Originally Posted by The Sack:
“No one else noticed shit(er) battery life on their N5?
Just left my N5, 2012 N7 and Sony Xperia S overnight to compare and the Nexus 5 (5.0.1) lost 20%, 2012 N7 (5.0.2) lost 4% and Xperia S (4.1.2) lost 3%.”
I am not a Nexus user (Note 4), however I found the battery life on Lollipop for my device was equally just as shit. Its lovely having an updated Touchwiz and what note, battery life is a joke. I have several devices and they tend to function/operate differently relative to battery life.
Nexus 7 Wi-Fi (2013), battery did actually improve, standby time is brilliant.
Moto G (1st Gen), this one is tough to judge, I flashed my device to GPE variant some months back, battery life seems to be ok on standby. However when in use it seems to drain pretty fast.
Note 4, I was eager to get update so flashed a German firmware variant, suffice to say battery life was piss poor. I had lost 10% of battery just by replying to a text message, I factory reset thinking that may fix it, alas no it didn't. I don't what the results of project volta have been, if anything I experienced a something negative.
Google's approach to OS testing baffles me, I thought they had changed when the launched "Android L" developer preview. The one annoying little bug in Lollipop is the lack of a silent/mute feature, so the phone doesn't vibrate or make a noise, it seems to prevalent in all Lollipop releases (unless I am mistaken?). Its little things that lack polish, amongst the whole load of shit that Lollipop is with battery life.
Apple and Microsoft have the sense to release their respective OS to developers and those who wan't a bite of the cake sooner. It is through mass testing they are able to spot and fix bugs before final release. Take the most recent version of lollipop, compare it against iOS or Windows Phone......which runs smoother and is more polished?
I love all the operating systems in the market, it just winds me up that Google with Android has this stupid closed shop mentality. If they actually opened up a proper developer program or system Google would realise silly bugs like the aforementioned, would be resolved sooner.
Lollipop battery life is something that needs addressing, Google has kept schtum on this topic. Its expected Lollipop 5.1 will be rolling out shortly to Nexus and Android One devices. That will fix the "mute" quirk and "other bugs"
Originally Posted by Gigabit:
“Some tech website did a test the other day and found that yup, battery life on Lollipop is shit.”
Hard to disagree, I went back to KK in the end.