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[G2 General] timisalf:
This is going to be my next upgrade, the specs alone sold me but I don't think I can wait for the HTC one mega or a note 3, and all these people who claim its a deal breaker on the size must not remember what its like to use a 4.3 inch phone, or even a 4 in for that matter. Or they have baby sized hands that can't grip a 5.2 in. Also having the buttons on the back should not detour you from this purchase. I mean unless you stick with the same manufacturer the buttons switch sides on different phones, so its just something to get used to. I've been an android user since the HTC G1 and this phone looks to be the device our OS was meant for.

Edit: I meant HTC one max not mega sorry
[G2 General] android.racer:
This will definitely be my next phone. Can't wait for the release in Germany. I hope lg will change it's update policy and the first tests will be great.

For now I am very impressed by the G2.

Hope there will be a huge community like the S2 is.
[G2 General] hockeyfamily737:
The HTC One Max is out of the question for me. I have a One and the camera is just awful. I'll just wait and see what the official Note 3 specs look like before I make a final decission.
[G2 General] timisalf:
I've never used the camera on the HTC one but I have played with it a bit at best buy. Is the camera really that bad on it and if so what makes it bad (blurry pics, lack of options etc.) ?
[G2 General] hockeyfamily737:
It's only 4 megapixel, so even though low light exposure with the Ultrapixel sensors is fantastic, the pics are just not clear. They look alright on the phone screen, but if you transfer them to the pc and try and view them...... just plain awful. Very grainy.
[G2 General] timisalf:
Good to know, I mean I wasn't sure that the quality of pictures was gonna be my deal breaker but I take a lot of pics of my kids and transfer them to my PC to print them out. I don't think I wanna PRI t out grainy pics. Thanks for the insight on that subject; just reinforces my decision on the G2. Still waiting on a review though to solidify my decision.
[G2 General] ghandi500:
I was thinking I might pick one of these up when my current contract ends, but I'm not sure I could put up with the Notification Tray. On all of the videos I've seen of this phone there are that many custom settings in the notification tray that the actual notifications seem to start 2/3 of the way down..
[G2 General] Super Chimp:
What puts me off LG devices is their poor record on upgrades for them.
[G2 General] FinancialWar:
this or Note 3?
[G2 General] syzwn9:
Currently I'm using LG optimus 2x as my device which is already 3 years old.

Actually this is really tough device to be used except the bad support from Nvidia lol

LG G2 3000mah battery, button at the back and OIS camera can be my main reason to upgrade :D
[G2 General] Ascertion:
Looks like confirmed 32GB Internal storage, as per LG's webpage.

http://www.lg.com/global/g2/sub3.html

Looks sexy, too.
[G2 General] FinancialWar:
is battery removable?
[G2 General] Daniel:
Considering this phone for my next upgrade. The only thing worth noting is how it will rest in a pocket. Wouldnt the rear buttons get accidental presses?
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
No one cares. I mean Average Joe will buy next Big Phone after 2 years with new Android on it. And for geeks, well for geeks there is xda ;)
[G2 General] Super Chimp:
Do any of their handsets ever get any upgrades now, has there been any improvement by them in this?
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
haven't you heard that LG's SU640 of 2011 year received JB 4.1.2 recently after 18 month in sales? It was 2.3 GB on start, mind you?
[G2 General] Super Chimp:
Well I suppose you could say better late than never.;)
[G2 General] gossa777:
With my recent experience with Optimus G, the upgrades were held back big time because of carriers with their bloated stuff.

But otherwise improvements were great and LG Optimus G, G pro, nexus 4 were just impressive.
[G2 General] Super Chimp:
Can you count the Nexus 4 as that's Google handling the updates not LG?
[G2 General] toastyc12:
The OG had some delays getting JB at first, as far as I remember, it sounded like LG and Sprint had poor communication with each other. The phone was well above par of what I've come to expect from LG, and I still hold it's purchase in higher regard than my alternate choice at the time - waiting for the one. LG's really become a force to be reckoned with.
[G2 General] gossa777:
Haha obviously Nexus 4's updates are dealt by Google.

But looking at other latter devices like Optimus G, LG was pretty quick to come out with updates. However the main held back was the carriers.

