Samsung Galaxy S6

jones

robinph wrote: »

I ordered the black, which is actually blue, the next day a gold one turned up.

Couldn't be bothered to send it back. Not as garish as I'd been expecting from the "gold" description so happy enough with it now.

The gold does look nice in the flesh. Do you mind me asking who you ordered from?

flangemeistro

I still have a gold available lads, locked to tesco mobile still in the plastic, not asking 579 like three our 629 like cpw but obviously not giving it away either.
Drop me a PM if interested. Based in Cork.

UnknownEntity

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote:

The white one is just gorgeous IMO

Agreed. Especially when the light reflects off of it.

MarkY91

got this phone the other day. for a 5.1" phone it sure doesnt feel like it. it feels the same size as my s5 mini (4.7")

i have the white colour which looks great. not a fan of the glass back purely because i feel like im going to smash my phone with any kind of fall and the fact ive been so used to a leather back on the s5 mini and s4 mini. im going to get a nice back case for it so ill be less worried.

overall im delighted with touchwiz on this phone. i always liked touchwiz even though i seem to be a minority with that opinion.

UnknownEntity

Just got Need for Speed: No Limits. Finding it really enjoyable and would recommend anyone on here to try it out.

MarkY91

the charger i got with my phone doesnt say its a fast charger anywhere on it. my phone at 0% says it will take 2.5 hours to fully charge. should i invest in one of these fast chargers?

yabadabado

MarkY91 wrote: »

the charger i got with my phone doesnt say its a fast charger anywhere on it. my phone at 0% says it will take 2.5 hours to fully charge. should i invest in one of these fast chargers?

I thought the fast charger came as standard .

MarkY91

yabadabado wrote: »

I thought the fast charger came as standard .

Me too lol. I got an EU sim free s6. Ill invest in one

UnknownEntity

MarkY91 wrote:

the charger i got with my phone doesnt say its a fast charger anywhere on it. my phone at 0% says it will take 2.5 hours to fully charge. should i invest in one of these fast chargers?

At the top of my charger it says "adaptive fast charger". I also thought that it came as standard. Very unusual...

AnimalRights

haiyna wrote: »

At the top of my charger it says "adaptive fast charger". I also thought that it came as standard. Very unusual...

The fast charger is 9v and the non fast charger is 5v I thought, I have both chargers...I own the sg6 and a Samsung Tablet..
Battery on SG6 is so poor though.

TrustedApple

Have the S6 edge plus 1 hour and 10 mins from 4% to 100% now that is some charge with the fast charger :O.

The fathers iPhone 6+ takes nearly 3 hours from 10% to 100% so I can live with bad battery life when it takes 2/3 of the time to charge the phone

mjp

Anyone know how much the fast charger costs if it's not included with s6 edge?

MarkY91

mjp wrote: »

Anyone know how much the fast charger costs if it's not included with s6 edge?

costing me e18 on adverts.

sold my other one for 8 euro

Saracen11

Hi all, had the s6 for about a month and the glass covering the rear facing camera has cracked. Any ideas on how this can be repaired?

Do I go back to my carrier or go to a phone repair shop?

Has this happened to anyone else and if so how much did it cost to fix?

Nibs05

After 4 years being a iPhone user I managed to switch to a s6 edge 32gb gold yesterday, I even got a free Samsung switch kit which made the transition even easier.

Stoolbend

Got a 64gb s6 edge today for free.

Any recommendations for somewhere that'll replace a broken screen? I'm in the west so it'll more than likely be a courier service.

Captain Chaos

Just got one of these last week after a few years with HTC phones. The one thing that annoys me about Samsung phones back from when I had the S3 is the ringtones and alert tones, they are woeful compared to all other brands. Anyone know of any decent free apps with some decent tones that are not loaded with ads and malware that are everywhere?

BigCon

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Just got one of these last week after a few years with HTC phones. The one thing that annoys me about Samsung phones back from when I had the S3 is the ringtones and alert tones, they are woeful compared to all other brands. Anyone know of any decent free apps with some decent tones that are not loaded with ads and malware that are everywhere?

I find Zedge quite good.

Tzardine

Stoolbend wrote: »

Got a 64gb s6 edge today for free.

Any recommendations for somewhere that'll replace a broken screen? I'm in the west so it'll more than likely be a courier service.

Fonefix are very good. Used them for a screen repair before.

jones

Received my gold s6 edge from eglobal on friday and had the weekend messing around with it. Smashing phone and really is top quality oozes class. I had it in the pub last night for the two big games and its certainly is a head turner of a phone.

