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S4 - Lollipop - Issues

Muilisx

Android Expert
Jan 7, 2011
1,134
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Long Island, NY
First of all I don't understand why or how they release an update without testing it on their own devices first. Lollipop is already nothing but issues. If I lock my phone, I usually hit the home button or the power button to unlock it but when I hit either nothing happens. It then locks up and reboots. Super super annoying. When the phone wants to unlock properly it's nothing but lag. I've already tried going into recovery and clearing the cache which did not help.

I just backed up my phone with Kies, and I'm doing a factory reset. However, again, we should not have to do all of this. They should be testing the update before release no matter how you slice the pie. My phone is now reset and I'm restoring my backup. It's just a little silly that they release something that has issues. There are thousands of people having these same issues and that's unacceptable. I KNEW when I saw I had an OTA update available not to do it. I even said to myself these updates are always broken, and sure enough....broken.

I'll let you guys know if a factory reset helped.
 

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