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[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
My V20 was running hot, over 102°f

I had 32% battery life when I pulled the battery and waited 2 mins before I turned phone back on. When I turned phone back on, I was at 18% battery life and it's still declining as I'm writing this. WTF???
[LG V20 Real Life Review] V0idst4r:
Try closing some tabs of porn
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Who better to receive advise from than someone speaking from personal experience. You've been a great help chief?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kparikh82276:
Haven't had any over heat battery issues as of now, and I'm with this phone since December 2016.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Same here, had it since it first came out and never had any heat issues with it. I swear these manufactures release updates and cause our phones to start acting up wherever they release a new device. It started happening after the G6 was announced and I received an OTA update for bug fixes! Bug fixes my ass, they just want us to buy a new phone!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] doesntmatterx:
Actually I had this problem a week ago. I had an LG V10 before that did the same thing then a few days later fried. I had to return it for warranty repair then sold it. Fast forward to an LG V20, love it had it for a few months then suddenly it was draining battery fast and getting hotter then normal. I downloaded a few battery apps to help me trace the culprit but to no avail. Finally one day I just powered it off for about 2 hours and it has been back to normal since then.

Very strange and got me a bit worried about another chipset frying or another bootloop... lets hope not.:good:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Thanks, I'll try your method and hopefully it'll work for me as well. I had the same thing happen with my V10, and I loved that freaking phone, was built like a sexy tank. LoL

I hope my V20 doesn't start down same road of infinite bootloop, from which there's no return.?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] MinfordDude:
Not much heat

I've had a v20 H990N for a little over a week, coming from a G3 (3 years without any issues until it died, i prefer to keep phones as long as they work). I have played asphalt extreme for at least an hour straight a few times on wi-fi, with the screen between 60-70% brightness and have not experienced anything except minor warming.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kparikh82276:
Need to follow your update cycle, getting phones and keeping it until they stop working. I have so many phones that I've collected, I used to switch out just for sake of changing phone shape etc.

I'm on v20 and intend to use it until it dies.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] AhmedQatar:
I does heat much more than expexted
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mrk15888:
I've been getting constant high temperature warnings on my v20 recently. Not even with high usage. Took 3 pictures and up pops the high temperature warning, without having any other apps running. This is also my second v20 as the first would restart every 30 seconds before even leaving the TMobile parking lot. I'd be careful with this phone, as much as I love it there is constant screen retention on the notification area, this new overheating issue, 4 hours screen on time, and no security updates. I must say though the phone is excellent with a great camera,screen, and processor, these few problems are going to make me buy from a different company in the future.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rubiicon59:
Looks like your battery could be on its way out. Try an app like AccuBattery for a few days, get an idea of battery health, you got nothing to lose.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] marcial19xx:
Random reboot on my LG V20 specially when playing games and videos.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Icycookies:
The phone for me got really hot that it would not turn on anymore. Had to replace the mobo; got a alright deal online. While i was replacing it i put thermal paste on unit .still running good till this day.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kaluna00:
I think that is just part of the power-hungry processor. Greenify helped my phone from heating up in my pocket randomly.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] stevenjus:
To solve my heating issues I opened my v20 and replaced the thermal goop it had with a copper shim(.5cm I belive) and removed the copper paper thin whatever that was on top of the cpu. I then placed new thermal paste on the actual cpu that was covered by the thin paper copper thing and then placed the copper shim on top of it. then placed thermal paste on top of the copper shim and put the phone back together.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the LG V20's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mtkiddy:
meh

Looks like an oil painting...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] chanukya:
Average

Low light was certainly a disappointment. Took side-by-side photos using V20 and my S7 edge. The LG does no better than a 6 version iphone. Not even in the same class as S7.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mrdiggz:
I agree that low light seems pretty average. Dynamic range seems slightly about average as well.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dannieloco:
Any red eye seen on people?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Slash8915:
I agree. The low light shots leave a lot to be desired. Coming from an S7 Edge, it's definitely a disappointment. Hopefully it's something that can be fixed with a software update.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
I wonder if there is a way to give feedbacks to LG and whether they check it or not.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Slash8915:
I'm not sure how good LG is at listening to their customers. It would be really nice if they could fix it though.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
yeah i have some request myself.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] eksasol:
I don't have the V20 (yet), but with my V10 in low light I have to use manual mode and increase lower the shutter speed.

This is inevitable because the V20 use the Exmor IMX298 sensor with a pixel size of 1.12µm, in comparison, the Nexus 6P have 1.55µm and S7 edge have 1.4µm, which let in more lights.

