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Help verizon s5, how to downgrade back to kit kat

boatman

Android Enthusiast
Nov 19, 2009
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so upgrading to lolipop has dramatically decreased my battery life. I am not sure i need to change settings after the upgrade, but basically in kit kat i had all radios (wifi, bt, gps, lte etc) turned on all the time. I don't have apps upgrading ever, just manually. I am not a heavy user, at 7pm i had between 55 and 65% left, and even if i didn't charge at night, the next morning i was at 10% minimum.

in the last 3 days, at night now i am at least 20% less, pretty sure it won't go 24 hours.

Lolipop has nothing better for me so far than kit kat, is there a simple way to go back to verizon stock kit kat? thanks.
 
I just registered there with SamMobile and I am now downloading every version that was made our our S5 on Verizon.

Gonna be a while, with my Super Fast ADSL line, it takes 1 hour per file.
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