LG G3 Availability in Ireland.

mooseknunkle · 13-10-2014 11:08pm

digitaldr wrote: »

and I know someone on this thread is expecting a replacement for a faulty G3 so will be interesting to see how that pans out.

There was a delay in shipping with TNT as they didnt send me on all the documents so egloabl only received it last Friday and i had an email from them this morning saying that they are inspecting it and will update me tomorrow.

mooseknunkle · 13-10-2014 11:15pm

KeithTS wrote: »

I'm based in the UK so picking up a phone isn't a problem fortunately.
I'm toying with the idea of the LG G3, Galxy S5 or HTC One M8. They're all priced the same give or take a pound here or there.

Does anybody have any recommendations one way or the other regarding the options?

I went from the HTC one M7 to the G3 and at the moment im using a Galaxy S4 ,if you read through here you'll see i had a problem with the G3 where is just randomly shuts down so i had to send it back to the company where i bought im hoping to have it back this week.

The HTC was a great phone when i had it first but the last few months i had a few issues with the microphone and had to get it repaired twice that was the main reason for upgrading to the G3,but a friend of mine has the M8 and he had the same problems with the microphone and only this week he had the phone replaced by Meteor.

Personally i would choose the G3 over the S5 and M8.

KeithTS · 14-10-2014 8:47am

Cheers Moose, good to know that even though you've had a bad experience the LG has still won you over.
I'm leaning towards the LG but without having a play with one first I'm skeptical

Ivefoundgod · 14-10-2014 8:02pm

Just bit the bullet on this. Ordered from eGlobal, got a €5 discount so came to €422.99 all in. Won't get to use it properly until the 24th regardless of when it arrives as I'm giving my 5s to my girlfriend as an extra birthday present that day so will have to keep it hidden away until then but I'll keep you guys posted on how long it takes and what I think of it. Can't wait for it now

mooseknunkle · 14-10-2014 10:35pm

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Just bit the bullet on this. Ordered from eGlobal, got a €5 discount so came to €422.99 all in. Won't get to use it properly until the 24th regardless of when it arrives as I'm giving my 5s to my girlfriend as an extra birthday present that day so will have to keep it hidden away until then but I'll keep you guys posted on how long it takes and what I think of it. Can't wait for it now

Id say you could have it Friday morning or if you're in Dublin you could collect it from DHL on Saturday i think,you will notice a massive difference when moving from a 5s ,dont do what i did and use a nano to micro sim adaptor trust me just go into your carrier and get a micro sim replacement they're free.

Ivefoundgod · 14-10-2014 10:38pm

Really? That quick? I was thinking would be late next week at best. Not near Dublin but no rush for it really as I can't use it until properly until Friday. I can't wait to get rid of the 5s, well and truly fed up with it and iOS 8 is so buggy at the moment, Quiz Up instantly crashes for me now, can't open it at all and numerous other bugs plus small screen are just annoying me now. Can't wait for the LG, browsing cases at the moment, not normally a case person but like the look of the Quick Circle Case, might give it a go. Yeah I read back through the thread a few weeks ago and made sure to take note of that, will head down to Three to get the micro sim. Presume they can activate immediately?

D_turbo · 14-10-2014 10:42pm

Pics surfacing of the nexus X..

Much to big...awfully dissapointed.

more then likely order the LG Friday,

Whats the difference in the D858 and the D 855?

Ivefoundgod · 14-10-2014 10:53pm

Those leaked pictures are what made me order the G3, was keen on it anyway but lack of reasonably sized Nexus made it a no brainer for me. 5.9 is too big and leaks I saw made it look fairly ugly too IMO. The D858 is the dual sim model, only released in Asia from what I remember.

D_turbo · 14-10-2014 11:03pm

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Those leaked pictures are what made me order the G3, was keen on it anyway but lack of reasonably sized Nexus made it a no brainer for me. 5.9 is too big and leaks I saw made it look fairly ugly too IMO. The D858 is the dual sim model, only released in Asia from what I remember.

Yeah,,,The usual Nexus value had me convinced i was a loyal customer...but that looked very bad...and iv never rated motorolas IN phone before , and love my nexus 4 so its a bit of a no brainer for me...once they confirm the terrible 5.9" size on nexus tomorrow.

has any one Used camera for recording in areas of loud noise?

I have a nokia n9 that has very good quality sound with loud noise recordring in videos...The nexus 4 how ever was a complete Joke...Muffled very easily...

mooseknunkle · 14-10-2014 11:07pm

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Really? That quick? I was thinking would be late next week at best. Not near Dublin but no rush for it really as I can't use it until properly until Friday. I can't wait to get rid of the 5s, well and truly fed up with it and iOS 8 is so buggy at the moment, Quiz Up instantly crashes for me now, can't open it at all and numerous other bugs plus small screen are just annoying me now. Can't wait for the LG, browsing cases at the moment, not normally a case person but like the look of the Quick Circle Case, might give it a go. Yeah I read back through the thread a few weeks ago and made sure to take note of that, will head down to Three to get the micro sim. Presume they can activate immediately?

