Is anyone else having issues with 5.0? My battery life is down the tubes and it gets very hot. Any solutions? Is Verizon coming out with a fix?
Not uncommon with Lollipop, there are a number of things you can try.
1. Clear google play store cache
2. Clear cache partition (search google)
3. Power off and pull battery for 30 seconds or so
4. If it is still having issues, make sure you backup everything and do a factory data reset, often recommended after a major OS upgrade such as 4.x to 5.x, this has solved problems for a number of people on other forums online.
If you read the forum you will quickly fine out your far from be alone on this problem. Far more reporst are being posted on this battery issue then are not. The issue seems to be a camera that always on and apps running wide open using your Wi-fi. Sorry no solutions or fixes as of this date. I have shut down some apps on a test S5 phone and that includes the camera. It gives in most cases some improvement but not 100%. Give it a try and you may see some improvement in your battery life and heat problem over 18 - 24 hours and a full charge.
Thanks for your help. I will give it a try.
Try doing a "Wipe cache partition"
Power off your Samsung Galaxy S5 by long pressing the PowerOn/ Off button. Wait until the device is completely shut down. Now you have topress the following keys at the same time to turn on the phone again:
Power On / OffVolume upHome button
If the Samsung Galaxy S5 vibrates once, release the poweron/ off button, but keep the other two keys from the key combination presseduntil a menu appears on the display.
mark the entry "Wipe cache partition" with thevolume down key. With the power on / off button, the entry can be selected andthe process will start.
This usually takes only a few seconds. Then the previouslydisplayed menu appears again. Now select the first entry "Reboot systemnow" and run the command again with pressing the power button. YourSamsung Galaxy S5 will now reboot.
If this does nothelp, you will then need to do a factory data reset on your Samsung S5 . Galaxy Class
I have the same issues, Its super hot, battery life is down the drain, and on top of it, It does't receive or send messages... I am so frustrated. I am sitting here thinking Ive sent messages and getting irritated with people, turning out to find out, they never got it, or got it 12 hours later
Man you are definitely not alone!!!! I updated to lollipop and now my phone at random times overheats. I noticed the auto brightness sometimes doesn't work and leaves the screen on a brighter setting, the blue tooth keeps dropping, the WiFi drops at random, i keep getting an error often about my contacts. the phone then closes out the background services for my contacts. it started to become sluggish at one point and i had to reboot into recovery, clear the cache, and proceed with caution. i looked under task manager and it doesn't say what is hogging up all the ram. all i can do is press end all and pray what ever was running in the background has stopped. I also noticed that i could have my location services on power save mode, go through some of my apps and when i check again it is on high accuracy.definitely have a few bugs that need to be worked out
I uninstalled Facebook messenger and got rid of the Weather Channel widget and that seemed to help. I am not sure who the culprit was but it is lots better now. The new issue is that it keeps turning off the volume. I hope everyone gets their issues resolved.
Battery life is half of what it was.
And it lags all the time
Pmpic, Issues like this are maddening to try to deal with, but don't worry ok? We are here and will help you get your phone back to being amazing. After a major software update like this there are many external factors that can affect your phone. First, I would like you to please follow the steps here http://vz.to/1vpJNqw to wipe the cache partition in your phone. Often times that helps greatly with the lagging you're describing. Third party apps that worked well with the previous software may conflict with the new software and cause things like battery drain and lag too. Please check all apps that are downloaded onto your phone for updates. There may not be any available if the software developers have not released a compatible update for Lollipop yet. You can put your phone in Safe Mode http://vz.to/1zNNRPx to disable all non-essential apps on your phone to test out if an app is the issue. Please let us know how your phone performs after following the above steps. We're sure it's going to help! SarahO_VZWFollow us on Twitter @VZWSupport
And you guys can't understand why I don't want this update on my phone!? Really!?
That did not work for me at all. So I gave up and did a factory reset. Of course, most of the things are gone. .but the phone is back to acting properly
Mine works great now, battery life is great. I would uninstall a few different apps and see if you can find the issue. For Facebook messages I just log in to FB with my browser and then I can read the messages without having FB messenger.
Can't set alarm that rings in silent mode
pmpic wrote: Can't set alarm that rings in silent mode
pmpic wrote:
Did you see this?
Android 5.0 Lollipop Alarm Changes
Download alarm droid it is free and works great
Do you have Facebook and/or Facebook Messenger installed? As an experiment try uninstalling both and see how much difference it makes, reports elsewhere online are that one or both of those are both battery sucking culprits under Lollipop on the S5, personally I had the same problem with an older Android and a system update that wasn't working well with Facebook.
I am sorry if this is sounding rude or not, but I find this completely unacceptable. Can you please post on how we can roll back to KitKat without a factory reset??? I have no battery life, my phone gets hot, it lags all the time, etc, etc, etc
I pay a whole lot of money for this phone and my service and it is completely unreliable since the Lollipop update.
Again, sorry if this seems rude. Very frustrated at this point.
You cannot roll back to KitKat (well you can, but it's a VERY difficult and technical thing and Verizon nor Samsung will do it -- you would have to do it yourself and if you failed you'd have a nice doorstop).
And, even if you did roll back to KitKat, there is no way to do it without completely wiping the phone.
