I had the same question. And, once again, I have to thank you for your advice. After following your advice, and doing very basic set-up, I went to bed (it was 1:30 am), placing the phone on my Tylt Vu wireless charging stand (as I always do) and went to sleep (after taking a peek and noting, with relief, that the charge percentage actually was inching up, rather than staying steady as it head been pre-install). In the morning, my phone was at 100% and the back was cool. I did some more set-up, manually adding back ringtones, pictures, music, etc. (I've never been happy with auto-back-up and restore results in the past), and manually adding back my apps.
I headed to work, using Waze as usual. I had a bit of trouble at first with GPS, but a power cycle seemed to remedy that (for good, I hope). Because of all my fiddling the battery was down to about 80% when I got in the car, so I plugged in the car charger and, again, it was actually charging faster than it had last night on the way home last night; not as fast as usual, but okay. I've been fiddling with settings and such off and on throughout the day, so have more on-screen time than average, and it seems to be holding its charge surprisingly well, based on others' reports. The battery does seem to be draining a little bit faster than it used to, but nothing drastic like yesterday.
I also had a little trouble with the LED notifications this morning, but when I installed Light Flow Lite (which I've been using for a long time), and configured as usual, that seemed to take care of the problem for me (which the exception of missed calls). What else? Actually, I can't think of anything off hand. All in all, I feel very fortunate that my experience seems to have come off much better than most everyone else I've talked with. And, again, I have to thank Snn5 for his advice, which I credit with me having a much more positive experience than I had feared.
On the down side, I have to say that I don't particularly like the look of Lillipop, and think it was particularly foolish to change the home icon to a circle (now intuitive is that?), but I guess I can get used to that. But I do like how much more customizable the touch buttons are now. The one big peeve I have, though, is I cannot seem to find any way to get a weather widget on the Lockscreen. I found a way to have my weather app constantly run a notification, which appears on the Lockscreen; but I really liked my old combination weather and clock widget. Also miss being able to swipe to other widgets from the lock screen; especially my flashlight widget; can't seem to find a way to make this work, either. As Snn5 - and others - have mentioned, the replacement for Quiet Time is a train wreck; not intuitive at all. But, once I figured it out it seems to be functioning properly ... I think. Oh, but Daydream (which I have historically paired with Quiet Time in using my phone as a bed-side alarm clock) is not working properly. I've tried setting it up to run when docked, when charging and either (as I used to), and it did not work at all. Will keep fiddling.
And has anyone been able to find the flashlight app/widget that is supposed to be built into Lollipop? I can't find it anywhere, and a search of the phone doesn't yield any results. Using my old app/widget, which is fine, but was just curious.
BTW, I just checked and noticed that I'm now running 5.0.2, if that's of interest to anyone.
So, after all my whining I figured the least I could do was report back and, again, thank Snn5 for his guidance. Best of luck to you all, and I will report back with any further positive or negative findings.