I ordered mine on a Thursday night and had it the following Wednesday morning so really it was just 3 business days,im not into cases either and i still havent got one for mine but i might do soon,im on the three network too they just give you the sim and you activate it yourself online it says it takes 24hrs but is usually done in a couple of hours.

54kroc · 14-10-2014 11:23pm

KeithTS wrote: »

Cheers Moose, good to know that even though you've had a bad experience the LG has still won you over.
I'm leaning towards the LG but without having a play with one first I'm skeptical

Sceptical is good, try to use each phone your interested in before you buy, personally I have an M8 and have had no bother with it.
Would the Z3 be on your list to?

Ivefoundgod · 15-10-2014 12:24am

mooseknunkle wrote: »

I ordered mine on a Thursday night and had it the following Wednesday morning so really it was just 3 business days,im not into cases either and i still havent got one for mine but i might do soon,im on the three network too they just give you the sim and you activate it yourself online it says it takes 24hrs but is usually done in a couple of hours.

Ah that's perfect, three shop just down from where I work so I'll call in and get one. Few nice looking cases I've seen so far but I'd say I'll do my usual thing of buying a few and then not using them after a week or two

KeithTS · 15-10-2014 8:59am

54kroc wrote: »

Sceptical is good, try to use each phone your interested in before you buy, personally I have an M8 and have had no bother with it.
Would the Z3 be on your list to?

I haven't actually given the Z3 much thought actually. I'm not sure why, had an older Xperia ages ago and wasn't too pushed on it but I'll look up the specs and compare it to the others.

digitaldr · 15-10-2014 10:52am

Tried out the Z3 in a meteor store last week. Thought the design was pretty unimaginative - 2 featureless slabs of glass and a metal band inbetween. Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of bling but it was just plain boring. Added to that it was really uncomfortable to hold (even with the improved rounded edge) and I have big hands. Having said that from what I've heard the camera is outstanding & it's waterproof.

D_turbo · 15-10-2014 10:01pm

If i order off E global and have any issues?

Faults etc?

With LG Cover it aslong as i have a recipet? or must it go through Eglobal?

D_turbo · 15-10-2014 11:02pm

Iv orederd Anyway so Fingers Crossed get away with duty.

Wont get to use it for 2 weeks with being ib dublin for work then holidays.

Something to look forward to

digitaldr · 15-10-2014 11:29pm

D_turbo wrote: »

If i order off E global and have any issues?

Faults etc?

With LG Cover it aslong as i have a recipet? or must it go through Eglobal?

You've got to go through Eglobal - details on their website.

Ivefoundgod · 17-10-2014 9:47pm

Phone arrived today. Having a quick play around with it. Amazing service from eglobal. Cant fault them. Came with adapter for wall charger which i wasnt expecting, nice touch. As for the phone, its big but easy enough to manage i find. Im moving back from iphone so ive to get up to date with android apps but happy enough so far. Will get sim card sorted tomorrowand have a good play around but first impressions are good.

D_turbo · 21-10-2014 11:28am

Mine left Hong kong yesterday morning.

Due weds

Ivefoundgod · 21-10-2014 9:07pm

So had it in use since friday. Wasnt able to wait until the gfs birthday so gave her my 5s early so i could use it. Have to say im very pleased with it, i thought it would take a while to get used to the size but its really pretty easy to manage. Its fast, screen looks great, theres maybe a touch of lag when switching between lots of different apps but its barely noticeable to me. Lots of little things i like. The smart notice that tells you to dress for wind/rain is a nice touch and the option for dual windows and floating apps is great. Waiting on my circle case to arrive now and then might pick up a wireless charger. Delighted with it so far though.

D_turbo · 22-10-2014 7:33am

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

So had it in use since friday. Wasnt able to wait until the gfs birthday so gave her my 5s early so i could use it. Have to say im very pleased with it, i thought it would take a while to get used to the size but its really pretty easy to manage. Its fast, screen looks great, theres maybe a touch of lag when switching between lots of different apps but its barely noticeable to me. Lots of little things i like. The smart notice that tells you to dress for wind/rain is a nice touch and the option for dual windows and floating apps is great. Waiting on my circle case to arrive now and then might pick up a wireless charger. Delighted with it so far though.

Does the dual window work for youtube? As in scrpll the net and have YouTube playing?

Mine arrived in shannon and left 25mins later? No mentiom of customs... Am i away free?

Ivefoundgod · 22-10-2014 9:04am

D_turbo wrote: »

Does the dual window work for youtube? As in scrpll the net and have YouTube playing?

