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[Nexus 5 General] stone_phalanges:
Like most things one persons daily driver is another's unusable mess. I used it for a few weeks and it was great but eventually I needed tethering (which I couldn't get working on L). I would check the non-working apps thread for anything you absolutely need and search here for any features you must have just to be sure they work.

It's was very stable for me, just a few one of my apps was incompatible and I couldn't get tether.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Clean flash is always better

MMS works in Hangouts as long as you set it to not automatically download MMS and only download them on mobile data (not WiFi).
[Nexus 5 General] martyotaku:
Is there settings for that in hangouts? Didn't see them unless I missed it
[Nexus 5 General] cbrybicki:
Issue with lockscreen

I have had an issue come up recently where after entering my pin, my phone will momentarily unlock before freezing and sending me back to the lockscreen. The only way to I can get past this is to reboot the phone after which I have no problem unlocking it. This has only happened 3 or 4 times over the the past few days and I can't purposely reproduce it so it's difficult to identify the cause.

I am running a clean flash of Android L, Code Blue kernel, and Nova Launcher. I'm thinking it may be Nova and L not playing well together but I'm not sure how to verify this. Any ideas?
[Nexus 5 General] Freddy Krüger:
I use it at a daily driver. For me it works fine.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Under the SMS settings, yes. Its labeled "Auto retrieve MMS". Turn that off. You will get a notification that you received a message with an MMS. If you are on WiFi, disconnect and download the MMS. It has worked for me with no issues.
[Nexus 5 General] martyotaku:
thanks will do
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Maybe it's the custom Kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] Alekos:
Hello SMS works really well - it has an option to send over a data connection as well. It runs light and has no issues that I can tell. I couldn't stand ChompSMS so I was using EvlolveSMS without mms working until I found Hello SMS (which looks like Evolve).

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I had this same issue and what I did was remove Nova and updated Nova to version 3.0.2 Final which fixes all the bugs and I updates Code_Blue Kernel to 1048.

Before I did either I went into recovery and performed "Wipe Cache Partition" and "Davlik Cache"

then updated to code blue v1048 and latest Nova and since then phone has been amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] cbrybicki:
Thanks! I will try that
[Nexus 5 General] gasparzim:
Happens to me from time to time, but I'm on stock kernel and google launcher.
[Nexus 5 General] rpr69:
If you already have a custom recovery installed, then just flash SuperSU 2.01 from this thread. The act of installing SuperSU should not in any way cause a boot loop, assuming nothing else is wrong. I've done it on both my N5 and N7 and had no issues whatsoever. What does cause reboots is using certain root apps, as I mentioned for me Greenify and ROM Toolbox can do it, depending on what features you use, I've also tried 'Disable Service' and it did it as well. When it's happened to me, it's basically been a spontaneous reboot once, then it's fine, and I either don't use the feature that caused it (ROM Toolbox), revoke the root privileges (GReenify), or remove the app (Disable Service)

I am assuming that they are using a method that SELinux doesn't like, and it causes a reboot. I haven't looked at the logs, I figure the app developers will fix it eventually.
[Nexus 5 General] aSquard:
Textra also works really well (I'm on AT&T). There's an option in the MMS settings to disable WiFi when receiving MMS, though it says it's for T-Mobile users, it works pretty well for me also. I'm going to try Hangouts again and uncheck the "auto-retrieve MMS" and see if that alleviates my issue. Toggling WiFi on/off worked for sending MMS in Hangouts so I'll do a bit more experimenting.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
I don't have a custom recovery on my device at the moment. So that's what I meant. My last comment wasn't 100% thought out. lol

I'll try it again and see what happens.
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Exact same set up for me but I don't use a pin and I've not noticed any issues with nova, it must be a rom thing if using pin
[Nexus 5 General] benj!:
I enjoyed trying L for a few days but back on 4.4.4 now.

Just a few things that bothered me, really: occasional massive battery drain by 'miscellaneous', the lack of the silent/vibrate switches in the power menu, and no clear all notifications.

