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[Nexus 5 General] inferol:
Google purposely removed "remove all recent" since kitkat because Google don't want you to clear all apps in background as it does more harm than good. I don't understand why you want to clear all apps as your cpu will have to work harder and suck up more battery. Clearing these apps from recent does not give you any benefit on battery performance nor does it help on anything unless apps are not behaving properly eg video playback app.

On Window PC, you have to close program when not in use, the more program you open, performance will decrease but this is not the case for android, android keep apps in memory so that next time you open it, your cpu will work less and use less battery.

This is why you still see recent apps after you reboot your nexus 5 because in the long term, recent is there to reduce battery usage and save cpu not having to work harder to open and execute every single services and instructions on 1 app.
[Nexus 5 General] rolldroids:
Unused RAM is bad and should be used for data that (possibly) will be needed later. That way operating systems can avoid wait times. And basicly, there is no reason for showing the user what the os has cached or even allow the user to remove things from cache. On a windows pc you don't even know what DLLs and other things are kept in RAM until windows knows something more useful for it. I think the recents should be seen as some os internal business, that is shared to the user incidentally as task switcher and for closing crashed apps. [emoji3]
[Nexus 5 General] JalmiNyondong1933:
not from Gmail, but yes I'm able to use HP cloud print.

just a little addition to my thought of this release: there are so many lag in animation transition, for example when I press home the GEL restarts which is never happen on KK. I have tried to facory reset my phone without luck, maybe I should flash the factory Image (again).
[Nexus 5 General] irononreverse:
It's only a small bar if the screen is on. If the screen is off, it does the usual full screen thing. Nice little touch, in my opinion
[Nexus 5 General] @home:
Having the choice is what it's all about. You don't have to use it. It's getting to appleesque
[Nexus 5 General] cpvm:
I cannot print cause it just force close, and I don't experience any launcher redraw in this version, everything seems to be smooth.
[Nexus 5 General] JalmiNyondong1933:
That's wierd, yesterday I managed to print couple sheets from my phone to my HP printer. Anyway, I'm gonna flash the factory image again with manual installation this time. Prevoiusly I used a Toolkit hopefully that's will make any difference cus launcher redraw is just not acceptable now
[Nexus 5 General] rezadu:
Transparent Google Search Bar?

One thing I miss from KitKat was the transparent Google Search bar on the homescreens. Is there a way to make it transparent?
[Nexus 5 General] madrigal77:
Nova launcher lets you change it.
[Nexus 5 General] MrKaon:
Anyone having camera problem:

I have to restart the phone in order to get it to work.
[Nexus 5 General] nsxalwayz:
no complaints here. 5.0 has been great so far!!!
[Nexus 5 General] e-Tiggy:
At my end the "final" seems to be less stable than the second preview was. Funny thing, it might be all in my head. Anyways, i still experience lags here and there, the launcher restarts at certain app exits, memory leak still seem to be around and the battery drains like hell when I'm on the tube - compared to kitkat.

I feel this is more like a snapshot and there are still a lot of things to be fixed in this rom before it reaches the maturity of 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
Launcher redraws ? Yup i saw that too...

Lags? Nope not even once yet...

Immature software ? Totally agree....
[Nexus 5 General] Badd_blood:
I'm very impressed with lollipop because of how smooth and stable it is. I haven't ran into a single bug. However, at the moment it feels to closed for me and I don't want to use a custom rom. I guess I got spoiled with Xposed so now stock android feels kinda like iOS.
[Nexus 5 General] Ananay Singh:
I think Google has stopped the OTA rollout of lollipop after a lot of early adopters complained about WiFi issues. It appears to that lollipop devices are unable to connect to wifi networks or unanle to maintain the connection once connected
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
I'm sorry but this may not be much of a concern but the kernel shows a date of "Mon Oct 20 22:18:31 UTC 2014" is it the build date? Does it mean the OS itself is old?
[Nexus 5 General] tdimarzio:
Completely agree with the Gmail 5.0 behavior with multiple accounts. I have a hard time distinguishing between my two exchange accounts. Both just the letter T and even the same color.
[Nexus 5 General] ..::Viny::..:
When I enable the root explorer features, es file explorer also says "test failed".

