LG G2 vs Nexus 5 (which one will I keep?) - G2 General

Hey guys! I got myself a great deal on a Nexus 5 recently and I thought it would be fun to see which one I will end up keeping as I have really loved my G2 for over 2 months now. If you guys want to ask me any questions related to either phone feel free to do so! I would love to make specific comparisons for you guys on request. I am new here and I really enjoy this community!

Thanks OP but no comparing type threads, and if Members like the LG-G2 good and if not so be it....
It is all up to the Individual Member. Thread Closed

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So Long

Well this is it for me and the Rezound guys. I just bought a used Galaxy Nexus off Swappa. I needed something more stable that has official Jelly Bean support and this was my only answer. I plan to leave Verizon in May when my contract is finally up and switch to T-Mo like all the cool kids are doing these days. It's been a hell of a ride with this device and I have never regretted it since the day I bought the Rez I knew it was a better device, but its quirks and its growing instability with JB has made it a tough move for me. I am beyond impressed with the community here (I've been over to the Galaxy forums and man are they all over the place). However I will deal with that for now. I want to thank every single dev that ever did any work on this phone it has made the experience much more incredible than I though it would have been. To the community thanks again this has been my home for almost two years daily checking roms, reading posts and interacting with you guys has been great and I thank you all for that as well. I guess I will see what I missed on the Nexus front and what I didn't as well. Sincerely guys thanks and to all the devs still here keep up your work I may not be using it from here on but so many of us have counted on you guys to bring a real up to date experience for the REZ. Take care REZ community.:good:

Thanks to the Developers

I'm switching to sprint next week and I'm getting the nexus 5, I just wanted to thank our amazing developers for all their hard work keeping our phone updated, I really appreciate all of you guys, hopefully some of u will get the nexus 5
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Thanks to all devs and ppls who helped making Rezound so good
i'm also leaving just got LG GPro
but still gonna have rezound as second phone
Proz00 said:
Thanks to all the devs and ppls helped making Rezound so good
i'm also leaving just got LG GPro
but still gonna have rezound as second phone
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ill have my rezound as a dev phone till it crumples up and dies....but i plan on getting the One very shortly
I might be jumping ship to the One as well...I've been trying to talk myself into it for a few months but it seems like the universe is pushing for me to get it. I just got an invite to elevate yesterday.. later that night I was just switching to a different extended battery (I like to cycle through different ones to keep them happy) and poof reboot every 3 min. It happened all day today too. I finally got it to stop after uninstalling some recent apps and doing my magical "Rezound please don't reboot" dance/prayer/ritual.
I love my Rezound when it's working properly (I think I'm on my 7th), but I'm starting to see it as a warm heavy brick in my pants.
Sorry, I had some venting to do that no one I know in real life would understand. No tech savvy friends, I hear the occasional "Why don't you have an iPhone?" from them.
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I also want to thank all of the devs. Great job keeping it up to date. I switched to the Note 3 recently and it's badass. I was stuck between the One, G2 and the Note 3 but I definitely made the right choice. The One looks awesome but I love how big and powerful the Note 3 is. All my previous phones have been HTC but I think Samsung definitely won me over. It's been a pleasure my friends. Hope to see you guys around again. Snuzzo, Fly, Neo..you guys are awesome!
I would like to send my appreciation as well... I am on the verge of getting the HTC One. My phone has been freezing up recently and its not a software related crash, so I'm afraid I went in the Verizon store and was awe struck at the One... although I don't like the lack of a changeable battery or SD card, but damn its a nice phone. I was sold and am very close to buying one.
This would be the first time I haven't changed phones out of anger at my old phone. The Rezound really has impressive specs and impressive devs who build for it...this is the reason I have extended my usage on the Rezound for nearly a year now. Its too bad the Rezound wasn't better known. Its still generally fast and still has a great screen, I would dare say the best of its time.
I hope to see some Rezound devs on the One in the future. I know more than one has mentioned the plan to move on to the One.
It will be a somber bitter sweet day for me as i love my Rezound but I'm needing to move on if I keep having this issue.
I would also like to say a big thank you to our devs here. It's been a generally awesome device to own because of them. Specifically Neo for the numerous amazing ROMs he's given us, Snuzzo and IHateWebOS for their awesome kernels, Flyhalf for maintaining TWRP and, of course, Chad for being our AOSP savior! shrike1978 also gets a big thanks for the writeup on how to build CM. Without that I guarantee I never would have compiled a ROM myself.
The guys working hard in the AOSP Dev thread to get us a stable 4.4 ROM also get a shout out.
The unlimited.io guys also get a MASSIVE thanks for their S-OFF tool Juopunutbear. The process was just badass lol. Never would've thought when I got the phone and saw those pins that they would be so important down the road. I think that's kind of what made owning this device awesome as well; the fact that you had to put in some effort to get S-OFF made it feel more like an accomplishment, like you've earned it. With the Nexus 5 (the device I'll be switching to when it finally decides to ship/arrive) it'll just be as simple as "fastboot oem unlock" and it's fully unlocked. There's no sense of achievement or anything doing that! Lol I'm definitely not saying I wish it was harder or anything, just that it won't be the same.
I would also like to thank the community for always supporting and being polite to our developers, as well as always being willing to help one another. I think the fact that we have one thread with over 500 posts in it with people just helping each other speaks for how awesome you guys are.
It's been a long road for us Rezound owners, and it makes me a bit sad to think about moving on to a different device, with a different community. I can only hope that the Nexus 5 community will be half as good as this one.
Hope to see you guys over there with me.
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While I did just jump to an LG G2, I won't be going anywhere anytime soon. I've invested way too much time and effort on this phone to walk away from it. Not to mention the Mrs. has a rezound and the G2 is an officially supported device, so there's really no challenge to it.
The good news is now I have a dev phone, so I don't have to worry about getting it back to a working state when I'm working on it.
Well I did it. I got the One. I had to pay full retail price for it otherwise I cant keep my unlimited data... and considering that I've used 11Gb so far, that was not an option.
I am impressed with it as I was impressed with the Rezound when I got it.
This community has been amazing. This was the first phone I ever flashed anything too. Considering now the Rezound is a spare/play phone, maybe I will try some developing for it. I know I wont be able to match the great devs here, but I figured I could try my hand at it. Especially now this is not my main phone I need to rely on.
So once again a big thanks for the additional life that some great people have given to the Rezound. A truly great place to be. Now I just need to try to get my Paypal back so I can show some appreciation monetarily to some people.

