Help My phone is having issues

Lee, I hesitated to reply to your message because I knew I wouldn't have much of substance to offer you. I certainly empathize as I've had phones in the past that never seemed to work correctly and your avenues of correction are limited and filled with inconvenience and likely fraught with disappointment. That being said, I think your phone is defective. I've read of others with texting issues, but based on the other symtoms you describe I feel yours has a hardware issue that won't fixed via software changes. Unless you live in a fringe service area, you shouldn't have intermittent transmission events. You didn't mention how the call performance was, but texting is a phone system event rather than data. Erratic GPS performance fits right in too if you have a bad antennae or radio. Your previous experience with LG repair hasn't been encouraging since they didn't fix the screen problem you reported, so confidence in other repairs will likely be lean. Wish there was someone I could refer you to that would go to bat for you with the manufacturer to get it replaced. It's too bad that something like this will sour you on LG products, but you could hardly be blamed. I've owned several LG phones and have been very satisfied. My Optimus G is a great phone and I've missed all the commonly reported problems. But then, I know phones in general are built quickly in a large production run then abandoned technologially only a few months later. If a factory reset followed by manual updating and no installed apps to create interference doesn't at least give you regular service with consistent phone, text and GPS performance, then you've likely done all you can at your level. Good luck and I hoping for the best. - Mark

If you are at wits end you can always root and see if that fixes your issue by flashing a new ROM. Every other phone I've had with issues such as yours were fixed by rooting and adding a ROM over stock.