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[G2 General] kayrune:
Window Case

Not sure if this is normal, because I allways use my phones naked. But to test the window function I got a cheap window case of ebay. The window screen is imo a gimmick and not very usefull, it's ok for alarms and snooze but havn't found much else use. I guess they made it that way so you have access to your keys when you fold it.

What I really like though is the fact that when you open the case the screen automatic turn on, no tripple tapping og pushing button needed.

What I don't like about this Goospery case is that there is nothing holding the cover to the screen, should have had a magnet or more weight holding it down, maybe over time it will become more loose and stay down easier.
[G2 General] amankapoor4:
I think it works well, as it lets you answer the calls without opening the case. ALso the fact that i can control my music by not opening the case(hence saving battery) is really welcome.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
How does that save you battery? You realize the screen can't just turn on a small area, and that even if you can only see the window part, the entire thing is still powered. By my experience the power saving would be minimal at best.
[G2 General] tupacpsp:
It just powers only that small part of the screen.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
That part is what shows something, but the rest is still powered. If you open a picture with a 50x50 white box, it's not like the rest of the screen is turned off.
[G2 General] amankapoor4:
Nope the rest is not powered(Atleast not the entire screen is drawn, maybe just the backlight), atleast not with the LG case. I have tested it myself only the window is powered, and rest is black.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
So how did you test this, with a multimeter? If this is the case?, It is the only time I have heard of a screen partially powering up.

Remember that there is a difference between not powered and not receiving touch input/not lighting up.
[G2 General] amankapoor4:
Tested it just by lifting the case a bit, only window was powered, everything else was black, or as i said maybe just the LCD with black color lit up. Definetly would take much lesser battery that way, then to draw the entire screen and produce all the colors.

wait i will show you a pic
[G2 General] Ajoli:
I know what you mean, and that's what I was saying. It will power up but without showing anything, thus black.

Granted this will use a lot less battery, but I'm not sure if this in the end will give much of a positive balance.
[G2 General] nobnut:
No, this only happens with OLED screens. Just because the bottom of the screen is black, it is still 'on'.
[G2 General] amankapoor4:
I guess it definitely will give you power savings, maybe not substantial but def a bit.

Either way i think the smart cover does server the purpose, and heck i got it for free with the phone :P
[G2 General] powerplaygraphix:
Okay, to clarify something about the "whether it's on or off" debate. Due to the technology involved, even if it's only rendering an image on a small portion of the screen, it's powering the full screen and rendering black on the rest of it. You CAN NOT just power PART of the screen on the G2.

The G2 uses IPS LCD technology which is either on or off. The only way to save power is adjust the brightness. Even when you see black, it's not off, it's projecting black.

AMOLED, used by the Motorola phones, powers each pixel and DOES just power part of the screen when using things like Dynamic Notifications. When the notifications come up on the Motorola phones, the only part of the screen drawing power are the pixels rendering the notifications and the rest of the screen is not. On the G2, the Dynamic Notifications app draws about 10x more power to work because it has to power the whole screen even though it only renders on a fraction of the screen.

So, really, the window case is incapable of saving any real power because even though it's not rendering on the whole screen it IS powering the whole screen and just projecting black pixels. Even in your photo, there is a glow to the black that is different from a screen that is powered off.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
Even though I'd traditionally prefer the AMOLED screens, I really love the G2 screen. It feels like a hybrid, and I'm hard pressed to find a complaint on it.
[G2 General] CtK4949:
I do like the Task Manager widget, lets you clear RAM with one click. :)

Awesome phone!!
[G2 General] blahRus:
completely agree!
[G2 General] NuclearEMP:
I just gave up my GS4 for the G2 and I so like the AMOLED better, (only my opinion) The deeper blacks just totally make all the difference.

Screen angles too :(

Phone eats up more memory than the GS4 too, my S4 always had around 1GB free and this always rides between 300-700MB

I love that Google wallet works out of the box. Compared to the Verizon GS3/GS4
[G2 General] eitama:
[MENTION=1458789]NuclearEMP[/MENTION],

The S4's Amoled color suck vs. the G2's display. Plus S4's amoled burns through the battery like nothing. The G2 Holds like a beast.