Leaving the Rezound

hey all,
Its actually a sad day for me. My rezound finally totally kicked the bucket and i no long have a deving device. So after some thought, i desided that I will no longer be doing deveolopment for the Rezound. Its been a fun ride while it lasted, but with family, work, and other things going on, my time has been spread very thin. I hope you all continue to enjoy the rezzy and i hope ill run into some of the rezound community on another part of the forums.
If anyone is wondering, I went with the LG G2 and if i ever find some time again to dev, it will be for that device
Thanks everyone for your support, and contributions that made developing the rezound so much fun. Also thanks to all the other dev that help me get started with ROM development
It's sad to see you go. I loved your ROMs very much and I hope you provide your awesome skills to the G2 community. You did very well here and you deserve to rest; Many thanks for everything!
clmowers said:
hey all,
Its actually a sad day for me. My rezound finally totally kicked the bucket and i no long have a deving device. So after some thought, i desided that I will no longer be doing deveolopment for the Rezound. Its been a fun ride while it lasted, but with family, work, and other things going on, my time has been spread very thin. I hope you all continue to enjoy the rezzy and i hope ill run into some of the rezound community on another part of the forums.
If anyone is wondering, I went with the LG G2 and if i ever find some time again to dev, it will be for that device
Thanks everyone for your support, and contributions that made developing the rezound so much fun. Also thanks to all the other dev that help me get started with ROM development
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Thanks for all your work on the Rezound... Welcome to the G2 community, it is a fantastic device, I know you'll love it.
Thanks, I love the phone already, so adding a "family" to it will just make it that much better lol
acejavelin said:
Thanks for all your work on the Rezound... Welcome to the G2 community, it is a fantastic device, I know you'll love it.
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After 2 years I retired my Rezound and purchased a Galaxy S4. I was also able to keep my unlimited data which the possible loss of made me keep the Rezound longer than I wanted to. I started to wait for the Galaxy S5 but I got such a good deal on the S4, which was free at BB after 50.00 gift card I took advantage. The few upgrades in the S5 were not worth spending a couple hundred dollars more.
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Retired my Rezound and on the G2 now. This thing is a beast.
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The time has come for me as well. My dad wanted to preorder the S5 and Verizon was offering a second phone for free. I was going to try to wait for the G3 but went with the One (M8) now because... free.
My fiance doesn't have a smartphone so she'll be moving to my Rezound. Maybe I'll take her upgrade once the LG comes out.
Same. Just got a nexus 4. It's been real.
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Don't miss the device but miss seeing the quirky posts daily from you guys. Since moving to the g2 this turned from hobby to time burner for me.
Retired my Rezound for a shiny new Nexus 5. Also told VZW adios and am using AIO Wireless.
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Sad goodbye.
I to will be leaving the trusty Rezound behind tomorrow. I had many roms I liked but the two that stand out the most was Neos Tachyon and Liquidsmooth 2.37. I want to thank everyone for thier hard work, you helped me take steps into the world of Custom Roms. Ive since then Moded a Razor Maxx, a Galaxy S3 and my Transformer TF700T. My wife and I get to trade in for the new Galaxy S5 tomorrow. So with a sad heart I say goodbye and good luck my friends.
May the force be with you. Always.
bye bye rezze
i had a great time for with this phone it was my first high end phone bought it in august of 2013 wehn it was no longer in ts prime but i loved it in all areas except battery thank you to neo suzzo and sun dream for the hard work u guys did to make me enjoy the beauty of htc went tor the GPRO because i saw in neo sig thats the other phone he has never heard about before that so even in leaving i got hrlp from him i left because i rez died in my pocket with no warning againg thank you all for the great help looking to see you all in the furture
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clmowers said:
hey all,
Its actually a sad day for me. My rezound finally totally kicked the bucket and i no long have a deving device. So after some thought, i desided that I will no longer be doing deveolopment for the Rezound. Its been a fun ride while it lasted, but with family, work, and other things going on, my time has been spread very thin. I hope you all continue to enjoy the rezzy and i hope ill run into some of the rezound community on another part of the forums.
