Which is better, 4.4.4 KitKat or Lollipop 5.1.1?

[holden j caufield]

Note 4 tmobile wifi calling on Lollipop is very hit or miss, I have to turn it off/on constantly. Laggier imo but I don't have the time to downgrade it put all my stuff back on it.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

That is the memory leak problem. The solution is to reboot the phone every couple of days.

5.1.1 still has memory leak?

Personally I feel that Kit Kat is better for those who want a stable experience. It might not be 60 fps buttery smooth compared to L, but it does everything and does everything well.

 

[poofyhairguy]

5.1.1 still has memory leak?

The problem was fixed in March but marked for a future release:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=159738

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Curious if it made it to AOSP code because then the other ROMs should've pushed it then. Part of me thinks no because I'm personally seeing leaks in CM still.

 

[lopri]

I have been on 4.4.4. I am horrified by all those battery usage screenshots where some mix of "Cell Standby," "Android System," "Android OS," "Phone Idle," "Google Services," or "Google Services Framework" tops the chart by massive margins. Thank you but no thank you, Google.

 

[shabby]

I have been on 4.4.4. I am horrified by all those battery usage screenshots where some mix of "Cell Standby," "Android System," "Android OS," "Phone Idle," "Google Services," or "Google Services Framework" tops the chart by massive margins. Thank you but no thank you, Google.

Those are just charts, my battery life is still better on lollipop.

 

[holden j caufield]

Fastest way to downgrade a rooted 5.0.1 Lollipop Tmobile Note 4 to rooted 4.4.4

 

[bigboxes]

I really like Lollipop. Just laggy as hell. I miss KitKat. Had my Note 3 rooted just the way I liked it. GPS started acting flaky and I unrooted and then updated. Now, the GPS worked for a bit then started doing the same crap all over again. Now, I'm having problems with all sorts of stuff. Very frustrating.

Anyone have the Nexus 6 and how do you like it?

 

[GTRagnarok]

There are very good impressions of Note 4 5.1.1 roms on XDA, which is a far cry from earlier versions of Lollipop. I've said I was going to stick with KK based on horror stories of the earlier LP builds, but I'm not so sure anymore. KK has been incredibly stable but the slow app switcher is annoying.

 

[magomago]

Nothing can be done about S5 terribad performance on lollipop. I experienced the same thing even on a factory reset after wiping everything I could.

4.4.4 Kitkat is much better, especially battery life - I went for a Custom rom and I picked Alliance 4.4.4. You can still get the Google Launcher (which is what I use). Amazingly enough it has more lag than the TouchWhiz interface, but its far faster than Lollipop.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

I think that there is more than just a memory leak issue? I was just typing out an email when it became lag city. Huge amounts of keyboard lag. Switching apps took forever. I went to go see what my available RAM was but it was still pretty high. After a little bit the responsiveness went back to normal all on its own and there was no lag. I didn't close any programs during this time. If anything, I opened up new ones.

Soooo... this seems to me like a background app issue taking up too much CPU. Any way to check and see which processes are hogging resources?

 

[WelshBloke]

Out of curiosity how full is your device storage? (not the SDcard)

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Out of curiosity how full is your device storage? (not the SDcard)

I've got like 3.5GB free on the main storage.

 

[gmaster456]

Performance was better with 4.4.4 and it was rock solid stable. 5.0 and 5.1 could use some more polish and it uses more RAM but other than that, I prefer most of the improvements in Lolipop even though there's a few I could do without.

 

[GoodEnough]

I'm running 5.0.2 (Lollipop) on my LG G2 and it works great.
Is that the latest version for G2 ?

 

[JimmiG]

Upgraded to Lollipop on my OnePlus One, then downgraded to KitKat again. It's slightly faster, battery life is much better and there are fewer annoying glitches and bugs.

Lollipop is the Windows ME of Android, and I'll skip it completely.

 

[s44]

Most days I do ok on 5.1.1.

But once in a while, the mobile radio active bug strikes, and my batter craters in record time. Fortunately I can swap, or reboot if I see it happening.

 

[Misterfungi90]

I use i9505 galaxy s4 and LP 5.0 was slow in my opinion I paid a shop to odin my phone back to Kitkat 4.4.2 then migrated to custom 4.4.4 which is the final kitkat version it should of had officially done instead of LP and it is faster than LP by a long shot

 

[Misterfungi90]

Overall I like LP better but there's just so many bugs. I've been fortunate that I don't run into most of them (particularly the nasty mobile radio one) but it's pretty bad.

Cm12.1 LP was good but official is slower than KK

 

[MarkHenery]

I have used K.k and lolipop both as per my experience 5.0 is quite buggy and as kitkat was super light OS of android its able to run on phone having ram like 512 mb as well so if you are looking for better performance then go with k.k and if you are looking for more interesting features then you can go with 5.0