I was using ATT Optimus G and its 4.1 updates arrived like 6 months after updates were released in Korea. Additionally Sprint had its update for Optimus G couple months before ATT, which, I believe, means updates are slowed down by carriers inserting their bloatwares.
[G2 General] meld:
L5 L7 L9 4X OG got JB update
[G2 General] Beach_Head:
Has LG mentioned anything about the bootloader status of this thing?
[G2 General] xboxfanj:
I think part of why LG has been so bad at updates is that they're all over the place with different flagships on different carriers, countries, etc. Seems like they're taking a more logical approach and focusing on one device worldwide so their updates could be fairly quick. Same happened with samsung with the Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S3. They were awful with updates on the Galaxy S1, but had a better strategy later so they could update their next devices more quickly, so we'll see if that happens here or not.
[G2 General] Hendrickson:
LG does release updates, but not upgrades of android version very fast. They do release OTA bug fixes.

Btw there is root.

There is a video up of the G2 camera vs the Optimus G.. You can see a difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekN9As4r7ms

You can also resize the bottom nav bar or have it auto hide using this app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270198
[G2 General] danilkazzz:
I got my G2 on an LG event at IFA in Berlin and the phone is amazing. The screen is a blast with vivid colors and the bezel is very thin.

Yesterday I also had the opportunity to put it agains the Note 3 and the S4 in benchmarks and also hands-on. I was surprised that the G2 had nearly 5000 more points in AnTuTu. The Note 3 has 3GB of RAM, the G2 just 2. The rest of the hardware is actually the same.

The benchmark comparison is on my YouTube channel (/danilkazzz), the hands-on comparison will be online soon as well.

If you have any questions, just ask.
[G2 General] phobic99:
Thanks for the video. I'm trying to decide between these 2 phones and your video helps just a bit more. Still undecided. :good:
[G2 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
Unless you like a lot of ui lag, getting the G2 is a no brainer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzCxN1W_i1s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[G2 General] i9100g user:
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Note 3 has the higher end S800 ,which makes it perform better whereas G2 doesn't , antutu is pretty useless right now as the software was not final on it also all other benchmarks show note 3 is performing better than G2 (mind the faster s800 in it).
[G2 General] joshm.1219:
G2 has an 800 too.

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[G2 General] wargreymon89:
Note 3 uses the same MSM8974 as G2, not the MSM8974AB, it is 35MHz faster however.
[G2 General] lilkhmerkid4u:
Will this be coming in both black and white on launch day?
[G2 General] Semantics:
That lag on the N3 is just ridiculous. Just goes to show you that TW is just plain bad. Samsung still can't figure out how to optimize it with top notch hardware.

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T-Mobile has both colors. I'm not sure about the other carriers.
[G2 General] 1BadHEMI:
Just pulled the plug and ordered 1 on T-Mobile. My HTC One will be going to my Wife and her S4 can go in the trash as far as I'm concerned! I have heard nothing but complaints about her S4 since she got!

Hardest decision was black or white. As much as I wanted to click the button for white, I ended up going for black instead. What color is everyone else thinking about?
[G2 General] Semantics:
I'm going to get the black one, I just can't for the life of me use a white phone. I'm not too worried about the finger prints on the back, I'm going to get that jet black Spigen slim case for it, its dead sexy.

Do they say when the phone is shipping?
[G2 General] ap3604:
I go caseless + I can't stand fingerprints so it would be white for me.
[G2 General] trh1341:
You can send that s4 to me?:) I am trying to broaden my ROM development to more phones
[G2 General] Dchibro:
I totally agree, assuming the case looks (and functions/feels) as good in person as it does in the render.
[G2 General] i9100g user:
Well hereyou can look at Note 3 benchmarks .

S4 with snapdragon 800 and Note 3 are performing marginally better than other Snapdragon 800 devices ,to be more precise ,look at note 3 Glbenchmarks it is scoring 68fps in Egypt HD and 26Fps in Rex HD ,second highest scorer is z ultra with 60 and 23fps(68 vs 60 improvement is 11.5% and 26 vs 23 improvement is 11.7%)

Which definitely is more than 9% as shown above.

Here is another slide showing difference between 8974 and 8974ab.

Also according to andreilux adreno 330,GPU in Samsung devices is clocked at 550mhz .

