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[G2 General] Formhault:
Tell us exactly how many reports of people experiencing black lines while the phones were plugged in you've seen here. :)

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Not so far :eek:

Will try next time I'm in a very quiet room.
[G2 General] richielasalsa:
Find out your manufacturing date . that's makes a difference should have asked for the most recent date . this will be my 3rd replacement , I'm going to see if they will give me the g3 instead because this has all been hardware not software or physically damage . none of it my fault
[G2 General] Formhault:
They got big money so they could give you a G3, but you are asking for too much... In their eyes, you're just a piece of s*** (as a customer). Best they can do is reimburse you the money and even that RARELY happens (maybe after 5 more replacements)...
[G2 General] khaytsus:
They won't.. He'll keep getting refurb G2's until they're gone. ONE time I had a lemon phone, and it was clearly a lemon and they gave me little argument. I had to re-sign a 2 year contract (extending it 2 months basically, as I owned the phone that long) and maybe the $18 upgrade fee but that was it.

I still say since I have yet to see a pure stock, never customized ROM cause the black lines, that this is all at your own risk... Flash a ROM, maybe you get black lines. Bone stock? Nope. But yuck :)
[G2 General] :
well supposedly one guy could get imei with esn number. Not sure

anyway all dont be to ignorent about imei. Just because you dont have a clue, doesnt mean people out there also dont have a clue

http://cellphoneforums.net/general-...-give-out-your-imei-number.html#axzz38Wv8e3tC

have fun getting paranoid
[G2 General] Formhault:
It's not that easy to get an IMEI blocked in my country. Heck, even getting the operator to block an abusive person from calling me is impossible... so f*** those guys.

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There was at least one guy who got the black lines on stock (did you even see the Google Docs sheet in the OP?). And one more guy who recently got the lines THREE DAYS after buying the phone.

And there are people who got their phones 6+ months ago and still got no lines...
[G2 General] khaytsus:
One guy. And I bet the "one guy" got it on stock after flashing, rooting, etc etc... And how many days? Irrelevant.

This one, that answered "none"? Yeah, he was on AOKP before.
[G2 General] Formhault:
So the lines are an AOSP thing. Hurray! :)

No... no... so much no...
[G2 General] khaytsus:
So.. Again. Find me one person who has them that has always been on stock.

None? Yep.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Well, [MENTION=2684188]autoprime[/MENTION] allegedly (no way to test if he's 100% honest, right?) got the lines when he was using ADB in recovery. 100% stock (he makes hacks like root and such)...
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
G2 Returned from RMA!

Good news folks!

Today I collected my G2 from RMA.

The same woman that took my phone for repair was the same that gave me back my repaired phone. I asked her what they did, and she said that they replaced the front panel (which we already knew was what needed to be done).

I asked if my phone had any more problems while under warranty could I still take it back for free, and she said yes under such situation.

My new panel is LGD (old one was too), and I have flashed everything I needed. Rooted (ioroot25), KK Baseband D805, TWRP 2.7.1.0 (official; the D802 works on the D805) and CloudyStock 2.3 (was on 2.2 before). Restored most apps with Titanium Backup and it's stable. No fuzzy screen at all. Recovery is normal with no weird LG logo during boot.

Compass.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Looks like you got a perfectly healthy G2. That's not news... that's how everything should have been in the first place! :p

Good news would be LG saying something like "yeah, we know it is a fault with some specific devices, but hey, it can be fixed by saying "ABRACADABRA" and spinning around 3 times" :silly:. Just kidding... Glad they served you on warranty well (as they should!).

But hang on a second. No fuzzy screen? Are you saying the previous one was fuzzy?! :eek:
[G2 General] khaytsus:
He was ON STOCK AT THE TIME.

ugh.
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
I guess "fuzzy" was maybe wrong.

What happened was that I got the black lines after flashing P.A. when the screen during boot went blank with a vertical white band in the middle with no LG logo. Then it kind of expanded sideways for a bit, then the screen went totally black. I held the power button for a while to either force it to turn on or off (I had no idea in which state it was in). After booting, black lines.

Compass.
[G2 General] Formhault:
There you go. One guy who we know was on stock AND got the black lines :) quite many, in fact.

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Oh... typical scenario : screen goes crazy funko at boot then gets black lines as scars.

