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Worried About LG Pushing Out Lollipop so Quickly

I am personally very concerned that LG is rolling out version 5.0 to the G3 in Poland already. I also have a Nexus 5, which has already gotten the update. As probably anyone who got the 5.0 update on any device knows it is riddled with a lot of bugs. I would not say it is unusable, but there is a lot. So with there being a lot of bugs I am worried about LG pushing out Lollipop to the G3 before waiting for 5.0.1 or 5.0.2. I am worried that if LG pushes out 5.0 to the G3 it will bring those same bugs and more to the G3, which I definitely do not want. I would rather wait for 5.0.1 or 5.0.2. Even if that means waiting until later winter or early spring. I want to make sure it is done right since LG up until now has a history of not staying with updates. At least up until now.
So I am wondering what everyone else's thoughts is on this. Are any of you worried also about 5.0 being pushed to the G3 before Google has the chance to roll out bug patches for 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 or beyond? If you are then why, and if you are not then why? The way I look at it is unless LG is committed to pushing out 5.0.1 and any other patch updates for 5.0, I think it is a very bad idea for them to be pushing 5.0 out so quickly before Google irons out the glitches.

Manufacturers can't win. If they don't roll out new ROMs quickly, they're slammed for being slow. If they do, people complain about bugs. If you don't want to take the update until there's a 5.1, then don't take the update. Right now the update is officially available only in Poland, presumably so LG can do more real world testing.

meyerweb said:
Manufacturers can't win. If they don't roll out new ROMs quickly, they're slammed for being slow. If they do, people complain about bugs. If you don't want to take the update until there's a 5.1, then don't take the update. Right now the update is officially available only in Poland, presumably so LG can do more real world testing.
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I personally would never slam a manufacture for taking 2-4 months after the release to upgrade, as long as it is with the bugs ironed out. Of course 6+ months would be a different story, but I personally think 3-4 months is perfect middle ground for enough time to iron out bugs with still not being too long. Except that is beside the point, I did not want to discuss the time frame of the update in this thread, this post was not to criticize LG or any manufacture. It is mainly to discuss whether people think it is bad (in the sense of bugs/glitches) that they are rolling out 5.0 with all the bugs/glitches on the nexus? Before Google gets the chance to smooth things out.
For example when 4.4 Kitkat came out, carriers did not release 4.4 right away to skinned flagship devises. They waited until 4.4.2 so the bug fixes could be incorporated. Which seems like the logical thing to do, which LG is not doing that this time around with the G3. Of course Motorola is rolling it out really fast too, but that is different because they have a history of updating from 4.4 to 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 to 4.4.4 on their devices. They upgraded their main devices for all the patch updates for kitkat, and I am sure they will continue to do that. However with LG for example with the G2, they updated it from 4.2.2 to 4.4.2, but never to 4.4.3 or 4.4.4. So with their history of them not updating to the latest bug patch of the version, why should they roll out before the bug fixed versions? Assuming they are going to continue their history of not updating the bug patch updates. This is my main concern and wanting other people's take on it.

LG rolled lollipop officially out to Poland only at this moment in time. They won their little race ? I don't know if anybody's noticed the lack of updates for any other country? It has already been a reasonable amount of time with no sign of anything.
I think you'll find that the next lollipop kdz that is pushed by LG is a bug fixed version. ?

Im using stock lollipop and i dont have any bugs

Akhayev said:
Im using stock lollipop and i dont have any bugs
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All roms have small bugs but I can't understand some of the comments posted about Lollipop my poland 20a is working brilliantly I cannot honestly say I have had any issues with it Calls/messaging/Camera/Internet/Gps/Music/ all work without fault no lag or very minor lag at the least.If this Poland version is like this now then future rollouts/updates can only make the phone even better! I for one am very happy.

