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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 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.

5 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Class action by darkain · · 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 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have two G4s that bootlooped sitting on my shelf. Didn't even know about the suit.

  3. Re:Is this resolvable by booting into Fastboot? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey Buddy! You're supposed to say 'wife' instead of 'main broad'. Main broads hate being called that.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  4. Has four LG phones that broke within a year by guacamole · · 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.

  5. Insanity by raymorris · · 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.