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duhhh. we all already knew that shawnp. if an update comes for the dare im not looking for it to completely change it. theres just some things that they never got exactly right with it. i wish for those things to be corrected.

First, the Dare needs an unlock that uses a slide or multi-touch or the ability to disable the screen unlock. It comes unlocked a lot.

Others:
-Visual voicemail
-Text threads
-Flashlight mode
-Delete key in Calculator
-The ability to insert cursor at the beginning or end of a line of text. Or, arrows to move the cursor.

I love my Dare ! but please make a Twitter Application because the moblie twitter sucks. As well as a facebook app. thanks

and a way to hide text messages if you don't want them to be viewed.

Suggestions for V07 as i see it:
- individual txt alerts per contact. you can not convince me that this is a limit on the Dare's (or any of your phones) technology since i had this feature on my vx6000 back in 2005. LG...that was 4 years ago. come on .

- please consider bringing back my BELOVED "quick alarm". how i miss thee.

- along with individual txt alerts; another feature i havent seen is the shortcut key to lock the phone. i'm not talking about locking the keys, i'm talking about locking the phone. as it stands (for the past 4 phones now) i have to flip thru all the menus to get the the "security" section...enter a password...and THEN am i able to lock my phone. i believe that when the security steps for turning ON the security is higher than turning it OFF, something has gone terribly wrong.

- search/filter feature for pictures. similar to the filter in the contacts list would be a good start, but use your imagination and suprize me.

- keyword search from txt msgs. i would like to be able to type in a word (or part) and get a list of all the txts msgs that contain that criteria.

- i'll 2nd the interruption of functions when a txt arrives. i.e. txting and then a txt comes in and steals the screen. The way i see it, thats what the assigned alert is for. Play the alert sound, but don't hog the screen. if the phone is on silent, vibe it. pretty simple.

- i'll agree with a more elaborate unlocking method for the keys. i saw that the enV 2 requires you to slide upwards across the entire screen. not bad at all.

- a way to disable the BIG FAT answer, ignore, and quiet, buttons on the screen on an incoming call. some of us prefer the hard keys. and believe it or not, some of us just let it ring to vm rather than quieting or ignoring a call. so if we could CHOOSE which buttons are displayed, that'd be splendid. oh yea, i said "splendid"

- last be CERTAINLY no least. Why with the Dare's large gorgeous high-res screen am i looking at the WORLD'S SMALLEST THUMBNAILS OF MY CONTACT'S PICTURE ID when they call?????? I mean i don't even think you're meeting the industry standard size of thumbnails with it. I'm calling it a pinkynail. Come on. Make it full screen, overlay your BIG FAT buttons over it, i don't care, but its rather absurd. My Venus could; so can the Dare. End of story. Look, I love my baby (girlfriend). She's beautiful. May i please see her when she calls? Please?

That's all i got. This is truly a great phone. I'm loving it. Consider our suggestions here and i believe many others will love it too. The Dare is dubbed an iPhone killer, so let's do this!

i'm sorry, i forgot one more:

- LG phones use to have contact list security. You could lock a contacts info from being viewed either thru the address book or when calling or txting. great feature that i would like to return.

sorry from the additional post.

SO has anybody got any info on when the new update might be released?

Threaded texting would be pretty cool.
Also auto-correct in the landscape keyboard would be great also.

From what I am reading on these forums it seems the DARE is a very popular model and I am not the only one hoping LG and Verizon address the small but numerous short comings of the phone with a Firmware upgrade. I can truly say I enjoy using the LG Dare but as I mention these few short comings can make it a bit fustrating to use.

As far as I know a employee of LG who's tag is LGPRO is the closes to the LG structure and would be the first to hear if a pending firmware release is coming. So far he has stated that nothing has ben mention by LG as of yet. Hopfully Firmware version 07 has passed QA by now and is pending a release date. I also hope that LG has taken into consideration all the feedback from this forum and added several of the desired features to this feature phone. My biggest fear is that LG has completely abandon the DARE in favore of the VERSA or a newer model. This would be ashamed as they will cause tens of thousands LG dare owners to feel betrayed and Real hur Verizon and LGs image. IF this is to be a Iphone alternative then relly taking into consideration the opinion of it's fan would really benift LG and Verizon.

