Nexus owners: How's the Android 5.1 update treating you?

[sniffs]

Anyone that was experiencing the random reboots pre-5.1 experience any after?

Sent from my Nexus 6

 

[Mooem]

After running it for a few days now, I'm very much glad that the "recent apps" lag seems to have diminished or disappeared entirely. Pre-5.1, everything would be snappy after a fresh reboot but then recent apps would drag after a few days (sometimes it takes 3 seconds to load any app). Not experiencing that any more and battery life appears to be a smidge better. So far I'm pretty satisfied!

 

[TSoftOne Tracker]

anyone has updated Android 5.1 on Nexus 5?

 

[TSoftOne Tracker]

good to hear. Waiting for it to arrive to my Nexus 5.

 

[biodorkus]

Me too! Thought I was going crazy. It was with iPhone users though for me.

The textra Dev is really good though so I assume if there are issues with 5.1 it will get fixed soon.

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Apparently it's a T-Mo issue and not 5.1... just got this from the Textra developer:

"Sorry, but it's actually an issue with T-Mobile sending corrupted MMS (and group messages) causing the issue. T-Mobile have acknowledged the issue and tweeted they are working on a solution. Once they fix it Textra will return to working normally. Hopefully in the next few hours."

 

[systemofadown1]

5.1 Rocks Makes me wish I had a Nexus 6 now
Both my 2012 Nexus 7's are running perfectly with 5.1, I cannot wait until the factory image drops on the ASOP page for the Nexus 9 - it's going to be Killer having the bugs squished on that tablet

Edit. if things go well with 5.1 (and at this point I don't see how they couldn't) on the N6 I may be tempted to move over to the Nexus 6 as my phone

 

[radgatt]

The split black screen still happens in 5.1. I was thinking that this was going to be fixed but I guess not.

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[TriBeard92]

It's been good for the most part, but it seems like it has issues with getting service again after it loses it. I have to put it in airplane mode or reboot it to fix it. I also have some screen glitching or artifacting in Firefox, though that could be an issue with Firefox not the os directly.

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[maverick7526]

The split black screen still happens in 5.1. I was thinking that this was going to be fixed but I guess not.

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I haven't experienced that yet, but damn on 5.0.1 it would happen all the time. It was so annoying.

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[Alex Wetzel]

Can you disable encryption now?

 

[planoman]

The split black screen still happens in 5.1. I was thinking that this was going to be fixed but I guess not.

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I have never seen that on my Nexus 6 I received on December 9, 2014.

 

[planoman]

Can you disable encryption now?

Not with the stock setup. Encryption is enabled without a way to disable.

 

[radicchio]

Anyone that was experiencing the random reboots pre-5.1 experience any after?

Sent from my Nexus 6

Some have been reporting back at the following link. It's not encouraging. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page to read the feedback since the release of 5.1.

https://productforums.google.com/fo...c/nexus/other-discussions/nexus-6/9aVUBrwdUZU

 

[LeoRex]

5.1 is noticeably more fluid... Everything is more responsive. I had been running custom ROMs, but they had some irritating issues related to some new implementations.. I loaded 5.1 stock and I'm pretty content now.

 

[diamond.g]

Looks like all the cores are active all the time. Since the system doesn't have to spend time waking cores up it has apparently helped with responsiveness.

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[NastyNeil]

I'm on T Mobile and with the added band my LTE is much stronger and much better in buildings and in my basement.

 

[radicchio]

Some have been reporting back at the following link. It's not encouraging. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page to read the feedback since the release of 5.1.

https://productforums.google.com/fo...c/nexus/other-discussions/nexus-6/9aVUBrwdUZU

I looked at the above link today and there seem to be a few who are reporting that their problem is solved---often by a combination of locating troublesome apps and, possibly, the newest update to 5.1. I hope to see more reports like that.

 

[spawndoodling]

I would love it if I had it on my Sprint N6. Where are you Lollipop 5.1?

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[bold1193]

I looked at the above link today and there seem to be a few who are reporting that their problem is solved---often by a combination of locating troublesome apps and, possibly, the newest update to 5.1. I hope to see more reports like that.

my phone is still rebooting also. Almost constantly now and i have no idea what solution there is...

 

[radicchio]

my phone is still rebooting also. Almost constantly now and i have no idea what solution there is...

I'm so sorry to hear that----both for you and for me, as my prospects of ever getting this phone seem less and less likely. This is a serious issue and it's been going on for some time. The fact that some people are exchanging their phone only to get another that has random reboots makes me shy away from the N6. A whole new batch of new phones will be out soon and, while none of them draw me in like the N6, I'd rather have a reliable working phone without all the features than one I can't depend on (I mean your Nexus 6, Google!).