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I switched from iphone to LG4, my LG4 now cannot get service G4 or LTD when at my house which my iPhone did very frustrating, ready to go back to iphon!!!
I too switched from iphone to LG4 less than 1 month ago and am really regretting my decision. Phone keeps getting hot. Screen has started going black during phone calls which leaves me unable to disconnect. Power button won’t even disconnect the call. Battery doesn’t hold a charge and recharging cable keeps falling out at the slightest movement or touch.
Not a happy LG4 user !
I just got my lg g4 and on snap chat for my saved Conversation I can’t scroll up to see more than a few of them. On my friends iPhone she can scroll and see all of them!!
I have had the phone for about 3 weeks. Verizon VS986 variant. Typing lags, misses letters constantly, and suddenly there is a black phantom spot in all the pictures i take. There is absolutely no scratches or dust on the lens.i have looked with a magnifying glass. Almost as if the sensor is damaged. Never dropped…nothing. Even switching to the google keyboard the typing lag continues. Will not connect to a Comcast router properly. It gets 6-8 iPV6 addresses and web access slows to a crawl. I brided an older Netgear router to it and it works fine but i have 105+mbps and the Netgear is too old to support the fukl speed. BLOATWARE everywhere from Verizon. Can’t root. I miss my Note 3.
Last night my phone froze and shut off. Now when I try to turn it on, it gets stuck on the first black LG screen and that same screen keeps popping up. Thank you so much!
What ever happened with your phone? I can’t get mine past the Loading screen. And yes, I’ve tried every possible fix. I’m so upset because of course I didn’t have a chance to back up pictures etc.
May I ask how you got this problem with your phone fixed?
It happened to me just earlier!! It just turned off and I cant open it now! its totally dead! im so frustrated and I am really pissed off now! I dont know what to do! :( Such a waste of money spending with this kind of phone!
Aaaaah soooo, After reading these comments I see my LG phone and tablet is NOT the only one around with problems. How shall I start: First day purchased phone would not ring, couldn’t select a ring tone, when I set the volume to high the phone would reset the volume to off. I took the phone back to US Cellular. They said that never happens with an LG. They fiddled with it and it started working for two days. Then it started writing in red pen on the dial screen, soon splotches of red were everywhere. I took the phone back four times for additional problems. It was as if it was POSSED certainly with its own agenda. Last straw CBS news video came on while I was in a phone conversation, the other party could here it also. I was done with it. I got another LG because it had been a package deal with a free android tablet. The second LG started with same problems but not as severe. But now the tablet won’t open. It is going back. I understood LG to be an excellent product but at this rate it might become an Xproduct.
Well my phone will not ring despite volume control set to high! It comes back when I restore it to factory settings for (2 days,) then it stops again!!
Is obviously a software issue, hoping for bug fix….
Has this happened to anyone?
This lg g4 phone is terrible. Problem. Touch screen often fails to open with taps and must attempt to open with button on back. 2. Most frustrating of all is the screen goes black, will not stay on and can”r make even 911 call or retrieve any calls, texts. Multiple calls to tech support who says they never heard of problem and in store personnel of no help either. If ever in emergency, I am in big trouble as this phone will not allow me to make a call. Three months, Contract for lots of money and not a decent phone. Certainly Verizon should make this right. Only consideration is a refurbished phone. I am upset with this phone and Verizon. I would suggest that you stay away from this phone if you don”r want to be frustrated.
Is anyone having problems with receiving texts? It keeps showing up as Anoymous or attempting to download with no success. It’s crap.
Regarding the G4 phone, With my G4, Voice dialing is ridiculous. I don’t think the voice lady can hear me. Either that, or she is drunk ans a skunk (-: Most of the time, when the phone’s voice lady repeats my calling numbers for verification, I either hear a completely different number or she says “Command not recognized. I have always predominately used voice dialing and love it. With my G4 it is worse than worthless, but I have read no complaints about this issue. It seems like she can’t hear me very well; but, when I switch to “OK Google” voice dialing always works perfect. The only downside of OK Google is that for voice dialing I can’t keep my phone in my pocket. Any suggestions?
LG will lose so many customers over their pathetic guest service. People are basically forgiving provided remorse is evident and all signs indicate they care about you as a customer. LG clearly does not. Whether they fix our phones or not I will never use them again!! Too many other companies who care out there.