Even if they are not using msm8974 GPU is definitely clocked higher .(which is quite unlikely)
[G2 General] wargreymon89:
Note 3 has 3 gb of ram out of those 3gb only 2440mbps is available to the user, which means Samsung has given a huge amount to the system including the gpu which gives the boost, then we have thermal throttling, optimisation and variation in result that can affect.

A good example of ram the gpu can use is Z1 vs G2, Z1 has 50mb more, and as you see it gets slightly better results.

I can find probably 50 results saying the note 3 runs at 450mhz and not a single that it runs at 550, so please provide a source with your claim.
[G2 General] i9100g user:
You mean to say that the extra ram in Note 3 is the cause of better results in glbenchmark?

I dont think so ,Korean Galaxy S4 with 2GB RAM is also scoring the same as note 3(link)

Most probably because no one actually tried to find it out,once Anandtech recieve their unit we will find it out,since they found out last time too (8064AB was used in S4),though here is the quote from Andreilux,which almost confirms it (for me at least)
[G2 General] wargreymon89:
Then I guess Samsung is doing better optimisation, kudos to them for that. I dont know this who Andreilux is, but without anything to back it up, words are just words.
[G2 General] jayochs:
IMO, benchmarks don't mean a thing when the overall experience on the phone is choppy and laggy, which is the case with the S4 and what the Note 3 looks like as well. On paper and benchmarks, they're both amazing, but in actual everyday use, they're laggy. that touchwiz notification dropdown is horrible, and lags 50% of the time. noticeable framerate drops from 60 to 30 occur often (i thought this was project butter here..?) i can't even use swiftkey and type fast on my S4 without it lagging behind hardcore on touchwiz. it's awful. whereas on my DNA, swiftkey works fine and doesn't lag one bit.

the dna has the last gen processor (quad core s4 pro) with lower benchmarks....yet it's NOTICEABLY faster than my S4. it flies through all of my actions, typing is super fast, and it never gets choppy or lags out.
[G2 General] WizeGuyDezignz:
I agree, my LG G2 can't come fast enough so I can dump my laggy S4. I've been rooting and flashing roms for years and would consider myself very experienced in the Android game. And no matter what I do, the S4 still has lag.

I don't care about benchmarks or specs in a Samsung phone.... Until they debloat and completely optimize touchwiz, their phones will lag and I won't touch them again until they do this. Their software is easily the worst optimized manufacturer ui in the business.
[G2 General] wargreymon89:
When I said optimisation I meant benchmark optimisation (should be noticeable in some stuff). But as you said, if TW isnt optimised it will still lag. I cant speak if TW lag or not since I havent used any Samsung phone on daily basis. I do know I havent noticed any lag on my Optimus G though.
[G2 General] jayochs:
which is why i'm pretty excited..everything i've seen of the G2 looks super quick, and that's not even the finished product they're saying. woot
[G2 General] lilkhmerkid4u:
I'm not a phone nut..so i don't know what that means exactly, but if the G2 will be the nexus 5...does it mean its going to be the exact same phone? is it just a software difference or will there be a different hardware/camera?

I really can't wait to throw away my current phone...but if the "nexus 5" is going to be so much better than the G2...i might have to wait
[G2 General] varunkumars:
I perfectly agree. Choppiness is one reason why i switched over to HTC One from S4. HTC one is a lot smoother. I am not sure but i think external sd card and removable battery may the reason for the lagginess. I was disheartened when they launched S4 with the same touchwiz(laggy, choppy). They haven't changed with the Note 3(same touchwiz) also. Although there are some tricky features in S4 that doesn't fulfill the purpose. I don't want to hurt anyone's feeling/likings but i think Samsung is turning very arrogant. Success is hard to keep.

LG G2 is much better than any other android they say. Glad to see competition in Android. Can't wait to get my G2.
[G2 General] jayochs:
I'm on my dna again running the sense 5 roms ported from the Verizon one and its so much faster than my s4. battery sucks, but there's no lag. touchwiz just blows since jellybean.
[G2 General] AmirAli44:
What color do you guys thinks is more appealing? I always buy the black version of phones but this times I liked the front a lot of the G2 white. What color are you choosing?

