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]

To be honest that's a really daft thing for anyone to say

The iPhone is and always has been the leading smartphone  - it's the smartphone everyone else wants to be. It's the market leader for a reason - beautifully designed and software that works very well indeed.

If we think of re-sale values, my 6 plus, which probably had a similar retail price to your S5, has a re-sale value in excess of £400.

[BandOfBrothers]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
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

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Ha ha.

I just like the way they work and integrate across my different pieces of hardware from the iPhone to iPad Air to MacBook Air.

And the way  don't allow the Networks to get that involved with iOS and its release to its hardware. 

[Sheephelmet]

I am sorry, that was a cheap shot and only meant as a joke

[Sheephelmet]

I know I was trying to make a joke based on this forum and others liking for descending into "my android is better than your iphone", "no it isn't, my iPhone is better than your android" lol

[BandOfBrothers]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
I know I was trying to make a joke based on this forum and others liking for descending into "my android is better than your iphone", "no it isn't, my iPhone is better than your android" lol

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Don't worry. A healthy debate concerning likes and dislikes is fine with me. 

I invite you to watch the  Keynote on the 9th of September and see what you think about the new hardware being released and iOS 9 which quite frankly looks amazing going by the Beta threads I've been following. 

[jeffkinn]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
I know I was trying to make a joke based on this forum and others liking for descending into "my android is better than your iphone", "no it isn't, my iPhone is better than your android" lol

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I know  - it's a ridiculous discussion. I'd be more than happy to swap back to Android if the right phone came along. I was hoping to get a look at the latest Note from Samsung but they've decided not to sell it in Europe. I like iMessage and Apple Pay but could live without either of them quite easily.

Also I now buy all of my phones sim free if I can - I'd rather stay away from network locked phones and network installed software. One of the advantages of Apple is that they are more powerful than any network.

Also Apple is the only manufacturer making any decent money in the space. Samsung makes a profit, but on a decreasing cycle, and every other manufacturer loses money on smartphones.

[Sheephelmet]

And the way  don't allow the Networks to get that involved with iOS and its release to its hardware.

Now that is a compelling argument.

[BandOfBrothers]

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@Sheephelmet wrote:
And the way  don't allow the Networks to get that involved with iOS and its release to its hardware.

Now that is a compelling argument.

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Most definitely. 

The Networks do have discussions over some of iOS and they have some say over specific features which are introduced / omitted via the Carrier Files. Ie: Introduction / omission of a 3G Toggle. 

But   don't allow the Networks to hold back the iOS Firmware Rollout while they test it themselves etc before rollout. No branding is also a plus point. 

[jeffkinn]

Vodafone was adamant that the lack of a 3G toggle was nothing to do with them.

[Sheephelmet]

But vodafone was also adamant in a previous thread that there was nothing wrong with the firmware, until they finally pushed out the same patch fix everybody else got and the phone was better than post lollipop. Now other carriers are rolling out 5.1.1 but we vodafone customers are still on 5.0 rather than 5.01 or 5.02 or 5.1