internal screen black upon opening phone

I get this too. Pretty damn annoying.

How long have you had your phone, just out of curiousity?

I've had mine about a week and I notice that when I flip it open, the internal screen is black for a few seconds longer than it seems it should be before lighing up. I wonder if over time this is a sign my phone will have the same problem yours will?

I am on my 4th phone.  My brand new one got hot when charging and first the replaced the battery.  That didn't fix it so they replaced the phone with a refurb.  Very quickly that one went bad.  Then I got the blue/black screen of death on my "like-new" phone and they replaced it with yet another refurb which was in bad condition even tho it only had an hour or so of calls on it.  I too, am very picky about my phone, have a cover and screen protector at all times.  So I went right back the VERY next day and complained to the same woman who had helped me the night before and they gave me a brand new one.  Even let me look at it to make sure I was happy with it.  I had all the same issues with it but the LG V05 update done there at the Verizon Store fixed 99% of them. 

I was VERY persistent with the fact that my phone was less than 60 days old and that I had paid for a new phone and it was in Brand New condition when it went bad and I expected nothing less.   I got what I wanted and I didn't even rant and rave, I was very quiet and respectful.  (I've gotten ugly before, sad to say, and not very proud of it.)

Then I scratched my screen up really badly (I thought I put a screen protector on it after I got it...I hadn't.)  Oh well, at least I know that I scratched my phone and not someone else, haha.