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[G2 General] wulsic:
[MENTION=5241909]freinet[/MENTION] thanks for the tip but the moto g is like a downgrade for me if I compare the hardware and I was watching xiaomi mi3 but I won't take that one, community is not big enough for me so not much fun :(

[MENTION=4129455]Formhault[/MENTION] I am also happy with other old phones, i have the nokia n95 atm till I have another one its good enough for me but android is some kindof hobby from me which makes me happy again :) I know the Motorola V360, we still have that phone somewhere home but it didnt worked anymore I believe. And time's changed yes its still going further much more... Octa core phones xd phones are getting stronger and thinner then pc's...

I am still not sure yet, my heart says the G2 but my brains and my geekness says n5 because of gorilla glass3, android development.

The only reason why I am still thinking is about the screen problem xd scares the sh1t out of me thats why I also try to search one SH with warranty if this problem didnt existed I would have bought the G2 immediatly.

Space isnt really the problem for me 16GB since I also wanted to buy an OTG with an big micro sd :)

I can afford an 16GB G2 now but one with warranty I still have to find :/ but thats not that hard. Idk yet...

Lol xd why did you thought I came from Serbia or Croatia? And that I was around the age 20? I am just wondering about that. I am just geeky.

Sorry for long message
[G2 General] Formhault:
I noticed LG ROMs natively support exFAT formatted external storage devices. Which works fine for me, just as NTFS (which is not natively supported, unfortunately, so flashing off a NTFS drive via Recovery isn't gonna work).

Powered OTG USB... I haven't seen such things. Can you direct me to one such cable? And since we're talking about cables... Can we have a setup where the G2 is placed on the table, connected to this thing which has SlimPort output + several USB ports (for mouse / keyboard / drive) + cable for charging off a wall outlet? Or is that too much :silly:

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I meant times changed like... Back when I was your age (feeling older, lel), parents didn't really use to give their children a shiny expensive phone to meddle with. Nowadays, a $300 phone is a MUST have. I mean I've even seen 10 year olds handling iPhone 5S's, like... what the actual f***... Anyway, nevermind. /rant over

Well... try harder until you find a LG G2 with warranty. If you really can't find one... then go for the Nexus 5, of course... but make sure that one is covered by warranty, as well - although I feel the N5 is much less likely to need warranty service.

I dunno. Perhaps I don't expect 14 year olds to come here and talk like this. Most 14 year olds I know (= not so many, lol) are like "iPhone for life, man. Besides, you don't have a Beats pair of headphones, so you must die".

I just noticed you're a Recognized Contributor. And 14 years old. Wow. Keep up the good work, young padwan :D
[G2 General] wulsic:
[MENTION=4129455]Formhault[/MENTION] about that time changed I get what you mean, even I am not old or what but i see 8-9 year old girls mosty with iphone 5s and or 4s like wtf? Walking over street without watching or a car is coming !?!? People nowadays are really addicted to their phone. The girls in my class are also almost 24/7 on internet with their phones, selfies everywhere etc. I am buying most time SH phones which are like new so no real damage for android hobby to learn stuff etc also for later.

I buy my phone from my own pocket money from what I spare from holidays, birthday etc I only got 125 euro from my parents to find one and then I added my own pocket money to it :)

I had 2-3 years ago still the htc elf then the google nexus one for like 80 euro my first android flashing toy :) then the Optmus 2x etc, so I was also behind with device from people these days but idc about it since I am happy because I also paid an low price for it and from my own pocketmoney partly. I dont like to waste money for nothing :/

I will do my best to find an g2 with 1year warranty. Else if I cant I will just get myself the nexus 5 :)

Lol formhault I get what you mean Iphone for life or Samsung for life. I had listned once to beat headphones from an friend who owns htc, i am not a fan of it.

Thankyou also :) I am trying to keep up the work but school gets more every year sadly :D android is just very interessting for me just like technology but some things like fingerprint scanners on phones are going to far for me, where is the world going :/ it doesnt deserve the name phone anymore since cellular is slowly going away and phablets are the new thing :/ .

Sorry again for long post idk whats my problem today :p
[G2 General] siggey:
And so, go for an used ls980, and unlock it for gsm use. No 4g in Europe, but 3g is fast enought for me. I got mine for 150€ shipped from usa, no warranty, but if [and I say IF] the screen will be damaged, I will buy one from ebay for 50€ and change it by miself.

