Comments on: Review- LG Chocolate 3

By: Random used customer

Random used customer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:24:05 +0000

I have had the phone for nine months and have downloaded music into the internal and external memory. One day as I was downloading more music it just up and disappeared. I was peeved. Later it magically it found its way back. . . I decided to let it go and continued putting music on. A few months later it happened again and I figured the problem was that I had not formatted my sd card. I put all of my music in a file, formatted it, then expected to be able to get them all back. I was wrong. It said everything had write proctection (even things I knew that didn’t). I decided the only way to get the music was from the phone as opposed to my adapter, but when I plugged my phone in and synced it it went straight to internal memory. The problem with this is I don’t remember how to put music on internal memory, and windows media player does not recognize my phone as a device. I cannot put any music on my sd card without going through my phone, and I have to fill the internal memory first. Any ideas? Do I have to buy special software so my crap does not dissapear? Or is my phone just a defect? This would suck because it would be a pain to replace it. Help?

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:16:54 +0000

Yeah I love this phone, Ive had it for about 6 months. Currently though its not working, I got it wet. But I love everything about it, except a delay when answering calls, but its not a big deal to wait a second.

By: James

James — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:43:01 +0000

OK i Have the LG chocolate 3 (black) now for awhile….i love it…simoky amazing sound and great to put music on but the only thing is well when i do answer have to have a pause it seems to speak and having problems like when i go to any meanu or songs list it will highlight all of the things i go down the list and then cant read it and i was wondering why it was doing that….and then yestruday i pulled my phone out pocket and went to open to text someone back and i felt pressure and i look on top and plastic piece of phone was breaking off where it keeps screen stabilized and then broke off completely and then phone now pops out of place and stuff and havent dropped like from super high normal human drops on accidents when sitting down but i was wondering why when all i did was open phone that broke and then whole like screen came completely off and only wires was holding it and now the left side where it stabilzes the sreen is breaking off and i have no clue why this is happening and messing up in these ways…anyone know what to do or anything…i guess i have had phone for a year dont think i have tho…and i know we got warranty when ur online and it asks if u want to pay 5 bucks for warranty i think that is to make warranty longer than year it comes with right ? idk if someone could plz answer these questions and help id appricate it thxs….

Pause when phone call recieved….
highlights all things i do when scrolling on menu’s…..
screen came off and didnt drop or anything and wires like holding it…pulled out pocket and plastic broke off..am i covered what to do?

thxs

By: Eli Blumenthal

Eli Blumenthal — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:34:27 +0000

Hey Brian,

There are some phones that give you “preset messages” like “Can’t talk now”, “Where are you” etc., and some phones even let you make your own preset messages to send without opening the phone or using the keypad. The way I see this working on the Chocolate 3 is you use the scroll wheel to select the preset text you wish to send in a way that is similar to changing songs in the music part.

Anyways glad you like the phone and I hope this clarifies what was mentioned in the post.

Eli

By: Eli Blumenthal

Eli Blumenthal — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:33:37 +0000

Hey JM,

Your problems may be that you got a bad phone from Verizon when you bought it (sometimes something breaks in the phone when its shipped to the store, or there was just a problem with that particular phone, that also sometimes just happens). Calls not sounding well may either be your coverage, or again, a problem with your phone.

Our review phone worked great, and I know a lot of people that got the phone and they don’t seem to be having the same problems. I’d recommend visiting your local Verizon Wireless store or calling them up (on a different phone of course, as I know your phone right now prob can’t make any calls ), and seeing if they can either fix the phone or replace it with a new one.

Let me know how it goes.

-Eli

By: Chaim Gartenberg

Chaim Gartenberg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:31:12 +0000

Julia -
Alternatively, if you don’t want to have the hassle of using VCAST music manager, just get a microSD card (good to have for music anyway – can’t fit much on the phone alone), and just copy the non-protected music from iTunes to the “my music” folder on the card (plug it into the phone 1st). Works just as well, and saves a bunch of hassle.
- Chaim

By: Eli Blumenthal

Eli Blumenthal — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:27:53 +0000

Hey Julia,

Try downloading the V Cast Music Manager with Rhapsody that we mentioned in the post. That should make things easier .

Also, if you bought a lot of songs off of iTunes, before they made the DRM-free iTunes Plus the new standard for songs, they won’t play on your Chocolate 3 as they are protected to only play on iPods, unlike iTunes Plus songs, which are not locked down with the same copy protection and can be used on other devices as well as iPods.

Hope this helps and feel free to let me if it works.

-Eli

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:44:16 +0000

I love this phone and have had it for a while but i still can’t figure out how to put music on it. Any ideas?

By: JM

JM — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:30:41 +0000

I’ve only had the phone for a couple of weeks and I’ve been having problems with a) calls coming in that do not sound – so I only hear that a call came in when the voice mail tone begins to sound; b) attempting to make calls and nothing happens (those attempted calls I just realized last night are also not being registered in my call log as ‘dialed’); c) when a call Does come in, I have to try each button on the side of the phone b/c no one of those buttons consistently makes the phone ringer silent!

Very frustrated here.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:14:18 +0000

CC,
Have you tried using the “next” button?
it will switch between all of the words that the phone knows.

That being said,
my LG hasn’t seemed to learn words that i tend to use, that aren’t in its vocabulary.

However, when it doesn’t know a word in T9, i don’t use ABC to correct it, instead i break the word apart and then get rid of the spaces. but that isn’t a big deal.

Lately though, people say that they have been sending me text messages, but i am not receiving them…
any suggestions?