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I've seen this issue too on my Nexus 4. Rebooting fixes the problem, at least temporarily. Since I had just used the OTA updates for stock 5.0 and 5.0.1, anot

by ansible 12y ago

I've seen this issue too on my Nexus 4. Rebooting fixes the problem, at least temporarily. Since I had just used the OTA updates for stock 5.0 and 5.0.1, another redditor suggested that I do a factory wipe. I haven't seen the problem recur yet, but it has only been a couple days. Because of this and other problems (random crashes), if I see any issue again, then I'll downgrade to 4.4.4. My typical uptime for that release was measured in months, and for 5.0.1 the uptime is measured in days. I've been severely disappointed with this release. I don't see how the new look and feel provides any significant usability benefit.

67726e 12y ago
I had the same issue with an older 4.4.x version of Android, tried everything and after two weeks of frustration I just returned it and got a new one. Never saw the problem again.
comboy 12y ago
It may be a bad generalization since I imagine Google teams for different products don't have that much in common, but it seems to me that since some time Google is pushing more forward and caring less about apps being reliable and bug-free. I've seen errors in inbox, in google music, and most annoying in google photos where I'm unable to access some of my albums (created stories were unavailable for me for about 2 weeks - I've checked almost every day, it's fixed now). I tried taking Google take out (downloading all of my Google data), but all I got was an e-mail that it failed to create it. And there's of course not much I can do, I'm simply out of luck (well I can google similar problems to see I'm not the only one and that others are also out of luck). I'm still a Google fan but I'm very dissappointed with this. Of course they can exist just fine if it works only for 99% of cases, but that's not the same brand that I knew.
- kuschku 12y ago
  And their new products are even far worse than advertised, for no real reason. for example compare http://i.imgur.com/IxwQwqk.png http://i.imgur.com/IxwQwqk.png with http://i.imgur.com/DrzdQKJ.png http://i.imgur.com/DrzdQKJ.png, it’s not like it would have been much work to implement this design, and it would have made it far nicer, but they didn’t do it. It seems like Google is trying to save on every end and while trying to not spend a single unnecessary penny, they butcher their services.
- arenaninja 12y ago
  Lollipop definitely feels like a beta release. As for features removed, it feels like this is Google's Windows 8. I had to download QuickPic to do what Gallery used to do (no-nonsense viewing of media stored on my device, no I don't want your cloud). A lot of text is gone and I have to do a web search to figure out what the icons mean and what I'm supposed to touch to do what I'm trying to do. Using my Nexus now requires me to read the manual. My e-mail went unsynced for days before I figured out how to manually sync it again. I bought a Nexus to avoid all the crapware, and now Google is churning out the crapware directly to my phone.
  - gcb0 12y ago
    i had to use quickpic since nexus one, mostly because the stock gallery took some 3min to open when i had 1k images on the sd... sadly quick pic now has ton of "cloud" features. only a matter of time until i need an alternative
jmnicolas 12y ago
I have a Nexus 4 like you and I treat it like a Windows 98 PC : reboot early, reboot often (ie at least once a week since Lollipop, it was worse before). The phone seems to have problem exiting airplane mode (I do it every night) and only a reboot cures the problems.
pakled_engineer 12y ago
Been running 5.0.1 stock on a Nexus 4 for a week with no problems. Haven't got around to trying to build a 5.0.1 CM port yet but at least stock image I don't have to factory reset constantly anymore.
Fuxy 12y ago
I probably have a related issue on my android 5.0.1 nexus 7 table. It's not a phone so I can't test that but I am having a hard time connecting to WiFi manually sometime (for example if I have 2 per-saved WiFi AP's in range and I want to switch from one to the other) and only a restart seems to fix it. The annoying part is not that it won't switch but it disconnects and refuses to connect to anything until you restart the tablet. This release of Android is certainly full of bugs.
dbcooper 12y ago
I have this too, but have not tried a factory wipe yet. This is quite infuriating, and is the time I have considered moving to an iPhone or other non-Nexus device.
- danieldk 12y ago
  And then people are screaming like spoilt children on the Moto G Reddit and Google+ pages that they are disappointed in Motorola for not providing Lollipop on all models worldwide yet. It seems that in the end Nexus, etc. are the beta testers for us Moto users. (Though we still get updates faster and more frequently than most other Android phones.)
joesmo 12y ago
The same issue occurs on 4.4.4 (and other versions), so it's not specific to 5.0.1.
- ansible 12y ago
  The same issue occurs on 4.4.4 (and other versions), so it's not specific to 5.0.1. Well... I'd never seen it happen at all in the previous releases. And with 5.0.1, I saw it happen twice in three days.
gcb0 12y ago
but, but... material design
- kuschku 12y ago
  material design would have been nice, if Google would have actually implemented it: http://imgur.com/a/Xtey7 http://imgur.com/a/Xtey7

by ansible 12y ago

67726e 12y ago

I had the same issue with an older 4.4.x version of Android, tried everything and after two weeks of frustration I just returned it and got a new one. Never saw the problem again.