Just my 2 cents
[G2 General] wulsic:
[MENTION=1952778]siggey[/MENTION] thanks for your tip but I would better see the phone myself in real instead of shipping, I also know people who's family had ordered an tv from usa which never came. I dont trust it to transfer 150 euro to usa for an ls980 since 150 euro is already much I dont want to risk it. Screen replacement I trust but a full phone to send over not really,

Again thanks for your tip :)
[G2 General] MarkRain:
I'd like to buy a G2 too but i really didn't like the pictures i saw in the net about the touchscreen grid on the display.

I mean...ok, i can accept this grid when the sceen is off, but it seems like that it's often visible also with the screen on, in sunlight at certain angles for example.

That's absolutely unacceptable...
[G2 General] Formhault:
Fun fact : my first G2 unit had the vertical lines (mostly visible on white backgrounds), but this second unit I have now does not have them AT ALL. So I guess it's hit & miss... :confused:

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That's not something to apologize for ;)
[G2 General] khaytsus:
EVERY capacitive device has those at the right angle... :rolleyes:
[G2 General] Formhault:
Only those that have the digitizer ON TOP of the display. And not all of them.

I'm telling you, my G2 does not have the vertical lines most G2's have! You can't argue with my eagle eye :silly:
[G2 General] siggey:
You are free to choose your path, but if you buy from ebay and pay with paypal you can have your money back.
[G2 General] MarkRain:
Not such a funny fact to be honest :D

Should i pay a lot of money to have a device that CAN be perfect but it has a high % to be "defective"?

Reading on the net seems like that everyone who's buying the g2 in these days can see the grid with the screen on...

Every device has those grid, that's true, but none of them has it visible when the display is on. I've never seen one, and i'd like to never see one :D
[G2 General] Formhault:
Funny can also mean weird, strange. :p

Well... good news for me, then! This unit does not have the grid lines, so if I ever am to get the digitizer replaced and the new one will have the lines, I'll have what to ponder LG's head on about until they replace the whole device (so new battery :silly: ), or complain to the national Customer Protection agency and get my money back.
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
Yes, this is the Micro USB Male to USB Female w/ USB Male OTG Cable - Black that I have.

The "extra" port is for using external power, so you can use a USB mouse connected to your G2, and the remaining port goes to your computer/laptop so no power from the G2 is used for the USB mouse.

On certain conditions I can also see vertical grid lines on my replaced G2 panel. Doesn't bother me.

Compass.
[G2 General] ceyo14:
Is anyone interested in some lcd panels? Im going to replace various broken screens and the lcds could be used to test this...
[G2 General] Formhault:
I see. Thanks!

Does that also charge your phone? I mean can you hook it up to a charger? I mean it charges off of the USB port, so you could plug that in the 5V~1.8A wall charger of the G2, for example... right?

And what about the "station" thingy I was talking about? Charge the phone + use an USB OTG (or more, like a hub) + SlimPort (output to HDMI)? :silly:

And it's just been replaced... :eek:
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
No, it won't charge your phone. It's meant only for suppying external power to the attached USB device.

Hmmm, I don't if such a thing exists. Never searched for one.

Yes, but it's barely visible and only when the screen is off.

Compass.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Awwww :( okay. So at least the phone doesn't have to supply power to the OTG thingy... just data...

Oh? So the line(s) isn't visible when the screen is on? Just when it's off (how's that possible?!)... :eek:
[G2 General] khaytsus:
...........the digitizer lines.........
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
:highfive:

Compass.
[G2 General] turboawdftw:
just got it...

So ive been flashing roms for the past two-three months, including Malladus, C-Rom, Carbon Rom, Spirit ROM, Rage ROM, etc... using TWRP... No problems... but when i flashed PARANOID Rom 4.6 Beta 1, I got this weird color snow effect when it booted up the first time. I freaked out, turned off the phone, and restarted it... no problem... Now I wanted to give SlimKat a try, so I attempted to put the phone into recovery (by using the power button), to do a quick reboot into recovery, I got the LG logo melting into white/gray, and saw the dreaded vertical lines appear on the right.

