The 5.0 release of Android, dubbed llipop, is the biggest thing to happen to Android in years—possibly ever. The design features have been revamped, attention to detail is evident throughout. However, even our beloved is not perfect, that means there are some bugs just plain odd decisions in Android 5.0. t’s check out five of the most annoying little quirks in llipop see how they might be fixed.
The wer Menu
In Android 4.4 earlier, the menu you got when holding the power menu had a few options including toggling airplane mode, ringer modes, of course, turning the device off. Some manufacturers even added reboot comms additional settings. In Android 5.0 has gone backward this menu now only includes “wer Off.”
Seems a little bare.
This isn’t a bug—it’s the way wanted the power menu to work. It’s just terribly inconvenient, though. Some of these functions have been moved to the quick settings or the volume toggle, but that doesn’t mean the power menu has to become a spartan wastel. It’s also pretty bizarre that after all these years has not seen fit to add a simple reboot option in the power menu.
The power menu in llipop would be simple to fix. st put the legacy options back add reboot while you’re at it. This is basically what Nvidia has done with the Shield Tablet llipop update, it’s great.
Invert Colors Toggle
Android 5.0 includes a number of new accessibility features for those who are color blind or vision impaired. One of these is an option to invert all colors on the screen for a hyper-contrasty look. If you don’t think you’ll need this, you should probably leave the settings toggle alone. If you turn it on just once, the option to invert the screen lives in your quick settings panel forever.
It just sits there taking up space.
Okay, it will magically disappear if you don’t touch it for a month or so. It only feels like forever. And nobody wants to go offline change the date on their phone to a month in the future just to make a quick setting disappear. You could just be innocently poking around in the settings, bam. You get an icon in the quick settings that you’ll never use again.
Other settings are added to the quick settings shade after using them once, like the Fi hotspot feature. But that’s actually pretty useful for most people at some point.
Ideally, will add the ability to edit the quick settings toggles. For all the issues with Samsung’s Touchz interface, this is something it has done for years. That’s quite an undertaking, though. st adding a switch to the accessibility screen to get rid of the quick setting would be fine.
Notification Ticker
The notification shade in Android 5.0 is still awesome, but notifications are venturing out of this area for the first time. Heads-up notifications for urgent content like chat messages can pop up over the top of the screen. is apparently so enamored with this system that it completely dropped the notification ticker from Android. You might not immediately know what the notification ticker is, but you’ll sure notice its absence.
This text isn’t shown on llipop.
eviously, new messages would produce an icon scrolling text up in the status bar. The text was the so-called “ticker,” it’s gone now. This was hy because you could get the gist of a message or see who sent that email without interrupting what you were doing. Heads-up notifications do the same, but they cover part of the screen not all apps use them.
It would be nice if could just restore the notification ticker, at least for instances when there’s no heads-up card. It’s not likely, but we can dream.
Interruptions
The new “Interruptions” system in Android 5.0 is powerful, but also powerfully confusing. You can set notifications from any app as “priority”, meaning they’ll be able to ring the phone or tablet in iority mode while others can’t. You can also set contacts as priority so their calls messages can always get through. It’s going to take some adjusting, but iority mode isn’t the biggest issue with Interruptions; it’s the “None” setting which will make you late for work if you’re not careful.
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iority notifications can be configured from the volume popup or in the system settings. It’s a steep learning curve, could explain it better. at’s odder, selecting the None option silences all notifications alarms. I’m not sure what situation you’d ever be in where you want to make sure your pre-set alarm isn’t going off. y is it set in the first place?
To ‘s credit, there is a note in the settings that tells you it will silence alarms. It still doesn’t make sense, though.
one Camera Shortcuts
The new llipop lock screen has notifications built in, which is great. You can see what’s going on, then swipe up to unlock the phone. The problem comes in with the way implemented the phone camera shortcuts on the lock screen. The gestures to activate them aren’t obvious at all.
For a convenience feature, they aren’t very convenient.
You would think you need to swipe these icons to unlock the phone directly to the phone or camera. You actually swipe left or right anywhere on the screen. The lock screen, however, considers any upward motion to be an unlock gesture, even if you’re trying to swipe on the phone or camera icon. Even if you touch the phone or camera icon, start to swipe up just a little, it becomes a screen unlock gesture. This isn’t very natural feeling.
This would be a quick fix—move the buttons inward a few pixels, allow a swipe gesture in any direction started on that icon to trigger the phone/camera.
This is a minor concern, as are most of these annoyances. That just speaks to how good Android 5.0 is. simply don’t have as much to complain about these days.