If anyone is wondering, I went with the LG G2 and if i ever find some time again to dev, it will be for that device
Thanks everyone for your support, and contributions that made developing the rezound so much fun. Also thanks to all the other dev that help me get started with ROM development
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How do you like the G2? I love the front with the beautiful screen and tiny bezels...just wasn't sure how I felt about the buttons on the back...
shenaenae said:
How do you like the G2? I love the front with the beautiful screen and tiny bezels...just wasn't sure how I felt about the buttons on the back...
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Every phone should have buttons on the back... Why manufacturers didn't implement this before is beyond me, once you have it a while you will see how natural it feels to have them there. Plus with knock on/off you only use volume buttons, I rarely ever even touch the power button.
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shenaenae said:
How do you like the G2? I love the front with the beautiful screen and tiny bezels...just wasn't sure how I felt about the buttons on the back...
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Hey, its takes a little getting use to, but overall i love it. I notice for the most part i dont use the buttons on the back. It has the knock on and knock off feature which is implemented really nice. so 95% if the time i use that. The only time i really use the buttons, is when i need to adjust the volumes. Other then that, the phone has been rock solid, fast, great battery life. My only complaint is the speakers are not the best and not super loud, the rezzy smokes it any day, but overall, the best phone ive had in a long time, including the rezzy.
Eddie Hicks said:
After 2 years I retired my Rezound and purchased a Galaxy S4. I was also able to keep my unlimited data which the possible loss of made me keep the Rezound longer than I wanted to. I started to wait for the Galaxy S5 but I got such a good deal on the S4, which was free at BB after 50.00 gift card I took advantage. The few upgrades in the S5 were not worth spending a couple hundred dollars more.
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You know, i was real disappointed when the finally released the specs on the s5. Made some small improvement, but not enough to justify the wait or the extra money. Personally I tell people to go with the s4 unless the s5 has a feature that the must have.
Sold my last Rezound yesterday... was a mixed bag of feelings, I loved working with it, everything I learned over the years, and the community, yet I really love my new devices.
acejavelin said:
Sold my last Rezound yesterday... was a mixed bag of feelings, I loved working with it, everything I learned over the years, and the community, yet I really love my new devices.
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What device did you get again? Not sure what I'll be doing. We may jump ship. I can't afford VZW anymore. We have 4 lines on the old 1400 minute plan each of us with $30 data and we're up to nearly $300/month. If we switch to Share Everything, it would be even more. But if we don't, trying to decide between the G2 and the One Max. Why are we such slaves to technology?
azbeerhugger said:
What device did you get again? Not sure what I'll be doing. We may jump ship. I can't afford VZW anymore. We have 4 lines on the old 1400 minute plan each of us with $30 data and we're up to nearly $300/month. If we switch to Share Everything, it would be even more. But if we don't, trying to decide between the G2 and the One Max. Why are we such slaves to technology?
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My personal phone is a Nexus 4 on Aio Wireless, works great and I save a ton of money every month. If I had to get a phone today it would be the Moto G, my son has one and the battery life is ridiculous, 7 hours screen on time for web browsing and basic use and it out performs the Rezound in all aspects except camera.
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acejavelin said:
My personal phone is a Nexus 4 on Aio Wireless, works great and I save a ton of money every month. If I had to get a phone today it would be the Moto G, my son has one and the battery life is ridiculous, 7 hours screen on time for web browsing and basic use and it out performs the Rezound in all aspects except camera.
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Looks like the Moto G is 3G only. I'm considering the Nexus 5 if we go to T-Mobile. Also considering AIO as well. If we can't finance our phones with T-Mobile, then there no reason not to go with an MVNO, right?