First device I hear of getting hardware damage from custom ROMs (potentially! we still aren't 100% sure) = LG G2. Great... :(
[G2 General] wulsic:
Well if so then LG didn't released the source good or the rom is based on old sourcecode:silly:

Just like you are saying about that Funky boot, I also had that on my Nexus 4 when i have flashed an Caf kernel on an non caf rom but vice versa was the same issue i guess.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Good thing we have devs like [MENTION=5232783]dr87[/MENTION] who use the most reliable display drivers :D.
[G2 General] rogconnect:
I told you never trust those guys PA CM AOKP SOKP CARBON. They think every phone the same.

Sent from My LG G2 LS-980 or LG G Pad 7.0 V400
[G2 General] Lawlrus:
He was even in the stock recovery. Never flashed a custom recovery.

Sent from my Vs980 running SlimKat 4.4.4
[G2 General] khaytsus:
I'm really not going to argue with you all about this.... You can remove him from the list of 1 people who you claim have black lines who have always been stock.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Not sure what you wanna hear then...
[G2 General] whoamigriffiths:
I've been following this as I am looking at either the g2 or g3 for my next phone. I honestly would be happier with the g2 and saving £200.

I'm in agreement with you khaytsus, that 1 report of a bad screen on stock can be discounted. After all it actually might be a bad phone, there must be some out there.

The only thing that nags me is that it may be the simple fact that the majority of people who frequent XDA, tweak, root, etc their phones and that's the real reason for the low number of reports on stock.

A poll to find out the number of people who are on stock and read XDA would be very useful to us.

All the best Rich
[G2 General] nms247:
When my stock unrooted device go the black lines I was doing a FOTA. Contacted LG and they had me a new device out the next day. To me it seemed as if they knew about this issue
[G2 General] Formhault:
Exactly. All reports of black lines come from people who flashed custom ROMs simply because... if they would be on stock the chances of them even being here would be very low.

Perhaps there are other people out there who got the lines and never heard of XDA or flashing and stuff like that.,,
[G2 General] freinet:
It would be nice to hear something from LG.

But unfortunately that never will happen.

Sometimes they are reports in newspapers, but never read about that LG have problems with displays.

freinet
[G2 General] Formhault:
Every big phone manufacturer makes its own displays, and they all got problems. Samsung with color inconsistency and burn-ins, Sony with dead pixels, LG with... well, obviously, connectors...

Someone should create a DreamPhone company.
[G2 General] Compass Linux:
Did you buy your device in mint condition? And did you ever flash anything custom related?

Compass.
[G2 General] kewkie:
Hey guys,

i was about to flash AICP Stable release with TWRP 2.7.1.0, after successfully flashed it the LG logo came up, but it looked a bit weird, it looked like a "Starfield" (1px dots all over the screen in green and blue), i instantly turned it off and flashed back to stock based ROM and everything seems fine now.

So, i dont know if it could be a start of the lines or not.

Little side note: On TWRP when i wiped (advance wipe) i missclicked on a empty field below dalvik cache. I dont think its because of that?!

But still, i'm a bit scared now :D
[G2 General] Formhault:
Usually, it's how the lines begin. But there are exceptions - hope you are one of them, too! :good:

Anyway... was your device any hot while doing this?

Also, how old is your device? More specifically, when has it been manufactured?

Not sure what's that :eek:
[G2 General] kewkie:
Not sure when it was manufactured, but i already sent it back (warranty) about 3-4 months ago because of a hard brick and they changed the platine/motherboard of it. I have the phone now for like 7-8 months now. The phone wasnt hot while flashing or during boot up. As i said i instantly turned off and flashed pardus. Everything is fine now. Phone is acting normal, isnt getting hot etc. Maybe it was a bad flash? I dont know. First time i ever saw this.

When you are in twrp, in advanced wipe and you click on a empty field, its marked but.. Well hard to explain. As i said i dont think it was cause of this. Maybe I'm going to try it again and check it again. If i get the lines, send it back and wait for it. I dont hard need my phone but still not nice to have them. Lol
[G2 General] Formhault:
Well, go here : http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/svc/popup/model_check.jsp?model=LGD800&esn=ADD_IMEI_HERE

Replace model=LGD800 with whatever your device is and ADD_IMEI_HERE with, well, your IMEI.
[G2 General] Kulwinder Singh:
had bought g2 3 weeks ago it was october 2013 manufactured.then i read this thread and came to know about this is more severe on older devices.then i got replacement of g2 due to network problem and asked one from new stock.now have one with may 2014 mfg date.today rooted the phone and installed recovery with autorec twrp.everything is good till after it except knock on.knock on is working while screen is on but not when screen is off.anyone else faced this issue?

