The LG G4 Thread

just put my order in to amazon italy
total including postage is 590.
delivery is between 8th and 16th June.

cant wait to fling my S3 away.

Mine arrived yesterday from the local swiss retailer. Ordered the brown leather but came with a silver back as well. Kinda excited about that for some reason. "Lagniappe" I guess.

After 24 hours with the device, the battery isn't as strong as I had hoped. Coming from a 2 year old Z1 with the same size battery, I was hoping for more improvements.

Screen is gorgeous, not as nice as an AMOLED but still pretty awesome, nary a pixel to be seen.

Small things annoy me, like I can't have a live wallpaper on my lockscreen, nor can I find the way to change the lock-screen unlock effect.

I think this might be more of an android thing, but I wish I could remove the NFC symbol in the status bar. I always have it on and I'd prefer to know if it was off! Same with bluetooth.

The volume/notification settings are a little odd. There's both volume and priority like in stock lollipop but it's implemented weirdly and I dont like it.

Double tap to wake is awesome.

Phone is very comfortable to hold compared to the Z1 which was a brick. Also it's only marginally bigger but has a 5.5" screen showing the size of the Z1 bezels. Notification light seems bright enough unlike the Z1.

Haven't played with the camera much yet. The Z1 was very very good (IMO, but no OIS) so I'll see about doing side by side comparisons.

Really that I can't change what double tapping the power keys does when the screen is off. I'll never use quicknote and I'd love to map it to something I actually use. If/when the device gets rooted I expect this will the first thing opened up. Double tap to open camera and take photo is kinda cool but not sure how much I'll use it.

the G4 feels so much thinner than it is. Like, officially the z1 is 8.5mm but it's a cube. The G4 is tapered.

You dont realise this until you dont have it, but it's nice to have the 3.5 mm headphone jack on the bottom (unlike z1). I find this more natural though YMMV. Also I use bluetooth headphones only almost these days hashtag cuttingthewire.

The LG software is....well it's there. I have no plans on using them much. I have my own calendar/fitness tracking/to-do/memo which suits my workflow. I might play around with them to give them a chance but I'm not exactly excited about them.

Any questions, feel free to ask. I'll be away for the next couple days but I'll answer any when I get back.

Patww79 wrote: »

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nope sorry.

Speaker is pretty good actually. It's sharp and loud. Not exactly boom sound, but better than my Z1, even if it is back facing.

Got mine today Out of curiosity, how does the screen seem to anybody else? White's seem very subtlety yellow (warm) on mine, especially when you compare it to lets say, my main desktop IPS monitor. From reviews, the G4 isn't meant to have bad battery life (averaging in about 4 hrs 30, which is decent but not amazing)

Mine is showing export from Bologna on Friday, still delivery for Wednesday.
I'd say your tracking just has a glitch, give it time. It will prob update again within 24 hours.

If it does fail, your contract is with the seller, not ups.

Squeeonline wrote: »

Any questions, feel free to ask. I'll be away for the next couple days but I'll answer any when I get back.

LouiseD1719 wrote: »

I'm finding the battery life on par with my G2, I had it on 100% coming into work yesterday (8am) and it was on 9% at 11 o clock last night. I'm a pretty heavy user, watching youtube videos, imgur, spotify and the usual social media so I thought that was pretty decent.

Im considering this phone. What screen on time are ye getting?

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mine showing as Barking now. as of 3pm
im assuming yours is on a similar course.

I think it would be cool if you could have a gps real time logger for any parcel you want.

deadanonymau5 wrote: »

Thats disappointing. Im getting 6 or so hrs on my current phone.



What apps do you use most?

Facebook, Gmail, Internet and google play music.

57% remaining
Been using for 8hrs 34min
Estimated time remaining 9hrs 37m
Screen on 46 min = 10% battery use.
Like an hour and half listening to spotify (only trying it out, I don't like streaming.

me=not happy.

I have a feeling location pinging is draining the battery but cant be sure since I can't root and look at wakelocks.

N64 wrote: »

I have location on and it dosen't effect anything. Try disabling the smart notice ****e

Smart settings? I like that.

Otherwise I'm using Nova launcher so very little default LG remains already!

edit: Does anyone else notice that the battery sits at 100% for ages then drops? I estimate that 100% lasts for about 3-5% of normal. Been listening to podcasts, flicked through reddit briefly, 17 min SoT and still at 100%.

phone just turned up, from Italy 6 days after ordering.

complete with leather backing, european 2 pin plug, usb cable, headphones and spare plastic backing.

let the funtimes begin

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I have received parcel motel deliveries on a Saturday and a Sunday. In fact my last delivery was on a Sunday. If it gets to PM tonight, you might have it tomorrow night in your selected motel depending on location.

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yeah, but GPS is misleading since loads of apps use it. It gets the blame for potentially other apps pinging for location or whatever.

Without root and a wakelock detector, it'll be difficult to figure it out. I guess that some apps might not yet be optimised for 5.* and draining excess. Of course, LG (nor android) hasn't got a proper permission system set up to micromanage permissions for location etc.

Anyone who has one, if you can show proof of purchase you get a free micro SD card and battery!