Lollipop on the S5

Last week I got the "Over The Air" update to Android 5.0 on my Samsung Galaxy S5.

A download of 924 MB (rounded down). 3 GB of storage necessary to install.

I had to uninstall Goat Simulator to upgrade the OS, and then spent half an hour disabling apps I had disabled in KitKat before the upgrade. To summarise: the OS upgrade was a pain in the goat horns.

The good thing is that I am enjoying Lollipop on the S5, mostly because I am runnning the Google Launcher and using all Google apps.

Jelly Bean on the Huawei G300

I've had a Huawei G300 since May 2012. I've recommended the handset to friends and family because it is excellent value for money and has a pretty good spec sheet. Since mid December 2012 I have been using Dazzozo's excellent CyanogenMod 10 port as the operating system on the device. While not perfect, it has been good enough to use the G300 as my Ingress device (yes, a device just for Ingress).

This morning I installed the January 14th update for CM10 by Dazzozo and was surprised by how much smoother and more responsive the G300 now is. In just one month there seems to have been a massive improvement. The MoDaCo community has come up with a masterpiece again.

If you have a Huawei G300 and want to take Jelly Bean for a spin, I recommend using this ROM. Thanks to Dazzozo and everyone involved in the development of this CyanogenMod ROM. Check it out here.