So any potential issues with the chin gap? - LG G5 Questions & Answers

OK so far my g5 has been pretty decent...I do have some light bleed but not a lot...I do however have a decent bit of chin gap...I have a case on it which helps to sorta keep it flush but there's still enough of a hairline gap that I can stick like paper and like say a fingernail thru...so my question is what is the potential of issues with that gap? I'm concerned that like if I have the phone out say for a few moments in the rain or something that liquid can get in there...I already can see some dust build up (I work in a dusty type place) like I said the phones been pretty solid so I don't want to trade it in and maybe get a worse device...I was thinking of maybe getting a very thin piece of rubber or foam and putting it there to help kinda seal the gap...or should I just exchange it if they let me?
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I got one on mine, too. Only mine is near the chin lock, the other side is pretty sealed tight so yea it's rather uneven although not by a long shot (I can see light coming through that gap).
So is your chin gap even? how did it go?

Only a bit of the left side got gap about 1cm long or less on mine not really visible and not annoying but some users got bigger problem on this!

leonman44 said:
Only a bit of the left side got gap about 1cm long or less on mine not really visible and not annoying but some users got bigger problem on this!
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You can sometimes see light get through it too? Anyways thanks for sharing, I guess we'll just have to live with it.

Yeah i put it on the window and i could see the light only there but i guess its a tiny gap but also if i look it from the side i can see that it is a bit more levered than my phone is about +0.5mm. I knew that this phone wouldn't have super quality but it is still the best i could find on this budget!

I have an even chin gap on both sides. If I push the bottom up it disappears but as soon as I let go it returns. It doesn't bother me, I've had this phone in a case since day 1 so I've never noticed it until I read this thread and checked.
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Thanks to the chin gap I have dust between the camera window and the camera lens.

There are definitely issues with the chin gap as torax242 said
Thankfully I have arrived to save the day! If you follow these simple steps I will detail below, I can guarantee the chin gap will bother you no more...
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PHYCLOPSH said:
There are definitely issues with the chin gap as torax242 said
Thankfully I have arrived to save the day! If you follow these simple steps I will detail below, I can guarantee the chin gap will bother you no more...
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ROTFL how will it be happy if it's gonna be forever alone? I mean that way sure it won't be able to befriends any LG friends :laugh:

marveloz said:
ROTFL how will it be happy if it's gonna be forever alone? I mean that way sure it won't be able to befriends any LG friends :laugh:
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Until G5 realizes those friends weren't it's real friends anyway...
The best friends are the BT-compatible ones!

torax242 said:
Thanks to the chin gap I have dust between the camera window and the camera lens.
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Pretty sure this isn't due to the gap, I have dust in my G5 and no dust in camera lens dept which should be sealed anyway.

I had dust on the camera. I opened the phone in half, sprayed some air and all is good now. It's really a non issue for me.

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How to convert camera into a flash camera?

