Android 5.x "Lollipop"

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tank slapper

7,949 posts

282 months

Friday 14th November 2014
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clonmult said:
They keyboard looks terrible (they've copied the uberweiss Apple design).
You can change the theme of the keyboard in the language and input settings, including back to the previous holo style.

FourWheelDrift

88,376 posts

283 months

Saturday 15th November 2014
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clonmult said:
Installed it on my original N7 last night.

Where's the uninstall option? It is now definitely slower than it was before. Chrome was always bad, now its truly terrible. They keyboard looks terrible (they've copied the uberweiss Apple design).

Its gone from being quite a nice little device to something that feels clunky and looks a bit nasty.

On the bright side, having recently picked up a Windows 8 tablet, I at least have a portable device that works quite well.
I'm guessing you did a manual install? It's advised to wait for the OTA as manual installing can introduce problems that only a factory reset will cure.

A reset and then wait for the OTA update would probably sort that.

Revol

128 posts

162 months

Sunday 16th November 2014
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I've got Lollipop running on an N4 and two N7s (2012 and 2013 versions) without problem. The N4 and newer N7 seem quickest but not by much and the older N7 is still completely usable.
I used the factory images and Wugfresh toolkit to update them all and have also done a couple of factory resets on them before using properly.

New gallery app is not as good as the KitKat one I don't think but everything else looks and works great.

Fer

7,707 posts

279 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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Just arrived OTA for my N7 2013. Looking good so far, let's hope it's fixed the charging problem.

cornet

1,469 posts

157 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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Arrived on my Nexus 5 this evening. So far so good.

The good:

  • Interface is slick and feels faster than before.
  • SmartLock is the winning feature for me, especially since I have bluetooth car kit + RFID tags (most credit/debit cards will work too)
  • Notifications on the lock screen with ability to hide content
The bad:

  • The back/home/tasks buttons - find myself looking at them going "WTF do these mean"
  • Google chrome tabs in task list rather than in chrome (though thankfully you can change this in chrome settings)
  • No easy access to silent mode
Overall pretty happy though, just waiting for it to arrive on my Nexus 7 now

bazza white

3,551 posts

127 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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Just installed and having a few issues.

Installed and couldn't get rid of brightness bar, drop down bar kept bringing up brightness slide bar, rebooted and kept rebooting into safe mode.


bazza white

3,551 posts

127 months

Monday 17th November 2014
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Ffs it's imported all my email contacts into contacts.any ideas how to get rid and just keep my numbers.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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cornet said:
  • No easy access to silent mode
Previously, you held the power button, and then hit the mute/silent icon in the popup on-screen.

Now, you tap the volume button, and then tap 'None' on the new 'interruptions' dialog.

So previously it was a long press followed by a screen tap; now it's a short press followed by a screen tap.

Or am I missing something ?! smile

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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FourWheelDrift said:
clonmult said:
Installed it on my original N7 last night.

Where's the uninstall option? It is now definitely slower than it was before. Chrome was always bad, now its truly terrible. They keyboard looks terrible (they've copied the uberweiss Apple design).

Its gone from being quite a nice little device to something that feels clunky and looks a bit nasty.

On the bright side, having recently picked up a Windows 8 tablet, I at least have a portable device that works quite well.
I'm guessing you did a manual install? It's advised to wait for the OTA as manual installing can introduce problems that only a factory reset will cure.

A reset and then wait for the OTA update would probably sort that.
Nope, OTA update. Chrome is definitely slower than before. But then at least on my N7 it has never been fast. Overall the device was running quite well before, KK was definitely a more responsive OS.

tank slapper said:
clonmult said:
They keyboard looks terrible (they've copied the uberweiss Apple design).
You can change the theme of the keyboard in the language and input settings, including back to the previous holo style.
Holo keyboard is back, its actually usable, unlike the godawful "material" design. Not a fan of material design, which thankfully won't last for more than a year or two before they undergo another redesign.

And the task manager, did they actually think that was an improvement? Its like they've let Jonny Ive into their design team - some people shouldn't be allowed near software (ie. Jonny Ive and whoever came up with "material design").

plasticpig

12,932 posts

224 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Yay OTA has stuffed my Nexus 7 2013. It's now a brick until I do a factory reset. The 2012 one is now slower than a one legged sloth with rheumatoid arthritis. Factory reset back to KitKat for that one.



probedb

824 posts

218 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Got it for my N4 last night. The only irritation so far is for the battery indicator I use. It sits in the notifications area. This means I always have a notification on the lock screen for it and turning off all notifications removes it from the notification area when unlocked making it useless. It needs a bit more granularity like being able to say for an app that you just don't want it to appear on the lock screen.

