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[Vyse The Legend]

I'm really starting to feel like 5.0 is the iOS7 of Android, in terms of it being the version that introduced a massive performance drop.

Even on 5.0.1, I'm getting draw-in and lag that gets progressively worse the longer the phone stays on and wasn't present on KitKat.

 

[Hasney]

I did a switch with the last CM12 upgrade I did to F2FS ahead of ext4 and it is performing a lot better than it was previously. Lag has gone away, but the draw in can still be annoying.

 

[Sch1sm]

I still want notification sounds. Just not vibrations.

Gonna have to be a per app basis, then. There isn't a master setting for vibration.

 

[terrier]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but having it listen for "OK Google" in all screens is a hit on battery life, isn't it? I don't use it, just what I've heard.

wasn't that an issue only when screen is off ? i did not know that having voice commands for any screen was bad for battery life.

 

[Drifters]

All you all just need to go buy Silence premium and setup your day and night times. It is easier than dicking with apps on an individual basis unless you have OCD.

 

[manfestival]

I'm really starting to feel like 5.0 is the iOS7 of Android, in terms of it being the version that introduced a massive performance drop.

Even on 5.0.1, I'm getting draw-in and lag that gets progressively worse the longer the phone stays on and wasn't present on KitKat.

This is the same for me. However, I do totally dig the aesthetic

 

[Hasney]

If you want to be different, just get a Note Edge.

How is Baulder's Gate on android? Just got a Note Edge and I'm wondering how playable it is even with a screen of that size. Is it only intended for android tablets?

Huh, would you look at that.

 

[Toki767]

I'm really starting to feel like 5.0 is the iOS7 of Android, in terms of it being the version that introduced a massive performance drop.

Even on 5.0.1, I'm getting draw-in and lag that gets progressively worse the longer the phone stays on and wasn't present on KitKat.

I bet it's all the animations.

 

[Bboy AJ]

I'm really starting to feel like 5.0 is the iOS7 of Android, in terms of it being the version that introduced a massive performance drop.

Even on 5.0.1, I'm getting draw-in and lag that gets progressively worse the longer the phone stays on and wasn't present on KitKat.

Yeah, performance wise, it's not so great. Things are snappier if you're not doing more than using one app. But once you go to the home screen, hit the multitask button, anything like that, it all goes to crap.

Where do you turn off vibration for notifications? (Stock 5.0)

Lollipop screwed up how Android handles sounds and notifications. Total PITA.

Huh, would you look at that.

I'm so jealous of his Edge.

 

[gcubed]

It definitely has a problem harvesting memory

 

[Chance Hale]

Huh, would you look at that.

Lol, it looked cool. For whatever reason I was confusing or with the sharp so I thought it was a lower end phone so I'd never considered it. Sorry BlackBerry ;-;

 

[Zeppu]

I don't find Lollipop per se to be worse performing than Kitkat on my Nexus 5. The problems with it seem to be a slew of bugs which need to be ironed out quickly. It seems to go to shit after a few days of use, probably due to bad memory management. I've also had some issues where I lose the soft buttons and notification bar, forcing me to have to do a restart. Of course there's still the issue where the launcher sometimes being killed causing it to have to relaunch when you press the home button.

The Nexus 9 on the other hand performs terribly, especially Chrome which sometimes completely stops responding. I don't know if it's the encryption, but I somehow doubt it since theoretically some of the slowdowns don't seem to be require data to be read/written from storage.

I think what gcubed said about memory is a source of many of these sorts of issues but most of all it just seems that it was rushed out the door because of the hardware. I am still optimistic (read: delusional) that a 5.1 properly-tested release will make it a much better overall OS.

 

[Bboy AJ]

The Nexus 9 is a bad tablet. I had such high hopes for it, too. 4:3 ratio, a good size. I don't mind paying money for a good tablet. But the N9 is not a good tablet.

 

[Zeppu]

The Nexus 9 is a bad tablet. I had such high hopes for it, too. 4:3 ratio, a good size. I don't mind paying money for a good tablet. But the N9 is not a good tablet.

Couldn't agree with you more. The hoops I had to jump through though made it near impossible to return. Sucky.

 

[phazedplasma]

Ok I ordered a nexus 5. Coming from a nexus 4.

What should I know?

 

[Milpool]

Apart from .0 being dog shite, I feel like I'm only person who likes the N9. Though I don't have problems pressing buttons, floppy back or backlight bleed.

 

[osiris3355]

Apart from .0 being dog shite, I feel like I'm only person who likes the N9. Though I don't have problems pressing buttons, floppy back or backlight bleed.

You are not alone. I love mine and don't see anything android that would be better.

