Is there bootloop problem in LG 5 - LG G5 Questions & Answers

I just got rid of my samsung s6 edge plus due to its very poor battery life. Having used samsung for long I have finally decided to not buy Samsung now given its poor battery management. I am keenly interested in LG G5 but I have heard of the LG boot loop issue. Was about to get V 10 but a friend stopped me saying it had boot loop issue.
Can anyone advise if the G5 has bootloop issue. Also how does it compare with HTC 10
Thanks guys

no issues so far here and none that I am aware of
I am a proud owner of a G5 for about 2 months and I installed TWRP, rooted, reflashed stock firmware with LGUP, installed custom ROM and must say I did not encounter any issues at all
some minor tweaks here and there to the system like manual edit of some system files but that is all I did

Thanks, I am still deciding between HTC 10 and LG G 5. Will be picking one up this weekend hopefully.

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Request for Help - LG E970 AT&T version

Dear All,
I am a new user to these type of forums, a big hii to all.
Now i will explain my issue of LG E970 phone.As it is a US (AT&T)version i am not getting proper service support in india. After one week of use i tried to make the font change with installed software in it which was dowloaded from play store, after that it struck into AT&T screen till the battery goes off it never moves on to the home screen.As i tried with hard reset it also hadnt produced any result.
Can anyone help me on this.
thank you
waroffortune said:
Dear All,
I am a new user to these type of forums, a big hii to all.
Now i will explain my issue of LG E970 phone.As it is a US (AT&T)version i am not getting proper service support in india. After one week of use i tried to make the font change with installed software in it which was dowloaded from play store, after that it struck into AT&T screen till the battery goes off it never moves on to the home screen.As i tried with hard reset it also hadnt produced any result.
Can anyone help me on this.
thank you
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looks like it's stuck on bootloop. use lgnpst to go back to stock. the instructions are in the forum.
He probably doesn't know where to find it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994, make sure you read it before you try it

LG G5 - Any Boot Looping Issues?