I have been having a problem with my APN settings on this phone. i called my carrier and they said its the phone itself. this is causing me not to be able to receive most mms messages, and send most as well. it will send and receive to certain people and not others. no i havent figured out what those phones have in common.
My biggest complaint is that my home wifi gets disconnected randomly in the middle of a session. Says it’s avoiding a bad signal. I call bs because all my other devices are hooked up just fine. When I leave my house of course I lose that connection. But when I come back in I have to re-establish the saved wifi. Never had that happen on any device. But sometimes it will reconnect just fine. My wifes s6 is just fine. Perhaps the lg antennae is the problem. So I turned smart search wifi off completely and it seems wifi stays connected. Thinking of getting a new router but that seems a bit too much. Should have ponied up and bought the note 5.
Personally I think for 500 a pop there is a class action suit naming both the manufacturer and the carrier to be made. 14 day return is nonsense. I don’t see why lemon laws should not apply. If it doesn’t work as intended then it’s a defective product. Seems pretty simple to me. Would you stand for a washing machine that didn’t wash clothes?
Other than that the phone is great. Calls are great clarity, fast Web life. No other issues that I’ve seen. Some may be att’s doing and some lg. In my view the carries add to much bloatware of their own overlaying the software developed by the manufacturer. I say make those available as a sprint or Verizon or whatever app and let me download it if I want to.
After being replaced 4 times by verizon the POS LG/G4 has heated up under different circumstances. Tech 2 has documented temps of 109 yet thaey wont replace it with a different model. They offered to replace as long as I trade it in for $146.00 and for me to pay the difference, then I can buy a new one for another 2 years of payments.
looks like Verizon as joined the the ranks of the rest of organized crime world. RICO, Class action law suit or just plain old JUSTICE the can steal and get away with it by blaming the customer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m about ready to upgrade my cell phone..It’s just an LG. Don’t even have internet yet. I’m ready for my upgrade with Sprint with an LG4. Unlimited texting, unlimited phone calls., internet, gps, Great pictures. But after reading what you guys are going through, not sure I’m going to get it now. It’s only $54.00 a month..maybe this is why?
I recently got the G4 and I like it a lot, my only problem with it, is the amount of data it uses. Its crazy. And I use it just like any other device.
I just got my LG G4 H812 yesterday On Fido Network. Brought it home, did the updates. Was starting system update and next thing I noticed was a boot loader screen with tiny letter. Tried Hard resetting it many times and it just stays frozen on the factory reset screen. Gonna bring it back and exchange it. 2nd times a charm. Considering getting the extra warranty before 15 days are up.
My wife is on her second LG G4. These things are junk. They don’t hold a charge. They heat up. The touch screen is unresponsive when it’s asleep.
The phone has been nothing but problems first was the touch screen and I got that rectified I got some slack for a couple months and then it corrupted my memory card losing almost 5000 photos that I will never be able to get back. Now I am dealing with random restarts, freezing and pulling the battery to restart. I have done factory resets but nothing seems to help. I am frustrated as hell with this product. I was looking into another android phone other than Samsung’s buggy software and bloatware. But it seems that I may have to go back with samsung if LG doesn’t step up their game. I really like the expandable storage, the screen and removable battery. The camera is by far amazing, but still isnt worth the fact that I paid almost 600USD for a sometimes non functional phone in the mere 5-6months that I have it.
TERRIBLE! Won’t take the knock code 75% of the time. Right now it won’t take it but is turning on & off randomly. The video is difficult to turn on & off. When I charge the phone with the charger that came with it I get a message saying I should use the original charger. Then it sometimes takes 4 hours to charge and one hour to discharge! To make it all more frustrating I can’t get a user manual. I get an error message when I click the link for it.
When are you guys gonna make a phone to protect you from hackers?
I spend to much money on my phones from LG and I feel you guys should make your customers feel safer from thieves instead of just getting the customers money and there is no real phone security where it’s needed.
The screen issue I was having seems to be cleared up after I uninstalled FB messenger. I googled screen not working left corner and a number of forums came up explaining that it may have to do with messenger app. My app did not have to be open for my screen to have issues. I just decided to uninstall the app and the screen started working and I have had no problems with it. I’ve had issues with my time flipping forward and people have said that is probably a carrier issue. So, I have loved my LG G4 so far and google can be a great help if you trouble shoot yourself.