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AndroidPurity said:
I personally would never slam a manufacture for taking 2-4 months after the release to upgrade, as long as it is with the bugs ironed out.
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Sad, that LG didn't know you personal opinion. But if you would read this site forum.xda-developers.com you would know that the most negative facet LG is known by is that "LG IS SOOOOOOOOO SLOW WITH UPDATES
I NEVER BUY LG AGAAAAAAAAAAIN"
Or you should go to twitter.com/LGUSAMobile fb.com/LGMobile and read the bashing LG is pressed upon. So they had no choice except to roll out most glitchy Lollipop build first in the world to revert their renome

LG should take more time to polish up the 5.0 experience. I would like to see that LG removes all of their UI elements from the vanilla android experience. I like some of the stuff that vanilla 5.0 brings, but I really don't like the LG 5.0 screenshots. I saw where LG's UGLY blue quick settings buttons are still there. The vanilla 5.0 UI looks MUCH better by comparison.
LG (and all of the others using custom UI's) should take a note from what Google did and separate all of their apps from the OS this way we can download them separately or remove them if we don't want them.

Will LG give us the Android M or any more update?!

Hi, i brought this device some weeks ago and i feel this is very capable device i ever see...i love LG, but i know it not famous for update theyr devices, have the G2 Mini and i see i never get Lollipop on it, (L90 have it already so, i think is a question of age of devices!) so, LG G3 are around by almost 1 year...
Google I/O is on May 28th...will be presentate the Android 6 (M&M's, Mars, Marshmallows...whatever!!) (i think they shoukd go for android 5.2/5.5 or something like that because 4.0 have so many variations of updates on same number but Lollipop have only 2 or 3 i dont know how!)
so, the SDK of Android M will be around i think November/December for the brands (LG, Sony etc...), im here to know from U guy's: You think LG will give us the Android 6 for the G3 or not?
What we can expect from the update (or not)? i know, S801 is kind older SoC, S800 too but is very capable SoC...maybe more than S810 or S808 in LG G4 but...brands have to sell thoose too!

My bet it's that we will 100% get it.

dorwoo said:
My bet it's that we will 100% get it.
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Much later than G4 and i think we will get only 1 update.....
1st let hope we get 5.1 with 4.0 UX!

long wait
I think we will get update about 2016/end
we are no more LG's flagship QQ

I don't think we will ever get android m. CM will do it for us probably.
We are getting 5.1 for sure. Lets hope it's with 4.0 interface.

I don't think LG will give us Android M quickly, same thing happened to G2. It got lollipop about a month ago.
Personally I don't really like LG's user interface so I would be OK with CM

pikachukaki said:
Much later than G4 and i think we will get only 1 update.....
1st let hope we get 5.1 with 4.0 UX!
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i dont think was too later, 2/3 months yeah but more is no sense from LG, G3 is even better than G4 so...LG have to do it right in G3 and dont be stupid like he did in G2...LG have to listen theyr customers!
I dont mind about UX 4.0, i like the official on 5.0 right now, but i notice some color adjustment on icons and other elements from G4 so...if we get it too is better than nothing!

we will get 5.1 for sure and about Android M i think it will get the android M because g3 have an very good hardware specially the 3GB of ram and android always need Ram

copy2050 said:
i dont think was too later, 2/3 months yeah but more is no sense from LG, G3 is even better than G4 so...LG have to do it right in G3 and dont be stupid like he did in G2...LG have to listen theyr customers!
I dont mind about UX 4.0, i like the official on 5.0 right now, but i notice some color adjustment on icons and other elements from G4 so...if we get it too is better than nothing!
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Im dont want it only for the interface but the optimisation behind the UI!!!

hmm.. I'm sure we will get the Android M update. :fingers-crossed:

I don't really like LG's user interface so I would be OK with CM

sseuorosal said:
I don't really like LG's user interface so I would be OK with CM
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i dont blame people for dont like LG UI but...i dont mind why?! i mean, i have Sony, Huawei and other's and i dont understand theyr UI's...so complicated, icons doesnt match with the original theme! (for saying, i sell my Z Ultra, exelent phone with exelent specs only because that ugly icon set and other crazy and doesnt match things (and now is even worst because they put the lollipop vannila style on quicksettings)! For me LG have the best and more complete icons/menu's etc i ever see and i like it a lot now, in 2012 with my LG 4X HD i dont like it on that phone, but now with my G2 Mini i have the xposed moldure called G2 Tweakbox and twerak some things in quicksettings and navbar and are perfect.
G3 with 5.0 have the best UI i ever see...but the icons on G4 is even better looking...