When I look at the logs in supersu, I see messages for ES FIle explorer like.."Supersu Pro is required for this feature".

What root permission are limited in the free version of supersu that won't allow this operation?
[Nexus 5 General] katuss:
i am not able to find face unlock under screen lock and phone is not encrypted by default..... anyone else??? and my region does not support google now :( :( :(
[Nexus 5 General] gee2012:
Look here for face unlock activation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YphkBt0j0.
[Nexus 5 General] katuss:
seroiusly.... but Thanku that helped
[Nexus 5 General] phunctionist:
Did a very clean install of the factory image the day it became available. Custom recovery, Rooted, changed DPI and unistalled most bloatware.

The biggest annoyances I have so far:

1. No silent. I mea really, if this is not a bug, the guy who thought of this should be shot.

2. Very laggy WiFi. Either from quick toggles or from 3rd party app it sometimes freezes the whole system and /or the app crashes.

3. Lockscreen. I don't know why they moved the locking ring from the center. Now the caller or camera get triggered way too often.

4. Quick toggles. Man, oh man, how hard would it have been to show the quick toggles on the first wipe if no notifications are present? Not to mention the fact that they aren't customisable...

I can't say there are many things I like. The design is ok although I can't say I care for the animations (which I disable from dev options anyway).

Battery seems the same as KitKat.

So I'll probably go back to 4.4.4 until either Cataclysm comes out with a Lollipop version or Xposed starts working on ART.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] luckana:
that's the kernel build date. no one said that when the OS is released on a certain date, it should be built the day before :D
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
Simple, efficient, smooth, stable and needs a lot of improvement (especially battery stats and battery drainage).
[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
i cant understand what are you talking about. on my app, the gmail account shows my picture in a circle and my exchange account show O(which is the first letter of my name) in a circle.

moreover, when choosing through the arrow right below the circles, it shows the email addresses, no shortcuts whats-o-ever and i don't see any place in this app that gives me hard time distinguish between my accounts. :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] irononreverse:
You can swipe up from anywhere on the screen to unlock, no need to do it from the actual ring.

Quick toggles. Are a two finger swipe, like KitKat. I always have the android wear notification.
[Nexus 5 General] phunctionist:
Depends. If you swipe anywhere from left or right sides, it enables the dialer/camera. It's kinda weird, you just have to get acustomed to swiping diferrently now...

Yeah, I know but I used to enable this in Gravity box. It just made sense. Just because it was like that (two fingers) in KK doesn't mean that they couldn't change it in 5.0.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Xlydven:
I like it but unfortunately google now is no longer available to me because of my location, something I had no issue with kitkat. But yea, without Google Now it's quite dull.
[Nexus 5 General] DummyPLUG:
Got a serious problem. Sometime it say charge with usb, and sometime with AC, enable/disable usb debug will switching between them, and some time even say charging with AC it actually didn't charge at all. Tried different cable and charger but still the same, didn't have this problem with 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
first impressions

BAD

- apps tend to start slower than on Kitkat

- I get more lag than on KitKat

- Data usage: you can't see anymore how much traffic you've made in let's say 1-2 days (we don't have the interval grabber anymore :( !!)

- Email is replaced with Gmail.. bye unified inbox.

- Notifications are intrusive, I much prefer the ones pre Lollipop.

GOOD

- better animations

- nicer UI

- interesting looking notification shader

I've used the OTA file without factory reset.
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
Like someone said, after the update without wiping data, the battery life was worse than KK, then I did a clean install and the battery life is now better than KK and I installed back all my app.

I love lollipop
[Nexus 5 General] tdimarzio:
The Gmail account is easy to identify with my profile photo. The two exchange accounts are indistinguishable without using the drop down arrow.
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
What about apps load time? I feel that lollipop loads the app slower..
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
True.. However it is not enough to bother me

But hey, you can fix it right there (screenshot)
[Nexus 5 General] Nexonian:
Mute is there, and it is more advanced than before: On your lockscreen or homescreen, shortly press volume up or volume down. There you have the options to turn off notifications completely, for a certain amount of time, or allow important notifications only.
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
Turning off animations doesn't help.. I mean it takes more time an app to be loaded in memory, excluding any animation.
[Nexus 5 General] californicated:
Even after a full wipe the performance sucks. Anyone who doesn't recognize it, good for you.
[Nexus 5 General] Frankie73:
What I like about Lollipop:

- Fresh look, it's really nice!