On the G1 you get no flash so how can you add or convert or accessories for getting flash?
use a torch.
mod your phone so that it will fit an led> solder the led connections to the power source of the g1> rewrite camera code to whenevr u push the camera button the light will come on.
IDK if this is possible but i am sure it is
I did some very intense research, and here is what I came up with.
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I did some very intense research, and here is what I came up with.
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I nearly soiled myself when I saw this post.....
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I did some very intense research, and here is what I came up with.
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lmao! now that is funny!
LOL that's hawt.
how much does a mod like that cost?!!!
i think i peed a little.
kvizz said:
LOL that's hawt.
how much does a mod like that cost?!!!
i think i peed a little.
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well considering that the new camera mod is nikon brand...hmmm i say it be in the hundreds =X
seriously guys.... guys, SERIOUSLY...
BIG
ASS
CLOCK
rofl.
i think it says
BIG
ASS
CHAIN
dawg.​
http://www.cmt.com/videos/shows/cmt-music-awards-2009/401599/thug-story.jhtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umu1eYa_1MA&feature=related
joke all you want but it was done ages ago....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umu1eYa_1MA&feature=related
joke all you want but it was done ages ago....
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Well, there is our proof of concept... now who wants to be the first to crack open their phone?
SolemnWishing said:
I did some very intense research, and here is what I came up with.
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when this hit the store,its just what i been looking for wow..lol
SolemnWishing said:
I did some very intense research, and here is what I came up with.
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LOL this made my day, love the "very intense research part". But back to the point it is definitely possible but do you want to go trough the hassle of doing it?
Freedomcaller said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umu1eYa_1MA&feature=related
joke all you want but it was done ages ago....
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Interestingly enough, I looked into that. The "rear flash pack" the guy is talking about doesnt exist. The static image at the beginning of the phone with the back off is PHOTOSHOPPED to show an LCD on there. Yay, he touched an app on the screen that "turned on the lcd"! I could disassemble an lcd flashlight and tape the contact point, battery and lcd to the back of my phone and duplicate this video. I could even put an icon on my desktop to press too, just to make it look nifty! Notice how nowhere in the video does he show the back of the phone ON video in good light.
Oh, and very interesting that people have been asking the guy for the link for his "rear flash pack" for almost a year and hes given 0 responses.
Theres no proof of concept there. You know how ridiculous a mod like that would be? Not only would you have to have the knowledge of the circuitboards to solder the lcd leads on, but you would also have to know android well enough to know how to activate those specific contact points. Hell, we cant even figure out how to crack the rogers coding yet, what makes you think that someone out there figured all this out?
EDIT: Heres proof:
This is the "picture" from said video.
Increase the image to biggest size and notice the following:
-The LCD holes arent round.
-The LCD holes are PIXELATED
-The LCD holes are drilled right through a flimsy metal clip under the battery door. Look at it on YOUR phone and tell me how thats possible without the clip breaking into pieces and falling off.
-the rim of the LCD holes has obviously had the burn tool in photoshop applied to it (notice how its darker around the edges than any other part of the phone.
Oh, and the coup de grace: THE PICTURE IS AN UNBOXING PHOTO FROM THE PHONE'S RELEASE LAST SEPTEMBER. You can see the G1 box and all of the box contents on the floor right under the phone!
Well.. that brings us back to square one, ill bust out my nikon as soon as I get my phone up and running again, ran into some minor (i mean major) technical difficulties.
kusotare said:
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EDIT: Heres proof:
This is the "picture" from said video.
Increase the image to biggest size and notice the following:
-The LCD holes arent round.
-The LCD holes are PIXELATED
-The LCD holes are drilled right through a flimsy metal clip under the battery door. Look at it on YOUR phone and tell me how thats possible without the clip breaking into pieces and falling off.
-the rim of the LCD holes has obviously had the burn tool in photoshop applied to it (notice how its darker around the edges than any other part of the phone.
Oh, and the coup de grace: THE PICTURE IS AN UNBOXING PHOTO FROM THE PHONE'S RELEASE LAST SEPTEMBER. You can see the G1 box and all of the box contents on the floor right under the phone!
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I think the "flimsy metal clip" is the G1's phone antenna, lol NOT something you'd want to damage
Actual Solution-Kinda!
Try this!
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Try this!
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Or this!
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Hmm... a stick on led flashlight or a blinking led flashlight decisions decisions.

Xperia s drop resistant?

Hi,
Just making a random thread, when I get a phone I always get a case because I'm afraid the drop proofibility(I know its not a word) is not up to scratch(pun unintended).However I'm waiting on sony's official white case. Just wondering, how drop resistant is the Xperia S. Not telling anyone to drop their Xperia S to find out.
Please share your experiences
I'll put it this way, I dropped it by accident and I've a big scuff and dent on the top right at the back of the phone.
I keep looking at it, with sadness.
I havnt dropped mine but if I did and it smashed it would not suprise me, feels very heavy/fragile!
WasherUK said:
I havnt dropped mine but if I did and it smashed it would not suprise me, feels very heavy/fragile!
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Heavy? Really? IMO its a really light phone. Feels the same weight as my x10 but its way bigger. It surprised me when I opened the box and took it out.
Having dropped my x10 upwards of 4 times, never having a case I'm kinda confident in Sony's manufacturing. Thing is nicked slightly, few marks on the screen protector but if I replaced that you'd take a second to realise it wasnt new out of the box.
That said, I have a nilkin on the way and I'm going to be Uber cautious until it arrives.
Static-Noise said:
I'll put it this way, I dropped it by accident and I've a big scuff and dent on the top right at the back of the phone.
I keep looking at it, with sadness.
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Same I have a few scuffs and bruises on mine, I can see my £50 phone excess being used and it taking an irrepairable drop some time soon. My white case is on it's way.
Sharing what a fellow Singaporean reported when he dropped his phone:
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Two days ago I dropped mine from about 1,5 meters onto asphalt (display down) causing only two tiny scratches on the screen! The phone still works as before. Incredible!
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Sharing what a fellow Singaporean reported when he dropped his phone:
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It really depends on how it drops. Though being a phone with sharp corners definitely has the downside of being less drop resistant, as seen that poor phone above that looks like it had it's skull cracked open
It's partly why a lot of phones you see have rounded corners, as they are more adept at distributing impact forces to the sides.
Too bad I'm in love with the rectangular design, so I'll have to be more careful!
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No phone is drop resistant unless you have one of the old nokia phones. Those are wall resistant as well.
I thought they would make phones a little more drop resistant by now. On my old Samsung galaxy s, the gorilla glass does shatter, but I swear they could they could fix that by having very ever so small protruding edges to stop the glass contacting the ground, that way i don't need a case, that was with the old galaxy s but i guess this xperia s, the plastic and the glass are both vunerable
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Heavy? Really? IMO its a really light phone. Feels the same weight as my x10 but its way bigger. It surprised me when I opened the box and took it out.
Having dropped my x10 upwards of 4 times, never having a case I'm kinda confident in Sony's manufacturing. Thing is nicked slightly, few marks on the screen protector but if I replaced that you'd take a second to realise it wasnt new out of the box.
That said, I have a nilkin on the way and I'm going to be Uber cautious until it arrives.
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Its certainly heavy enough to hurt itself when dropped.
i dropped mine on the toilet floor in an airport and the top right hand corner got grazed and had a small hair line crack
...i ordered a case before this incident and the case came the day after the phone got damaged
oh well now im trying to get it replaced under warranty

