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[Nexus 5 General] MerkurMan:
One odd thing I've noticed on 4.4.2 is some stuck widgets on my home screens. I'm running Nova, so that might be part of it, but I didn't notice this on 4.4.1. Specifically, the Dash Clock battery extension can lag a few percent behind my status bar battery indicator. Also, I have a mobile network signal widget that updates realtime, and it also gets stuck at a certain signal level, and doesn't refresh until I click on it to open the app.

edited to add: I still suffer from dark video, although .2 seems to have FIXED the annoying static picked up in the audio track during video recording. There is still a tiny amount of static that can be heard when a loud sound happens during a quiet scene, but it's only for a split second, and not constantly droning in the background, or cutting in and out like it did before.
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
just sideloaded 4.4.2 update. everything stock. camera and gallery issues were not a major concern for me. they seem more or less the same as 4.4.1 camcorder seemed a little darker. oh well.

my issues: signal seems a little better around 3% from 441 to 442. i gained around 5% from 440 to 441. so with these two updates i gained around 8 dbm and 3 asu :) signal still fluctuates for me but mostly stays around 92~96 dbm. on speedtest i hit 2 mbps for the first time. i don't have LTE at my location. mostly 3G and occational H. my tethring still works.

one thing borked for me, actually happened with 441. i can't take a screenshot any more. it keeps taking a bug report. :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] hurricurry:
**** side loading.

Kill framework service in apps. And recheck for update.

Did the trick for me.

Not a single moment wasted
[Nexus 5 General] NickFe:
Gallery works fine for me

Just sideloaded 4.4.2. No issues. Gallery works fine, none of the issues other are seeing. The only thing I did, before updating to 4.4.2, I cleared the system cache. Smooth as it's never been. The camcorder is darker, though.
[Nexus 5 General] Hurizen:
Just a point on performance:

AnTuTu went from 23364 in 4.4 to 24789 in 4.4.2. Not bad.
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
Nexus 5 can score 28000 stock.
[Nexus 5 General] Hurizen:
Mine is nerfed then :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
Lol not to worry, probably just a small case of thermal throttling, leave the phone doing nothing for 10 mins, run the benchmark, watch the numbers :P
[Nexus 5 General] bitbitbit:
I have the dark video camera problem as well but I noticed that the video is very smooth even when the video is recorded in very low light. So I think Google just set the minimum frame rate to be higher and it's not actually a bug (higher shutter speed = darker frames). I also noticed that the auto brightness spike in dimly lit places is gone. Yay!
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
This is not recommended because it can screw up some apps functionality. Much safer and very easy to sideload. (or wait for the OTA)
[Nexus 5 General] jaggyjags:
video is perfectly bright in well lit places. It's darker than in the image taking viewer in low light. I imagine this is to keep the fps as it takes more time to capture more light.

This is also happening on 720p and 480p which is a bit weird.
[Nexus 5 General] Sugnid:
It seems a bit weird that I’ve had the 4.4.2 update pushed to my N4, but I don’t have the same video camera issues like we’re getting with the N5…..
[Nexus 5 General] gpvecchi:
What about modem/bootloader?
[Nexus 5 General] bitbitbit:
Perhaps they didn't try to limit the frame rate in the n4? I am just guessing but whatever is happening on the n5 doesn't feel like a bug to me. The darkness goes away when light level of the room increases. It's not like it's dark in every situation. Perhaps too many people complained about low frame rate so they upped the limit. Software can improve things only to a certain extend. Once they pushed the hardware as far as they could, compromises will have to be made if people want to reduce blur in photos and increase video frame rates.
[Nexus 5 General] rahulmaheswari:
The Upgrade

Have no dark cam issues as described earlier.

Upgraded smooth and everything works perfect.

Did have a bit of a delay and stutter in the Gallery app though.

Just switched to ART instead of Dalvik in Developer Options and the whole thing is super smooth again (or even better)

Just try it! Plus most apps including Whatsapp work with ART since the 4.4.2

:)
[Nexus 5 General] jlevy73:
Bootloader is the same, and at 1.7mb, radio.img file was not included. The new radio was associated with 4.4.1. It's still relatively unknown what improved with 4.4.2
[Nexus 5 General] Erelen:
Cycling the different modes has solved the issue for me, thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
Actually the aosp Gallery app was great, quick, very responsive and simple, the Photos app is the one that makes no sense. I think many will agree that they don't want another google app, we want to keep the aosp one.

