Overall opinion on Lollipop?

[AAPLinc]

I love Lollipop on my N7 2013. Runs butter smooth, love the new animations, settings layout and the notification tray. Battery life seems much improved, overall nothing but good experiences on L. I do have CleanROM and ElementalX kernel with some overclocking and undervolting, but even when I had bone stock Lollipop, it was speedy and an overall huge improvement over Kit-kat. Despite the N7 being nearly 2 years old this July, it's still runs like a bat out of hell, especially with a light overclock.

 

[Savor]

I guess I will take back some of the beautiful compliments after reading so many forums and Youtube with so many NEGATIVE comments about Lollipop. It ruined alot of people's phones. I am shocked to see GSMArena give Samsung S5 a higher battery life with Lollipop over KitKat seeing it uses AMOLED with all that white backgrounds being used.

The flashing white may bother me. The mute is an EASY fix for me using double tap to status bar using All In One Gestures app or Notification Toggles app with a sound menu. My biggest fear is really RAM. I tried using the new DynamicNotifications (Active Display-wannabe) except the latest version for the Material Design eats up 160 mb of RAM! And this is with my phone on airplane mode with no sim inside. Perhaps it is just bad coding. I had to revert back to an older apk from May 2014 that doesnt go higher than 40 mb in RAM usage. Sometimes newer doesn't always mean better. I am also worried about some of my apps breaking or incompatibility issues. Wakelock Detector stopped working for STOCK KitKat and it only reads SOT once rooted.

Also this Project Volta seems to be a hit or miss. Some worse, some better. I will not upgrade once I see a majority with favorable view. Even 50/50 to 70/30 is still a risk for me. I know KitKat also had its issues early on but eventually it got stabilized. I will stick to it. KitKat 4.4.4. AOSP ROM by Ivan has been fast, smooth, and rock solid stable for me. It just works! My only bug was everytime I rebooted my phone, my capacitive buttons light would flash even if I turned it off under settings. Eventually it has gotten fixed using this Capacitive Buttons app to turn it off. RAM means alot to me because I use many apps that use it and I force them to autostart using All In One Toolbox. When Lollipop went ART/Material Design by default, they started to gain weight after trimming it with Project Svelte for KitKat.

 

[Robisan]

I can't speak on any smartphones. But on my Nexus 7 2013, Lollipop is faster and smoother...

IMO, Nice upgrade but not a must have over KitKat.

No real problems with a factory reset install of Lollipop on my VZW Moto X 2014, but honestly don't see any real wow factor that was missing in Kit Kat. My N7 2013 runs perfectly on 4.4.4 (plenty smooth and fast) and I don't see any compelling reason to upset that with an L update.

 

[ravenvii]

I really hope the next Android will be called M&M's.

Jus' sayin'.

 

[thering1975]

Im running both Temasek CM12 and Dirty Unicorns builds of lollipop on my Samsung Galaxy Mega. Kitkat is a lot more stable overall, however lollipop is a breath of fresh air in some respects, but Project Volta makes no difference but this could be down to the custom build, apps do open faster thanks to switching to ART instead of dalvik, however the install time is increased as is the actual size the app occupies on the system / data partition which is a problem for those with small memory footprint.

I always used to speed the animations up on kitkat and have done the same on 5.0, i like speed not how pretty a transition works. Material design works for me and this is a big plus, however i cannot understand why they went with white which is just battery sucking and must work against project volta, Especially on amoled devices

 

[Destroysall]

HTC One M8 user here (on T-Mobile). I've had the Lollipop software on my phone for quite a while now and I much prefer it to KitKat. The aesthetics of it make it more appealing to use.

 

[Lloydbm41]

I really hope the next Android will be called M&M's.

Jus' sayin'.

Macaroon

 

[MRU]

Macaroon

Marshmallow

 

[Lloydbm41]

Marshmallow

Mint Chocolate Chip

 

[MRU]

Mint Chocolate Chip

Marzipan

 

[Oletros]

Marzipan

Meringue

 

[MRU]

Meringue

Milkybar

 

[vladi]

Matias is milking them like no tomorrow, that UI design is college project. Im sure he slapped that within a day.

Both iOS and Lollipop are mediocre average designs. My intuition tells me that Matias is collecting big checks because Android is designed by committee decisions while Ivey really believes what he is doing even though its crap. I remember when iOS7 was taking place and oh boy did that catch some fire, my buddy was working on it and it was like wtf. iOS7 was horrible, horrible design that went against basic rules of legibility, that action center or however you call it that comes from bottom was a disgrace. They pushed to change it but were given firm NO from the top. Thin black outlines on transparent frosted background is like an new kid who found out the blur in Photoshop and tried to push it in the main focus.

 

[Faux Carnival]

I think it's perfect. So beautiful...

 

[Michael Goff]

Milkybar

Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness

 

[MRU]

Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness

mmmmmmm

 

[SurferMan]

Played around with a couple LP roms, but for now sticking with KK builds. Roms are always better than stock, but even on LP roms battery life wasn't good, had lots of various crashes etc. Sticking to KK for phone/tablet, especially on the S5 Dynamickat is so much better, very smooth and fast, the theme look is really sharp and nice, and more importantly stable with excellent battery life.

 

[MRU]

After getting the Note 4 and Touchwiz 4.4.4, I really appreciate the smoothness and interface lollipop on my Moto x brings to the table more so than ever.

 

[Black Magic]

Milkybar

Muffin Top

 

[AAPLinc]

Malt balls.