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[G4 General] nipun1110:
Even the V10 is also suffering from this bootloop issue. Lots of reports have come for V10 according to androidauthority. I remember they were also first and one of the few websites who brought this problem for G4 to attention. so I thank again to androidauthority. I guess LG is going down, like HTC. Although HTC didn't do anything wrong, just they didn't follow the flow of technology, like Nokia. On the other hand, LG quite revolutionized few tenchnolgies in the market, but supplied with poor hardware. Result is very poor sale of LG G5. I doubt V20 will make any change. However, I really appreciate people have come forward to participate in this thread. When I started, it was only people who thought I am just spreading non-sense fear, although this type of people still exist what I can see, I am happy to see that they are getting fewer day by day, which also means more people are suffering from financial loss from a defective device which makes me sad.
[G4 General] jinderation:
There will be someone defending the honour of LG they are going to lie here on this forum obviously cuz they need to sell their fones too n then buy a new ...a bad rep about g4 wont make anyone buy them those who are smart tend to avoid the brand LG itself hell i still get priv msges from ppl still want to buy the g4 even after they got bootloop asking about is this model "safe" ...i guess there is no cure to being an idiot too...many of the owners of g4 who didnt got this issue yet tend to avoid this topic too or dont report at all they just silently read n mind their own businesses well until it really hits them
[G4 General] nipun1110:
Exactly said. Even at the beginning of this thread, there was a guy who was continuously fighting me. After a long time, a few days ago I asked him about his phone. He probably didn't recognize me. Anyhow...he said his one also had issues (although he is claiming it's a headphone plug issue). What do u think...shouldn't this guy report to the forum that he was wrong about what he said earlier? I am amazed that still guys like him fight in this thread, but a very few of them actually report back after they are proven wrong.
[G4 General] jinderation:
Luckily I only saw handful of people defending LG i guess these people would still buy from LG even if there devices fail how ignorant of them well our message is not for everyone...not everyone has spare cash lying around to be wasted n then to deal with the frustrations of fixing it oh well there headache there loss...
[G4 General] nipun1110:
Again exactly said
[G4 General] EPa:
Maybe some of you are spending too much time and energy on this destroy-LG thing.

LG is just like any other multinational multi-billion company interested in making money, you think other manufacturers are more interested in you as persons than LG?

If you want to make a difference reroute your energy and time to things like saving plant life, kids killed in wars, etc.
[G4 General] larsdennert:
My VS986 Verizon one died over the weekend. Was watching YT and it locked up and rebooted. Now infinite bootloops. I can get into recovery but all functions just BL and don't wipe. I had one of the first ones so it was out of LG warranty. HOWEVER, Verizon has open enrollment for warranty right now. For $3/mo I added extended warranty and promptly called them, HAHA. They had none in stock as so many are coming back broken (Their words not mine). They offered me a Moto Turbo and I declined; then called back later to take the Turbo so I'd have something to make calls on and they said they had four G4s in stock. It'll be interesting to see what hardware rev shows up.
[G4 General] jinderation:
It has to start somewhere at least collectively we can spread awareness put a little dent to LG don't underestimate the power of a comman man....
[G4 General] nipun1110:
There is a saying "world can never become a better place, not because of the shouts of the bad people, but because of the silence of the good people". So maybe some people are getting a bit vocal about what's not right and I personally don't see any bad in that. And somehow this is not an environmental awareness blog, so I think it is more expected to have chitchat about the ongoing problems in technological side. :)
[G4 General] nipun1110:
Anyway guys, I hope u guys tried the ILAPO fix by blueeyeblue. I unbricked my H815T with his solution (with a little trick as he doesn't officially support this model). it is like a miracle. try it guys. it's a must.
[G4 General] zuqka10:
505 here running good for the last year. Overall pretty satisfied with it, battery isn't halfway where it should be. Unlocked, rooted...treid and flashed everything.... Screen is on top right corner ghosty/when booting in recovery shadows of icons time/wireless /signal bars are there in pink....I will hold my horses and not buy g5....waiting for v20 and tempted to give old Sammy a try after g2/g3/g4. Was really about to spring for v10 and happy that I didn't knowing of same CPU and battery. No bootloop so far.
[G4 General] alamo76:
Mine JUST died a couple of weeks ago with this dreaded bootloop cycle. Since I needed a phone pronto (and with no backup device(s)), I got a 6P.

