Personally, I'd prefer to buy from Amazon Warehouse. £153 for 'Used - Very Good' where the only imperfections are on the packaging. The handset will come unlocked, will a 12 month warranty from Amazon.

Go here and downlaod the LG MOBILE SUPPORT TOOL and you can put on android 6.0

Great phone great price.

still one of the best phones ever, even being a 2014 model.
does this have all the annoying vodafone software?
also, is it locked to vodabone?

Very good price for a Very good phone. Even better with Cyanogenmod 13 (6.0.1) running on it.

A question - is the G4 worth the upgrade from a G3? If so, in what respects?

Thanks

How do you purchase the phone without the package bundle?

Had both phones G3 and G4 and tbh i was much more happy with G3.

For some reason, the "Get Deal" link is not working OP.
This link is the one you were referring about?
It looks like a good deal :smiley:

The unlock code on ebay is quit cheap just £2.49.

Bought this phone for my partner for xmas, fantastic phone once running cyanogenmod, better than my iphone 6 in pretty much every way

Can be upgraded to android 6.0 with a lg flashing tool

Ive had LG G2,G3 and G4....for me the G2 was still the best. Found the G3 too laggy it was annoying and the G4 took 2nd place.

I've just got my first Galaxy in the S7 Edge and it has impressed me a lot. The G5 didn't tempt me this time.

All good phones but my experience with the G3 and the lag after having 2 handsets made me change to the G4 earlier than expected.

I'd say it's good. Obviously rooting the phone gives you a lot more control of what apps are running all the time and that makes a huge difference. Don't forget, you can buy a second battery for buttons from eBay if you're a power user.

Great phone, Android 6.0 available now as well - lag seems to be gone now.

i have the g3 - it was laggy but since flashing to marshmallow 6 - its absolutely rapid, 2 years on and the battery life is as good as any samsung galzxy i have used, out does my work phone. if i dont use it on games i charge it once every 3 days - worth this money as long as you flash it to marshmallow

Personally, I'd prefer to buy from Amazon Warehouse. £153 for 'Used - Very Good' where the only imperfections are on the packaging. The handset will come unlocked, will a 12 month warranty from Amazon.

Best value smartphone out there, the g3, so impressed, so much better than those overpriced brands eg. Samsung, and wipes the floor with other 'budget' smartphones such as the OnePlus series, etc....one of the best screens on the market, still, fast, a good weight, imo better than the g4 for the money.

seriously, get. this. phone.

Looking to upgrade my brother-in-law's phone as he's on an ancient Galaxy S2 or something. Two very deals have popped up today in the Z3 Compact and now the G3. Apart from the G3 having a bigger screen what differences are there and which is better overall? I'm impartial to brand so bias free advice would be much appreciated :smiley:

£135 on Amazon warehouse deal at the moment, 12 month warranty

Hi . Everyone
is this 16 gb 2 gb ram or 32 gb 3gb ram ???

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It is not clear whether the LG G3 is 32GB/3GB or 16GB/2GB.???

Don't see the option to "use existing sim" to avoid the £10 bundle. Am I missing something somewhere?

on another post someone put it was at the bottom - not looked myself

i went on xda forum and its in the LG G3 section - only issue i have - i flashed a rooted version and when i put mobile data on it doesnt show in the top icons like 4g. You can flash the official non rooted version which will be the one from lg and all that should work fine - links are in that section on the forum also

Yeah the option isn't there on the page and you can't checkout without selecting at least the £10 bundle. Nor can you remove the bundle once you get to the basket. Looks like £159 to me.

Official marshmallow update now available through PC suite!

Thanks agbrothers. My Galaxy s3 is getting and feeling slow and laaggy now and i've been umming and arring about upgrading my handset for a while. I've bitten at this price,

Thank you very much! Knew there was a way around but couldn't find where it was mentioned.

EDIT - very difficult to get right, if you're on Chrome, right click anywhere and select View Page Source, search for 'Keep your existing Vodafone SIM', and select the link below it. It's a long link, shouldn't miss it. Hope this helps

I have it and don't understand the poor battery reports. Id say im a heavy user and it lasts a day no problem

Ordered thanks op

Yup Marshmallow on the G3 has reinvigorated the handset, gone back to using mine again now because of it..

Anyone getting one may have to update via a PC as the over the air update is very hit and miss (it was also 1.2gb in size too!)

It will be the 16gb model, the 32gb has never been officially available in the UK (I Imported mine from Germany).

