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[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superdon:
Hi all

Yesterday my G3 brightness started flickering like the auto brightness was struggling. This just seemed to stop after a few minutes.

Then today the bottom right corner of the screen is slightly dimmer. This comes and goes.

Is this something i can try and fix or am i best sending it away (for the second time!) to repair?

Thanks
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superdon:
Anyone help? It seems to be something related to the brightness sensor. As when I am indoors it seems ok. But, even with auto brightness turned off, when outside in sunlight I am still seeing the brightness flickering and the dark bottom left of the screen.

I can send back for another repair, but its a pain!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superdon:
So, Update.....

I sent this back for repair which all went smoothly and it was returned yesterday. It appears the phone has a new IMEI. But.....same fault. Immediately when I started the phone it started to flicker and I got the dark bottom right corner. I have emailed Amazon about this, but what do you think?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superdon:
Another quick update. They are sending a brand new replacement. I have asked if I can have a credit or refund so I can buy a different phone, but I don't think they will go for that. If they do what would people suggest? I do like the G3, but not convinced on its reliability now!
[G4 General] JaguarBeast:
I bought this device because it was overall very good in all the reviews I read. I read that the charger that came with it didnt support Quick Charge 2.0. That was the first dissapointment. When i received it, it was running Android 6.0. I did an OTA check and no updates were available. I decided to download Lg Bridge and i finally found one update. I bought this device on one condition, to avoid LG UX 4.0. And guess what, my phone was part of an ever growing crowd of people who didnt have the eu bootloader! I felt like I was smacked in the face. I searched the internet for more info and my fears were confirmed. Ever since that i vowed to never buy from LG again. Android is about Freedom and there is none of that on the LG G4. European market bias confirmed:crying:. Months after the discovery I had witnessed the scariest thing ever, I was listening to some music with my LG earphones plugged in. And suddenly i couldnt wake the damned thing anymore but when i touched the screen i could hear typing sounds, I had to pull the battery out. The battery life on the thing was mediocre at best, the screen never lived up the my expectations, the phone gets dangerously hot when i use snapchat. The only thing going for the LG G4 is its camera which was probably the best in 2015. I simply cannot stand the lag on the phone anymore and I am searching for other phones. Im not that kind of person who spends 600 euros on a phone. Then the Oneplus 3 showed and for 400 euro i get a phone 2 times as powerful, dash charging, an UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER and a premium design. Whats more Oneplus actually tries to fix its phones and released tons of fxes for the OP2. Im pretty sure the phone will get Android Nougat even if it takes a while(after witnessing what speedy updates meant on the LG G4 I would prefer slow and steady progress). The only thing the oneplus loses in is the camera department which will improve. Im tempted to wait for the 2016 Nexuses as they will have the best Android experience as well as support for Daydream vr. Ive also checked out the ugly zenfone 3 deluxe which will cost much more than 400 euro. The Axon 7 is also tempting but im not sure if the 6gb version will come out for Europe, the bootloader seems to be locked for now(news next week on whether it will be unlocked) So guys should i wait for the more expensive Nexus by HTC or look out for the OP3 and Axon 7?
[G4 General] batproho:
You're not alone.
[G4 General] asian_xl:
After a year of using it

Pro:

- Battery life, yes it last more than one day, and never need the 2nd battery

- Camera, I am not a pro, but keep getting compliment saying the photos are awesome

- Screen, I have no complaint, but nowaday a lot of high-end phone gets 1440p screen

- Quick eMMC speed and SD support

Cons:

- Still no unlocked BOOTLOADER!

- ****ty OS

- SLOW CPU nowaday

- Poor Wifi (50% vs my iPAD air 2 full bar)

