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Galaxy S5 Lollipop Landed at Verizon

February 3, 2015

If you are a Verizon Wireless customer in the United States and have a Galaxy S5, the Android Lollipop update is being pushed as you read. BRG reported the availability of the update and I can confirm that it really is available for download. There are actually two required downloads. The first download preps your S5 for the eventual Android Lollipop 5.0 upgrade. Users can wait until they are notified of the over the air (OTA) update or you can force the update as I did. Perhaps I’m a little impatient, but there’s been a lot of hype over Lollipop and I wanted to see what all the fuss is about.

The first download update took about 8 minutes to download, install and reboot the phone. Not too bad as far as updates go. The second download and update installation took a bit longer. It was almost 20 minutes just to download and verify the update. If you have never done an Android update, the system runs through and optimizes all your apps as part of the process. If you have a bunch of apps and not just the ones Verizon loads for you, it could take some time cranking through them all. Total time to download and update was around 35 minutes. By my rough calculations, it looks like the OS update used about 0.9 GB more memory than the previous KitKat 4.4.4 that the Galaxy was running.

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