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[LG V30 Real Life Review] HispanicGiraffe:
They cant hear me on the other side

Speaker phone is fine. Video call quality is fine aside from the subpar front facing camera. But any regular call people i call are always complaining that they cant hear me. It either sounds like i have very patch signal or im so quiet that they cant understand me. I have no case on and nothing blocking the microphone. Idk what is the problem here? Geez for what ya pay for you'd expect it to be quality right out the box. Ima do more tests and post again.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Marianneg:
Call quality problem

I began to experience this problem as well.

I went into the call settings and turned off the HD voLTE HD setting to standard and it seem to eliminate the problem. People can hear me now it sounded robotic they said or patchy like an internet connection. Hopefully this helps

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I went into the call settings and disabled the HD setting voLTE and it seems so far to fix the problem.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Rate this thread to express how you think the LG V30's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] nufiwk:
I have just received mine. Wifi and 4G connection seems to be poor, very low speed. In fact, my old Samsung can get 30mbps on wifi and the new V30 only gets 10 mbps download and 0,2 mbps upload. It is clearly a fault..... Any ideas?
[LG V30 Real Life Review] ChazzMatt:
No problems here on carrier signal. And that's running through Adguard VPN, so ping speeds are higher than normal (lower is better).

What carrier are you using? Where do you live?

I have AT&T Prepaid in the metro Atlanta area.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] pawMack:
I also have no problems both with speeds and signal.

Got result of 376.78 Mbps /59.21 Mbps 2ms
[LG V30 Real Life Review] staljin:
Look good here as well

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[LG V30 Real Life Review] jjchdc:
I had to RMA my V30 due to poor cellular performance. I noticed that it would show 4G, but not 4G LTE. New one should be delivered tomorrow. I got one for my wife as well and hers hit 20 Mbps without issue. I struggled to hit 10. I'm on MintSIM so while 20 is low for some that is their cap and fast enough for me.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] kbrn:
delete please
[LG V30 Real Life Review] jimmysofat6864:
I have really slow wifi even if I am a few feet from the router. I get about 30mbps or sometimes even 5mbps at its worst when my old V20 or iPhones could pull in 100+mbps which is the speed I pay for.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the LG V30's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Csetoue:
I really like to know how is the cellular reception on this phone. In my V20, I think it's bad. It's the only con that I see on V20.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cazcryy:
On Rogers in Toronto, Canada. No issues with reception, signal strength, or LTE connectivity.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] daandman:
Would you mind sharing your APN settings? I'm on Rogers & I have 1-2 bars max, while it's full on my S8. I haven't turned on data yet in case I need to return it since I had similar issues on the G6 & had lots of problems sending & receiving SMS/MMS while connected to wifi.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cazcryy:
Sure
[LG V30 Real Life Review] daandman:
Mine are the exact same, weird. Thanks.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cazcryy:
Really, I usually have 4 bars with the occasional 3 bars and 3G maybe once or twice since I've had it. What areas are you usually seeing 1-2 bars? Is it indoors also?
[LG V30 Real Life Review] daandman:
It's everywhere, I have an S8 & when I put my sim card in I get full bars and no issues in the exact same locations. I think I'm gonna return my V30 today actually, I had the same issues with my G6 & I'm hesitant to trust LG phones now, which is too bad because I love them.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] TomTanderson:
Bars mean little because each manufacturer uses a different standard and different thresholds. One phones 3 bars is not the same as another. If you want to compare phones then you need the actual signal strength the phone is getting.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Septembersrain:
I think that this device does really well on T-Mobile in San Antonio Texas.

Get an Intel 7 Plus if you want to see just how good the V30 really is.

No, don't do that.

Seriously though, my calls are clear, my data is consistent and I can travel outside the major city.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] hojo82:
I live in Redwood City, CA (silicon valley) and I get perfect reception, all 5 bars LTE.

