themuffinman

I see there is a report (1) of burn-in of the home button from the always on display. The interwebs are taking this and running with it, even if this 1 dutch report isn't even real... regardless I have to ask -- AOD is not new. Did the S7 ever have burn-in issues with its always on display? If S7 and other AMOLED phones didn't have issues, I don't know why people would worry so much about this one. I feel like some of these sites are just grabbing at straws to find problems when there really are none.

A lot of people will eventually experience burn in, that's just the nature of amoled. My s6 has screen burn, my s7 edge didn't have any but my wife's s7 edge had it bad. In both cases though, you couldn't tell unless the screen was all white. Personally I don't really care since it doesn't affect my daily use.

SCP doesn't show B41 in the pic.

 

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SCP doesn't show B41 in the pic.

 

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So what other band could it have possibly be?

B41?

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3xCA is insane here, I was at the grocery store and needed to download a relatively large file and it took just a few seconds. So fast that I had to run a quick speed test and I was able to hit 203.44Mbps.

Gear vr came in today.

No... all fresh installs. Right now the most annoying thing is my face unlock isnt even attempting to do anything. Always have to enter a pin. It was working in the first few days.

Just do a hard reset

No issues with band 41 personally. When I'm inside I'm usually on band 25/26 when I'm outside no issues being on band 41 and if I'm not and I need that extra speed it switches anyway.

Also can't believe how fast CA has become. Just ran a speed test and got 177 down.

How do you boot to 'safe mode' ?

 

... to force a reboot (if you havent figured it out already), hold power and volume down for 7 seconds and it should reboot.

 

Today my phone has been working good. I'm sure its an app issue or perhaps something that needs updated. I'm not concerned that its hardware.

So, how's everybody enjoying those new GS8's?  Any reviews?

I love everything about this device.  My only real complaint is the fingerprint scanner location but I find myself using the iris scanner 90% of the time anyway.  And speaking of the iris scanner, it works perfectly for me except for when I'm outside in the day time which then forces me to use the fingerprint or password.  If you are on the fence whether to buy this or wait for the note 8 then I could understand but if you don't care then s8+ is an excellent device to own.

Hmmm what lte bands does it have for lte besides sprints?

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oh ok I didn't know that's why I asked. Sorry about asking such an old question I guess.

Thanks bro

We are all here to help each other in anyway.

So I'm going to guess that if I charge my phone with day 30%or more that it's basically screwing the battery up right? Is it true that you should wait till around 5%? Also I put on that liquid glass and it's amazing. Fyi

What you are talking about is a thing of the past.  Just plug it in whenever you want some juice.

This phone seems to generally have a really good radio. I'm getting 23 Mbps over Band 25 on my college campus.

 

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Looks like you got yours pretty quickly.

This is so frustrating! was working perfectly. It's not the lighting conditions. drat! 

 

Iris still works, so I'll use that.  My mom always said my face was forgettable......

Didn't realize you said face unlock, I thought you meant the iris scanner.  I think part of the update was to improve the face detection but I haven't set that up, I've only been using the fingerprint and the iris scanner.

My face unlock is not working anymore after this.  sucky. Anyone else seeing that? 

No issues here at all, mines still works just fine.  Just keep in mind that if you are outside in the day time its basically not going to work though.

About 24 hours.  I used the Sprint confirmation email from purchase/lease agreement. 

Same here as well

Looks like an update is out at 390+mb.  The change log is pretty generic but this probably includes the fix to where you can't remap the bixby button.

Anybody else go with the headphones and 256 GB microSD card deal with the free GearVR?  I sure did. I was in the market for a new fast SD card and the ones I were looking at for 64 gig was like $50, so for 256 GB and a new set of pretty good headphones at $100?  Sure, why not.  

 

I wonder if the upgraders will be prioritized over the free GearVRers for shipments?? 

I did one of each, pretty sure there won't be any priority.

For those that don't already know, use the shop samsung app to register for the free vr/$99 bundle.  For some reason many, including myself had issues doing it on samsungs website but the app works perfectly.

I like see what  case you guys got , I am still up in air what case to go with . mine ready for bestbuy pickup

I ordered 3 cases like two weeks ago, two are clear tpu cases and the third is a clear tpu hybrid case.  

So working through the phone and all it's quirks. I've found that the face unlock (you can have them all active and registered meaning face, fingerprint, iris) is the best way around having to use that rear fingerprint sensor.  I know it's not as secure, but day to day usage is going to be the quickest.  It's taking a lot of work to get over not having that front finger print sensor like the Note5.  Otherwise loving the phone.

For me the iris scanner works just as fast, haven't had any issues with it and it even works in the dark.

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Seems like the more you use the iris scanner the faster it gets, I'm really digging this s8+ thus far.

I had zero issues getting mines activated online.

Just got delivery