Keep in mind, I had S1, S2, S3, Note1/2, Nexus 4 and now the G2, I know my Samsung, and the G2 is just awesome.

The S4 with all it's memory, still lags all over. Phone/contacts app are slow, rotation is slow, unlocking is slow.

Lots of guys at my work have S4, I do comparisons all the time. The G2 wins hands down.

The screen angles, when are they a problem, are you not holding the phone infront of you??
[G2 General] Rayan:
+1

Exactly, but above all that I hated that I had to baby my AMOLED screens by not using full brightness for as much as possible, due to the screen burn-in problem. And what's even worst is the fact that AMOLED screens decay not just by normal use, but simply sitting on your desk face up damages your screen!!!

Yes my friends, AMOLED screens decay under UV light (artificial or not) and those nasty fluorescent bulbs in your office generate tons of UV light!

There's a post somewhere in XDA (here's the link) that talks about this and there are photos to prove it. Where a guy apparently got a demo unit from a store that was sitting on a glass shelf, and that demo unit still had the "screen protector" with an Android Logo and text which was imprinted permanently onto the screen, thanks to UV light!!!

So nope, no more AMOLED screens for me thank you!!!

In the meantime read (AMOLED UV DAMAGE) if interested

Here's the photos if you are lazy and didn't click the link above lol:

Cheers!
[G2 General] shaxs:
Sorry for late reply. We have both in the house. I prefer my G2 10xs over my wifes HTC One.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
Wow, that's awful! Yet another reason then! I just recruited a friend onto the G2 train. She's coming from an S4, and unhappy with it.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
It's not hard most of the things on the phone are useful, unlike Samsung which has 1000 things that you will never use so you have to turn them off or your battery does lol. I think the galaxy note are great phones but the last good smaller galaxy phone was the s3.

For me this my last chance I'm giving LG though since their support of their phones is awful, so hopefully they do a good job with it.
[G2 General] tatootie67:
Are you saying you have wallet working for nfc purchases, on Verizon? If so, how?
[G2 General] nitesite82:
Don't think this has been mentioned yet, but you can customise your text message backgrounds and speech bubbles etc.

From your inbox press menu > Settings > Conversation Theme. This will change the default skin for all text messages.

Or open a conversation with a specific contact menu > Change Theme. This will change the theme for that specific contact only, so you can have temes for different people.

You can change the background with either pre loaded skins or your own image and you can change the speech bubbles.
[G2 General] bckrupps:
thanks i didn't know that. phone gets better every day. i really like the LG features
[G2 General] g.b.a.:
Rear LED notification light (surrounding the power button) can be configured to light up or not during the following situations:

Incoming call

In call

Alarm

it would be great if it will light-up (even in white only) every time you have a notification (just like the one in HTC Butterfly)...
[G2 General] purpleraintoxicity:
How can you configure it?
[G2 General] lakaw:
Just wanted to say thanks to all that have posted in this thread. I've had my G2 just about a month and discovered a few new things by reading this thread.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Did you know that even you are taking a call that the light around the power button lights up so people know you are on the phone
[G2 General] virtual-aidz:
I'm pretty sure people don't need a light to show them that you are speaking in the phone when you have it up against your head and.. you know.. talking into it :D
[G2 General] jaseman:
Mine keyboard does not do that...tried several times...have the Verizon version.
[G2 General] mdfritz:
Turing your phone upside down snoozes the alarm. If it's already upside down, pushing the volume button snoozes it.

Just wanted to say how awesome this phone and this thread is. I used to flash cm nightlies on a daily basis for bleeding edge features on my devices, but just reading this thread on a daily basis is even better with all the awesomeness that is to be discovered. Plus you don't have to risk breaking your phone with crack flashing. Hard to imagine a better Rom than what LG has implemented here.
[G2 General] sreymj:
Within display settings...
[G2 General] g.b.a.:
go to Settings - Display - tap Notification LED (the word itself, not the switch) - then go down...

Enjoy!
[G2 General] Vertigo06:
If you swipe horizontally across the screen while watching a video it'll fast forward or rewind the clip. If you swipe vertically it'll raise or lower the volume. I thought that was pretty cool :)
[G2 General] ElecEngineer1422:
Inaccessible features (Praying for the future)

- USB 3.0 all the hardware is in the strange/proprietary extra deep micro USB socket. 3 extra pins on either side behind the standard 5 pins.(sketch of phone connector attached) Confirmed from service manual leaked here on XDA. Just can not find a matching USB 3.0 plug or cable.