[Q] What material is the side panels made of?

I am confused with what material the sides are made of. At SONY's homepage for the Z Ultra they claim it's made of "solid metal" and glass on the front and the back.
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But in every video review, online magazine I've seen so far the majority say the sides are made of plastic, polycarbonate plastic, matte finish plastic and what else they can come up with.
If you own this device, can you feel/tell what the side panels are made of?
Sides are made of metal. I do not know whether it is aluinium or some other kind of alloy...
I have doubts about the top and bottom parts of the frame though.
They look the same compared to the sides, but feels ever so slightly different when you compare consciously.
The difference is more apparent when your hone has been sitting under A/C. Sides get super cool, as u would expect metallic objects to do. But the top and bottom frame doesn't get as cold.
jewelkobayashi said:
Sides are made of metal. I do not know whether it is aluinium or some other kind of alloy...
I have doubts about the top and bottom parts of the frame though.
They look the same compared to the sides, but feels ever so slightly different when you compare consciously.
The difference is more apparent when your hone has been sitting under A/C. Sides get super cool, as u would expect metallic objects to do. But the top and bottom frame doesn't get as cold.
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Thank you, that's a relief :good:, I want a phone with actual metal bezel after having the plasticy SGS2 and One x. I miss this premium feeling from the iphone and Blackberry 9900. Im gonna ask the seller at my local store to put a black LTE version away for me when they get them in order in about 2 week(ish).
Perhaps the antennas is located at the bottom and top?.. anyways I found a pic at the internals, perhaps not much to help.
I dropped mine and hit the top right corner and it was plastic looks like alloy and the color is the same so there is no scratch just looks smushed
Top and bottom pieces is plastic, side ones is metal
it's a metal
Check this out for all answers
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2013/07...rs-on-the-worlds-slimmest-full-hd-smartphone/
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twin snakes said:
Top and bottom pieces is plastic, side ones is metal
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pandurang_m said:
Check this out for all answers
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2013/07...rs-on-the-worlds-slimmest-full-hd-smartphone/
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Yup:
Xperia Z Ultra was designed to appear as a “slate.” In order to achieve this effect, we used aluminum on the sides of the phone and glass on the front (including the LCD) as well as the back. These aluminum side plates increased the phone’s sturdiness and allowed us to achieve a comfortable width and premium, slim design. The phone is only 6.5 mm thick and 92mm wide, practically the same size as a passport.
I'm not happy after seeing the internals... there's a big ass room for a flash bulb in there!!
Why oh why Sony?????
But meh... i' still gonna buy it once the LTE version gets released..

