Talk about Asian fake LG v20s

[dlcpa]

Should I worry about this?

You sent a payment of $259.25 USD to 张秦

I imagine I should try to register it with LG as soon as I get the v20. The guy or gal had a very high rating like 98% with Ebay. He says it has the original box and the FM radio.

 

[SpookDroid]

Unfortunately without knowing more about the device it's really hard to know if it's the real deal or not. You should always be able to look up the IMEI and see if it's blacklisted or check with LG, like you said, to see if the S/N matches their devices. But for all this you either need all the info from the seller or to have the device with you. LGV20's run between 200 and 300 bucks nowadays, so the price seems to match the current offers.

 

[gustav30]

I do remember watching this video of fake V20s last year. Amazing how they make it look like real thing.

https://youtu.be/qiimXPvzgPM

 

[SpookDroid]

Not too surprising... I've been to China factories where defective components (which, for major brands is a tiny dent, scratch, mismatched color, etc.) get just sold off the backdoor instead of scrapped. And most of the time some components from competitors are made in the same buildings, just separated by a thin wall.

 

[flyingkytez]

Should I worry about this?

You sent a payment of $259.25 USD to 张秦

I imagine I should try to register it with LG as soon as I get the v20. The guy or gal had a very high rating like 98% with Ebay. He says it has the original box and the FM radio.

It's a possibility. I've been trying to look at the feedback but most of the feedback looks fake. Could either be a clone or a "refurbished" phone sold as new.

 

[dlcpa]

So far, I couldn't be happier with my purchase from Ebay. LG asks on registration screen how much you paid and I was honest and said I got it on ebay for $258. Btw, I went to AT&T to get the smaller SIM card. I didn't realize the connection to the v20 is a type C cable. Can I buy new cables and use them on the Note 4 plug in chargers I have, especially the fast chargers?

 

[tickerguy]

So far, I couldn't be happier with my purchase from Ebay. LG asks on registration screen how much you paid and I was honest and said I got it on ebay for $258. Btw, I went to AT&T to get the smaller SIM card. I didn't realize the connection to the v20 is a type C cable. Can I buy new cables and use them on the Note 4 plug in chargers I have, especially the fast chargers?

Yes.

But the best charger to obtain you probably don't have -- get a QC3.0 one. It'll both charge faster and keep the phone cooler while it does.

 

[flyingkytez]

So far, I couldn't be happier with my purchase from Ebay. LG asks on registration screen how much you paid and I was honest and said I got it on ebay for $258. Btw, I went to AT&T to get the smaller SIM card. I didn't realize the connection to the v20 is a type C cable. Can I buy new cables and use them on the Note 4 plug in chargers I have, especially the fast chargers?

Can you show photos of the phone and share who the seller is? This is great if the phone was indeed legit. Yes, you can just buy a USB C cable, though I recommend buying a reputable brand cable and not a cheap one. You can still use the USB power block from your old phone.. the V20 actually supports Quick Charge 3.0 which is incredibly fast.

 

[dlcpa]

only trouble I having is that all my contacts never came in from contacts.Google.com and the tech at AT&T had to export a csv file into my phone, now they are all handset contacts. When I got the phone it didn't come in empty like the Note 4 did after a factory reset. There were programs that got set up by the bootloader. if that's the right word. everything with the Samsungs were different because of Smart Switch. so I really didn't know what to expect. I have a feeling that the Google accounts didn't get setup properly or maybe not at all but there wasn't a initial boot up like there was four the Notes 2 and 4. It never asked me if I have another phone I want to get information from. I probably should have done a factory reset.

I'll try to do the pictures later but inside and out it was clean as a whistle.

 

[dlcpa]

Topurch was the vendor on ebay. BTW, the battery is as new as can be. overnight went from 100 to 98%

 

[recDNA]

If it's new why is there no type C cable and LG charger?

 

[dlcpa]

If it's new why is there no type C cable and LG charger?

