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Not really a fan of it. My Nexus 4 updated to it and is really buggy. Sometimes I'll go back to the home screen and there are no icons until I swipe away and back. Wish I could just turn off all the new gratuitous animations since they are broken and buggy anyway and they slow down using the thing.

Triangle instead of home seems really obscure and bizarre to me too. I don't even remember what that circle thing is supposed to be any more. Wish they would stick to meaningful icons. I'm glad some graphics designer at Google probably got a promotion for screwing up the OS and changing everything, but hopefully the next graphics designer gets a promotion for fixing it.

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Triangle is back, circle is home, square is list/switch apps. They're in the same places and have the same functionality as Android 4.x.

Triangle is "back", actually; the circle is "home". And the square thing is the app switcher history thingie. More evidence, I suppose, that the new icons aren't very intuitive.

On the other hand, floppy disks haven't been used for anything for a couple of decades now but they're pretty universally understandable as save icons. Most of our icon vocabulary has meanings that we learn by rote memorization more than inferrence from their pictographic representations. I'm not sure that the difference between a "good" and a "bad" icon (as long as they're used consistently) really matters that much beyond first-use experience.

You can turn the animations off in Lollipop...

"...if you are not fond of the animations, you can either turn them off completely or increase their speed. To do this, you will first have to enable Developer options by going into Settings -> About Phone and tapping on Build number 7 times. Then jump into Developer options from the Settings menu and change the Window animation, Transition animation and Animator duration scale to Off, or .5x to increase its speed."

http://www.androidbeat.com/2014/11/top-10-android-5-lollipop...

I'd recommend moving back to CM11. That's what I did when 4.4.0 broke a tonne of stuff on my N4.

I've been getting two issues more and more recently running CM11 M12 on my m7vzw:

- random reboots - lack of signal (while the icon in the notification bar shows connection)

I've been considering moving to CM12 when M1 is released, or perhaps trying out OmniRom.

Now I'm starting to think that maybe just wiping and starting with a fresh CM11 M12 could be the better option...

Thoughts?

Can't really comment. I tried to update CM11 nightly and accidentally flashed CM12 (they moved CM12 to nightly a few days ago). Seems tolerable but doesn't feel like Cyano yet.

I saw some of those bugs before the first maintenance release. It seems to have solved them on my Nexus 5.

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