- It's smooth and fast for me

What I'm not really sure about yet:

- Batterylife. It seems to be at least on par compared to KK, maybe even a bit better, but overall it's still not great (~2.5-3h SOT for me)

- Nav Bar icons. Didn't they say those are just for the preview version?

- Notifications. When I receive a message it's on the lockscreen in full so everybody could read it. But I guess there's a way to turn that off.

What I don't like:

- Photos app. No folders? WTF?

- Battery stats

- missing battery percentage option. Yes, I know you can easily enable it with that app from playstore but it really should be enabled by default (or at least there should be an option to enable it)

- The huge "shadows" that appear on the screen when you scroll and reach the end. Annoying. Is there any way to turn that off?

- The new settings design, because you need more clicks to change settings then on KK. For example the WiFi setting:

There is so much free space on the right side, why didn't they put the switch right there like it was on KK?
[Nexus 5 General] luctreebusch:
Got Android lollipop today and i'm happy with it. I like the new fresh look. The multitasking is better with separeted tabs and docs. The performance is smooth but not that fast, maybe because of the animations. The notifications are better to in my opinion.
[Nexus 5 General] jfim88:
Please flash the entirw Factory image and make a clean install... Lollipop is smooth as silk and fastest than KK
[Nexus 5 General] TheIgster:
You shouldn't have to. If we waited for the OTA, this would not have happened either. It would simply be an "update". You shouldn't have to wipe everything for the OS to work properly. Sounds like a cop-out to me. I too believe 4.4.4 was faster overall. I think 5.0 is pushing a 2GB RAM phone a little too far.
[Nexus 5 General] jfim88:
Sometimes i think is highly recommended to make a fresh clean install... And even more when jumping to a mayor Android version (from 4 to 5). I always made clean installs and never had problems.

In my N5 Lollipop is fastest than kk and also smoother. No problems here, only goodness.
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
is anyone facing freezes after shooting with HDR+ ? it doesn't happen everytime, but quite often actually. i even had to force restart my phone today.

to replicate it, try turning from landscape to portrait while shooting HDR+
[Nexus 5 General] californicated:
Did a few shots with no issues.
[Nexus 5 General] Rusty!:
Because it's one tap on the quick settings icon?
[Nexus 5 General] Quickfire:
Is the immersive full screen mode different under L compared to KK? In KK the status bar and action bar are completely transparent. Now it's replaced by a shaded, semi-transparent black bar top and bottom. Is this what everyone is seeing or do I have to change some settings?
[Nexus 5 General] Flundran:
Did a clean install with the factory image, and overall, I love it. It's good looking, smooth only a few stutters, and adds functionality. I was even getting really good battery life, until I started logging in and setting upp apps, goddammit facebook. That being said, there's a long list of stuff that I would change if I were Sundar Pichai, so I'mma just focus on the negative for now :p

Battery savings mode: It's good they finally included it, I don't even mind the orange nav and statusbar but the underclocking of the CPU just makes the device way too laggy, it's a drag to use N5 with the savings mode turned on. There should be a menu for which features to be included, they had it on my GS3 ages ago, Samsung did that right.

The Chrome tabs: To be able to find the tabs in multitasking is a good feature, but did they have to remove the tabs so you can't find them within the chrome browser also? To find your old tabs in multitasking was a chore, had to turn it off.

When I'm in dialler looking through contacts i have to press once to open the contact and one more time to see all of the phone numbers, why not just show the whole contact right away?

Overall seems like there's now extra swipes needed to do stuff when navigating through UI. For example when in recent calls I have to press the call once just to bring up the OPTION to open details about the call and then press again to bring up the actual details. Oh and when unlocking the phone, this in my opinion means the designers have failed, good design is more then looking gorgeous.