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[G2 General] Darkestred:
From what i hear Verizon will only have black...I'm ok with that. I took a white s3 during pre-orders because i wanted the phone. It grew on me. I personally don't care since mine will have a case.
[G2 General] jspradling7:
Mine will go into a kickstand holster as soon as I take it out of the box. Any color will be fine.
[G2 General] lilkhmerkid4u:
I'm not a phone nut..so i don't know what that means exactly, but if the G2 will be the nexus 5...does it mean its going to be the exact same phone? is it just a software difference or will there be a different hardware/camera?

I really can't wait to throw away my current phone...but if the "nexus 5" is going to be so much better than the G2...i might have to wait

please respond
[G2 General] rukkus:
The nexus 5 will probably be a slightly less powerful version of the g2 to keep off contract pricing down.
[G2 General] djkinetic:
This...keep in mind the nexus line of devices has never been about the best specs... Its always been about development and showcasing the os not hardware... Willing to bet it will be closer to specs you would find on a nice midrange phone.. and there definitely won't be any SD card..
[G2 General] lilkhmerkid4u:
So whats all the hype of "just wait for the Nexus 5! I cant wait until they release the Nexus 5!" if it's just a "Dumbed" down version of the G2? Sorry for sounding so ignorant..just that a few people already told me to wait for the Nexus 5 when I told them about the G2
[G2 General] Darkestred:
I say get the g2. Unless you don't want the back buttons wait for the n5. I personally couldn't care less about the software experience. I'll just wait for unlocked bootloader, root and roms. Well, hopefully.
[Sony Xperia ZR] Deleted member 5309739:
I'm having trouble with the GPS on my ZR. Basicly it seems that it won't startup when I startup an App like Google Maps, Waze or Foursquare. GPS function is on, but it won't activate, no GPS icon shows in the top left corner. Nor does it find satellites when I check that through an app like GPS Status. When I turn off GPS by using the widget, and turn it back on, most of the time the GPS icon will appear in the upper left corner and I will get a lock on. Sadly this won't last, the icon dissappears and so does the GPS lock.

I tried this fix: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2197842

But it does not work. From the start, the app shows that my phone wont even find the satellites, in stead of just not getting a fix with them.

Anyone have any suggestions on what to try? I am om the official update 4.2.2 and unrooted.
[Sony Xperia ZR] itandy:
GPS works very well for me in both 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. It seems your GPS doesn't work at all. Maybe take it back for a replacement?
[Sony Xperia ZR] blue_quartz:
Just to be sure... try tapping on the lower right icon that zooms to your default location with GPS off. It should show a pretty wide blue circle. When you toggle GPS using the widget and you see the GPS icon appearing shortly on the notification bar, can you check if the blue circle shrinks due to the more accurate GPS measurements? Of course try this in an open area...

The GPS icon doesn't stay on for me always when I turn it on, I always presume it will only really be activated periodically when it needs to...
[Sony Xperia ZR] GavinLiu:
Have you turn on some power saving function? try to turn them off.
[Sony Xperia ZR] Deleted member 5309739:
Problem went away, but unfortunately I dont know how. I did fiddle around with the app GPS STATUS and deinstalled Google Maps to stock. Cleared all caches too. Glad it was software and not hardware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uetian304:
Hi all,

I have SONY XPERIA tipo with 803MB Internal Sotrage and 2.20 GB.

I have rooted the phone, and set external 32GB card as the default SD card (i.e. phone thinks its internal memory is 32GB) via changes in

/etc/vold.fstab

file.

The result is that phone regards the 2.20GB space as external memory.

I can move many applications to 32GB card, however some applications e.g. BusyBox, GCC Toolchain, and Chrome are not movable to Internal storage (32GB) or external storage (2.20GB).

Since the 2.20GB space is of no use for me, and it is mounted under the same device where "phone memory" 803 MB is mounted i.e. :

/dev/block/mmcblk0 = 3909 MB

/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 = 524 MB

/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 = 167 MB

/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 = 803 MB

/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 = 2311 MB

Surely, the last partition "/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 = 2311 MB" is the free storage not being used, and "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 = 803 MB" is the phone memory, which I want to extend/increase.

My question is:

Is it possible to merge the alst 2 partitions (e.g. by formatting 2.2GB space and then merging it with the 803MB space. This way my phone will have its system memory pretty large, and I will be able to install more applets through BusyBox as well as Chrome etc.