They will give you updates for 2 years

I hope so because Android M is potentially gonna have a "Multi-Window" feature which will probably be better/more stable than LGs laggy implementation.

[Rumour] No Nougat (7.0/7.1) update for g4 AND V10

Korean news; A Korean consumers' group criticized a recent LG's decision of abandoning Nougat update for G4 and V10. LG's reason being is; Because of the aging device's stability and reliability, LG decided not to offer Android 7.0/7.1 update.
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luiferulz said:
Korean news; A Korean consumers' group criticized a recent LG's decision of abandoning Nougat update for G4 and V10. LG's reason being is; Because of the aging device's stability and reliability, LG decided not to offer Android 7.0/7.1 update.
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That isn't official. Official is from LG directly.

This is so far away from official like seeing flying pigs.. Could be true or not.
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Just think about it. Do you really think that LG will say officaly: "NO NOUGAT UPDATE FOR OUR 1.5 YEARS OLD PHONE". It would be a really good advertisement for them! Lets be critical. It's the same like if they said: Buy our current flagship - G6 and you will get terrible support, bad build quality, bootloop problem after a year, you will loose all your date when we change phones motherboard, you will wait many days and finally you will probably stuck on 7.1.1 forever. It's almost on 100% that LG G4 won't get Nougat update. All what they need is to sell new models. That is what keeps them alive. Building a new system for almost 2 years old phone is nonsense, it is, it cost money. We need to earn money, not spend money. If you want Nougat, buy LG G5 or get G6. Thats it. But many people will buy from another phone manofacturer next time after this. LG is digging it's own grave for a long time.

We barely started March dude... If you had any Asus you'd see what's slow. Just wait and if they don't deliver too bad. The phone is not that bad as it is since it's a terrible chip

Wow LG seems like they really don't like the G4 considering they are leaving it on the same Android version as it's predecessor G3. I bought this phone as a budget alternative to buying the galaxy A5 2016 .... At least the LG G4 has good custom ROM support so I'll just install lineage os if LG really decides to ditch this phone. But I'm still disappointed to see this phone only get one update in its lifetime.
Edit : *only one major update
Also: even comparing LG to other companies like Sony... Their whole z5 series including z5, premium and compact just got the 7.0 update

luiferulz said:
Korean news; A Korean consumers' group criticized a recent LG's decision of abandoning Nougat update for G4 and V10. LG's reason being is; Because of the aging device's stability and reliability, LG decided not to offer Android 7.0/7.1 update.
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Until it's not from official LG sources, readable on their homepage or blog, i would say it's not official. It's just guessing...

Official??? you are crazy
https://support.t-mobile.com/community/phones-tablets-devices/software-updates#tmoSUPDocTitle
LG V10 is already confirmed by T-mobile.
About the LG G4, no official info ... do not believe in support that often does not have communication with the development team

braulio_holtz said:
Official??? you are crazy
https://support.t-mobile.com/community/phones-tablets-devices/software-updates#tmoSUPDocTitle
LG V10 is already confirmed by T-mobile.
About the LG G4, no official info ... do not believe in support that often does not have communication with the development team
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So you're going to trust a carrier over the manufacturer?
The official line seems to be that the Nougat update for the G4 and V10 was abandoned as it wasn't stable enough for release. If you choose to believe any other source then I'm afraid you're set to be disappointed.
It's time to move on.

i imagine this on a balance.. one side how much they would spent on 7.0 development vs the other people moving away from LG.
what a re you toughts do they loose more money at developing a g4 that should be able to handle 7.0 asn the nexus 5x has nougat.
or all the people that will get angry and dissapointed. as we still in the 2 year update cycle.??