It's kind of a trade off between low light performance and total megapixels. I really want that wide angle camera though.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] alireza_asol:
you can not expect much from imx298

it's really bad choice for a flagship phone. imx298 is good for midrange phones

when imx378 is available why imx298?

imagine imx378 f1.8 +ois ...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] koppee1:
Low light is certainly average. Coming from a note 7... It's not even comparable...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] taphius:
Same pixel size as the G5, looks like the G5 takes better photos at night It should be correctable in software...hopefully.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Techweed:
When I went from the s6 edge+ to the s7 edge (I had to return the note 7 new in box because of what happened) I thought the newer model actually was a bit of a step back from the s6 edge+ in low light.

I have confidence that software can absolutely improve the quality of the image. I donlt have confidence that the update to the camera software will ever happen though :D

Meanwhile, I will shoot in manual if need be since pics come out generally better to much better than auto.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Ashk91:
no phone can beat the S6 edge on camera quality, which is a bummer
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
Video in lowlight is not so bad.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_j8qIxYN_onMmpXSTdEaDlzZzA

I didnt do it with 4k but with 1080p.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Billy Madison:
And what would it be? Crappy 12Mpix in daylight and same crappy blurry "around 5Mpix" in lowlight?

Look at pictures from HTC 10 or U Ultra both with IMX378

---------- Post added at 08:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 PM ----------

Attach some here and we'll gladly compare
[LG V20 Real Life Review] alireza_asol:
and you look at pixel without ois and f2.0

htc's camera is crap always
[LG V20 Real Life Review] trace1er:
I too felt the S6 edge/edge+ camera is the best I've ever seen. I think only the Pixel produces better pictures now (with HDR+ mode on)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xxdunker:
You can get some insane shots in low light with manual mode. Long exposure shots come out amazing. These are from the beach at around midnight. No light at all. Did a little light painting.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kparikh82276:
What's "light painting"?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xxdunker:
Setting a long exposure meaning opening the lens longer to let more light in and lighing up what youre trying to take a picture up with a flashlight. Pretty much. The darker picture is just 30sec exposure with no light and the brighter one is with light painting.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Billy Madison:
Does this port http://xdaforums.com/moto-z/themes/camera-app-hdr-enabled-t3543988/ work on your's camera? On mine it only makes blurry shots in HDR+ enabled mode

WTF?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Partyzane:
Not quite low light photo but low light video.

Still testing the camera's limits. This video is shot with Cinema 4K in 2K resolution with 200mbs and then edited in Adobe Premier. Camera gives a green cast in shadows but it might be due to an incorrect white balance i set.

youtu.be/iQcTSWLWAG0
[LG V20 Real Life Review] :
Amazing low light performance. I am really happy with LG V20 camera:good: I never got such quality pictures with HTC 10 :(ever in my nine month usage. HTC 10 does well in good lightning condition, so does OnePlus 5. However both these phone struggle in low light condition. Attach picture taken in complete darkness. I rarely got noisy and blurry images with LG V20. On the contrary I use to get blurry, Noisy, yellowish and pinkish pictures while using HTC 10 camera inside my home..
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mookiexl:
Manual mode all the way
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Jaws4God:
does ok with low light.. wouldn't say its the best on the market.. flash is average as well.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RE910177:
this photo attached, was it taken by LG v20?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xxdunker:
All taken with the LG v20. Low light is where I have gotten my best pictures.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xdamember143:
Just use Google camera mod and you'll get the best lowlight photos
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RE910177:
that's really nice did you lower down the ISO? what about the shutter speed?

@xdamember143 can't find the app in playstore :(
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xxdunker:
I believe I was at 50iso and 30 second shutter. Walked around the subject with a light to get some exposure on them and boom. Some crazy good pictures. Light painting on a phone. In the picture of the Jeep you can see the stars. That's how much exposure this thing took in. Crazy
[LG V20 Real Life Review] xdamember143:
Its not in the playstore , you need a pixel device to have it there. Its here on xda the apk. Download both apks for wide lens and normal lens https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75364454&postcount=317
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RE910177:
- ok saw it. good thing this mod doesn't require root access, will try this one tonight thanks!

@xxdunker nice! gotta try some stuffs tonight. thanks a lot man!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] vargala81:
This phone made me love night shots

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[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the LG V20 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] koppee1:
With good lighting, the camera takes pictures comparable to the note 7. But the note 7 starts faster and focuses faster.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] 2015Ducatimulti:
yeah I had the note 7 myself and completely agree what you said, except for the pic quality, I still found that the pics were better on the S7 edge/note 7 compared to the V20 I had , I loved my blue coral Note 7, but traded it in and got the V20 and realized I was wanting the camera opening quickness, better pics, led,AOD, wireless charging, and waterproofing(I kayak a lot), so I just returned my V20 for the sliver S7 Edge, then the next day I got the 100.00 bill credit for going back to Samsung, since I had the Note 7:good:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] koppee1:
Yeah, I miss the note 7 camera (and stylus). With the note 7, I could actually start the camera and take a very quick shot through heavily tinted windows and it comes focused and great. I can't seem to do that with the v20..