It just reminds me of the way google killed the aosp browser for crappy chrome, same goed to sms in favor of hangouts...they're turning the nexus brand into a google bloated one.
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
scrolling is choppy
[Nexus 5 General] ardatdat:
Anyone notice that the HDR+ mode takes photo faster in 4.4.2, than in 4.4.1 ?
[Nexus 5 General] manalicream:
My sync settings seem to be all over the place. Usually when I get an email on a google account it pushes through to my gmail app instantly, for some reason this doesn't seem to be happening on 4.4.2

Any thoughts?
[Nexus 5 General] Aerys:
Lol 4.4.2 is same as 4.4.1 just with a couple bug fixes.

They didnt improve anything to the camera or anything else.
[Nexus 5 General] thegr8anand:
It definitely does!
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
4.4.2 was released to get rid of 'app ops' which was the only true way of turning off location services being constantly run.

the button in settings? it's a trick button, it doesn't turn location services being run by the os itself... which runs constantly
[Nexus 5 General] davwman:
For me 4.4.2 with stock kernel using dalvik is extremely smooth. I get no choppiness in tapatalk which is where I notice it the most, camera is much faster than 4.4.1 and worlds faster than 4.4. Not getting any of the issues mentioned by others with dark received recording, or noise. Speaker volume is just as loud if not louder than 4.4.1. Ram usage is much lower(see attached screenshot). If I remember correctly prior versions yielded 1.1gbs left

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DA fuq you talking about? I don't see any setting for this. Location settings are exactly the same.
[Nexus 5 General] Avaricesa:
:/ I updated to 4.4.2 and now receiving calls is a major issue, they come through after a few rings, if they come through at all, otherwise it goes straight to voicemail.
[Nexus 5 General] AC3_2K8:
Hi Guys,

One of the things I've noticed is that the SIM Toolkit app is back again, on 4.4.1 it was missing.

Regards,
[Nexus 5 General] cral:
I've been having that issue since day one. I've been back and forth with T-Mobile with no help. Sometimes it works perfectly and sometimes it does just that, it doesn't ring and calls go to Voicemail. Also I suffered from late SMS and mms.
[Nexus 5 General] Avaricesa:
I wasn't having any issues before this morning and the 4.4.2 update :/

Please let me know if you ever find a solution, because restoring to 4.4 didn't seem to solve it. :(
[Nexus 5 General] sidhaarthm:
Hi mate, are you using a Custom ROM? If so, which one?

I am currently on Stock 4.4.2 but would really like to get that sweet Battery Circle mod. I used to have that on my N4 - but haven't found a standalone mod that I can apply to my Stock N5 :crying:

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Hi mate, are you using a Custom ROM? If so, which one?

I am currently on Stock 4.4.2 but would really like to get that sweet Battery Circle mod. I used to have that on my N4 - but haven't found a standalone mod that I can apply to my Stock N5 :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] DAZEBOY:
Point well made but what I mean is there's lots of apps taking great design cues ie the Android Central app which is really nice couldn't Google make a nice gallery app like that?

Okay I admit it I'm a Google fanboy ;)
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
I HATE the AOSP browser and I have zero issues with Chrome. I really, truly will never understand the love that the AOSP browser gets. It was decent in 2011 but it has no place now.
[Nexus 5 General] cbcharlie:
i've noticed the slimport cable i bought is now working after I upgraded, very happy about that.
[Nexus 5 General] Federico_96:
I read in another forum that this update increases the screen's contrast, is it true?
[Nexus 5 General] sbrown23:
Received my Nexus 5 yesterday. Sideloaded the 4.4.2 update since I wasn't targeted for the OTA. The I unlocked the bootloader, installed CWM, and rooted and so far everything seems smooth. Keeping an eye on it but no complaints yet. Camera seems OK, but I haven't used it in a variety of situations yet. Performance is great, and will have to watch battery use over time to see how that goes. Haptic feedback is massively improved over 4.4. The speaker seems nice and loud for notifications, but I haven't tried a call on speakerphone yet.
[Nexus 5 General] 8bitplus:
Very happy here. Stock 4.4.2 DEODEX. Rooted + BB. Faux 5m Kernal, MotoX Dalvik.

