How can I get my phone efficient again post the TERRIBLE Lollipop OS upgrade
I wish I had read reviews before upgrading my Nexus5 to Lollipop - I just trusted Android to be better ... I have been facing a plethora of issues since the upgrade ..
ps. this is in spite of updating all apps, and removing caches, etc ..
1. The phone is visibly and significantly slower - swipes, calls, opening apps : there is a delay in almost everything! Its like I'm using an $80 phone than a Nexus5
2. I upgraded my apps - but still they all seem so buggy! Things that have happened since range from screen flickering, to keypad disappearing, to simply crashing .. and everytime i have to restart my phone n pray it works fine.
3. The photos instead of gallery is like stepping from a very friendly and organised system to a toddlers room decorated by an easter bunny who has had way too much chocolate - its literally like throwing all your photos in a haphazard manner. Every tiniest of editing on a photo creates a copy of it .. what a waste!
4. Thanks for forcing me to have all my emails in a single app .. Of course you would focus on this than work to have push emails where i dont have to refresh my mailbox to know if i have had a mail or not.
5. How is having to tap a recent call log and then looking at options and tapping again to call them back better than the previous single-tap calling back option? Arent updates supposed to make things simpler?
6. I cant swipe archive my text messages now. Yeay! More click-long click-select-click and wasted energies.
7. Locked screen does not display controls while i have music on. Neither does the locked screen show any notification of messages. I have to keep going back to unlock my phone to know if I have any messages (not mails, because I have to refresh my inbox to get them, remember) if i have been away from my phone. If I want even the notification icon showing, I have to have my messenger under 'not sensitive' which means it can be totally accessed - notifications and opening the chats and all .. It's black or white, Lollipop apparently doesn't like greys...
I have used this OS for almost a month now .. waiting and hoping I would get used to it and maybe it's just a change resistance. But it's clearly more than that.
I really don't want to lose my data, so reverting to Kitkat isnt a good option for me. Can ANYONE help with how to handle some, if not all, of these issues?!
I wish I had read reviews before upgrading my Nexus5 to Lollipop - I just trusted Android to be better ... I have been facing a plethora of issues since the upgrade ..
ps. this is in spite of updating all apps, and removing caches, etc ..
1. The phone is visibly and significantly slower - swipes, calls, opening apps : there is a delay in almost everything! Its like I'm using an $80 phone than a Nexus5
2. I upgraded my apps - but still they all seem so buggy! Things that have happened since range from screen flickering, to keypad disappearing, to simply crashing .. and everytime i have to restart my phone n pray it works fine.
3. The photos instead of gallery is like stepping from a very friendly and organised system to a toddlers room decorated by an easter bunny who has had way too much chocolate - its literally like throwing all your photos in a haphazard manner. Every tiniest of editing on a photo creates a copy of it .. what a waste!
4. Thanks for forcing me to have all my emails in a single app .. Of course you would focus on this than work to have push emails where i dont have to refresh my mailbox to know if i have had a mail or not.
5. How is having to tap a recent call log and then looking at options and tapping again to call them back better than the previous single-tap calling back option? Arent updates supposed to make things simpler?
6. I cant swipe archive my text messages now. Yeay! More click-long click-select-click and wasted energies.
7. Locked screen does not display controls while i have music on. Neither does the locked screen show any notification of messages. I have to keep going back to unlock my phone to know if I have any messages (not mails, because I have to refresh my inbox to get them, remember) if i have been away from my phone. If I want even the notification icon showing, I have to have my messenger under 'not sensitive' which means it can be totally accessed - notifications and opening the chats and all .. It's black or white, Lollipop apparently doesn't like greys...
I have used this OS for almost a month now .. waiting and hoping I would get used to it and maybe it's just a change resistance. But it's clearly more than that.
I really don't want to lose my data, so reverting to Kitkat isnt a good option for me. Can ANYONE help with how to handle some, if not all, of these issues?!