Android chokes on lollipop.

"The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123" (mattp123) 06/28/2015 at 21:28 • Filed to: None

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Give me a break, I want KitKat back. Rant ahead. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for your time.

Lollipop was forced upon me. After reading the reviews about the changes I decided not to download the “upgrade”. Well one day I look at my phone (HTC One, the original[?] one before the M8 [I never heard of M1-7]) and it tells me my update is ready to install. What? I never agreed to download it... Ok well fine, so I have to click “install later” once a day. I can live with that. Well today the phone randomly restarts on me and says it’s installing the update. Yay...

My fonts are messed up. Some screens use default, some use Helvetica. I like things clean and simple. The red, blue, green, orange bars for the different types of apps really annoys the shit out of me. Just keep everything black. Speaking of black, my wallpaper is just that. Solid black. But when I’m listening to music, the lock screen wallpaper is the album art, which is usually a poor mismatch by Google Play. And even worse, there is no music widget on the lock screen to skip or pause. I need to swipe in every time. I haven’t updated the lock screen app cause the new one is ugly as sin.

I can’t watch Amazon prime instant video in any way shape or form. The Instant Video app is no longer supported, I can’t go through the Amazon app, and I can’t go through the good ole fashioned internet. Cause wouldn’t you know it, flash is not supported. Fucking FLASH! Everything uses Flash... The Xfinity to go app doesnt seem to work either. This is only made worse by the fact that Comcast is Comcast and the internet sucks at home lately. And I’m the type of person who falls asleep to some show, so I’ve been relying on the phone for that.

The quick setting widget I like is gone (BT, GPS, wifi, brightness and auto-update all in one clean bar). Now I have four ugly individual ones.

If I can easily revert it back to 4.0 without losing files and having to reinstall apps, I will in a heartbeat. Otherwise, its getting rooted and a custom ROM.

Big Bubba Ray > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:31

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Android is a joke. I’m using Lollipop right now and it’s an absolute piece of shit. I can’t wait to go back to Apple. And no, I’m not an Apple fanboy. I’ve owned Androids that I’ve adored in the past and it’s just garbage now.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:33

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My M9 on Lollipop is pretty good...

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:36

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Try Cyanogenmod 11. I upgraded to Lolipop on my Galaxy S4, hated it, then put Cyanogenmod on. It’s much better.

Birddog > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:38

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Lollipop? Kit Kat? IC Sandwich?

I haven’t had issues but I wonder about the Engineers. I think they’re losing it.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:38

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hmmm my s5 with lolipop is great, no issues and everything works great. i even flashed my s3 to lolipop before i got the s5 and it ran good on there too

TheOnelectronic > Big Bubba Ray 06/28/2015 at 21:43

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Honestly I feel the same way, although in my case I’m probably going back to WinPho.

My main issue with Android is how bloated and slow it is. My phone started out amazing with excellent battery life, and now it’s extremely sluggish, and the battery drains within 8 hours.

It’s not just battery aging, either. Some glitch that nobody has bothered to fix causes “Android System” to use 20% of the total battery usage. NOTHING should beat screen. Nothing.

bob and john > Birddog 06/28/2015 at 21:44

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they name is aftrer food and its alphabetical.

seriously, go and look at the versions list.

TheOnelectronic > Birddog 06/28/2015 at 21:45

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Android versions have been food themed since (I believe) Cupcake. Then there was Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, [don’t remember J] Kit Kat, and now Lollipop.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Birddog 06/28/2015 at 21:54

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Hopefully they fix things by the time they get to Zagnut.

Big Bubba Ray > TheOnelectronic 06/28/2015 at 21:57

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Yep I have a massive amount of battery problems as well. During work every day, I’ll leave my phone in my car or the office from 7 am until 3:30 pm. No apps running, wifi off, phone completely unused and the battery is at like 60% when I come back to it. What a joke.

How did Windows Phone treat you? Thats the only OS I haven’t tried yet and I’m really curious as to how it is.

Under_Score > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 21:58

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I’ve had Lollipop on my HTC One M7 for almost five months. There have been some issues with a few of the apps, and when music plays from Bluetooth in my dad’s Scion xB, the artist and song title don’t show up. My dad had this issue, too, when he upgraded to Lollipop on his S4 last week.

