Upgrading my phone. Cheap ATT phone to LG G2. Advice?
 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LG-G2-Latest...item27f252e421

Looking at upgrading my current phone. Anyone have the LG G2 linked above? Currently I use a AT&T Tribute/Fusion 3...
http://www.att.com/esupport/article....B425444&cv=820
and my backup is a Nokia Lumia 635 windows phone...
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/phone/lumia635/

Both are low end phones. I really like the Windows phone but the lack of google apps blows it for me.

I already know this blows away my cheapy phones from last Christmas but is it worth the money to upgrade?

The G2 is a great phone. Have it now. functions great, looks great, no problems whatsoever with it.
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one feature I absolutely need is the ability to put it into what I call "on call mode". In other words, when I'm on call my normal contacts will not have a ring or message tone active. That way I can only get the on call stuff and I return calls later to my personal contacts. Does the address book in this allow for something like that?

Yeah, it's called Quiet mode on the G2. You can set it to automatically turn on during certain hours and add however many contacts you want to be able to contact you at those hours.

I've been reading that these units have a common issue with a part of the touch screen becoming non functional. Also that you shouldn't upgrade to the ATT version of Lollipop. Have you seen, or anyone for that matter, issues with these?

had 2 g2s. Hated them. Weakest phones of all time. Broke if they got tapped. Junk. trash~



MUCH happier with my motoX

Wow, didn't expect that. The reviews on them have been great other than the two issues I stated above. What were the issues you had?

Just checked on MotoX and it is definitely more than I am willing to pay for a phone. $200 is pretty much my limit and I won't buy a used phone.

Issues I had where if you drop the damn thing 1 inch it breaks. I have never had any phone breaking problems with any phone I have had except my g2s, I got a tiny crack in one and it killed the whole digitizer, where every other phone just keeps working etc.

Hated em, always down, always broken, always fighting them, even after repair the digitizer went out again.

Was way happier with the motorola Razr I came from, and the moto X i went too.

I upgraded to Lollipop and have ATT and have had no issue with it.

Really surprised to hear about it breaking so easily. Especially with Gorilla Glass.

I'll chime in as well. I have the LG G2. Never dropped but broke the screen TWICE. Very sensitive. Any torque and it breaks. poke too hard and it breaks.

Lovely phone otherwise for me. The volume and power buttons on the back took some getting used too.

No SD card expansion

Hmmm maybe I should just look at those new Blu phones then

DON'T DO IT!!

I had the g2 and I had no complaints - my wife is now using the g3 and loves it.
I'm using a nexus 6

Have you looked into the Moto G

http://www.motorola.com/us/smartphon...g-2nd-gen.html

Yeah. For the price I really want more CPU and ram than what it offers

Phone has a tendency to crack screen easy. If you get one get a really good case

No. My brother had one. Slow and low storage.

Good price, but you get what you pay for.

The blue x had very similar specs to the moto g for less money

Haven't had any issues with my touchscreen.

And as for what home team is saying, I don't believe it. I've dropped my phone on concrete and asphalt more times than I can count. Phone is still 9/10 cosmetically.
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My battery charge port is going out as well.

http://www.amazon.com/BLU-Studio-Unl.../dp/B00SZEFDH8

comparison link

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/com...9081,9155,7969

I had 2 and went through a total of 4 screens and digitizers in less than a year :/

Dunno what else to say about it.

If you want Similar Specs to the Moto G for less money - why not the Moto E

http://www.motorola.com/us/smartphon...e-2nd-gen.html

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/02/26...oto-e-2nd-gen/

Because I want a 5" screen. :D

crap, Blu Studio X doesn't have LTE.

Bought a 2 week old G2 off swappa last year and havent had any complaints. Upgraded to Lollipop on AT&T and I have no issues, even the battery life hasnt changed much if at all, a lot of people were complaining that it reduced it but I havent noticed any difference.

Well, as much as I would like to upgrade I think I'll just stick to the $50 phones. The idea of paying nearly $200 for a phone and then have the glass break because of some freak thing doesn't appeal to me.

Read a couple reports from people buying the phone, having the glass break because if fell on carpet. They had to pay $125 to get it fixed and within 2 weeks the repaired phone had the glass break again.

Kind of disappointed really but its easier to replace the cheap smart phone if something bad happens.

I really do like my Windows Phone but it irritates me that they can't get google apps on it. Hell, iPhone gets google apps so why is google holding out on windows? ITs not like they are going to go out of business because of it.

G2s are going from 150-200 on eBay. Honestly, the chances of the glass breaking on a soft fall are really low IMO. And you can get a case if you're worried.
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I hate cases. It makes the phone twice the size and they don't fit in the pocket as well. This one is $190 brand new but I am seeing way too many complaints about glass breakage and dead sections on the touch screen over time. I don't want to put that much money into something and end up with one of those scenarios.

that said, I have never broken a phone screen in my life but I have also never spent that much money for a phone.