Otherwise really looking forward to seeing the finished product. Notifications and switches are a great improvement, lockscreen is nice and I really like the dialler; can't wait to see other apps using the Material design.
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Miscellaneous is because you didn't do a clean install and just use the volume buttons on the side
[Nexus 5 General] benj!:
Hmm, I thought I did a clean install (using the flashable image from Vomer). I may have ballsed it up, of course :)

Might give it another try at some point. The power menu thing bugs me, though, I use those switches all the time :P
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
A proper clean install is from the Google bat file ?
[Nexus 5 General] MrZim4:
I used the bat file and had one day with almost no phone use and no battery left at all at the end of the day with a miscellaneous cause..
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Miscellaneous seems to be incompatible apps for Android L.
[Nexus 5 General] cbrybicki:
Is there any way to determine which apps are incompatible? All of the apps I have downloaded run fine, but I still have 30%+ miscellaneous battery usage over a full charge.
[Nexus 5 General] nadiros:
Hey. Try long pressing the bell icon. Its magic!
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Well I rooted last night and installed some root apps to test out the stability. All the same apps I used before by the way. I havent had any issues like I did last time. It could have been the updated SuperSU that fixed the issues. But tonight I am going to play around with other things that caused issues before, like changing system sounds, and see what happens.
[Nexus 5 General] nbogan1:
Clear Notifications from Koushik Dutta...

https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/CWzyZahBRUA
[Nexus 5 General] ykphuah:
I have went back to 4.4.4 and then back on L again.

The battery usage does show high usage by miscellaneous, but overall battery life is much better on L than on 4.4.4. I have a feeling this miscellaneous is just some dump all data for debugging.
[Nexus 5 General] Bm13084:
Add "Flashed new kernel" to the list of things I've tried to fix this wifi situation...
[Nexus 5 General] ReeSilva:
CardView supports, but only on API 21 (the final version of Android), and, probably, on the final version of compatibility library.
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Awesome, now we need an advanced reboot menu!
[Nexus 5 General] ReeSilva:
CardView is a new widget in Android L (based on Material Design) and elevation is a property of some widgets that defines "how higher" is your view, and create automatically shadows and others visual properties.
[Nexus 5 General] coleshill121:
Are there any reports of a problem with dodgy vibrations on Android L? Sometimes cuts out when typing etc, thought I'd check before I send off for an RMA.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
It happens sometimes. It always comes back though. No need to send it off for something that small.
[Nexus 5 General] kamots:
+1

sent from my nexus 5 rocking L
[Nexus 5 General] android.gt:
Delete
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Just wondering if there are any sharp eye here.

Cause is it me or is the color reproduction and contrast better on Android L when compared to KitKat? And the readability of text has improved, due to font changes?

Anyways,

So far I don't see any quirks in L. Every complaints I see here like no clear all notifications, no advanced boot menu and so on are really people just TOO USED to custom ROMs I have to say.

Well, I guess in terms of psychology, changes are hard to take.
[Nexus 5 General] yeeson:
Google What time to update the Preview version again？
[Nexus 5 General] .Harshit:
Anyone able to figure out how to use fast charge on L?
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
It seems impossible, but I searched the thread and it seems like I am the only one having issues with alarms:

When I stop the alarm, the notification can't be removed because its buttons don't work and it can't be swiped away.

After that, the clock app force-closes at launch and even the widget doesn't work anymore.

Moreover, if I turn the screen off I can't switch it on again: the phone is still working (I feel the vibration of the softkeys when I tap at the bottom of the screen), but a reboot is needed to make it work properly.

Did anyone experience this, or know about a workaround?
[Nexus 5 General] coleshill121:
So is this a software problem rather than hardware you think? It doesn't bother me that much using it but in terms of resale in the future if it's faulty I don't want to advertise it as fully working if this is a hardware fault.
[Nexus 5 General] abvohera:
Lots of Bugs

I was very excited to install the Android L Developer Preview, but ultimately just after few days I was forced to downgrade to Android 4.4.4

There were many bugs such as Facebook Comments screen, Application get crashed, cant clear all notifications at once, and many more...

