For those on the fence about doing a hard reset after Lolipop update.

[soldier45]

I'm here to say it has improved by about 20% - 25%. Worth the trouble to reset it. Just save all your stuff to Samsung Kies on a PC before you do it. Then reload it all back on after the reset. Took about 20 min to do it all. Of course everyone will get slightly different results since we all run different things and brightness levels etc. But its worth doing the reset. At max brightness no auto all day with moderate use and logged out of Facebook after 10hrs, I'm down to 47% where before by this time I would be less than 20% after the lolipop update. So basically I'm back to where my battery life was before lolipop. Happy camper.

 

[mstrblueskys]

Question about your experience - did you restart your device multiple times before you reset it?

 

[soldier45]

No just one time before and one time after the update before resetting.