Samsung Galaxy S6

Tom Cruises Left Nut

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Nor do i.

Hate the update on a lot of fronts but that's not one of them!

But it lets you increase the resolution

Thats the best improvement ever !

cnocbui

That seems strange - so it doesn't look like this?: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103012310&postcount=1885

Mine is an S6 Edge.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

cnocbui wrote: »

That seems strange - so it doesn't look like this?: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103012310&postcount=1885

Mine is an S6 Edge.

Nope, on a standard s6 though

HeidiHeidi

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

But it lets you increase the resolution

Thats the best improvement ever !

Can you explain that? (Preferably in words of one syllable for tech idiots like me )

HeidiHeidi

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

Nope, on a standard s6 though

As am I

Tom Cruises Left Nut

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Can you explain that? (Preferably in words of one syllable for tech idiots like me )

You can make the whole screen smaller so more stuff fits on the screen at the same time !

HeidiHeidi

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

You can make the whole screen smaller so more stuff fits on the screen at the same time !

Sounds like a nightmare to me :eek:

My problem is everything keeps getting lighter/ thinner/ smaller and is impossible to read!

Tom Cruises Left Nut

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Sounds like a nightmare to me :eek:

My problem is everything keeps getting lighter/ thinner/ smaller and is impossible to read!

You can make it bigger too so you will be grand !

HeidiHeidi

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

You can make it bigger too so you will be grand !

How does one achieve this magic???

For example, the previews of texts/ emails/ messages that appears on the lock screen have been rendered completely useless since the lat update... i can't even tell what type of notification it is half the time, never mind read it....

And what genius got at the predictive text system??

angeleyes

Any sign of the S6 coming down in price?

apope8

cnocbui wrote: »

That seems strange - so it doesn't look like this?: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103012310&postcount=1885

Mine is an S6 Edge.

Do you have some sort of theme on yours? Try resetting to the default theme and see if that fixes the issue

This is how it looks for me

Link

cnocbui

apope8 wrote: »

Do you have some sort of theme on yours? Try resetting to the default theme and see if that fixes the issue

This is how it looks for me

Link

Yes, the default theme looks like yours. Looks like that was the problem. Looks like I need some new themes. Many thanks.

cnocbui

angeleyes wrote: »

Any sign of the S6 coming down in price?

The S6 isn't in the Samsung Store so I would say it is a discontinued product so any still around, such as those on Amazon, would now be old stock, where they appear to start from about £330. Refurbished start at about 100 less than that.

Did you mean the S7?

BullBlackNova

Bit of a strange one here but has anyone else experienced issues with S Health since it updated last week?

I keep getting notifications, etc now which I can handle, but when I went to track my activity (exercise bike), it started the workout, stuck on 0:00:00 and remains there since. I can't stop or pause it, it won't let me start any other activities while the initial one is still active. Force closing and stopping the app doesn't make a difference and neither does restarting the phone.

Because it's pre-installed from the Samsung store, there's no option to delete and re-download the app either... When I go into the app store, the only option I have is to open it, where it continues to display the frozen workout.

Any tips? Am I looking at a factory reset to fix this relatively minor issue?! I use the health suite constantly so it's bugging me a little more than it should I'd say.

Gazzmonkey

Cortecs wrote: »

I don't have it yet either (Three customer too).

Now released, downloading as we speak.

Hope its not buggy

HeidiHeidi

Is that the latest update?

I hate it!

Loads of things require an extra step compared to previous versions (eg sending a text), lots of text is lighter and smaller making it hard to read, predictive text is appallingly bad, there's a glitch in it where when you open a text out WhatsApp message box the cursor is not at the start so it won't capitalise the first word.

All individually small things but overall they drive me nuts!

I hope your experience is better with it!

Vahevala

I got the new update, one of the things that I hate is the brightness used to be so easy to get to, now you have to pull the whole menu down! I don't like the whiteness of it but I am finding that my battery (so far) seems to be a lot better.

HeidiHeidi

Vahevala wrote: »

I got the new update, one of the things that I hate is the brightness used to be so easy to get to, now you have to pull the whole menu down! I don't like the whiteness of it but I am finding that my battery (so far) seems to be a lot better.

