Speaking in Tech: Android 5.0 Lollipop is a TRAIN WRECK

Some minor niggles on a Nexus 5 but not a Vista

Mostly App related.

Headphone play button doesn't work the first time the headphone is plugged/unplugged. There's a big thread over the Lollipop bug forum about it.

My weather app no longer displays the temperature at the top of the screen.

They still haven't fixed that bizarre decision that prevents a vibrate "ring tone" when the headphone is plugged in. Thus if you happen to have the phone on vibrate when plugging in a headset you may miss incoming calls.

Lollipop - Form over function?

I've put lollipop on my Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 4.

The Nexus 7 struggles, but I thought it would. It was struggling with Kit Kat so that's not a surprise. I am bitterly disappointed with some of the design decisions though.

If you just open up your phone / tablet and gaze at it, then Lollipop does look beautiful - but I feel that some of these form factors make actually attempting to use the thing more difficult.

For instance - notifications on the lock screen. They look great and line up perfectly. But if you're using Google Music you can't skip backwards to the start of the track / a previous track anymore. Plus an mentioned in the podcast, you shouldn't need to have an engineering degree to setup your notifications grrrr

On a Nexus 7/2013...

Lollipop is as close to perfection as one can get. No problems whatsoever since upgrade (but then I sideloaded the development preview first, hence the release version was also sideloaded and the possible upgrade problems were avoided).

Nexus 7 2012 after factory reset

I did factory reset. Slight improvement but now still slow. Almost none functional. I would be happy to go back to KitKat … but I think Lollipop should be fixed. What is 5.0.1? Will that be a solution? I would suggest users put off upgrading until Google figures out the problem.

Sounds very like commercial time for the under-employed.

Oddly, none of my Android devices have reported an update yet. Not really looking forward to it but curious as to why....

Nexus 7 2012 (Nakasi) OTA

I ran the OTA on my stock Nexus 7 (2012) tablet & it absolutely crucified it. The word "lag" is a masterful understatement, as most functions just stopped, leaving it dead in the water. I struggled on valiantly for a couple of days before finally admitting defeat & restoring from the full Nandroid Backup I did 10 minutes before I ran the OTA - which put back my fully functioning install of Kitcat 4.4.4...! I'll sit here on Kitcat for a few weeks/months until they fix it & push out a new release of lolipop - then do a factory reset & flash a full image, rather than using an OTA. It looked pretty good, it would just have been nice to have been able to use it to see how it functioned. Hopefully 5.0.1 might be better, although 5.0.2 (whenever they roll it out) will probably be the one that I jump back in with.

Don't worry, it doesn't matter

99.9% of users aren't using it:

http://t.co/0ega1kMb9V

Merging Mail and Gmail.

I could deal with it if it actually %@#$ing worked. 2/3s of the time it just gives me a blank screeen with a bar "retrieving your messages" and makes my calender show nothing.

Unless you're using gmail, the gmail.app is crap.

So based on the %age of time spent talking about particular features, a train wreck = I don't like what they did to the email client.

Thank god you didn't notice the change in colour scheme!

I'm running Lollipop on a Nexus 7 2013 and a Nexus 4. Email handled by the gmail, and K9 (for those accounts I just haven't bothered merging), battery life is great on both devices. Couple of niggles, but so minor I won't bother switching back to the nandroid coy of KitKat. I'll give it 8/10.

I see no train wreck....

Merging Gmail and Email.

On Nexus 4, OK, so the UI is different and you may/may not like that. Other than that, I have my corporate (exchange) and private (gmail) email working just fine on Lollipop/Nexus4. Just set up two separate gmail icons on screen, one linking direct to my work email, and the other going to my private gmail account, replacing my old exchange and gmail screen icons. Use it every day, no issues for me.

Only Lollipop issue I'm seeing is that Chrome is a bit unstable now. Hardly a train wreck though....

Couldn't disagree more

OTA Upgrade on my Nexus 4 was flawless, OS is beautiful and no problems at all. Same with colleagues at work on Nexus 5. N

Stunning

I've been running an Alpha release of Cyanogenmod 12 (5.0) on my S5 for a few weeks and I must say It looks stunning.

Just a comment about the Podcast. One of the parties stated that it would be no good for companies which have email retention policies, in order to meet compliance requirements - as Google *could* delete mail without the companies consent. It kind of misses the point that if your an organisation that is required by law to archive emails, surely you put your archiving solution on your server(s), where no-one except specifically authorized individuals have access.

Nexus 7 (2012)

So I guess I'm the only one here to have my tab slow down to a crawl.

From tapping settings -> WiFi to actually seeing anything takes anything from 1 to 3 minutes!

Settings in general seems to crawl for some reason or another.

Pity, as the little fella was pretty fast before.

Updated my Nexus 5

Battery life quite shorter. It is definitely slower. Coming back from an app or the app menu to the home screen, there is considerable lag in building up the screen: first empty, then icons, then widgets. Reformatting the cache partition did not help. Phone app looks garish, like Windows 8. The calendar app is a disaster in UI design. I'm a Nexus user since the Nexus One, so I've had my share of Android updates, but this is the first time I feel an update is not an improvement, neither in UI (subjective) or in performance (objective). I'll be reverting to Kit Kat 4.4.4.