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Well...the phone itself is over two years old now, which means it's about 18 months out of support if you're equating it with certain other vendors' devices; Ne

Well...the phone itself is over two years old now, which means it's about 18 months out of support if you're equating it with certain other vendors' devices; Nexus phones actually fare better than some other devices. That said, the fact that Google decided to push 5.0 to it is in itself amazing to me, Nexus status or not. I have a Nexus 4 that runs 5.0, and when I've switched to it from my Windows phone I've noticed that I randomly have no call audio in the cellular dialer as well as the Hangouts dialer. I guessed it was something to do with the 5.0 release but I figured as little as I use the phone, it was nothing to worry about. But the more I think about it, the more I'm tempted to revert to 4.4 since this is my only backup phone, and I'd rather have it ready to go at the expense of playing with 5.0.

aroch 12y ago
The Lollipop release looks to be an EOL update with little to no love from Google. They haven't done a great QA job on it either since they broke core functionality (Dailer/voice calls, Wifi, location provider polling broken).
- morganvachon 12y ago
  I agree, and I'll probably revert mine back to 4.4 as I said above, though I'll miss out on the better battery life. That's the clear advantage of a Nexus device: If Google does break something in a newer version, it's trivial to revert as they provide ROM images even after the device is out of support. The same can't be said for most of the other main vendors, who sometimes don't even make official ROM images available for restoring their devices.
worklogin 12y ago
>Well...the phone itself is over two years old now, which means it's about 18 months out of support That is a horrid mentality being permitted in the phone industry. My "2013" Moto G has a 1.2GHz quad core with a 300+ dpi screen. It's completely unacceptable to declare that device out of support as a consumer technology.
- morganvachon 12y ago
  I'm right there with you. Sadly, the best support is found at Apple, but I've owned two iPhones and I just find them obtuse. They are certainly nice devices, I just don't care for iOS. So that leaves me with Windows Phone, which I love to use but Microsoft is all over the place in deciding how much support to offer; and Android, which I don't care to use daily, but the power of the OS can't be denied.

aroch 12y ago

The Lollipop release looks to be an EOL update with little to no love from Google. They haven't done a great QA job on it either since they broke core functionality (Dailer/voice calls, Wifi, location provider polling broken).

morganvachon 12y ago
I agree, and I'll probably revert mine back to 4.4 as I said above, though I'll miss out on the better battery life. That's the clear advantage of a Nexus device: If Google does break something in a newer version, it's trivial to revert as they provide ROM images even after the device is out of support. The same can't be said for most of the other main vendors, who sometimes don't even make official ROM images available for restoring their devices.

worklogin 12y ago

>Well...the phone itself is over two years old now, which means it's about 18 months out of support That is a horrid mentality being permitted in the phone industry. My "2013" Moto G has a 1.2GHz quad core with a 300+ dpi screen. It's completely unacceptable to declare that device out of support as a consumer technology.

morganvachon 12y ago
I'm right there with you. Sadly, the best support is found at Apple, but I've owned two iPhones and I just find them obtuse. They are certainly nice devices, I just don't care for iOS. So that leaves me with Windows Phone, which I love to use but Microsoft is all over the place in deciding how much support to offer; and Android, which I don't care to use daily, but the power of the OS can't be denied.