Help Should I upgrade to Lollipop on my S4?

[Paolo Mazzon]

I recently got notice of the Lollipop update after it was downloaded automatically to my phone. But the golden question is, "Should I install it?"

It seems pretty heavy on the phone, and the list of reported problems is a bit long for my taste, but is it a worth-while install? On my phone it says it needs 3gb of space, that I don't have because the OS already takes about 10, and my games/photos take another 4. It also says that, I quote, "After upgrading to Android 5.0.1 OS, your memory will decrease by a minimum of 950MBytes." Is it referring to RAM or the internal 16gb? I have usually less than 50% of my RAM available because the S4 just tanks all parts. (I never have apps running in the background.)

So the question remains, should I install it? If not, how do I get rid of the icon reminding me to install it on the taskbar.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Hadron]

Don't worry about RAM - seriously, Android is supposed to use a large fraction of the RAM, as with any linux-based OS. Leaving RAM empty is inefficient, and trying to keep it empty with task-killers, RAM-boosters or whatever they call themselves actually just slows the phone and wastes power. Just ignore the RAM usage.

That said, I'm sure it's talking about your internal space rather than the RAM. My expectation is that it will need 3GB to download the update, but as it will replace the existing software you'll have order of 1GB less after installation. But I don't own an S4, so I'm just making an educated interpretation of what you've written. You'll get your best answer if you look in our Galaxy S4 forum to see what other owners' experiences have been.

 

[redjama]

Lollipop uses more space due to the ART runtime. I think the lollipop update is well worth it. All depends on you. I suggest IF you take the plunge to do a factory reset and wipe all caches before hand. A lot the problems people run into when doing the upgrade is lag, apps unresponsive etc etc. A lot of that is due to the switching over to the ART runtime because the apps you have currently all installed now how to get reconfigured and leaves room for error. Factory resets take away the possibility of the errors cause its a fresh install.