Occasionally the pattern swipe doesn’t work correctly and the phone unlocks without having to swipe the pattern. It seems to be connected to notifications coming in, you wake up the phone and the text or email notification is there but the button pattern screen is not there, just the words swipe to unlock, and when you swipe it unlocks.
This is worst phone I have ever had. It keeps overheating and I have to take out the battery to make it stop. At random, the battery will just keep running down. Half the time it wont pick up the wifi.
I really like this phone overall. Call quality is excellent is the main point of a phone. I’ve had issues with my Wi-Fi not staying connected and I’ve trained myself to look at the notification bar to see if I’m on my home Wi-Fi or data. I’ve researched this and tried all the different ideas to no avail. I’ve come to the conclusion that it is the phone. My Samsung tabs and other phones all keep a stable connection. So therefore the issue is this LG phone. That’s disturbing to pay higher end and get spotty performance over a simple thing and to get no support from the manufacturer or the carrier. They didn’t have any issues selling it to me at that price. But if this is the worst I have to deal with then I can live with it and not spend more time fretting about it.
What a flaming piece of Dog Crap this LG g4 is. Bought 2 in July for my Daughter and I. Hers started power cycling a month after owning it. They were back ordered ALREADY. Had to fight with Sprint to get a replacemwnt.Her phone went bad a second time after an android update. Then after the recent update to Marshmallow, a week later her phone went bad again. Wouldnt boot. Couldn’t be repaired locally . Then, 3 days later, MY phone went down with rhe SAME issue!! What a Piece of absolute Garbage. I would love ro start a Clasa-Action lawsuit against LG, and Sprint who is Still selling these in the stores.
Fwiw. My g4 just got a software update to android 6. Seems to be a more stable WiFi connection. Just before the update it was turning on and off like a crazy possessed device. After the update i had only one time that it dropped. Noticed the wifi icon in the drop down was off. I didn’t manually turn it off so it did this on its own. My 3 other Samsung devices all had steady connections so i know it’s this phone that does funky stuff. Almost like a loose wire on the board to the antenna. I’ll come back in a few days and see if it holds and let you know. On the smart wifi settings i have it set to be turned on at home but it never does. When i leave it disconnects from the router and when i return i have to manually reconnect. About 98%of the time. But sometimes rarely it will automatically connect. The samsungs always pick it back up again. Weird huh?
Btw. For a better keyboard than either google or lg i downloaded swipekey. Google just acquited swipekey. Much much better. The predictive text learns very quickly. Would like it to recognize obviously wrong words and underline them in red with predicted words in a dropdown so you can automatically spell check and see what words may be changed if you want. But it is way better. On my samsung tab the typing is really slow so i went back to the standard keyboard. It also is a bit wonky using Operaas a browser but seems to be just fine in chrome or Firefox.
Sorry. Keyboard app is called SwiftKey not SwipeKey. My error.
I believe the WiFi auto disconnect issue is solved. Att version. The have an app called smart switch. Turned all those settings off. Actually removed the app. Seems that this app was arguing for control with the internal android software, trying to wrest control over each other. Since then WiFi reconnects when in range of my home network just fine. Drops every once in a while but I attribute that to blips from my provider signal. Otherwise when it does it self reconnects just fine with seconds or less.
After updating my LG G4 f500s marshmallow this month i’m currently having problems with my phone not waking up when i use double tap or power button and this happens almost everytime. So i need to remove the battery to retart the phone. Hope they fix this soon.
I have a screen problem on my g4, when i use the knock knock code it doesnt respond i’ve gotta try again even though i know i didnt make mistake on tapping. I also experienced the freezing screen where i cant tap or open any app. I guess it got lagged. This happen after one month i bought it, then there is also a charging problem, its about the phones charging port i guess its broken, gotta have to find a way to charge it. Then also i notice that it doesnt display the music/song being played on the status bar or even in lock screen. Also they said that gorilla glass 3 is anti scratch, I guess its only a false advertisement coz mine have some little scratch on it. Last is the built-in quickremote control app, Appliances not an lg brand (i.e. samsung tv, set box/ audio) it couldnt recognize , its so hard to use.
