Android OS Discussion v2.0

Anyone else here happen to have a Nexus 5 recently upgraded to Lollypop, and absolutely hate it?

Since I updated my phone has constantly be running at 80-90% RAM, I can easily kill the battery in a couple of hours with standard use, for some reason my wifi keeps turning itself off whenever I turn it on so everything has to be run through 4G (luckily I have unlimited data so it's fine, but still...) and the removal of being able to quickly silence it with the power button is driving me insane

Please tell me I'm not the only one?

Oh and my keyboard doesn't work if I open a text message from the lock screen, so I have to close the app and then reopen it... Which sort of defeats the objective of the "fast reply" tbh

It's terrible.

Anyone else here happen to have a Nexus 5 recently upgraded to Lollypop, and absolutely hate it?

5.0.1 has been out for a week

And.... (drum roll please)

I've lost my uninsured Nexus 5!

What phone shall I get next? I was going to keep it for another year, but obviously that's not an option now. Not sure I want to get the same phone again either.

Sympathy rep.

N6 if you have the funds.
OnePlus One if slightly less rich.
Moto G if slightly less rich.
iPhone if you're mad, bro!

Edit: Can't you find it on Android Device Manager?

I know we haven't but for my purposes I think we've effectively peaked when it comes to hardware improvements (beyond battery life, of course).

I'm at a point (owning an N5) where I rarely even notice the hardware anymore, and that's a good thing. My prediction for 2015 is therefore: nothing exciting.

N6 is ginormous. I honestly don't know what Google were thinking. The mainstream and popular market for high end devices is under 5.3". The Note 4 is like a periphery device yet the N6 tops even that in size! If you want to penetrate the market and showcase Android to the world, why make a niche-sized device. Very strange

I also hear the encryption makes it stutter. A top of the range phone in 2014 and it has lag? That's a design fault IMO. You just can't be serious. The HTC Nexus tablet looks a bit of a mess too.

Google prove once again they're complete novices in the hardware game. The retail side is laughable. Nothing is ever in stock, year upon year.


Anyway predictions for 2015?
hate to sound like a broken record but this might be the year Sony quit the mobile market, and HTC follow. The truth is no matter if they create the perfect phone, they just don't have the traction. I think there are too many manufacturers and it's just not sustainable. Android is becoming very much like the PC market with every passing month. Manufacturer's will be fighting for crumbs pretty soon

I can't see Sony and HTC quitting the market in 2015. They've both got top-spec handsets out and the Z4/M9 are going to be serious players when they're released.

I agree that there are very little improvements that can be made at the moment. I think the move to 64-bit systems will be the last major move forward we see in the next few years.

They don't sell many handsets and both have made losses (admittedly this year they both made small gains compared to last). Sony's brand has all but gone down the toilet from the various security breaches they've faced. I think this has really hurt them and besides the PlayStation, they are hemorrhaging money - they don't make laptops anymore and the television business may well be dropped soon too. HTC arguably have had the overall best Android handset for 2 years according to most journalists yet that hasn't precipitated in sales. Sony have decided to drastically reduce the number of handsets they make too, don't forget.

Maybe they won't exit but I just can't see how either will turn a corner. LG, Samsung and Lenovo (in the form of Motorola) are big juggernauts in comparison. The Chinese manufacturers are upping there game too. Soon they'll muscle in with cheap but premium handsets. It's a constant uphill struggle for small companies like HTC and Sony's mobile arm.

Let's be honest... Source Motorola is hardly a juggernaut to HTC and Sony.

Incidentally I opted for Sony Z3 as my new phone. It seems the rational choice among phones, I'm surprised how low profile it is.

Lenovo is huge compared to HTC. HTC only make mobile devices. In fact, aren't they the only manufacturer that doesn't have other arms of the business to fall back on and prop up their finances?

Does anyone ever get the feeling they're not using there phone to its full capacity?

I have the Note 4 and just seems so much I'm not doing with with it.

Does anyone ever get the feeling they're not using there phone to its full capacity?

I have the Note 4 and just seems so much I'm not doing with with it.

+1.

Upgrades seem more and more pointless to me at the mo. The One M7 with CM12 does everything I need really.