:confused:
[G2 General] Formhault:
Not the right thread to ask this in.
[G2 General] Kulwinder Singh:
ohh sorry..just wanted to know if it has any relation to the black line.because my touch response has also decreased somewhat.anything to worry?it has happened after installing recovery.anyone knows the reason?
[G2 General] Formhault:
Not sure...

Try this, though. Open the dialer and type in 3845#*802# then go to Settings and touch "Update Touch Firmware". See if that helps...

If 3845#*802# does not work for you, replace 802 with 800 or whatever your phone model is.

Anyway, I suggest you to flash a custom ROM like Pardus. It's based on stock G2 ROM, just much better.
[G2 General] RohanM:
BTW just surfing the thread & found your link..

I got this

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<response req_cmd="check_model" status="ok">

<auth>

<model>LGLS980</model>

<suffix>ASPRWH</suffix>

<esn>.................</esn>

<msn>xxxxxxxxxx</msn>

<esndate>20131126</esndate>

<buyer>SPR</buyer>

<esnoutgodate>20131205</esnoutgodate>

<ULocationcode>N</ULocationcode>

<buyername>Sprint</buyername>

<csn>xxxxxxxx</csn>

</auth>

</response>

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So my device is Nov 13 manufactured ?
[G2 General] Formhault:
Yep. Pretty old... so... prone to go funky more easily, I guess... Good thing you got warranty, though!
[G2 General] RohanM:
Actually I bought it from ebay 2 months back.. unlocked for GSM.. using it in India.. So no warranty...

How do u know that it has warranty ?
[G2 General] Formhault:
Oh, sorry... I made some weird links and somehow figured you must be from the United States and on Verizon, so...

Yeah, no warranty for you :D. Well, if the screen breaks... you can get one from Alibaba (as far as I know... check the posts back a little, [MENTION=5403922]wulsic[/MENTION] posted a nice link) for less than $100 and replace it.
[G2 General] chejo:
<esndate>20131126</esndate>

So 26 November 2013
[G2 General] RohanM:
Because of this thread I am still only rooted & not going to install any recovery.. Happy with Stock... :D

BTW my device is brand new not refurbished right ?
[G2 General] Maidenx:
So trust who? I already used CM, Mahdi...Nowdays SOKP and never had problems...
[G2 General] Formhault:
No idea. :eek:
[G2 General] rogconnect:
Good for you....so don't cry when you get the LINES :rolleyes::D:D:D

Sent from My LG G2 LS-980 or LG G Pad 7.0 V400
[G2 General] RohanM:
lol, yeah it's new but I thought that link will display this status also.. anyways.. :D
[G2 General] Formhault:
If it could say that, it would also have the ability to show wether a device is STOLEN or LEGIT. Which would eliminate the need for papers when going to LG to ask for service under warranty (warranty on IMEI, like Apple and Nokia do)... which has not yet happened.

All I can see from that data is that your phone is a Sprint variant... which got me thinking... why the hell did you get a Sprint G2 instead of a D802 (International)? :confused:
[G2 General] Maidenx:
Haha you use only stock? Trust in LG only?
[G2 General] RohanM:
Because in India 32 GB D802 is costing at that time was 38k & I got this sprint unlocked for 28k.. So saved 10k... [10k = 166.517 US Dollar by todays exchange rate] :cowboy::cool:
[G2 General] Xpiatio:
It happened to me just today. Was an Malladus, then went to Vanir. Found out that one app wasn't working so I went to Paranoid. Before I went to Vanir, I used Paranoid with not problems. But I have the lines. I'm hoping to go to Vzw tomorrow after I go back to stock.
[G2 General] fundoozzz:
I am from India too and got the D802 international model 32GB White Color from ebay for Rs 27514. :D
[G2 General] mjones73:
VS980 here I got in February, been rooted the whole time, I've had a host of stock and AOSP roms on it. I installed Gummy the other day, didn't like it, restored Carbon and boom, lines after the restore. Ended up getting it replaced by VZW.
[G2 General] Formhault:
I got my D802 32GB for about $50 more than the price I could have gotten it for... ONE WEEK LATER ! :mad:

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That's nasty!