Spam box is not working no matter how i configure it. It is not blocking spam messages. Anyone having the same issue? So frustrating.
LG 4G clock allows to set alarm, however if phone is off alarm won’t Ring. It is of many the first of my phones which can not ring while off. It requires battery drain 24/7.
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My 3rd LG-G4 just died! My favorite Sprint tech got it for me in 2 days, but what good is great service if the G4’s keep dying?
I’ve had my LG G4 for a little over a year and it is not as sensitive, it will only connect to Miracast half of the time, and apps crash decently often. It’s annoying but I love my phone and I hope that Android will get these issues fixed soon.
I bought mine last year and 3 months later, it was loop booting. (rebooting over and over) so I got a replacement. Now 9 months later the replacement has just flat out died. I can pull the battery and “reboot”, but once it gets to the carrier signal display… it shuts down. Dead. I’m getting yet another replacement through my plan, but it’s going to cost me 150.00. I will NEVER use another LG product after this experience.
Serious audio issues. So many calls end up with a bizarre feedback where you can hear yourself so it sounds like there is a third person on the line. Gotta hang up and try calling again. Happens daily. Or sometimes the person on the LG becomes completely inaudible. Just loud white noise when they talk. My husband and I both have this phone and we have exactly the same issues.
I really haven’t had much problems with mine at all. I’ve been very happy with it.
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Kathy Vrabeck has been hired to head up games effort, digital division at Legendary Pictures. Credit: Electronic Arts.
It's been an open secret in Hollywood for months now that Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull, producer of "The Dark Knight" and other blockbuster films, has tapped Kathy Vrabeck to head up a new digital division that will focus on, among other things, video games.
Today, Legendary made it official, announcing Vrabeck's appointment as a crucial step in taking the company's "creative content to the next level of interactivity for both the industry and the consumer," according to a statement.
Tull has not detailed his plans for the newly created interactive division, but the film financier has an abiding interest in games. Among his film projects are movies based on Activision Blizzard's fantasy-themed World of Warcraft game and Epic Games' Gears of War shooter franchise. A gamer himself, Tull invested in Brash Entertainment, a company headed by Massive Entertainment founder Mitch Davis. Brash burst on the scene in 2007 promising to reinvent Hollywood's relationship with video games only to disintegrate months later amid a flurry of lawsuits.
Unlike Davis, who was a relative newcomer to the games business, Vrabeck has more than a decade of industry experience under her belt as head of publishing at Activision and, most recently, president of Electronic Art's casual games division. She is also among a handful of high-profile female executives in an industry that has been dominated by men.
"The opportunity to combine Legendary’s brand, loyal consumer following and talented creative partnerships with the fastest growing segments of digital entertainment is incredibly exciting," Vrabeck said in a statement.
The violence of the sun's atmosphere makes it both a difficult subject for study and a compelling one. The strength and energy of solar flares and the winds that flow from them periodically make themselves known on Earth as radio interference and spectacular polar auroras, despite our protective atmosphere and magnetic field. In a study published in Friday's Science, two California researchers shed light on the surface of the sun by examining a body without any protection from solar wind whatsoever, the surface of the moon.
The scientists analyzed samples of lunar soil obtained by Apollo 17 astronauts nearly 30 years ago for the presence and distribution of beryllium-10, an unstable isotope produced in the solar atmosphere and carried by solar wind. The sun produces beryllium-10 by the same mechanism that gives us polar auroras: subatomic particles are trapped in a closed magnetic loop and accelerated to extraordinary velocities. When protons caught this way in the sun's atmosphere collide with the nuclei of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, they can form a nucleus with four protons and six neutronsone neutron more than the stable form of berylliumfor a total of 10 nuclear particles, giving beryllium-10 its name.
The researchers wanted to know what happens to beryllium-10 produced this way and, by extension, what happens to the outer layers of the solar atmosphere in which it is formed. Two models of the solar surface contend. One posits deep atmospheric mixing, and the other envisions steady outward motion with only shallow mixing. By analyzing the concentration of beryllium-10 on the lunar surface, the team was able to estimate the proportion of the sun's total beryllium-10 production (a known quantity) that is ejected without delay. The isotope under study decomposes rapidly, with a half-life of 1.6 million years. Thus a study of its concentration would not include any deposits dating from the formation of the moon or from a time when beryllium-10 was produced more widely and frequently.