The case I have is the official G2 case with the flap. Adds less than 2.5 millimeters to the phones thickness. I don't know if it's the reason my glass has never broke or even scratched really, but I like it a lot.

link please?

every phone case I see nearly doubles the size. I would think you need the bigger cases for ultimate protection anyway.

EDIT

nevermind. Found the case. Sure doesn't seem like it would be very protective as thin as it is.

This is the case I have on mine because I dont like the whole flip cover thing.

http://www.amazon.com/Diztronic-Matt.../dp/B00FEQ429U

Hardly adds any bulk and protects all corners with TPU

Then I have a tempered glass screen protector on it (http://glass4m.com/product/glass-m-p...tor-for-lg-g2/). The company offers a nano slim (.2 mm) and a slim (.3 mm), I think I went with slim. My phones been dropped numerous times on carpet and hasn't cracked.

Wait.. the screen protector is made of tempered glass itself?

hmmmm

eh,case is sold out everywhere. Evidently not an option anymore.

Out of the 4 times I broke lg g2s, the last two times where both in cases.

Dropped my LG G3 for the first time on Monday evening and it cracked the screen. Dropped my other 5 or so cell phones multiple times on concrete and never had one crack until now.

It only matters how the phone lands. I accidentally dropped the same phone in the exact same way months apart. The first time there wasn't a scratch on it. The second time the screen was shattered. You could tell where it landed (on the bottom right corner) because the glass was finely cracked to a dust and it splintered out from there. If your phone lands on a corner, kiss that screen goodbye.

It was weird, landed flat on the front and the battery popped out. Ohh well.. 200 bucks later...

Heh. Maybe I just happen to be the luckiest LG Gseries owner.
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Its funny because the phone gets outstanding reviews yet I keep finding report after report about the dead screen issues and how easily the screen can be broken.

Oh, and who is my soul mate. LMAO

I'm going to chalk it up to dumb luck on my part.

I'll be damned. Never knew that kind of thing existed. Pretty cool. Thanks.

You didn't know about tempered Fish? Way better than the plastic ones. Look better, feel better, protect better, totally worth it especially if you have an iPhone which cracks more glass than a Jewish wedding

No, I had no clue you could slap another piece of tempered glass on top of the phone's own tempered glass. I don't use screen protectors though. They're completely unnecessary for me.

My Coworker has a G2, i think it's a really nice phone. He does all of his business through it. I almost got one, but decided on the Amazon Fire phone since it was only $100.

I've read a lot of bad reviews on the Fire phone but i love it. I have no idea what some of those people were complaining about.

The only issue i've had with it thus far is that it doesn't play well with Google Play.

Heh. My Coworker JUST bought that last week.

I've been using these http://www.spigen.com/ for years for both my iphones and samsung phones. They are great and it's the first thing I buy when I get a new phone.

Hey I have had this G2 for little more than 2 weeks now. I like it so far screen is just right size and very sharp. The battery life is incredible on this phone about 2 solid days before depleted. Then lolipop snuck up like a thief in the night and whittled it down to about a day and half. Its a 32 gig with no micro SD and I dont like that as far as storeing my music library on it. After all the ATT bloat its about 20g. I plan to take care this in the near future. I need a little more time with it. My work phone a lumia 822 with windows 8.1 is so much better an operating system. Things just seem to work right and how it ought to but till Microsoft takes mobile phones serious and that will be never you will have Habib makes clones of apps to run apps popular on Android and Iphone. Habib is a bastard he wants to know everything about you. So until Habib is run out of Dodge its Android for me on personal phone.
Oh its a little disturbing to know the screen is as fragile as a bag of potato chips in the back pocket of a trucker.

The AT&T bloatware is hardly taking up any space at all.

The main complaints i saw about the Fire phone was bad battery life and a lack of Apps.

12 g seems like a lot to me. Surely the op system isn't taking all that can it.

LMAO

The AT&T apps are like a total of around 40MB's. Thats 12 hundredths of a percent of the total storage. There's an operating system called Android taking up around 8GB's of that 32.

Well have a good laugh but its the first smart phone that ive owned that wasn't for work. Windows phone 8.1 ran smooth as silk and did everything and more on less than 4 gig.

Yeah, I really do like the Windows phone. If it had all the google apps I would be happy with it.

When I say google apps, I mean Maps, Voice, Gmail app and so on.

Love my LG G2, will be getting the G4 when I am up for an upgrade in November. And why not get the G3 or the G4? The G3 is out now and the G4 should be out soon.

The G3 isn't as good as the G2. Every single review out there says its a downgrade and not worth getting. There is no way in hell I'll pay that kind of money for the G4. Don't you know anything about me? LMAO

Its a decent phone as long as you don't need Google Play apps. Its the main reason I won't even consider the Fire phone.

