After a few days with this phone I must say that the honeymoon is over. I have surely learned a lesson not to get too excited about an android phone without giving it at least a week of use.
After a week of use I can say that my rating of this phone has diminished severely for the following:
Lag - This phone lags in almost every operation you perform on it. Sometimes the home screen takes seconds to redraw, the keyboard gets stuck on the home screen and moving through apps isn't smoothly transitioned but flickers. These are some of the same things I experienced with the S6.
Battery - The battery life on this thing sucks and for anyone to claim they are getting 20+ hours of battery with 5hrs of SOT is a flat out lie. I also think that LG is being deceitful with battery calculations as it can take the phone upwards of 30 minutes to discharge from 100% to 99% and after the discharge occurs the battery literally drops down by 1% every minute.
Yesterday I charged my battery to 52% at 545pm and it was down to 5% by 9pm. All I did was us gps for 18 minutes and the rest was history. It also a shame that if I use the screen above 60% brightness I'd only get approximately 2.5hrs of SOT. I am afraid to allow the phone to reach 60% without being close to a charger because once at that level the phone just constantly drains. The most time I'll get out of a 60% charge is 1.5hrs of SOT at best. For all of the "factory reset" people out there, I should NOT have to continue to reset my phone and lose all of my data and then go through the lengthy process of restoring so this is not an option. Especially when 99% of the time a "factory reset" doesn't work. The bottom line is that these manufactures just can't match what Apple does. Android shouldn't need 8 core processors just to make the experience fast and smooth as it makes for poor battery life.
I've tried the M9, S6 and now the g4 and the experience has been very poor. I think its time to give IOS a chance after several years of giving this a chance.
After a week of use I can say that my rating of this phone has diminished severely for the following:
Lag - This phone lags in almost every operation you perform on it. Sometimes the home screen takes seconds to redraw, the keyboard gets stuck on the home screen and moving through apps isn't smoothly transitioned but flickers. These are some of the same things I experienced with the S6.
Battery - The battery life on this thing sucks and for anyone to claim they are getting 20+ hours of battery with 5hrs of SOT is a flat out lie. I also think that LG is being deceitful with battery calculations as it can take the phone upwards of 30 minutes to discharge from 100% to 99% and after the discharge occurs the battery literally drops down by 1% every minute.
Yesterday I charged my battery to 52% at 545pm and it was down to 5% by 9pm. All I did was us gps for 18 minutes and the rest was history. It also a shame that if I use the screen above 60% brightness I'd only get approximately 2.5hrs of SOT. I am afraid to allow the phone to reach 60% without being close to a charger because once at that level the phone just constantly drains. The most time I'll get out of a 60% charge is 1.5hrs of SOT at best. For all of the "factory reset" people out there, I should NOT have to continue to reset my phone and lose all of my data and then go through the lengthy process of restoring so this is not an option. Especially when 99% of the time a "factory reset" doesn't work. The bottom line is that these manufactures just can't match what Apple does. Android shouldn't need 8 core processors just to make the experience fast and smooth as it makes for poor battery life.
I've tried the M9, S6 and now the g4 and the experience has been very poor. I think its time to give IOS a chance after several years of giving this a chance.
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