LG Settles Bootloop Lawsuit With $425 Cash Or a $700 Rebate Toward a New LG Phone (androidpolice.com)

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LG Settles Bootloop Lawsuit With $425 Cash Or a $700 Rebate Toward a New LG Phone (androidpolice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday February 1, 2018 @07:00PM from the come-and-get-it dept.

Early last year, a class-action lawsuit was filed against LG over bootloop issues affecting their G4 and V10 smartphones. Now, according to a settlement website set up by the law firm Girard Gibbs, members of the lawsuit have received a settlement offer. The only catch is that the settlement is only for plaintiffs of the initial case. Android Police reports: LG is offering plaintiffs either $425 as a cash settlement or a $700 rebate toward the purchase of a new LG phone. That's pretty generous, and it's clear that's going to help offset some of the anger LG's created with this whole incident. If you're one of the plaintiffs, you don't have to mail in your broken phone or anything, you just get the settlement offer, straight up. Members of the class will be contacted shortly with instructions on how to take advantage of the settlement. Payments will be distributed beginning in March.

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Class action by CaptQuark · 2018-02-01 19:10 · Score: 1, Informative

Wow. One of the first class action lawsuits that actually had a respectable payout to the plaintiffs. Normally everyone gets about $5 after the lawyers take their fees.

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1. Re:Class action by darkain · 2018-02-01 19:15 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Except, it only applies to those already in the class action. For instance, I have a friend with a LG phone listed above that got stuck in a bootloop recently. Sucks to be him! Because he's not in the existing class action, so he gets jack shit.
2. Re:Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:26 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  I have two G4s that bootlooped sitting on my shelf. Didn't even know about the suit.
3. Re:Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:42 · Score: 0
  
  *&^%$ Ive got a box full. Had no idea there was a suit.
4. Re: Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:59 · Score: 0
  
  Wow. One of the first class action lawsuits that actually had a respectable payout to the plaintiffs. Normally everyone gets about $5 after the lawyers take their fees.
  That's because this ruling only applies to those in the class action.
  You are trying to compare this to the normal ruling that applies to everyone who bought the phone.
  In this case the $350 exposure is limited to the very small number of plaintiffs. LG would have had no issues at all with this result.
5. Re:Class action by AmiMoJo · 2018-02-01 20:39 · Score: 1
  
  Here's hoping that Intel has to make similar pay-outs. New CPU+mobo+RAM+OS isn't cheap.
  
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6. Re:Class action by Paradise+Pete · 2018-02-01 22:11 · Score: 1
  
  I have a friend with a LG phone listed above that got stuck in a bootloop recently. Sucks to be him! Because he's not in the existing class action, so he gets jack shit.
  This does not preclude him from taking action on his own. Considering that LG is already paying on this, he probably has a pretty good chance at some remuneration.
7. Re:Class action by Hal_Porter · 2018-02-01 23:12 · Score: 1
  
  Dude! We're all getting a free i7-9700K!
  
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8. Re:Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 01:27 · Score: 0
  
  And dont forget all those iphones with the battery design flaw. Lets hope for a big payout for those poor people too.
9. Re:Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 02:31 · Score: 0
  
  I sent my phone in, after warranty, saying I had the bootloop issue, and LG fixed it for free.
10. Re: Class action by omnichad · 2018-02-02 02:47 · Score: 1
  
  And guess why - it isn't a class action lawsuit. They had a binding arbitration clause in their EULA:
  
  The class action filed by Girard Gibbs against LG was required by order of the federal court in Los Angeles to proceed through individual arbitrations against LG. There is no class action settlement. LG has agreed to extend the warranty as to the bootloop defect to 30 months from the date of purchase. At this time we recommend that you contact LG directly at 800-243-0000 or www.lg.com/us/support. If LG refuses to address your complaint, you are welcome to contact us at lgarb@girardgibbs.com.
  
  -- Girard Gibbs
11. Re: Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 13:33 · Score: 0
  
  Usually, in other industries, a debtor (the company, LG, in this case) gets a discount for volume payments that settle consolidated outstanding liability (LG customers in this case). However, class-action lawsuits are funny in that they collepct liability
12. Re: Class action by piojo · 2018-02-02 16:23 · Score: 1
  
  I take it this would only pertain to purchases from the US subsidiary?
  
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13. Re: Class action by CoolDiscoRex · 2018-02-02 20:10 · Score: 1
  
  yes, but if we're not in the class, it means we can still sue. and some of the work has already been done for us. not a great deal for LG.
14. Re: Class action by CoolDiscoRex · 2018-02-02 20:15 · Score: 1
  
  subpeona the web logs. LG can't reasonably assert that you read the terms in 3 seconds. and by letting you click through so quickly, they have no good faith reliance on it. its a contract, but not really, no now its a contract again, now its not. wait what is our position again?
15. Re: Class action by CoolDiscoRex · 2018-02-02 20:19 · Score: 1
  