Looks like Verizon models are more prone to these lines... Or is it just that there are more of you guys out there :silly:
[G2 General] fundoozzz:
Did you noticed the charger humming sound I told you about when touching the screen while charging?
[G2 General] nms247:
The device was bought boxed and unopened. The device was unflashed and I as stated only got the black lines after taking the 80220D FOTA.

When it happened the second upgrade screen bleed out and once the update was complete there were 3 or 4 black line down the right hand side of the screen.
[G2 General] Formhault:
Just checked and nope, there is no humming when touching the screen. Actually, there is no sound at all...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 (5V~2A) charger does squeal if it's plugged into the wall outlet (but no consumer is being powered by it). The 5V~1.8A charger that came with my G2 doesn't make much noise at all - except for when it's plugged into the wall outlet (and, again, no consumer...), it makes a very tiny sound, like that from a high voltage transport rail or a high voltage transformer (although MUCH MUCH smaller, of course... hope you get the idea). It's kind of sound I hear and no one else from my family / friends seem to notice as often as I do :).

But definetly no humming. I mean I basically glued my ear to the charger while the phone was charging off of it and kept touching the screen... no weird noise coming out of the charger at all.

Oh and about the Samsung charger(s)...

My mom has a Galaxy Nexus (which comes with a 5V~1A charger - bet they have the same components inside, except for the parts that make it output more power) and the charger makes the same squealing noise (in the same scenario as presented above). Same thing happened with the charger that came with my Note 2 (same as the S4, actually, same 5V~2A charger). So... 3 Samsung chargers have that squealing noise when not powering any consumer, but the one 5V~2A Samsung charger I bought almost a year ago doesn't have the squealing noise - rather a fast paced crackling noise (can barely be heard).

No squealing noise or whatever is heard when I plug in the phone. The noise returns if the battery is almost full or no consumer is plugged in - guess that's the no-load voltage thing...
[G2 General] :
Confirmed this not once, not twice, but three times

Hey guys not sure if this will be any help but i confirmed something today that I got the phone to do 3 times, and same result. I went into recovery and cleared cache and data...battery was under 15 % and i got the splash screen fade effect. no black lines, but figured i point this out to you guys. i am also on dr87 twrp.
[G2 General] fundoozzz:
I don't know what to say.. may be I am having a faulty charger then coz I can hear the sound from a distance of a feet.
[G2 General] shriom_manerker:
after reading so much, it seems like its the heat thats causing all the issues, so now everytime i flash my phone, i keep it off for a while. say im about to flash pa or sum rom, i flash it and instead of rebooting, i just switch it off untill its completely cool to touch. only after that i reboot. good precautionary measure right ? oh man i wish our g2 had removable battery :\ imagine how many screens would have been saved if we just unplugged the battery while we see those lines
[G2 General] Formhault:
You know... turning off the phone will not solve a faulty LCD / LCD connector...

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Could be. Just like with LCD panels and CPUs... not all chargers are created equally. I mean look, 3 Samsung chargers do squeal when in no-load voltage but one doesn't... :confused:

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So...

1. Boot into dr87 TWRP mod

2. Wipe cache

3. Wipe data (cache is in /data)

4. Reboot?!
[G2 General] shriom_manerker:
Itll reduce the chances of that happening cus of reduced heat suring bootup
[G2 General] wulsic:
I still wonder... People are getting the Lines while flashing roms and while doing stock ota... I guess same story with this. LG life's good till you get the black lines.
[G2 General] Formhault:
And noisy vibration motor. And white halos around the edges of the display on grays when charging or doing God knows what else. And speaker crackles. And low network refresh rate.
[G2 General] :
Sorry meant dalvik and when I reboot but battery was 14% it gave me the screen
[G2 General] Formhault:
Yeah, well... when the screen boots up, it first shows the boot logo - full brigthness, I think, as it's not yet controlled by the kernel, but the bootloader. When the screen goes a bit darker (and the LED starts flashing green & blue - at least on stock LG, not AOSP), that means the kernel has taken over control - it's detected the battery's low and is acting as such.

I don't think that's a problem...
[G2 General] :
Well I know I just figured I post it here because it was strange. Thought it might give some idea of the black lines issue.
[G2 General] musashihatred:
I'm Taking this opportunity buddy to share something:

We had this group of G2 Users.

