Your experience with G Flex 2

[Michalko5896]

Hi! I'm interested in G Flex 2 because of Snapdragon 810 chipset and great screen. How is your experience so far? I would be greatful if you answer me few questions:

1) I really hate lag - even a slight lag can destroy my experience. I had to sell my LG G2 because of the lag. G Flex 2 was pretty laggy phone with 5.0. Did LG improve performance with 5.1.1 update?
2) How is the screen? Any issues?
3) Is overheating real? (I dont care about hot back cover, but I dont want to have my experience ruined because of extremely laggy throttling phone
4) How good is battery life? I don't need 2 days, just 3-4 hours of on screen time. Is that possible without issues?
5) Any other known issues with the phone?

EDIT: Btw guys, I wrote to LG and got official answer: LG G Flex 2 will recieve 6.0 right after G4.

Thank you very much!

 

[pelelademadera]

45 minutes of screen, 12% battery drain....

4-5 hs of screen with no gamed is really possible. With no problem at all.

The really problem is sync apps, like any other phone...

Heat is no problem for me at all, no intensive gamer, but can play rr3 or fifa 16 with no lag at all with 5.1.1



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[Michalko5896]

45 minutes of screen, 12% battery drain....

4-5 hs of screen with no gamed is really possible. With no problem at all.View attachment 3501017View attachment 3501018

The really problem is sync apps, like any other phone...

Heat is no problem for me at all, no intensive gamer, but can play rr3 or fifa 16 with no lag at all with 5.1.1



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Thank you! And speed of user interface - launching apps, animations.. everything smooth and fluid so far?

 

[pelelademadera]

Yes sr, for me no problem at all

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[Michalko5896]

Yes sr, for me no problem at all

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Thank you! I will give it a go.

 

[Michalko5896]

And what about build quality?

 

[Gizmo648]

I have to say that the experience was not that great at first. The bloatware slowed down the device a lot for me. But since I rooted and deleted that stuff, everything runs great. No lags, no overheating(I'm not playing games), great batterylife.
The only problem is that the screen is grainy when displaying some colors(eg. Grey and Orange)

So I would say, if you're giving it a go you should most likely root it.

 

[Ace42]

5-6hrs is possible (sot). Battery is worse than my G2 (nowhere near Moto E either), but better than my Zenfone 2 at least. I did have to tweak the device like crazy to get it to behave like this.

 

[Michalko5896]

I have to say that the experience was not that great at first. The bloatware slowed down the device a lot for me. But since I rooted and deleted that stuff, everything runs great. No lags, no overheating(I'm not playing games), great batterylife.
The only problem is that the screen is grainy when displaying some colors(eg. Grey and Orange)

So I would say, if you're giving it a go you should most likely root it.

Performance with 5.1.1 is now fine, right?

Grainy screen, hmm.. Now I'm little bit worried.

 

[Gizmo648]

Performance with 5.1.1 is now fine, right?

Grainy screen, hmm.. Now I'm little bit worried.

Yeah, it's fine

 

[SayWhat10]

On 5.1.1 rooted. I still have lag. Battery is horrible, and it gets hot.

What apps are y'all debloating? Don't know how y'all can get 5 hours screen time. My phone is 3 weeks old

 

[Ace42]

On 5.1.1 rooted. I still have lag. Battery is horrible, and it gets hot.

What apps are y'all debloating? Don't know how y'all can get 5 hours screen time. My phone is 3 weeks old

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63148509

LG MLT is the main one you'll want to disable. It can be disabled from the hidden menu or with titanium backup. There's also carrierIQ, but that can be turned off from 3c toolbox or "myAndroidtools". There's a list of other things, all in all very time consuming.

 

[Michalko5896]

On 5.1.1 rooted. I still have lag. Battery is horrible, and it gets hot.

What apps are y'all debloating? Don't know how y'all can get 5 hours screen time. My phone is 3 weeks old

wtf? I'm really confused now.. Is it really that bad?

 

[SayWhat10]

wtf? I'm really confused now.. Is it really that bad?

EVerybody's mileage will differ, but for me its bad. I really want to get a new phone (different one),but not trying to spend the money.

I get about 2hours of screen on time, and I can post pictures of my high temperatures, gets hot quick. I can pretty much never turn the screen on full brightness because there's some limiter that will say "max is 70% because of the temperature". This is the ONLY phone in my life of smartphones that i cant turn the screen fully brights, its horrid
I just froze a lot of the apps from the above posters comment, i'll see how it does

I had lag on my galaxy tab S, but i put CM12.1 on there and it flies. Of course the bootloader is locked here so we're stuck for now

 

[Ace42]

EVerybody's mileage will differ, but for me its bad. I really want to get a new phone (different one),but not trying to spend the money.

