LG Optimus F3
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- AnonD-342960
- Y6W
- 19 Dec 2014
Most updates are dependant on the carrier ie. tmobile,att ect...
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- bmb
- 4nM
- 15 Dec 2014
Iv had tjis phone since may 2014 for the first few months it ran really good but then started slowing down significantly. I would only recommend this phone as a temporary fix until you can get a better more reliable phone.
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- Random
- sEV
- 17 Nov 2014
Hi guys
This is a great phone if you are looking for a budget smartphone, this is what you need.
It runs smoothly and has a ok camera for the price.
Bad thing is it hasn't have KitKat
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- mojof3
- jBu
- 11 Oct 2014
Why no update to kitkat? Lg has older hardware that has gotten kk, the f3 is capable hardware wise.pls lg and virgin, give this little beast a kk update. Thx
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- mojof3
- jes
- 02 Oct 2014
What a great little phone for only 40 bucks at best buy. Great signal, fast, LTE, dual krait cores. For the price this phone is a hard act to follow
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- Bluey
- 7s3
- 05 Aug 2014
Bought unlock code from ebay and now can work on any network. Smooth, light to carry and lots of battery. Responsive. Who needs iphone?
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- AnonD-289136
- Pdj
- 30 Jul 2014
david, 17 Jul 2014Hi.I have just bought this phone and I can't goes any signa... moreDude, I'm from Colombia, is that if i import from USA Virgin Mobile be locked by making it easy unlocked in colombia? and you did it unlocked in you country?? .. thanks for your help
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- david
- 3bh
- 17 Jul 2014
Hi.I have just bought this phone and I can't goes any signal in my country is not t-mobile and if I unlock this phone will it work on usual GSM?
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- Anonymous
- qFk
- 10 Jul 2014
This is my first smartphone. It's nice to be able to look up something on web & does all basic stuff but not to same degree of other smartphones friends have. I have 1 game & 2 apps, memory is now all used up. Great battery life. If you want to have several apps,forget about this phone.
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- kishore
- PSL
- 19 May 2014
Hi, i brought LG optimus f3.while i have purchasing i am very happy but this phone having so many problem like we couldnt install two are more apps,heat problem.So i am not happy about this lG optimus f3
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- georges
- qKF
- 26 Apr 2014
why is that i wake up in the morning and my phone does not have network?I tried the EMEI(*#06#)ON THE PHONE AND IT SAID ''NUL''.WATH can be the problem?note that my sim card is working good in others phone.
Thanks
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- jared
- 4Zq
- 15 Apr 2014
I also got my Virgin Mobil F3 working with saferoot. I had to leave the default install location remain internal otherwise I got errors. But after that installing/auto linking worked like a charm. Made a 1.90G ext4 partition on my SD card.
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- Chris
- j58
- 13 Apr 2014
AnonD-250497, 03 Apr 2014Def a pain rooting this, tried various (Kingo, motochopper,... moreIf you have LG vm720 only way I got it rooted was SAFEROOT. MOTOCHOPPER couldn't get er done! Running 33 apps and still have 600 mb to spare. SAFEROOT ON Virgin mobile Optimus f3 works!!!!
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- kentchristopher
- 4SB
- 09 Apr 2014
In case anyone is curious, the SAR rating for this phone, as listed in the manual for the T-Mobile US P659 version (GSM) is 1.16W/kg at the ear, 1.29W/kg on the body. Rather high given that the maximum allowable is by the FCC is 1.6W/kg.
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- AnonD-250497
- Yir
- 03 Apr 2014
Def a pain rooting this, tried various (Kingo, motochopper, etc) on XDA, haven't found anything yet that works for me, yet others have managed. VM provider if that matters. Regarding the phone itself it's nice and I like it, but the sd0 crap is a HUGE liability
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- blackrussia
- jer
- 18 Mar 2014
Anonymous, 10 Feb 2014None of these opinions help. They are just people asking qu... moreI know right??
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- Anonymous
- 4$1
- 06 Mar 2014
Anonymous, 16 Feb 2014First thing to do is root the phone. Search for easyroot fr... moreYou can use Kingo Android Root as well.
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- janbon
- v0q
- 17 Feb 2014
Anonymous, 16 Feb 2014First thing to do is root the phone. Search for easyroot fr... morethank u so much!
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- Anonymous
- qUf
- 16 Feb 2014
BTW: It's "saferoot" not "easyroot" that's a whole other app. saferoot is what works.
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- Anonymous
- qUf
- 16 Feb 2014
First thing to do is root the phone. Search for easyroot from XDA. Turn on USB debugging, connect to your computer and run easyroot as admin. In about 2 minutes you will have a rooted F3 without having to flash a custom rom or anything risky. Second thing todo is open the play store and download 2 apps, "Link2sd" by Bulent Akpinar and "Folder Mount" by madmack. Then go buy a 64gig microSD HDXC and follow the guide on the link2sd website. You have to create 2 primary partitions. One for normal storage in fat32 and to other for apps, I found ext4 to work well. YMMV
Don't mess with any other app2sd stuff on the play store. Link2SD can move anything. You start with about 800mb of internal free. I installed over 60 apps and had 900mb free. Installed three Ivona voices. Only thing to watch out for is app cache size. Luckily link2sd can be set to clear the cache after it reaches a set size.
Folder Mount creates sys-links to folders on the SD card. Something you can't do without on this phone because of the stupid choice to mark the internal storage as sdcard0. This breaks apps that don't let you set a folder manually. So EVERYTHING goes to the internal storage with is only 1.2gig to start with and only 800 of that is free. Folder mount lets you move things to the real sd card. This also means the link2sd is the only app2sd app that works properly.
I paid for folder mount and I donated to link2sd. They are both wonderful apps and well worth it.
Now my F3 is a 64gig model. I know it says it only goes to 32gig SD cards but read people claiming it would take 64 and it does. I'm on android 4.1.2 if that makes any difference.