[LG V20 Questions & Answers] HikariNoKitsune:
I don't know why LG decided to do this....

A) No Notification LED? Seriously? That's a serious thing to just 'not have'... IDC if the second screen shows notifications... a second screen with its backlight turned off 95% of the time does NOT make for a good 'hey you have a message!' system... You can't see it at all... and I'm currently less than a foot away from the phone! Its sitting on the desk right in front of me and I can't SEE the second screen what so ever. Now if I move closer to it, then I can make out the date and time, but when its just sitting on the desk its impossible. I wish I had another device to take a picture so people could see just what I'm getting at here...

Sure some people people will just say 'well its the second screen, all notifications go there and its honestly way better!'... but to me its not. I don't know about anyone else, but say you set your phone down on the table next to you in the living room. You're watching a movie and decide to pause it so you can get something to drink. You leave the phone on the table. You come back with your drink, and one of two things can happen depending on the implementation.

1) You have a phone with a Notification LED. You see it flashing so you sit down and pick up the phone to reply to whatever is going on.

2) You have a phone without a Notification LED. You don't notice anything on the phone as you glance towards it, so you sit down and resume the movie, potentially missing that you have 20 missed calls from your mother/father who is trying to get a hold of you because your mother/father was just in a serious car wreck and is dying in a hospital...

A Notification LED is something that should just be a god damn given on every phone in existence...

B) When you have your phone set to 'vibrate', the Notification Sound and Touch Feedback & System dials are MUTED. When I get a text message or an email, there is no vibration AT ALL. Yet the phone's sound profile is set to VIBRATE.... I don't understand this at all... A smart phone in today's day and age, is mainly used for non-audio means of communication... ei text messages, kik messages, whatsapp messages, facebook messages, hangouts messages, and whatever other messaging platforms that exist out there.... So why make it so that their only means of telling you that something is going on, is disabled when you turn it to vibrate? People put their devices on vibrate so that they can receive their notifications without disturbing people around them... If people wanted to ignore the notifications completely, they'd just put the damn phone on silent!

I personally have a room mate. I try to respect them by keeping my phone on 'vibrate' so they can sleep and to generally just not bug them with loud sounds every time someone texts. But with the V20, I just CAN'T do that now. I have no indication that I've received ANYTHING.... No LED blinking at me, no vibrations grabbing my attention, nothing!

C) The sounds for notifications, when I do end up having them on, are terrible... Not the sounds themselves, but how they seem to 'work'. If I get a text message, it'll be blaringly loud when only set to half volume. Then I get an email or something, and the notification is so soft you can barely hear it. Then another email comes in and suddenly its freaking loud as hell again! Then maybe I get another text message, and it'll be back to being super quiet...

Its like the sound level for notifications changes every other notification!

With all that said, and my anger fueled rant almost at its completion... I'm at my wits end with this phone. I love its features, but hate its usability. I need a phone that tells me when **** is going on. Not a phone that's off in la la land. Not a phone that I have to actively check every few minutes to see if someone's messaged or an important email has arrived. I seriously hoped that after all the crap I saw people complaining about on the V10 notification wise, that LG would get their act together and make a good notification system or at least add a freaking LED! -sigh- so here's hoping that after two phones being released in this manner, some amazing dev out there finds a way to control the second screen without needing root (I like using Android Pay...) so that it has some sort of 'breathing' color effect or something whenever a notification is there. With a screen that large, it doesn't even need to really blink all that frequently like an LED normally would... could just have it do it maybe every 30 seconds. It'd be bright enough and large enough to grab your attention instantly, unlike a tiny little LED...