Unless I've missed something?

cornet

1,469 posts

157 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Corso Marche said:
cornet said:
  • No easy access to silent mode
Previously, you held the power button, and then hit the mute/silent icon in the popup on-screen.

Now, you tap the volume button, and then tap 'None' on the new 'interruptions' dialog.

So previously it was a long press followed by a screen tap; now it's a short press followed by a screen tap.

Or am I missing something ?! smile
That just puts it into vibrate mode. Apparently the trick is to lower the volume all the way so it goes into vibrate mode then bring it back up one click.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Not quite; this is what I've found with mine.

Tap the volume rocker and it brings up this dialog/notification area.

This is my default, or most used setting;





If you want to silence it you tap None;



Which you can see also has a drop down to set a timer on how long you want the phone to stay in silent mode, in case you forget to switch it back out of silent after a meeting/appointment etc.



But if you tap the bell icon itself instead of None then this is what switches it to Vibrate mode;





So, in a nutshell, what I've found is;

1) Tap volume rocker
2) Tap None for silent
3) Tap Bell icon to toggle between Vibrate mode and Regular mode

If anybody else discovers things as they go post them up please !!
And if anybody finds a way to change the background colour of the app drawer please let me know, the white background is a bit plain. smile

rigga

8,727 posts

200 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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Right a few days in on my n7 and issues.
Lots of random reboots., screen sensitivity is all over the place, touch one part to access a web page for instance, and another page loads that wasn't touched,lock screen splits into two and the keypad to open it is not visible so I can't open the tablet, its starting to annoy now.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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probedb said:
The only irritation so far is for the battery indicator I use. It sits in the notifications area. This means I always have a notification on the lock screen for it and turning off all notifications removes it from the notification area when unlocked making it useless.
De-activate your current battery indicator. Install this app;

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.k...

Run it, tick the box to enable the battery percentage display indicator. Exit app. Re-boot phone.
Admire your new battery indicator. Remove the app you installed.

If you only used your previous app as an indicator and not for power management then that's all you need to do. You're just enabling a feature in the OS which Google hasn't added to the settings menu yet for some reason. It works without problem, is crystal clear in the notifications area, and means one less app consuming resources or taking up storage space on your phone, as this way you've just activated a system setting, so it's the OS is just displaying what it already knows.

It's been around since the first versions of 4.4.x, and works flawlessly in 5.0 since it now inverts the percentage reading against the battery display colour.

Edited by Corso Marche on Wednesday 19th November 08:59

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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Combining my Exchange (work) emails into the gmail app is a serious **** up!
I sincerely hope there's an option I've missed to keep them separate.

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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I was waiting to use 5.0 on my Phone for a few days before upgrading the N7 (2012), which I did yesterday. Chrome has definitely slowed to an absolute crawl (it was never quick on the 2012 N7, merely usable), and for some reason it has totally messed up my contacts when shown in the Contacts app on the N7. My wife for example has 42 different listings in contacts on the N7, when in reality on the N5 or in a web browser she is one contact with two phone numbers, 4 email addresses, and one G+ profile. The same has happened for a lot of other contacts.
I'll give it another day or so (the N7 only gets light use), but I suspect I might have to roll the N7 back to 4.4 and forget about future updates. Unless they release some bug fixes and find a way to run Chrome at a decent (acceptable) pace.

JonRB

74,400 posts

271 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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I had an OTA upgrade come through on my N7 2012 last night so decided to give it a go.

Initial impressions are that there is an awful lot of dicking around for the sake of it, so that people feel that it is different. Changing icons for no good reason (such as changing the home icon from a picture of a house to a circle, and the stacked rectangles that shows recent & running apps to a simple square), moving them to different places for no real reason - it just seems like change for the sake of change.

Yes, there are a stack of new features - I realise that - but there is also an awful lot of pointless dicking around too.

Also, my N7 crashed at one point which it has never done on 4.x

I probably won't upgrade my N7 2013 or my Moto G for a while until I have spent more time evaluating it on my N7 2012.

Sargeant Orange

2,687 posts

146 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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bazza white said:
Ffs it's imported all my email contacts into contacts.any ideas how to get rid and just keep my numbers.
I had to go into each of my email account settings in the gmail app and untick "sync contacts", which seems to have been turned on by default during the update

Edit: noticed it's also turned on sync calendar & email notification for all the accounts too

Edited by Sargeant Orange on Wednesday 19th November 09:38

Corso Marche

1,716 posts

200 months

Wednesday 19th November 2014
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@ JonRB My sentiments are divided, it's a slick and nice piece of work on the phone (N5), but on the tablet (2012 N7) I'm not as convinced.
But the N7 always provided a slightly different user interface to other android tablets, and to any previous Nexus phone.
With 5.0 it seems the Nexus user interface for the tablet and phone have been amalgamated, which I think is what the problem is.