I want to start a discussion about issues I have encountered since my Samsung Galaxy S5 was upgraded to Lollipop Ver 5.0
1. Horrible battery life. Seems to do OK if phone is not used but if you start using it battery drops rapidly. I am a moderate user who could make it through a normal day with 50% left. I could not make it the day without charging at least once now.
2. Phone runs hot. Receive "Cooling Down" notification. Never had this issue before. The phone does feel quite warm when this happens.
3. Phone seems to freeze up intermittently for a few seconds. Never had this problem before update.
4. When I select an item such as an email, text, or hangout notification seems I have to do the swipe and select 2 times before it opens the message. Not an issue before the update.
5. Receiving message "Unfortunately contacts has stopped working" This seems to be mostly an annoyance as I have not had issues related to contacts. I have tried the suggested fix of clearing contacts cache which has not worked. Only seems to lessen the frequency of the error.
6. Also noticed some strangeness with Bluetooth connections dropping then re connecting.
I did do a factory wipe shortly after the update because the phone was unusable. It is better but far from where it was under KitKat. The problems above are still happening after the wipe.
I did speak to a Verizon rep and for the first time ever when I called about phone issues they informed me they had the same phone and were experiencing the same issues I was. This was a pleasant change from "We have not had any reported issues like that."
I know we are at the mercy of Google and Samsung for an update but I hope an update that addresses these issues arrives soon.