Superfast camera. Seriously its faster than 4.4.1. No dark video recording. Volume is fine in calls and speaker.

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oh yeah, and last time I checked it was only using 468mb of ram
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
AOSP browser was the best.. flash support, could render sites like this one xda faultlessly, smooth like sliding a pane of glass on oil, fast, battery efficient, text wrap perfectly on all sites....

chrome is a battery hogging pile of garbage in comparison, can't render sites properly to save is life, just try reading this page of this thread on it and reply quoting this post.. it's more than pathetic
[Nexus 5 General] klin1344:
I agree. I always use the aosp browser because it is snappy and uses significantly less resources than chrome.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
I have zero rendering issues, zero lag, and zero battery issues with Chrome. Chrome is perfectly fast and smooth on this device. The AOSP browser has an ugly UI and a terrible tab-switching interface. To each his own, I guess.
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
Liar.. no not each to their own, you speak rot

aosp, interface had the best tab switching with full screen and fast as a blink pie controls.. flick finger for fastest tab switch there is.

As can be seen from the pics chrome belongs in the garbage
[Nexus 5 General] nokes31:
Sideload the 4.4.2 just now.

"Ok Google" doesn't seem to work from the home-screen anymore. Anybody else experience the same issue?

P.S. I've checked the language, it's set to English US and it worked fine at 4.4. Didn't use it after 4.4.1 though.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
Liar? Really? Get off your high horse. I don't like the AOSP browser. I DO like Chrome. That's my opinion. I don't care if the full XDA site doesn't render perfectly because I use Tapatalk, and the sites I do use render just fine for my purposes. Is it really necessary to be an a$$ because you have a different browser preference than someone else?
[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
I really doubt :rolleyes:

Saying that you like Chrome is different from saying that it is super-buttery-smooth, without lags and with zero rendering issue :good:
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
It is super-buttery-smooth without lags. I will concede that the XDA site renders poorly, but I don't care because I don't use it.

Regardless, this is a stupid argument and I'm not going to continue it, nor will my opinion about the AOSP browser change.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Did you clear your google framework in order to get the OTA early? If so, that may be why you're having issues.
[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
Yes, I belive you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM
[Nexus 5 General] jtdc:
MX Player stopped working. They should update compatibility to 4.4.2 though, not android fault.
[Nexus 5 General] dakunclear:
Every update it breaks and now I'm using vlc which I usually only use for stuff that uses dts lol
[Nexus 5 General] Raistlin1:
Power Toggles isn't working exactly the same any longer, I have airplane mode in my toggle and it used to actually toggle the settting now it just brings me to the settings menu where I then have to select it.

I have also noticed increased battery drain since side loading the first update and now this second update, on the original 4.4 I was getting fantastic battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Dirk:
That has nothing to do with the update. I'm still on 4.4 and i have the same behavior in Power Toggles. It's annoying i know.
[Nexus 5 General] EddyOS:
Press and hold should turn it off (at least it does for WiFi/BT)
[Nexus 5 General] kangxi:
I think what a lot of people are experiencing with recording video is that before it would brighten up in low light but the frames would drop. Get a little choppy. Now it doesn't do that but it is a lot smoother yet darker.

If you need more light, I'm guessing you should just turn on the torch I suppose.
[Nexus 5 General] AHomelessGuy:
if you don't want to switch to a rom (which is what I'm using Cataclysm rom) you can try installing Xposed and looking for a battery module
[Nexus 5 General] lwfb:
Just to comment on this...

My fiancée has been having the same exact issue for a few weeks now. We got our N5's together through Google Play on launch day, same phones (Black 32GB ). We're on the same T-Mobile plan too. She has this issue and I don't.

When we were both on 4.4 she had this issue and I didn't. Now I'm on 4.4.2 and I still don't have this issue (she didn't want me to "play with her phone" by side loading the update, so she's still on 4.4... Women :rolleyes:).

I'm curious how we have two identical phones on the same plan and one of us has this issue and the other doesn't. I'm baffled by it and T-Mobile has been no help in the matter either.

