I wish i had never upgraded to Lollipop, my battery has got worse and worse in the last few weeks to the point where i am having to charge twice a day to get the phone to bedtime.

either my battery is knackered or Lollipop needs a fix sharpish.

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%.

Some tech website did a test the other day and found that yup, battery life on Lollipop is shit.

On 5.0.1 it certainly is

You have probably tried it, but have you done a factory reset after the update?

My nexus won't last a day, I've given up with it and now runs the audio in my car.

Count yourself lucky my Nexus 4 after a few months of seeming fine just crashed, wouldn't restart and needed factory reset. Thats when I found out the backup hadn't been working properly so lost most images.

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"


Hard to disagree, I went back to KK in the end.

Lollipop was rushed to market, it's incredibly buggy, not up to Google's standards at all.

Yes mate first thing I did

Google standards?

Google has always released new OS and updates this way, Android L developer preview was certainly a departure for them.

The "public" or "developers" don't get access to advanced beta/testing builds, all the the programming and updates are done within "Google Premises". I can't even think of a time before Android L, where Google released an advanced preview. I know people slag of Apple and Microsoft (who are just as stupid at times), generally they release any point release to the development community who are then able to feedback bugs, which then get fixed.

Google doesn't run anything like that, when the "Open Handset Alliance" was founded by Google and its partners, its founding principle was the opposite of anything they do now.

Android is a fantastic system, I just wish they accepted more community feedback when new OS is in testing. I suppose its the reason why so many have taken AOSP and modified to work better for them, Amazon (FireOS) Cyanogenmod, is down to Google's stranglehold on the ecosystem.