Still, the scientists had to control for other sources of beryllium-10 in their lunar sample. "The moon has no atmosphere and no magnetic field, so the solar wind is not kept in any way, shape or form from hitting the surface of the moon," study co-author Marc Cafee of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reports. This circumstance allows cosmic rays to bombard the moon as well, producing some beryllium-10 locally. The researchers used acids to leach the isotope from soil samples taken from the lunar surface and from about 20 centimeters below it. Using the deeper sample as a baseline, they were able to quantify the amount of beryllium-10 that is deposited on the surface of the moon by the wind.
Even though it travels at between 300 and 800 kilometers per second, solar wind cannot drive the isotope any deeper than one nanometer into the surface of a soil grain. Thus the first mild rinse of acid released 14 to 16 percent more beryllium-10 than the average yield of the entire surface sample. The lunar concentration of beryllium-10 of a conclusively solar origin is consistent with a deposition rate of 2.9 (+/-1.2) x 10-6 atoms per square centimeter per year. This rate could only be sustained by constant and direct ejection of the upper atmosphere of sun in the solar wind. If the solar atmosphere were deeply mixed the researchers expect beryllium-10 would be four or five orders of magnitude scarcer.
Facebook is developing its own cryptocurrency for payments, according to at least two reports, a move that has the potential to make the social network billions of dollars while also helping to eliminate fake news and bots.
Although the social media giant has not publicly commented on reports from Bloomberg and The New York Times, it did acknowledge it's exploring the distributed ledger technology (DLT).
"Like many other companies Facebook is exploring ways to leverage the power of blockchain technology. This new small team is exploring many different applications. We don't have anything further to share," Facebook said in a response to a Computerworld request for comment.
While details are few, the reports based on unnamed sourses claim a cryptocurrency would allow users of Facebook's WhatsApp messaging platform to send money to contacts, similar to how Venmo or PayPal allow cross-border payments; the difference is that there would be no middleman (i.e., a central bank or clearing firm).
According to the Times' article, Facebook has already spoken with cryptocurrency exchanges about selling its crypto coin to consumers; others believe the social media firm would not tie payments to a strict "cryptocurrency," opting instead to use a stable coin backed by U.S. dollars and other fiat currencies.
"They'll get exchanges to onboard customers with the KYC [know your customer] process and enable them to buy the currency," said Avivah Litan, a Gartner vice president of research. "The details are sketchy, but my guess is they increase ad revenue and offer users a PayPal-like experience...and they don't get regulated much."
Stable coin networks require operators to keep collateral in a bank, so that if $1 billion in digital coin is issued, an equivalent amount must be available on deposit or reserve, according to Litan. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin that aren't backed by fiat currencies, have no intrinsic value other than supply and demand.
In a note to investors this week, Barclays internet analyst Ross Sandler said a "Facebook Coin" could net the social network as much as $19 billion in revenue by 2021, according to a report from CNBC.
"Merely establishing this revenue stream starts to change the story for Facebook shares in our view," Sandler told CNBC.
Because blockchain-based payment networks eliminate the need for central banks that enable payment processing, the time and fees associated with payment, clearance and settlement can be cut. DLT also has the added attraction of avoiding regulation, which has yet to catch up to the blockchain industry.
The Facebook interest reflects gathering interest in using blockchain-based networks to move money around.
In February, the largest U.S. bank by deposits, J.P. Morgan, launched its own stable coin. JPM Coin, as the bank is calling it, has the equivalent value of one U.S. dollar.
"When one client sends money to another over the blockchain, JPM Coins are transferred and instantaneously redeemed for the equivalent amount of U.S. dollars, reducing the typical settlement time," JPMorgan said in an online FAQ. "The JPM Coin is based on blockchain-based technology enabling the instantaneous transfer of payments between institutional accounts."
And just this week, IBM launched a payment service using a stable coin for international money transfers.
On Facebook, users who want to purchase advertised products must currently type in credit card information – not big deal on a desktop computer, but a somewhat more arduous experience on a mobile device that leads to people dropping off the site, according to Litan.
