no i have had 3 different LG phones through out the years i been with Verizon. i have had 0 problems with any of them. i never owned the chocolate that was just a faggot phone so i didnt care to buy it. i have had samsung and it was junk and always froze and i had motorola which was the biggest piece of shit. both the motorola v710 and the krazr. i returned both of them.