My G4 is more than a month out of the warranty period, but today I got around to contacting LG through their chat support and was able to initiate an RMA with a small caveat. Mine is an 815 SEA model, and the LG person said that since they only offer carrier phones here, LG can only provide one of the carrier models; I chose 810 (AT&T) since I need GSM and can unlock it.

I'll be dropping it off at FedEx in a day or two, but only time will tell. I recently dropped my phone and damaged/dinged the bottom edge (no screen damage). The replacement clause specifies that they might charge me for any damages to the phone. Will keep you guys posted.
[G4 General] Meakii:
The squeaky gate gets the oil.

Trust me the more people who shout and stomp about the issue and spread the word about the complete lack of LGs aftercare the more chance of a result. Theres not much more damaging to a brand than lack of trust. They know this. One of the main reasons why people buy products from a particular company is because of trust in the brand. Eg Apple. When bad publicity spreads like wildfire they will have no choice but to publicly rectify the situatilon by being viewed as 'taking ownership' and stand by their customers. Its just a matter of time...
[G4 General] larsdennert:
I received a 506 number as replacement and it works, for now. Sent the 505 back. Didn't bother rooting this one. Just went to MM and will wait it out. I still like the G4 as a phone but I won't be buying carrier phones in the future. Nexus or Developer unlocked phones are more my speed. I really don't know what I would buy today. The 5X and One plus 3 come to mind but the G4 is just so classy.
[G4 General] raptorddd:
care to share you mod.? as there is alot of non supported phones.. if you mean disabling all core but one..
[G4 General] nipun1110:
Sure. U see he supports H815TL or something like that. Use that one for your H815T
[G4 General] raptorddd:
i meant us USA. variants.. theres no support for this.
[G4 General] nipun1110:
Oho I cannot help u on that my friend. I am no developer. I just tricked my way in to make my H815T working.
[G4 General] equiliym:
welp. i just got my 505 G4 gone, yesterday i had the wifi icon blinking, without mac address and since its the weekend, i couldnt take it to the store.. when i woke up, i saw it stuck on the LG logo, removing the battery and putting it back doesnt help, phone starts on its own to the logo.. cant go recovery, cant go download mode, nothing.. its quite sad LG did this with such a great device :( and the store stopped selling G4 since obviously they were faulty and people complained.. with the bootloader unlocked, i just hope they will accept my warranty since the phone is 10 months now in my hands.. if not, ill just make my life easy and get a nexus.. tho after this i so wouldnt take an LG device in my hands...
[G4 General] gedas5:
Not much we can welp you here apart from welcoming you to the family :) try freezer or baking methods and see if you can revive that dead phone at least to get some of your data back. Otherwise I would suggest taking it to the shop for replacement or contact LG for repair (that will take months). Don't mention unlocked bootloader even if they ask.
[G4 General] equiliym:
yeah i was gonna go to the shop tomorrow, hopefully they wont check it there and just send it wherever because of the unlock thingy on the screen.. its odd tho, when i put my battery in, the phone starts itself and gets on the LG logo, not responding to the buttons or whatever.. wanted to LGUP but meh, whatever happens, happens p;
[G4 General] gedas5:
Yes this is normal bootloop behaviour. Shop wouldn't be able to tell anything about the bootloader since the phone doesn't go anywhere past the LG logo. Good luck but I'm pretty sure they will take it without much hassle.
[G4 General] equiliym:
theres the bootloader status unlocked in the top left corner :silly: but thanks, hopefully everything will be alright
[G4 General] Meakii:
See here guy reckons he was able to 'relock' bootloader well at least remove the unlock message. Could be worth a try? Would be good if you did give it a go to report back.
[G4 General] equiliym:
well i can report that didnt work, i got a message

FAILED (remote: unknown command)

i also tried

fastboot flashing lock

since i noticed that the command might be changed or something recently but still getting the same output of failed..

however, when i put the battery in the phone, after those couple of hours that it was off, the phone turned on and its working properly, even the wifi/bt issue isnt there, got my MAC address back so even if i take it now, they will say the device is working..

