LG

My LG smart phone bricked itself. In fact, it’s worse than that, because at least a brick has functionality; it serves a useful purpose. Now when I turn on the phone, the screen says “Downloading update … do not unplug cord.” It delivers this message whether or not a cord is plugged in. The message stays on the screen for as long as the phone remains on. I researched the issue and discovered that there is (supposedly) a way to restore the phone to its factory settings. So I followed the procedure. It didn’t work. The phone remained bricked.

I have an LG TV. The TV works fine, but the remote quit working. Not all the buttons on the remote—just the power button. The TV doesn’t have a power button on it. In fact, it has no buttons at all. Without a remote, one can’t operate the TV.

A friend who lives nearby had an LG TV. It went ka-blooey (figuratively) and he got rid of it, but he saved the remote. When I told him about my remote going bad, he gave me the remote to his defunct LG TV. It’s a different size and shape than the remote that came with my set, but it operates my TV just fine.

I have an LG computer monitor. So far it has performed well. No complaints. Well, there was that time the monitor made a fzzzt sound and the screen went to maximum white-out brightness. It took a couple minutes (turn the monitor off and on; reboot the computer) but then I discovered the problem was the monitor setting. I turned the brightness down and all was okay again.

I used to like LG but the shine is starting to get a wee bit tarnished.