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Looks like I've finally got the Lollipop update on my 910C, just had the prompt to download a 970-odd mb file.

Edit: I'm on Three UK
 
It's still early days, but I'm finding the Lollipop update to be a massive improvement over KitKat, the phone feels MUCH more responsive, and the battery life seems to have improved, though today is the first day I'll have started with the new software and a full charge.

The lag in the UI seems to have gone completely though which is fantastic. I had a few issues with KitKat being slow to respond sometimes.
 
Something over the last few days has made my battery start to drain quickly. I am really get fed up with constant battery issues on Android over the last 6 months.
 
Atari said:
It's still early days, but I'm finding the Lollipop update to be a massive improvement over KitKat, the phone feels MUCH more responsive, and the battery life seems to have improved, though today is the first day I'll have started with the new software and a full charge.

The lag in the UI seems to have gone completely though which is fantastic. I had a few issues with KitKat being slow to respond sometimes.
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I installed LP (German) over the weekend so its early days here too.
I'm not too convinced by the new OS though. KK was near on perfect for me in terms of smoothness with daily use. Lollipop whilst I admit is stupidly smooth has it's fair share of quirks.

* Contacts and Maps apps crash quite frequently.
* Recents menu still has a 1 second or so pause before it appears, so no change from KK.
* Batterylife thus far (too early to say tbh) seems to be no different to KK.
* Like KK Apps, can't write to the extSD card - I thought Lollipop was meant to change this. Got to root it seems to get by this.
* Too much forced Google app bloat (News, Hangouts, G+, Play Music, Play Books etc) - whilst not a OS problem, I'd prefer something called choice.

Whilst the UI and the little transitions on UI elements is all nicey nicey, there have been the odd stuttery menu transition moments on bloaty apps like YouTube and Play Store.

I am badly missing Xposed though as it allowed for a lot of tweakage and to make that awful TW coloured notification pulldown all black :)
 
I've used my phone quite a bit since the LP update came through yesterday evening, and I'd previously read some of the threads over on XDA and Android Central which gave me the impression that LP was going to be a horrible mess of an OS.

Thus far (and it's still early days I guess), I've had zero apps crashing, if anything, they seem to load lightning quick now. On KK I was finding the phone would have a noticeable lag when jumping from app to app. The recently used apps menu does have an annoying delay of about half a second to a second, but overall the update has a noticeable fluidity in it. I can't fault it thus far but I guess I need to have lived with it for more than a day :p

Battery life so far seems to be a little improved over KK - I've noticed it more so when the phone is asleep in my pocket, I reckon I could easily get over a day with normal usage. I've had more screen on time than I normally would as I've been going through various apps to spot any differences. I've been off charge for about 4h 40 so far, and screen on time is 45 mins, and I'm sat at 85%. On KK I would normally be sat in the 60-70% range at this time of day.

Early days of course and no doubt things will probably change as the OS and my usage settles. But so far, so good :)
 
Could anyone recommend an inexpensive hdmi cable for the phone please? I'd like to be able to hook the phone up with the monitor or tv from time to time.

I've seen a fair few on ebay but not sure about compatibilty with the note4.
 
The phone's been off the charger since 8.30 this morning, it's now 5.05pm and I'm currently sat on 80% battery with my slightly-than-higher normal usage. I'm impressed. On KK I would have been sitting on about 50-60% by now.
 
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