SInce then, the vertical lines have persisted... Like others have posted, the occurrence of these vertical lines MAY be related to a hot reboot into recovery... But truth be told, I have hot rebooted into recovery a few times previously. But this Paranoid ROM was a little wonky compared to other roms i've flashed (the color snow effect, the LG logo graying screen)... so maybe there's a couple of factors.

Ive put in for a warranty replacement, lets see what LG will do.
[G2 General] HueyT:
I also got the black lines on the right side X 5 thin, single pixel wide, black lines. They persisted in recovery, stock, LG boot screen, all screens.I was playing around with PA 4.6 beta2 also. Got the melting LG logo, turning white, quickly forced reboot, black lines persisted :(

KDZ to 24A stock, await refurbish replacement swap :(
[G2 General] br0ok1ynb0i:
I think Nexus 5 may be a better choice for you, IMHO. I own both devices n5 and g2 and both have their pros/cons.

As you know N5 has a huge dev support and if your a flasholic like me, this phone won't disappoint. You won't need to worry about the screen damage issue G2 is facing when flashing.

The G2 is a BEAST, the battery life is insane on this thing. But I try not to mess/flash with this phone too much because of this screen issue.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Right. What the hell was I thinking :eek:
[G2 General] HueyT:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jp...odWdHyaRllZ0sc/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

Interesting results to screen damage survey: Majority of damages resulted from PA and Carbon and 4.4 modem with melty, inverted LG logo

But, it could rarely happens on stock based roms too.
[G2 General] reas0n:
Interesting? sh*tty CAF commits are the reason. PA, Carbon, AOKP(?) and CM are based on it. also the old bootloader + other partitions which won't be updated unless u flash stock KK kdz and use AutoRec (old bootloader still is there then)

Just look that there's no Vanir ROM in survey, for example.

We definitely need the L update with unlockable bootloader. Without it, we are kinda f*cked
[G2 General] Lawlrus:
If it is a caf commit I just don't understand why not a single person has ever gotten them while messing with jackpotclavins 4.4 kernel sourced cm.

He made the first build for any aosp ROM that was on the new kernel, and nothing.

Sent from my Vs980 running Aicp 6.0
[G2 General] ceyo14:
No one is interested in the LCD screens?
[G2 General] HueyT:
I agree as PA, CARBON, and (less so) SlimKat are top 3 offenders when using 4.4.4 (not as much other versions)

Is there a way to bypass the LG boot screen? If so it may avoid the screen damages.
[G2 General] reas0n:
SlimKat was using wrong sources for a while, now it's safe. Bypass the LG boot screen? Wut, but it doesn't cause anything...

About Jackpot's CM, I don't know, he may just chose the commits with responsibility or..
[G2 General] HueyT:
Seems to me that the melting LG logo is what caused the screen damage. It's the *.rle file in the boot.img. If we can change it or get rid of it, it may avoid the melting logo and avoid screen damage? Just a thought.
[G2 General] bleached45:
Hmm.

I have a D800 running AICP 6.0 (the 9/10 build I think it was). I am on Render Kernel R19. My phone was fine the past few days on this setup. Then I randomly noticed a vertical black line on the right side of the screen. I nearly s**t myself. This wasn't after a reboot or anything. Just randomly appeared sometime while the screen was off (I was listening to music so I know it didn't reboot). The phone wasn't hot to the touch.

I rebooted into recovery and it was still there, I cleared cache and dalvik and fixed permissions. Rebboted and it was still there. Then I took a screenshot of a pure white image and moved that around the screen to verify it was a physical defect (it was, the line never moved).

So I decided to try a long shot. A dead pixel detector/fixer. I ran the fix-it feature for about 5 to 10 minutes (of the 30 minutes it runs, but I'm at school ATM and can't leave that rainbow strobe on that long). And it SEEMS to have fixed it. This just happened so I can't say if it will come back, but for now, the line is gone. Either it is the ribbon and it cooled or got bumped back into place, or it is something else and a dead pixel fixer is able to take care of it.

I just wanted to share if it can help even 1 person then awesome.