Over all the camera is good.. But it falls behind over the Samsung ones. I'll keep this though and wait for the note 8...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] FAUguy:
Wonder how the Mate 9 camera will compare.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rudbwoy:
My wife's relatives were in town. For the first time, my wife let me take pics with my device. She didn't really like the quality on the Note 4, but she did trust the LG V20. Pics came out great. YMMV of course... lighting, conditions, settings. But Auto Mode does a pretty good job.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] sguerra923:
What would everyone recommend for the HDR Settings? Auto, On, or Off?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] koppee1:
I've tried a bit of testing... The only time manual was better for me was when I lowered the iso and took a longer shutter speed to lessen grain. But auto does a good job.

What I don't like is when you zoom in. Then everything seems like a water color painting. Although my wife's iPhone 6 does the same when you zoom in. I'm not sure.. But I don't think the note 7 did that....
[LG V20 Real Life Review] EMJI79:
Can you post sample photos?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] haruyukisama:
Took this with the v20 wide angle camera and have to say I am quite impressed. Shot the phone with manual mode and HDR on.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jellybear456:
Here are a few photos I've taken with the regular lens, HDR, and 4:3 16MP.

Both photos have a decent amount of light in them, but I thought they turned out pretty well.

P. S. Sorry for them being sideways:p
[LG V20 Real Life Review] EMJI79:
Thanks
[LG V20 Real Life Review] taphius:
Capable of taking some good photos, but this is the most inconsistent phone i've ever owned. Photos are grainy when they have no reason to be (more than sufficient lighting). Shutter speed drops to 1/9 most of the time, causing huge blurry messes.

They need to send an update out to fix this, zero reason this sensor/lense should have these issues. My g5 takes much better photos in nearly all situations
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Nitemare3219:
HDR mode is not available when using manual controls.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] ronattack:
do all photos look like an oil painting when you even slightly zoom in or is it just me?? would this even be possible to fix with a software update in the future?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] koppee1:
Yes, I noticed this too..But then I went to a Samsung store and tested the s7..and it was similar. I don't remember that hastening to my note 7 though...unless I'm mistaken
[LG V20 Real Life Review] YellowGTO:
I think the camera is terrible on the V20. Its okay in bright light, but even indoor lighting it struggles with. Everytime I try to grab a photo of my son I regret buying this phone.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] njinstantkarma:
Very disappointed in the camera

I took advantage of the T-Mobile S6 trade in while I really liked my camera on the S6 I was ready for an improvement and it was a toss up between the s7 or the v20 for a free trade in I couldn't pass it up. Problem is since I gave my S6 away I cant replace my V20 with the S7 or anything else Im stuck with it I can return it within the 15 days but that wouldn't help my situation I believe since I got the free bill credit trade in from the S6.

Apparently I made the wrong decision based upon the camera it's terrible! I've tried every setting manual or auto every lighting condition and I can confirm like the others here grainy or blurry photos. Only great lighting will yield decent photos but not one photo so far is even better than my S6 sadly. Is this maybe cause its the t mobile variant? Other reviews online and photos I've seen I Was impressed.

This camera went backwards for me. Everything else about the phone I really like however this camera which is my #1 priority is ****. If I zoom in I see the water painting look. If I use the front camera all pics look like a water painting without even zooming in. One thing I did notice is the wide angle lens the color accuracy looks better than the regular lens in auto and it's less grainy WTF! I've tried 4:3 and 16:9 does not make a difference. pissed about this. T-Mobile said there surprised by this but reading here obviously I'm not the only one seeing this. T mobile said they would look at it and if they see what I'm saying they could replace the phone with another V20 but what will that do? is this maybe a t mobile specific issue? will a software update fix this?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] lgkahn:
Yes low.light pictures suck
[LG V20 Real Life Review] HwaA18:
Has anyone tried turning off HDR? I've been reading the forums on reddit and by turning off HDR, the quality of the photos, according to the users, increased tenfold. So, that's definitely something to try.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Bubba Fett:
Ooohh. That makes sense. I was thinking it would be a cool trick to reproduce, but it seems like the timing and conditions is what made it happen and that would be a tall task. Well, at least my phone isn't haunted! Thank you for the thorough and knowledgeable explanation.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] HD2FORNICK:
Those are awesome!!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Partyzane:
Just another Saturday morning in Wellington.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
Pixel Camera V4.4

Anyone try the recently ported Pixel camera 4.4 on their V20.

