In short, I hate it.
I took an OTA initially, but since then I've factory reset which improved things slightly (removed some lag an stuttering). I've also done a clean install using an unbranded ftf file.
Am I alone in these issues?
I've hated it since initial install and was adamant I wanted to roll back straight away, but I decided to give it a few weeks to see if I could iron out any of the niggles. Unfortunately no. When I get the chance (Wednesday night), I'll be rolling back to KitKat.
If this has come across as a rant, it's not intended that way, I'm genuinely curious as to whether others are having the same problems as me.
- Hitting the recent apps button brings up every single app I've ever opened ever (I know this was a generic Lollipop bug and is fixed in 5.1).
- If I open any music app, minimize it, then open facebook, the web, my kindle app or any app tbh, after 5-10 seconds, music will stop and the music app closes.
- The new notification pull down is terrible.
- Persistent notifications appear on my lock screen so I'm presented with a Textra Quick Message notification whenever I open my phone (note, this is intermittent, the notiification appears on the lock screen about half of the time).
- I tried to video my son at his school sports day and couldn't get any sort of decent video because the screen turns off and stops recording after 30 seconds. Subsequent testing over the weekend shows this to happen about 75% of the time. It happens if I save video to the SD Card or internal memory.
- External Speaker volume has decreased about 50%. I have to turn the ringer volume up full to be able to hear my phone ring in another room. Headphone volume is fine.
- If I attempt to open an app, I'm lucky if it's ready and in a usable state 10-15 seconds after I've attempted to open it. Whilst the phone wasn't lightening quick before it was certainly quicker than this.
- Any app that's been hit with Material Design looks like a child has come at it with a bunch of felt tip pens.
I took an OTA initially, but since then I've factory reset which improved things slightly (removed some lag an stuttering). I've also done a clean install using an unbranded ftf file.
Am I alone in these issues?
I've hated it since initial install and was adamant I wanted to roll back straight away, but I decided to give it a few weeks to see if I could iron out any of the niggles. Unfortunately no. When I get the chance (Wednesday night), I'll be rolling back to KitKat.
If this has come across as a rant, it's not intended that way, I'm genuinely curious as to whether others are having the same problems as me.
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