- 4K video recording. This phone's hardware is just too close to Note 3 for it physically not capable of it, but who knows if the capability will ever be unlocked. I read an article somewhere that said this was possible, but just was not high on the priority list with LG. Tried to find it, but couldn't.

- wireless 4K video output. Shown in tech show demonstration few details offered.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/05/4k-lg-g2-phone
[G2 General] m.r.ekcah:
If you swipe vertically on the right side, it changes volume. But on the left side, it adjusts contrast.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Just like mx player does already lol
[G2 General] rbraswell8:
It was posted earlier that when you press the volume down button when the screen is off, it launches the camera app, but I don't think that anyone has mentioned that when the volume up button is pressed instead it launches quickmemo. Also, is there any way to change the apps that launch in this fashion?
[G2 General] Wekkel:
I threw some pictures and videos on my parents-in-law's TV via Direct WiFi. Panoramas were nice and detailed (took extra care when shooting them) and camera recordings were very sharp on screen (full HD). Too bad about that jittery auto focus still present.
[G2 General] rfarrah:
That sounds impressive. How did you do that?
[G2 General] azturbomini:
Hi, can you explain how you setup Direct WiFi?

Thanks
[G2 General] Wekkel:
TV must support it. It wad a Samsung Smart TV, quite new. Set up a Soft AP as Direct WiFi access point in TV settings, connect phone with WiFi direct and in gallery app, choose specific share button when viewing content.

Pics are shown on phone and TV simultaneously, videos only on TV.
[G2 General] azturbomini:
I believe my TV will support it I just don't know how to setup the soft AP. I'll Google how and report back. Thanks!
[G2 General] WPWoodJr:
The key just to the right of the space bar does that on the Verizon version.

Sent from my Verizon LG G2
[G2 General] WPWoodJr:
I forget if this has been mentioned. If you hold down the shutter button in the camera app it will set the exposure and focus based on what's in the center of the screen, then you can reframe and release the shutter button to take the shot while maintaining that same exposure and focus.

Sent from my Verizon LG G2
[G2 General] rkaria1970:
How do you select the option to choose different wallpaper for different screens?
[G2 General] amankapoor4:
In wallpaper option select Multi-Photo, then select a wallpaper for the screen you want.
[G2 General] Dr.Molestratus:
1. The battery, I expected like good battery life, but did not expect 5h +.

2. The blacks are damn near perfect.

3. The screen in general.
[G2 General] mdfritz:
Awesome, also just noticed you can drag a focal/exposure target around the screen to manually select the focal object.
[G2 General] Ajoli:
You're surprised by 5h+..? That sounds.. A little short to me. This is how you do it. ;)
[G2 General] firestonebeer:
nice, good to know.
[G2 General] Barsky:
On the LG keyboard, you can change which key is for the " . " and which is for " ' ". hold the " . " key, for instance and select a comma and now that key is the comma key. do the same swap for the " . ". I imagine others can change too
[G2 General] just1spark:
Not exactly soft AP but...

If you have a Samsung Smart TV change Source to Screen Mirroring. Now on your G2 enable Miracast. Works like a charm.
[G2 General] xb0n3z:
I just keep learning more and more about this amazing phone when I read this thread. I'm so happy I got this phone. I also got the t-mobile JUMP program so in 6 months I can trade in for an upgrade.. But heck, now I think that might be a waste as I don't want any other phone :)

