What kind of issues were you having? Besides the speaker, I got lucky to not have any issues or complaints
Anyone switch from the Nexus 5 to the G3
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What kind of issues were you having? Besides the speaker, I got lucky to not have any issues or complaints
The build quality of the phone, how it feels in your hand, how smooth it is flowing through screens and apps, battery life, screen resolution, sound quality of the speakers and sound quality through my Bose noise canceling headphones. The only thing I preferred on the G3 was the camera.
Specs may say the G3 is better in more ways (including screen resolution), but using both for a while, the M8 just feels better overall. Now that being said, all the guys selling the phones in the Tmobile store owned M8's and all of them wanted to upgrade to the G3.
The only thing I miss about my N5 is Android L and google dialer. I put the google dialer on the M8, but it's just not the same.
I'd have to say that the G3 solved my only real issues with the Nexus 5:
Battery - the 5's battery is just on the small side, and I used some custom kernel functions, like dt2w that didn't help matters. I've noticed a significant improvement with the much larger G3.
Camera... The nexus 5 takes good pics and video, but I always fought with how quickly and accurately it focused. I have quite a few shots that are useless and a number of blurry videos. The G3 is a focusing demon due to the laser autofocus... Its no joke. That alone makes the camera vastly superior.
Yes, the Nexus is smoother and more fluid, but the G3 isn't all that far off (at least mine isn't) and more than makes up for it with the other functions that it excels at.
I worried that I'd get a healthy dose of buyer's remorse after switching, but a month later, I have zero regrets and no desire to switch back... The G3 is an awesome device.
Battery - the 5's battery is just on the small side, and I used some custom kernel functions, like dt2w that didn't help matters. I've noticed a significant improvement with the much larger G3.
Camera... The nexus 5 takes good pics and video, but I always fought with how quickly and accurately it focused. I have quite a few shots that are useless and a number of blurry videos. The G3 is a focusing demon due to the laser autofocus... Its no joke. That alone makes the camera vastly superior.
Yes, the Nexus is smoother and more fluid, but the G3 isn't all that far off (at least mine isn't) and more than makes up for it with the other functions that it excels at.
I worried that I'd get a healthy dose of buyer's remorse after switching, but a month later, I have zero regrets and no desire to switch back... The G3 is an awesome device.
That was one of those falsehoods that became true because with enough people said it. It took plenty of nice shots... The autofocus just drove me nuts at times. Not always, just enough to be a pain.I thought the N5's camera was horrible, never took a decent picture
Um no, I personally always felt it took bad pictures. I went to Alaska, Disney, and many other amazing places....the pictures it took were horrible.
I don't appreciate what you are insinuating.
Actually the camera is the main factor that made me upgrade from the Nexus 5 to a G3. I was tired of depositing checks with my banking app just to have the deposit declined due to image quality. My wife's S4 always worked, and my G3 has worked every time I've tried it.. to me it's just proof the N5 camera is not up to standards.
Check out the Trinity Kernel Thread in the N5, or even check out the N5 picture thread. Amazing pictures can and have been taken with the N5.
So we disagree, that's fine. But I'm not alone.. There are many people that get quality shots. It's not the best camera in the world and it has its share of issues. But it is just not a bad as it's made out to be. What exactly was I insinuating?
That is so funny, I had to use my wife's iPhone to take pictures of our checks because of the same issue with the N5. I started a thread on this and found dozens of people with the same issue.
You are basically saying that I "believed" that the camera was bad because enough people were saying it. That I couldn't make up my own mind and I was just saying what everyone else was. Very insulting sir.
Your statement: "That was one of those falsehoods that became true because with enough people said it. It took plenty of nice shots."
I wasn't referring to you.
I was saying that a lot of people say the Nexus 5's camera was bad solely because they read that it was bad and just perpetuate it without ever picking the phone up.
You had a bad experience, but just because you had one doesn't mean others have the same issues. Like I said, when I didn't have to deal with focusing problems (which wasn't all the time), I got some really nice shots. So I'll certainly disagree that it has a bad camera, it just has done issues keeping it from being a very good one.
That being said, the G3's camera is substantially better and high on my list of reasons why I'm glad I switched.
"What kind of issues were you having? Besides the speaker, I got lucky to not have any issues or complaint."
The speaker and microphone stopped working on both n5's that I had. Got tired of it.
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The speaker and microphone stopped working on both n5's that I had. Got tired of it.
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You're right, stock for stock. But once I rooted my G3, removed all the carrierIQ, LG logging stuff and swapped kernels, this is just as fast if not faster than my N5 running CM11 and elementalX kernel in my other hand.
I've done all the same to my G3,running Sky dragon rom, and my n5 running Rastakat with Elementalx, underclocked to 1.7 is smoother in every aspect. My g3 even lags in Gsam when I'm checking it for wake locks..
Don't know what to tell ya then, either I have a better working G3 than you or a worse operating N5 than you. ?
I have no lag anywhere on this phone, everything is fast and smooth. That's not to say I had lag on the N5, well, the notification pull down was laggy, but that may have been the themed settings.
Either way, I am much more happy with this G3 than my N5 (it'll still stick around as a backup).
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1I think a lot of us have. This is my first non-Nexus device in a long time and I have absolutely no regrets about the switch. As far as the feel of the phone, it really feels like a bigger & more high end version of the Nexus 5 to me. I'm actually enjoying the features in the LG ROM on this phone as well. Some de-bloating was required but after that this phone is just as fast as my Nexus 5 was. And the camera... there really just is no comparison between the two phones in terms of the camera. It's an enormous improvement. The knock on/off features are really cool as well.
If you like your Nexus 5 but want a bigger screen, significantly better camera, and better battery life then you will absolutely love this phone. I promise.1
I second that, I'm finding very little reason to switch to another ROM although I might want to try another kernel when those do come out.
The built in apps like the LG keyboard, LG quickmemo and LG health are also pretty decent.
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If i had to place a bet, i don't think development is going to be that great on this device, usually a device has a strong buzz even before its released about what developers are upgrading to it and so on. I also don't think there was strong development on the G2, and i'm sure its not helping that the G3 is coming on the heels of the M8 and S5 which a lot of the those developers probably upgraded from the M7 and S4. Also with android L to play with on the N5 I don't like the chances of having various Roms on the G3, you might want to stick with the N5 for a while.1I went from N5 to G3 two weeks ago.
Biggest gain for me: T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling
Biggest gripe: lack of Qi charging out of the box
Considering readily available Qi charging backs are just around the corner, and T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling is still a pipe dream on the N5, I'm happy with the choice.