- Very poor resale value

- Leather gets dirty quickly and expensive to replace

Verdict: The camera is holding me from getting another phone. It will be either Note7, Nexus 2016, or iPhone7.
[G4 General] Riardon:
I do not agree with some things here. The leather is not getting dirty fast at all except if you are not careful enough. I have the phone since February and the leather is like day one. I do agree that those covers are too expensive. The phone gets warm but so do many others with Snapdragons. Only my S6 and iPhone does not get very warm. It's a common issue with Android phones due to their hardware. The latest Snapdragons tend getting warmer than other chips. My 6P was getting very warm too. Metal is good for cooling during winter but during summer it absorbs the surrounding heat faster than other materials. The battery life is OK. Just OK nothing outstanding. I get 3 to 4h SoT indoors with WiFi and 1 to 2h SoT outside with 4G. The screen of G4 is 1440p except if I didn't understand correctly what you wrote. It's like you implied that the G4 has no QHD screen which is wrong. Overall the phone is one of the snappiest and lag free I ever had. It definitely feels more snappy than the 6P which shocked me when I bought it. The UX is OK. I find it a bit ugly and uninspired. It misses some options and features. Like settings search. The only thing that bothers me with this phone is the Bootloop issue and the absence of fingerprint reader. I will never buy OnePlus though. No official service centres in many countries and very slow Android updates. Look when they got Marshmallow. Their OS is buggy as hell. Also I will never again trust a phone with an OLED panel except from Samsung's. All non Samaung phones that have OLED tend to have weak and lower quality panels which are bad optimised. My guess is OEMs order lower grade OLED panels from Samsung to cut costs. G4 has one of the best screens I ever had. G4 and my older S6. I live in a sunny country and I had problems with many phones which were absolutely not visible during the day. For the price it is still one very good phone. Now it's dirty cheap. LG just lost their Mojo. They are trying too hard to innovate and do crazy things and lost the basics in the process.
[G4 General] Tech James:
Same, start on Apple, screw them to hell

Next, got LG, stared good, now it sucks

Moving to Samsung!
[G4 General] valgusk:
I was always trash talking sony, after buying this one I feel bad for that. I did not even know i bought a dual version until i got it :c

Now there is no unlock/root for me (bye-bye dualshock, drivedroid etc). Buy cheap, buy twice.
[G4 General] kyogiro:
After a year or so, my main issue is the weak SoC.

It is really showing its age (weaker overall than 2 years old Snapdragon 805). I'm not even playing games, but using the likes of Google Photos takes its toll on the CPU and the battery drains fast.

Sometimes, it struggles to keep up with daily tasks (Google Maps, instant messaging apps, web browser, Strava, camera) : laggy, overheating.

Looking forward to the V20.
[G4 General] 6126:
V20 attracts me too, but G4 is a great phone. Unfortunately, the battery is bad, but

:)
[G4 General] ryn888:
Same here. No more LG for me... So many issues like bootloop and overheating...
[G4 General] lukas77:
Jesus people, stop crying and make a reaserch before you gonna buy a phone. This kind of posts are on every phone forum, every single one, G4 is my 11th Android phone, I had Motorola, Sony, OPO2, OPPO, Samsung and on each forum I've seen countless posts like this. FYI - LG is a first phone that I really like after one year of using, just before I bought it I have read about unlocking bootloader, root, etc and chose it after some reaserch.
[G4 General] dumb_question:
not just that mine was dead in 2 days after an official update via lg bridge. i am a poor man ... i hope lg make things right but i dont think i can afford another until i am a grand grand parent...

i have seen few htc with my friends htc m8 ithink they were they had a solid build quality and never gave a problem to them all 3 of them running cynogen i bet quality wise htc or samsung are best Huawie and chinese phones are not attrctive but have solid build quality i knw this for sure
[G4 General] djfirestorm:
I'm done with LG as well. I wonder if anyone from LG reads REAL communities and learn from this? Mine is battery life, while some get good life, mine is at 50% by noon and I start at 9 am, so that's not saying a lot for this phone. Of course the locked bootloader, but even more than the lock, their OS is just abysmal, why, just why?

I can't wait until the Zenfone 3 Deluxe shows up in Canada.

---------- Post added at 11:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 AM ----------

Oh dude, so here is what your NOT UNDERSTANDING. The H812 (Canadian Version) came shipped with Android 5.1. It DID NOT have a locked bootloader. Then one day in February we got the Magical Unicorn also knows as Marshmallow. Like many MANY other people, we updated the OTA because we just needed that battery improving upgrade, after-all Europe got this update 2 months before and are happily running the phone the way they see fit...Stock, Roms, Root, whatever. SURPRISE PHONE BOOTLOADER LOCKED UPON OTA. This has nothing to do with the actual phone itself as a functioning electronic device, this has to do with LG's GIANT FK YOU Canada.
[G4 General] JaguarBeast:
Sorry but your point is not valid, the sellers don't tell you if its the European bootloader version or not.