The marshmallow update may not be readily available yet, certainly wasnt on my 32gb version so did it this way super easy mm update and it does like the last poster said reinvigorates the handset.

Super hot from me, best handset bar none at this price.

I have this phone and it's brilliant. Battery life is decent - just not as good as my wife's G2 which is astounding. It's a big handset but manages to pack that huge screen into a smaller package than other handsets with a 5.5 inch screen.

Pros:
- Great screen
- Quick (lag has never been an issue for me)
- Good camera
- Expandable storage
- Removable battery
- Good audio

Cons:
- It may be too big for some people's liking (but see comment above)
- Plastic casing but build quality seems pretty good nonetheless. I have mine in an i-Blason case and screen protector which work pretty well; the Quick Circle cases seem like a gimmick but are fun.
- Some might find the rear-mounted power and volume buttons fiddly.

I went to this from a Samsung Galaxy S6 as I wanted expandable storage and have no regrets. At £149 it's a steal and you won't get a new handset approaching this quality at this price elsewhere just now.

Go here and downlaod the LG MOBILE SUPPORT TOOL and you can put on android 6.0

A word of warning, although no one else will probably be as stupid as me. The last few phones I have owned with Gorilla glass haven't really needed screen protectors over the two years I had them, so when I bought the G3 I didn't bother either, especially since I bought the Quick circle case for it.
Within a couple of days some quite solid dust had got under the Quick circle case and rubbed when the case had moved slightly, leaving a circle of scratch marks. Can't be seen when using the phone, so hasn't bothered me, but might hurt resale. :disappointed:

Anyone put cyogen 13 on there's? Also can you get cheap unlock codes off ebay for this?

Gutted - paid £55 more a few weeks ago. albeit for an unlocked 32Gb model.

Mine came OTA

Best phone I ever owned, I now own a G4 but found the G3 better.

How is the camera on this compared with the most recent Moto G? Baby due in July and need a decent camera...

I've got the Moto G 3rd gen (1GB version), has anyone used both? Has does the G3 compare to the Moto G 3?
I suppose the screen on the G3 is miles better than the moto g but how about performance, camera etc.

ha! Seems that we're in the same boat ScampiLamp. :smiley:

can not find keep your sim option no matter what I do !!

Worth the extra tbh. I pay £250ish for mine from amazon.fr as an import from Romania... lol. Fantastic phone and the extra storage is very useful. Running marshmallow. Battery life is fantastic now.

what type is this? D850???

I'm trying to buy a replacement battery buy don't want to get a fake. Anyone recommend somewhere i could get one?

Have to agree about the speed increase now I have marshmallow 6 installed, absolutely rapid now compared to kitkat, its like having a new phone!

I'm afraid you are wrong, if it's fulfilled by amazon then it has a 12 months warranty.

I have a couple of Anker ones that work perfectly in it, got them from Amazon.

Just checked and Amazon are selling official LG batteries for a little over £9

Thanks dude, just upgraded mine :smiley:

Love this phone, upgraded from a Note 1 on the recent TalkMobile deal for £12.50 a month. Hard to believe it's a bigger screen but feels so much more compact and the camera is excellent.
I likeee....

ar$e! Was in the process of buying one & its now out of stock. Was in the basket & when i went to pay it told me that it wasnt available any more.

Much better camera, worse battery life. Stock android on Moto G is much better than LG's version.

Camera is much better.Other half bought this phone when our little one arrived. I got the Moto G. The ones from the Moto g are just snaps - better than nothing, but not good quality. G3 has produced some real keepers that will go in the album. Still nowhere near something like a Sony Rx100 camera or a DSLR, but the bonus is that you will always have it with you. I'm toying with getting rid of my moto g just for the camera on this. That said the laser focus/flash absolutely blinds everyone if its dark and you are using flash.

Black is out of stock now, Gold still available.

any of you tried to unlock it on Ebay for £3? is it really that easy?
I mean any of You guys actually unlocked this vodafone phone? thanks

Showing as not available in any store aswell. They've pulled it maybe it was a pricing error.

SnapDragon 801.
And NFC
And bloody large screen
Hot

Phone gets way too hot and is too fragile, plus the UI is bad and even custom firmware doesn't do it much justice. I had the phone for 2 years so I know. I'm much happier with a Nexus 6P.

