Lollipop Android 5.0 is the first really major update of Android in years, with exterior changes, but also many changes under the hood of the operating system. Through all the changes, there are also problems crept Lollipop, which are partially solved with Android 5.1, but not quite.
Memory leak fixed, new memory leak?
Android 5.0 Lollipop was plagued by a large memory leak. Such leakage ensures that the system memory is allocated to an app, but that is not releasing the memory. Because this is going to pile up, there is ultimately no more memory available for other apps. Apps that locked automatically run in the background then, allowing the use of a device a piece slows down.
In late December Google indicated that the memory leak was fixed and that the fix would be incorporated into a next Android -release. This release turned out Android 5.1, which is also released under the name Lollipop. This relatively minor update brings some new features, such as built-in support for dual-sim. Other changes you can read in our Android 5.1 Overview
The first reports on experiences with Android 5.1 are positive. Memory usage seems to many Nexus 5 users indeed a lot better and complaints as the launcher again and again started seem to have largely disappeared due to lack of free memory. However, it seems that the memory problem in Android 5.0 had several causes.
New Solution
The first memory leak had to do with the new transitions that are in Android Lollipop. Since these transitions are also used in system applications, actually had all users affected by it. A new memory leak that has been confirmed by Google, it seems specific to certain apps and does not apply to all users.
The issue tracker where all Android bugs are collected, the example of the game Farm Heroes Saga is called . When the game from the recent apps is removed by sticking a swipebeweging, the system continues memory. When this game then restarts is reallocated memory, allowing the memory fills up slowly. However, the problem is affecting not all apps and games, according to tests by users.
An Android developer at Google shows that the problem is solved internally, but that there still is known for a timeline public release of the fix, which means that it is not yet known when Android 5.1.1 will be released.
Release Android 5.1.1
With the update to Android 5.1 Google seems in any case to have major steps to put the negative associations that the Lollipop name now has for some users to wash away. Perfect is Lollipop still not, as confirmed by much less more significant memory leak. Despite being still for edge cases seems to go, only the mention of such a memory leak all the potential to tarnish the name of Lollipop again.
It is difficult to estimate when Google a new, smaller update Android releases. Based on the past that may be within a few days, weeks or even months.
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