12-10-2014, 07:24 AM | #46 |
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I have not encountered any problems with any of the apps I use in Lollipop. It does seem a little faster.
Some of the simple games I play are still sluggish when compared to the same games played on my Fire HD 6. |
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Finally got the update.
All seems okay so far. Not a fan of the new look, but I'm sure it's just a matter of getting used to it. |
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For those don't like the look, what is it that you don't like? The home screen, app drawer, etc.
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Next in line is the garish colors of the various Google apps: red GMail, blue Contacts (not to mention the giant-ass images on a contact's "Card" that I can't find a way to turn off), the green Playstore and the cartoonish backgrounds/headings on the Calendar and Google Now). Luckily, I rarely open those apps and mostly rely on widgets to display their relevant info on my home page, but still... they're just a little too "gumball machine" for my tastes when I do use them. But it's not a deal-breaker for me. I don't spend long hours gazing at the various portions of the OS or anything. I'm mostly in and out of a few apps that have tastefully subdued (or at least configurable) color-schemes. Last edited by DiapDealer; 12-10-2014 at 05:09 PM. |
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12-10-2014, 05:24 PM | #50 |
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My son's been experimenting with the Nexus 7 tablet to see if he would want something similar for Christmas. Yesterday evening he says to me "the tablet wanted to update something, I said yes", and really wasn't paying attention. When I woke it up this afternoon I remembered the conversation, otherwise I might've thought it updated automagically.
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I got the update a couple of hours ago. It's OK, but I use Nova launcher so I'm probably insulated from some of the effects. By the way, I've always used Firefox, but it's unusable under 5.0.1 - crashes constantly. |
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Settings->Language & input->Google Keyboard->Appearance & layouts->Theme
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When you go into settings, things are arranged quite differently. The keyboard is my main issue, so I am going to try another theme as DiapDealer has given instructions for. I'm sure by next week I'll have forgotten what stuff used to look like and all will be fine. |
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Update: force closing, restarting and clearing the cache for Firefox seems to have solved the crashing issue.
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Okay, I changed it to Halo White and now the spellcheck words are white. Keyboard is still white letters on a grey keys as in the picture. Last edited by library addict; 12-10-2014 at 06:13 PM. Reason: addition |
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I really do a notice a big performance/responsiveness increase. The battery might be draining a little faster, but that could just as easily be attributed to the fact that I'm playing with it a ton while I figure everything out. |
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For some reason, both Google People (i.e. contacts) and Quick Office have disappeared. There are icons on the home screen for them, but it says "App not installed" when I try to open them.
Anybody else having this issue? And where is Google People to install? ETA: Found the contacts (called "Contacts"). Last edited by Bilbo1967; 12-10-2014 at 07:16 PM. |
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