The battery life is just amazing on this phone. I keep the bluetooth on (for car) and the GPS on, and wifi.. And I can go 2 days and still be at around 60-70% WTF!?
[G2 General] azturbomini:
Unfortunately it's a Vizio without this feature. I'll just have to buy the adapter and cable in order to do this. Not a big deal...
[G2 General] ElecEngineer1422:
Make sure you get the right adapter I think they all use slim port, but I have seen reviews with MHL in the spec list, and I don't know if it is wrong or not. I know the VS980, LS980, and the D803 are all definitely slim port. I do not know about the D801.
[G2 General] nagael:
My delightful discovery is just how freaking fast the phone is. Didn't really appreciate it until after a couple days use. My last smart phone was droid incredible so the change was huge.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
So here is something for you all the knock knock works 100% of the time when you use your fingernail rather then just tapping it with your finger
[G2 General] mdfritz:
Just realized that slide aside (3 finger slide to the left) stores up to 3 running apps at a time. Before this, I only thought it stored one at a time. Personally I used to think slide aside was gimmicky since holding the home button allows you to see and select all background apps, but lately I started using slide aside and noticed that it's a slightly faster way to multi task.
[G2 General] dannejanne:
I like the cliipboard feature. Didn't see that one coming!
[G2 General] dakunclear:
What do you mean
[G2 General] dannejanne:
This, when you copy text and images and such. It all gets saves in a handy clipboard for easy access by longpressing the microphone key and chosing the clipboard icon. Or press and hold in the text area and select "clip tray". It's awesome.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Totally using this feature now lol
[G2 General] zathus:
Oh that's cool. Never knew that!
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Change the look of your soft keys from white to black and there is two other options easier to play games with them not white
[G2 General] wizzcap:
After changing the stock keyboard to one handed operation by swiping, is there a way to change it back to regular? All I can seem to do is move it left or right. The two handed mode in landscape is nice and I can get it to move back together.
[G2 General] 20degrees:
It's in the keyboards options. Also if you hold down the keyboard key in between the settings key and the smiley key.

LG G2
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Just download Swype then you will never use the keyboards from stock ever again
[G2 General] Evilmonstertruck:
I cam across something this morning. Was watching Pacific Rim on my phone and was blown away by the detail of the high def.. It was amazing. My DNA never looked this good
[G2 General] puch0021:
Is it me or why aren't all these features and tips documented by LG in one cohesive document? It's like all the nifty features are hidden for no reason.

Either way, I've been following this thread and I am pretty impressed with all the features, mostly aren't gimmicks either. Makes you wonder how many of these features were glossed over during the initial reviews of the phone.
[G2 General] Life Engineer:
Yes swype across the keyboard from one side to another! (make sure this option is enable in one-handed settings menu)
[G2 General] thewihlygeek:
Read through trying to see if this was mentioned but didn't find it.

The app/shortcut folders that you can make on the home screens are my favorite I've ever used. They may look a little weird when they're 1x1, but they can expand!

Once you expand them, you can scroll through the apps in the folder without ever opening the full folder. It's like a mini app-launcher-page widget.
[G2 General] absinthex:
Software and Drivers

I love that fact that I didn't have to go searching for the right software and drivers for my device. Plugging it in via USB and clicking the software button that pops up in the list of what you want to do installed it all for me. That alone made me giddy as can be.
[G2 General] N1rav:
Read this in another thread. Hope it helps. :good:
[G2 General] mdfritz:
Exactly. The stock keyboard has it's perks, but when it comes to nailing down the right word selections, Swype leaves it in the dust (especially for hasty swiper typers like me). Plus Swype stores characters like @ in the user dictionary (to store and Swype your email address). Only thing is for some reason Swype takes like 3 seconds to load up sometimes.

On another note: it might be old news, but I just figured out that pressing down volume and power button simultaneously takes a screen shot, or you can slide up from the LG logo to save a quick memo screen shot.
[G2 General] Ms.Dummbunny:
I know...I practically got "whiplash" from doing doubletakes at my Battery indicator the first week...100% w/ everything on after 9 hours?! whaaaaa?! no fr***king way?! lol

1. I love how smooth the glass is

2. how you can move the notification down a bit and it stays where you put it so you don't have to look at the clutter, remote, toggles, etc

3. I love how easy it was to install flash apk using Cricketusers.com

4. the stock keyboard allows you to hold down the "microphone/T for Text" key and change to pen/paper and u can draw instead of TYPE right in ANY app that requests text

5. camera allows you to use the flash while recording

6. once adobe flash installed, I was able to d/l LG Smart World for additional themes and wallpapers

7. two finger scroll on stock browser zips to bottom or top of page

8. love being able to customize/change EVERY SINGLE icon with an image or a diff icon

9. love the gazillion emoticons on stock keyboard that even show up in gmail and iphones