Hello,
I have a question about this, I had an LG G4 that had the Boot Loop error which occurred in the last week of January, long story short, has anyone had these problems with this new model? I know they' must have fixed this, but the biggest reason I'm asking this is the LG G5 Unlocked RS988 that is being sold here on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/LG-Unlocked-P...keywords=g5&qid=1463100037&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
So far has had a couple of reviews and two people have complained about the boot looping issue, I'm not sure if they're trolling or what, but I figured I'd speak to owners thus far since it's been over a month since it's been released. Really considering this as well as the HTC 10 and S7 Edge as my next device, thanks guys.
no troll.
I bought mine April 1st (Sprint LS992) and it started boot looping a few days ago and finally died completely. I sent it off to LG yesterday to be fixed.
blarg said:
no troll.
I bought mine April 1st (Sprint LS992) and it started boot looping a few days ago and finally died completely. I sent it off to LG yesterday to be fixed.
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Damn dude, this is insane.
When I had this happen to my G4 I was convinced they wouldn't allow this to happen again, this is concerning.
blarg said:
no troll.
I bought mine April 1st (Sprint LS992) and it started boot looping a few days ago and finally died completely. I sent it off to LG yesterday to be fixed.
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Really no troll ? I hope is it
DoKaTSuYa said:
Really no troll ? I hope is it
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I wish. they gave me "about 8-9 days" turn-around so good thing my rooted G3 is still working.
I actually really like my G5. It doesn't appear to be running much bloat and pretty much everything can be disabled through the OS so even though I havent been able to root it I haven't missed it much now that there's a new ad blocker that creates a local vpn for filtering. I like the screen size more than the G3. Only reason I got it was the screen on my G3 cracked somehow (although the glass screen protector over it did not ). The G5 screen is REALLY easy to replace and I liked that too...although it looks like now, you can buy a new G3 screen already installed in a new frame so all you have to do is move the electronics to a new phone body which you can buy on Amazon for about $60... I like both phones but if the screen on my G3 didn't crack (and the G3 is rootable) I probably wouldn't have bothered with a G5.
blarg said:
I wish. they gave me "about 8-9 days" turn-around so good thing my rooted G3 is still working.
I actually really like my G5. It doesn't appear to be running much bloat and pretty much everything can be disabled through the OS so even though I havent been able to root it I haven't missed it much now that there's a new ad blocker that creates a local vpn for filtering. I like the screen size more than the G3. Only reason I got it was the screen on my G3 cracked somehow (although the glass screen protector over it did not ). The G5 screen is REALLY easy to replace and I liked that too...although it looks like now, you can buy a new G3 screen already installed in a new frame so all you have to do is move the electronics to a new phone body which you can buy on Amazon for about $60... I like both phones but if the screen on my G3 didn't crack (and the G3 is rootable) I probably wouldn't have bothered with a G5.
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Did you notice any overheating before the boot looping occurred?
That's what started happening to me with the G4 prior to it Boot Looping.
Illmatic662 said:
Did you notice any overheating before the boot looping occurred?
That's what started happening to me with the G4 prior to it Boot Looping.
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Nope. Not even warm. Just hung and started rebooting. Then kept hanging in different stages of rebooting - sometimes it would come all the way up into home screen, other times it would get to asking me for my password during boot, and sometimes it would hang on the Sprint logo. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. First time it happened after 6 or 7 reboots it just finished booting and worked normally after. Several hours later same exact behavior except this time the last time screen went dark as if it was starting another reboot and never came back. Tried pulling battery, pulling sim card/SD card, and even the spare battery that was fully charged - no signs of life since.
LG got it today so we'll see.
blarg said:
Nope. Not even warm. Just hung and started rebooting. Then kept hanging in different stages of rebooting - sometimes it would come all the way up into home screen, other times it would get to asking me for my password during boot, and sometimes it would hang on the Sprint logo. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. First time it happened after 6 or 7 reboots it just finished booting and worked normally after. Several hours later same exact behavior except this time the last time screen went dark as if it was starting another reboot and never came back. Tried pulling battery, pulling sim card/SD card, and even the spare battery that was fully charged - no signs of life since.
LG got it today so we'll see.
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Your experience mirrors mine. I had this happen to me last night in exactly the same way. I've opened a case with AT&T and they're sending me a warranty replacement.
bhyurf said:
Your experience mirrors mine. I had this happen to me last night in exactly the same way. I've opened a case with AT&T and they're sending me a warranty replacement.
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Wow, a lot of people now are starting to show up about this, I saw two posts this morning it makes me hesitant to pick this up now.
I'm starting to wonder if this boot looping issue could be associated with LG's software?
Illmatic662 said:
Wow, a lot of people now are starting to show up about this, I saw two posts this morning it makes me hesitant to pick this up now.
I'm starting to wonder if this boot looping issue could be associated with LG's software?
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I'm currently under the impression that this is a hardware issue. I've never had a software problem cause my phone to become completely unresponsive like this. It doesn't even react to being plugged in to charge (no charging LED comes on, display stays completely off).
bhyurf said:
I'm currently under the impression that this is a hardware issue. I've never had a software problem cause my phone to become completely unresponsive like this. It doesn't even react to being plugged in to charge (no charging LED comes on, display stays completely off).
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The thing is, this happened on the G3 (not much) the G4 (Prominently) and now on the G5. I can't see it being a hardware issue since all of these phones from a hardware perspective are all different from one another. I'm just wondering if it's some type of glitch in LG's UI or something. If it is hardware related maybe it's related to cooling? It's tough to say for sure, until someone really investigates this.
And yet this is hardly a widespread issue, and only seems to affect the US variants
Illmatic662 said:
The thing is, this happened on the G3 (not much) the G4 (Prominently) and now on the G5. I can't see it being a hardware issue since all of these phones from a hardware perspective are all different from one another. I'm just wondering if it's some type of glitch in LG's UI or something. If it is hardware related maybe it's related to cooling? It's tough to say for sure, until someone really investigates this.
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These phones are much more similar in hardware than they are in software. In fact, if you google around a bit about the G4 bootloop issue, you'll find that LG admitted it was a hardware fault with the phone that caused it (I would link directly, but I don't have a high enough post count).
If my phone had any sign of life, I would potentially agree with you, but UI glitches don't hard brick phones.
My wife had an LG G5 and she updated about 22 apps from the Play Store and after the fact the phone kept rebooting. They said they would send another one brand new to replace it.
I spoke with LG and they said that in their opinion one of those apps may have been corrupt and cost the phone to get you in to reboot however I did a factory reset and the issue still prevailed. So we just sent it back to T-Mobile and they sent her a brand new one since it was still within the return policy.
Other than that issue we both have brand new LG G5 that have had nothing but a great experience with these phones.
bhyurf said:
These phones are much more similar in hardware than they are in software. In fact, if you google around a bit about the G4 bootloop issue, you'll find that LG admitted it was a hardware fault with the phone that caused it (I would link directly, but I don't have a high enough post count).
If my phone had any sign of life, I would potentially agree with you, but UI glitches don't hard brick phones.
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Oh trust me, I know about LG admitting those faults. I got royally screwed with my unlocked H815 which LG wouldn't honor since it was an international variant (Hence why I was looking at the LG G5 RS988). I didn't care that much because I realized I took a risk with the H815 and well, that's life you can't always win. I mean I did notice pretty crazy overheating prior to the phone Boot Looping but if this is happening within the first month is concerning.
@igotroot a corrupt app was what I originally thought as well, but I had only big name or well known apps. Glad to hear overall you're enjoying it, this is a great device.
blarg said:
I wish. they gave me "about 8-9 days" turn-around so good thing my rooted G3 is still working.
I actually really like my G5. It doesn't appear to be running much bloat and pretty much everything can be disabled through the OS so even though I havent been able to root it I haven't missed it much now that there's a new ad blocker that creates a local vpn for filtering. I like the screen size more than the G3. Only reason I got it was the screen on my G3 cracked somehow (although the glass screen protector over it did not ). The G5 screen is REALLY easy to replace and I liked that too...although it looks like now, you can buy a new G3 screen already installed in a new frame so all you have to do is move the electronics to a new phone body which you can buy on Amazon for about $60... I like both phones but if the screen on my G3 didn't crack (and the G3 is rootable) I probably wouldn't have bothered with a G5.
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I had the same issue with Sprint LG G5. I bought it in April 13 the from Best Buy. It started to reboot 3 times at first and got real hot before it started rebooting. I took it to Sprint repair center where they suggested to do a factory reset. I told them I can do that. But before I was able to do a factory reset, it finally died. Sprint didn't want to replace the phone since I didn't have insurance. I might have to send it to LG for warranty repair which will take 9 business days. Do not buy the LG G5..
I had the same problem on my H850 (International Version), he went into service after sale yesterday.
Wow. After my G4 issues, I vowed never to go back to LG but with HTC taking their sweet time for a full release of the 10 and not wanting the GS7 (I don't like AMOLED and I've heard horror stories of random camera glass breakage and general fragileness of the glass phone) I thought I'd contemplate a G5. Completely out of the question now.
I'll wait a bit longer for the HTC 10.
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Wow. After my G4 issues, I vowed never to go back to LG but with HTC taking their sweet time for a full release of the 10 and not wanting the GS7 (I don't like AMOLED and I've heard horror stories of random camera glass breakage and general fragileness of the glass phone) I thought I'd contemplate a G5. Completely out of the question now.
I'll wait a bit longer for the HTC 10.
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I love my G5 and have no issues with it. It's the fastest phone I've ever used, the camera is awesome, and a removable battery and SD are a must for me. This phone has so far been a very quick and reliable phone.
And the reason I got it was because I could not stand my G4 and all the problems that thing had.
H850... Absolutely zero problems. Amazing phone but I will admit, that based on XDA reports, there have been a lot of variance in build quality amongst US carrier builds in particular...