Very happy with it and the eglobal service..the fast charge is brilliant and screen and camera are insane quality. A big step up from my HTC one m8

anthonyk125

jones wrote: »

Received my gold s6 edge from eglobal on friday and had the weekend messing around with it. Smashing phone and really is top quality oozes class. I had it in the pub last night for the two big games and its certainly is a head turner of a phone.

Very happy with it and the eglobal service..the fast charge is brilliant and screen and camera are insane quality. A big step up from my HTC one m8

How do you find the size did you consider the edge plus though they seem hard to get

Kimbot

+1 for Fonefix

Captain Chaos

Anyone else finding the battery life on this phone shocking. I have it 3-4 days now and it's never lasted a day. I had a HTC M8 for the past 18 months and I was getting 2.5 days no problem out of a full charge. With this it's dropping around 6-8% per hour on standby doing nothing.

Put it this way, I'm loving the screen and camera on the S6 but I'm glad I haven't sold the M8 yet. Samsung should have made this phone thicker and put in a bigger battery. Not happy with this and having to disable data all the time to keep some sort of decent life out of it.

Stoolbend

I see a user on adverts offering replacement screen for €195 vs €230 for fonfix.

I think he's jackophones or something along those lines.

Has anyone any experience with him?

Do fonfix use genuine parts?

Luke92

So I updated to 5.1.1 a while back (with 3 and non root.)

I was looking at how to delete my entire personal dictionary of words. It seems they have either taken it out completely or made it impossible to find. Can anyone help with this?

I don't want to have delete each word individually I want to be able to just clear my log of personalised words? Anybody any ideas how to?

MarkY91

that peel remote stock app is soo useful. its a TV guide too for your upc/sky that's 1000 times better and easier than the upc epg. you just click on the show and it changes to it for you etc.

Can't believe I was about to freeze it via root

jones

anthonyk125 wrote:

How do you find the size did you consider the edge plus though they seem hard to get

Size is perfect for me it's actually same size as my m8 and that's with a bigger screen. The edge plus was tempting but just thought it was too big for me

jones

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Anyone else finding the battery life on this phone shocking. I have it 3-4 days now and it's never lasted a day. I had a HTC M8 for the past 18 months and I was getting 2.5 days no problem out of a full charge. With this it's dropping around 6-8% per hour on standby doing nothing.

Put it this way, I'm loving the screen and camera on the S6 but I'm glad I haven't sold the M8 yet. Samsung should have made this phone thicker and put in a bigger battery. Not happy with this and having to disable data all the time to keep some sort of decent life out of it.

I've mine since friday and while i don't think the battery is great its lasting about the same as my HTC one m8...i think the fast charge does negate the lower battery levels in some regards but i agree they should of stuck a higher powered battery in the edge and combined it would fast charge it would of been a killer combo.

ps how were you getting 2.5 days from the m8? i barely got 1 day

Tzardine

Stoolbend wrote: »

Do fonfix use genuine parts?

They do , and they are a manufacturer approved repair centre. So you wont lose your warranty.

MarkY91

this fast charger is great. I had 40% battery and compared to plugging phone into my ps4, the fast charger was half the charging time.

people say the battery life is ****e but if you root it and greenify certain apps and freeze useless processes etc that can save some juice. its about the same or better life than I was getting with my s5 mini so I'm happy. I can see why people are unhappy when they're coming from phone with 2 day battery lives.

BeanFlicker

Any idea's when we might get Marshmallow?? on meteor network

jones

BeanFlicker wrote: »

Any idea's when we might get Marshmallow?? on meteor network

I've sim free edge wondering the same.

On a related note one of my mates just bought edge + thinking it was same phone that i had. It's a fair bit bigger though isn't it? I think he's in for a shock/surprise

BeanFlicker

jones wrote: »

I've sim free edge wondering the same.

On a related note one of my mates just bought edge + thinking it was same phone that i had. It's a fair bit bigger though isn't it? I think he's in for a shock/surprise

You'll probably get it before me so, rather than having to wait for meteor OTA

Yeah 5.7" vs 5.1", lovely phone though and bigger battery too which is crap on the s6

jones

Yeah bigger battery and 1 gig extra ram seems to be the only differences (and the bigger screen of course). I originally thought it would be too big but now i'm thinking it wouldn't be. I'll wait to see what the S7 Edge looks like :-)

AnimalRights

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Anyone else finding the battery life on this phone shocking. I have it 3-4 days now and it's never lasted a day. I had a HTC M8 for the past 18 months and I was getting 2.5 days no problem out of a full charge. With this it's dropping around 6-8% per hour on standby doing nothing.