Speed test shows 60mbit. Amazing. I thought it was a mistake and I tried it again on another block of the city and I got 65mbit. I have T-Mobile and I can't wait for them to roll out 5G on the 600mhz spectrum.[IMG="T-Mobile LTE Speed test in Redwood City, CA"]https://preview.ibb.co/mERGAm/Screenshot_2017_10_25_09_52_01.png[/IMG]

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You should think twice about returning it. Don't be too hasty because it's probably your location or network provider and not the phone. You need to download an app to check the actual signal strength in dB and not look at bars. They mean nothing. I use Signal Check Pro.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] ChazzMatt:
I'm as impressed by the low ping speed (20ms) as the the download speed. Wow. Lower pings are less lag.

That's about the lowest I've seen for a cellular network connection. I've occasionally gotten low 20's with AT&T, but usually high 20s -- which is still fantastic compared to MVNOs (because they don't have direct connection to carrier's data servers). Your phone can FEEL like it has a slow connection, due to the high lag when you have higher ping speeds.

A lot of people only focus on download speeds, and they may have triple digit ping speeds (bad).

You will get lower ping speeds with an ethernet connection and even very good Wi-Fi, of course, but for cellular network that 20ms is the best test I've ever seen.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] daandman:
My Galaxy S8 works perfectly with my sim card in the exact same locations.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] jlbattagli:
I've noticed that signal strength is a few dB lower than what I got on my LG G4 (3-5 dB). Not a big deal, even at home where I'm unfortunately in kind of a fringe area. Throughput doesn't seem to be affected much.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] negroplasty:
No issues on this end. Latency is always nice and quick, networks and radios switch very quickly, and knowing it will only get better with 600MHz rollout and 5G just makes me happy.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/3315082329
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Wolfas:
LTE just doesn't want to work for me for some reason. No methods of fixing it that I've tried helped so far so I may try ordering a new SIM card from my carrier. Quite disappointing so far but maybe it's not my V30 to blame
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Dizzyrul3z:
I have two phones. Oneplus X and V30. In the same place on Oneplus X i have LTE signal with strength 85-95 dBm but on V30 I have 100-108 dBm ;/
[LG V30 Real Life Review] atmfrank:
FWIW, I have an LGH931 on AT&T since mid-December. I live in San Francisco with lots of difficult terrains (urban canyons, hills, etc.). I still have an HTC 10 and never worried about cell reception. Yes, the bars are generally lower on the V30, but it doesn't mean anything. I use LTE Discovery to measure the -dbm signal strength. The V30 has a problem with switching bands quickly and the thresholds are set to low. One bar/no bars seems to indicate -120dbm and barely enough for reliable calls or consistent data. I had two events when calls came in over wifi at my home, an indicator of low/no cell signal levels. Never happened with the HTC 10 before. A friend of mine traveled to Kingman, AZ recently and had a terrible time, plenty of dropped calls. He returned his US998 version. I believe generally the problem is with AT&T and the V30 radio settings.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] sakisus:
AT&T LG V30 here.

Very disappointed by the signal strength and radio behavior of the device in general.

At home my Blackberry gets -92dBm and the V30 gets -103 dBm.

At work my Blackberry gets -98dBm and the V30 gets -114dBm!

Of course I went through all the getting a new SIM card, holding it a certain way and so on but no difference whatsoever.

This is the best phone I ve ever had, unfortunately the radio settings or hardware or both do not do it any justice.

From what I read it can be simply fixed or improved if AT&T and LG alter the threshold band settings, since other variants do not suffer from the same issue.

Hopefully an update is going to happen soon or I am not sure what I am going to do.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] jprosek:
Im getting regular 150-200 mbps on tmobile in Florida. Almost never under 80 and ive noticed a big increase in signal reliability. Very happy with the cellular signal on this phone.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Proper etiquette aside (hint: don't use speakerphone while doing your "business" in a public bathroom), rate this thread to express how you think the LG V30's speakerphone performs. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it's loud and it's clear.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] puremind:
I tested at the IFA, which was a pretty loud environment and volume was similar to my Axon 7 despite the V30 having only a mono side speaker. Clarity was good, less distorted than Axon 7 at high volume, but hard to judge because the environment was loud. I will wait for GSMarena#s audio testing.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cazcryy:
Pleasantly surprised by the speaker. Gets loud enough but I wouldn't say particularly louder than any phone. Pretty good quality however.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] minnemike:
Seriously speaking... this is probably the only "meh" feature of this phone. Glad to hear the simple mono set up is fairly good for what it is though.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] RuedasLocas:
I used the G4 H815 since 2015 and comparing, the V30 is not so loud or clear. The G4 gets even louder if over a surface with the screen up. The curve let to the speaker space to "create" some kind of amplifying "sound box".