Frankly, it pisses me off to be paying for a phone line that doesn't work half the time when the other phone on the plan works perfectly. We tried her SIM in my phone and she had the same issue, so it's not the phone at least. T-Mobile doesn't "support" the 32GB either, because they don't sell it.
[Nexus 5 General] victorinoxs:
442 update actually made my camera worse (than 441); it feels almost like 4.4, slow and inconsistent focusing...:(
[Nexus 5 General] Raistlin1:
I swear that on 4.4 I was able to click the airplane mode toggle and it would actually toggle the setting. After one of these updates it now just goes to the setting. Maybe mine was broken initially when it was changing the setting and one of the updates fixed it. Holding the airplane toggle just brings up a help menu, tapping it brings me to the settings.
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
for anyone wondering about the dimmer picture in the video ,

i made a little example here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WS4q-KhWAaUEdGaWtQTWd6OG8/edit?usp=sharing

( dont have to download to view)

im not complaining , just showing what people are saying
[Nexus 5 General] Ady1976:
This does work sort of however even then it is still not as bright as the original video recording as on stock 4.4 also have you noticed since 4.4.2 not only is video extremely dark it doesent even auto focus anymore in video,try starting a video capture and move around a bit at a time and it's like it's locked on focus no matter what you point at

Also the camera app and video app,well you know where the blue capture round button is ? have you noticed the navigation panel is not auto hiding ie theres a portion of the capture button missing behind the nav bar ?

Absolute joke if you ask me,I don't know who's testing these releases but they need to get fired!
[Nexus 5 General] malinois16:
Pandora is working for me. Just DL'ed from play store and logged into acct and played a few tunes. I don't have the dark video that everyone is talking about either. The camera focuses much better tha. 4.4 . I was having problems getting a good enough pic to deposit checks in my banking app. It is a non-issue now. Gallery app is slow and auto goes to the last open pic even it I have deleted all pic from my phone...just for a short sec though then it will say no pics found. Reception seems to be fine for me as well.

To sum it up I am not seeing most of the bug most folks here are complaining about. If you are on stock and never been on custom rom, kernel, or rooted, I would do a full factory reset in recovery. If you were on a custom rom or kernel go to General section and go to the thread on how to return to stock unrooted, then do the ota update and see if that fixes it.
[Nexus 5 General] jj14:
It still does toggle the setting. (just tried it on my phone with 4.4.2).

Check to see if you still have root access, and check to see is powertoggles has been granted root access. It needs root to be able to truly toggle (instead of taking you to the setting page)
[Nexus 5 General] chrisch91:
I got the 4.4.2 update and installed it. But after rebooting, i still have 4.4.1 and i don't get 4.4.2 anymore?!
[Nexus 5 General] XtraWho:
Pandora working now, I just pushed it to system/apps, gave it permissions and installed.
[Nexus 5 General] Wapakalypse:
Autocad still not working...
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Everything is good for me. Camera is quick to lock and snap a pic, and camcorder in low light is acceptable. My screen colors also look a lot better, although I might just be tricking myself with that one.
[Nexus 5 General] dahlem:
Nope you're not screen colors are MUCH better!
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
4.4.2 is friggen awesome on battery. No change in my normal usage... And I leave everything on and mobile data. I only manually adjust brightness because the profile stock is too bright for me. I keep it around 15% indoors.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Notice that I have 48% left here...
[Nexus 5 General] Raistlin1:
When I side loaded this latest update I selected survival mode in SuperSU to keep root, which I believe it did. When I open SuperSU I see power toggles listed in there and my other root apps are working (TB). Maybe I need to uninstall or remove root access PT and then re-add it.
[Nexus 5 General] ravenwood27:
Is it just my phone or does the camera suck up battery really fast in 4.4.2 ???