There is, I bought extras.

 

[recDNA]

Still happy it is genuine and new?

 

[dlcpa]

I just wrote a long answer and editing is always difficult here because when I try to scroll the whole screen moves down. I don't know how to stop that so I tried to turn the phone to landscape and lost everything I wrote. I think I had that problem with the Note 4 also so that's an Android problem.

I love the phone and I don't see what the newer models and almost $1,500 would do for me that I'm not getting here. the only thing I'm concerned about when I got the phone I don't believe or feel that it was factory reset and I should have done that. I don't remember my Samsung coming with programs on them but that's not true they had to. there had to be a icon for the Google Play Store built it. seems as though LG didn't have the same initial procedural overhead that Samsung did. then the other problems I am concerned about is the fact that I couldn't link to my Google contacts where it only shows about 20% of them and the erratic performance in Wi-Fi. I think there was some issues with Comcast but I think the Samsung handles it better than the LG. Top end they get to the same 119 megabytes per second but there are times when the Samsung is up there and the LG is a 41.

How do you scroll in these forums?

I would love to do a factory reset but it takes so damn long to repopulate this thing and all that passwords that you have to put in again it's such a pain in the neck. I was wondering if I could use Smart Switch Buy Samsung to backup everything onto micro SD card and then restore it back to the LG phone. when I have the LG V 10, I couldn't even download Smart Switch but I was able to download it a few minutes ago. Only problem is is it reliable and if I do a factory reset will I be able to get all my data back from the card back onto the v20. I apologize if there any typos I can't scroll to see what I've dictated.

 

[dlcpa]

do any of you remember the startup being less than what Samsung had? I don't even think it asked me what Google account I had and I had to put that in later. I think I'm just being paranoid.

However I did get an email from my bank saying that I own and my services were being suspended until I go through this certification link. So I hit the link and I look at the email it's going back to and it was so long that it would make supercalifragilisticexpialidocious look tiny. so I called the bank and they said it's not from them but then headed on third-party know that I logged on to my bank from my Wi-Fi in my house with a new device? that's another reason I wanted to do a factory reset. I don't know why it's not capitalizing the first letter in the sentence. maybe that's a setting.

One thing I left that in my last posting was that I love the sound quality cutting out of this phone from its speaker and when I hooked it up to my car I found a huge difference between what I was hearing from the v20 then what came out of the Note 4.

 

[recDNA]

do any of you remember the startup being less than what Samsung had? I don't even think it asked me what Google account I had and I had to put that in later. I think I'm just being paranoid.

However I did get an email from my bank saying that I own and my services were being suspended until I go through this certification link. So I hit the link and I look at the email it's going back to and it was so long that it would make supercalifragilisticexpialidocious look tiny. so I called the bank and they said it's not from them but then headed on third-party know that I logged on to my bank from my Wi-Fi in my house with a new device? that's another reason I wanted to do a factory reset. I don't know why it's not capitalizing the first letter in the sentence. maybe that's a setting.

One thing I left that in my last posting was that I love the sound quality cutting out of this phone from its speaker and when I hooked it up to my car I found a huge difference between what I was hearing from the v20 then what came out of the Note 4.

I'd inform the bank about clicking on that link since it sounds like you were phished if email not from them. I'd definitely do the factory reset despit the inconvenience. Perhaps do the setup at a store of your ip provider to make sure everything looks right during the process. I'd also reset your google pw from a computer but I'm the paranoid type. Restoring through Samsung or LG puts the same crap back you want to get rid of. Take your time and do it manually. Anyway those are my recommendations - take em or leave em.

 

[recDNA]

Has it been established if ANY of these ebay Hong Kong V20 are in fact fakes or clones?

 

[dlcpa]

Has it been established if ANY of these ebay Hong Kong V20 are in fact fakes or clones?

I think mine is fine. LG registerred it and it's performing well.