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We're in Astoria finally. Here, Lincoln City, Newport and Coos Bay have fairly solid LTE. Otherwise from Bandon to here its somewhat of a crapshoot coverage wise still. Saw a little more Verizon roaming than before but never very usable even then and mostly 2G only. Saw US-C roaming (some LTE/some not) a few more times as well, but there are areas you'll find absolutely no coverage voice or otherwise along US 101 in Oregon unfortunately.

Hrm, for some reason the edit button is greyed out on my previous post - anyway, meant to state that I did see LTE roaming on US-C at times.

We're in Bandon tonight, after having started (coastwise) in Crescent City, CA. Thus far, the only places that have had good signal (particularly data) have been Brookings and Gold Beach. Bandon has 3G only and flaky at that (cuts in and out when its there, slow with latency when it exists. Otherwise between towns, its spotty roaming or no signal at all. As for Verizon roaming, haven't seen much of it at all- has been mostly US Cellular, with some more local carrier (Litchfield or something like that, didn't think to screen capture at the time). I'll post more later, our next overnight is Depoe Bay.

Guess I missed a boat somewhere - I've never even *heard* of 'milk music', and for that matter its probably one of the dumber app names I think I've heard, particularly from a contextual standpoint.

[Testmode: /on] Fried chicken is an evil concoction spawned from the dirty dregs of Scotland which should be banned on the entire face of the planet for all eternity, and anyone who dares eat it is a lousy sack of rotten camel dung. [Testmode: /off]

Looks like this thread has gone over a year without a post, but as the wife and I have a trip coming up out to Oregon (mostly the coast from border to border) next month, can anyone give any insight into current expectations of coverage? It looks like we'd be roaming a good bit off and on in between the more built up towns - who is the main roaming provider along the Oregon coast, and would there be any possibility of the roaming being through one of the partners and considered native (expecting not, but figured I'd ask)? Thanks in advance to anyone that can offer any insight.

My wife and I both have one now - thus far, nary a hiccup with either of us. Both rock solid, including through our vacation a month ago.

This post in a prior SVLTE thread should shed light for you as to what's going on there - the Note 3 was the last capable device with Sprint to be able to do what you're now missing: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/7435-questions-about-availability-of-svlte-on-sprints-network/&do=findComment&comment=469142

After reviewing all the launch options I went with one of the Urban Armor Gear cases - they come in a couple different colors and I love the styling: https://urbanarmorgear.com/collections/lg-g5-cases I chose the Magma case.

Yep, updated this morning on my way to work, can't remember what it detailed besides security updates, but the one noticeable change I've seen is a popup if you use a standard charger (the wording is that your phone is charging slow or something along those lines).

Added a little to the pot as well.

I'd have to have a separate app just for Exchange email with my current job regardless since I now work for a DoD related contractor. But I almost never use the default mail app on phones anyway - I use the last working copy of the original Outlook.com app for my Hotmail account (not to be confused with the new Outlook app which, last time I tried testing it still was abysmal by comparison), and Gmail for my Google account. I've had the Hotmail account for probably close to 20 years now so even though I eventually got a Gmail account, I have way too much history/investment in the former to have tried to fully migrate over to the latter.

The only minor complaint I might have thus far (and I read/knew about this going in beforehand from a review or three) is that you can't seem to adjust the brightness of the 'always on' screen. I know it *can* be brighter than default because every once in awhile I see it initiate at full brightness, but it always ends up dimmer than I might like. Can't say anything much about the LG UI because Nova Launcher went into play almost immediately after the very initial setup stages. Overall RF performance seems to be a fair bit better than the GS4T I came from, for me thus far.

Can you elaborate in detailed specifics on what exactly you're meaning here? Are you talking in terms of just speed testing, or actual ability to connect (and stay connected) consistently, or what?

Subjectivity of the reader taken into account, I just wanted to simply state that for my part, if I could 'like' a post 1000 times but could only do it once, this post would probably be my choice.

