If you own a Nexus device and waiting for an OTA update of Google’s all new Android 5.0 Lollipop updated to land in your device, you will have to wait for some more days to experience the new sweetness.
Google, due to some ‘outstanding bugs’, has halted the rollout of Android 5.0 Lollipop firmware till November 12.
According to recent postings on Android Developer Preview site, users of Nexus 5 smartphone started experiencing sudden battery drain after updating their device to Android 5.0 Lollipop. The new section in battery usage screen ‘miscellaneous’ was eating up most of the power from the device. Users reported that the section was showing the battery usage up to 70% resulting in heating up the device beyond expectation.
The issue, without any delay, was posted to the development team which responded saying, “Android Engineering is aware of an issue affecting Nexus 5 users running Android 5.0 which causes significant “Miscellaneous” battery usage while WiFi is enabled. This appears to be caused by an abnormally high number of IRQ wakeup events.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.”
Android 5.0 Lollipop is expected to come with a new feature called ‘battery-saving mode’ that will enhance the battery performance by slowing down the processor and closing background application when your device is on low battery. But the arrival of these kinds of battery related bugs and issues can put Google in trouble.
The battery and Wi-Fi related bug has been fixed on Android 5.0 Lollipop, according to Trevor John, a senior developer programs engineer for Android.
This entire episode must have disappointed the users of Nexus device up to some extent as they will now have to wait for Android 5.0 Lollipop, but at the same time Google’s move of halting the rollout is commendable.
As soon as Google got to know about the bug, it stopped the firmware’s release and preferred to fix the issues before it can be delivered to Android users. Here Google scores one point of Apple, which always land in trouble with its every new firmware’s battery draining issues.
Google knows that “it’s better late than sorry” but Apple prefers to be faster in being sorry.