So, I just wanted to try this, and I rarely connect my LG G3 to my PC, but every time I connect it, it charges but doesn't come up on my PC and I get a message saying 'USB not recognized', even though last time I connected it, it was fine. Looked around on the internet and looks like my charger port is the issue, a pin must have bent or something :neutral_face: Great. Don't know what to do now haha

​Or it could be your cable.

tempted to upgrade from my redmi note 2

OOS

Which LG G3 is this? How much RAM does it have? The vodafone site has the most hilarious specs list - it doesn't even tell you that. Absolutely abjectly pathetic.

Eh? Ui is a slightly skinned version of android to start with but if you don't like it then you can change the launcher anyway.

Also if it's fragile then how come yours lasted 2 years....

It will be the 16/2 version, the 32/3 was never released officially in the UK.

Has anyone received the OTA update for this phone yet, rather than manually flashing Marshmallow onto it?

Reading on the web some folk have but it's very simple to do it via PC, no rooting required just download the LG updater to your PC, install the drivers connect your phone and the updater will do the rest.

For a phone that costs nearly 4x as much as the one you are comparing it to, I'd really, REALLY hope you are!! Why even bother mentioning that? It's surely not relevant here.

Yeah I've had a look into it, but I've seen some things that you may lose files etc on the phone? Not sure if true, but anyway. Have downloaded the LG updater, but it doesn't say that there is a software update :disappointed: My model is the LG-D855

Have spoken too soon! Think I can update it now! Cheers!

Thanks so much. That's a really helpful reply. Do you think the G3 would be better than getting say a sub £100 standalone camera?

OOS for now :disappointed:

From what I've read seems to be easier to root whilst on 5.x rather than after marshmallow update.
I don't do much with root access but I have had add blockers on for so long that I have can't go back, unless anyone knows of ones that work without rooting? Both browser and in app

Worst phone I have bought. I have replaced the handset and battery twice during my contract. Initial speeds soon drop off and it is an incredibly slow phone after a while.

​it didn't, I had to repair the screen and there's multiple cracks and dents. the UI is ****, not as bad as Samsung but it's still rubbish, slow as hell and it looks ugly as hell. of course most of these problems go away when you root and install your own ROM, but your average user won't do that

And now the phone is officially running on Marshmallow via an update so it's different again. You don't have to even install a ROM onto it if you don't like it, just use a different launcher from the play store.

I've had my G3 2 years and have had no reliability issues with it, my missus has used it while I switched to a Z2 but I've gone back to it to try it on Marshmallow and it's been fantastic so far.

The camera is very good but it depends on what you're going for with a sub £100 camera as something always has to give at that price point.

Are you running OTA marshmallow or did you root it?

OTA doesn't seem to be happening in the UK yet however you don't need to root it, just install the LG updater on your PC, install the drivers and plug your phone in.

​I want to root it for add blocking. But seems easier to do and then find a rom for marshmallow rather than trying to root afterwards

I too need to root. Am currently on Android v5.0 stock unrooted. Anyone able to guide me on the necessary steps to (easily and safely!) get to rooted MM?

Thanks

Has anybody got despatch email yet?

I upgraded to marshmallow by just connecting my phone to my PC and using the LGMobile Support Tool software

Same here, no problems whatsoever and runs lovely. Battery life seems to have improved whilst running Waze during my commute.
Took this picture last weekend on it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-root-lg-firmwares-kitkat-lollipop-t3056951

I've not read it properly yet. Root at your own risk... ​

​Because the Nexus 6P is everything I loved about the G3 and then some, minus all the problems the G3 had. Nexus 6P only cost me 350 to buy from a guy who bought it and sold it straightaway because he preferred the G5.

​Just as easy to root on MM as it is LP.

It's not just the launcher, it's the icons, settings, it may be fast, but it's not snappy. BTW, all the problems I said we're regarding marshmallow, lollipop is much worse. Have with it though, each to their own liking I guess.

I'd be grateful to know the easiest/safest way to root on MM.

Many thanks

ive had this phone for just over 12 months and it has been great up until i updated to marsmallow. ever since the update my phone has been randomly rebooting every couple of days but more recently when i turn the phone on it constantly reboots and doesnt get past the lg logo screen. im not 100 percent sure it was the update that caused it but it only started after the update. lg thinks its a battery issue so im getting a new one delivered...just something to look out for when you update your handset.

Went through the steps kindly provided to avoid buying the sim card but in order to unlock I need to put Vodafone sim card.

​see comment above

​I found the battery life to be great on my G3.... Alot better than the battery on my s6 edge. Also the battery is removable.

​Don't do it.

​That's still a good price for the 32gb model