r/LightPhone

Hey guys, I just got a light phone 3 and I’m excited about it. But I’m kind of worrying that it’s not going to be as effective as I thought because I can just pull out my laptop or iPad and do a lot of the same things I would’ve done on my smart phone. I mean, at least when I’m waiting in line or on the move etc I won’t have that option, but if I’m at the library or at home or work etc, I can just pull out my iPad or laptop etc. For example, right now I’m home for the night and I’m able to pull out my iPad or laptop and watch a few hours of YouTube and scroll social media.
Do you still see the major benefits of at least not having access to social media etc when you are on the move? Or do you implement solutions for this issue that I’m mentioning?
I mean, like, I’m considering potentially just selling my iPad and laptop. But I need to figure out if that’s realistic. Or at least if I just leave both at home then at least I won’t be able to always just whip out my iPad when I am on the move.
Do y’all have any solutions for this? Or any input or response here from ppl who’ve had the LP longer than me is appreciated! Thanks! 🙏

Been using LP 3 for a couple months now (both in LP OS and Hybrid) and have had issues that are not deal breakers but today the phone (on ATT for calls and sms) just dropped signal for hours this morning without reason and without me knowing until I tried to make a call. It's one thing to give up many of the features but it's an entirely other thing to not know the phone just dropped a cellular signal and you miss calls. Not social media or the internet... CALLS! This isn't the first time it happened but it's happening now more often and it's definitely the first time that I didn't notice it for hours, missing calls. All went to voicemail. Unacceptable and sadly I think I'm done until it's more reliable.

Can the LP3 connect via Bluetooth to a smartwatch (I have a Garmin) to push sms message and call notifications?

I have been on the lightphone for about a month now. I have really enjoyed my experience, and not having the addictive apps at your fingertips has been a welcome (sometimes challenging) change.

My one issue is group messages and this whole RCS issue. I know it is out of lightphones control. I also know that some people talk about this magical 30 day time frame where it starts working. I have not had that experience yet. So many of my social circles use group messaging for planning meet ups etc. It has been a huge challenge to not have it.

Have people who previously switched from an iphone, turned off imessage and RCS, had any luck with being able to receive group messages over time? I am patiently waiting...

Hey all, does anyone else have the issue where if you make (also effects imported/recurring events) a calendar event and select ‘all day’, it shows the event on the following day too?

cheers!

would really like to switch to LP3, but every time I check in here, it seems like there's a lot of issues still.

Have most of the bugs been ironed out, or should I wait?

The lightphone worked well for me the first 2-3 months, but have been increasingly buggy with calls and text. I have never used group texts, so there must be some other issue. The same issue persist with both andoid and iPhone users.

Texts or missing calls often show up a day or two later.

The phone also looses connection from time to time. Restarting the phone always fixes this.

Unfortunately these issues are now too frequent to be able to continue using the phone. I absolutely LOVE this phone, if it was not for its current unreliability with texts and phone calls.

Is it just me or is copy and paste super clunky. I often have the need to copy a text message from one person and paste it in a message for another. This usually takes a number of goes before hopefully achieving success. Am I alone with this? Surely having an option to forward a message would be easier anyway?

Also I have never yet managed to swipe back to the previous screen. I though that was supposed to be a thing?

I have an unmodified LP3 with a screen protector (I wonder if this is the issue).

ps. love the phone, love the freedom I have from not being tethered to a device.

Any successes with having that setup? I’m going with a new phone line and I tried their eSim device list but couldn’t find the LP3. I also know the Lightphone site confirms eSim is in beta. Was trying to avoid going to the store or having a sim shipped, but if I have to, so be it!

Started seeing a few posts that discussed not receiving messages and calls because of RCS. I’m on t mobile now, previous iPhone user. Been about 6 days since I’ve turned off RCS. Worried that I shouldn’t start with my main number until later and just buy a Mint prepaid.

I used LP2 for 1.5 years and loved it!! Phone broke last July, and long story short (lots of waiting!), I just recently got the LP3. To mitigate the amount of missed text messages, I was determined to do things right - I even switched from Verizon to the LP phone plan. I turned off iMessage….did all the things. But it’s SO bad this time around. I’m missing messages from family, my husband, group messages (which is was okay with last time) - but it’s significantly worse this time around. What am I missing?! I read something about having your friends switch their settings to “send as sms” but even that isn’t helping. Will it ever get better? I’m okay with missing some text messages, but it’s really bad this time around. Any thoughts? I’m considering selling it but if something will change, I’ll hold on to it.

I think we mainly want to be able to send photos to friends. At the moment you can forward to your own email. I realise the phone doesn't have an email tool, and that's fine, but if the phone contacts list also included a field to add a person's email address then when we tapped on the forwarding icon under a photo we could see a list with three options: Message, Forward to Email, Forward to Contacts, and then when you tapped on Forward to Contacts you would see a list of your friend's names, tap on the person you want to send the photo to, and done.

I believe the phone is capable of that and it would be fairly straightforward to implement. And it might go some way towards making some of us feel less handicapped by the lack of RCS. It's great that Signal is coming but not everyone uses it, whereas everyone has an email address.

Hey all, first I have rebooted and my OS is up to date, also took off a screen protector (but it was fine I think as the issue below happens with both).

Just over the last two weeks when I'm on a call, received or me calling out, and I'm done I press the X to end the call but it does not end the call. There is no vibration that indicates a press. I found this as a solution, I do the button lock (top right) and pull the call back up and then the end call button X works. Just to note, when sending texts or tools or any other button on that portion of the screen works with no issue.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Been finding I lose signal more and more this past month (Canadian user).

I'll pick up my phone to check in with my wife or something and it won't be connected to a network (just blank in the top left corner). A reset usually returns it to normal, but holy smokes it's getting more and more common the past few weeks. Sometimes she'll text me and I won't get the message from her til way after she sent is as well (she's also a LP3 user).

Another issue I've had a few times is I'll be typing out a text message and the cursor moves but no letters appear on the screen. Again, a reset usually fixes it.

Anyone else experience this? Are there any known fixes for this? Or is this just a thing where you have to turn your phone off all the time?