  Also, given that upwards of 99% of people would abandon a purchase before reading the 27 page terms, LG's business model depends on people not reading the "Agreement". In fact, you can tell the reasonableness of a law/rule by determining what would happen if everyone obeyed it. What would happen if everyone read every "agreement" they were presented with? The online economy would grind to an overnight halt. Sales would plummet. Jobs would be lost by the millions. It would be pretty easy for even a half-competent lawyer to show that most "agreements" violate the reasonableness standard of contract creation. Of course, there is still the judicial corruption to deal with ...
16. Re: Class action by omnichad · 2018-02-03 00:08 · Score: 1
  
  Click? No, the limited warranty was merely a piece of paper in the box with 6pt text. And worse, California courts already had precedent to uphold this.
  Sure, LG gives you 30 days to opt out of arbitration post purchase by mail, but unless you pay to send it certified, you have no proof you sent it.
17. Re: Class action by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-04 11:23 · Score: 0
  
  I read everything and it annoys the shit out of people.
  Especially when I threaten to sue my school over bizzare things in terms and conditions of products they make us use, they really hate that. I should go ahead and do it.
Found the by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:16 · Score: 0

butthurt snowflake.
1. Re:Found the by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:39 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, you're right, Trump will be butthurt in more ways than one though. Can't imagine the inmates will leave that snowflake alone. I guess Trump might get his own private cell somewhere though, away from the inmates that will hurt his butt.
2. Re:Found the by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:40 · Score: 0
  
  When he gets there day 1, then it'll hurt. Captcha : bleeds I do think Jared is going to get the worst of it lol.
  Kinda fitting, don't you think? Oh they'll make it fit. I promise you one thing republican denialist snowflake, they'll make it fit.
  Bet your bottom Ruble
3. Re:Found the by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 19:55 · Score: 0
  
  I voted for third term Obongo as a write-in. I hate everyone. I got Trump instead. At least it wasn't that pothead Arizona governor and his communist running mate. I am happy.
Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot? by Zombie+Ryushu · 2018-02-01 21:28 · Score: 1

Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot, installing TWRP, and Flashing LineageOS+GAppps to the Device?
1. Re:Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot? by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-01 22:18 · Score: 1
  
  No, it's stuck at the bootloader so it doesn't even have a chance of going into fastboot.
  Had a Nexus 5X 16GB, after the bootloop sent it to LG Support and got a new one with 32GB storage within 4 days so I'm not complaining. Has been running fine for another year now, will hopefully work yet another two years until the Librem 5 gets released and its software starts maturing.
2. Re:Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot? by zixxt · 2018-02-01 22:40 · Score: 1
  
  No its hardware/main-broad problem.
  
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3. Re:Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot? by Hal_Porter · 2018-02-01 23:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Hey Buddy! You're supposed to say 'wife' instead of 'main broad'. Main broads hate being called that.
  
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Has four LG phones that broke within a year by guacamole · 2018-02-02 00:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

LG G2 (poor GPS reception, screen developed dead touch spots), LG G3 (speaker stopped working, charger stopped working), LG G3 (radio stopped working), LG Nexus 5X (bootloop).
Never again!
Besides, LG phones use some of the most bloated and hideous ROMs out there (not the case with google nexus), the most bloated, and those sold in USA usually locked to one carrier, and with locked bootloaders.
1. Re:Has four LG phones that broke within a year by lexman098 · 2018-02-02 03:18 · Score: 1
  
  I'll see your anecdote about the G3 and raise you mine. I had a G3 which was one of the best phones I've ever had. Great form factor. No hardware problems. The ROM didn't seem bloated to me, just heavily skinned. Great form factor. Maybe you dropped it too much? The only reason I got rid of mine was to get a fingerprint reader.
2. Re:Has four LG phones that broke within a year by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 04:09 · Score: 0
  
  G3 has a known issue with sim cards too. Works great, then one day, no longer recognizes sim cards. LG phones are good buys for used phones, but the sim card issue kind of screwed the deal.
What about Nexus 5x? by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 02:23 · Score: 0

V10 uses the same mainboard as Nexus 5x and it's been plagued with the same bootloop problem. I've replaced 2 of Nexus 5x's a there are numerous reports on XDA about this issue. LG even extended their warranty on this phone to deal with this.
1. Re:What about Nexus 5x? by mspohr · 2018-02-02 05:37 · Score: 1
  
  I have a Nexus 5 with the bootloop problem.
  Anybody had success in getting LG to fix this?
  
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LG is awesome by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 02:42 · Score: 0

LG knows how to make happy customers
Insanity by raymorris · 2018-02-02 02:47 · Score: 2

It's been said the definition of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. That it crazy.
two LGL34C in bootloop by Anonymous Coward · 2018-02-02 03:25 · Score: 0

Do i get any attention? [typing this on a LG Sunflower aka inferior to above two bootloop Optimus Fuel.]
LG G3 cell by david999 · 2018-02-03 18:07 · Score: 0

I bought two LG G3's at Ebay a few weeks ago. One as a replacement for my relative in another state and one for myself as a backup to my LG G3 as I do not have a landline. The $69 one had a slight scratch and the $98 one is in like new condition. They are from July 2014 and June 2015.
I looked at the G4 and others but settled on the G3 as I never had an issue.
Download the CPU-Z app and you will find the specs are nearly the same as the $800 Samsung S8.