Ive owned the Nexus 4 for about two years now and have enjoyed it as my first smartphone experience. The new android OSs have generally had good improvements. However I am displeased with lolipop.
I use my phone for work and liked keeping my exchange email separate from my gmail accounts. Now that gmail manages all of them i had to find a new email app and get that working, not a huge deal, but a few hours i didn't have. I now use Nine for my work emails.
Second and more importantly, lolipop broke the DS Battery Saver app. The battery life on the Nexus 4 wasn't great to begin with without the DSBS app. But with the app it was greatly improved. The forced sleep feature at specific intervals was great. I didn't need to receive notifications for everything real time. With the lolipop update my phone goes from 100% charged when i get to the office in the morning and hits 50% at lunch time with my phone sitting unused on my desk for 4-5 hours. I dont need the phone telling me i received a work email when outlook does that for me on my laptop. Before on kitkat my phone would lose about 15-20% sitting unused on my desk at work over an 8-10hr day, now it wont even make it that far on a full charge.
So my novice conclusion is to factory reset the phone and install the last version of kitkat, root the phone for DSBS works with 5.0.1, or find a new app that works with the lolipop changes and does what DSBS did pre lolipop.
Ive never rooted a phone or downgraded the OS, I am tech savy on computers but when it comes to phones I just want it to work for my needs without tinkering for hours or days every time a new OS comes around.
What is the best option for my needs? Is there anything I am over looking that might be simpler? If I root now at 5.0.1, do i not receive new updates or need to do something to get new updates every time there is one?
TIA.
