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I have the HTC one m7 on Sprint and the Lollipop update just became available. Should I download it? Has anyone else with this phone tried it yet? I was super excited at first, but I have been hearing some not great things about this update, and want some feedback before taking the plunge. Thanks!

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I have the HTC one m7 on Sprint and the Lollipop update just became available. Should I download it? Has anyone else with this phone tried it yet? I was super excited at first, but I have been hearing some not great things about this update, and want some feedback before taking the plunge. Thanks!

I don't have a Moto G 2014 and I've been on lollipop for a couple weeks and I'm liking it not sure about HTC but just update it because from what stock is like I can't imagine how an OEM could make the OS slowish besides Samsung...

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I don't have a Moto G 2014 and I've been on lollipop for a couple weeks and I'm liking it not sure about HTC but just update it because from what stock is like I can't imagine how an OEM could make the OS slowish besides Samsung...

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I'm running CM12 (android 5.0) and it really annoys me sometimes, but I don't have any experience with HTC devices and I would assume everything would still look similar or be in the same place as you're used to

 

I would wait for a few more weeks or months, you're not missing out on anything

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Personally I hate lollipop, just overly long animations so that can adhere to material design. Notifications are a pain in the ass, double swiping to view them. It could be that I was using cyanogenmod before hand, which had some really nice features, like swipe from the right down to quick toggles, swipe from the left for notifications.

 

However if you're using just the stock android I'd just update. Some of these cons are a bit nit picky, and if it's not possible to change to ART runtime on your version of 4.4.4 well then just update to android 5. ART runtime is the big one for me, faster and better battery life. However this is a non-issue for me now anyway cos I just got a 1+1 and that battery is insane, got through 2 whole days without a charge. 

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I have lollipop on my G3 and its a disappointment it always tells me the home screen has crashed also my notification led doesn't work for like anything now lol HTC may not have any issues, but from every other phone manufacture that has pushed it out ive heard theres atleast 1 problem.

 

If it's available id still update just for something new lol

 

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Personally I hate lollipop, just overly long animations so that can adhere to material design. Notifications are a pain in the ass, double swiping to view them. It could be that I was using cyanogenmod before hand, which had some really nice features, like swipe from the right down to quick toggles, swipe from the left for notifications.

You can change animation timings in developer settings.

I have lollipop on my G3 and its a disappointment it always tells me the home screen has crashed also my notification led doesn't work for like anything now lol HTC may not have any issues, but from every other phone manufacture that has pushed it out ive heard theres atleast 1 problem.

If it's available id still update just for something new lol

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No shit there's at least one problem. There is at least one problem in everything. Nothing is perfect. Lollipop isn't at fault for your G3 having issues. LG is for patching it shittily.

Edit: Aaand I forgot to edit again.

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You can change animation timings in developer settings.

I know but from what I remember you can only go to like 0.5x animation speed, whereas with cyanogenmod you have 0.01x increments so you can dial the animation speed even lower. Also one other thing I forgot to mention was how bright in general material design is. I know android has been dark for as long as I can remember. I can see where google are coming from, with making the UI brighter a bit of change, but personally I just found the overall darker UI to be more pleasant on the eye. 

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No shit there's at least one problem. There is at least one problem in everything. Nothing is perfect. Lollipop isn't at fault for your G3 having issues. LG is for patching it shittily.

 

Edit: Aaand I forgot to edit again.

Lmao, you mad bro?! 

 

Ill rephrase, there's at least 1 major problem? also i never blamed Lollipop.

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Also one other thing I forgot to mention was how bright in general material design is. I know android has been dark for as long as I can remember. I can see where google are coming from, with making the UI brighter a bit of change, but personally I just found the overall darker UI to be more pleasant on the eye. 

Eh. For night people, maybe. I agree, but I don't mind it during the day or with brightness down.

 

Lmao, you mad bro?! 

Aaaand that's where my respect for you leaves.

 

Ill rephrase, there's at least 1 major problem? also i never blamed Lollipop.

Moto X 2014, Nexus 5 / 6. Two OEM, one third party, all work fine.

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Aaaand that's where my respect for you leaves.

Aaaand its mutual  ;)

Moto X 2014, Nexus 5 / 6. Two OEM, one third party, all work fine.

I don't know about the Moto X, but im pretty sure both Nexus devices had wifi issues with the 5 also experiencing unusual battery drain. 

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Aaaand its mutual  ;)

I don't know about the Moto X, but im pretty sure both Nexus devices had wifi issues with the 5 also experiencing unusual battery drain. 

I own both the 5 and 6. Those issues are fixed. Had doesn't matter if they don't anymore.

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Considering how it ruined the experience on my M8, I'd advise people to avoid it like the plague.




No more music control from the lockscreen, so you need to either disable that or unlock the phone every time you want to change tracks if your headphone doesn't have the right buttons.

Copying and pasting is a mess. New icons, inconsistencies (sometimes you need to long-press to get the paste button, sometimes it pops up immediately right under your finger when you want to move the cursor, making it paste whatever was on the clipboard at that particular time.
Not sure if it's like that with the regular Android, but I assume the M7 also gets Sense 6.

A lot of UI stuff now takes longer. Double-swiping to open the basic settings, for instance.

Redialing can also become a 3-step affair depending on the number (it won't remember the #31# code I need to hide caller ID for specific numbers)

The UI is just plain slow. My Desire (1GHz single-core on Android 2.2) is more snappy than my M8.



I sent HTC a mail about it, but they are not responding. Gonna give them a call tomorrow. They quacked up my phone, now they can unquack it.

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Well i am using cm12 and its great. No bugs if you are a daily user.

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I would wait for a few more weeks or months, you're not missing out on anything

Well I mean 5.0.2 seems to be a little better in terms of power management.

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No more music control from the lockscreen, so you need to either disable that or unlock the phone every time you want to change tracks if your headphone doesn't have the right buttons.

From stock that's not true you can still change songs in your queue from the lock screen.

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Ah, so it's only on HTC Sense ROMS then.  I just get a massive pic of the album art (with the sides cut off), but no controls whatsoever.

Quote yeah at least from whatever Motorola does (which definitely not much) to Android...

 (I don't exactly like that my MVNO is by a company that I don't fancy (Walmart) but at least it works now)

 (Also I paused the song so yeah, seems kind of different that HTC would omit the music controls from their ROMs of 5.0 but yeah.)

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