S5 slow to react

[Sheephelmet]

I feel like this is a case of "ding ding, seconds out, round 2" but recently my S5 and also my wife's S5 have stopped doing anything at all with any haste. A once sparkling and lightning fast phone became a piece of plastic and glass with no more intelligence than a traffic warden's hat when this lollipop crap came out. 6 months of uselessness followed be free we finally got a patch which improved things a little but did not get back to the glittering performance the S5 had before lollipop. Now here I am 2 months ish down the line from this patch and the phone is now worse than ever, remember at this point that the phone is less than a year old still, and quite honestly I am wondering why I am paying such a large amount per month for what amounts to a paperweight. I notice that Vodafone does not comment on firmware updates, and have been as per usual tightlipped about 5.1.1 which is rolling out to the rest of the world and UK providers as we speak, but yet if a duff S5 is on Vodafone, you are still on 5.0. So what is it exactly that my phone is not not doing now you may ask for clarity. Well, it won't respond to swipe until I have swiped at least 4 times, it won't respond to touch to open an app until it has gone off and made a coffee and come back with the morning paper under its arm, it won't open the Google search function for 10 seconds after it is touched and when it does fin ally open, I can't actually type in the search box because the keyboard is unresponsive. It does not close ANY background app at all now, each one I open keeps running when I have finished and closed it, so I have to keep manually closing them before I can open any more apps as if I don't, I run out of RAM. I have done yet another app cache flush and rather irritatingly, another factory reset and yet nothing changes, the phone is utter tripe. I must have factory reset this thing 20 times in the 10 months I have had it which frankly is a big joke, although I hasten to add that in the first 3 months I had the phone, when it was running kitkat, I had to factory reset it precisely zero times! This is ridiculous and needs to be sorted out right now, we loyal and depressed S5 owners deserve the device we are paying you for Vodafone, to do what it is and was advertised to do, I. E. Be a smartphone. Oh, I forgot to mention, this phone and my wife's one too, fail to send or receive text messages when it has had a bad day and just wants to put it's feet up and knock back a beer, so it effectively fails even being a phone let alone a smart one.

[jeffkinn]

The S5 will get you around £115 which is a long way short of the price of an S6

[Sheephelmet]

I almost contemplated moving to iPhone just then for the first time, but then I had a reality check and laughed off the idea

[BandOfBrothers]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
I almost contemplated moving to iPhone just then for the first time, but then I had a reality check and laughed off the idea

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Rofl - Cheeky 😉

Although I submit if we all liked the same it would rapidly become a stale sector. 

Regarding selling i woukd always advocate selling to family , friends or colleagues. Unfortunately returns on selling phones to recycling centres or HighStreet shops do not accomplish their true worth IMO. 

[Sheephelmet]

I am used to android and I have tried a friends iPhone and I couldn't get on with it, but that's not to say they aren't good phones, they just aren't for me.

[jeffkinn]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
I am used to android and I have tried a friends iPhone and I couldn't get on with it, but that's not to say they aren't good phones, they just aren't for me.

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Having used both extensively I can tell you there isn't much difference - very little in fact. 

[Sheephelmet]

That's pretty much what I have just found as well jeffkinn. Cheapest S6 I can find quickly is over 3 times that amount and I won't be paying hundreds of pounds to replace a phone that was perfect until it contracted the disease known as lollipop.

[jeffkinn]

Roll back to KitKat - there will lots of information in the net about how to do that.

[Sheephelmet]

I thought there was an issue with Knox when rolling back? Doesn't odin activate the know counter and invalidate the warranty?

[jeffkinn]

A good question - I don't know as I've been on iOS for the last year having spent 3 happy years in the Android family.

@thesoupdragon can you help here with some advice?

[Sheephelmet]

But, and I mean no offence to those poor folk who have been assimilated by Apple, aren't iPhones for fashion victims and sheep lol