[Q] Problems with this phone?

xdaforo · Feb 19, 2014

Any important reasons, as known issues, common problems or anything to know in order to avoid purchasing for this device?

I've read about battery issues related with being battery li-po type.

Anything that I should know about?

It looks quite fragile and breakable too, but thats another problem, lol.

grunch21 · Feb 19, 2014

xdaforo said:
Any important reasons, as known issues, common problems or anything to know in order to avoid purchasing for this device?

I've read about battery issues related with being battery li-po type.

Anything that I should know about?

It looks quite fragile and breakable too, but thats another problem, lol.

Problems? You are a glass-half-empty guy aren't you? Lol

I think this is the best phone i could get in this price range, specs wise. At least in my country.
Battery is good so far. Certainly better than Xperia SP, even though it has less capacity. Amazing screen, speaker is clear, good build quality. Camera is a bit meh though. Overall it's a really good phone. The only minus is it doesn't support external storage.

stratdevel · Feb 19, 2014

U r not going to have any problems with the battery. The is a excellent phone. The camera with low lighting has some quality issues, and the biggest problem is the lack of updates. We r stuck on android 4.1, the hardware is capable but the software is old, for example u can't use Bluetooth LE devices. ..

t1mman · Feb 19, 2014

Battery will hold about 2 days, depending on your useage

Camera is best when used with another software

Audio quality is bad

The rest is pretty good, if you forget the lack of update from LG.

IMHO, I would go for a Nexus 4, same specs, fraction of the price, better support.

bafdboysbehindthis · Feb 19, 2014

I droped it for 3 times and its ok!
But I bought full insurance

xdaforo · Feb 19, 2014

grunch21 said:
Problems? You are a glass-half-empty guy aren't you? Lol
I think this is the best phone i could get in this price range, specs wise. At least in my country.
Battery is good so far. Certainly better than Xperia SP, even though it has less capacity. Amazing screen, speaker is clear, good build quality. Camera is a bit meh though. Overall it's a really good phone. The only minus is it doesn't support external storage.

Well, not really. Just a realistic guy who cares about how industry and economy have led us to buy stuff that last 10 times less than things lasted before. I just want those 10 times to be reduced somehow so I study quite a lot what the perfect purchase would be among my interests.

The other phone that I was considering was actually the Xperia SP. Battery on the sp with stock rom performs perfect. We have this phone at home and I saw how it lasted 2 days using airplane mode at nights together with a moderate use along the day.

On the other hand, hardware is supposed to be worse, and actually less energy consumer -2 cores against 4. So I doubt about Xperia sp performing worse than optimus g in that field.

stratdevel said:
U r not going to have any problems with the battery. The is a excellent phone. The camera with low lighting has some quality issues, and the biggest problem is the lack of updates. We r stuck on android 4.1, the hardware is capable but the software is old, for example u can't use Bluetooth LE devices. ..

Updates wil come finally, I think

t1mman said:
Battery will hold about 2 days, depending on your useage

Camera is best when used with another software

Audio quality is bad

The rest is pretty good, if you forget the lack of update from LG.

IMHO, I would go for a Nexus 4, same specs, fraction of the price, better support.

bafdboysbehindthis said:
I droped it for 3 times and its ok!
But I bought full insurance

Does this mean that you already broke it and you had to use that nice insurance?

thanks for all your comments and opinions

bafdboysbehindthis · Feb 20, 2014

xdaforo said:
Well, not really. Just a realistic guy who cares about how industry and economy have led us to buy stuff that last 10 times less than things lasted before. I just want those 10 times to be reduced somehow so I study quite a lot what the perfect purchase would be among my interests.

The other phone that I was considering was actually the Xperia SP. Battery on the sp with stock rom performs perfect. We have this phone at home and I saw how it lasted 2 days using airplane mode at nights together with a moderate use along the day.

On the other hand, hardware is supposed to be worse, and actually less energy consumer -2 cores against 4. So I doubt about Xperia sp performing worse than optimus g in that field.

Updates wil come finally, I think

Does this mean that you already broke it and you had to use that nice insurance?

thanks for all your comments and opinions

No, its ok. Not even a scrach

)

niyazidk · Feb 20, 2014

grunch21 said:
Problems? You are a glass-half-empty guy aren't you? Lol
I think this is the best phone i could get in this price range, specs wise. At least in my country.
Battery is good so far. Certainly better than Xperia SP, even though it has less capacity. Amazing screen, speaker is clear, good build quality. Camera is a bit meh though. Overall it's a really good phone. The only minus is it doesn't support external storage.

xdaforo said:
Any important reasons, as known issues, common problems or anything to know in order to avoid purchasing for this device?

I've read about battery issues related with being battery li-po type.

Anything that I should know about?

