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Good and bad of the LG Connect phone (MetroPCS)
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I work as a sign holder in Florida. I watch movies on my Connect in the direct sunlight all day to pass the time. With that being said, full brightness, watching shows (already on the SD, not streaming) the battery will usually go from 100% to dead in 4 or 5 hours.
This is with all data off while watching shows. I must say, the brightness is amazing! Sunshine state has nothing on this puppy. '
*Metro PCS
*Phone rooted and bloatware removed
I just got a new Connect from and on MetroPCS and it is yielding a far different experience from the reports here. Waiting for more people to chime in before I "speak".
Battery life is just ok.
The phone itself works great and I've only had to reboot it once since I got it March 2nd. It was acting real sluggish after I played Shadowgun the 1st time and exited quickly.
Multi tasks great running GPS guidance while making phone calls, searching the web, and playing music.
Blows the Esteem out of the water in everything but screen size and the lack of an hdmi port. A step in the right direction for LG and Metro. I am very pleased with it so far.
The phone itself works great and I've only had to reboot it once since I got it March 2nd. It was acting real sluggish after I played Shadowgun the 1st time and exited quickly.
Multi tasks great running GPS guidance while making phone calls, searching the web, and playing music.
Blows the Esteem out of the water in everything but screen size and the lack of an hdmi port. A step in the right direction for LG and Metro. I am very pleased with it so far.
I am new to Metro coming from Verizon.
1 - I'm amazed how often I lose network connections. To this point I'm not sure if the $60 plan is worth it. I can't imagine being able to use more than 1gb of data since in most cases I can't connect to 4g. This is while I'm driving. When I'm at the office or at home, i can always use wifi.
2. People have complained that the power button is too small. I do not have a problem with this.
3. I do not like that the volume buttons are on the left. Every other phone I have ever owned they have been on the right.
4. My wife has the Esteem, the connects screen is only .3" smaller, but when you are only talking about 4"s to begin with, this odes make a difference.
5. I have not had any reboot issues.
6. I still have to look through the settings, but when I am on a call and another call comes through, the screen does not turn on to let me see who is calling, I have to hit the power button to see who is trying to reach me.
7. The battery takes forever to charge and I have NEVER been able to get over a 99% charge. This is minor and I don't know if the % matters, but the time to charge is way to long.
Just my thoughts.
1 - I'm amazed how often I lose network connections. To this point I'm not sure if the $60 plan is worth it. I can't imagine being able to use more than 1gb of data since in most cases I can't connect to 4g. This is while I'm driving. When I'm at the office or at home, i can always use wifi.
2. People have complained that the power button is too small. I do not have a problem with this.
3. I do not like that the volume buttons are on the left. Every other phone I have ever owned they have been on the right.
4. My wife has the Esteem, the connects screen is only .3" smaller, but when you are only talking about 4"s to begin with, this odes make a difference.
5. I have not had any reboot issues.
6. I still have to look through the settings, but when I am on a call and another call comes through, the screen does not turn on to let me see who is calling, I have to hit the power button to see who is trying to reach me.
7. The battery takes forever to charge and I have NEVER been able to get over a 99% charge. This is minor and I don't know if the % matters, but the time to charge is way to long.
Just my thoughts.
gendarme
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i had the same issue. I did find out that the metro "visual Voicemail" app is the cause of it, some bugs need to be work out with that program.
To solve it, just go to settings>Applications>Running services and just stop running "visual Voicemail" then reboot your phone.
I've experienced exactly what you have except for #6, and left-sided buttons are fine (for right-handed users who hold the phone to their right ear). There are many more issues in need of corrective action. Cannot believe the praise in this thread. The phone is a massive disappointment. It has many issues which should have been cured before release. Your #7 is right on. It takes over five hours of charging for one hour of use.
The best features are:
1. size and weight
2. fast surfing, if and when connected
3. the voice to text translation
4. voice quality and loud speakerphone. The music quality is very poor, but I've only tried Pandora.
After these points, it's all downhill. The power button should not have been flush to the surface, or if flush, it needs a palpable different surface so it can be more easily found.
I'll type up my list is issues and defects after other users give more input. I'm leaving now to compare this Connect to the iPhone.
alfick3
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I don't have this phone, but it's my understanding that Metro is the only company that has this phone, so anyone replying saying that they have the phone would have to be on Metro. At least, that's what I believe.
I was told by LG that Verizon has it under a different name, and LG said that it has much fewer problems.
Just compared the iPhone to the Connect. The iPhone won. They are close in size, but the iPhone:
• had a brighter screen and the whites were whiter
• better contrast
• smoother rotations when turning the phone
• on speech to text, the iPhone did proper punctuation and automatic capitalizations. The Connect did not, although the Connect had a slightly better accuracy.
• the Apple keyboard had a ".com" key on the keyboard when using a browser. My Connect does not have a .com key at all. Can anyone make the Connect keyboard have a .com key ??
• Siri was able to do many things by voice commands
• Better sound quality on the iPhone.
• After 20 minutes, my Connect battery gauge went down by 20%. The Apple battery gauge did not move at all
The above is in addition to all the problems I've found with the Connect.
