Off-Topic: Experience with Android Lollipop

Posted by jaslar
Feb 13, 2015 at 07:29 PM

Update: although the tweaks I posted did help some, I finally bit the bullet and did a factory reset. (First I went through and made sure I had copies of any local files I wanted to keep. It took just 10 minutes to watch the system do the erasures and reboot. Then it took me about an hour to add back and configure all my apps.)

Was it worth it? Yes. I don’t know as Lollipop is really all that much better. But the reset and rebuild cleaned a lot of cruft out of my tablet, too, and now it seems back to its pre-upgrade stability and speed.

Some people reported happily taking this route: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tilapia. It’s a more purely open source OS version of Android. But that was just a little more trouble than I wanted to take.