sapphire lens... but it cracked :(

I dont know how but i never dropped my phone. Butthe lens on my camera cracked. How the hell? They marketed it as sapphire. Why?
yonba said:
I dont know how but i never dropped my phone. Butthe lens on my camera cracked. How the hell? They marketed it as sapphire. Why?
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Its a glass, not bullet proof glass.. Thank god you didn't crack the front glass..
Jishnu Sur™ said:
Its a glass, not bullet proof glass.. Thank god you didn't crack the front glass..
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But im careful with my things. I never dropped this. Hell my nokia phone c2-00 dual sim fell 6ft to the hard marble floor but it is still fine...
look what I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46252774
so sapphire isnt that good at all, yes?
one possible reason probably is that i am always fingering the volume up button. im using the international version btw where the lens an dthe button is flat and too close to each other. this is a flaw to the design. but it's sapphire it shouldnt crack like that.
It magically cracked :-\ that's what they all say.
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shook187 said:
It magically cracked :-\ that's what they all say.
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the point is, for a high end phone with camera lens that cracks on a normal day to day use is not good LG should look into this. If it is heat related, then definitely they should all recall the unit and replace the international version with the Verizon's version. My nokia is still alive after 10+ landings on hard floor.
Well of course it can brake. Everything brakes. The main point of sapphire on lens glass as I believe is that it is very scratch resistant.
yonba said:
the point is, for a high end phone with camera lens that cracks on a normal day to day use is not good LG should look into this. If it is heat related, then definitely they should all recall the unit and replace the international version with the Verizon's version. My nokia is still alive after 10+ landings on hard floor.
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One case out of thousands and thousands will not cause a company to look into anything. It might have just had a defect.
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GG
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Impact break. Left side.
And this crack is from a normal day to day use?...
Not in my opinion. That is definitely not a flaw or internal pressure break. Something hit it, pressed very hard on that one area, or focused pressure on that area.
Its always in my pocket. Probably twisted because sometime when i talk the nillkin case off it sounded like its gonna snap. Lg support in ph wont cover it though. I guess im gonna pay to have the glass replaced. But i can live with this becausd image wuality is not aggected. It just looks ugly.
They are right for not covering it. It is visually end user fault. Can't be to expensive to get it replaced.

Buffing out the fine scratches

Hey all
So I followed this guide here on a heavily discounted LG V30:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821129
First I started with a phone that had WAY deeper scratches than I wanted.
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https://imgur.com/1jE8isc
I swore expletives because the eBay auction didn't show any scratches, but I figured I could probably fix this myself. I first started with 600 grit sandpaper.
https://imgur.com/ZiVgatj
Got it to a nice matte finish. Then I did 800, and finally 1500.
https://imgur.com/LaTPHpC
It actually didn't look too bad. So finally I took the polishing wheel to it and some cerium oxide, just like that guide mentioned.
https://imgur.com/gMKE58M
Now this takes a really long time. And actually, I'm not thrilled with how it came out. There's some VERY FINE scratches that interfere with the picture. So I'm really looking for a way to buff out very fine scratches on gorilla glass.
I tested all of this earlier on a nexus 5x because it was dead, and I couldn't even cut the screen with a razor. I have no idea how this phone had scratches, but I had to take a dremel to the thing to even emulate a scratch.
Edit: I'm not sure why my images aren't showing up
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Hey all
So I followed this guide here on a heavily discounted LG V30:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821129
First I started with a phone that had WAY deeper scratches than I wanted.
https://imgur.com/1jE8isc
I swore expletives because the eBay auction didn't show any scratches, but I figured I could probably fix this myself. I first started with 600 grit sandpaper.
https://imgur.com/ZiVgatj
Got it to a nice matte finish. Then I did 800, and finally 1500.
https://imgur.com/LaTPHpC
It actually didn't look too bad. So finally I took the polishing wheel to it and some cerium oxide, just like that guide mentioned.
https://imgur.com/gMKE58M
Now this takes a really long time. And actually, I'm not thrilled with how it came out. There's some VERY FINE scratches that interfere with the picture. So I'm really looking for a way to buff out very fine scratches on gorilla glass.
I tested all of this earlier on a nexus 5x because it was dead, and I couldn't even cut the screen with a razor. I have no idea how this phone had scratches, but I had to take a dremel to the thing to even emulate a scratch.
Edit: I'm not sure why my images aren't showing up
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I see the images when I click on the links.
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I see the images when I click on the links.
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Oh, weird. I can't see them.
Either way, I figured out the issue and why this should never be attempted. We have an oleophobic coating on our screens that repel grease from your fingerprints. In buffing out scratches, you wipe away this coating.
Also, I need something more fine than Cerium Oxide to buff out scratches like this. There's a reason all the scratch guides are from 2010 and earlier. It doesn't work well on newer phones.
Oh well, back on eBay
Edit: I guess all the money I waste on eBay is not a waste because I'm learning things. Yeah! That's what I'm going to tell myself
TPMJB said:
Oh well, back on eBay
Edit: I guess all the money I waste on eBay is not a waste because I'm learning things. Yeah! That's what I'm going to tell myself
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Expensive lesson! Thanks for sharing that.
grob971 said:
Expensive lesson! Thanks for sharing that.
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I've...had two with this phone. First, while I was still on the Axon7, I bought a phone for 120 with a crack in it. "I'll just replace the lens over the screen" I thought. I demolished the damned phone trying to get the back off it.
My hands were only meant for destruction, it seems.
To be fair, the Axon7 was great replacing the screen. Two grills needed to come off with a heat gun and I was inside the phone. This phone is a goddamned nightmare to get apart.
Anyway, people more skilled than I generally buy the phones off me, so I lose ~$30-50. Nothing I'm gonna lose sleep over.

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