Help with Jiayu G5 Advanced phone

Hello
My Jiayu G5 has started a continuous rebooting loop. I am on a Skinny sim card in NZ
I took my G5 out one morning opened it and it was continuously rebooting. I have
looked on the internet and found many clips of how to fix the problem on a Samsung
but none seemed to work on the Jiayu. Of course iI might not have done the correct process
right so it didnt work. If someone could tell me the right procedure for the Jiayu so I could
have confidence that it is going tol work I would be very happy.
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LG G2 Mini (D620) lagging and stuck in LG logo after several flash attempts

Hi, I'm new in this but I'm also desperate for help. For starters, I live in Venezuela so it's a bit troublesome to visit a proper tech service and stuff. Well, as I said in the title, the problem with my phone is that it keeps getting stuck in the LG logo. I've already flash it several times, but this solution only seems to work for a few days. I'll explain the problems in a chronological order
1) I dropped my phone in january and the screen broke, so I bought a new one along with a new touch screen. At that time, the only problem that I had was that, even though I had a SIM card in my phone, it didn't have any mobile network signal. I tried many things but gave up on that and the problem's still with me
2) In an attempt to fix that issue, I factory reseted my phone and since that time I got the feeling that something was off with my device but I dind't pay attention to it cos my phone was working appareantly fine
3)After that my device started to get laggy and I tought it was the battery because sometimes it was at 87% and when you turn it off and turn it on again, the battery was at 67% in an instant. It wasn't that bad so I kept using it like that
4) Sometime around last month my phone reboot itself (it was usual that when my device got reaaally laggy it reboots itself). The problem was that it got stuck in the LG logo so I look for solutions and end up flashing it.
5) It worked for a few weeks but the cycle started again. Laggy and then stuck in LG logo. I bought a new battery (wich works fine) thinking that this would solve the problem so I did a factory reset, flash it and then turn it on but the problem still didn't go away.
I'm desperate for help cos I need my phone to work and since I live in Venezuela, I really need the money and obviosuly, I can't afford to buy a new device. Could someone help me?
A little note here. I tried upgrading the software using "LG Mobile Support Tool 2014" but the app shuts down before downloading the upgrade. I don't know if it's due to my laptop being really old (Acer Aspire 5920). I know I have A LOT of troubles but I'm in need of a friendly help!

Motorola Moto E 5 - Chinese device reflashed, bootloader is odd

Been a long time since I did much here, I loved loading custom ROMs and last did it frequently with a Nexus 5. Since i started using a Pixel 2 XL, though, I've stayed stock. I just bought a Moto E 5 from an eBay seller, though, knowing it had been Chinese stock and has had Play etc installed after leaving the factory by the eBay vendor. Seems to work fine but concerned about the bootloader (and the rest of the software), first screen is mostly black with a long code in white text that stays a while, before the "Hello Moto" startup animation.
I am considering finding a stock ROM if such a thing exists for this model, and nuking and reloading everything including bootloader, recovery, ROM, the lot.
Is this possible/a good idea for this device? Sorry for noob question, I'll likely explore the forum for whatever is relevant to this, but don't know quite where to start with this suspect bootloader question.
Thanks.
If you know what hardware does it have inside, you can try looking for the real device model (not "Chinese Moto E5") and from there find the stock ROM.
I can help you with that, if you want. Just send me a PM.
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