I have the Singapore model so I'm stuck with what I have.
[G4 General] lukas77:
European reseller has no right to sell you Singapore version as warranty won't be valid in Europe, if you referring to some eBay sellers then you can always ask about country origin.
[G4 General] dianxxyyzz:
Does kzd upgrade also update bootloader? maybe you can flash inside your g4 , the eu kzd , update bootloader to eu version and just unlock it . Just a Ideea ,Maybe dnt works
[G4 General] onotor:
It depends on your device id and your IMEI not the software sadly ..
[G4 General] dianxxyyzz:
There must be a way to restore the bootloader . I read on some post taht a guy used a ZTE software to rewrite all phone partitions and he modified IMEI and Device ID . He did not changed bootlaoder but I think there must be a way .I will look for that post and I will post here . He explained that his phone was switching mode and appeared in his Windows Device manager like a serial COM device and he had access to all phone partitions ,about 20-30 of them .
[G4 General] onotor:
A guy whose name is XVANKO said he found a way to unlock bootloader unofficially. He disappeared 4-5 days ago. I can't access him.. Hope he returns and tell us the unlocking method
[G4 General] dianxxyyzz:
"The video below shows the researcher using his app to root an Android-powered HTC phone, which is connected to a computer by a USB cable. The first ID and su commands show that the device is unrooted. After running "moo"ï¿½the name of the file containing the exploit codeï¿½and then running the su and ID commands again, it's clear that the device has been rooted."

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...ed-by-most-serious-linux-escalation-bug-ever/

and there is more on google .
[G4 General] mkiller88:
I had LG G4 for 1 year and a half, i was tierd of waiting for software fixes, Android 7 etc... The phone got worse day by day, even after factory reset. On 31 December i have switched to Moto Z, 2 days ago i got Android 7 via OTA, the phone is flowless and the camera is slightly better then G4, also the battery life is better, and dont forget that you can add modules. I will buy the Incipio pack with 2220mAh. Just read the reviews.
[G4 General] gazoox:
After I got my LG G4 (rooted) repaired from the CPU problem, I moved over to Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. But still have my purple color on the LG screen after a while powered on...

A required of mine was to have 5,5 Inch again. The edge's border is smaller than G4. Even with Ccse it is slim enough for me for a very good one hand handling. At this border size, it would also be possible to use 5,7 Inch one handed (I think). I'm happy now. Very fluent. Continue now without root.

BR
[G4 General] aouni_tahech:
My wife's G5 is WAY more responsive than my G4. I believe it's the fast storage implemented in the G5 compared to the sluggish performance in the G4 storage. Anyway, I'm definitely going to buy another LG. Waiting for the G6 to be released.

They are way cheaper where I live from the Samsung, and arguably better.

Camera is top notch (at the time the G4 was realeased), and the G5 got the same exact camera + extra wide angle camera. The camera is still far better than other crappy cheap phones in low light. Based on LG's previous releases, the G6 should get a big update in the camera department. This usually happens every other update. So the next big update after the G6 will be with the G8.

From anandtech -> http://www.anandtech.com/show/10217/the-lg-g5-review/5
[G4 General] Xdekker:
Ok, i can't really comment on this because I got the best LG G4 possible ( EU, Single sim, Poland ( Which is the best) , Serial 607 ( so no problems with the bootloop thing really) and I believe the battery is slightly better on phones shipped with serial 607 and 608 ( Although 608 is so rare that almost nobody has it)

Thing is, you have to understand that, LG sells this phone on the asian market for a considerably lower price, so the bad batches etc they all push to those countries. You can get a brand new one there for 200 euro. Now come on, for 200 euro there aren't many options that are better tbh.

Now the ****ty part is that some resellers buy those and sell those for the RRP of the H815, wake up people! LG doesn't differentiate for no reason, this is a common practice with all korean manufacturers, from cars to TV's. Now Am I saying it's bad, No, asian markets have considerably less buying force so for them to actually deliver top-end specs, al be it with some issues at that price is still amazing!
[G4 General] blake_spector:
Well well, let's take your word for granted. Can I finally be happy about getting a motherboard replacement after ILAPO?

