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Don't ever Forget LG and their Phones!

I hated LG phones. I owned the G3, G4, G5, V10 all back to back thinking the next one would be better but they all sucked. Hated every one of them. The response times using the cameras was the worst. I just did not enjoy my time with any LG and was happy to finally give up on that brand and move on.
 
For one thing... I enjoyed LG's thought and coming up with their own ideas. It was something say *Different as others copied each other. Heck I'm commenting this on my G4 via the SAMSUNG BROWSER. I should of gotten the V20 but uhh yeah

An their camera's are top there to the other's
 
I still would love something in the form factor (and battery life range) of GD510. That was a weird one from the time of semi-smart phones running LGs own smart-ish software and limited data capabilities. But, it was small, comfortable to drop in a pocket or somewhere and had a battery life of like week and a half...
 
My 6000mAH Batteries

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updated within the week coming

Screen @60% brightness and On the whole-Time

One Note:Wubatec isn't the Best. I'm on the 6000MaH and @62% but I noticed it drains somewhat fast till 70% or so then slows a little​
 
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If there was a G4 out there today that had the same design with updated innards, I’d probably buy it right now. I loved the design of that phone quite a bit, and yes, I liked the rear buttons. I actually bought one last year with the intent to put /e/OS on it, but bricked it with a bad flash. I kept it anyway, if only to recall the good times. I loved the camera, it was the first to really wow me, as I set it on a makeshift tripod and took 30s nighttime exposures with it. The wallpaper on my work PC was taken with my G4, and I have an pretty nice interchangable lens camera these days.
 
theFOoL said:
For one thing... I enjoyed LG's thought and coming up with their own ideas. It was something say *Different as others copied each other. Heck I'm commenting this on my G4 via the SAMSUNG BROWSER. I should of gotten the V20 but uhh yeah

An their camera's are top there to the other's
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I know LG mostly as the company that needed extensive pushing to finally release an update to Android on the 2X Optimus

First dual core. What a cesspool.

But overall, its not a bad company, I can at least agree on that. Most of the stuff is decent. Not something I'd say of the likes of Samsung, who are ready to produce utter shite to help the bottom line.
 
I mean as said before only "IF we still had the G4 but with today tech would be a Dream...

I mean... those connectors for the cameras. Could it be possible to Replace/Add from another phone. I think it'd have to be with Kernal/Driver issue though so
 
Hi,
Wow tough room here
I have a LG t.v and sound bar never thought about their cell phones though
 
They were lightweight, no round corners, bright flaslight, and snoze worked even ven turned off phone. But terible slow CPU and low ram capacity. And they had no protection form mechanical and liquid damage. I discovered poco gives more for same money.
 
Just to fair note... I used my perfine 6000mAH battery and got total 48hrs with 6hrs SOT "Screen on Time" though with these extend batteries one can't use the USB for charging as it's locked @3000mAH so I Had to buy a battery charger from eBay and it works great. Slow charging is key for batteries guy's
 
Vayra86 said:
I know LG mostly as the company that needed extensive pushing to finally release an update to Android on the 2X Optimus

First dual core. What a cesspool.
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It did got even 4.0 eventually, most phones released at the same time never did.

Anyway I liked my Optimus 2X, it was the first high end phone I ever bought. I can't really speak extensively about LG or any other manufacturer really since I always like to buy a new phone from a different manufacturer.
 
ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Wow tough room here
I have a LG t.v and sound bar never thought about their cell phones though
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Ive dealt with repairs on their washers and dryers, what POS they are
 
I did have a period in my life when I changed phones every few weeks or even days, thanks to knowing someone who was a corporate procurement guy. I always liked LG phones for being their own thing. Optimus 2X was fine, but too small for me. The Optimus VU with it's 4:3 screen was one of a kind device and the Optimus 3D was wonderfully quirky. They all had horrible bugs making using them outrageously annoying - the 2X had a very slow EMMC which made the device feel much more sluggish than it should be, and the 512MB of RAM with a 128MB chunk eaten by the GPU didn't help matters. The Vu had a battery which would randomly drop down by 20% - this was the time when Android 4.0.x had a weird bug with battery calibration which LG apparently didn't bother to fix, even though a fix was available in AOSP, and the Optimus 3D had a hardware bug which caused the device to reboot randomly when the SoC was in a deep sleep mode while connected to Wi-Fi. Then there was the L9, which was my device of choice for a few years. The G series I ignored until the G5, but there was their scratch resistant semi-flexible version of the G2 and such. They did try many things, one can say that for sure.
With Samsung being a mainstream focused company careful not to do anything even remotely unusual for fear of hurting sales and the Chinese spitting out good but almost identical devices, on one hand the market got boring without LG. On the other, if you dare to go off the mainstream path there are even more interesting devices, so personally I will not feel the LG's departure from this market.
 
Here's what I don't understand. Yes LG had good phones but the bugs with the ROMs. Why can't companies get it right instead us or xda have custom/good enough ROMs

I mean I'm on 6.0 running ok. I just want the new Wi-Fi/LTE icons in the task bar area but installing Lingeagos seems like work sort of
 
Vya Domus said:
It did got even 4.0 eventually, most phones released at the same time never did.

Anyway I liked my Optimus 2X, it was the first high end phone I ever bought. I can't really speak extensively about LG or any other manufacturer really since I always like to buy a new phone from a different manufacturer.
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Same here but I really can't say I got that high end vibe from it. It was slow as molasses in many things. Graphics were OK.
 
eidairaman1 said:
Ive dealt with repairs on their washers and dryers, what POS they are
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Hi,
Yeah I was in the market for a stack units "condo" and passed on the lg's because of all the bad reviews on them

Come to think of it I did have an old lg cell phone long ago before I went with iphone's

It was okay but it was tied to a service I switched off of can't remeber the service though at&t tried to buy them out once
Actually gave it to a girl I was dating that had the same service at one time but went delinquent so I started a month to month contract for her with it lol ;)
 
Repairing a iPhone is the worst. Repairing/Replcing parts for LG G4 is So Easy probably a Monkey could do it
 
I still got my 2 old LG smartphones with android at home.

1st Android phone I ever purchased was the LG Optimus 2x it's running a custom Android by the master Tonyp on xda-developers.

2nd LG was their LG Optimus G running a modded stock from.

I always been happy with LG's smartphones that's why I kept these 2 even I am a Apple iPhone user today.
 
theFOoL said:
Repairing a iPhone is the worst. Repairing/Replcing parts for LG G4 is So Easy probably a Monkey could do it
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Hi,
I've never had to fix or take to get fixed out of three which I still have all three and they all still work/ glass screens still perfect.
iphone 4 is now just a home ipod
iphone 5s is just a security camera device
iphone se is current cell phone only free one out of the bunch from xfinity

Even my old LG cell phone was in top condition after not used for over a year and then given away.
 
lynx29 said:
we really need a phone company to step up to the plate and offer replaceable batteries again, and make the official battery for it affordable. its nonsense we have to throw away our phones after 2000 cycles of charges. horrible for the environment to boot.
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you can replace them

for everonment, everyone is caring so much that they're trying to get on mars
 
I think that LG's downfall was quite predictable. They really started to suck since G3 era and L series phones. There was era of trash engineering (G3 was utter disaster, so many things went wrong there), then era of next to no quality control. Once that ended, they sort of tried to regain market, but their phones had stupidly high depreciation, they kept trying to put whacky ideas to phones. None of them really worked out well. They spent pretty much no budget on ads and fell to really bad levels of obscurity. Even the last LG phones were overpriced. It's possible to be empathetic about disaster or two, but when they fail again, again and again, it's really no surprise that they finally died. Since barely anything that they did matters to me, I don't particularly care that they went out of market. There's nothing sad about cutting deadweight loss.
 
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