Same as that.... flight mode is the same, much more steps to find it. Previously i was able to customise that menu with shortcuts.

I got another update this morning but can't see any visible changes from it.

Gazzmonkey

Vahevala wrote: »

I got the new update, one of the things that I hate is the brightness used to be so easy to get to, now you have to pull the whole menu down! I don't like the whiteness of it but I am finding that my battery (so far) seems to be a lot better.

If you hit the tiny down arrow to the right side of the brightness meter, you get an option to pin it to the top like the good old days.

Azatadine

Mine has stopped fast charging since the update (even though it says it is fast charging). I

Gazzmonkey

Cortecs wrote: »

Mine has stopped fast charging since the update (even though it says it is fast charging). I

Yeah definitely noticed a slower charge but also better battery life.

Vahevala

Gazzmonkey wrote: »

If you hit the tiny down arrow to the right side of the brightness meter, you get an option to pin it to the top like the good old days.

That's brilliant thanks. I am super impressed with the battery right now. I feel that there's no need to upgrade now.

Azatadine

Solved my fast charge issue. Toggled off the fast charge option, restarted phone and toggled back on again. Problem fixed. Saw it on an android forum.

Azatadine

Can't believe the battery life improvement!

Vahevala

Cortecs wrote: »

Can't believe the battery life improvement!

Isn't it amazing :eek:

yabadabado

What version are ye on now after latest update ?

Vahevala

Mine is android 7.0

Azatadine

Gonna say it once more......I just can't believe the battery improvement!

MiCr0

The BTU nought update has finally arrive

Duff

My battery on the edge is gone to sh?te, lads. For e.g in the gym earlier went in at 95% played a playlist on Spotify for my 50 min workout (screen off pretty much the whole time), when I was finished it was at 49% Thats nearly 1% per min with just audio playback and screen mostly off. Has anyone changed the battery on their s6 edge? Difficult?

Tom Cruises Left Nut

MiCr0 wrote: »

The BTU nought update has finally arrive

That took so long ! Weird that some of my led notifications have stopped since the update though

Also my google account won't sync. Sync options are greyed out. Might it be the work policy that is on the phone ? Got around it by installing outlook and adding my gmail account to it but still not ideal

keano25

Duff wrote: »

My battery on the edge is gone to sh?te, lads. For e.g in the gym earlier went in at 95% played a playlist on Spotify for my 50 min workout (screen off pretty much the whole time), when I was finished it was at 49% Thats nearly 1% per min with just audio playback and screen mostly off. Has anyone changed the battery on their s6 edge? Difficult?

Also edge and since the update my battery is gone to ****. Recharging it by dinner time now and I even disabled all bloatware. Piece of ****.

AllForIt

Duff wrote: »

My battery on the edge is gone to sh?te, lads. For e.g in the gym earlier went in at 95% played a playlist on Spotify for my 50 min workout (screen off pretty much the whole time), when I was finished it was at 49% Thats nearly 1% per min with just audio playback and screen mostly off. Has anyone changed the battery on their s6 edge? Difficult?

My S6 was the first non-removable-battery phone I ever owned. Never again. Replaced the battery and sold it on. Super fast phone but you pay for it with battery power. The OLED screen does f*all to reduce power consumption on this phone. The glass back cover isn't 'too' hard to get off if you know what your doing and even if you do break it in the process a replacement isn't too expensive. The rest of the procedure is fairly straightforward.

Vahevala

I have a flat S6 and I have found the update has really helped my battery. No issues my side.

keano25

Down 11% in 52 minutes barely using the phone. Some joke.

Vahevala

Here's mine for comparison (Flat S6) 70%

AllForIt

Vahevala wrote: »

Here's mine for comparison (Flat S6) 70%

That's because your not using it much. In your snapshot we can see that the second highest consumer of power in the Recent Battery Usage section is "Device Idle". That means turned on but basically doing nothing or very little. It looks like your just actually using it as a phone rather than a computer/table which if you were you would get "Screen on time " , "Android System", or some other app that would be at the top of list of power consumption. If that snapshot represents your usual usage habits then the phone is fine for you but not for someone who's constantly on Facebook, youtube etc.

