Wow, Lollipop 5.1/5.0 has been the worst experience by FAR.

[Bman123]

She uses Verizon and I use t mobile. I may try to get her to the store and see if she likes the moto x pure edition. I had one for 2weeks and it was a good phone but I liked the nexus 6 better. I traded my moto x for a new nexus 6 and $125 cash

 

[lopri]

Oh well. That changes the calculus quite a bit. Heh. Then it's the 5X or Moto X. If you liked the original Nexus 5 then you will like the 5X. I cannot speak for the 6 because I have not dealt with one seriously.

 

[lopri]

Is the 6P too big for her? The 5X is not exactly a one-handed device, either.

 

[Bman123]

The 6p is too big for sure, she's 4ft 10 lol. So more then likely the moto x will be too big also.

 

[sweenish]

Height has nothing to do with it.

It's just how the person feels about the size of the device.

 

[JimmiG]

5.1 doesn't fix the mobile radio drain bug so in my book while 5.1 fixes a lot of issues, its still a meh overall experience.

I finally had to upgrade my OPO to Lolliflop. The Google Play Services battery drain fix I was using in 4.4.4 suddenly stopped working (Google Play Services started crashing every 10 seconds) and I didn't want to mess around with finding another fix.

So I installed the latest official 5.1.1 release. I managed to get decent batery life by rooting, installing Xposed, the Deep Sleep battery fix and the Mobile Radio bug fix. The only drawback now is that I only get notifications once an hour, but at least battery life is similar to 4.4.4 with the Play Services fix.

It's ridiculous that you have to hack the OS to fix these kinds of bugs (both in KitKat and Lollipop). I really hope Android M has fixed these ridiculous battery drain bugs, otherwise I'm moving to another mobile OS for my next phone. It seems Google doesn't take battery life and memory leak issues seriously at all.

 

[lopri]

It's ridiculous that you have to hack the OS to fix these kinds of bugs (both in KitKat and Lollipop). I really hope Android M has fixed these ridiculous battery drain bugs, otherwise I'm moving to another mobile OS for my next phone. It seems Google doesn't take battery life and memory leak issues seriously at all.

They do take it seriously.

http://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby.html

Starting from Android 6.0 (API level 23), Android introduces two power-saving features that extend battery life for users by managing how apps behave when a device is not connected to a power source. Doze reduces battery consumption by deferring background CPU and network activity for apps when the device is unused for long periods of time. App Standby defers background network activity for apps with which the user has not recently interacted.