Same here... Had s3 since it's release and I was pretty satisfied with it. Phone served it's time and I got new LG G5... I was bit sceptical at first but I gotta say I am pretty satisfied with G5, everything is snappy and fast. Battery life is great, at the end of the day I have 25-30% left. Only thing I am disappointed is it's build. I like the metal build but it doesn't have "the feel" of it, I don't know how to describe it. Anyway... I hope G5 will serve me as s3 and hopefully better.
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Why you hate Lg
Bro why you hate android phone. LG is very popular mobile and millions of user can loved it..
I owned an LG G2 since launch; it was the best smartphone I ever had. It was also the first smartphone I ever broke - shattered the screen after only a year. I ended up buying the Motorola Nexus 6, which turned out to be a huge disappointment tbh. The G5 though, so far, has been fantastic!
I love the camera! The Nexus 6 had the most basic, boring and slowest camera I have ever experienced on a smartphone. The wide angle camera is amazing and I love the full manual mode! Battery life has been great too, which was my biggest issue with the Nexus 6 - it couldn't even make through my work day without needing to be charged in the afternoon (it charged fast, but come on). I've been averaging 12-14 hours on my G5 with 3-5 hours SOT, auto brightness, NFC and Bluetooth (I have a smartwatch), WiFi while at work and at home, LTE everywhere else. The screen is BRIGHT! I have no problem walking to work and using my phone while wearing sunglasses! I could never do that with my Nexus 6. This is my first phone with a fingerprint scanner and I am really impressed at how responsive it is. Honestly I think the speakers/max volume is quite loud - something I was a little worried about since the Nexus 6 had the speakers on the front of the device, but after using the G5 for a week this is no longer a worry.
I received an update when I first bought it but I have not received the app drawer update for some reason. Not a big deal, but odd I think. I can't wait until we get some custom ROMs for this device so I can flash a stock/non-carrier branded image to this device and get rid of all that crap bloatware! My only complaint so far is the bloatware AT&T stuck on it, but that's to be expected with a carrier branded device.
I love the camera! The Nexus 6 had the most basic, boring and slowest camera I have ever experienced on a smartphone. The wide angle camera is amazing and I love the full manual mode! Battery life has been great too, which was my biggest issue with the Nexus 6 - it couldn't even make through my work day without needing to be charged in the afternoon (it charged fast, but come on). I've been averaging 12-14 hours on my G5 with 3-5 hours SOT, auto brightness, NFC and Bluetooth (I have a smartwatch), WiFi while at work and at home, LTE everywhere else. The screen is BRIGHT! I have no problem walking to work and using my phone while wearing sunglasses! I could never do that with my Nexus 6. This is my first phone with a fingerprint scanner and I am really impressed at how responsive it is. Honestly I think the speakers/max volume is quite loud - something I was a little worried about since the Nexus 6 had the speakers on the front of the device, but after using the G5 for a week this is no longer a worry.
I received an update when I first bought it but I have not received the app drawer update for some reason. Not a big deal, but odd I think. I can't wait until we get some custom ROMs for this device so I can flash a stock/non-carrier branded image to this device and get rid of all that crap bloatware! My only complaint so far is the bloatware AT&T stuck on it, but that's to be expected with a carrier branded device.
Before I put mine in a case it hit the ground at least 3 times and once was from 3 feet high where it slipped from my hand and landed face down on a concrete driveway and didn't leave a scratch on the screen. The other times it hit the corner and did leave a couple dings in the case.
JD
Shaky hands..?
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I'm coming from a G2 which is still an amazing phone! The only real reason I upgraded is for the better camera.
Regarding the app drawer update, Just open LG smartworld and get it from there. It's called Home & App Drawer.
Yeeeeup. I've noticed it gets too dark in even a dim room if it's facing a poorly-lit wall, or gets stuck at really dim settings occasionally... Maybe 10d fixed the getting stuck part!?
You get it done in less than a half hour?! I've gotten it charged in about 50 min at its fastest... Of course, if I left it alone during that time, maybe...
Barely functional, much slower than my G4. Phone always claims it has a full signal but nothing loads. The camera on snapchat fades to black every half a second. Nothing really works.
After a couple of months with the G5 I finally found how to express my feelings toward it: I don't care about it.
I don't hate it (it does a good job, it is fast enough, it has enough storage, the battery barely lasts long enough but charges quickly, it's not way too big, ....) but there really is nothing about it that I love.