Vahevala

AllForIt wrote: »

That's because your not using it much. In your snapshot we can see that the second highest consumer of power in the Recent Battery Usage section is "Device Idle". That means turned on but basically doing nothing or very little. It looks like your just actually using it as a phone rather than a computer/table which if you were you would get "Screen on time " , "Android System", or some other app that would be at the top of list of power consumption. If that snapshot represents your usual usage habits then the phone is fine for you but not for someone who's constantly on Facebook, youtube etc.

It depends on the day, If you are going to be using a lot of things like youtube, it will go down quicker, I use a lot of spotify and general web browsing/FB through the browser on it on my commutes and it doesn't drop too much. If I was using youtube or more intensive things, I get around 4-5 hrs screen on time before I need to charge again.

Also just to add my commute is around an hour each way.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Would anyone have a copy of a Vodafone Ireland 32gb PIT file?

Also where can I download the stock 7.0 firmware that doesn't require you to pay to download !

AllForIt

Vahevala wrote: »

It depends on the day, If you are going to be using a lot of things like youtube, it will go down quicker, I use a lot of spotify and general web browsing/FB through the browser on it on my commutes and it doesn't drop too much. If I was using youtube or more intensive things, I get around 4-5 hrs screen on time before I need to charge again.

Also just to add my commute is around an hour each way.

Yes and all I was saying is that the battery stats you posted showed that you didn't use the phone much in that particular usage cycle. The problem with the S6 is that after a year or so usage the battery capacity goes down where if you use it a lot it would be fully depleted in a couple of hours. All batteries diminish in the amount of charge they can hold over time but in the case of the S6 the effect of this seems to be particularly bad.

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

Would anyone have a copy of a Vodafone Ireland 32gb PIT file?

Also where can I download the stock 7.0 firmware that doesn't require you to pay to download !

I don't know about PIT files but you can download all Samsung firmwares from this site for free and at a descent speed in comparison to other sites. Bookmark it as it is a excellent source for Samsung mobile firmwares one might need in the future.

EDIT: I though adding the link might be helpful : http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model

Tom Cruises Left Nut

AllForIt wrote: »

Yes and all I was saying is that the battery stats you posted showed that you didn't use the phone much in that particular usage cycle. The problem with the S6 is that after a year or so usage the battery capacity goes down where if you use it a lot it would be fully depleted in a couple of hours. All batteries diminish in the amount of charge they can hold over time but in the case of the S6 the effect of this seems to be particularly bad.



I don't know about PIT files but you can download all Samsung firmwares from this site for free and at a descent speed in comparison to other sites. Bookmark it as it is a excellent source for Samsung mobile firmwares one might need in the future.

Not seeing a link ? Apologies if I missed it !

AllForIt

Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »

Not seeing a link ? Apologies if I missed it !

Nope you didn't miss it - I missed it. Added to my previous post.

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Cheers for that

Hoping someone can give some advice on an issue. I wanted to give my old s6 to my wife so did a factory reset through recovery

Now when you go to set up the phone it looks for samsung account details to bypass the activation lock

I am using the correct details but it won't get past that screen

I have flashed the correct stock image for my phone but it's still there. At my wits end with it now !!!!

threein99

Anyone have any experience of Samsung not fixing your phone because of the Knox setting being tripped? My home button is broke and it's started turning itself off so I was going to chance a warranty fix. I rooted it a while ago ironically trying to fix the broken home button issues but the knox counter is at 1 now

threein99

threein99 wrote: »

Anyone have any experience of Samsung not fixing your phone because of the Knox setting being tripped? My home button is broke and it's started turning itself off so I was going to chance a warranty fix. I rooted it a while ago ironically trying to fix the broken home button issues but the knox counter is at 1 now

Anyone ?

legrand

Not me (but to hijack your bump), on V7 for some months - all good until weekend of 22nd got some update that screwed up 1) Samsung/Gboard - that seems to have settled and 2) more annoyingly  battery drains over 4 or 5 hours where before it'd easily last a day.  Another update today - marginal improvement but still not what it was. Have all the usual battery saving methods in place (as they were before update).
Anyone else?