What are some of the delightful things you found about this phone but you might not have expected when you bought it?
I like that Double-clicking on the volume key will take a picture regardless of whether the camera app is open or not. A "blind" shot without any viewfinder will take some practice, but it's a cool feature once you get the aim right.
and of course the gorgeous screen and killer camera are among the best out now.
ingoljosh said:
What are some of the delightful things you found about this phone but you might not have expected when you bought it?.
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Agreed on all your points.
The screen is very bright. The auto brightness at night works very well going from a lit room to a dark room. I read a lot of ebooks on my phone and my N7. Reading on the G4 so far has been great even with tiny font.
The overall build feel other then the slots for SIM/MicroSD feels superior to my Galaxy S4.
Phone call audio quality on speaker phone yesterday during my first call was incredible talking to my wife on her LG G3.
The messaging app is somewhat themeable which is a plus over the AOSP sms app which is too bloody bright white.
I find the battery to be holding up pretty well. Smart Settings and Smart Cleaning are both pleasant surprises I need to explore in depth.
I dislike the headphone jack on the bottom, out of box with my T-mo sim it did not connect to the LTE APN (fast.t-mobile.com) I had to enter it.
Ringtone ID
G4 has the ability to customize different ringtones for different callers, so you know who's ringing without having to check your phone.
I know, custom ringtones have been around for years, but the G4 takes things a little further by automatically generating a unique tone for each user, based on their phone number
https://youtu.be/EExBLxX14KE
The ability to check the clock by simply dragging down the notification shade with the screen off is probably one of the coolest things.
Sfkn2 said:
The ability to check the clock by simply dragging down the notification shade with the screen off is probably one of the coolest things.
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Yes that is a good one. Very useful
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Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks
Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...
godutch said:
Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...
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Yeah ok, the look is something else, everybody has it own taste.
But i was talking abouth the banding on the grey of the numeric keyboard, and the alarm for example...
At these screenshot they look pretty normal, but on my phone they don't look like that...
So is it the screen that make them look like that???
Do these things look the same on your phone screen as on your pc screen? Or do you also have banding on these things?
PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje
There is a topic about the banding, I think it's a software issue it probably doesnt use 24bit color depth, just use go contacts/dialer
JJEgan said:
PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje
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Yeah i know it's stupid. But you should think it is optimised for the phone.
On the dialpad I see banding on every number's grey "button".
And it is not the ringer volume, that was an accident when i made the print screen, I accidently pushed the ringel volume at the same time.
It's the grey from every alarm, very banding on my phone...
So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?
So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?
Factory reset first to clear any problems .
jje
r_a_c said:
Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks
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I am sure the screen response will loosen up over time. I noticed too initially but it's all okay now.
I remember first two weeks of my tv was almost painful to watch while the pixels caught up with the action. Maybe oled isn't much different to lcd in that respect
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Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer
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Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
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I've noticed that low light pictures suck now.
I'm not having the same low light picture issues.
Also, if some apps look bad because of the new theme, those app makers should fix their apps. If just one app inherits the new color-schemes, all apps can. Some programmers are not using "best practice" techniques in this case.
For example, they manually set the background color and font color, rather than inherit from the colors from the system. Should be a simple fix for them, if they care.
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Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer
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For those that don't mind using Bluetooth, I highly recommended the Motorola H720.
This headset isn't that expensive, and IMHO it greatly enhances the call quality on ALL of my Android phones.
I'm still on (Bell) Froyo, but the H720 might be worth a shot for anyone disappointed with call quality...
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Since upgrading to official Gingerbread, my Gmail icon no longer shows up in the messaging app. Gmail still works, but when I go into messaging all other accounts are listed except my Gmail app account. Gmail was always listed in the messaging app in Froyo. My wife hasn't upgraded yet and Gmail list listed in messaging on her Atrix. Is anyone else having this issue?
Daneren, I agree the new color theme is horrible. The color and symbols on the notification bar really bad.
low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.
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low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.
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This is why I think Motorola should have put the new exposure setting onscreen instead of in the menu settings. That setting makes a huge difference in picture quality, and I have to adjust it way too much for it to be in menu setting.
I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.
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I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.
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Have you tried a 3rd party app like Barnicle Tethering?...
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If you're rooted wifi tether for root seems to work fine for me.
I'd rather do that than manually dig around sql files and possibly bork something (as per the mod in the dev section).
As a formed N1 user I miss my vanilla android sometimes
To add to that
-home screen seems to be less responsive
- battery indicator inaccurate
Haven't tested a lot. Will take time to test all the options and features.
However the new keyboard seems to be an improvement though.
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No bugs or issues here but new MOTOBLUR home looks and performs worse than its predecessor.
As far as picture and video quality I see no difference.
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the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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Slide your finger to the left, you should then have an option to change that.
thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol
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thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol
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Should be on the album art, if that doesn't work... Idk.
thx doesn't work, over to winamp.
Would prefer stock (lockscreen features, less bloat/ram)
Car dock became atrocious. You now can only add 4 apps to it, the rest is either close button (two of that), and stupid music player functionalities (music player, internet radio, podcast player) or voice search.
I also have ran into the issue with the battery indicator.
wintermute000 said:
the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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If you are looking for a player that's close to the previous, give PlayerPro a try. (Has trial but not free)
If you want a free player with even less permissions used than Winamp, give Zimly a try.
I currently have both players on my phone...
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So who likes the app drawer being gone or adding it back in the settings? I was trying as is but I'm feeling closterphobic with the big disarray mess of icons all over the home screens. Who else is not digging the app drawer not being there?
