LG V20
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- Anonymous
- I@a
- 14 Mar 2021
YUKI93, 12 Mar 2021It's hard to believe that this is the first ever smart... moreIt's also the only flagship phone that got stuck on EXACTLY the SAME android software version - Android 7.0 Nougat from year of release in 2016 to almost 5 years now. A few variants got upgraded to Android 8.0 Oreo, but many never got even a SINGLE android software version upgrade. LG is paying for it dearly with the death of its mobile phone business after previous users started staying away from the brand due to horrible software update support and poor aftersales service support.
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- Anonymous
- I@a
- 14 Mar 2021
Anonymous, 11 Mar 2021Mine, which I really love, just began to "die". ... moreI'm 100% sure it's the battery. Get a third party extended battery, 6400mAh or higher. Don't buy or use those counterfeit LG branded batteries sold online looking like the real thing but are 100% fake.
Boot sequence is battery intensive. Old, worn out batteries and fake batteries cannot provide the necessary power upon boot up and so shutdown the phone before boot completion and the phone attempts to reboot after shutdown causing a defective/poor battery induced bootloop.
- YUKI93
- KZK
- 12 Mar 2021
It's hard to believe that this is the first ever smartphone to be shipped with Android 7.0 Nougat in the box. I do hope that LG can reshift their focus on fast software updates as I do root for LG phones for having an exceptionally good value for money.
- YUKI93
- KZK
- 12 Mar 2021
Chudo, 11 Mar 2021Dude,you simply CANNOT HAVE an IP67 rating on a removable b... moreOh really? Samsung would like to have a word with you, then. https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_xcover_pro-10001.php
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- Rimac
- 0Wg
- 12 Mar 2021
Anonymous, 11 Mar 2021Mine, which I really love, just began to "die". ... moreI think that the problem with your unit is possible to fix, since the malfunction doesn't belong to the planned obsolescence, due that many units are operative since they launch time without this kind of malfunction or others.
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- Chudo
- nxR
- 11 Mar 2021
Dometalican, 24 Jan 2021Considering Lineage has been supporting this thing through ... moreDude,you simply CANNOT HAVE an IP67 rating on a removable battery!
Doesen't even a logical thinking tells you this?
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- Anonymous
- q$n
- 11 Mar 2021
Mine, which I really love, just began to "die". It will only work now when connected to a charger , even though the battery shows 100% . This is a spare battery I have, never used before. Another battery, ie the one I ran during the past few years also shows 100%, but the phone still shuts off after a few seconds after turning on. Is that fixable or does that mean my phone is succumbing to planned obsolescense?
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- Anonymous
- x{6
- 10 Mar 2021
Rimac , 07 Mar 2021Mine will be four years old in May and I have another one p... moreYes, it's a great phone. Some Samsung flagship users back then even made fun of it in 2017 saying it won't be relevant or alive anymore in 2021. Guess what? It's still alive and still a very capable phone even in 2021 while those 2017 Samsung flagships have long been probably in the landfills by now while this 2016 phone is still very much alive and capable.
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- Rimac
- mkx
- 07 Mar 2021
arsalankk, 06 Mar 2021I salute you last flagship phone with a removable battery!
... moreMine will be four years old in May and I have another one practically new. Both with OS 8.0.
May I die first.
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- arsalankk
- 6QD
- 06 Mar 2021
I salute you last flagship phone with a removable battery!
These days phones aren't the same anymore....
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- FRILL
- q$J
- 28 Jan 2021
It's why I stopped updating my OS years ago. Every update removes control of your device. It's also why they stopped the removable battery scenario. Blaming it on IP68 ratings and such. LG seems to be following in the footsteps of HTC, which ironically is where I was before they tapped out. At the time LG was a very similar set up. That's why I chose them. They kept it simple, had themes available just like HTC and one hell of a DAC. In fact the only thing I didn't like was their choices of ring tones, so my V20 is equipped with all my HTC ringers and the huge flip clock I had gotten use to Lol. It IS a WAY better phone though. I'm sad to see that LG is heading in that same direction, but as long as 3g and 4g still exists, I'll be running this awesome specimen of a smart device. (On Nougat of course). Cheers to all.
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- Anonymous
- I@a
- 28 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 28 Jan 2021The Android updates are horrible. I'm glad that LG did... moreAndroid 11 is the worst Android version in the last 5 years. Too many restrictions Android is becoming more and more like Apple. Google is getting greedier and greedier every Android and Pixel phone iteration.
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- Anonymous
- mYe
- 28 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 24 Jan 2021I agree 101%. That's what you get when you have horri... moreThe Android updates are horrible. I'm glad that LG didn't update V20 beyond Android 8. All Android versions since 9 are horrible. Android 9 removed the call recording feature, and now Android 11 is the worst. Android 11 removed the freedom of file system by restricting it with Scoped Storage crap. People should boycott Android 9+, but especially Android 11+.
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- Rimac
- mke
- 25 Jan 2021
I think that the updating policies in phones and other products are a metaphor of societies that only value the 'continuous' last.
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- Dometalican
- 7BB
- 24 Jan 2021
FRILL, 24 Jan 2021This particular phone never needed an OS update. Still runn... moreConsidering Lineage has been supporting this thing through Android 10, it's no surprise how much people loved this phone (I'm currently using it...with Oreo. Lol)
If LG does manage to sell their smartphone business, I hope they make their final phones with removable batteries with an IP67 at minimum. That would kick tail in my book.
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- FRILL
- q$J
- 24 Jan 2021
This particular phone never needed an OS update. Still running circles around many way over priced phones today 5 years later with a 5 year old OS. The only things holding the V20 back now are maybe the cameras which work fine for me, the absence of stereo speakers, and the of course the service provider. That's about it.
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- Anonymous
- t7X
- 24 Jan 2021
Rimac , 21 Jan 2021After nearly six years of losses, LG is considering abandon... moreI agree 101%. That's what you get when you have horrible software update and after sales support. Imagine, many $799 LG V20 phone variants were never updated by LG even once. They were released with Android 7.0 Nougat and remained under Android 7.0 Nougat. Thankfully, because of the removable batteries, the excellent audio quality, the FM radio, micro SD storage, the excellent photo and 4K video quality plus the learning capable master remote, they are still useful as multimedia devices.
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- Rimac
- mke
- 21 Jan 2021
After nearly six years of losses, LG is considering abandoning its mobile division.
Being brave and original is (apparently) useless.
I think that the disaster of their updating policy is closely related to the loss economic exercises.
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- Chudo
- nxR
- 18 Jan 2021
MLAVRA, 13 Jan 2021 https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqZulap Charging in the phone,... moreThank you LAVRA!Will try these ones and post my opinion a couple of months of their arrival.I bet there's a lot more Europeans with this phone having the same issue.
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- Anonymous
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- 14 Jan 2021
On my 4 th LG CP This ones great! Luv it! V-20