[LG V20 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sirandar:
Updated for Week 2

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Where I Came From:

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HTC Desire Z to Sam GS3 to Sam Note 4 to V20

My Note 4 developed MMC errors and this it why I have the V20 and didn't buy another Samsung

Initial Impressions

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This has been a flawless experience so far. Even my Note 4 had a lot of startup pains such as wifi not working until wifi power saving was disabled.

I have had no such issues so far with the V20 and this reflects on both Goggle Nougat and LG.

One potential issue was lack of an app drawer but the tech guy in the store warned me about this and showed me how to remedy.

Battery life: some complains on the web ...... I have none ..... battery life is amazing. Second week....Battery life still amazing .....

Charge Time: with the LG charger great ..... Sammy fast chargers work but are slower

Camera: Too early to tell but I am impressed and found no obvious faults yet. The LED is blindingly bright. Got around to testing the camera. I normally shoot with a extremely well designed M4/3 camera so I know what I want in a device. In the context of a camera with a tiny sensor, this camera is fantastic.... Probably not was good as a Pixel, but still great. Manual mode is well crafted. Photo colour balance is good and detail/noise ratio well balanced.

The only annoying aspect is the lag when the lens changes.

Performance: My Note 4 was/is still more than enough ..... the V20 is overkill and handles what I do effortlessly.

microSD: My AData 128 Gb card was accepted and functioned perfectly so far under my stress testing. There is 64Gb of internal memory. Accepts my USB OTG devices without any drama so far including big flash drives. During the second week I had to sync a 60Gb music collection to the SD card at least 5 times due to app and not phone issues. The memory subsystem in the V20 and Nougat showed no signs of instability and No error or disconnects.

Screen: Perfect ...... but so was my Note 4s

Nougat: No complains yet ...... first Android flavour I have no complains about as long as the Play Store doesn't start acting up or undetectable app processes start draining my battery. None so far

Fingerprint and Smart Unlock ... Flawless and eminently useful unlike most feature bloat.

Stability:. Beat the crap out of it over the last week, hasn't even burped once. Repested on the second week .... No issues.

Stock Software: Didn't buy through a carrier so only LGs apps... not bloated. Stock music and video player are well made ...... Video player handles VLC files flawlessly so far.

Build: Fantastic but a little slippery

Call Quality: Not fully tested yet but the speaker and call quality are great so far. Great call quality.

Audio quality: On a good set of headphones = fantastic but so was my Note 4. haven't tested the multi DAC audio much yet.

The speakers on the V20 put out amazing sound for a phone, far far superior to my Note4

Bluetooth: Occasional skipping on my car audio system, but my Note 4 skipped too. Rock stable on my Sony X2 Bluetooth speaker while my Note 4 wasn't.

Tethering: Tethering so far has been flawless and stable and the V20 gets recognized as a real network vs unknown one. Gave up on tethering except for my laptop as due to DHCP and security issues it is more trouble than it's worth. My network is a mix of wired and wireless and no router I know of switches to and from repeater mode gracefully.

Downloaded USB drivers from LG and now use USB tether. Just as quick, no issues ever.

Second Screen: Useful for me ..... works with Mediamonkey for Android. Proved itself to me.

General Stability: Not one issue or crash so far ........ LG and Goggle currently seem to be a good combo