Put it this way, I'm loving the screen and camera on the S6 but I'm glad I haven't sold the M8 yet. Samsung should have made this phone thicker and put in a bigger battery. Not happy with this and having to disable data all the time to keep some sort of decent life out of it.

It's a ****e battery, I'm going to move to the LG G4, as you said though the Camera is superb.

Tony H

Just a heads up for anyone that bought their s6 before 30 Sept, Play Music trial for 6 months is available until the 31 Oct, I thought it was only for UK but just availed of it today .

jones

It seems to be tied to my gmail account and as I did the months trial way back when its not coming up for me

Tony H

jones wrote: »

It seems to be tied to my gmail account and as I did the months trial way back when its not coming up for me

just add a new gmail account and it gives you the option of the free trial .

JoyPad

Hi,

I have a SM-G920F model (SIM free, bought on expansys).
The phone is great, but I'm having issues with applications randomly crashing. The most obvious ones are Spotify (music stops playing) and Endomondo (workout stops being recorded). There might be other apps crashing, but I couldn't tell, as they don't provide continuous information to me.

This seems to be a fault of the phone + Android, and not the apps themselves. For example, if I reboot the phone prior to my run, Endomondo does not crash.

Has anyone else seen random applications crashing on S6?

Thanks.

JoyPad

OSI wrote: »

Google "Galaxy S6 RAM issue"

Basically the S6 is crap at managing memory and has a fetish for killing off apps to free up memory far more aggressively than most other equivalently specced phones.

I actually have done so, and came up with "news" that the issue has been fixed with updates from months ago. Am I missing something here?

UnknownEntity

My S6 has fairly high RAM usage at around 60-80% but I don't remember any apps crashing anytime recently.

eh i dunno

Thinking of getting an S6. Are they the best android phone around bar the edge? Would amazon be my best bet to get one sim free?

UnknownEntity

OK let's make a list of Android flagships for 2015/16

So we've got:
Galaxy S6
LG G4
Moto X
HTC One M9
Note 5
Oneplus 2
Nexus 5X
Nexus 6P
Sony Xperia Z5

IMO the Note 5, Moto X and 6P are too largd to be daily drivers.

The Oneplus 2's invite system is a mess and you're better off paying extra to get out of that hassle.

Nexus 5X is really expensive in Europe for what it is.


So that leaves us with the S6, G4, Z5 and the M9.


LG's interface is not very attractive and the general build and look of the phone is not great.

The M9 has a whole heap of problems and it's just not as innovative as the other flagships out there.

My problem with Sony is that they release a new flagship too often so the Z5 will be old news soon enough.

The main problem that you will find with the S6 is the battery and depending on your situation, that could be a deal breaker. Personally, I can live with it because of the fast charger and the way my day is structured. I am more than happy to make that sacrifice.

UnknownEntity

Also let me know if I've left out any other major flagships

jones

haiyna wrote: »

My S6 has fairly high RAM usage at around 60-80% but I don't remember any apps crashing anytime recently.

Same as this. I have the smart manager widget on one of my home screen just to keep an eye on RAM usage and it is usually around 80% even when i kill everything off its still at 65% but i don't think i've had any apps crash on me *touch wood*

I was under the impression the RAM leakage thing was sorted a while back but i'm only new to the phone so i know no different (925F in my case)

jones

Folks,

Just a quick one and i'm not sure if it's 100% relevant to this thread but i ordered my S6 edge from eglobal 2 weeks ago and received and everything is perfect but i want to insure it and gadget insurance places are telling me it has to be VAT registered and in the EU or US and an asian company can't be covered over here. Now i'm not sure if eglobal is considered outside EU as my phone appears to of come from England going by the tracking information.

Anyone have an experience with this?

BeanFlicker

Anyone receive the new 78mb software update (build number G920FXXU3COI9), and if so, have you seen any improvements to battery SOT??

I'm just downloading it now but supposedly has improved battery performance etc

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/new-galaxy-s6-update-g920fxxu3coi9-brings-battery-fix-performance-optimisation-features-download-1523016

MiCr0

i just checked manually (last automatic check was 14th) and that patch is available for download.
getting it now too

Gazzmonkey

I'm still on build number LMY47X.....

Checked for the update but my S6 isn't picking it up

My battery life is pretty bad so I hope this sorts it.

UnknownEntity

Same here, I'm receiving a notification for an update but I'll wait until I have WiFi to download it.