Same here, I don't have any noticeable gap or issues otherwise with my device, at least thus far. Maybe ever so slightly on the light bleed but only because of curiosity based on people actually testing such a thing. If I hadn't ever read someone actually testing that, it would have never even been a thought in my mind - no average user is going to have a usage scenario where they would ever have that brought to their attention in the first place. All this obsession over cosmetic minutia that mostly will be moot anyway once a case goes on the thing is absolutely hysterical to me. In the actual area of importance - performance - I love the G5 thus far.

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Did you do it via Sprint Zone or About Phone/Status? Reason I ask, I initiated my via Sprint Zone but it still showed 55051 as well in the app...but then when I double-checked via About Phone/Status is was showing updated.

So far, I see notable improvement at home compared to my Galaxy S4T (which wasn't considered an RF slouch) , especially when in the basement - not saying night/day difference, but I can get a stronger signal from the closest tower now where before I'd be barely hanging onto 1x/1x800. With LTE I generally am getting -110 to -113 where before it tended to be more in the -118 to -122 range.

I view that and the only word that comes to my mind is 'nitpicky', which even then to me is putting it mildly. Yeah, she may have gotten one with a few minor factory blemishes or something, and she's certainly within her right to replace if it bothers her that much - I don't see the same issues on mine. Even that being said, I'm surprised she didn't stick it under a microscope to analyze how much worse it could be for her: "See there? this part is .037 microns from being a perfectly flat surface. Just crappy LG, I'm disappointed in you!" I don't know who this chick is, but if she's aspiring to be a professional journalist she shouldn't quit her day job. Overall, a fairly crappy overview which was overkill on cosmetics and little to nothing on actual substance.

And to put the whole blown out of proportion 'plastic' ordeal to bed, this is an exchange between an LG Rep and the original video teardown guy:

Thought I'd test-quantify the charging rate today - I just plugged in at 46% and timed 10 minutes out and re-checked, and got 18% charge back. So roughly 1.8% recharge per minute. Note: this is with the stock cable and quick charge plug that comes with it. Also, you can tell when you're in quick charge mode 2 ways....for one, the pulldown notification is labeled as 'Fast-charging', and for another, the battery icon has an extra circle around the usual lightning bolt when in quick/fast charge mode.

Same here - I'm still impressed at how fast this thing gains charge compared to all other phones I've dealt with. I've still got a ways to go setting mine back up like I want, but I've been playing with it as I've been able to (side note: we have my wife's nieces/nephews for a sleepover with her kids tonight so it's not been solid). Even if it doesn't have a 3k+ battery and you didn't have a spare to switch out with, even 15-20 minutes at any AC outlet seems to give me a decent quick boost as I've had it plugged in off and on since early this afternoon.

This Phandroid article better explains what all the bruhaha is about: http://phandroid.com/2016/04/01/lg-g5-metal-plastic-questions/ I could see where if a shady LG salesman was on a streetcorner saying "Hey buddy, you won't see one ounce of anything but 100% pure gal-darn metal in this baby here - no other materials of any kind to be found anywhere!" where someone might be upset, but based on what I've read, the phone does have a metal unibody with other materials involved as well. The interview article with the lead designer I posted previously talked a little about the microdizing process - part of the point was to hide the antenna line. So far all that seems to be just an overblown misunderstanding to me, due to some people taking the simple phrase 'metal unibody' and interpreting it to mean the equivalent of '100% pure unadulterated adamantium - you should be able to line a jacket with these and make your own bulletproof vest!!' I don't quite understand this whole 'we want hard metal phones' fetish anyway personally, unless the point for some is they are wanting to come to a day where they can just have an impervious phone and no longer have to act like its sacrilege to not buy a case for it - because be honest, that's what almost everyone nowadays does anyway. As far as being waterproof, I don't see that as any huge deal - they never claimed it would be in the first place for one thing, and for another, while it's nice I suppose on the few phones that actually do that (Samsung mainly) in the off chance you were to mistakenly drop your phone in a toilet or the like, its not remotely a make-or-break feature. Anything can always potentially happen to anyone, but I've yet to do such a thing myself, and in the off chance if I do, hey, life happens sometimes, and I'll suck it up and deal with it.