Although it is assumed that when a new version of an operating system is released, especially when it is an update of the current version and without major changes, the performance of the phone should improve and the main bugs and errors that exist should be solved, this in the Practice is not always like this, and sometimes, uploading to the next version can bring more problems than solutions. And precisely with one of the newest, the Android 5.0.1 Lollipop and in a specific terminal, the Nexus 4, It seems to be what is happening, at least judging by the many criticisms received on the web and by the hundreds of comments exposing what is happening with the phone in the different official and unofficial forums and channels.
Although there are minor bugs reported by some users, the vast majority have a unique complaint that causes serious inconvenience to continue using the Nexus 4 regularly when upgrading to Android Lollipop 5.0.1. If you take a look at the official Android Issue Tracker site, where users can report the problems they have with the terminals, you will see the large number of open questions and doubts about the audio of the calls. And it turns out that when it is updated to the latest version available, it disappears as if by magic. It is really annoying, because when you call, or receive a call, you cannot even hear what is being said on the other side, nor can they hear you. In other words, the sound is automatically and completely deactivated.
The truth is that the first of the public denunciations of the error that occurred with said version of the Android 5.0.1 Lollipop operating system on the Nexus 4 It was done on December 18. Although it is true that over the days there have been more to exceed 300 in the official forum, it is no less true that for now Google has not given any official information, and taking into account that it is one of the terminals of the brand itself that they also assured would update, is how much less criticized the attitude, since the first information has been on its official page for fifteen days and they will have already seen it. At the very least, calm users down and report that a solution is being worked on.
Solutions without solution
While that happens, and Google solves this serious problem in the Nexus 4 updated to Android 5.0.1 Lollipop the only thing you can do is not install the update if you haven't already done so. Go back with a complex process not suitable for all users, or try to restart the phone. Some of those who suffer from this bug in the Nexus 4 claim that when restarting everything returns to normal for a while, although with the passage of this, users may see that their calls suffer it again, having to restart again in a home remedy. But for now, and with Google in an afterlife silence difficult to justify, it is the only thing we have left.
Are you suffering from this problem in your Nexus 4 rolling with Android 5.0.1 Lollipop? Have you done something to fix it? What do you think of Google's attitude in this regard, in which we find no solution or statements that indicate that the problem is being worked on or a solution at least temporary for those who suffer from it?
Problems:
1 and serious: when it has more than two notifications, the screen is blocked and the screen remains black, which is fixed by resetting. It appears a failure of the RAM management.
2 WiFi + bluettoth takes one of the two out of the equation when it takes a long time to screw up streaming.
3 chuminada: the controls sometimes respond as they please and other times they pass from you… The phone has become very "intelligent" in that case… .. It is even Spanish ha ha ha.
4 coazo: now they call me or I call and the phone DISAPPEARS but I'm on a call… .. I have to open the notification that comes out to be on call.
5 at the TIME of turning on and operating the phone, it asks for the pin code… .. It seems a bit insecure.
Luckily and touching wood, nothing else. Chuminaillas ticapelotas but nothing else.
Hi Antonio, how did you solve the caozo thing? I have not been able to do it, I appreciate your help if you solved it
Joer that same thing happens to my nexus 4 since I updated it to 5.0.1 that has happened to me, I thought that the microphone and the speaker had broken since when I put some headphones on the jack plug with microphone if it works perfectly tomorrow I was going to call the nexus phone to see how I could do it to solve the fault due to the warranty of the phone because they call me and I have to put on the MV helmets to talk and a phone that costs € 349, it is not normal for that to fail
Hello, the same thing happened to my wife's phone, they called her and nothing was heard I thought it was that I had dropped it I tried with a voip app and it worked the perfect audio there I realized that it was not the microphones I did the factory reset and until now it works perfect these last 5 days.
Problem:
I have a nexus 4 and the android 5.0.1 Lollipop update has not yet arrived. Will you be able to solve it please, I ask you kindly!
I have it updated and I have not had any problems. I make and receive many calls throughout the day and there have been no problems 🙂
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My nexus 4 does not crash, calls are not heard well, ok google on locked screen it worked for a day and it no longer works and it is restarting on its own, someone help me or google make official lollipop 5.0.2 thanks
Good, I manually updated the factory image and ami those cases that mention have not happened to me better to install the factory rom manually, not to update via ota, to make a backup before the process
At my step that one day…. people called me and I could not talk to anyone not hear anything ... ... the battery ran out and I turned it off .... the next day it was working for me… .. I hope it doesn't happen to me again.
Where I have more problems in the Crome it comes out many times and I have to start the application again.
Also at first the battery didn't last me at all…. that has happened to me in all updates ……
What happens to me is with the screen lock that when I try to unlock it stays halfway, only the wallpaper appears, the touch buttons do not appear and the only option is to restart the phone. It seems to be a bad distribution of the RAM
Among all the failures that it is giving me after the update and the increase in size (and price) that the Nexus 6 has suffered, I can already say that my next mobile (and tablet) will not be Nexus.
"Congratulations" Google, you have embroidered it. You have cast a client who has been loyal to you for a long time. And from what I know I'm not the only one with the same intentions.
I confirm the problems of lack of audio in the calls, that the commands that are capriciously self-executing, that it turns off, etc .: Painful.
In my case, I can't install 5.0.1, it is downloaded via wifi and when the installation is turned off and starts, it always gives an error. Can anybody help me?