Like many have said, the replacement of Gallery with the Photos app, tried it, didn't like it, switched to CM Gallery, which I love, realized I had to get editor aswell , got Aviary. Kind of a bother but then again the option to choose has always been the strength of Android.

Material design overall is awesome, but I don't understand why Google themselves can't do it better, for example Keep doesn't use the new colouring of statusbar unless you use Google Now Launcher, or is that a bug? Cause it doesn't work in Chrome either now?

Some of the things that struck me using Lollipop anyway. But this is just the first iteration of an almost completely new take on Android design, all and all I'd say it's pretty bug free for a first release of a new OS and I'm much looking forward to Google and the community bringing it closer to perfection!
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
The good: honestly everything. Thank goodness they've gotten rid of 'most' of the horribly dated drab holo UI. Notifications are simply brilliant.

The bad: nothing really, just needs some minor polish here and there and get rid of ALL the holo leftovers.

The in-between: battery life is not quite as good as 4.4.4 was for me but it's minor. I do believe 5.0 more accurately reflects battery % drop and that could be the difference I'm experiencing.
[Nexus 5 General] briand.mooreg:
Installed factory image and rooted + TWRP. All is good so far.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Do you notice this after using the flashlight? I read people having this issue after using the flashlight for a long time

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My phone has been off the charger for 4 hours and I'm at 80 percent. Is that bad?
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
+1000

Everyone will turn it off because it's too complicated to find your tab
[Nexus 5 General] gefilus:
Multitasking window is kinda bad , looks good but not so easy and fast to switch, only complain.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Installed factory on launch day. All I can say is Lollipop? More like Lolliflop. Today I have bad a plethora of issues. Torch problems, phone becoming slow so I need to reboot, and if I reboot and mess with it it LAGS like crazy until I reboot again. Whst's worse is that when I leave an app even one second, it closes out completely until I reopen it. Lag. Stutters. Atrocious battery life. Horrible overheating. App problems. No gallery. Camers is a lot slower and sometimes takes seconds before a shot. Recent apps won't scroll at times. Sometimes got to triple click to get an action to work. No updated notification sounds, no widgets on lockscreen, WiFi bug clearly still present, battery stats that lie, and did I mention terrible battery? And a plethora of other issues. I'm about ready to give up and go back to KitKat or a custom ROM. This update is horrendous.

End rant.
[Nexus 5 General] gefilus:
Where you all got this problems? Just curious! Or its depends on device?
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Sounds like user error or bad flash. Have you tried a clean install maybe try again?
[Nexus 5 General] siren215:
Reject call by message 'Write your own' doesnt work on a swipe lockscreen when i receive a call and I wish to reject it with personal message.
[Nexus 5 General] imtiax:
Still waiting for ota to hit my device. :( I'm in canada
[Nexus 5 General] mindst:
Clean flash with factory image

Front camera stopped working after some time (noticed as smart lock stopped to recognize me). Reboot fixed that, but for how log ?

Switching between chrome tabs become a nightmare, had to turn that off (l'm so happy they have left that option)

Silent hours (Downtime) is somewhat half baked...
[Nexus 5 General] -A-P-M-:
Which got a bug - If you set to "priority," it will still ring for Whatsapp and Viber messages.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That isn't a bug. WhatsApp and Viber don't use the Android notifications - they have their own system and it's been that way for a long time already. Now it's just noticable because priority mode mutes only the default notifications and outside notifications need to be muted in their own settings. Blame WA and Viber for being percistent about their own notifications.
[Nexus 5 General] Quickfire:
Anyone knows a solution for this?
[Nexus 5 General] bigbamboo5:
Can this be true? Anyone had the OTA over the weekend? (I'm in the UK, still waiting...)
[Nexus 5 General] Horoscope:
Liked the UI and Material design so far, its smooth & fast

not able to find out too much difference in battery from Kitkat

surely missing Xposed, will wait for few Roms to come in with more optimization.

Over all good surely not great, will swith back to KK for now (atleast another month or so)

one major problem is that i am unable to connect back automatically to trsuted/prefered Wifi networks.. i need to manually connect it everytime, not sure is this only me or anyone else facing the same issue here ?
[Nexus 5 General] bigbamboo5:
That doea appear to be the ongoing issue...