"I've talked to someone who uses Facebook extensively for advertising and business and he said [blockchain] is good for advertisers because it'll convert more customers because it's a one-click pay," Litan said. "So, [customers] will have a currency where they'll just pay and that way [Facebook] will keep all the payments within their own network and with more conversions and higher advertising rates."
Jack Gold, president and principal Analyst of J. Gold Associates, believes Facebook is interested in entering the "lucrative" the mobile payments market, where it will compete with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and others. "They have a huge installed base and if they can leverage a payment opportunity it could generate some pretty big revenues for them," he said.
Facebook, however, could also cash in on blockchain's native cryptography, which enables network operators to authenticate users through hash keys once they're registered; the process keeps identities private but means there's an authentic user on the other end and not a bot.
"It can also be used to enhance their ability to fight... 'fake news' by requiring that everyone posting be registered and have an audit trail," Gold said.
Blockchain technology creates an immutable record where a file or "block" of data is inextricably tied to the previous one through a hash; it's a write-once, append-many technology.
Because of its cryptography capabilities, blockchain could also help Facebook comply with new international privacy laws, such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which targets citizens' personally identifiable information (PII), providing transparency around its use and giving people the right to restrict its use or request it be deleted all together. If a user deletes their hash key, their information is no longer accessible, meaning cryptographic deletionis just as effective – if not more so – as traditional data deletion.
Today, registering with blockchain is hard due to the need to confirm the identity of the users (e.g., requiring them to have an ID, picture, etc.), Gold said via email. "So the person can be confirmed and it's a very manual process. But that could potentially be simplified for Facebook needs."
There is however, a downside to collecting user information in order to authenticate them; it means Facebook now becomes the repository for a lot of personally identifiable information.
"But I suspect there will be a lower bar on identity for Facebook users that can still offer some level of identity without all the serious identity confirmation needed in financial transactions," Gold said. "Although any payment system might still need that, so there may be levels of identity confirmation."
This story, "Facebook’s blockchain cryptocurrency could mean big money – and kill 'fake news'" was originally published by Computerworld.
This informal rooftop eatery has the best view of anywhere of the La Jolla Cove, but the food isn't the fine cuisine of the Dining Room downstairs — it’s essentially spiffy grazing. Excellent mussels are the sole memorable dish. Skip the owner's “famous” bean soup, a vanity item. High-moderate.
Monday: 3:30-6:30pm: $4 draft beers, $7 wine by the glass, $8 cocktails.
Tuesday: 3:30-6:30pm: $4 draft beers, $7 wine by the glass, $8 cocktails.
Wednesday: 3:30-6:30pm: $4 draft beers, $7 wine by the glass, $8 cocktails.
Thursday: 3:30-6:30pm: $4 draft beers, $7 wine by the glass, $8 cocktails.
Friday: 3:30-6:30pm: $4 draft beers, $7 wine by the glass, $8 cocktails.
UberX driver, Michael Belet, checks the Uber customer app to see where other Uber drivers are working so he can determine where the best place for him to get fares might be, April 7, 2014, in Washington, D.C.
The backlash against Uber’s surge pricing in the midst of an Australian hostage crisis on Monday was swift and decisive.
Uber riders in Sydney started tweeting about price hikes shortly after an armed assailant burst into a city cafe and took hostages, prompting a massive evacuation of offices and shops in the surrounding area. Fees hiked upwards of four times their normal rate, Mashable reported.
That “price gouging” argument echoed across social media Sunday evening, as it looked to many like Uber was trying to capitalize on a potentially deadly emergency. That conversation added another public relations headache to what’s already been a tough few months for Uber, which is facing lawsuits in several cities and an allegation that a male driver in India raped a female passenger.
Uber’s communication team, realizing what was up, tried to calm the outrage by arguing it was charging riders in Sydney more money to incentivize drivers to show up — which is how Uber has always explained its surge pricing.
Uber reversed course within an hour, offering full refunds to affected users and free rides to those who were still trying to evacuate the area (Drivers were still getting paid). Even then, Uber added one last defensive note about its pricing policy: “Please note that surge pricing is used to encourage more drivers to come online and pick up passengers from the area,” Uber wrote on its official blog.