Moved on to bigger and better things

I thank all of the developer's that worked on our S5 and I really appreciate all your hard work. I hope all works out for this device. I personally wasn't happy at all with it and couldn't wait to get my upgrade. Well it happened today and I'm a proud owner of the Nexus 6 and love it. I might need to get use to the overall size but as far as functions and build quality can't beat it that's my opinion. On that note peace and love folks. And Android onnn
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Time to change the avatar lol
Thank god. I'm tired of reading comments by you *****ing about problems no one else has had.
What a lame ass thread. No one cares that you don't kno how to operate an S5 and bought a new phone. Just STFU and move on in silence.
ShinySide said:
Thank god. I'm tired of reading comments by you *****ing about problems no one else has had.
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(Know one else has) learn how to write moron. And as far as complaining/ *****ing about problems that I had that's funny seems to me a lot of people had the exact problems that i had. That device is pure garbage so get over it and enjoy your piece of junk. Good day
coldhardtruth said:
What a lame ass thread. No one cares that you don't kno how to operate an S5 and bought a new phone. Just STFU and move on in silence.
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Believe me son, I know way more about these devices than you'll ever know. Can't help the (fact!) That the S5 has multiple issues and (I) was unhappy with it, as a huge amount of others with any common sense where too. Ones that know about quality of build and performance. Good day��
@ShinySide you can stick it where the ShinySide don't shine pal... Have a great day @ShinySide
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Hello OnePlus 2 :)

Hi all, today i got an email from OnePlus saying "You're Invited". I just checked my mail twice to believe that and it was there. Now after almost 4 years of extensive use of my HTC Senny its time to say goodbye (I'm surely gonna miss it), I ordered a OnePlus 2 today from amazon.in . I was never a stock andorid fan (I'm a Sense freak), but the specifications and price of OPT blew my mind. I would be posting my review of OPT once i get my hands on it. Hoping for a kickas* development for OPT (XDA never disappoints).
Congrats!
Thanks for the info! But thread closed now. :good:
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