And some random times, the screen flickers. Owners claim that the devices (the affected ones) were not dropped even once.

and the flickering continues gradually on succession until the screen or some part of the screen turns like crash tv. (WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SIGNAL ON TV, THE pixel gray/black/white/ shhhh-thing). worse to worse, will turn the entire screen into it.

When their units are sent for service centers, all instances / claims that the unit's for motherboard replacement.

Haven't seen someone got a problem on AOSP tho. All the ones I saw post were on Stock Roms.
[G2 General] Formhault:
What...? Oh my God... never heard of something like that! :eek:
[G2 General] shriom_manerker:
Note that during all those activities the phone becomes hot. Probably the heat has to play a part in this. Uve also seen peoples screen looking weird with white lines after heavy gaming. Sum1 posted pictures earlier n he alsp said that it went away after a while. This is pretty clear
[G2 General] dadme:
Have one with this problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49Yf7inuiw

seem that is a filter on mainboard damaged by heat, never dropped. On Cloudystock 2.1
[G2 General] Formhault:
Oh my God... Why did I f***ing buy this phone!

When was your phone manufactured?

*see my signature*
[G2 General] musashihatred:
Mines feb 22 2014. Never had problems (still)

Tho most of the ones who reported it had their manufacturer date at January 2014 or later.

I searched here in xda and there was no dedicated thread or topic opened for it -,-" om still assuming it's on stock.

[MENTION=566409]dadme[/MENTION] thanks for the vid. :)
[G2 General] dadme:
Where did i find manufacturer date? Service menu,on the phone box or someting?
[G2 General] Formhault:
You mean "earlier", not "later", right? :silly:

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Are you f***ing kidding me?! Did you even read my post?! :eek: :eek: :eek:
[G2 General] musashihatred:
oh sorry :D yes. i mean earlier.

im always hoping im not in that league.

im playing this certain APP. and my screen flickers only when im playing that app. weird.
[G2 General] Formhault:
What app, again? I wanna check, too.
[G2 General] leomd333:
My carrier replaced my G2 with a G3 because I had so many replacements :D
[G2 General] Formhault:
Get outta here... THEY DID NOT! :eek:
[G2 General] leomd333:
Did :D ...well with a £70 charge....

Still a bargain!
[G2 General] Formhault:
Good for you, man!

70 quid... that's actually the fair price, I guess. I mean I'm not exactly familiar with the prices and sallaries there, so I can't really tell, but the G3 doesn't really retail for much more, compared to the G2 (at least here). Anyway, I wish I could give that ammount of money extra along side with my G2 in exchange for a G3! :)
[G2 General] leomd333:
£70 is awesome. The G3 would be £500+ here in the UK off contract :p
[G2 General] Formhault:
Well, let me check.

At a big IT retailer here, the 32GB variant of the LG G2 costs about £320. The 16GB variant of the LG G3 costs about £450. Yeah, nevermind...

Orange had the LG G3 (still, same 16GB variant - there is no 32GB variant anywhere in this country, I guess) on promo the first week it got out : ~395 quid and you got the 16GB LG G3 + the crappy tablet LG just came out with (which you could sell for around 100 pounds, nonetheless). Looks like the prices have returned to normal now... as in ain't-nobody-got-money-fo-dat.

So yeah... congrats on your new bargain, hehe! Here's hoping LG did their sh*t right this time and didn't fill a flagship device with problems that not even a mid-tier device has nowadays...
[G2 General] leomd333:
Yup you are right, on clove.co.uk, the G3 is just under £500 sim free :p 16/2GB model.

I hope we can get the damn BL unlocked! Hopefully LG will act upon the petition that was made like they did with the 4X.
[G2 General] musashihatred:
it's school idol festival. XD

it flickrs when i play (but not all the time).
[G2 General] morceloxi:
my D801, same problem with me! after that new update for CloudyFlex 2.5 and Dorimanx 6.4, my phone start acting like this. :( :rolleyes:

manufacture date 20130911
[G2 General] Formhault:
If you have warranty, flash TOT and bring it to LG.... If the screen is usable at all :(

Looks like all the old phones are prone to get some sort of screen damage... The flickering is the worst as it breaks functionality altogether.
[G2 General] mdeevee:
Has anyone had Assurion replace a G2 with the lines?

Sent from my LG-VS980 using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
[G2 General] Formhault:
You mean assurance? That means warranty, and yes, there have been people that got their defective G2 fixed or replaced...