB took only 15 mins of that). Haven't really noticed any major speed / battery improvements though tbf it is only a few hours so I'll reserve judgement.
 
doc1964 said:
I updated last night and have found I can no longer wirelessly tether my tablet to my phone despite my ee contract allowing tethering. Phone not rooted so will need to read up and see if I can find a solution when home from work.
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I've got ee 2Gb data limit and used hotspot ok todayy
 
Annoyingly I don't seem to be able to update anymore. Was holding off for a day or so but then decided to go for it. It said it was downloading but just seemed to get stuck at 100%, so I cancelled the process.

But now the update doesn't seem to be available anymore! Grrrrr!
 
Rhyan said:
Annoyingly I don't seem to be able to update anymore. Was holding off for a day or so but then decided to go for it. It said it was downloading but just seemed to get stuck at 100%, so I cancelled the process.

But now the update doesn't seem to be available anymore! Grrrrr!
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Try main settings, Apps, All, Updater, clear cache and data.

Settings, Update, try to check again.
 
EarlyMon said:
Try main settings, Apps, All, Updater, clear cache and data.

Settings, Update, try to check again.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Tried it a few times (and in different orders, with and without restarting the phone), but it's still coming up with nothing. Oh well. I'll just have to wait again!

Rhyan
 
doc1964 said:
I updated last night and have found I can no longer wirelessly tether my tablet to my phone despite my ee contract allowing tethering. Phone not rooted so will need to read up and see if I can find a solution when home from work.
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When i updated to lollipop, i did a soft reset from within settings and then set phone to restore all of my apps from backup.

Tethering would not work when everything was finally restored.


I have done a further reset this morning, Power button and volume down, and did not set it to restore from backup.


When reset was complete i found i can set up my wireless hotspot and tether no problem now.

Will try reinstalling apps that i have been using one by one and see if one of them is responsible for the problem.
 
Battery life is worse with this update. Biggest culprit seems to be Google Play.

Don't particularly want to factory reset as it takes ages to get it back the same again
 
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