I caved. Hope I don't regret it. Now to find a good case

Main reason for me is the size. 5.2" is already pushing my comfort level. Anything bigger in dimensions and I'm just not interested, which sucks because I like the removable battery on the G3. Hoping the next Nexus is going to be a Nexus 5 remake thats based on the G4, if the rumor of LG making it is legit. I just hope its not a 4K display.

make sure you post a pic of your broken screen

STFU

That's just flat out wrong. G3 is a MUCH better device in virtually every aspect. But it would cost more

If I had to get a new case for my phone since the one I have is no longer made, apparently, I'd go with the Spigen dual shock, or whatever it's called. Not sure how much bulk it adds compared to mine but it doesn't look to be near anything like a behemoth otterbox.

EDIT: Spigen Slim Armor.

http://www.mobilefun.com/41295-spige...etal-slate.htm

Or there is a knockoff branded version on Amazon made by "Anoke" for $8.

I'm considering this one but it may make it too thick.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A3VXUNNHSPT7S0

:thumb: You'll like it.

If you want something slim, the cruzerlite cases cover all corners with TPU. I just can't stand their stupid 5 year old look.

Those open face covers on this particular phone I cant find one that doesn't pull up the edges of my screen protector. I am gambling with the temper glass protector and nothing else.

I may buy that too just as a precaution. It sounds like it bears the brunt of any hit and shatters so the phone doesn't.

Yeah if you don't like cases, I think that glass protector is a great idea. Never heard of them either before this thread.
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Neither had I. Maybe if I had, I wouldn't be getting a new screen...

did you dry or wet install the screen protector? Did it make your case fit too tight? Trying to decide whether to go with the .3 or .2

Also, how fast was their shipping?

Dry install.

The G2 screen has a beveled edge. That screen protector only covers the flat part of the screen and not the rounded edges, so it shouldn't be a problem with any case. My case covers up most of the bevel but there's maybe a mm or so of exposed glass between the case and screen protector. I'm not sure if there is a company out there that makes a conformed screen protector.

And their shipping, IIRC, was about as fast as getting something from California on standard shipping. I think I got it in about a week, maybe a bit longer depending what day I ordered. I remember being surprised when it arrived, since it's shipped from Hong Kong or some shit, if that means anything.

Here's a 100+ page thread of people reviewing/commenting on various tempered glass screen protectors for the G2 you can go through if you feel bored. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...50811&page=111 I chose the one I linked because people were saying good things about it and others who bought a different one were complaining that theirs was too big and the edges weren't on the glass because of the curve.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...450811&page=35 This page has pics of the same kind I bought on the phone with a case. He's got his higher up than mine so the gap on the bottom is slightly larger.

Dry. These are maybe the easiest screen protector to install of them all. Simply pull a tab removing the sticky backing. Align the bottom then set it and run finger down center and push out to edges. Any bubbles and there are few you push out to side with thumb or credit card. Its not soft and pliable so you can actually hold the edge because its stiff and makes easier. I get mine from xtremeguard when I see a 90% off on Slickdeals.net which is often. They mail out and abut three business days through USPS. I got 3 for like 12 bucks 2 weeks or so ago seem very good quality.

I don't know about "easy." They are a pain in the ass to get lined up correctly by just dropping it on the screen. I think I redid mine like 4 times before it was straight.

I've seen people make hinges with tape, though. They'll put the screen protector on the phone peel side down, line up the screen protector, and take a couple pieces of tape and tape the screen protector and the phone to where the screen protector wont move. Then they'll flip the screen protector back, peel the sticker off, and then flip it back on the phone, and remove the tape. Seemed like an easier way to get it lined up perfectly.

I meant compared to wet or the dry flimsy poly type these are a breeze. This was the first time Id used this type took me about 1 minute and placement was perfect as I stated above per instructions that came with the tempered glass. Maybe I just lucked out. Oh and mine came with a alcohol wipe to get fingerprints off the screen and a lil plastic card to squeegee air bubbles.

This site has a installation video its the one I bought. Sorry cant seem to embed.

https://www.xtremeguard.com/Articles.asp?ID=267

I've never had the G2, but I had the G3. I don't agree with this, from what I've read.

http://www.stuff.tv/features/lg-g2-v...easons-upgrade

I haven't read reviews on each phone, but that's not a review.

Things I like about the G3 vs the G2 is the focus on the camera, removable battery, and expandable storage.

One thing I really don't like about the G3 is that they went back to the speaker being on the back of the phone. Rather they have kept it on the bottom, or better yet on the front.

The rest of it is a gimmick, imo. The higher res screen is a joke. I can zoom in max value on text on 1080p with this 5.2" screen and not see a single stair step. How you can get better is beyond me.

The other stuff like style is subjective.