- The camera doesn't disappoint, but the aspect ratio limits me as a photographer. The second camera is a gimmick that is useless in daily operation.
- The overall design is boring.
- The haptics of the phone doesn't matter because I have to use a TPU cover to keep the curved glass on the top from chipping again on slightest impact.
- The stock LG apps (Music, contacts, launcher, camera, etc.) don't even play in the same ballpark as the ones from Google or Sony (the predecessor was a Xperia Z2)
- The update frequency is not what I expected from a flagship phone. (I only do OTAs and as of today July 18th 2016 the patchlevel is from April 1st 2016).
- I have the camera-grip but it doesn't provide any real benefit for the awkward bulkyness it adds to the phone. So I think the module concept will go down memory lane as a "nice try".
- GPS reception is definitively worse than I'm used coming from the Sony Xperia Z2
I could continue this list of "boooooring" for a while.
If you ask me "Why did you buy it in the first place?" the answer is simple: At that time it was the only non-Samsung flagship on the market that had an up-to-date chipset.
I don't hate it (it does a good job, it is fast enough, it has enough storage, the battery barely lasts long enough but charges quickly, it's not way too big, ....) but there really is nothing about it that I love.
- The camera doesn't disappoint, but the aspect ratio limits me as a photographer. The second camera is a gimmick that is useless in daily operation.
- The overall design is boring.
- The haptics of the phone doesn't matter because I have to use a TPU cover to keep the curved glass on the top from chipping again on slightest impact.
- The stock LG apps (Music, contacts, launcher, camera, etc.) don't even play in the same ballpark as the ones from Google or Sony (the predecessor was a Xperia Z2)
- The update frequency is not what I expected from a flagship phone. (I only do OTAs and as of today July 18th 2016 the patchlevel is from April 1st 2016).
- I have the camera-grip but it doesn't provide any real benefit for the awkward bulkyness it adds to the phone. So I think the module concept will go down memory lane as a "nice try".
- GPS reception is definitively worse than I'm used coming from the Sony Xperia Z2
I could continue this list of "boooooring" for a while.
If you ask me "Why did you buy it in the first place?" the answer is simple: At that time it was the only non-Samsung flagship on the market that had an up-to-date chipset.
After owning mine for several days, my opinion is that it's a very nice phone. Definitely a worthy replacement of the G3 anyway. Everything is an improvement except perhaps the minor decrease in battery capacity, the painted back (would rather have faux metal like the G3 or just the aluminum by itself), and currently the inability to root (H820 model). I would rate it 4 out of 5.
poor dual sim management not poor extremely poor. camera is not even close to huawei p9. huawei p9 camera is far better than g5. build quality is just like cheap Chinese fone. that what i think after using it couple of days. huawei p9 is win win in all.
Not gonna lie, I regret my purchase. I really thought after the disaster the G4 was (missed taps, anyone?), that LG would smarten up and would have better quality control. Nope.
Right off the bat, the G5 has horrible lag unlocking if you just locked it within the last 5 seconds or so- it can take 15-30 seconds to unlock at times, sometimes freezing at your lock screen before going in. Luckily, this was fixed in an update I received in the past week. All 3 G5s i have gone through disconnect bluetooth within 2 songs playing, at least when I leave the phone unattended with the screen off. It either starts playing out the phone, or pauses the music. The bluetooth icon is still on in the notification pulldown.
Hardware issues:
- Chin gap in 1 unit, and misaligned chin on 2 units
- GPS hardware defect (well known by Verizon, anyway). Got a refurb that fixed it, and now it's 2 weeks in, and it's becoming poor again. I'm willing to bet it's from swapping out batteries. LG doesn't fix the cause of the issue- just quickly bends the pins back and sends it back to you.
- Dust inside. There is no way that me quickly swapping out a battery in my hand without putting it down should be collecting this much crap.
- Maybe the bluetooth issue mentioned above.
I really wanted to love this phone. Other than those issues, I do enjoy how it operates, but it's just insane to me that LG lets this stuff slide when they're already not that popular in terms of smartphones. They're just further hurting themselves by cranking out these phones, rather than focusing on quality.