comboy 12y ago

It may be a bad generalization since I imagine Google teams for different products don't have that much in common, but it seems to me that since some time Google is pushing more forward and caring less about apps being reliable and bug-free. I've seen errors in inbox, in google music, and most annoying in google photos where I'm unable to access some of my albums (created stories were unavailable for me for about 2 weeks - I've checked almost every day, it's fixed now). I tried taking Google take out (downloading all of my Google data), but all I got was an e-mail that it failed to create it. And there's of course not much I can do, I'm simply out of luck (well I can google similar problems to see I'm not the only one and that others are also out of luck). I'm still a Google fan but I'm very dissappointed with this. Of course they can exist just fine if it works only for 99% of cases, but that's not the same brand that I knew.

kuschku 12y ago
And their new products are even far worse than advertised, for no real reason. for example compare http://i.imgur.com/IxwQwqk.png http://i.imgur.com/IxwQwqk.png with http://i.imgur.com/DrzdQKJ.png http://i.imgur.com/DrzdQKJ.png, it’s not like it would have been much work to implement this design, and it would have made it far nicer, but they didn’t do it. It seems like Google is trying to save on every end and while trying to not spend a single unnecessary penny, they butcher their services.
arenaninja 12y ago
Lollipop definitely feels like a beta release. As for features removed, it feels like this is Google's Windows 8. I had to download QuickPic to do what Gallery used to do (no-nonsense viewing of media stored on my device, no I don't want your cloud). A lot of text is gone and I have to do a web search to figure out what the icons mean and what I'm supposed to touch to do what I'm trying to do. Using my Nexus now requires me to read the manual. My e-mail went unsynced for days before I figured out how to manually sync it again. I bought a Nexus to avoid all the crapware, and now Google is churning out the crapware directly to my phone.
- gcb0 12y ago
  i had to use quickpic since nexus one, mostly because the stock gallery took some 3min to open when i had 1k images on the sd... sadly quick pic now has ton of "cloud" features. only a matter of time until i need an alternative

jmnicolas 12y ago

I have a Nexus 4 like you and I treat it like a Windows 98 PC : reboot early, reboot often (ie at least once a week since Lollipop, it was worse before). The phone seems to have problem exiting airplane mode (I do it every night) and only a reboot cures the problems.

pakled_engineer 12y ago

Been running 5.0.1 stock on a Nexus 4 for a week with no problems. Haven't got around to trying to build a 5.0.1 CM port yet but at least stock image I don't have to factory reset constantly anymore.

Fuxy 12y ago

I probably have a related issue on my android 5.0.1 nexus 7 table. It's not a phone so I can't test that but I am having a hard time connecting to WiFi manually sometime (for example if I have 2 per-saved WiFi AP's in range and I want to switch from one to the other) and only a restart seems to fix it. The annoying part is not that it won't switch but it disconnects and refuses to connect to anything until you restart the tablet. This release of Android is certainly full of bugs.

dbcooper 12y ago

I have this too, but have not tried a factory wipe yet. This is quite infuriating, and is the time I have considered moving to an iPhone or other non-Nexus device.

danieldk 12y ago
And then people are screaming like spoilt children on the Moto G Reddit and Google+ pages that they are disappointed in Motorola for not providing Lollipop on all models worldwide yet. It seems that in the end Nexus, etc. are the beta testers for us Moto users. (Though we still get updates faster and more frequently than most other Android phones.)

joesmo 12y ago

The same issue occurs on 4.4.4 (and other versions), so it's not specific to 5.0.1.

ansible 12y ago
The same issue occurs on 4.4.4 (and other versions), so it's not specific to 5.0.1. Well... I'd never seen it happen at all in the previous releases. And with 5.0.1, I saw it happen twice in three days.

gcb0 12y ago

but, but... material design

kuschku 12y ago
material design would have been nice, if Google would have actually implemented it: http://imgur.com/a/Xtey7 http://imgur.com/a/Xtey7