I get about 2hours of screen on time, and I can post pictures of my high temperatures, gets hot quick. I can pretty much never turn the screen on full brightness because there's some limiter that will say "max is 70% because of the temperature". This is the ONLY phone in my life of smartphones that i cant turn the screen fully brights, its horrid
I just froze a lot of the apps from the above posters comment, i'll see how it does

I had lag on my galaxy tab S, but i put CM12.1 on there and it flies. Of course the bootloader is locked here so we're stuck for now

Multiple LG models prevent max brightness due to temperature, it's just to protect the device from generating more heat until it cools down a bit.

Your high temps (guessing 44-60°C) are caused by the chip being stressed by some app or apps you have installed. Certain apps such as YouTube 720p60/1080p60), games, etc. will make it warm regardless.

 

[krispijn_s]

Hi! I'm interested in G Flex 2 because of Snapdragon 810 chipset and great screen. How is your experience so far? I would be greatful if you answer me few questions:

1) I really hate lag - even a slight lag can destroy my experience. I had to sell my LG G2 because of the lag. G Flex 2 was pretty laggy phone with 5.0. Did LG improve performance with 5.1.1 update?
2) How is the screen? Any issues?
3) Is overheating real? (I dont care about hot back cover, but I dont want to have my experience ruined because of extremely laggy throttling phone
4) How good is battery life? I don't need 2 days, just 3-4 hours of on screen time. Is that possible without issues?
5) Any other known issues with the phone?

EDIT: Btw guys, I wrote to LG and got official answer: LG G Flex 2 will recieve 6.0 right after G4.

Thank you very much!

Just to add my $0.02: I think this is one of the best kept secrets in smartphoneland. I'm really enjoying this phone: I'm not experiencing lag, overheating (or heating in general actually) and battery life is very decent, but it did take some work getting it where I wanted it.

The update v15a+ definitely helps running the phone in a normal way, but I've taken some additional steps to enhance longevity.
1) Root (to enable additional steps)
2) Freeze/ remove bloaty apps (such as LG MLT)
3) Disable big cores 2 and 3: this effectively turns the SD810 into a SD808 with an Adreno 430. For me, I don't notice any drop in performance or smoothness, but it does help A LOT with battery life and temperature.

Now I get about 4 hours of SOT on average, which is pretty good For me this means about 2 days of typical usage (not a heavy user in that sense).

As for the screen: it is grainy, but that is something I've gotten used to. I came from an Xperia Z1 and that screen, though not grainy, was actually worse in daily use (viewing angles, blacks etc). The one thing I dislike about the G Flex 2 screen is the high minimum brightness setting. This is incidentally is my only big gripe with the phone.

So all in all: for €300,- (and a little elbow grease) this is a really nice phone.

 

[Michalko5896]

Just to add my $0.02: I think this is one of the best kept secrets in smartphoneland. I'm really enjoying this phone: I'm not experiencing lag, overheating (or heating in general actually) and battery life is very decent, but it did take some work getting it where I wanted it.

The update v15a+ definitely helps running the phone in a normal way, but I've taken some additional steps to enhance longevity.
1) Root (to enable additional steps)
2) Freeze/ remove bloaty apps (such as LG MLT)
3) Disable big cores 2 and 3: this effectively turns the SD810 into a SD808 with an Adreno 430. For me, I don't notice any drop in performance or smoothness, but it does help A LOT with battery life and temperature.

Now I get about 4 hours of SOT on average, which is pretty good For me this means about 2 days of typical usage (not a heavy user in that sense).

As for the screen: it is grainy, but that is something I've gotten used to. I came from an Xperia Z1 and that screen, though not grainy, was actually worse in daily use (viewing angles, blacks etc). The one thing I dislike about the G Flex 2 screen is the high minimum brightness setting. This is incidentally is my only big gripe with the phone.

So all in all: for €300,- (and a little elbow grease) this is a really nice phone.

Thank you! Xperia Z1 has awful screen so thats no big surprise. And what about keyboard issues? My keyboard was not opening after 5.0 update on G2 and I saw same thing on 5.0 for G Flex 2. Is that fixed in 5.1.1?

 

[krispijn_s]

Thank you! Xperia Z1 has awful screen so thats no big surprise. And what about keyboard issues? My keyboard was not opening after 5.0 update on G2 and I saw same thing on 5.0 for G Flex 2. Is that fixed in 5.1.1?

I guess they fixed it?

I didn't run the phone with 5.0 for long; 20 minutes to be exact, only to update it to 5.1.1. With 5.1.1 I have not experienced any keyboard problems (not with the LG keyboard and not with Swiftkey either).

 

[Michalko5896]

okay, thank you all. I'm really looking forward. I was huge fan of LG UI, loved KitKat on G2. This is surely my best buy - fricking Snapdragon 810 for 300€.

 

[SayWhat10]

3) Disable big cores 2 and 3: this effectively turns the SD810 into a SD808 with an Adreno 430. For me, I don't notice any drop in performance or smoothness, but it does help A LOT with battery life and temperature.

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Can you explain exactly how to do this? I tried something like this before but on reboot all cores were running