Best regards.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snoop05:
maybe Linear RAID these volumes - linux thing but i didnt seen anybody did that on android

you can use EXT partition and script for apps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uetian304:
found nothing related to device partition management

After further searching, and wasting many precious hours, I found nothing except this old thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1171531

But it is related to an LG machine. Furthermore the process is very much cumbersome for a simple task like this.

I thought a couple of linux commands would do this, as usually we Linux user do, but the only partition tool available for android works only with the external sdcard (mounted as a separate storage, not as the device storage).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ralfsteck:
That time is never waisted, You learned things :)

I think the problem is that Android is not Linux but something similar or in other words a subset of Linux. Many things that are configurable in Linux are not in Android. That's why many phone companies do funny things with partitions e.g. mount internal partitions as SC cards.

That's how it is as far as I know. Cheers, Ralf
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] radhoo:
I made some research on how to display a cursor on Android. As a result of that, and thanks for popular request, I finally developed a freeware Android app, for Android OS 4.0 or newer that lets you choose a customized, bigger size cursor. It can be used both with OTG Cable/USB Mouses and with Bluetooth mouses. Those interested can find it on Google play, search for BigMouse. The good news is it doesn't need root! So it's just a user-level app that does all the job easy.

It's a bit of a hack - I am using a clever mechanism to detect the original mouse location, and draw the bigger overlay cursor image on top of that location.

Link to original article / research work here: http://www.pocketmagic.net/2012/07/android-overlay-cursor/ (if not ok with site rules, please remove the link, but leave the rest, as it solves the cursor problem). Let me know how it works on your devices, I tested it on several, both phones and tablets.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] s0m3dud3:
Great idea, but it doesn't seem to work on JellyBean? Or if it does, it's not detectingmy Aten bluetoot KM switch and constanty prompts to connect a mouse :(

Any ideas?

Cheers
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] radhoo:
I have only tested it on Android 4.0 .
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bossman137:
Doesn't seem to be on the app store anymore. Would be a great addition to my car install. What happened?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] NHS2008:
Hi what happened to this project? I was looking for something like this to use in conjuction with an Android TV box...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KD6266:
Thanks but can we change the colour
[Blade General] I Love The Register Video:
Alrighty then. I have Zte Blade 3. Lovely phone. I rooted it and I really loved it. Everything worked perfectly. I even connected my phone to my ADSL 2+ modem. I loved it! And then and ugly motherfu***r like me had to do this. BRICK IT. I tried installing a new mod unsuccesfully. Installation process gave me error so I clicked reboot now in recovery mode.So it turned off. And then it showed me android logo as it always shows when its booting up. And I thought Imma give a rest to the mods I will enjoy my phone as it is. But the problem appeared. My phone DID NOT PASS the green android logo.Just sitting there.Can't enter recovery mode via key combination(never could I actually used RootBlade3 program to enter recovery mode). But now I cant boot,enter recovery mode or get recognized by my pc. Cuz the phone wont boot up. Before you asked I did update all my drivers. This phone cost me some good money and since Im 15 Im dead if I dont get this right. Imma make you a rich man If you fix it(lying cuz Im broke) Thanks in advance.:laugh:
[Blade General] kevinrus123:
Download the official update.zip from official ZTE website for your phone!

It contains a recovery.img .

First copy the whole update.zip to your sdcard.

Then fastboot the stock recovery.img ..

Now it wont boot full , you are only able to get in recovery.

So go in recovery , apply update ; choose the update.zip and let the update.zip install.

Your phone should work fully normally now.
[Blade General] I Love The Register Video:
Thanks need more help

Im so happy you replied. Now here comes the deal-all the flashing and struff not good at it. If you could explain step by step I would be grateful. Slap a link of drivers and I thought you cant flash when your phone cant be recognized. Cuz when I enter fastboot it says waiting for device and then it says device not found. I tried almost every solution via modaco-tpt and many others...please help me bro :D
[Blade General] kevinrus123:
You said you tried the recovery.img to fastboot , so : do you got the fastboot drivers for Blade III installed? :)

When you ain't installed them , it is normal that devices won't be found.

Click here to get to drivers :)