[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Thank you, thank you! It's funny, the first thing this keyboard (on the LG G Pad8.3) put when I tried to "swype" the word "Thank" was "Ryan". ? I'll miss a bunch of you. I've had the best experience in this forum section than for my previous two Androids, not that those were horrible.

First impressions of the Verizon LG G3 (VS985):

Buttons on the back: Overall, I like the power and volume buttons under the camera on the back. On my wife's and my S3s, our favorite cases were ones that didn't have fake buttons, just cutouts for them, so my screen wouldn't come on in my pocket anytime it got bumped on the side, and I don't think this will happen with the back placement. I probably won't even use a case with this phone. We're getting the total replacement plan with these phones.

My wife isn't as crazy about the buttons on the back.

Weight and size: it's actually a little thinner than the S3, feels featherweight (I'm used to the S3 with its case). It's about half an once heavier than the case-less S3. It's not much bigger the other two dimensions.

Stock 4.4.2 ROM:

Mobile data toggle: Stock based ROMs have their definite positives and negatives. Happily, although it doesn't come with a data toggle in the notificatons, it does have an edit button and an option for a data toggle there.

Sadly, the data toggle warns you on each and every on and off, and on each every time you reboot back into Android, in the latter case only if it's OFF. Darn carriers and Google for discouraging turning data off.

The stock power menu has a reboot option, yay.

USB Debugging SNAFU: The USB Debugging option doesn't survive reboot.

Nice details: the stock ROM allows you to turn on or off screen on, although as it is before we get to know a ROM's options like the back of our hand, I can't find the option at the moment. The phone dings when it's done charging! I like it!

Cut and Paste: has words instead of icons and an extended clipboard, which is very useful.

Quiet Mode ups and one slight down. I'm pretty sure the fully charged ding respects Quiet Mode, which I've always scheduled for every night. On the plus side, it lets you decide what days of the week for the schedule, although I don't need that option at the moment. Also, it has an option to allow a call to ring through if the same number calls within three minutes, although I don't need that either right now.

The Allowed Contacts let's you choose from:

Individual contacts

Favorites

and

Groups (as in those set in your Google contacts)

When choosing a Group, it has an option to select all phone numbers for everyone in the Group or choose individuals, but it doesn't present a select all option for Favorites, and I have 52 to individually check, counting all contact numbers for all my Favorite contacts. Oh well.

13MP camera with laser focus and optical image stabilization. It works great in low light even with no flash! Dual colored flash LEDs for more natural tone, but haven't used the flash yet.

You can turn on or off the option for long-pressing the volume down button while the screen is locked or off to bring up the camera.

Power case: I do intend on buying power cases for us off of Amazon for about $25 each. The cheap $17 ones I bought from Staples for our S3s were great to have.

Vibration/Notification: I never notice it vibrate for a notification when it's sitting on my desk at work (I always noticed it on the S3), and the notification LED is pretty small and hard to notice, too. I did feel it vibrate in my pocket once, so I'm going to try keeping it in my pocket to see if I notice. I think I can set it to flash the flash for notifications in Accessibility, so maybe I'll do that.

Root comments:

Easy to root.

First, downgrade the Stock ROM via PC, a free dev'd program and an image file.

Sideload an app that brute forces within 10 minutes. After a reboot, install SuperSU from the Play store.

Then install Flashify from the Play store, extract the recovery.img from the latest TWRP zip for this phone and flash it from Android.

Very important to turn off Separate Mountspaces option in latest SuperSU, then reboot in order for Titanium Backup to work right.

I'll edit if I realize I missed any highlights.

Thanks! I might've gone for a Motorola in hopes that it being near AOSP would result in Android updates for longer than a year and a half or two years but the prices weren't even close, and regarding the updates that's just my optimistic expectation.

Having seen what CyanogenMod beta for v12 is like for the S3 and G3 (GPS is broken on the G3 too, although camera worked), I'm really curious what LG will do with Lollipop.

ROFL! Haha! If I don't manage to sell our old S3s very fast , I'd like to test your app, too.

I'm so used to beta testing device specific stuff, I somehow was thinking I needed to be on the S3. LOL!

Sent from my VK810 4G

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Edited my G3 impressions:

You can turn on or off the option for long-pressing the volume down button while the screen is locked or off to bring up the camera.

Edit number dooky:

It's about half an once heavier than the case-less S3. It's not much bigger the other two dimensions.

On a side note, TapaTalk as a WIndows 8/X app sucks. Same goes for any other Windows app. They need to have the GUIs be aligned between different platforms. I know they make programs to develop across several platforms at once.