I had the same problem and it drove me crazy, I didn't know why it was. The truth is that since I installed the update the phone has a thousand failures. Now, something worse has happened to me. The notification bar above does not go down. I have to access the notifications by locking the phone and with the double click from the locked screen, they open for me. I have turned it off and on, since most of the time the errors it has are solved momentarily like this, but nothing. I have it blocked for two days, there is no way, it does not go down. I don't know if this has happened to someone else.
Hello Laura, you managed to solve the problem of the notification bar that does not lower you since yesterday I was presented with the same problem suddenly and I do not know how to solve it, I already restored it from the factory and still nothing
Today I updated my nexus 4. I had the factory kitkat 4.4.4 installed when I bought it. I received the OTA of 5.01 directly. Today I downloaded it, it was installed and it works perfectly. The truth is I am delighted with OTA 5.01. Everything works ... wifi, radios, bluethoot, gps, everything, the only application that was updated after the first start was facebook and google play services ... .. everything else perfect. the only recommendation that comes up is that we install 5.01 directly without going through 5.0. on the other hand, it is advisable to have all google applications up to date, before starting the update.
I regret that there are still users with nexus 4 who have problems …… I cannot say the same for now. Luck!
I have solved it by restoring to factory values ...
Since I have updated my device I have lost part of the touch, 1/4 of the screen does not respond, I have formatted the cel to factory values without a solution, I have also performed a hard reset and nothing. Do you know how I can go back in android versions? It is the only thing that I need to try. It is a great cell phone and is in perfect condition, I would be very against nexus if I could not solve it. from what I understand it is a software problem and not a hardware problem. any help is welcome. regards!
Hello to me it worked more or less, I will list the problems
1- At the moment the TLF was turned off and to turn it on God and his help (I have to fight with the power button to turn it on again).
2- The videos, especially in the Facebook application, could not play them, the audio was playing but the video stopped.
3- Since yesterday the touch screen remains stuck many times it does not respond, the phone becomes slow and when trying to eliminate any application or if I get a pop-up menu, the phone does not do anything, the only option is to turn off.
4- When trying to go back to android 4.4.4 or trying to change with any factory image either 5.0 or 5.0.1 it gives an error: archive does not contain 'boot.sig
archive doesn't contain 'recovery.sig'
I think my nexus has gone through the worst case, in 5.0 it was not so much the problems that happened but ... when I was updated to 5.0.1 it was what was necessary for the death of my cell phone, at first it was fine, but then it happened It began to restart until it did not turn on again, investigating a little, I saw that if I connected it to the outlet, a red led would light intermittently, and investigating my case when disconnecting the battery and connecting it again is a way to restart the softwer complete, however; I still had the same problem and it was so serious that it no longer predicted or anything or even let me enter bootloader mode, I had to remove the battery again and thus enter bootloader to flash it and install the kitkat rom, for now I recommend to the users who stay in kitkat until they know that the problem is solved.
The same thing happens to me 🙁 when they call me sometimes he did not listen or when I call ... And sometimes also when they call me at the end of the call the cell goes black and I have to restart it, it makes me angry now it is restarting me solooo
A pity, I also lose audio sometimes and touch restart, the worst thing is that sometimes it turns off and cannot be turned on, and I change it for another nexus4 and the same thing happens.
If it stays off and does not do anything, or charge or anything: Press power and volume down and hold it for 10 seconds, the red notification turns on. Then you let go, and you try to light up as usual.
... and it has been months to update it to 5.0.2, the sonys already receiving it and the nexus4 abandoned in a version with bugs.
I thought I was the only one. I am totally desperate and the only thing that makes me want is to smash the phone on the ground. In my case, it loses all coverage, loses the internet, the screen sensor stops working so I can't hang up the call, sporadic eternal reboots, lost wallpaper and a very long etc. But come on, I have a cell phone and as if I have a brick, when I feel like it it stops working. I have even been about to buy another terminal. Anyway, as always we screwed up are the consumers.
Ami the videos no longer suit me, the audio goes faster than the video and I don't know what to do I go crazy I can't watch videos quietly. The Led light I do not know what happens to him that with the blocked mobile it does not work until I unlock it and see if I have a message, I do not find out. I have a s4 that was going perfectly, thanks, man
I have a second generation moto g with android 5.0.2 lollipop and I have the same problem that when making a call I do not hear anything, the audio dies but the call continues and they answer me and I do not hear anything and when restarting it works normal everything is heard well and after a while it comes back with the problem again and it is already annoying to be restarting the phone to make a call and trying a hard reset and nothing remains the same I hope and solve this quickly
Hi, I didn't even ask for it to be updated, it turned off by itself and started the update, however when it goes about halfway through the cell phone is turned off I have not been able to use it all day today .. how do I need help ... there is all the information about my work and I could not even turn it on to be able for that update
My nexus phone was blocked I can't make calls or receive how do I solve this
regards
And where is the consumer association, everyone goes through the lining, we are talking about terminals that cost a lot and neither the consumer association nor anyone else cares about the mistakes of others, the Samsung s4 also have problems with the new lollipop update big brands that suck.
The best thing is to manually go back to an android version. I brought two nexus 4 with the update to broken lollipop ... I almost ended up throwing both of them away until I discovered that the blessed update to lollipop was the evil of everything
Hello, my problem is that my nexus 4 restarted by itself and does not enter the menu. It just keeps restarting. They tell me to format it and lose everything. I don't want to lose WhatsApp conversations. What else can I do? If someone can help me get them back. Thanks
a simple reboot and it was fixed, nothing serious at the moment.
I have a nexus 4 and the same I make calls and the black screen remains that blowjob
hello I have a nexus 4 after google released the update, my nexus 4 became crappy, not silve at all, it freezes, you can't see the calls and anything like that… .waooo Google ate it….