thinking of getting the LGUP to official software at least, who knows when can this thing happen again
[G4 General] raptorddd:
Because i think only us h811 can be relocked.. it works i have done it but on h811.
[G4 General] equiliym:
fair enough, im on h815.. will try to sort it out today as it seems to be partially working, dont want to send it like this since i know how the people are at the shop.. wifi doesnt show any networks tho so it still is a problem
[G4 General] gedas5:
Glad that you revived yours but be aware that this is just a temporary revival and the phone will go into bootloop again. At least you can backup your data and re-lock the bootloader. So if not today then one day the trip to the shop will happen anyway :p
[G4 General] equiliym:
Yeah hopefully enough time to flash a kdz after work, i dont mind the wifi not working at the moment.. for the bootloader, as far as i know, h815 cant be relocked, am i missing something? I wasnt active for a while on the forums, dont really know whats going on :(
[G4 General] Meakii:
Don't think I've seen any reports of it being possible yet. Although keen to keep an eye on any developments
[G4 General] ghosty7:
My H818N from Ebay went into bootloop 3 weeks ago, I sent it back to Hong Kong for repair(not LG just the ebay seller). I was amazed when i got it back, that they did not change the motherboard or even reset it. It come back as it was, but is working fine. Not sure what they did, i asked for the report, but no response. The whole process took about 3 weeks. I checked to make sure all cores are active and running android 6.0 all good so far. So there must be a way to fix these phones without changing the motherboard. fingers crossed :) Is still serial 505.
[G4 General] Jens1969:
There is a kind of fix: backing the board in your oven and fixing the cpu connections with the board. This was supposed to be a temporary fix only. Good luck!
[G4 General] giopego:
My h815 started boot loop a week ago, fortunately it was already under guarantee. I hope to receive it back ASAP.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[G4 General] Awology:
I was a running a rooted LL xposed installed, The phone went into boot-loop, so I contacted Lg and they've just sent it back with a new motherboard and a freshly installed version of MM.

I really want root and Xposed back so now im wondering if its ok to flash the rooted IMG file straight over MM ? Any advise?
[G4 General] raptorddd:
already answer your question on other thread for root..
[G4 General] equiliym:
well i can say i had a fresh tech who didnt know what i was saying so he just took my g4 and hopefully thats it.. when he was restarting it i was like yeeeah listen i even got the charger with me and headphones, dunno if you need them so he didnt even see the unlocked bootloader thing.. told me i might wait up to couple of weeks even if they send it to lg p;
[G4 General] android404:
I'm quite happy I got a g4 now instead of a note 7.
[G4 General] Riardon:
All companies suffered or will suffer defects on some of their models. This happens in electronics to all companies. Look the iPhone 6 with the touch problems they start brake one after the other. Note 7 recalls due to exploding batteries, G4 with the bootloop and many others. It just happens. If the company is issuing this and fixing then it's not a problem. G4 is a very good phone at a very low price (at least the few last months). I'm also quite happy with this. Owned a Nexus 6P and a Galaxy S6 Edge Plus before G4 and only G4 satisfied me due to various reasons. I found G4 camera phenomenal. LG has some identity crisis and design issues that's why they are not doing very well the last years. Despite that G4 is still a very good phone.
[G4 General] jinderation:
Samsung had recalled the bad battery in the note 7 when did lg recalled the g4 for having a manufacturing defect... This phone company sucks
[G4 General] raptorddd:
seems like report of bootloops have deminished... they used to post like.. 1-2 every day...
[G4 General] 350Rocket:
If the g4 had exploding batteries it would be recalled too. The motherboard problem goes through regular warranty.
[G4 General] jinderation:
People have stopped buying 505 serial because of all that hype besides there are now better options out there than lg

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Cut the crap motherboard issue is no bigger than exploding batteries if u remember correctly when the note 4 was launched people often told they could put their credit card btw the phone at that time samsung also recalled their phones ...i never heard lg recalling its phone...stop making lg look good when will lg recall the v10 for its bootloop issue ...not all note 7 are exploding but samsung still recalled their phones now thats customer support fck lg
[G4 General] 350Rocket:
You cut the crap... exploding batteries is a safety hazard and by the numbers it's a much more widespread problem than the g4 bootloop.