Warranty and all, from Germany to Poland and back. It's working perfectly so far (as it did when I bought it. For ~12 months . . . )

Can you tell me more about "EBR81224301"?
[G4 General] Xdekker:
What do you want me to tell you lol?
[G4 General] Minto107:
Allegro is ****, you can get G4 for nothing there. It's much cheaper than SGS6 but still more expensive than HTC M9(which is cheaper than M8 in my country) but when you buy G4 from allegro then no warranty, no bootloader unlock, most of the time no LTE etc. I went to store and bought one. Difference in price is like 40 EUR

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
The G4's sold on the Allegro website are indeed from SEA, not originally intended for the Polish/European Market. There is so much fragmentation with LG it's unreal tbh. That's what Apple is really good at, standardization, everybody gets the same product. (except for the 5c fiasco but that's a whole other story lol)
[G4 General] Minto107:
Actually, I think I'll buy myself 5S as I need to be back in iOS as many things has changed and I'm out from the game(3G is a little outdated :P) and yeah it's a lottery to buy phone from allegro these days... I'm still really surprised that my phone is from UK but it works great so I can't complain at all right now. I really like this phone as it's great, fast, good looking with great camera etc. If not the bootloop it would be best phone of its time

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
I wouldn't know, I have never been in Poland lol :P , My supplier always gets me the best products ( I live in the Netherlands lol)

Anyway, I have a feeling the iPhone will be so good this year we as phoneheads just can't resist. One thing is for certain, If Apple decides to pull an Apple and do the usual spec bump and that's it they wil take a biggggg hit.

And yes, if this Phone had USB-C it would be one of the best phones, if not the best still today. The main reason for me is the Leather back, you just can not beat that! ( I know moto and all but that phone sucks lol)
[G4 General] Minto107:
Actually I hate moves like removing audio jack as its very important for me and I guess to 1/3 peoole too. Other **** they've done and I can't forgive them is that they added second speaker on the bottom which is empty inside and it has no real use..Honestly, I'm happy I bought this phone as it seems great so right now I have nothing to worry, but what to buy next? I have S7 or HTC 10 on mind. Maybe the Pixel... S8 will suck, G6 will be awful again, 11 won't have jack, Pixel 2017 will... Let's hope it will be perfect

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
I just have a feeling that Apple has a special card that they are holding. Something so revolutionary I just gotta have it (or at least I hope so lol). If not the S8 will be the best phone lol.

About the 3.5mm jack, All manufacturers have already signed all kinds of deals so yes, capitalism will once again win :( , I highly doubt we will see any of next years flagships with a 3.5mm jack, Maybe LG and Huawei will still include it but HTC, Samsung (maybe) , Apple, Mi, Meizu etc will all abandon it.

Oh yea and FYI, I have a very strong feeling Sony and LG may go out of the smartphone market really soon, especially Sony, I just can't see them survive this year. 2017 will be a crucial year for Mobile tech IMO, especially for smartphones.
[G4 General] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
If and Only Pixel got expendable storage and not overpriced as f**k, it will be a go.. But i know it just a dream, Google never decided to give SD Card support and loves to recommend us to buy more storage for online drives..

I think, i might stay with G4 and hoping that LG realized scraping the idea of removable battery is a bad move since there is not much phone that can be removed their battery.. Idc about battery life tho because i have 3 LG G4 battery pack and it's really useful for me. Since i played game so hard like Mobile Legend on my LG G4, everytime my battery is left at 15% or less, i will turn off my phone and swap the battery with my another fully charged battery. So i can resume my game very quick and let the almost die battery to charged again via LG Battery Case without having me to stay near the charger or charge the phone while it is fiery hot.

