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mmark27
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A little off topic, but just wanted to put in my experience in case anyone is traveling soon and my experiences with the S5.    I just got back from the Netherlands and I'll have to say that using y

lilotimz
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Why would we be bothered?    This site has known of the fact and the reasons for no SVLTE or SVDO on all triband devices for well over a year now. It is what it is until VoLTE arrives. Those who nee

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If the store is smart they fix it. Its only held on by one screw and can be fixed in seconds. We harvest them off all gs5 that get sent back since its not a part sprint currently replenishes us with.

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I can see it being broke off but the store not fixing it? It's not that hard, a few minutes and boom fixed new door. it's not like the employee is going to have to either think or work for a hour to fix it. I mean with in 5 to 10 min he/she should have it done.

 

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Rip one off a store demo phone if they wont fix it, then do it yourself. Its only held on by one screw.

I'm gonna try a couple more Corp stores. Also gonna look into wireless charging I guess. Looks like such an easy fix, but don't want to shell out another $20 if I don't have too. And it must be utter BS that they haven't seen it happen yet.

 

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I'm gonna try a couple more Corp stores. Also gonna look into wireless charging I guess. Looks like such an easy fix, but don't want to shell out another $20 if I don't have too. And it must be utter BS that they haven't seen it happen yet.

 

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Have you tried a Samsung Experience shop inside a Best Buy? I've heard that some are doing small repairs and swaps. They may have the piece.

 

I posted a link pages back about a place to order a new USB door flap and instructions on how to replace it. Maybe you've already done that?

 

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Have you tried a Samsung Experience shop inside a Best Buy? I've heard that some are doing small repairs and swaps. They may have the piece.

 

I posted a link pages back about a place to order a new USB door flap and instructions on how to replace it. Maybe you've already done that?

 

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Have not tried SE yet. Will try that. I saw that link you posted. Just didn't want to spend 20 more bucks if I don't have to.

 

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I know the camera image stabilization helps but it dose make it take images slowly sometimes. Dose having it on really help the pictures vs having it take them fast? What I'm trying to get to is is worth having image stabilization on?

 

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I know the camera image stabilization helps but it dose make it take images slowly sometimes. Dose having it on really help the pictures vs having it take them fast? What I'm trying to get to is is worth having image stabilization on?

 

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Eh, I turned it off. Rather take a few fuzzy ones than wait for the shutter.

 

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Eh, I turned it off. Rather take a few fuzzy ones than wait for the shutter.

 

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I turned mine off and like it much better, I can't tell the difference much.

 

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So recently my S5 started having awful battery drain.  It was the same time that sprint service got really bad in my area.  With the Epic4g, the ToS bug caused a battery drain but if you look at my battery usage, it is phone now.  Also my ToS is 0%.  Any suggestions short of a wipe.  I deleted all recent apps and added Lookout after it started.

 

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Have you tried a Samsung Experience shop inside a Best Buy? I've heard that some are doing small repairs and swaps. They may have the piece.

 

I posted a link pages back about a place to order a new USB door flap and instructions on how to replace it. Maybe you've already done that?

 

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yeah, the Samsung Experience here at our local Best Buy has taken 30% of apples sales, So apple is coming in to have there own bs

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Wonder if the 4.4.3 update will bring camera shutter option to be turned off

 

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If I put volume all the way down the shutter sound is gone. Unlike the s3.

 

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Wonder if the 4.4.3 update will bring camera shutter option to be turned off

 

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If I put volume all the way down the shutter sound is gone. Unlike the s3.

 

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They will never let us turn the shutter sound totally off. Honestly it's a miracle they let us turn the volume down to silence it. The latest updates for the S3 allow the shutter to silence when the phone volume is down. The S2 (Epic4GTouch) never allowed it. This is only on the Sprint variant, other carriers have the toggle to silence shutter sound.

 

The history of this is failed legislation in Congress for a privacy act to always make sure someone knew they were photographing you. Before the law was even voted upon, Sprint made a policy that all phones had to have audible shutters to comply with this. The law never went through, but Sprint kept their policy. However, the iPhone was never subject this. After months of back and forth with Sprint, they started to allow the shutter to silence with the phone volume off. It's not ideal, but the best we're going to get.

 

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They will never let us turn the shutter sound totally off. Honestly it's a miracle they let us turn the volume down to silence it. The latest updates for the S3 allow the shutter to silence when the phone volume is down. The S2 (Epic4GTouch) never allowed it. This is only on the Sprint variant, other carriers have the toggle to silence shutter sound.

 

The history of this is failed legislation in Congress for a privacy act to always make sure someone knew they were photographing you. Before the law was even voted upon, Sprint made a policy that all phones had to have audible shutters to comply with this. The law never went through, but Sprint kept their policy. However, the iPhone was never subject this. After months of back and forth with Sprint, they started to allow the shutter to silence with the phone volume off. It's not ideal, but the best we're going to get.

 

sent from an underwater dust storm with my Sprint S5

 

Wow, your phone still works from an underwater dust storm.  Now THAT'S durable!  I think I'll upgrade to a GS5!.

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NE5 update has posted to open source site. Just waiting on the OTA push. If anyone gets the update, please let us know what the file name is so we can harvest it from the GOTA server. I believe the file will be in /cache if you download but don't apply the update and can be viewed with something like ES File Explorer.

 

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Wonder if this will be the Wi-Fi calling update? I'd like to see the s5 get Wi-Fi.

 

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This is in fact, the WiFi calling update.

 

http://support.sprint.com/support/article/Find_and_update_the_software_version_on_your_Samsung_Galaxy_S_5/WServiceAdvisory_542_GKB69808?INTNAV=SU:DP:OV:UG:SamsungGalaxyS5:FindAndUpdateTheSoftwareVersionOnYourSamsungGalaxy

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I for cereal hope that there's more to this update than that.

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