The 3.5 jack on the top is also a minus for my kind of use and my car setup...
[LG V30 Real Life Review] puremind:
Had the same effect on everyone as the HTC One M7, it just is consistently good across the board, and the design is a win for sure.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] root-61:
-cons

.side bezels

.bad ois stabilization

+SD835,4GBram,poled hdr,mil-std,ip68,3300mah,ultra wide camera,hi-fi dac,hi-fi rec, best ergonomic size.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] jemeljsh:
Is it very noticeable? I saw it immediatelly on first reviews. Although its wider than "sausage style" s8/s8+/note it still rocks the new 18:9 apsect ratio,there those side bessels just have to be there, otherwise it would not have this very proportional look almost like 16:9 phone look, you know what i mean?
[LG V30 Real Life Review] chazman1117:
Headphone nirvana. I've run my AKG Q701's and my VModa M100's and it is spectacular. There are several adjustments in the DAC settings that play with digital filtering. Subtle changes, great results.

The 701's are ~60 ohms and used to trigger high impedance mode on my V20. The 30 seems to handle this without the fuss of a notification that it is on. These cans are a tough load. They like power. I usually drive them using an outboard dac/amp . The 30 powers them beautifully. Very musical.

The camera is nice, haven't had much time to play during daylight. I ran it with my EVO Shift gimbal. Unfortunately the EVO doesn't support the vast control the 30 offers.

Going to Kauai Hawaii next week....Look for my update
[LG V30 Real Life Review] saobang3886:
beautiful phone, still have some problem with screen color in lowlight and main camera need improve in lowlight, EIS. All other thing is good.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] dan.wright:
Fortunately I have no screen banding, performance is on par with my S7 Edge, although still not quite up to part with my Pixel XL. Pixel requires less frequent reboots for performance related issues in my experience.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Nikola Jovanovic:
COuld you describe the screen problem, lets say in image or video ?

Thank you !
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Emu:
I love using my phone. Especially now that the battery life is so great. I get tired of being on my phone before the battery runs out. It's amazing!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] clouds5:
Absolutely love it. Best phone I ever had and in my opinion and in 2018 still one of the best phones on the market. Bought it for 450Fr.- (=450$ more or less) this summer. What an amazing deal.

Symmetrical design with small bezels, good screen, good performance, amazing audio quality, VR capable, outstanding battery life. Fingerprint scanner, face unlock, double tap to wake. It's all there, nothing is missing for my needs.

For me personally there are basically no negatives.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Mohzuned:
Really awesome mobile
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Murbert:
Fantastic phone. Oreo on this phone is really well implemented.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Rudjgaard:
3 days on my new phone.

I come from an xperia z3 that had 1hr sot or 70% drain in 5hrs idle so...at the moment it's very hard not to be happy about this purchase :)
[LG V30 Real Life Review] u970700:
Great phone overall, the main camera is crazy good, long battery life!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Emu:
Man. MAN. I switched from At&t to Sprint and converted my US998 to a LS998 V30+. Now I have VoWiFi, VoLTE and RCS messaging and fast LTE. What I am trying to say is, get a phone carrier that does your phone justice and you will like your phone more than before. Especially after you root and install Adaway and tweak RAM management. I have no desire to even switch to Pie anymore at least not until my H2OS theme is supported. Gcam shows the power of the camera. I get incredible night photos.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Wolfsbane58:
Great hardware and features, but absolutely unacceptable support. LG basically sells you the hardware, but zero support for security patches, even critical ones. I have a US998 that hasn’t received a security patch since March 2018.

