Android Lollipop, you make my battery's power go

On Monday, Google announced the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop. The company is known for its gradual roll-outs, but with no Nexus 4, 5, 7, or 9 yet to update the frustration has been growing. Now we know why: Lollipop has problems. Android Police got wind earlier today that a WiFi bug in the final build of Lollipop is dramatically impacting battery life. This was backed up by mass reports of the problem in the official Android Developer Forum which were quickly fused into a single thread that is now over 800 posts long. Google Android Senior Developer Trevor Johns ultimately chimed in confirming that “Android Engineering is aware of an issue affecting Nexus 5 users running Android 5.0 which causes significant 'Miscellaneous' battery usage while WiFi is enabled. This appears to be caused by an abnormally high number of IRQ wakeup events. We are continuing to investigate this issue.” Johns’ welcome candor confirms Google doesn’t yet have a fix for the bug and the many uploaded screenshots to the thread (some samples above) show “significant” is an apt description with Nexus 5 testers showing a full battery is lasting 4 hours or less. Other testers have noted that disabling WiFi eliminates the problem, but this is hardly a practical solution for a mass roll out. Furthermore it flies in the face of what Google is trying to achieve with Lollipop and its ‘Project Volta’ scheme which aims to dramatically increase battery life. Until they fix the problems with the battery, my advice would be to switch to a phone with iOS - just remember if it's not an Apple, it's crapple.