Birddog > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 22:01

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God help us all when they get to Zagnut.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > TheOnelectronic 06/28/2015 at 23:08

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Jelly bean

TheOnelectronic > Big Bubba Ray 06/28/2015 at 23:09

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Windows phone doesn’t have the sort of versatility of android or the app selection of either, but I really like its interface and performance. I had the Lumia 920 I believe, and I really liked it. I mainly got my current S5 because I wanted something waterproof.

TheOnelectronic > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 06/28/2015 at 23:10

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Thank you. That’s it. I kept thinking “Jello? No, that’s not right”

scoob > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/28/2015 at 23:53

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Original HTC One is the M7. Look like the one to the left?

I’m pretty sure update downloads are optional, not forced. I’m on 4.3 Jelly Bean and I have the option to download it automatically but not install- sounds like you may have had this checked. Should be unchecked by default.

If you’re up to the job, you can unlock bootloader, root, flash a recovery and then flash a new ROM on it (CyanogenMod 11 {KitKat} for example). If not, a factory reset might(?) help you out. Don’t know if it’ll revert back to the previous OS.

If you want to do the rooting stuff, please research everything first before doing it. Which carrier do you have? This might limit your rooting options.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/29/2015 at 00:42

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Kit Kat is ok, but honestly I still want ICS back. Sooooo many people hate lollipop.

Nauraushaun > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/29/2015 at 03:52

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I think you need to get used to it unfortunately. We all get into habits on the devices we use every day, makes it hard to accept change. But usually you find it’s not that bad if you can just change your habits to accommodate. You don’t want to be that one person using Windows 98 and swearing it’s better. Ice cream sandwich isn’t coming back, you’ve little choice but to move on.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > scoob 06/29/2015 at 09:06

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That’s the phone. I never have it set to automatically update anything nor update on wifi. I’ve learned the hard way before when updates would stop working or add a ton of ads. And once it did show up I never clicked to install it. Thanks Verizon and HTC. Which it seems like more of a hassle to root on Verizon, and more so now that it’s on 5.0.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Nauraushaun 06/29/2015 at 09:17

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No. This isn’t a “get used to it” situation. I shouldn’t have to swipe in to the phone and navigate to music or pull down the top bar to pause or skip a song. That is just poor functionality. I should still be able to customize basic things, I don’t need things color codes for me. I shouldn’t have services I pay for like tv and Amazon Prime taken away because of an update. Not every web page has a mobile version so flash is still a necessity. It’s like if you took your car in for service and without asking they replaced your spare with a can of fix-a-flat, disabled the intermittent speeds on the wipers, replaced your tires with summer only then wrapped the car with a telletubbies wrap.

scoob > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/29/2015 at 09:30

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That sucks. If you want to attempt rooting, research/get help on this forum .

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > scoob 06/29/2015 at 09:49

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They’re great. I went there when it was time to root my previous phone... the HTC Thunderbolt, AKA Blunderbolt, AKA Thunderbutt. I love the physical build quality of HTC and their sense interface, but they are terrible when it comes to updates.

Nauraushaun > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 06/29/2015 at 18:36

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The beauty of Android is that you can usually change what you want.

The music player not showing on lock screen is probably HTC’s problem - maybe they didn’t try hard enough to support a phone that came out nearly 2 and a half years ago. Try a different music player, there are heaps to choose from, most if not all will show a lockscreen widget. This should fix the album art problem as well, this should be configurable. Poweramp isn’t perfect, but it allows both of these things.

The app not being supported is Amazon’s fault. Flash should be supported, I’m not sure what browser HTCs come with but surely Chrome or Firefox would do it.

Other things like quick icons and the background, I’d be surprised if those can’t be fixed as well.

You have a good point. You shouldn’t be forced to update, and if HTC can’t make it work properly it shouldn’t be forced on you. Often older phones perform better on older OS versions anyway. But I think this is a better solution than hacking down to some older version.

Unfortunately it’s part of the Android philosophy (and the way of the world these days) - with all those changed features you get security patches and things as well, Google deems it a necessary evil.