Can anyone else confirm there was actually a recall by Samsung for the gap between the screen on their previously mentioned phone?
[G4 General] MaxRusty:
I changed bootlooped(after 9 months) g4 to g5 via my local shop. Warranty change.Heared that in the UK they do the same exchange.

Отправлено с моего LG-H860 через Tapatalk
[G4 General] jinderation:
U dont know **** about lg n bootloop issue...Its only been reported a few days ago n atleast samsung acknowledged the problem unlike crappy lg who didnt even had the guts to mention in their website or warn users...samsung is also better when it comes to customer support around the world...get ur facts straight when u dont know ****
[G4 General] 350Rocket:
I'm just speaking the obvious and you don't get it. One is a safety hazard and the other is not. Just like car recalls. You sound so ridiculous.

I don't recall any company putting info on their website about a possible reliability defect with some of their products. It's very unlikely unless it's a safety hazard where they are likely to be sued.
[G4 General] raptorddd:
xploding batteries means .. fire. house could caught fire , people could get injured or loss life. also means real as they get sued and must pay for damages or in the worst cases a life...

cant compared . s in cars safety is first.. bootloop doesnt put your life at risk.

and still all the rest of phone arent getting bootloop. maybe indeed a small percentage of newer models were fixed we shloud be seign lots of 508-510 ect.. theres isnt a better option for me i love my G4... tell me phone with better camera ,battery and cpu.
[G4 General] compwrench:
Does all this mean I will be disappointed on Monday? Mine crapped out at 15 months. I mailed it to them and received the canned response Friday that they had received the phone and will fix, charge to fix or won't fix and ship it back. Unfortunately I chose the 2 year payment plan so there is a good chance I will be paying for a broken phone 9 more months. The young me would blow it off, credit be damned, the current old me will not take a bad hit on the credit report.

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Your post gives me hope that I will get mine fixed by LG. It is 3 months past warranty. I bought it from T-Mobile the first day it was available and all but 1 thing that I had used Xposed for was available with stock LG ROM.
[G4 General] jinderation:
the point is about customer care from samsung compared to lg (Samsung cares)...tell me havent u bought atleast 3 g4s since lg didnt fix ur device...do i need to remind u again GS6 has better photo quality than the G4 i owned them both...view youtube reviews its already mentioned in all the reviews that GS6 has better snaps than the G4.... i dont know why is there a hype btw a smartphone n a camera..u want the best picture quality could had bought a used dslr seriously
[G4 General] Riardon:
If you your taste is over processed and oversharpened pictures GS6 is fine I guess. I owned a GS6 edge plus and photos were oversaturated and oversharpened af. And I viewed them on PC just to be sure. G4 and Nexus 6P have way better cameras. But yes it comes down to your personal taste. I didn't like the sharpness mess Samsung does.
[G4 General] MaxRusty:
Lg g5 =)

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[G4 General] raptorddd:
but a risk of fire its seriuos or injure and or death.. liek i said earlier.. no my G4 bootloop once and running the replacement so far so good. no you have not tell me about gs6 camera.. and yes ive seen alot of videos. to me G4 takes better photos and so they say on the camera reviews video...ive seen plenty. at some pics gs6 wins some g4.

i do not want camera i want phone with best camera..

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i dont like G5 because of battery size and shape of phone its ugly. i think v20 looks good. but too expensive.
[G4 General] WTF?:
I am so confident that my 16 month old bootloader unlocked G4 H815 (serial 505) will NEVER bootloop (it doesn't even get warm) that I just bought another one! - the new one I bought is serial 512 - how is that for confidence!
[G4 General] Meakii:
Yea I have a 506 in same boat running Dirty Unicorns and Llama Sweet R6 that flies too without ever getting hot. I'm still convinced it's the bloated stock-based ROMs that are the issue.
[G4 General] WTF?:
Mine is Stock ROM, but very debloated, and using Naptime and some other tweaks, such as removing any misbehaving system app via Link2SD
[G4 General] welder73:
Can you make a list of your debloated apps?