I installed the camera, found here: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=889764386195922284

But it didn't show all the features. So no HDR+ amongst other things (no of the button options on the left hand side and no slow mo). So Basically only the shutter and little hamburger menu button.

So uninstalled it and installed an older version of the camera (v 4.2), Found here: https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.google.android.GoogleCameraMOD

Then reinstalled the 4.4 version and now all options are there. I have yet to try it so see how well it works or if it an improvement over the LG auto mode. Not sure if I'll be able to get some test shot for anytime soon. Kind of an ungly overcast day today and I start a new job this week. Maybe I can take some test pics this coming Friday. If mthings clear up I'll try to get in a few shots today, fungers crossed.

NOTE:

1. You'll have two instances of the Google camera installed, V 4.4 is the one with option on the left side of the screen, including HDR+.

2. The camera will not rotate into landscape unless screen rotation is enabled.

3. There is no option to save to SD card (Thanks Google).
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
I have. I'll post some samples. It's not perfect but it's a HUGE improvement over the default LG automatic mode. The software needs to be tweaked, if it's possible, to stop over sharpening images but the hdr is really good
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
Ok. Here's a sample photo of front of my house taken with the modded Google camera with HDR+ enabled. Figured the lighting and all would be a good test.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
I'm posting via my phone on a crap connection so I don't feel like fighting with it so I'm doing a post per pic heh. Sorry.

Anyways. Here's the same shot using the stock LG camera in automatic mode with HDR turned On.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
And finally here's the same shot taken with the stock LG camera in manual mode and edited in Adobe Lightroom Mobile.

Both of the HDR images have way too much sharpening applied and you can see the typical odd glow outline around edges that HDR images get. The colors are also off on both. The HDR+ is the better I think but I don't particularly like either. It is good for quick P&S snaps though.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] KUSOsan:
Guessing the whole reason behind that is that the camera was specifically for the pixel and pixel doesn't have expandable storage.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
Exactly! Thanks again Google. ;)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
I'll never understand how people were ok with that. I mean if the phones had a reasonable amount of built in storage it wouldn't be as much of a deal but you have 32 and 128gb options. 128gb is absolute minimum imo for a usuable multimedia device. Google and supporters wank over cloud storage but you don't get unlimited full quality image storage for free from Google not to mention slow network speeds in general and NotReally Unlimited data most plans offer. It's just bogles my mind.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] KUSOsan:
Tried testing them out as well. 1st one is Google 2nd one is LG

While it looks decent the Google camera definitely doesn't seem to perform as well as on my brothers Nexus 6p and friends pixel so there must be something else going on in the background as well as difference in Iense and such.

Edit ok not sure why it rotated the 2nd sideways.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
Yeah methinks Google may have optimised the algorithms based on the characteristics of each device.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
Correct, your not going to get the full benefits of the Pixel hardware, but I found a noticeable improvement in the dark pictures I took last night. Will have to check the results in better lighting later this week.

Here are some samples. One is while I was driving home last night the V20 auto, V20 with exposure adjustment.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
Pixel Auto
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
disregard... double post
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
V20 auto
[LG V20 Real Life Review] RojasTKD:
Pixel auto

Sorry, it's giving me issues uploading the Pixel pics... I'll try again later, but they are vastly better.

I've tried several times now and it just work work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it just me?

Got one to work....
[LG V20 Real Life Review] helf:
Yeah. The photo quality on the pixel itself with the hdr+ is really good. Thanks for the samples. I'll stick with manual mode but that is damn good for automatic.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jcsx:
I stopped using the auto mode on the stock camera app. I currently use the Pixel one. I use it during the day when you have a lot of light and don't want to have my pictures too exposed. However, you lose quality with the pixel camera app (you will notice it when you zoom in a picture). I use the manual mode for videos, low light situations and best audio quality while recording. I must be honest, for quick shots and not so over exposed pictures (under direct sun light), the pixel camera app does a better job than the stock camera app. For low light situations the stock camera app (manual mode of course) is just too good and better than the pixel one. All of this based on my experience.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Judge-Fredd:
Rojas TKD you made my day!

I'm very happy with the sound and other functions of my V20 (taiwan version, 990DS, I'm French and we european were not considered worthy by LG so...) but was clearly not happy with the P&S photos. I tried open camera with better result but it's still a camera app you have to tweak a little. I was looking for a no brainer app and that Pixel camera 4.4 is just perfect (just the storage location sucks). The HDR+ and all options worked perfectly, I did not need to install the 4.2 version. So thx Rojas TKD and it would be great to have somewhere a permanent link with the last updated version.