THIS is the app I used to fix it. fingers crossed I never see that heart stopping line again. But I'll keep the app around just in case.
[G2 General] ckyy:
I had the exact same issue this and last week. I got the lines three times. Twice last week and once this week. I have managed to fix it the first two times with that app, but it was unsuccessful on the third time. At first it's just temporary and fixable, but after it happens a few times it'll become permanent. I've sent mine in today to get a replacement.
[G2 General] bleached45:
No.... No.... SHHHH. I don't want to hear that. But thanks for the heads up.
[G2 General] ckyy:
That's how it turned out for me ;/ Now i'm stuck with my GFs old HTC One M7. It's horrible. I want my G2 with LS back :x I'll get a new one on monday :o
[G2 General] HueyT:
Yeah, I tried that. I even tried to run it in in the freezer. It did reduce the lines from 5 to 3 so it helped. Still I think better replace it if under warranty cause once it's out of warranty, you're out of luck.
[G2 General] siggey:
What do you mean?
[G2 General] ceyo14:
This
[G2 General] ceyo14:
LS?
[G2 General] ckyy:
Liquidsmooth
[G2 General] ceyo14:
Ok

Doesnt the M7 also have liquid smooth?
[G2 General] ckyy:
Not going to go through that long process for just four days. [emoji1]
[G2 General] ceyo14:
Lol. Ok. I remember i wanted an M7 and got a hold of this G2 and I Love it. Now i see the inferiority of the M7 (obviously over the G2) even though its still a nice device. Even the M8 its pretty but still preffer my G2.
[G2 General] Kulwinder Singh:
i am having white halo around the screen and a white line that appears when the phone gets hot(shown in the pic below).so i want to ask that are these the earlier symptoms of black lines.i am currently on mahdi rom.my g2 was manufactured in may 2014.
[G2 General] ckyy:
Never Seen that before.
[G2 General] 5ch:
I have a halo but it is not noticeable, i can only see it on 100% brightness and gray background. I also have that white line and i have it from the day 1. Black lines shows only on right side as i can understand, so u dont have to worry about that. I read somewhere that white line is the result of zero gap between glass and the display. It never got worse for me, it is the same form the day 1 and shows up very rarely. I am done worrying for my phone im going to enjoy it until it dies and then i am gonna repair it and use it again util it is dead complitly, My friend has G2 and she has all the problems i do. So i gues it is nothing. Dont let your device use u, use your device as much as u want and enjoy it as much as u can.

DONT WORRY BE HAPPY !!!
[G2 General] Kulwinder Singh:
but on my phone the halo and the white line is present most of the time(while charging,playing games,using apps).should i ask for a replacement?as not each and every gw has this issue
[G2 General] 5ch:
I cant answer that question. Do as u want to. My halo is there all the time too, but line is not.
[G2 General] Harellevy:
Got the black lines few weeks ago. Finally decided to fix it. Returned the g2 to stock, removed the rooted from download mode, gave it under warranty and they fixed it for free :)
[G2 General] Formhault:
My G2 used to develop a halo on the sides too. Mostly visible on gray (so, everywhere in AOSP lol). Got it replaced and this one is fine.

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I assume they replaced only the display (not the digitizer / glass / entire device) :p
[G2 General] titiwuts:
PA4.4 here

got it after trying to call someone then it crashed and rebooted itself.

LG logo with tons(!) of black lines then I hard rebooted it again and I got 5 permanent lines on the right side of screen.

no hot temperature , no anything.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Well... sh*t...

Got warranty?
[G2 General] randy6644:
i got halo on all sides of the screens.
[G2 General] Orvils:
I had same thing, halo on both sides of my screen. Mostly seen on grey background ex. TWRP. That was all the way back in December last year, it was that way when I bought it already. Later I noticed that glue between digitizer and lcd is loose on right side. (digitizer was lifted up) I brought it to warranty repair and they changed lcd assembly. I had rooted my G2 first day I got it and never unrooted it, since rooting doesn't void warranty in EU. Anyway after replacing screen there is no halo even when pressing on it harder. When I started reading this thread I was kinda worried but later I checked box that G2 came in and I seem to have newer branch (1.2 BL). Not sure how because I bought it in early december :D

So if you have warranty just take it to repair center. They will probably change lcd assembly and issue will be gone.
[G2 General] picaso86:
Did you go through your carrier or LG? If you went to LG, which number did you call?
[G2 General] r4Rok:
Important: The screen began jumping up & down, and it splitted in to many frames. Now the entire display has filled with tiny white & gray dotted background, as shown in the picture below. I cann't anymore see on the screen.

This happened in the recovery mode also.

But, i could manage to take a screenshot using volume down and power button, and the captured screenshot shows the normal screen.