But the battery life of Android L is simply superb. and i really look forward to get a stable version of Android L:angel:
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
Yes, I also noticed this.
[Nexus 5 General] bexem:
Hi!

There's any working-alternative browser? I have scroll issues with some websites with chrome [emoji19]
[Nexus 5 General] :
Anyone tried lowering the DPI? looks better IMO :)
[Nexus 5 General] drejohnson:
Install custom L kernel
[Nexus 5 General] rg400smarttowel:
I would like android l if it had an option to change the white background to black.
[Nexus 5 General] drejohnson:
Anyone else with a Android Wear watch unable to use the music controls on watch?
[Nexus 5 General] 0.0:
I am on the n4 Android L. When swiping up from the back nav button, there is no Google Now navring bubble but I am still able to access Google Now. Swiping up from home or recents nav button, there is a Google Now navring bubble. Does that happen to you all?

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] rahsaanabdul:
I always run my ROMS at 360 DPI, this one also.
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
Nope. But it's swipping up from the home button that you get the ring.
[Nexus 5 General] 0.0:
I understand that. But just wondering if what I'm experiencing is just an L preview ROM bug

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
You wrote "swipping up from the back nav button"... in that case, yes it's normal there's no ring, and google search does come up.
[Nexus 5 General] 0.0:
On KitKat, it showed the ring when swiping up from back button. That's why I was asking. Thanks for the reply :)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
Oh, I don't remember that. I thought it only showed when swipping up te home nav button, sorry.
[Nexus 5 General] 0.0:
Actually, I was on CM11. Maybe that was why it worked :p

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] husamco1990:
Contacts sync is not working ,it was working on KitKat fine ,any ideas guys?
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
it's your problem. not the rom. if something that big was broke that's all the discussion would be about in here
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
What actually happens? Probably Google playing up
[Nexus 5 General] sam razzy:
Yep I waanna use this daily but my question is why Facebook app look transparent ? Is it still not developed for Android L
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Just use the alpha version of the app.. Good to go
[Nexus 5 General] ludorexmundi:
Enter beta tester group and you'll have the beta version with fix like this
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
You need to get the latest alpha version In order to have compatibility with Android L.

Yes, I can confirm this: when swiping up from the navbar the animation is missing if you start swiping from the back button, and it is shown with the other two keys; anyway, in both cases google now opens up, so it's a minor bug.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] sam razzy:
I dunno whether I'm in alpha ya beta
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
The latest version should be 15.0.0.0.2 (that's the one I have). If you don't get official alpha updates you can take the app form other sources, just make sure it's a reliable site ;)

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] snip3:
Is anyone else having a random reboot problem? After some time after flashing android L (clean flash), the device will start rebooting randomly. The only solution is to wipe the device. Would like to know if anyone has a solution. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Ummm... Nope
[Nexus 5 General] sam razzy:
When I try any root required software it ask busybox to be installed. How to do it?? I have the app and I tried it but it's not working like it use to be. Do anyone know how to make the trickster mod app to be work in this?
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
Sound like a rogue app that's not all that compatible with L. It used to happen to me with light flow till they fixed it.
[Nexus 5 General] SilkyJohnson:
That to me is a telltale symptom of messing with root on L. What do you all have installed? Also, you don't need to do a complete wipe. Power down and two-finger into boot loader. Flash stock recovery and then fastboot format cache. It'll "rebuild" android and you can start removing root apps until you find the offender. You can then flash custom recovery again whenever you find the app and remove it.

Might be an easier way out there, but this is what works for me. Settled for adaway and root explorer and I haven't had any reboots since.
[Nexus 5 General] jblazea50:
Anyone have any sort of solution for the Misc battery drain? It's at 32% for me and killing my battery daily even if the screen on time is less than an hour.
[Nexus 5 General] snip3:
Thanks for the help! It looks like it was greenify which caused the reboots. I uninstalled it and everything is working great
[Nexus 5 General] x2srj:
Might be an app that isn't compatible with L that is causing your issue
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
I've noticed having es file explorer causes misc battery drain
[Nexus 5 General] cbrybicki:
Download App Ops and turn off Keep Awake and Location requests for all apps that don't need it. I had at least 40% miscellaneous usage before and now it's down to about 15%. I imagine greenify will have the same effect once it's compatible with L.
[Nexus 5 General] arpitnathany:
I have just installed the l preview a few hours ago and here are my thoughts.

