![]() ![]() Once you’ve backed up your stuff, go into Apps > Settings and switch to List View ( Menu > List View) if you haven't already. How to factory reset the LG G4: the easy way, via Settings On any Android phone, Safe Mode is a good way to identify if apps are the problem. ![]() If you notice a spectacular improvement in performance or battery life, that’s a really big clue that a third party app is misbehaving. This restarts your device without any third party apps running. Tap and hold Power Off and you should see an option for booting into Safe Mode. To do that, press and hold the Power button until the Power Menu appears. ![]() If your problem is poor performance, we recommend giving Safe Mode a go first. You can go straight for the reset option if you wish, but it’s rather like using a rocket launcher to open a peanut. The typical troubleshooting process goes like this: rebooting, rebooting in Safe Mode to see if an app is the problem, uninstalling and reinstalling suspect apps, clearing app and system caches, and then – and only then – performing a factory reset. That isn’t because it’s dangerous it’s because it zaps all your stuff so it takes a bit of faffing around to get your phone back the way it was. When to factory reset the LG G4 and what to try before you doįor most problems, a factory reset is the last resort. You don’t want your phone running out of puff halfway through a crucial stage of the backup, reset or restore process. You should also ensure your battery has a decent charge. That said, you should make sure you back them up too. It’s worth noting that factory resets only apply to the phone, not to external items such as microSD cards: they’re not affected by the process. In most cases, you can restore everything using your Google Account, but make sure you back up anything important. It’s designed to restore your phone’s software to the same condition it left the factory in, and that means deleting anything that didn’t come with the phone, including your apps and personal settings. © ANDROIDPITĪ factory reset is a major operation. Thanks for nothing Google and T-Mobile.The G4 is a solid smartphone, but it can suffer from bugs and app problems. I don't use Google Voice nor do I care about 200 new emojis or new wall paper themes. I found out that the list of new features are pretty much meaningless to me. To make matters work, due to all the skinning of the OS by LG I can't visually see the difference between Lollipop and Marshmallow. After 5 days my new finally phone arrived.Īll said and done, I had to wait 3 weeks to get my replacement phone. They did document in their system that the phone needed to be replaced. I called up T-Mobile support and found out that tech support person never submitted the order for a new phone. I waited for 8 business days and the phone didn't arrive. No dice.Įventually, I called T-Mobile tech support for a replacement phone and they said they would ship me a replacement phone for $20 and that it would take 5 to 7 business days. I tried pulling the battery out and reinserting it and then rebooting the phone for several days hoping it would actually startup again. No matter what I did it just kept crashing. I tried wiping the system but it would either crash again immediately or go into restore mode and require my Google account authorization to unlock the phone and then crash. I tried rebooting it and it kept on crashing. During the update process my phone stopped working. Then a few weeks ago, T-Mobile decided to OTA push Android Marshmallow. You just get constantly beat up.įor the past several months, I've been using my glorious LG G4 without problem. If you ever played any of the X-Men versus Street Fighter series of arcade games with Infinite Combos, you know how it feels to be an Android user on T-Mobile. ![]()
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