Hi Pnarcisse,
I appreciate your post, and feedback. I got your direct messages on Twitter as well, and appreciate the follow. The way that firmware releases work is that they are announced by the wireless carrier. This forum is a great spot to submit suggestions.

Hey,
LG Product Pro what is your twitter name?

Hi my twitter name is LGmobileUs. Hope to get your follow!

Cool
Thx

Please add an option to prevent the screen from unlocking when a call ends. It would be nice to be able to end a bluetooth call without having to pull the phone from my pocket just to re-lock the screen. Somehow, if I don't re-lock the screen, I wind up calling someone unintentionally or sending a text message full of jibberish to a random contact. Overall I really like the phone but this one thing makes using it with a bluetooth headset a real PITA.

Ok... Please Forgive long post but i have to get this off my chest....

Things that would be Good: already talked about
1.)Threaded Txt
2.)Visual Voice Mail
3.)Slide to unlock
3.)Opition to remove splash screens
4.)FM radio
5.)Fix album art
6.)More Picture and Video editing
7.)Spell check on/off .... To bad spell check never has worked on my dare at all :-(
8.)Camera Zoom in/out in high res mode


Things that must be fixed:
9.)Flash mode in camera... When your in a dark room and you use the flash the picture comes out white..
10.)Settings in camera....... They should be saved
11.)Better shutter speed..... It takes a good pic as long as you dont move for like 10 sec..
12.)Security....................... You should be able to lock numbers from being able to be viewed In contacts, when they call, and call hisory
13.)Contacts..................... You should not have a limit on how many people can be put in a group or how many groups you can have
14.)Full web as advertised. Really Telca has the op for full Web including Tab support,Java script, flash.. the works but you give use the watered down version... the dare can take the full version.. You can not even save a web page.. there is a lot that needs to be done with this... including fixing the return key when inputting text in a forum from phone the return key does not work.
15.)Can we Say Java.......... I know the phone came with java but VZW removed it from firmware.. This really hurts the dare and if you can not add this in to the Firmware because of VZW will then you should leak it out so we can add it or your going to have a lot of people spending there time working on hacking your firmware just to put it on the phone.. Telus has it and I read some where that Telus does not use Brew but they actual do they just don't let you run any brew apps but brew apps still can be run .......... By giving us Java back you then Give the Dare a chance at betting the Iphone if you dont then when the Iphone releases the 3g CDMA phone it will be all over for LG...
16.).. Don't just give us New Themes Give use an app to make our own Themes that we can load up... The more we can customize the phone the more People will love the Phone... Stop trying to locking every thing up so tight that the user can not even enjoy there phone... every one is different and every one likes to express it.. SO LET US
17.)Camera/Video ... Option to put the files where we want them to go... I will say this really pisses me off I had a Nokia Slider and was able to due anything i wanted with that phone... maybe you should look at some of there phones or stop letting companys like VZW make all the rules.. ..*** being able to change folders when taking Pictures/Video lets us organize our files better.. nothing worse then to want to show some one the pics of our beach trip and have to go through 100 different pics that you may or may not want them to see ***
18.)*** A big Must *** allow us to set op for charing.. We should be able to say cut the screen off during charging and if something like a call comes in let it cut back on just like when you lock the screen... I really dont want to burn out my screen or does LG come with lifetime screen replacement?
19.)Add OpenGL..
20.)allow Recording of both sides of phone Call with out time limit
21.)allow Voice Notes with out Time limit and a short cut that lets you get to it.. having to go through to many menus just to get app.
22.) allow more desktop short cutes by ... Push and side either left or right to bring up new set of short cuts..
23.)Do what Google and Arnold did ... leak a how to get Muti Touch features ... ;-)
24.)Let us control how much local storage is used for Music... I Do not use the local memory at all .. I keep all my songs on MicroSD card.. but yet i have 125mb of memory i can not use for anything but for music this sucks... i would like to use it for pictures and video.. some times you may not be able to get to a SD card and you need the extra room or maybe i want more games ... why should i have to disable a game or remove it when i have another 125mb that i can use but you want let me...