Tnx :)
[G4 General] WTF?:
Pretty much all of the Google crap I don't care about, the only Google apps I still have on the phone are Play Store & Maps (I use classic Maps with +/- zoom) and pretty much all of the LG needless app crap has been removed as well.

Just keep all of the Android system and keep the Google Services Framework & Play Store & Google Play services

check System --> Developer Options --> Running Services, and then see what is running that is not part of Android system and just a junky app you don't need.
[G4 General] _dsk_:
I just got mine back after it started to boot loop 54 days ago!

Some of that time was me working out if i could get my data, but no such luck. LG had it for over a month, and all i get is a sorry they have a backlog.

The best part, they offered some people an LG G5 for the same issue.
[G4 General] thorcyar:
not a reliable one IMHO. My G4 died 2 weeks ago, sort of bootloop (except it will not boot even in recovery, juste nagging me with "LG : life is good")..... and My serial N° starts with .... 509.

May I ask you if someone here plays the game "star wars galaxy of heroes" ? If yes, doesn't your phone heat during a 15 min game session ? Because when playing it, my phone got REALLY hot, to the point it displayed a popup saying more or less "high temperature alert, device suhtting down for your security" (but the phone would not shut down) (screen would go to 80% luminosity, because of high sunlight in my train)
[G4 General] WTF?:
Once a phone is optimized (bootloader unlocked, rooted, optimized) any app that runs the temp up really high is a very bad design and is kicked off my phone immediately

High temp is very bad for any phone, pull battery immediately
[G4 General] thorcyar:
my phone was stock rom, up to date, not rooted and not bootloader unlocked. I am not arguing about using the phone or not, I am searching for comparison elements.
[G4 General] xurena:
Mine is G4 H818P serial 506 14 months old. Never gets hot. Removed all unused bloatware. No bootloop.
[G4 General] WTF?:
that is a known bad app, it will shorten the life of phone due to high heat - all you can do on a locked bootloader phone is to turn the brightness down

the other thing you could do is choose a phone that comes with a Snapdragon 820 processor and is also bootloader unlocked such as One Plus 3 or HTC 10, so that you can optimize the phone and get to a state of minimal background apps & processes running, before launching this type of intense game, which is better suited to a PC with a high powered video card.
[G4 General] thorcyar:
got my phone back after 3 full weeks of repair : motherboard changed

- IMEI has not changed, which is quite strange

- battery still vanishes very fast, I might have to change it (do you know of a 4000 mah replacement ?)

- upper part of the phone still gets very warm (much warmer than my samsung s3) when playing the game (star wars galaxy of heroes) (I have no more sdcard in, since it died 2 days before my phone)

- they did remove my tampered glass screen protection for no reason at all, that makes my very unhappy (and LG does not acknoledge that, they dont want to be fair and offer me something in exchange)

I'm really under-impressed by LG's support ... :(
[G4 General] g_ding84:
I'm on my 3rd G4. All of them are 508. Sadly disappointed because this could be a great phone.
[G4 General] daniel4653:
It's sad that this phone on stock software lags so much. I still get hiccups on CM13. Maybe I was spoiled with the fluidity of the 1+3 and Nexus 6P.
[G4 General] riyosakura:
Still getting hiccups on cm13?

Im using lower spec phone, moto x, but get a very smooth performance.

I dont know if compare to n6p or 1+3 though. It should be much more better. But in term of fluidity, i dont know how it could be improve more. I thought higher spec phone should be able to multitask more, faster apps loading, better camera, better visual, and graphic.
[G4 General] daniel4653:
Yup. Dont get me wrong the device for the most part is smooth with CM13. Stock LG software is a different story. For example right now i closed Facebook on my phone and tried to launch Tapatalk to reply to this comment and there was a good two second delay with the phone registering the action. Its small stuff like this that drives me a bit crazy. Again i may gotten used to the response from the 1+3 and 6P.
[G4 General] thorcyar:
so we might be facing a new widespread hardware issue here : My freshly repaired phone does regularily (every 1 min or so) freeze for 5 full seconds before doing anything like scrolling. I even saw the on screen keyboard freeze (a letter zoomed and frozen). Does it even in airplane mode. I just did a factory reset, I'll report if (when ?) I get it again.

I was satisfied by the phone.... before. I now want to smash it on the wall...