Thank you IA, your reply sounds hesitant. As you can tell i am no early adopter and am totally willing to stick with fine working kk versus potential issues. Any intel on more updates from verizon? Any idea how to stop update popups? Again totally appec your knowledge and willing to share!
If I sound hesitant, it is because I am. As we say this side of the pond... "
They're taking the piss!".
First, they release an abortion of a firmware on a changelist that they did not upgrade on their so-called, "bugfix", update and is now one of the lowest around, if not the lowest, for a carrier branded firmware. Thus making it prehistoric by the latest stock Samsung releases. Verizon customers are just glad that they have a version of Lollipop that is now at least functional. With Verizon's track record of firmware updates, it will be awhile before we see them basing a new firmware on, say, the latest Samsung OD3 release. See posts
#1 and
#3 of
Lollipop release. Massive update!!!
Quite frankly, I'm sick to the back teeth of the Verizon firmware, which is
their version of Lollipop, filled with battery and performance draining bloatware and, of the 200+ Lollipop firmwares, actually released by Samsung worldwide, it is the Verizon firmware that attracts by far and away the largest amount of complaints on forums.
Bottom line... if you do choose to update, then back everything up and be prepared to do a Factory Data reset if it goes pear shaped and above all, don't compare it to KitKat or expect a firmware update soon.
As for stopping the update that Verizon imposes on you, I've heard of people selecting to only update over Wi-Fi and then never using their Wi-Fi again!!!
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