LG Rhythm User Reviews

this phone is horrible. Granted, its very sleek and stylish but its performance is crap! My phone will say I have signal one minute and the next I have nothing even when I have not moved my phone. I dont get my calls, it takes several minutes to even hours to receive my text messages but eveyone around me on the same network is having no problems. My phone can show full signal yet I wont receive a call. I hate it and I plan to trade it tomorrow. I read the reveiws and saw more bad than good and I didnt listen. If you are thinking of getting this phone save your time money it is not worth it!

ive had this phone for three months and didnt have any problems until recently. in the last two days it has shut itself off 8 times randomly. it also mutes when i either turn speakerphone on or off. love the phone but this is very frustrating.

I had a LG scoop to start out with and It would randomly shut off..At first i just put it off and then it kept doing it! After awhile i got sick of it and before i could even get a chance to take it back my screen turned completly WHITE!! i was very angry!! I took it to the store and got a diffrent phone. LG rhythm I liked it when i first got it, but after awhile it would also randomly shut off but i have had this phone for about 2 months now and it has only done it about 3 times . I think that ALL of the LG phones just have a malfunction in them and its something your just gonna have to get used to  or get a diffrent phone!! I have not had any other prblems with my phone. 

My son and I both bought the same phone in December. The phone will randomly shut down, sometimes it won't let we answer certain numbers and mostly recently it will mute so the person on the other end can't hear me. My sons is experiening similar problems with his phone.

I've noticed that alot of people have had problems with their Rhythms randomly shutting down. Mine has done that off and on, but now it wont power back up. I plugged it into the charger and it doesn't do ANYTHING.

Hi all.  I just thought I would mention here for all US Cellular customers that there has been a firmware (software) update for this phone.  I went and got mine updated last week.  I am really hoping that this fixes some of the bugs that the phone has had so that I can again love this phone like I did when I first got it.  I don't know if all areas of US Cellular have the update so call before you go to the store.  Hope this helps some of you.

i bought this phone in december 08 i loved it until i looked at it not even a month later and there were lines across the screen so i ignored it hoping they would go away 1 week later still there had gotten worse. i took it to store and they gave me another one i have now had it for 5 months and i have decided to get a new phone i am sick of the weird things it does off and on so i am gonna probally get away from lg unless i find good reviews on one

All lg phones turn off randomly by themselves. it's just the software and thats something you have to get used to. some phones are DOA or damaged already when bought which is why they suck.. take it back to where you bought it and get a new one. phones that malfunction over time.. well you probably dropped it one too many times...
 
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I get my ringtones sent to me from a website and some of my friends bluetooth me songs that i can set as ringtones.  It worked great at first, but now when i get a text it plays one of the ringtones that came on it.  Does anyone know how to fix this?? Overall this is a great phone but it gets a little boring after a while.

I have had my rhythm for quite some time now, never had a single problem with it. until just recently. all of the sudden it decides it wants to constantly shut off and on on its own. if im texting/talking or anything else with the phone, its perfectly fine. but when i shut it, it begins powering on and off on its own and i cant stop it. overall i love the phone, i just wish it wanted to stay on. :(

Ok i got this phone for a Christmas gift this year. I got it from my mom cause im still on her plan with US CELLULAR. she took me to our local store n wen i went to pick it out the lady said it was a new phone n if theres any problem we can bring it back but no one has had a problem yet. So my mom buys the phone n it worked great for a month. after that my main problem was the vibrating. It has this sound sorta lyk a phone off a hook. after that the vibrating fot weaker and weaker. then it stopped completely. then the vibrating would go on n off. i finally got to take it to the store to get it fixed another lady typed a couple of codes n the problem wouldnt show itself so my fone didnt reall back me up there. now the vibrating stopped working agian. n the signal is ok n i hav to charge my fone every nite cuas ei text so much. the touch screen is awsome but the bottons wont work sometimes. this is my second phone iv eva had n it just so happens to b with US CELLULAR n im goin to try n talk to my mom bout gettin outa it. the fone over all is ok i havent had any more problems wit it n im gonna send it in to get fixd n they better fix it caus eif they dont im gonna demand i new fone that doesnt take 5 minutes to send a single text sometimes. if u can avoid it dont buy this fone it the black LG rythm wit us cellular. 