The build is very smooth much more so than any kitkat based rom, looks like they are hitting 60 fps in many places. Also the smoothness is not just down to hitting 60fps touch latency is also much better and there are less pauses and skips, its a combination of all these that makes it seem smooth and this is just the preview i am sure it'll improve even further. Further note that this is not magic apps will still have to be coded properly and poorly coded ones like tapatalk are still going to perform poorly (although relatively better).

Till now the only bugs i have noticed are the inconsistent animations for eg. opening the app drawer sometines i get an animation sometimes i do not. Also not all apps use animation for eg. whatsapp just sort of appears without any animation.

Battery drain for the first charge seems normal (same as kit kat), miscellaneous is there but i dont think it is the cause of the drain, Currently my miscellaneous is at the top stating 12% but i lost just 2% overnight, i think it is just a placeholder to balance the books kind of. for eg. if the system computes the total power usage of all the components and the battery left and it isnt 100%, it just attributes the difference to miscellaneous. Will keep an eye on this and see id it improves after a few cycles.

The design is fresh and new but not totally practial, for eg it still takes two touches to get to the quick settings (and also two swipes to close it) and they have also removed the battery percentage from it. i cant understand why they cant do it like custom roms and have it come up with a swipe from the right.

The phone is smooth but not exactly blazing fast all those fancy animations do take their time to render, i guess this is the price to pay, but you can just reduce their durations or disable them altogether from developer settings. IMHO they should reduce the duraction of the animations by 20-30%.

Another point is that the phone gets quite hot while calling too much in fact even when the screen is off.

Colors seem better than on kitkat, more vibrant and better contrast.
[Nexus 5 General] IIMaxII:
What do you guys think the chances of Google using F2FS instead of EXT4 on Android L for now on?
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
I would say software. The part that vibrates is just a piece of hardware. It obviously works so there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. The software is what tells it when to vibrate. That's just my guess though.
[Nexus 5 General] toxicbubble:
At this stage of development, with the preview already running as it is; I would say very, very slim to extremely slim...
[Nexus 5 General] david279:
I think f2fs would require a wipe of everything(system, data and sdcard), I don't know if Google would want to push that on everyone.
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Maybe it worth it .. Idk
[Nexus 5 General] Hannibal226:
Hey guys,

just to give u official news about Android L,

the Google developer Rich Hyndman said that a new version of Android L is improbable!

Maybe some new features like an 64-bit emulator will be released, but even unsure.

So there is no official final-statement, but I think this is quiet clear at all.

Sorry but hear only is a german source, but google translator surly can help :P

LINK

CHEERS ;)
[Nexus 5 General] arpitnathany:
Guys my phone is getting quite hot while calling is there a solution to this, i searched around but did not find any solution.
[Nexus 5 General] dreamer94:
Was watching a youtube video and I was wondering why there's a white space at the top of the screen? Here;

Call me stupid but I saw this 'thing' only in red ones :confused: . Can anyone please enlighten me? :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] rpr69:
Clear Notifications by koush as mentioned does the trick for point 1, ROM Toolbox has a shortcut to an advanced reboot menu that works perfectly with L, which takes care of the second point, in a slightly round about way. I'm hopeful that Google will release an update, but I'm not holding my breath. I've been using it as a DD on my N5 pretty much since it came out, and aside from losing Xposed, I'm pretty OK with it.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Yes my friend, I understand those functions can be added through apps. But what I was implying is that I seem to be doing fine without any of those changes.