Couple questions, the screen brightness, did you adjust the brightness settings on the Connect, because the NOVA display it has is one of the(if not the) brightest screens on the market, it is also the same type of IPS display that the iPhone has. The LG keyboard sucks, get the Gingerbread keyboard from the market, has better voice recognition and has a .com button when on the web. The battery life is going to be shorter than the iphone, that's the nature of LTE no real way around that unless you turn off 4G. IRIS on the market blows the over rated SIRI out of the water.
EDIT: Yes the iPhone display only has 500 nits of brightness, compared to the NOVA display which has over 800 nits of brightness so yes the NOVA display is in fact brighter.
Here's the Verizon LG phone which the Rep called better than the Connect.
CLICK HERE: Set Your Location
CLICK HERE: Set Your Location
No, unfortunately the connect is not the same as the Spectrum, the Spectrum has a true HD display, the Connect is a much lower resolution and the processor speeds are not the same, the only other carrier that has the same phone as the Connect is Sprint and that's under the name of Viper I believe.
You mean Iris alpha ? Just downloaded it.
Geeeez. I asked what time will the sunset today ? It replied "It is 5:29 PM now". Now ? Silly answer.
Next question: "Show me a picture of the Moon." It replied: "Not now, maybe later," What ??????
Next question ? "Where is the closest Safeway Store ?" Iris replies: " The closest safeway store ? Where is it ?" Come on. Ridiculous.
If I have the correct Iris version, it is not impressive. Siri would have brought up a map with a colored trace and directions. And in the others cases given useful answers instead of answering my question with a useless question.
No, I forgot to play with the display settings. But the whites were whiter and blacks blacker on the iPhone, so turning up brightness on the Connect won't make the blacks blacker. I'll go back tomorrow and play with screen settings on the Connect. In another post below I'll list here some other silly and GUI issues with this Connect phone. But I really enjoy the surfing speed on the Connect when it is connect-ed.
there are plenty of virtual assistants in the Market that's the plus of android over IOS, choice if an app don't work to your specification then there is bound to be one that does, try Skyvi I just tried it, it is pretty accurate for being in beta, don't forget to set your location when trying to find location specific things. there are also different "voices" you can download that sound human and not robot. Google's own voice search is pretty damn accurate as well, I have never had it not give me what i said on ANY android phone I have owned or used and I have had a lot.
is this your first android phone?
is this your first android phone?
Thank you for your help. This is my second Android. I've posted about the Esteem in this forum and the big time difficulties I had. Finally LG agreed with all the defects and came up with a major upgrade, but rumor is that it did not correct all the problems.
Just for fun, here are a few small gems to try on your Connect:
1. see if you can dictate a phone number in the TO field of a message
2. if you have contacts stored, try dictating that contact via the microphone and see if the TO field gets filled in. Even if there's a match, you'll get "No Matches Found".
3. now, once you have phone number in the TO field and you've made a message and the phone is in portrait view (tall upright), change the phone to landscape mode. BOOM. That green button turns grey as if it's not active. Turn it back to portrait and the SEND button goes back to green.
4. From the factory, LG has this language key two keys to the left of the spacebar. Easy to hit by mistake, and you'll get strange languages. Then it's four presses to get back to English. Okay, so you go to Prefs and restrict the KB to English so you only have one language. Fine. But that key stays there. It would have been better to eliminate that key completely if only one language is selected. That way the spacebar could be extended. Small point, but these phones should have come with both installed KB choices restricted to English
Here are some more complaints about this phone:
5. What is termed "screen timeout" is not a really a screen time-out. This is a
misnomer.
6. The signal strength can be strong and full, but the 4G network is often not
available. Even the 4G emblem disappears.
7. Even once connected to 4G the 4G network drops, with no up or down arrows.
8. The battery drained from 60% to 0% in about 70 minutes yet it was off, but not
powered-down
9. The battery gives me a dismal 50 - 52 minutes of on time after a full overnight
charge. It takes about four times as long to charge the phone as it does to drain the battery.
10. The microphone occasionally doesn't start despite having a strong signal.
11. "Connection problem" message when pressing the magnifying lens emblem.
12. That power button was made flush and smooth. LG should have added a small
projection so that the consumer can more easily locate it.
13. Unless the phone is swiped to unlock within 4.5 seconds of pressing the top
button, the phone shuts off and one must again hit the flush button. There
should be a user adjustable setting for this quick time out.
14. When dialing with the phone in the vertical (portrait) position, the screen fades so to end the call one has to tap twice on where the hang up button might be. The first tap makes it appear, the second one hangs up the phone. In the alternative, move the phone from vertical and look at it ahead of your face, then the screen comes back on and one tap will end the call. One should be able to end the call with just one tap in portrait mode. It seems that powering down then up might have stopped this behavior.
Would love to hear from you people on these points.
No problem here. Try this instead of opening up your messaging app, press and hold the search button and it will bring up voice search, if not select voice search(you shouldn't have to do that if you don't have any other voice apps on phone, it will launch itself.) now say clearly "send message to whoever is in your phone book) then a popup will come up and press the Mic to record your message I tried it a few times and got 100% success each time, now obviously if you don't talk clear(you don't have to talk like a robot) then any voice dictation will get screwed up.
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