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Lollipop Update Going Out - Downloading Now

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anfarmer

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This phone has treated me well for the first few months I've owned it. Except...no Google Cardboard for me because it doesn't have a gyroscope. (Oops). Oh well...the pixel density was a bit low for 3D headsets anyway.

The Lollipop update is going out now. I'm going to install it, factory reset the phone, and then post my impressions.
 
UPDATE: I left my phone alone to do the update. When I came back, it was on a black screen. I got concerned, and left it for another ten minutes. It wouldn't reboot or power up.

So I pulled the battery. Put it back in. Started up the phone. It got to the multi-colored Blu logo, and just sat. Ten minutes went by. Nothing.

I pulled the battery, went into Recovery (Hold Power + Vol Up at the same time). Factory reset it from there. Rebooted using recovery menu.

THAT worked...pain in the ass to get here, but I'm finally going through the menus to set up Lollipop for the first time. More later.

P.S. I don't think EVERY phone is going to do that...but you may want to Factory Reset BEFORE you do the update, from within Android. Just a thought.
 
Final post: Lollipop is....lollipop. There's a few UI tweaks, but nothing that really changes the behavior or performance of the phone in any significant way.

The one new feature I really like is the Smart Lock associated with Bluetooth devices. My old Motorola phone had this. Got a bluetooth headset? Or a smartwatch? If they're paired with the phone, you can use that as your "security password"; it won't ask for a password or PIN when you log in. If you don't have the paired device powered on or nearby, it will default to your regular security method (PIN, password, whatever).

That's nice; otherwise this is just another day with a budget-but-reasonable phone.
 
Posting this here, copied and pasted from my post to Reddit. Might be good info for people who use this phone on Straight Talk with AT&T service. Don't know if it applies to their other carriers:

UPDATE: ONE BUG WITH MMS: I'm using this phone on Straight Talk with an AT&T SIM. There seems to be something going on with MMS messages that is specific to Lollipop on this phone: You can't send or receive them using most Messaging apps. This applies to Google Messenger, the stock Messaging app, and a few others I tried. The only app that seems to send/receive MMS picture messages properly is Hangouts.

I came to this conclusion after trying the same APN settings (which the phone defaulted to), some older APN settings that had worked (att.mvno, MMS PROXY: http://mmsc.cingular.com", MMS Proxy: 66.209.11.33, MMS Port 80, etc), and a lot of experimentation mixing/match/looking for others on the internet.

Using the att.mvno settings OR the default settings the phone downloads (APN: tfdata, etc), Hangouts is the only app that will send or receive group texts and picture messages.

I can't find a work-around. I'm not thrilled at having to use Hangouts for texting, but at least it functions.
 
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