Mine arrived in shannon and left 25mins later? No mentiom of customs... Am i away free?

Yeah i think so, like this you mean?

D_turbo · 22-10-2014 11:07am

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Yeah i think so, like this you mean?

Yep...great...hate having to be on youtube onlu to listen to music, cant browse the net or anything while youtubes on

King_Joffery · 22-10-2014 7:48pm

Hi guys. ordered from eglobal sunday night 19th at 6.15pm. 426 euro plus screen protectors. Arrived at 12.30pm today ups no customs. Lots of bloatware installed.. Rooted the phone to try and get rid of the apps. ( the apps appeared to be unstalled by Orange???)No joy could not uninstall. Ended up flashing twrp and now running Androidnow hd as my rom. Very happy.!!!!!

Ivefoundgod · 22-10-2014 9:32pm

King_Joffery wrote: »

Hi guys. ordered from eglobal sunday night 19th at 6.15pm. 426 euro plus screen protectors. Arrived at 12.30pm today ups no customs. Lots of bloatware installed.. Rooted the phone to try and get rid of the apps. ( the apps appeared to be unstalled by Orange???)No joy could not uninstall. Ended up flashing twrp and now running Androidnow hd as my rom. Very happy.!!!!!

Yeah mine had a few apps as well. I just hid them in the app drawer. Theres a good few LG apps ill never use that i hid too. Glad you like it.

King_Joffery · 23-10-2014 7:46pm

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Yeah mine had a few apps as well. I just hid them in the app drawer. Theres a good few LG apps ill never use that i hid too. Glad you like it.

I just dont like the idea of these bloatware apps and the way i cant uninstall them, you never know what they could be up to..any so far i am very impressed with the g3.

JacksonHeightsOwn · 27-10-2014 6:53pm

Whats the camera on the G3 like lads?

Ive got a note 3 and am tempted to sell it and downsize to the G3.

Im a little unhappy with the camera on the Note. Would the G3 be as good, and take a photo as quickly as the iphones?

IamMe33 · 30-10-2014 10:05pm

King_Joffery wrote: »

Hi guys. ordered from eglobal sunday night 19th at 6.15pm. 426 euro plus screen protectors. Arrived at 12.30pm today ups no customs. Lots of bloatware installed.. Rooted the phone to try and get rid of the apps. ( the apps appeared to be unstalled by Orange???)No joy could not uninstall. Ended up flashing twrp and now running Androidnow hd as my rom. Very happy.!!!!!

How is it running? Any shutdowns?

King_Joffery · 01-11-2014 11:03pm

IamMe33 wrote: »

How is it running? Any shutdowns?

Running very smooth. No shutdowns. Very happy so far.Ive been using a custom rom since the first day i got it , so maybe that helps. Androidnow hd over in xda if you are wondering.
Also ive set the screen brightness to 20% to save on battery. No problems with 20%.

digitaldr · 05-11-2014 12:01am

mooseknunkle wrote: »

Id say you could have it Friday morning or if you're in Dublin you could collect it from DHL on Saturday i think,you will notice a massive difference when moving from a 5s ,dont do what i did and use a nano to micro sim adaptor trust me just go into your carrier and get a micro sim replacement they're free.

Finally got to play with a G3 today and really liked it. Half thinking about selling the oneplus and buying one from Eglobalcentral. Did you get the replacement phone & was it brand new?

Ivefoundgod · 05-11-2014 12:28am

I rooted mine as well, the G3 tweaksbox is really cool. Using Nova Launcher and very pleased. Can't find fault with it really.

mooseknunkle · 05-11-2014 12:39am

digitaldr wrote: »

Finally got to play with a G3 today and really liked it. Half thinking about selling the oneplus and buying one from Eglobalcentral. Did you get the replacement phone & was it brand new?

Long story but in short they couldnt find the fault and said it wasnt covered under warranty so they sent the phone back to me two weeks ago,and it was fine for a few days and then what you know it starts to shut down again,so now they want me to send it back again but im not going to because if they cant find the fault again then i have to pay for shipping so basically i will be paying to get back a faulty phone.

I must say its a very slow process and a lot is lost in translation,ive spoken to a manger and to her credit she got on to the repair guys to find out what they done when they got the phone back and im hoping she is going to have it sorted someday this week,but it hasnt shutdown since last Friday so maybe its fixed itself but i doubt it.

digitaldr · 05-11-2014 1:08am

Sorry to hear that. How often was at shutting down at its worst? Might stick with the oneplus after all!

mooseknunkle · 05-11-2014 2:03pm

digitaldr wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. How often was at shutting down at its worst? Might stick with the oneplus after all!

