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Verizon Note 4 Lollipop Update

I too am on the Verizon network and I'm awaiting the ota arrival of lollipop. I goggle every other day for more info concerning official release dates, but fine nothing. Verizon is extremely hush hush. I successfully received the lollipop 5.0.2 update on my tab s 10.5 and I love it. It's a WiFi edition, but the lollipop experience is so cool.
 
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I am not updating to Lollipop since my N4 has very good signal reception, great battery life and performance and have no desire to rock this good boat. Not to mention lose at least 15% of storage space and some older app compatibility due to ART file system.

Have about 900mb free internal storage, so that should keep the update from force downloading to my device and wasting over 1GB of storage for an update I will not bother with.

Considering the Note 4 has two entire hours more battery life than the S6, no Lollipop for me to risk that :)
 
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If there's anything I've learned about myself....I have no patience. :)
Come on. BIG RED!!!


Might want to be careful what you ask for ;) I see no point in updating a device that already IMO truly works great. Lollipop can result in less battery life and will result in a loss of storage space (about 3GB). Not to mention if they messed with the radio firmware to a similar fate as the Note 3. Just say no :)

Since the known here is the Note 4 already works great, why bother with a very big unknown and update? Makes no sense to me.
 
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I agree. It's not like the n4 is running stock android and we're missing out on all of the enhancements a nexus device would receive, and we certainly won't get a timely update with bug fixes like a nexus device would if it seriously borks anything.

I'm more than willing to hold off ruining a perfectly good phone in exchange for a few visual and performance tweaks.
 
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I've only had lollipop for a few hours, but as of now, I've had no change in reception. ...at my house anyway. Haven't gone out much, but I'm at the same dbm as I was prior to update.
Can't really talk about battery fairly yet, because it's only been a few hours, but so far I've lost 13% in almost 5 hours. But again, I haven't been using my phone yet, since I was busy. I'll give it the attention it needs now.
 
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Being downloaded now.....will report on any significant observations.


Initial Lollipop impressions: favorable, but not perfect. The cons were that the update brought in two games, Cookie Jam and Candy Pop, plus Uber and RTUI Coupons. I'm positive I didn't have those before the update, but they were easily uninstalled.

The pros include the fact that I swear the phone runs faster, my battery life is good, and I like the changed screens/colors exhibited for messaging, phone screen and contacts. My notifications are a little more detailed and some functions are a little different but are intuitive.

Will share more impressions with more seat time behind this update.
 
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Anyone know how to customize the notifications that are shown on your lock screen? I was hoping for notifications alone (think incoming messages), not everything that is typically in my notification shade as I use Widgetsoid and between that and a weather card and the tab that shows my Motorola 360 is tethered there's A LOT going on with my lock screen. Thanks in advance.
 
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I've had the update for a couple of days now. Aside from the obvious Lollipop changes I see no difference. Battery life doesn't appear to have been changed (for better or for worse), all of my settings remain the way that I had them, all of the apps that I use still behave the same. The phone seemed a little laggy for the first few hours after it was installed, but that cleared up and it's working at normal speeds now.
I expected to have to do a factory reset after a major update like this, but so far I don't see any reason too.
 
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