Of course, everyone has their own needs. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Wakamatsu:
From Android Community for the non-German speaking :p:

http://androidcommunity.com/no-new-android-l-preview-images-will-be-coming-20140722/
[Nexus 5 General] cundiffr:
Has anyone noticed issues with the front facing camera washing out images?
[Nexus 5 General] Travisimo:
Yes, I reported this back quite a few pages. Indoors in low light, it's fine... but outdoors in bright light, photos taken with the front-facing camera are nearly a whiteout. I'm guessing either the exposure system has some kind of bug in the Preview or in the Google Camera app itself. Never noticed this problem on Kit Kat though, so not sure what it is exactly. Once in a while outdoors, a front photo turns out fine, but most of the time, it's a whiteout.
[Nexus 5 General] cundiffr:
Thanks man!
[Nexus 5 General] snip3:
Anyone having issues with Skype? I'll be video chatting and after a few minutes the audio will stop working...but the video remains fine. Tried rebooting but the problem persists
[Nexus 5 General] toxicbubble:
My preferred question, has anyone on xda managed to hack together working F2FS into L now that the kernel sources are out etc. Since your better off doing a full wipe to run L anyway, why not reformat partitions while we're at it - would be cool to play around with.

Looks like it shouldn't be too hard to do the /data partition using a procedure similar to this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2634271 ?
[Nexus 5 General] ykphuah:
Google playing catch up to release the Developer Preview, Apple just released beta FOUR for iOS8, guess Google need some time before they start releasing more versions of betas.
[Nexus 5 General] RogerPodacter:
The one issue I really would love to have fixed is the memory leak bug. Free RAM falls to 450 MB or so and chrome pages constantly reload as a result...along with some apps getting killed.

But this will be fixed during final release for sure.
[Nexus 5 General] kornklown69:
they probably won't release any new images before official release
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
I don't have that problem?
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
I agree: the main aim of Android L Developer Preview is to let devs know about the changes Google made to Android so that they can release new compatible versions of their apps; not to use them as beta testers and address the issues as soon as they are found.

I think we will just see the final release, after this DP.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] rajneeshk:
how to fix usb & wi-fi tethering issue on android L?
[Nexus 5 General] Langduscher:
There are solutions in this thread: search!

Then tell us what you tried & what didn't work + why, then come back.

(Sorry, couldn't find my spoon)
[Nexus 5 General] chaosdefinesorder:
I'm getting this as well, after ~120 Hrs uptime, the RAM usage to the left of the blue bit (assuming people know what I mean) is more than half of the total RAM
[Nexus 5 General] paychex:
I haven't heard of the full kernel source being released yet
[Nexus 5 General] rajneeshk:
i read the password change method but want to know does it really work, don't want to again install L and come back to 4.4.
[Nexus 5 General] RogerPodacter:
It was also posted in the android L thread during initial release by a few different people.

Check your RAM usage in system panel after about 1 day of use without a reboot. The OS normally will try to keep 900-1100 mb free ram at any given time. Opening a few chrome tabs and switch between them, they cannot stay loaded even for a split second. And you'll notice caching issues on the pages. These are XDA threads I try with at least.

In system panel you can see the systemUI process and also the system process grow in size and never reduce. System UI keeps growing to 200-350 MB or more in size which is not normal.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Yes this preview definitely has memory leak. After a day of system uptime, I've been getting only a maximum 2 of apps running in background. There were a few cases of force closes thereafter.

To add further, the system panel RAM usage was never a good gauge.
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
Is it not a chrome issue or perhaps it auto reloads the pages in case of updates? Cus Javelin doesn't do that switching through tabs
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
Memory leak is present...with my setup on 4.4.4 i had abt 1gb + free ram..

Yesterday i flashed L ...within 1 hr of my NORMAL usage . free ram went as low as 400mb ...
[Nexus 5 General] Ben36:
I'm over 26 hours up time currently
[Nexus 5 General] Langduscher:
Why being so anal abt RAM usage?

It just works. Apps got closed & Chrome reloaded on stock 4.4.4 too.
[Nexus 5 General] MoosDiagramm:
Because memory leaks force the garbage collection to work overtime, which hurts performance and battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] chaosdefinesorder:
Chrome re-loaded the page on switching tab is EXTREMELY annoying when the tab you're returning to is an "infinite scroll" site, for example. Not to mention the added annoyance of having to wait for the page to reload when it should just be a case of flick between them...