Sticky battery loss error, Android Lollipop postponed release date

After feedback regarding Nexus battery drain running Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google has decided to drop the release date of the new version of this mobile platform.

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According to reports from developers, the Android 5.0 Lollipop version has made their Nexus 5 smartphone extremely battery-hungry when using Wi-Fi.

As described, system processes called " Miscellaneous " consume a lot of energy. Even on some machines, this process accounts for 70% of the total battery consumption.

In addition, some reports also said, Android 5.0 Lollipop calculates and reports the wrong amount of actual energy consumption of the system. This makes some processes account for more than 80%, even reaching 100% of total energy consumption.

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Miscellaneous process consumes a lot of battery on Nexus 5

Android engineers at Google confirmed this error and then had a way to overcome this phenomenon at the Android Developer Preview discussion page.

However, Google had to move the official update date Android 5.0 through OTA until November 12, 2014, 9 days later than previously expected on November 3, 2014.

As planned, first Android 5.0 Lollipop will be updated for the Nexus series. Then, smartphones and tablets of Samsung, HTC, LG . will be allowed to upgrade in the near future.