 

[Zeppu]

Apart from .0 being dog shite, I feel like I'm only person who likes the N9. Though I don't have problems pressing buttons, floppy back or backlight bleed.

You are not alone. I love mine and don't see anything android that would be better.

I don't get it. What the hell is wrong with mine then
I only use Chrome, Newsstand and BeyondPod on it too. Wtf?

 

[gcubed]

Is more apparent on things with 2gb of memory and less so on 3gb devices. I notice it way more on my N5 then I do on my N6. If you leave the phone on for a week you get lots of launcher redraws on the N5, but I don't hit that issue on the 6.

The N5 is still running 5.0 though, not sure if it was cleaned up a bit in 5.0.1. It's something that needs to be addressed quickly as I can only imagine how much of a disaster it's going to be on a Galaxy phone which has way more shit running by default.

 

[Got the Shakes]

Moto X Cyber Monday promo code for $140 off expires tonight. Someone get some use out of it:

USCM-ONZR-9MAU-9YZ6-N9E6

 

[Bboy AJ]

Apart from .0 being dog shite, I feel like I'm only person who likes the N9. Though I don't have problems pressing buttons, floppy back or backlight bleed.

You are not alone. I love mine and don't see anything android that would be better.

Doesn't your N9 redraw the home screen all the time? Don't browser tabs constantly refresh? Switching apps laggy? Aren't the hardware buttons mushy? Is performance particularly good, considering the 64 bit chip?

I have all these issues. Battery life has certainly gotten better, though.

 

[Zeppu]

Doesn't your N9 redraw the home screen all the time? Don't browser tabs constantly refresh? Switching apps laggy? Aren't the hardware buttons mushy? Is performance particularly good, considering the 64 bit chip?

I have all these issues. Battery life has certainly gotten better, though.

This is exactly mine, down to the recently improved battery life (chrome update I think).

 

[Milpool]

Doesn't your N9 redraw the home screen all the time? Don't browser tabs constantly refresh? Switching apps laggy? Aren't the hardware buttons mushy? Is performance particularly good, considering the 64 bit chip?

I have all these issues. Battery life has certainly gotten better, though.

Just the home screen refreshes and slow app switching, but I file that under .0 being shite. I've noticed games run really well, Godus flies on ultra settings but is choppy on the nexus 6 unless I lower the settings.

Clicky hardware buttons for me.

 

[thenexus6]

Is there anyway to completely remove every language on my Nexus 5 aside from english? I got korean, pinyin, hindi input showing and I don't know why.

 

[FallingEdge]

I really want an N9 but only 32gb of space is a killer for me. Give me at least 64gb.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Is there anyway to completely remove every language on my Nexus 5 aside from english? I got korean, pinyin, hindi input showing and I don't know why.

You can go to apps and disable those specific ones.

 

[Sir Blaming]

Question,is there anyway to delete bloatware from my note 4 without voiding my warranty or I am just stuck with them being disabled and eating cyber dust?

 

[gcubed]

Doesn't your N9 redraw the home screen all the time? Don't browser tabs constantly refresh? Switching apps laggy? Aren't the hardware buttons mushy? Is performance particularly good, considering the 64 bit chip?

I have all these issues. Battery life has certainly gotten better, though.

i'm not sure what your insistence about 64bit being a game changer comes from. Its a check box at this point and once you get over this idea that 64 bit is going to usher in a performance revolution you can avoid overhyping the product in your mind. You should be more annoyed with the fact that a premium android tablet only came with 2gb of memory, while phones have been coming with 3gb for a while.

 

[Bboy AJ]

i'm not sure what your insistence about 64bit being a game changer comes from. Its a check box at this point and once you get over this idea that 64 bit is going to usher in a performance revolution you can avoid overhyping the product in your mind. You should be more annoyed with the fact that a premium android tablet only came with 2gb of memory, while phones have been coming with 3gb for a while.

Reads list of five different issues. Ignores all, focuses on one, and reiterates the main beef.

gcubed

 

[brotkasten]

I feel like I'm the only one that has no problems with 5.0 on the N5. Everything runs pretty smooth and fine.

 

[DrFunk]

"Unfortunately System UI has stopped"

Oh yeah google

 

[NotBacon]

Dat battery life

Is insane on the Nexus 6 and fine on the Moto X, nothing special. Wait, we're not talking about battery life!

Ah gotchya. So if I was to enable this on my Galaxy S4 it would take a hit but not on that. Still, I bet that sub-processor isn't helping the battery in general, but I guess it's needed for that other stuff Moto does too.

Idle drain on Nexus 6 is also insane. Dedicated voice recognition chip doing its job...