I really like this phone. I do however have the same problem as far as it shuts itself off, but I have had  most of my phones do that at one pont or another. The only glitch I have found is that when you are sending a new text and you go to contacts it says no contacts to add. it has done that to me about six times. i love the features and the touch menu and as far as everyone saying they dont get calls and text mess that is your cell phone provider not your phone. I have us cellular and as with everyone else who does on the review list i have none of those problems. The battery is weak i agree with that it could be stronger but overall great phone!

ok im getting a new lg rhythm monday, one of which the company is sending me in the mail. the crazy part about this story is that this will be the sixth one i've had since january 3.  i love the phone and everything its a hot phone but i cant get a signal for nothing. the bar just keeps jumping from about 4 bars to no bars at all. i can even be outside and still not receive a signal. i miss all of my calls, i dont receive text until about a day later. sometimes i even just have to sit there and call 611 or my voicemail just so my bars will go up enough to receive a text. i refuse to pay a bill for a phone that i cant receive phone calls on or text in a timely fashion. everything else about the phone is cool except the fact that when i had the white one, everytime i would text the numbers 437 in that order, the phone would cut off. yea they really need to do a recall on this phone, or just do something about the signal cause i really dont want any other phone. i want my rhythm!!!!....oh yeah, my last one was perfect with everything, signal too. it just cut off on me one day while i was charging it and when i tried to turn it back on, it just went to the alltel screen and wouldn't go past that.

I have had the pink one from US Cellular since last November.  Please people do not waste your money on this phone.  It shuts off by itself, the text messaging is all messed up - if you have not gone into your contacts at least once after turning phone off it says there are no contacts to add, the music player is fine until you try to create a playlist and it deletes itself after adding a few songs.  I took mine in to the tech and showed him exactly all the problems - which he was impressed that they repeated themselves so he could see them.  Does USC really care that I have a phone with so many bugs - no.  Does LG - no.  So now I have this phone sitting in a drawer because I got so annoyed with it and am using my v3m.  I will never buy another LG and staying with US Cellular after the crappy response I have gotten with tech support is less than desirable.  If your phone is having any issues please contact tech repair because the more phone that have problems the quicker a fix might come out or a recall all together.  Don't wait and think that your phone will get better - it won't so go in and make sure that they know what is wrong with your phone.

I got this phone as a gift in January and I loved it in the beginning.  Although I still like the phone overall, reality has set in.  The Rhythm is extremely buggy and I will have to deal with some annoying traits by keeping this phone. The phone frequently crashes and shuts off with no warning.  When I power it back on the phone beeps every minute for about 10 minutes and quickly flashes random error messages such as "Message Receipt Failed!" or "Data is locked!".  I resolved the "Data is locked" error by reducing all security settings and turning off the call mapping application; however, other errors still occur several times a week.I also noticed that the battery charge indicator is crap.  I even bought a new battery because I assumed I just got a dud.  With both batteries, the indicator stays at a full charge until the charge drops to almost 0%.  I get about five minutes of warning that the phone is no longer at 100% charge and is about to die.  This happens whether I'm actively using the phone or it's sitting on my bed stand.

I got my LG Rhythm in October, started having problems about 2 weeks after it was activated (or at least that's when I started noticing them).  DO NOT expect this phone to keep up with you if you text a lot, sometimes I get messages hours and hours after people send them, and as others stated, it takes forever to send texts, sometimes my texts just fail and won't send, sometimes I have to actually make an outgoing call to get my texts--while I'm on the phone I magically receive 10 texts all at once, the touch keys stick, the wheel sticks, the internet browser sucks and gives me error messages all the time, I get random voicemails at 3am without my phone ever ringing, and it turns itself off.  I have alltel, so when I first started having problems I took it into the store, they gave me another phone through the mail (it's called an XBM).  So far, I have done a total of 4 XBMs and every single phone had the same problems.  Finally, my dad, who is the administrator of our account called technical service and demanded them to give me a different model of phone, they refused until he threatened to take our local alltel store to court.  It is now March 13th and I am finally getting my new phone on monday, probably a samsung because I never want to look at another LG phone EVER again.
 
 
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

I purchased this phone with my Christmas holiday as a Christmas/ New Years present to myself. I got the phone on New Years Eve. I chose the Pink LG Rhythm from U.S. Cellular. I am on my mother's plan and she has been with this company for about as long as cell phones have existed. I first started having problems with my phone 3 days after my 30 day trial that U.S. Cellular has for their customers. The problem was my phone was contantly messing up and beeping saying "files are locked" and all I could do to get it to work was take the battery out. I couldn't even turn it off with the power button. Well, this problem stopped and I figured all was well so I didn't take the phone into the company. Then about a week or so later the touch screen just stopped working. Same problem. I could turn the phone off and on and it would still not work. So, yet again removing the battery but instead I couldn't just place it back in the phone had to sit anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. When I sent the phone to LG they sent it back to my cell phone comany with "pictures" proving that I had water damage to my phone. Funny thing is I never dropped this phone in any water or even had it near any kind of liquid. So yeah, I have a feeling that LG just doesn't want to fix my phone. When I asked why the water damage sticker was not a different color they stated "there is one on the outside and another on the inside and you have water damage inside the phone that came in through your speaker. So, I would not reccomend this phone at all unless you are really patient or careful (and have a good phone comapny). I love the phone and I want mine back but right now I am going through a horrific process just to have one that works. The sales associate that my mother uses at our local US Cellular is working with her managers now to try and get me another Rhythm. I have had this loaner phone now for close to a month when for the company to tell me I had water damage it should not have taken this long. Today is March 10, 2009 and the phone was sent in the morning on February 16, 2009. Good luck with this phone if you decide to purchase it. It's a great phone unless you have one of the unlucky ones that want to mess up.