It looks quite fragile and breakable too, but thats another problem, lol.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2655237

t1mman · Feb 20, 2014

Geeeze bro! You can't put a bad flash in the "known issue" section...

Biker1121 · Feb 20, 2014

t1mman said:
Battery will hold about 2 days, depending on your useage

Camera is best when used with another software

Audio quality is bad

The rest is pretty good, if you forget the lack of update from LG.

IMHO, I would go for a Nexus 4, same specs, fraction of the price, better support.

Hi,
what do u mean that camera is better with other soft? Stock soft is horrible and it all because flash focus is missing. I've tried kernel with this but it's not good yet but question is what software do u meant? thanks

t1mman · Feb 20, 2014

Biker1121 said:
Hi,
what do u mean that camera is better with other soft? Stock soft is horrible and it all because flash focus is missing. I've tried kernel with this but it's not good yet but question is what software do u meant? thanks

Try LG Camera, compare image, you'll see!

xdaforo · Feb 20, 2014

bafdboysbehindthis said:
No, its ok. Not even a scrach)

Good to know.

niyazidk said:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2655237

I don't think this is a real problem with the phone.

t1mman said:
Geeeze bro! You can't put a bad flash in the "known issue" section...

indeed

Biker1121 said:
Hi,
what do u mean that camera is better with other soft? Stock soft is horrible and it all because flash focus is missing. I've tried kernel with this but it's not good yet but question is what software do u meant? thanks

I think he means using third party software to take the photos. But it my experiencie it doesn't help too much since all the software use the same "limit/native values" or whatever u call them (aperture and shutter speed settings and so on) when taking a photo. So that means that, unless the "stock camera software" makes and awful work when choosing what paremeters to use, you won't notice big differences between obtained results.

t1mman · Feb 20, 2014

xdaforo said:
I think he means using third party software to take the photos. But it my experiencie it doesn't help too much since all the software use the same "limit/native values" or whatever u call them (aperture and shutter speed settings and so on) when taking a photo. So that means that, unless the "stock camera software" makes and awful work when choosing what paremeters to use, you won't notice big differences between obtained results.

This was taken at the same place, using the same settings, same light, etc. See for yourself:

Photo taken by OEM software:

Photo taken by LG Camera

Biker1121 · Feb 20, 2014

t1mman said:
This was taken at the same place, using the same settings, same light, etc. See for yourself:

Photo taken by OEM software:

Photo taken by LG Camera

What is OEM software? could u send me a link? thanks

t1mman · Feb 20, 2014

OEM means "stock", like the one in the stock rom provided by LG.

The "LG Camera" is another software, found in the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.lgCamera&hl=en

I don't know how come they called it "LGCamera", beats me! But it's not the camera software from LG!

xdaforo · Feb 20, 2014

t1mman said:
This was taken at the same place, using the same settings, same light, etc. See for yourself:

Photo taken by OEM software:

Photo taken by LG Camera

Well I don't see where you wanna get. Actually I dont know which one do u like the most. I just see a more natural color but a much more noisy shot than with the second one.

Where I want to go is that you can get those 2 results with both app cameras, playing around with manual settings. The problem is that 90% of people don't use them and just press the butom and take the photo.

So what makes the difference when choosing one app instead the other is actually depending only on how the automatic mode works..

t1mman · Feb 20, 2014

In part, I know I can get a better quality on the OEM software using custom ISO settings, but the image will get blurry easely, which is not realy an option unless you take "still subjects".

The grainy feel on the first one is realy beyond what I could consider an "average" quality.

grunch21 · Feb 21, 2014

xdaforo said:
Well, not really. Just a realistic guy who cares about how industry and economy have led us to buy stuff that last 10 times less than things lasted before. I just want those 10 times to be reduced somehow so I study quite a lot what the perfect purchase would be among my interests.

Good point.

xdaforo said:
The other phone that I was considering was actually the Xperia SP. Battery on the sp with stock rom performs perfect. We have this phone at home and I saw how it lasted 2 days using airplane mode at nights together with a moderate use along the day.

On the other hand, hardware is supposed to be worse, and actually less energy consumer -2 cores against 4. So I doubt about Xperia sp performing worse than optimus g in that field.

I was torn between buying SP, nexus 4 and LGOG. SP has larger battery capacity and external storage, nexus 4 has direct update from google. But i ended up buying LGOG cos it has better hardware, nicer screen than SP, and larger storage than Nexus 4. I bought my sister the SP though, and she loves it!

xdaforo · Feb 22, 2014

grunch21 said:
Good point.

I was torn between buying SP, nexus 4 and LGOG. SP has larger battery capacity and external storage, nexus 4 has direct update from google. But i ended up buying LGOG cos it has better hardware, nicer screen than SP, and larger storage than Nexus 4. I bought my sister the SP though, and she loves it!

all are good options i guess. thank you for all ur comments

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