This is my last LG product.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] pyckvi:
I certainly feel like LG has put a damper on this phone with their additions to theyre OS overlay. I switched to this phone from my Moto Z2 force since i needed the band 71 LTE while traveling, and I gotta say, this phone sucks... Nothing but constant hiccups and lags in browsing the web and switching apps.

I cant blame the hardware since my 1.5 years of using the Moto z2 - which has the same hardware - never gave me a reason to hate on it. It was buttery smooth since all the way till the end.

I am disappointed with LG
[LG V30 Real Life Review] stinka318:
Yep my main device have a few to pick from a poco f1, Asus Zen phone 3 ultra, LG g6, LG v20 us996 LG v30+128gb

LG v30 is my daly driver.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] puremind:
Compared to Note 8 at the IFA and it felt super zippy, as commented by many reviewers.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] saobang3886:
Run smooth enough for flagship.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] dan.wright:
I'd rate this a 5 if not for the required weekly reboots. I know, I know, I'm asking a lot, but I rarely if ever had to reboot my Pixel XL and it was my daily driver for over 8 months.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] castro90:
I've had to reboot multiple time during the day because my V30 freezes. It is becoming ridiculous.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] emmanuelw:
Guys have you tried using the smart cleaning app? Does it help or you still need to reboot the phone? Also can you provide more information please, why and when it reboots what do you have in the memory? Thanks a lot!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Ajfink:
No lag here, no need for restarts so far.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Leion:
Noticeable lag for some apps like running a Tasker screen or closing Firefox Focus as compared to my s7 with same apps installed.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] josemedina1983:
For me it seem the Tmobile branded got slow after the oreo update. Hopefully it gets better after the next update.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] BROKEN1981:
Not sure why since most of us on stock Pie have no issues.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Blueice87:
I guess your phone runs on Pie? If you roll back to Oreo you will be pleased by how smooth and fast it is. Unfortunately stock pie is very slow on the V30.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] BROKEN1981:
Maybe for a FEW people. Not all.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] puremind:
Amazing butter smooth scrolling, feels very zippy
[LG V30 Real Life Review] vipercode:
we really need to lower the age of consent by a few years
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cyhamada:
I replied to anther thread that seems to be covering the same territory. So far the phone is super choppy in some places. Mostly web browsing with Chrome. But the LG home launcher also labs really badly. I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't for knock on. Anyone else having issues? I've messed with all the settings I could think of. Next step is factory reset but I'm trying to avoid that.

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Actually, had a thought. I'm using a CPU monitoring app and it seems that cores 5-8 aren't being used much. Maybe it's a chip issue? Or maybe something's wrong with the kernel? I'm mostly a dummy when it comes to this stuff so forgive my wild speculation.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] scootier:
Are you by chance using any auto fill apps? I was using Lastpass auto fill and it caused lots of choppy scrolling. After disabling it everything was very smooth.

Settings-->Accessibility-->Services
[LG V30 Real Life Review] ChazzMatt:
Good suggestion.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] cyhamada:
That was a great suggestion! Turns out it wasn't Last Pass but some type of Norton web security thing in Accessibility Services that was the issue. Turning that off seems to have fixed the problem :)
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Sheldor1967:
Mostly Butter but...

I have some strange bounce back happening when I scroll, mostly in Instagram. The rest of the time it's smooth, but not quite as smooth as the Note 8, which I owned for a few weeks. By and large it is as quick as the Note was...
[LG V30 Real Life Review] ThugEsquire:
It's just garbage for scrolling. I couldn't believe that my Galaxy S8 with MORE crap installed actually scrolled smoother on Instagram, Sync Pro, etc.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Septembersrain:
I always turn off animations in developers settings. Seems really smooth for me so far.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] lyall29:
This phone is just as smooth as the Note 8 I had before it. Buttery smooth. I don't use Instagram, but all the apps I use including Chrome, have very smooth scrolling. I'm completely satisfied with this phone. :)

Edit...3 days of using this phone and I'm starting to see the lag and stutter that people are reporting. :(
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Bootup:
Its already been shown you have no credibility and just sprouting bs. This phone is, to steal that somewhat overused term, buttery smooth.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] George Knighton:
I think you're most likely to see the symptoms if you're used to an iPhone 7 Plus (3 GB RAM) and gone to a V30.

