LG Next G phone

they wont dish out new handses with next G they wont even give loan phones if you have a plan. They have been snowed under by crappy next G phones and crappy reception etc and have turned to a never heard of a problem with it now you can get stuffed policy

This link is to a discussion on this phone on the Whirlpool forum. If you don't find your answer there, post a question on it and I'm sure it will be answered.

It's amazing how many people spend their time discussing mobile phones on this forum. But I guess they would say the same about us!!!

Whirlpool LG 550 forum

Hi,

Have a LG phone after waiting for a long time to come up with something that matched my Nokia CDMA.
Things I have noted are the coverage is good (have not been out of Brisbane yet) are:-

1. The car kit is a toy with the way the speaker is set up.

2. The echo cancellers in the exchange need addressing on calls from the GSM network as I am getting excessive echo. (Would address this with the company but there is no one there that would understand).

3. You can not select your own SMS audible tone apart from those selected from LG.

That is my bitch for this month.

Be waiting for my next bitch

Redeye

Zapper


The Trouble and Strife has the same phone. Not a problem with it.

Suggest that you do what I did with mine. Turn message bank off.



Tjilpi

We have an LG550 and it seems to be working fine. The switch over problem to message bank is easily fixed by getting them to adjust the number of rings before switching. We just got message bank disabled and this does the same thing.

Message bank is just a money spinner for telstra as the person calling paid for a call and then you have to pay for call to see who rang you. Can do without it.

I installed the car kit but used my old broomstick CDMA antenna and it works fine.

Done a bit of a trip out bush and it had coverage but haven't been out west.

Found that the cable to be connected in the cradle to the headphone socket has to be seated well or the sound doesn't work but if correct, then works fine.

I've had an LG 550 since April and had no problems with it. I didn't activate message bank, but did extend ring time. Camped out in June( 40+ klms from Monto) and could ring anywhere at any time. Changed the SMS ringtone, through sons Bluetooth connection, recently and it works well. After a bit of practice I can take a decent photo with it too. Sometimes it takes a while to 'learn' a new model/type, might take a little patience.
OzeSheila.

I don't understand why people put up with so much crap with substandard equipment. You paid good money for it didn't you?
(even if it was free on a plan)

Why disable message bank to overcome a problem?

That means when you are (hopefully) engaged in a call, or you are out of range, or you have the phone turned off, nobody can even leave you a message to let you know they called.

Turn the crappy phone in and get something that works!

Traded my bullet proof CDMA phone (Kyocera 3245) for a Samsung A412 today - its the only $20 plan phone in their set of 4 recommended phones for regional areas - will have to wait and see how it goes. No cost in transferring - hard to believe it'll be as good though..... but what can we do ? Study the alternatives and your head ends up full of *&^%$#@!

Zapper
Have a read of tread 49122
It may be of some help.
Ian

I love my mobile phone. It hardly ever rings or comes up with messages. I takes me six months to use up thirty dollars worth of calls. Its there for urgent matters that rarely occur these days but its a comfort knowing it's there. It tells me the time.

What more could I possibly want from a phone? Perhaps I belong in prehistoric times.

Owen

ps ring telstra and dump message bank and save yourself the angst.

Have been having reception problems with my LG550 which has no signal in the house just 3kms from the centre of town where the tower is situated.

Lodged complaint and the response was to the effect that I must expect this as we have a colourbond roof on the house and the only way forward is to install an aria on the roof like a car kit. Would not be able to use as a mobile while in the house.

Old Kyocera Koi on CDMA worked fine. Wife's GSM is now 6 years old and still can hold one bar to nil when side by side.

Not finished yet. Telstra Countrywide locally are looking to provide another phone to try and have agreed to supply an arial when they become available

Reception in remote areas in Western Queensland is not as good as old CDMA but no firm facts to quote so the Telstra bod would not listen

Not Telstra bnashing although I would believe there needs to be some accountability in the system.

Kevin J

Got a LG550 ( $30 plan ) and got the message bank deleted ( took 3 phone calls and 3 tries by them before they succeeded )

Will now ring till the cows come home, but yes the ascending ring is a pain....

Now I've been told that the only diff between a blue tick phone and the others is the blue tick ones are the only ones with provision for an external aerial....hence the blue tick ?? Is this correct ??

Sorry I'm a little late in this reply, but it MAY help. I "did away" with my Nokia CDMA & purchased the LG 550 12 months ago.
I had problems with reception & ring TIME as well. The best they can do on RING TIME is about 30 secs., (the shop will do that for you). Whilst it was STILL IN WARRANTY, I have taken it back to a LG agent and complained about reception & battery run-down time. The second time I took it in (just before the warranty ran out), they replaced the I.C. board & key board, an "upgrade" (well that's what they told me), since then, it has been running better in both reception and battery length. It maybe a case of persevering with an LG agent whilst it's still in WARRANTY, Oh, by-the-way, the phone has 12 mths, the battery only has 6 mths Warranty.