 

[Bob Dobalina]

My 2013 N7, after a few hours to a day of uptime, feels sluggish and behind on a large amount of touch input. This is with a clean factory image install of 5.0, and the 5.0.1 OTA hasn't done much to alleviate this.

Hope 5.1 brings improvements to this, takes a less silly approach to revamping the notification system, and attempts to bring some order to the recents menu.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

Anyone else still without lollipop on one of his devices?

My N7 2013 got the update notification, but I had to finish something so I postponed the update. The next day it says there is no update. That was almost a week ago...

 

[Bob Dobalina]

This double post brought to you by the Google Nexus 7.

 

[Chance Hale]

Using the Note Edge is pretty nice so far, although I miss the interface and design of Windows Phone. Main appeal so far is the specs compared to my 920, everything is so fast and the phone doesn't crash when browsing!

 

[gcubed]

Reads list of five different issues. Ignores all, focuses on one, and reiterates the main beef.

gcubed

we already addressed everything else, i didnt feel the need to repeat what was said in previous posts as a summation for you.

 

[Drifters]

What the hell? You guys notice in 5.0.1 on some apps they have the top drawer at the top as white while others are black? Odd.

 

[Sch1sm]

What the hell? You guys notice in 5.0.1 on some apps they have the top drawer at the top as white while others are black? Odd.

Dark vs Light; who prevails, Drifters?

 

[Drifters]

Dark vs Light; who prevails, Drifters?

Who ever wins...we lose?

 

[kehs]

The fucking future.

 

[brotkasten]

The fucking future.

Not a great one, though.

 

[Sch1sm]

Not a great one, though.

Someone lives in North Korea.

 

[Chance Hale]

How do you download music with the android xbox music app? Don't see an option anywhere, just streaming.

 

[Rodney McKay]

Using the Note Edge is pretty nice so far, although I miss the interface and design of Windows Phone. Main appeal so far is the specs compared to my 920, everything is so fast and the phone doesn't crash when browsing!

Around 3 years ago when I had the old Samsung Infuse, I downloaded a Windows Phone launcher for it because I also really liked the Android tile design.

I think there are a few out there you can choose from, but the one I had included widgets that worked like how live tiles worked on windows phone, and it was pretty customizable as well. Not sure if this is the one I had, but this one has pretty good reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lx.launcher8&hl=en

Now I just use the Nova Launcher with the Minimal UI icon skins to get a look a really like.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Using the Note Edge is pretty nice so far, although I miss the interface and design of Windows Phone. Main appeal so far is the specs compared to my 920, everything is so fast and the phone doesn't crash when browsing!

How did you decide on the Edge? How do you like it so far? Is the Edge useful?

 

[Chance Hale]

Around 3 years ago when I had the old Samsung Infuse, I downloaded a Windows Phone launcher for it because I also really liked the Android tile design.

I think there are a few out there you can choose from, but the one I had included widgets that worked like how live tiles worked on windows phone, and it was pretty customizable as well. Not sure if this is the one I had, but this one has pretty good reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lx.launcher8&hl=en

Now I just use the Nova Launcher with the Minimal UI icon skins to get a look a really like.

Interesting, will give it a go when I get off work. Thanks!

How did you decide on the Edge? How do you like it so far? Is the Edge useful?

I almost got a Note back in 12 but ended up getting a Lumia 920 instead. Given I'm switching to Android until the Windows flagships arrive I figured it'd be good to go with the latest model of my second choice. Your comment alerted its existence to me and the edge was unique enough to be attractive. So far I can't say it's been a game changer, although I've had the phone for 3 hours. Nice to see my messages previewed there and the various shortcuts are useful. Main appeal so far is that it just looks really damn cool. I've been using Windows Phone for years now though, so I'm mainly just getting to grips with Android at the moment.

 

[Wreav]

The fucking future.

As a Nest owner that works a steady 8-5, the Nest's built in learning makes this pretty pointless. It already knows when I come home. I can see this being more convenient than logging into the Nest app for controlling the temp remotely, though.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Interesting, will give it a go when I get off work. Thanks!


I almost got a Note back in 12 but ended up getting a Lumia 920 instead. Given I'm switching to Android until the Windows flagships arrive I figured it'd be good to go with the latest model of my second choice. Your comment alerted its existence to me and the edge was unique enough to be attractive. So far I can't say it's been a game changer, although I've had the phone for 3 hours. Nice to see my messages previewed there and the various shortcuts are useful. Main appeal so far is that it just looks really damn cool. I've been using Windows Phone for years now though, so I'm mainly just getting to grips with Android at the moment.

Y-you got the phone partly because of me? I'm so jealous. Post more impressions as they develop.

 

[Ensirius]

The fucking future.

I remember dreaming about a future like this.
Such amazing times.