In my experience, it is possible to load up the V30's memory in a way that causes Chrome or Firefox to appear jittery when compared to Safari on the 7 Plus, loaded up heavily in basically the same way.

I notice it but it has not been a particular problem for me. Until I saw this thread, to be honest, I thought it was a Google Android issue v. an Apple iOS method of memory utilization.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Septembersrain:
Considering I've got an iPhone 7 Plus and iOS 11.1 (public beta) hasn't fixed the refresh issue, I can say that the V30 has been a wonderful experience. Multitasking on my iPhone is nearly impossible with refreshes on as little as two apps open. It's frustrating.

I've been using Samsung browser beta. Chrome was not as fluid. Since the switch I haven't had any scrolling delay.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] George Knighton:
I cannot imagine why my experience would be so demonstrably different.

Interesting.

I also don't want you to believe that I intended to convey that the V30's little jittering is anything that would keep me from using the device. It's a very minor issue.

To be honest, the V30 seems to be a keeper. I'm rushing headlong toward the deadline for buyer's remorse, and I'm still using it!

:)

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My biggest problem is that after ten years of iPhone keyboards, I can't get used to the combination of LG keyboard and Android prediction, and I'll very often send out messages with an embarrassing number of errors.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Septembersrain:
It's weird. I guess every device and its user are going to vary. My biggest issue with the 7 Plus is app refreshes and call/data quality being horrible. Getting one bar in my apartment on iPhone compared with full bars with V30, crazy!

On keyboards, I use Swype on iPhone so for me it was an easy transition. Before iPhone allowed third party keyboards, I was jailbroken. I love trace keyboards.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] emmanuelw:
Have a look at the swiftkey keyboard i think it's way more convenient than LGs own and you can customise its design as well, it's very quick and accurate on the predictions and you can use it simultaneously with several languages!
[LG V30 Real Life Review] George Knighton:
Thanks very much for the suggestion. I've installed Swiftkey and will be trying it out today. :)
[LG V30 Real Life Review] ThugEsquire:
For all the haters, that video proof is rendering
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Hisma:
****. I noticed the lag today. Rebooting my phone fixed it, but it was very noticeable. Hopefully LG can fix it in an update. This appears to be a widespread issue.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] George Knighton:
Swiftkey has worked out well for me. Thank you for recommending that.

With the OEM LG keyboard, I wasn't typing as well on it as I could type on a tiny little iPhone SE.

:)
[LG V30 Real Life Review] hachiroku:
just got my phone fully setup last night. zero screen issues of any kind to report. even at 0% brightness nothing to report.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] citrobot:
This kills the LastPass :'(

But seriously, thank you. This fixed it for me instantly, so at least I know the root cause now. I'll be emailing LastPass support to let them know about this issue. I was seriously disappointed in the UI performance of this phone until now, so this is a major problem for them. The app drawer in the LG home screen was ridiculously laggy because of the Fill Helper tool being enabled. The Google Now Launcher, oddly enough, seems to perform just fine. Hmm...
[LG V30 Real Life Review] Murasalas:
Scrolling problem is pretty bad

Web pages consistently show the problem, but sometimes even just scrolling through Settings or Apps is so bad I have to step away. Twitter support [MENTION=2731872]lgu[/MENTION]SAMobile claims ignorance. That's painful.
[LG V30 Real Life Review] jsgraphicart:
I noticed some jittery scrolling the past couple days. Just in certain apps. Mostly Instagram and Solid Explorer. One time a reboot fixed it but today, reboots wouldn't help. I saw in here to disable the LastPass Autofill in settings and that fixed it right up. That's weird that LastPass is causing that. I wonder why. I haven't noticed it causing issues on other phones.