Right off the bat, the G5 has horrible lag unlocking if you just locked it within the last 5 seconds or so- it can take 15-30 seconds to unlock at times, sometimes freezing at your lock screen before going in. Luckily, this was fixed in an update I received in the past week. All 3 G5s i have gone through disconnect bluetooth within 2 songs playing, at least when I leave the phone unattended with the screen off. It either starts playing out the phone, or pauses the music. The bluetooth icon is still on in the notification pulldown.
Hardware issues:
- Chin gap in 1 unit, and misaligned chin on 2 units
- GPS hardware defect (well known by Verizon, anyway). Got a refurb that fixed it, and now it's 2 weeks in, and it's becoming poor again. I'm willing to bet it's from swapping out batteries. LG doesn't fix the cause of the issue- just quickly bends the pins back and sends it back to you.
- Dust inside. There is no way that me quickly swapping out a battery in my hand without putting it down should be collecting this much crap.
- Maybe the bluetooth issue mentioned above.
I really wanted to love this phone. Other than those issues, I do enjoy how it operates, but it's just insane to me that LG lets this stuff slide when they're already not that popular in terms of smartphones. They're just further hurting themselves by cranking out these phones, rather than focusing on quality.
I think it's fair to say that most of these software and firmware issues reside with the US carrier variants; I think it's only logical to assume it has something to do with any and all carrier bloat.
The most common problems, which everybody knows about by now, are not widely reported by many non-US variants, carrier or otherwise. Blame LG for build quality issues... Blame your carrier for misusing the stock firmware, locking your bootloader, bad battery life, or lag.
I ordered mine from the UK and have had ZERO of the issues others report on.
I guess I just fail to see how putting bloated software on a device correlates with hardware issues? It's absurd to me.
I guess I kind of get how they charge carriers for software, such as Verizon opting out of paying extra to have LG smart settings and themes, but do they charge carriers based on hardware quality and testing? It's all manufactured by LG..
I'm having GPS issues as well (GPS drift and loss of connection) and I don't have a US carrier variant, so I'm guessing it's either a bad hardware construction or some sort of a software issue with the stock ROM.
FYI other than that, it's a pretty great phone in my experience.
FYI other than that, it's a pretty great phone in my experience.
I hate this phone.
It has so many cool features but it's the little things that really annoy the hell out of me.
The well-documented, still unresolved GPS issues make Google Maps navigation risky at best including several instances of me missing exits on the highway. Pokemon GO also can be a frustrating experience.
Build quality. The screen is crooked in the bottom right hand corner. it slopes and tempered glass covers don't adhere. also the spigen style armor case i bought around launch time: the buttons snapped off. useless now. Been using the phone caseless and it's ridiculously slippery in my hand leading to a few drops that leave VERY visible and ugly dents and scratches in the exterior
What else annoys me.
Bluetooth disconnects from my car stereo intermittently for no apparent reason.
The phone gets insanely hot.
Since the G3, LG has still not figured out how to get the glitches out of their keyboard. The same glitches I have on my G3. Inexcusable.
Really considering jumping ship for the Moto Z with the more useful modular system or the next Xperia flagship
It has so many cool features but it's the little things that really annoy the hell out of me.
The well-documented, still unresolved GPS issues make Google Maps navigation risky at best including several instances of me missing exits on the highway. Pokemon GO also can be a frustrating experience.
Build quality. The screen is crooked in the bottom right hand corner. it slopes and tempered glass covers don't adhere. also the spigen style armor case i bought around launch time: the buttons snapped off. useless now. Been using the phone caseless and it's ridiculously slippery in my hand leading to a few drops that leave VERY visible and ugly dents and scratches in the exterior
What else annoys me.
Bluetooth disconnects from my car stereo intermittently for no apparent reason.
The phone gets insanely hot.
Since the G3, LG has still not figured out how to get the glitches out of their keyboard. The same glitches I have on my G3. Inexcusable.
Really considering jumping ship for the Moto Z with the more useful modular system or the next Xperia flagship
Probably the best smartphone I ever had.
The biggest problem is that I got the H860 version, which is still not root able.
Enviado de meu LG-H860 usando Tapatalk
The biggest problem is that I got the H860 version, which is still not root able.
Enviado de meu LG-H860 usando Tapatalk
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I have the Canadian Variant H831, do not have the issues you have, mine is quick to load from the lock screen, no issues with the GPS, I do use bloatware to remove/hide allot of apps, and yes it does help allot. So far my only complaint is at work sometimes I loose signal, but all our phones do.
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