I am now worried about the warranty, because the screen is not coming up, i cann't power off the phone or boot in to recovery or download mode.....and my phone is rooted and has CloudyG3 1.3 installed. How do i claim warranty ?

Please help.

The entire screen of my phone is like the one in screenshot.

[IMG="LG G2 Dead Screen"]http://i.imgur.com/tZKdqT8.jpg[/IMG]
[G2 General] Formhault:
So... Screen flickering followed by TV-like analog signal loss. There have been at least two more people who reported the exact same issue in this thread.

Going back to stock in this case would be... pretty tricky, indeed. :/

How old is your phone? I mean when has it been manufactured or bought?
[G2 General] r4Rok:
Yeap, the phone began with flickering, followed by jumping up & down, then multiframe split and finally it has TV-like analog signal loss screen now. All within few minutes. Now, i cann't see or do anything as the screen is completely disfunctional.

The phone still has around four months warranty left, as it was purchased on Dec 24 last year. but, it's currently in rooted with third-party ROM stage.

Has the other two people reported back about the issue ?
[G2 General] blueis300:
I rooted my phone and have tried numerous Roms and Kernals. On certain parts of mywork screen when using certain apps my screen doesnt

work such as Candy crush. I cant slide on certain parts. Or say when using the pull down on top it doesnt always work. I never tried to overclock, used thermal control and dont think my phone got to hot. I need to read how to go back to stock to see if that helps. I took off my screen protector and tried to do calibration but neither have helped. At this point Im running Dorimax Kernal 7.6 on adabbeb 25b bootstack on the Optimusg3 rom for my lg g2 vs980 for Verizon. Any ideas?
[G2 General] Formhault:
So you can't put it back to stock?! At all?! :eek:

You could bring it to a service and pay them to flash it back to stock... then take it to LG to replace the screen. Or do the second thing right now, hoping they wouldn't notice, LOL.

I don't know...
[G2 General] Lawlrus:
[MENTION=5010673]r4Rok[/MENTION]

I've kinda experienced that before, I was in a terrible signal area, and the phone was lying on my chest and made a weird digital sounding noise, so I picked it up and half the screen was like that, half TV fuzzy and the other half was okay.

Phone was still responsive, bit couldn't see it all. I rebooted and it was fine. This was maybe four or so months ago, on Mahdi, and its never happened since then.

Not really any help to you, but just throwing it out here something similar has happened to me.

Sent from my Vs980 running Deviant Xone
[G2 General] 1ceb0x:
[MENTION=5010673]r4Rok[/MENTION] - i have had that before. half was visible while the other half was flickering (from bottom to middle). When the phone was going hot, the flicker was worse.

When the phone was cold, the flicker was almost non existant.

i was able to go back to stock with ease... you just need to boot your phone in download mode and follow the tutorial to return to stock. you can do that if you can access download mode - which i believe you can.

don't forget to copy everything from your sdcard before doing so.
[G2 General] randy6644:
i think probably it's because of the glue. when the phone gets hot ,the glue starts falling apart. I dont really know and i've got no warranty because i bought the international version which wasn't sold in China. But the Chinese somehow has a way to get different versions of phones to sell there and I bought the phone from them.
[G2 General] r4Rok:
The major problem is the entire screen is filled with that TV-like analog signal loss. I had left the phone to completely drain the battery, as the phone is completely disfunctional, now after four days it has drained and the phone is off. I've just charged the phone and m thinking to press the volume up button while connecting a USB cable, maybe it get in to the download mode. But i cann't see anything as the entire screen has that TV analog signal.

I'm not worried about the data on the phone ATM, but my major concern is off the warranty.

If by chance, i get through flashing the stock ROM, will that remove the "rooted flag" as well, please advise ? If not, how do i make it completely stock with no root flag on screen ?

PS: Is this the post that i should refer to going back to stock ? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
[G2 General] Gabre:
i have the same issue, i have a horizontal strip of screen at the very top underneath statusbar, that my touch doesnt work?!

tried factory reset, tried reflashing cloudyG3, what i havent tried is going back to stock, but i cant say for sure that this is a rom problem, not sure when it started happening.
[G2 General] mike t:
I had the same problem with mine. There was a half inch strip about half way down that did not respond to touch. I returned to stock and got a warranty replacement.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Yes and yes.