The Always on screen doesn't come with very many options or customizations as the GS7. I'm feeling the pain for that.
It's always overwhelming getting settled into a new phone. The other issue i ran into was all my apps didn't sync on their own from google like they normally do. I had to use the LG Smart Switch app to transfer from the GS7 to the G6. That caused a panic i though i would have to manually install each app like the old android days.
It freaked me out going from my 6P to the G6 because everything was different and not what I was used to. After a day or two I settled in.
And yes... App drawer was a must for me
I'm app drawerless still. It sounds like you have a lot more apps. Mine fits on one page and bordering on needing a second. I manually installed because I didn't need everything I had installed my S5.
Not using AOD because I don't need to be aware of everything that happens on my phone. I imagine it's meant to take the place of a notification LED though.
I selected the app drawer. I about had a fit trying to figure out how to add more homescreens. It took me 5 mins to figure it out. I found out how in the help file. You have to pinch and squeeze the screen to zoom out the homescreens to move them or add more. It seems like i had this type of behavior with my HTC One M7 if i remember correct. I'm 38 yrs old and in the last few years I noticed it takes me longer to get used to different phones or computer software. years ago i was always trying new things and not freaking out about it. Now if feels like the end of the world going to a different phone.
another gripe.... The emoticons are a funky shape same as my Nexus 7. They're not round normal faces like on the GS7. Any fixing that? I tried Swiftkey for the N7 but it didn't change them. I am enjoying the sound recorder. It looks professional. Even has a Vu Meter like real sound equipment!!!! I recorded the bird sounds outside. I have to play it back on the computer and see how it sounds. Hopefully better then the GS7. I like recording bird sounds often but don't have the money for dedicated sound recorders. Another gripe is when doing selfies it shows a mirror image so the picture is backwards. I went in the settings and fixed it to save the picture the right way but the live view still shows a mirror image. I couldn't see no way around it. I'm not used to that. No wonder why there's so many backward selfies on FB. I wondered why so many people had backwards selfies that weren't looking into a mirror.
Launcher: use Nova. infinitely customizable. LG's launcher sucks.
Emoji: use Textra. You can pick any emoji set you want.
thedrizzle said:
Launcher: use Nova. infinitely customizable. LG's launcher sucks.
Emoji: use Textra. You can pick any emoji set you want.
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I do have nova just not on this phone. One think i like about the built in themes though is it themes the colors on the GUI ie the message windows, settings, dialer etc. If i use a theme from LG in conjuction with nova would that give me a themed look for the GUI windows?
Is Textra a separate messaging app or just emoji's?
Thanks.
An update on the sound recorder. I am playing the sound recording of the birds back on the computer with Audacity and am amazed. I adjusted the gain about the same as i did on the RecForge 2 on the GS7. With the recordings form the GS7 i still have to boost it in Audacity and still don't get anywhere because of background noise. But this, I don't need to boost the sound anymore and it sounds great. I think the sound is louder then the noise floor/ background noise or something. More sensitive mic? Still need to record more bird sounds and listen more but so far sounds good.
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I do have nova just not on this phone. One think i like about the built in themes though is it themes the colors on the GUI ie the message windows, settings, dialer etc. If i use a theme from LG in conjuction with nova would that give me a themed look for the GUI windows?
Is Textra a separate messaging app or just emoji's?
Thanks.
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I run nova along with black theme and yes it uses the black for the over lay in settings, dialer, etc. But you can still use whatever nova them you'd like for icons just use ez hime swither to swap back to lg theme selector.
I picked up an LG V20 recently, and am loving it. I see it lacks an LED notification light, instead relying on the second screen to show notifications when the screen is off. Apps like Textra let me theme the color of its notification, which makes it much easier to identify at a glance. Was wondering if anyone knew of a way to theme or replace (for example WhatsApp or Hangouts notification icons to be a different color. Thank you very much for any suggestions.
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I picked up an LG V20 recently, and am loving it. I see it lacks an LED notification light, instead relying on the second screen to show notifications when the screen is off. Apps like Textra let me theme the color of its notification, which makes it much easier to identify at a glance. Was wondering if anyone knew of a way to theme or replace (for example WhatsApp or Hangouts notification icons to be a different color. Thank you very much for any suggestions.
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I still think it'd be great if there was a way to make the whole 2nd screen flash a solid color at maximum brightness a few times because yeah it grabs your attention more so than a static icon
I found this thread through a search. I am wondering the same thing as I evaluate a V20. The email notification icon on the Second Screen (I use the Stock email app) is very small. Is there any way to make this larger at minimum and best case, flash continuously like a notification LED which the phone otherwise lacks? Just making it the size of the other Second Screen app icons would be a big help. I would prefer not to try rooting/customizing as I am not confident in my skills and am concerned about bricking the unit.
The oneplus's gaming mode has some pretty nifty features, especially how it shows notifications without obscuring the screen (plain white text). It's even more useful/convenient when you're watching an episode or something. I haven't seen any (so called) gaming mode app like it. It can even keep the call screen in the background so you don't have to switch back to the game when you answer the call. I think it is the least talked about feature of the device here at xda or anywhere else for that matter.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zappcues.gamingmode
This may help for now
safwankatharudheen said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zappcues.gamingmode
This may help for now
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I've tried this one. But it can only hide the notification banners and other things which are not required. Call handling is not as great as OP's gaming mode. OP's can even suppress whatsapp call screen to a notification so it doesn't take over the game screen.
Hence, there's nothing quite like it out there.