Subsequently, Verizon rolled out the Android 5.1 Lollipop on the Motorola Droid Turbo over-the-air beginning on July 1 following the successful soak test of the firmware update made days before.
Even though the Motorola Droid Turbo comes with flagship specifications, the Verizon-issued handsets were running on the Android 4.4.4 KitKat.
The firmware update has leapfrogged Google’s mobile OS version on the device to Android 5.1 Lollipop, skipping updates like the Android 5.0 Lollipop and the Android 5.0.2 Lollipop.
The Android 5.1 Lollipop brings the material design user interface, alerts on the lock screen, priorities, recent apps, battery saver mode, app pinning, flashlight, Android ART runtime, and more on the Motorola Droid Turbo.
However, the Android 5.1 Lollipop released by Verizon on the Motorola Droid Turbo came with plenty of bugs and issues that users have been up in arms about it. Apart from a number of bugs, some of the major issues that the Android 5.1 Lollipop brought to the Motorola Droid Turbo included battery problems, MMS functionality, uncontrollable brightness of the device, among a few more.
In fact, there were even complaints from Motorola Droid Turbo users that some of the bugs that came with the Android 5.1 Lollipop actually caused overheating of the device.