The Android 5.1 Lollipop has been promised to the Motorola Droid Turbo as early as March this year. There were even reports that the smartphone will finally get the update early this month, but unfortunately, up until today, there is no sight of the Android 5.1 Lollipop coming to any Motorola Droid Turbo.
It is not just happening leaving fans and users of the Motorola Droid Turbo, extremely disappointed as their handsets are still running on Android 4.4 KitKat.
In fact, because of the delay in the release of the Android 5.1 Lollipop on the Motorola Droid Turbo, US carrier Verizon actually hosted the Android 5.1 Lollipop simulator on its website starting in the middle of June to give Motorola Droid Turbo users and owners a preview of the features that they could expect on their handset.
But the simulator is not an app that can be downloaded and installed on the Droid Turbo. It is merely an interactive guide that walked them through things like downloading apps and adding widgets to the home screen, using Google Now and Google Maps, and browsing the web in Google Chrome.
Verizon actually updated its simulator tool to Android 5.1 Lollipop for the Motorola Droid Turbo, which is obviously an attempt to diffuse the growing anxiety and tension from users who are already feeling frustrated with the delay of the release of the firmware update.
Accordingly, the Android 5.1 Lollipop roll out hit a snag during its testing process prompting the engineers to remedy it with a simulator and hold back users’ expectations which Verizon accepted and implemented right away.
Jumping straight to Android M
But latest reports now indicate that Android 5.1 Lollipop will no longer be happening on the Motorola Droid Turbo but instead the handset will jump straight to the upcoming Android M operating system which Google would be releasing in the third quarter of this year or just a few months from today, notes Yibada
However, these are merely speculations at this time since Motorola has yet to make a formal statement or announcement regarding the Motorola Droid Turbo.
As it is the American tech company is currently rolling out the Android 5.1 Lollipop update for the unlocked versions of its Moto X 2013 in the US, Brazil and Canada.
Stability improvements and performance tweaks
Apart from the usual bug fixes, the Android 5.1 Lollipop was supposed to bring stability improvements, and performance tweaks on last year’s Motorola flagship smartphone.
Though the improvements would not be as noticeable or as drastic compared to devices which have taken on the problematic Android 5.0 Lollipop, the firmware update would be a significant development as the Motorola Droid Turbo headed straight to Android 5.1 Lollipop from its Android 4.4 KitKat, which it carried since it was launched in October last year.
Please tell me what am I doing wrong; I’m trying to update OTA, but when i’m pressing power + vol up in recovery mode, nothing happening besides red light. the device never reveals the option “apply update from ADB”. Just red light.