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/20293/20141115/nexus-5-users-encounter-android-lollipop-wi-fi-connection-issues.htm
[Nexus 5 General] jaydex_18:
Not upto the mark !!!

Notice a number of bugs and as of my device the performance has decreased significantly.

1) Device has become laggy

2) If you tap the google now screen, the 'G' symbol vibrates

3) Lots of apps do not perform upto the mark

3) Whatsapp pop up chats on lock screen absolutely kill the phone.

4) To much congestion .
[Nexus 5 General] Nexoez:
I like Lollipop so far. But I've encountered some 'bugs'...

I'm using LG's smartcase, and when I receive a call, my phone only vibrates once. Ringtone keeps playing though.

My cellphone reception isn't that good anymore?

Anyone same issues?
[Nexus 5 General] oskimon:
I still don't get why they changed the volume settings or how the new system works. I just want to volume down and put everything on vibrate, but they went and mixed it all up for now reason.
[Nexus 5 General] bigbamboo5:
Seriously, does anyone actually know someone who has received Lollipop OTA, because I don't and nor does anyone I've asked? It's as if the OTA has been delayed and they've just not mentioned it... :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] RandyN:
The OTA appeared on my N5 last Thursday. I didn't use it to update, instead I used the image to do a clean install.
[Nexus 5 General] bigbamboo5:
Thanks. I'm pleased to be wrong, on this occasion... :)
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
It isn't just me with the issues though. I'm finding a lot of people with these very thoughts and issues, I had no problems at all flashing the factory image and nothing went wrong during setup.
[Nexus 5 General] Jambii1987:
Lollipop has been pretty good to me. Only complaint is that some of my games won't run at all. Which I think is in the hands of the games devs updating with the latest API's (I "think" lol I am no dev so please correct me if i'm wrong, here to learn after all ;) That aside though, it's a beautiful, smooth and most awesome new version of Android that Google has put out. Thumbs up here.
[Nexus 5 General] jt3:
I wonder how many of these issues that people are seeing are really the result of a 3rd party app (or apps) that hasn't yet been updated to support Lollipop, and not, in fact, lollipop itself?

I had an issue where Smart Lock seemed to not work almost all of the time, even though it showed connected to my Moto 360. I thought Smart Lock was junk, only to find out that it was an app (Gravity Screen) that was shutting down and locking my screen in a way that circumvented Smart Lock. Once I stopped that from happening, Smart Lock worked much better, and my impression of lollipop completely changed.

Battery issues, memory issues, wake-locks, lagginess... these all could EASILY be the result of apps that haven't been optimized for the new O/S, especially since it now uses a completely new Runtime. I'd be very curious to see whether these issues go away after a factory reset BEFORE rooting (which requires 3rd party apps) and before installing any apps. At the very least, it would help track down the real source of the problems, which would help devs (Google or otherwise) come up with proper solutions.
[Nexus 5 General] Rusty!:
There is no solution, it's how it's meant to be.

Clearly transparency still has a place, though, as is in the launcher.
[Nexus 5 General] SurferLTU:
I have issue with Exchange email on Nexus 7....

I'm getting "Unfortunately exchange services has stopped" error.

Can anybody confirm that exchange mail works fine on Nexus 5 running Android 5.0?
[Nexus 5 General] jt3:
I'm running two separate Exchange accounts on mine, and it's fine. I do assume, of course, that you're using the Gmail app to access your Exchange account, since the email app should have been disabled. If you're using the old email app somehow, that's your problem. If you're using a 3rd party app, that may be it as well. If so, try with the Gmail app.
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
And what about Photos app? What about Drive app? What about Phone app? All 3rd-party apps? C'mon, the performance sucks in stock Google apps. Apps tend to load slower, Photos app provides a shi*y experience. And so on. I've expected so much more from Lollipop..

PS: hate the new notification popup. Much prefer the pre-Lolipop one (rolling ticker).. Elegant and doesn't take lot's of space

If you hate it too, please star this issue:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79393

Also another big issue: apps refresh more often than on Kitkat.. It makes the multitasking annoying.
[Nexus 5 General] SurferLTU:
I'm using gmail app