Seems like everytime I open the camera (stock app) and take 1 or 2 pics...then i get out and the batt has dropped by 2%
[Nexus 5 General] jj14:
Hopefully that will do it. (create a backup of PT settings if you don't already have one)

I sideloaded the update, but didn't use survival mode (I reflashed SuperSU later). Power Toggles worked without any issues (including airplane mode) - it requests root privileges, and I get the message indicating that root was granted and it switches over like earlier.
[Nexus 5 General] icy56:
I don't even understand how that's possible... All the tests show a max of 5 hours screen on time. I've only have 1:30 and I'm at 70% with Google now off, auto sync off, and brightness at 10%.
[Nexus 5 General] HughesNet:
Looks like doctored chrome states to make it look that way. Chrome loads this site without any trouble at all on my Nexus 5. the address bar doesn't overlap like your image implies it does. unless I make it of course by scrolling slightly then taking a picture...

Maybe you need to update your chrome.. At the very least you got something non standard going on if you aren't lying yourself.

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Take her phone into T-Mobile and get her a new sim.

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My Power Toggles doesn't do this. I don't usually have airplane mode on it but I just added it and clicking the button turned airplane mode on/off. Settings never came up. You may want to try disabling the bar and clearing data on power toggles then setting the bar back up. Also I just read that you sideloaded with survival mode. In the future I would recommend not doing that. Rather turn that feature off and sideload then reflash SuperSU from recovery. I read that using the survival mode can lead to issues. Not saying it is the cause of your issue but it is best to rule that out.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
So you would have pulled 8 hours of screen on time if you had run the battery down? I'm calling shenanigans without more clarification.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisch91:
I wanted to update 4.4.2 but got a status 7 error in cwm. Does someone have the same problem?
[Nexus 5 General] big_adventure:
I'm not saying the poster's stats are fair or not, but Anandtech's battery tests show that 8 hours of screen-on time would be extremely reasonable in a straight test. Brian Klug got 6,9 hours browsing the web on LTE, and just shy of 9 on WiFi. Display calibrated to 200 nits (so, less than half power, likely). If you dropped the display down to 10-15%, and just straight browsed, I can't see why 8 hours would be impossible.

Start some gaming, of course, and that's not happening, but then, no phone is pulling 8 hours of gaming off.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Why is the audio recording so messed up in video?! It's completely screwed upand garbled. Completely unacceptable in an update to release it without audio on video!
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
I suppose it's feasible with brightness set at a basically unusable level.

Still, you have a point about AnandTech's review. I'd be really curious to know how Brian pulled that off. 200 nits is actually not all that dim (probably about 40% of what the screen is capable of). The GNex at full brightness barely cracked 200. I keep my brightness at about 1/4 to 1/3, and I don't get anywhere near that kind of battery life. Not bad, mind you, but nothing like these guys are getting.
[Nexus 5 General] big_adventure:
The thing is, it's pretty far from a realistic use-case:

He fully charges the phone, calibrates to 200 nits, disables screen-shutdown, disables sync and unused protocols (so wifi's off for the 3G/4G tests, and carrier data is off for wifi), then runs the test suite. And then he runs it until the battery dies. It's a really good way to make an apples-to-apples comparison between devices, but obviously he's not trying to claim that a real human with a real human usage pattern is going to get a full day of battery with 8 hours of SOT.

My usage varies: I use a couple of hours of music/podcasts, use Kindle to read, sync 3 gmail accounts, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google Now, Evernote, Dropbox, Doggcatcher (w/Presto), Spotify, some texts, some Hangouts and a few games. I take the phone off the Qi at 7ish, and it typically lasts me until I put it back on the charger at 1 or so AM. I might have 1h30 to 4h SOT. As long as I'm getting that, I'm not complaining. I've never personally seen 5+ hours of SoT, though I don't really try.
[Nexus 5 General] paddylaz:
VERY intrigued about the scattered reports of the screen contrast/colours being better....

This placebo or does any lucky bastard out there have two nexus 5's they can do a comparison on?
[Nexus 5 General] LaurenceGough:
Just my thoughts..

The camera seems to be focusing much better now pretty much perfect. I love the camera sound being muted I hate cameras which make noise (I hate anything on my phone making a noise apart from notifications or calls).

I dislike the weaker vibration I much preferred 4.4.1 (give us an option Google please, you can hide it away somewhere crazy if you don't want to scare off the general public with options......)

There is a major flash issue in 2MP mode 16:9 not that anyone really uses it, the problem is over exposure.

Camcorder just isn't boosting the digital gain up which leads to a smoother, but underexposed video, although I don't really use the camcorder for recording much at all so ignore me.