Believe it or not, my actions for swapping the batteries has made my friend who was a die-hard iPhone fan switched from her iPhone 6 Plus to LG G4 because of how handy it is to have removable battery and cancelled her planning to buy iPhone 7. Now she was a happy LG G4 user and probably will get V20 for her next phone and i was happy too to help her to save some money and stop wasting on overpriced gadget.
[G4 General] kessaras:
of course you realise that this applies to only you and those that you like going on a trip and keep playing games while traveling........

so every 3 hours of hard gaming you switch batteries ? what can i say..... indeed it's a nice idea, but i still wish people would quit facebook and gaming for hours and live a little more.

for me one battery is enough to get through 2 or 3 days -_-
[G4 General] Minto107:
For me G4 stands for about 2 days. It happens that I have to charge it every day but it's not normal and it's much better than my Galaxy S3 which I was charging 2-5 times a day, thats why I was super excited about G4 battery life then I was told that I was better on lollipop and I couldn't believe it XD

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[G4 General] kessaras:
do adb logcat on stock firmware and check why :D

there is a bug that doesn't let the cpu rest. grats to lg, nice firmware. if it wasn't for amplify lg MM would be the worse OS of the year 2016 haha
[G4 General] Minto107:
I still don't have root or even unlocked bootloader so I didn't give it a try ;). I'm thinking of getting back to business. I would make some ROM for this phone as almost noone is interested in doing so. My brother has G3 and I feel a little jealous. He has G5 rom installed on it and even if I unlock mine I can only flash G5 themed ROM with some G5 apps... That's hilarious. I never had to play with porting one phone software to other but maybe it's time to start doing so.

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[G4 General] welder73:
We will be here to test it! :fingers-crossed:
[G4 General] Minto107:
Small steps first! :D next week I will have a lot of free time so maybe I'll unlock the bootloader then I will start working on optimised stock ROM then I'll try G5 Port [emoji14]

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
Bro can you please please port the V20 Rom and not the G5 as it's better. Tyvm.
[G4 General] lukem99626:
Shouldnt you wait a bit to see if nougat comes they might of put the g5 ui and few apps :p i would unlock mine too but need warranty in the event of bootloop though unlikely because sn611
[G4 General] Minto107:
V20 is not possible because we're on 6.0 and V20 is on 7.0

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[G4 General] kessaras:
would be nice but i don't think he can port any rom he likes. phones must have similar hardware or he will make the code from scratch which is not called porting anymore. that would be a totally new OS for g4. Very hard. If anyone could do it, then LG would have done it already :p
[G4 General] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
Yes, i switch my battery every 3 hours. Act, i also have the same wish as you but what i can say.. i also can't quit facebook yet because my job is rely on facebook. I do online businesses, so u might know why.. Don't get me wrong, i'm not addict with social media plus i already deleted my twitter and instagram since i'm married last year just because i think i need to stay more focus on my family..

And gaming, i'll only play mobile legend if i really don't have anything to do on that time but usually it is filled up with mod my ride or jungle trekking or ghost hunting.. :silly:
[G4 General] Xdekker:
I'm not familiar with LG code at all, but yes that's exactly my point :P we want 7.0! Haha jk, I know it's hard but doable tbh... Not that I will do it lol too much work haha. Besides I sucks at it, I'm currently studying business at uni so yeah, not really my expertise
[G4 General] Minto107:
It's possible, but it would took a lot of time to get it booting. Guys brought KitKat to I9300, they could even 5.1 but no one was interested in doing so

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
Yeah ik it's possible, and maybe not even that hard lol, give it try if you want and if you have the time on it, I wouldn't spend too much time getting it to boot though.

Tbh, don't bother porting the G5 rom, Genysis does a great job at it tbh and the G5 rom doesn't have too many improvements IMO.
[G4 General] Minto107:
Actually you're really wrong. G5 marshmallow is much better than this crap we have on G4 or G3. Look at Android version. We use 6.0 and G5 uses 6.0.1. Only thing that really got improved is what you can guess, Doze and standby time improvements... It's minor Android update but huge doze update... We can blame LG for whatever bringing marshmallow that early(9 days after Nexuses :P) or for that they are lazy as **** and they are not making UX 4.0 with 6.0.1 or they don't bother bringing UX 5.0 to G4 and other devices at least till now, when will get UX 5.0 but I hope that it it will be 7.1.1 as it will most likely be our very last update.

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[G4 General] Xdekker:
Tbh, I just can't see it making a difference at all. I know doze is great and all but it won't make too much of a difference lol. As for the android update I am 99% sure that we will stay on UX 4.0 with android 7.1. Same thing happened with my LG G3.