Easy and fast interface, great MP3 player, has a "coolness" feature with lights that other phones lack.  It doesn't do anything spectacular besides music, but it does what it does excellent.  It's only locked up on me once since I've had it.  The included headphones are great.

Ok seriously some people must not know what a PHONE is.

Antenna is HORRIBLE, you're LUCKY to ever get signal.
Texts take anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 hours to be recieved on this phone, even when sent from 5 feet away.
Phone seems to enjoy encrypting text messages for no apparent reason.
Mic must really suck, as nothing short of yelling into it allows people to hear you.
Constant and yet totally random shut offs. Especially when sliding the phone shut or resending failed text.
Battery life is TERRIBLE.
Vibration is horrible, as you're lucky to feel it IF it even vibrates.
Your lucky if the touch buttons work EVERY time you use them.

As a music player it is average, as a phone, it sucks. I went in after the Rockr, they tried to talk me into a Blackberry, I chose this. I made a mistake. I am trying to find a way to get rid of this piece of junk. Seriously it is the WORST phone I've EVER had. Liked it the first 3 days, then I actually had to use it. Now 3 months later I am regretting ever having seen it.

Terrible phone. Won't hold a charge. Chat function will screw up if you receive a text while you're in it. Will shut down if you receive 2 texts at once. Overall a piece of shit. Buy an ipod separately and save yourself the grief.

I liked this phone at the beginning when I got it.  But now I got so frustrated with it shutting itself off and back on all the time that I went in and had my old v3m turned back on.  So now I am sitting here locked in a new contract with a pos phone on the shelf.  I am debating whether to send it or not.

Ok to begin i do not know what all u ppl are saying when u say the soft keys r to sensitive just get off ur lazy butts and turn the sensitivity down seriously dont complain if u dont even know that! The phone does lack a little in battery life but other than that its not bad at all i love it 100%. The menu they show on the pics is not the menu i hace though i have the newer menu with messeging as the right soft key and celltop as the right soft key i have no probelem with the flywheel   and please dont adresse the fly wheel as "that spiny thing" LG gave it that name for a reason u can navigate fast ring a bell anyone>>? When u get used to the flywheel u can navigate through ur phone faster than ever! ANd i am a big texter texting was no prob on this phone after like two days the slider is a tad heavy other wise its no prob so really i reccomend this phone to anyone who is willing to do a bit of change and to any one with common sense this phone is the shittt! O and to anyone who read reviews about the rhythm taking a while to recieve texts it recieves like the second somone sends or within like 30 seconds and i have had no probs what so ever with missing calls they all come just like a regular phone trust me when i say this i have this phone and like five of my friends do to its worth the money..... Alltel rocks down with Verizon, Sprint, cellcom, T mobile, AT&T is the worst around where i live!

Well to start off i recieved my phone as a backup to my old LG phone which they no longer make thank god. After I recieved the Rhythm through insurance I thought, great this phone doesn't look too bad besides the big spinning wheel in the center. Well the first couple days went by and I studied the phone and noticed all the cool things such as the background pic in the center, and the light colors that vibrate when you touch them, so I thought the phone navigated itself very well. HOWEVER, days go by and I notice for some reason all my text messages were coming in a once time and at a delayed time. From 30 minutes to possibly hours, the same with voice mails. Where I would get a phone call (never recieved on the phone) and was left a voice mail, well after a couple of days the same person calls and leaves a voice mail and the phone discovers that there are in fact 2 voice mails! I suggest to anyone who thinks this phone looks slick and likes the featues to avoid purchasing it through Alltel, possibly through Verizon as well. It may be a fun little toy that plays supurb music but it should not be called a PHONE, just for teh reasons alone that it cannot hold the standards of actually holding a signal, recieving messages, and accepting calls at times.

I Got this cell back  around thanksgiving. Now on the 3rd one through the exchange program and still the same. I receive 2 out of 20 calls no VM alerts no text. Phone really sux for just about everything. Customer service says i have to exchange one more time before getting a new choice in a cell. This is absurd, I will get a phone that rings! And really this phone is not that cool, Its Very unattractive, Its the fat cheerleader of cell phones.
So DO NOT BUY THIS CELL, Please, for your own mental well being.

I have had this phone for a month now and i love everything about it. I got it through U.S. Cellular so i don't have any problems downloading ringtones from my PC to my phone. Verizon also screwed the Razors when they came out as well. The "wheel" is there for fun. I found it alot easier to just click my way through the menu. I will have to agree on the sensitive soft keys.