Let's make dozens of topics with the same posts. It is not over until the fat lady sings. Let's suffocate this topic, LG deserves it. Wait, only users that actually look for useful information will find it difficult with all these topics. Just my 2 (euro) cents.

tmihai20 said:
Let's make dozens of topics with the same posts. It is not over until the fat lady sings. Let's suffocate this topic, LG deserves it. Wait, only users that actually look for useful information will find it difficult with all these topics. Just my 2 (euro) cents.
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Agree

F u c k i n g b a s t a r d s !

I`m so sick of LG`s ****:
My LG G2 display not responding so I got LG G4 instead of buying a new display for LG G2
My LG G4 problems:
1. the BOOTLOOP
2. display burn in (ghosting)
3. battery after 10% phone dies
4. mobile data on and no signal = phone goes crazy touches all over the screen
5. the plastic back falls
6. and now no update for Nougat? wtf. LG?
The LG G6? I love it but after my history whit LG i`m so so so disappointed
sorry for the unorthodox words....

I must say I don't care much about 7.0/7.1. The g4 is working perfectly for me. What killer features would 7 bring? The upgrade to 6 did not bring many noticable improvements imho.

mulperi said:
I must say I don't care much about 7.0/7.1. The g4 is working perfectly for me. What killer features would 7 bring? The upgrade to 6 did not bring many noticable improvements imho.
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if 7.0 brings :
better battery life time
option to lower the resolution
magic focus
better ui
lower dpi
better cpu management to turn of the cores in idle
etc...

neobdium said:
if 7.0 brings :
better battery life time
option to lower the resolution
magic focus
better ui
lower dpi
better cpu management to turn of the cores in idle
etc...
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The most important thing is improved Doze mode and Vulkan support.

heroutm said:
The most important thing is improved Doze mode and Vulkan support.
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its not our fault they f*** with bootloops. and it still in update cycle. and lame excuse about not beign optimized.. my nuts.

Shall we make a petition??? I dont know will it work or not.
The same thing also happened with my previous phone Xperia SP where they promised kitkat update but later abandoned it. So we (Xperia SP members) filled a petition but unfortunately I didnt change anything.

it looks like a prank to me. Of course you will all bite.
a new xda member just made his 1st post and its about lg never update to nougat ? lmao....
i could do the same anytime just as a prank. pranks exist because people that like pranks exist.
i had too much fun reading it
+1 to the guy that had the idea !

How good is LG keeping up with the Android releases and how often does it update UX?

I have been a HTC lover for almost sever years (Desire HD --> ONE X --> M7 --> M9) and I've decided to go for my next phone. Although the U11 looks like an impressive phone, I'm still a bit hesitant to go for it. Next to G6 and S8, the U11 sure looks like an ancient phone (I'm not a big fan of shinny backs and the front view of the phone looks awful in my opinion).
Not a samsung admirer hence I would like to give the G6 a try, but my only worry is how much is LG dedicated towards releasing the android updates. I didn't have troubles with HTC and I am sure Samsung will take care of this too but not I'd like to know how much is LG committed towards this. I do like the vanilla android but I don't feel like getting into the rooting business anymore (I'm too old for that and can't keep up), so I'd be heavily relying on LG OTA updates. Also I hear that LG UX has immensely improved, but would like to know if you guys think that LG will keep updating it's own UX.
Thoughts and comments are welcome, as I'd be ordering my new phone today.

Just got the G6 a few weeks ago, and as a first time LG owner I was wondering the same, I'm sure others will give more informed opinions but from what I've read LG are quite good at keeping us up to date, I've had a UX and a patch update since I got the phone which is promising.
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Only been using a V20 for almost 3 weeks and from what I've read here and the V20 forum I believe LG aren't quick, or even regular, with updates.
But maybe you've left it a bit late to be asking, hope you get more replies soon.
Edit: two conflicting replies already :laugh:

I am probably going to answer my own question but surprisingly LG got the first Nougat update compared to all other phones out there. Source - http://www.androidauthority.com/android-oem-update-speed-743073/

Here there are, more ore less, the major updates received by the G-Series starting from the G2:
- G2: 4.4.2, 5.0.2
- G3: 5.0, 6.0
- G4: 6.0
- G5: 7.0
LG is pretty fast to release major updates, but it isn't for security patches.

vizzzy said:
I am probably going to answer my own question but surprisingly LG got the first Nougat update compared to all other phones out there. Source - http://www.androidauthority.com/android-oem-update-speed-743073/
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The V20 was the first phone to be released with Nougat 7 out-of-the-box.
Not a lot has happened since then.