At its worst it shutdown once maybe twice a day,it shutdown again this morning first time since last Friday so it didnt fix itself i have no other option than to send it back again.

moggser · 05-11-2014 2:06pm

Whats this shutting down malarkey???i never had that prob with mine and got it from e global...have you tried reflashing it??did eglobal charge you for shipping back

mooseknunkle · 06-11-2014 11:38am

moggser wrote: »

Whats this shutting down malarkey???i never had that prob with mine and got it from e global...have you tried reflashing it??did eglobal charge you for shipping back

They covered all the shipping costs.

IamMe33 · 06-11-2014 9:55pm

moggser wrote: »

Whats this shutting down malarkey???i never had that prob with mine and got it from e global...have you tried reflashing it??did eglobal charge you for shipping back

On that giant thread about the shutdowns, on the last page

http: //forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/lg-g3-d855-shutsdown-t2803292/page132

someone said shutting down Geo location for photo's stopped shutdowns for their phone.
and someone else said

"Found solution, thats working for me. Problem is in Camera GPS. Just disable Settings > General > Location > untick "Camera"

Problem is only in this. 4 days without black screen on ART".

Did you check that out?

IamMe33 · 07-11-2014 3:16am

Sorry, I meant that question for mooseknunkle.

mooseknunkle · 07-11-2014 10:02am

IamMe33 wrote: »

Sorry, I meant that question for mooseknunkle.

Yeah i read through a lot of that thread and tried most of the suggestions and none worked unfortunately.

funnyclub · 08-11-2014 9:45pm

Got my lg g3 from eglobal yesterday. Shipped wednesday and arrived friday. Their customer service is cracking. Im on my 3rd phone from them and ive had friends order stuff from them after my recommendations and they have had no issues either.

Ive gone from a oneplus one to the g3 and the only issue is battery life on the g3 for me.

JacksonHeightsOwn · 08-11-2014 9:46pm

funnyclub wrote: »

Got my lg g3 from eglobal yesterday. Shipped wednesday and arrived friday. Their customer service is cracking. Im on my 3rd phone from them and ive had friends order stuff from them after my recommendations and they have had no issues either.

Ive gone from a oneplus one to the g3 and the only issue is battery life on the g3 for me.

how bad is battery life, and has your phone turned off like the other reports?

funnyclub · 08-11-2014 10:43pm

chrisbonnie wrote: »

how bad is battery life, and has your phone turned off like the other reports?

Hi no it hasnt turned off at all. But from a full charge this morning where i got up at 6am for work i had about 20% battery left at 3 and plugged it in and charged to 100% and im now at 58%

moggser · 09-11-2014 10:41am

what have you installed recently that draining the battery check and see there is alway something that's running behind the scene's that slaughters the battery

Ivefoundgod · 09-11-2014 11:08am

Battery on mine is usually unplugged at 8am and usually has 50% charge left at about 5.30 with fairly light use, battery isn't great on it tbh but I've never been worried about it not lasting a day.

On a side note, looks like we'll be getting 5.0 in the next month or so, does anyone know Will i need to unroot to accept the OTA? Dont want to get stuck in a bootloop.

funnyclub · 09-11-2014 1:15pm

moggser wrote: »

what have you installed recently that draining the battery check and see there is alway something that's running behind the scene's that slaughters the battery

Ya it turned out to be the ap 'good for enterprise' it can be used to recieve emails from my job. I got rid of it last night and the drain slowed down. Its now 2hrs since i unplugged it and im still at 100% so im happier now.

funnyclub · 12-11-2014 7:31pm

So my G3 has powered down twice since i got it. Anyone know what the fix for this is if there is one?

mooseknunkle · 12-11-2014 8:48pm

funnyclub wrote: »

So my G3 has powered down twice since i got it. Anyone know what the fix for this is if there is one?

Welcome to my world,my one is currently back with eglobal since Monday they are still "testing" it ,this is the second time ive sent it back for random shutdowns.

Your only option is to open an 'RMA Case' https://www.eglobalcentral.eu/index.php?dispatch=orders.rma

But be warned its a very slow process,their customer service is open 9-5 Irish time but the RMA service is open 9-5 Hong Kong time so dont expect more than 1 email a day.

mooseknunkle · 17-11-2014 6:53pm

funnyclub wrote: »

So my G3 has powered down twice since i got it. Anyone know what the fix for this is if there is one?

Did you contact eglobal about it?

funnyclub · 19-11-2014 1:23am

mooseknunkle wrote: »

Did you contact eglobal about it?

Hi i did but im giving this a try 1st.

https://viksaaskool.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/lg-g3-random-shutdown-issue-and-how-to-fix-it/

Tonight i installed lg suite and i checked for upgrade. Now even though my phone had no OTA upgrade lg suite had one and i upgraded to V10I-EUR-XX

I will let you know if it solves the shutdowns.

Sam Mac · 19-11-2014 2:09am

So are these random shutdowns a widespread issue? Real pity if so!

LG G3 Availability in Ireland.

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