Update from last post: things are bad. SD card constantly gets unmounted no matter what under any version now. I had thought maybe the SD card slot was bad, but I did a test yesterday. I booted into Safe Mode. SD card NEVER unmounts. I used burst mode on the camera and took 99 pictures, all written to the SD card. Not one unmount. I boot back into normal mode, immediately my SD card unmounts. If I wait, it will remount but sometimes it takes 30 minutes or more. When it was mounted, I again started taking pictures in burst mode and after about 20 pictures, it unmounted.
I've used old and new sd cards (found a new SD card package at work that I had ship in with some equipment so I tested with it). Same issue. Normal mode keeps unmounting my card. Safe mode, no problems.
I called Verizon yesterday and they stated they have other reports of people experiencing the same issue as me after taking the 49A OTA. They then got me patched into LG support and guess what? LG said that I could send the phone in and they could repair it and I would have to pay the repair costs since my phone was out of warranty. I told them that this issue was due to their official OTA they sent out and not through my fault. They said they were sorry, but since the phone is out of warranty, they can't fix it for free. I then stated that it's okay for them to send out OTAs to phones out of warranty and break them, but it's not okay to fix them free-of-charge from said breakage? They to me didn't seem right. She had no answer other than another apology. I told her at that point that I was through with LG products and that this was poor customer service. I stated I could understand if I did something to modify my phone (flash custom ROMs, dropped it, etc), but in this case, I took an official update from LG and VZW because it was a security update to make my phone more secure. Therefore, this was done via official channels, and therefore, since they broke it, I shouldn't have to pay for it. Same goes for if I take a car in for repairs due to some recall of the manufacturer. if they break something in the process of doing the recall repair, I shouldn't have to pay for that breakage. That was done by the dealer by their own fault. Same goes for this issue. Didn't matter. Another apology.
I'm waiting for VZW to see if they can come up with a solution other than having to be in safe mode. This stinks because I feel that the G3 is probably the best Android phone I have owned. I don't even want to give it up because it does exactly what I need and I'm not in the market for a new phone.
So, whether it gets fixed or not, I'll live with the phone the way it is where I can't use an SD card anymore. It sucks as it means I won't have access to all my music, but in hind sight, of that 40gb of music, I didn't listen to all of it all the time. Problem is, I love trance and I have over 16gb of trance that I do listen to via a playlist. I won't be able to store all of that on my internal memory and I don't stream because I don't have an unlimited plan.
So there's my story so far in this saga. I'll update it when/if I get more information. Hopefully, VZW will come through and get this fixed.