10. its awesome how u don't even need the Q Slide tray. ANY ap u open if it has the little "four corner w/ arrows" icon allows it to be a Qslide app, even if not launched from Q slide

11. like how the little "screen lock" icon appears whenever you are in any Note-type application so you don't accidently launch apps while drawing

12 VuTalk - BEST feature (but you have to have another LG phone - fortunately, I have 4!) - Lets u draw, send tpics, doodles, clip art in REAL time..appears on other phone as you are writing (got a vid on this on my BOSSYTEXASCHICK youtube channel)

Those are just off the top of my head...So great to see how many ppl are enjoying this phone!

oh & almost forgot, love the flip case & how great my skin looks on it:

Ms D aka BTC ; )
[G2 General] zabihjan:
swype downfall is it has no emoji support.

this is the first android phone for me which displays color emojis unlike stock keyboard with boring black and white from nexus 4
[G2 General] jim_0068:
Another option i just learned about that i didn't see reviewed was almost a "halo" type feature built into the Qslide apps. For instance, if you have the stock browser or the calculator or any of the Qslide apps you can "dock them" to the side of the screen by dragging the window to the side of the screen. It's like a cross between halo and the facebook chat heads. This works really well with the stock browser and i use it a lot
[G2 General] jayochs:
doesn't work here. it keeps the focus but the exposure will still change depending how much light is in the image.
[G2 General] sreymj:
Thanks for pointing out. Pretty cool.
[G2 General] xb0n3z:
Hmmmm I tried it with my fingernails and it didn't work.. I just use KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.. THAT works every-time :)

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I think I read somewhere that Slide aside actually lets your programs run in real time, not so much in the background.. I haven't confirmed this yet, but would be cool if it does.
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Odd anyways one thing I have noticed LG did a much better job with their tv remote app compared with Samsung
[G2 General] Ms.Dummbunny:
They TOTALLY did a MUCH more awesomer (lol) job.... Yet, to hear the reviewers say it, they constantly say things like, "boring, basic, no content, blah blah blah." Will the dogging of this amazingly capable device ever cease?!

Well, i've tried Peel on several diff Samsung Devices, and i never even got thru the "setting up of my TV's" process, much less browsing the content" app...Too complicated and nothing seemed to work right.

This is just "program, go, use!" I even set the Quick Remote as one of my Lock Screen apps, so i actually USE it everytime i need to turn on TV. I love how it combines all ur remotes for ONE room in "one power off/on button"...

Ms D
[G2 General] fergusstrachan:
Not really a delightful discovery, quite the opposite, but all this Vienna Boys Choir crap is starting to irritate me!

"Life is good" - fk off. ;)

Other than that, great phone.
[G2 General] GeneralRam:
Works quite well as an alarm though!! It wakes me up as I am in a fit of rage when I am hearing them singing "GOOD MORNING do do do do doooo"
[G2 General] dannejanne:
Wow didn't know about this thanks.
[G2 General] vween:
HA! This is great. Every phone should have this. There's people who STILL go around with a phone up to their ear and not really on the phone.
[G2 General] WPWoodJr:
I guess maybe you aren't doing it right because I just tested and can confirm that the exposure does lock on my Verizon G2.

Hold down the shutter button and you should get a rectangle in the middle of the screen. Let the focus and exposure lock on and then point the camera somewhere else. Release the shutter and the exposure and focus will be locked to what it was before you reframed the picture.

Sent from my Verizon LG G2
[G2 General] antawnm26:
Look at my contact icon they can be changed with any picture
[G2 General] dakunclear:
Teach me
[G2 General] antawnm26:
hold the icon until a brush appears on it then a window will open then select photo icon then hit the plus tab which is to add a icon
[G2 General] turbocomppro:
For the life of me I can't figure out what that "N" icon on my status bar is. It's like a double N justify to the right of my status bar. I can see the screenshot a few posts up has it too... Anyone know?
[G2 General] Kroutnuk:
The double N is the NFC which is activated
[G2 General] zarok:
That is NFC
[G2 General] turbocomppro:
Thank you. It was driving me nuts! Came from a Nexus 4 and it didn't have that... thanks again...
[G2 General] tupacpsp:
NFC,
[G2 General] OptimusL:
Thanks for this :).
[G2 General] Mandroid421:
Is it the NFC Logo?