Will I guess i will stop there...

Dont take this personal LG Product Pro.... I know you don't make the calls

I just spent to much money on the phone for it to be no better then a cheap 100.00 phone...
When some one spends over 400.00 for a phone they expected it to have most if not all of everything that we are stating that needs to change... in fact we are saying either get with the program or will just go some where else... Maybe Will get the BlackBerry or Nokia or Iphone. It's not that we want to go some where else its just if we pay up for some thing that does not give us what we should be getting for our money then will just remember that the next time we get a phone and when some one says LG will laugh and Say if you want your moneys worth then get a Nokia...

LG makes good phones.. Just LG lets the wireless companys control to much of what the phones can and can not do.. You make the phones and if you dont sell them you'll be out of a job.. and if you keep letting Money hunger company's like VZW control your product like this then your then one that will end up holding the short end of the stick...

Just food for thought... Maybe you could release your on Firmware and just put it out there as if some one else came up with it... and then your product would sore ... even if you let them control the orginal firmware you should really thing about the users and not the company because the users is the ones buying the phones..... Or maybe you should get into CDMA phones just like you do GSM ones..


again this is not at you LG Product Pro... It's at LG

Thanks.. please feel free to give some feed back.. Because if something isn't done soon i mine real soon... I will be giving up my Dare and i wont be going back to LG... I'll be either getting a Nokia or BlackBerry... I already Dumped VZW... Because of there Business model..

on the good note:
The dare is over all a great design and it comes with the power to be a smart phone .. I have seen some with less that are called a smart phone.. So this is a smart phone just with Dump Firmware..


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sorry for double post .. but forgive me for spelling errors ... there is no edit button and i missed a few things.

1. full screen video display
2. keyboard rotate in both angle
3. spell check
4. support of multi language keyboard
5. threaded msg (like env touch)

Defect fix:
Better support for MP3 id3 tags. The device should recognize any valid id3v1 or v2 tag. Display of V2 tag album cover art should be made more reliable. Any known limitations such as size or fields should be provided to end users in the release notice.

Feature Enhancement:
MP3 player navigation from Artist view to Album sub-view; shows just albums specific to that artist.

Support file system folders under the my_music folder (memory card); navigation of mp3 files in music player based on folder; always play songs in folder in filename sort order.

This phone fucking sucks I just got my fifth one today and its fucking up already I'm so fucking fed up LG please make an update for this phone and fix it very fast if not an update then at least make an damn lg dare successor things I want the update to have is to just redo the whole fucking phone because obviously its working. Thank you =/

ok first of all let me say this...
the phone is great ok but it can't beat iphone or even be equal with the new phones out!!!
heres what it needs...
1. a language pack: tired of reading these little letters that don't make sense and you have to go and fix them
2. the ability to use apps like iphone: without this verizon or LG has no chance against Apple and AT&T
3. As it was mentioned above, an app to make your OWN theme: the themes are terrible
4. make the music page a different color: no one likes the dark purple and the album swiveling needs some work as well
5. full screen any time any where: you need to make your phones more interesting than iphone and more fun
6. threaded text message: enough said
7. JAVA
8. stutter speed: ok i take a great pic and it moves half a second later
9. new lock/unlock method: i keep making calls in my pants!! make it like the enV touch
10. make a side bar like the omnia: helps for easier usage of tools
11. once again interruptions: when you get a text while texting, put a small button or indicator of a new text
12. and (for now): a better calculator when you turn it just like iphone

well thats all for now. the most important is the APPS!!
PUT IT IN!!!! No one else will want to buy your phones trust me

Oh and BTW..
is it possible to put lyrics into the songs???
If not that should be included as well.