In my experience, LG has been quick with their updates. I believe my Sprint G5 was one of the first to get the Nougat update.

LG is usually first to update to newest Android versions (except Google's own phones offcorse).
G3 was the first OEM phone to get Lollipop update, G5 was first to get Nougat,...
We may not get the 7.1 update but I'm pretty sure they'll skip it because we'll be the first ones to get Android O (minus Google's phones).
I've had this phone for almost 2 weeks now and allready got 1 UX and 2 system updates so... They're really fast.

Really does depend? My G4 is fine for updates my G5 was more miss than hit!

LG Freaking Pathetic

I would never have believe a company the size of LG would let their smartphone business become so pathetic. My backup phone is an Essential PH-1 which is now two years old, first released May '17, and as of this AM I'm rocking Q Beta3 on a TWO YEAR old phone while LG hasn't even managed to get a supposed FLAGSHIP device (v35), released May '18, to Android Pie.
Who the F******* is running LG????????????????????????????????? What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!
Just unlock the bootloader and let the XDA community handle your business LG 'cause you obviously can't.

lg sucks butt
hooutoo said:
I would never have believe a company the size of LG would let their smartphone business become so pathetic. My backup phone is an Essential PH-1 which is now two years old, first released May '17, and as of this AM I'm rocking Q Beta3 on a TWO YEAR old phone while LG hasn't even managed to get a supposed FLAGSHIP device (v35), released May '18, to Android Pie.
Who the F******* is running LG????????????????????????????????? What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!
Just unlock the bootloader and let the XDA community handle your business LG 'cause you obviously can't.
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LOLOLOL you should post this on LG site so they could see it and wise the hell up... they suck big time

When i was going to buy my v30 i was so excited to have a wonderful phone. But then i understand that lg is very bad at software updates. Still luv my v30. I've rooted my v30 and can do whatever I want

jayshamar123 said:
LOLOLOL you should post this on LG site so they could see it and wise the hell up... they suck big time
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Give me the site and I'll post it! This is a F********g joke. If we had an unlocked boot loader we could just about skip Pie altogether.

True!! They are just making phones and ****ting on the users...sloowwwwww ass updates.. look it's the g7! .no look it's the g8! ..no look it's the v40! No it's the v50! I'll use my v35 as a door stopper soon. Lol...

jayshamar123 said:
True!! They are just making phones and ****ting on the users...sloowwwwww ass updates.. look it's the g7! .no look it's the g8! ..no look it's the v40! No it's the v50! I'll use my v35 as a door stopper soon. Lol...
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LG does make great phones -- great hardware, great features. The V30+ (128GB internal memory) especially was the best phone of 2017... They are just terrible at Android OS updates.
On the V30, they HAVE to give Android security updates at least every 3 months for 3 years. And they have pretty much done that.
And they HAVE to give all V30 variants PIE (also in the same agreement), but there was no date requirements on THAT.
V35 didn't have those promises in writing like the V30 did...

ChazzMatt said:
LG does make great phones -- great hardware, great features. The V30+ (128GB internal memory) especially was the best phone of 2017... They are just terrible at Android OS updates.
On the V30, they HAVE to give Android security updates at least every 3 months for 3 years. And they have pretty much done that.
And they HAVE to give all V30 variants PIE (also in the same agreement), but there was no date requirements on THAT.
V35 didn't have those promises in writing like the V30 did...
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Here's another F******g joke, turns out only the Korean model G8 is able to flash Q Beta3 according to post on the XDA G8 forum.

Send it to lg ..i just sent them some advice that was similar to this ..unlock the bootloader