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Samsung Galaxy S6

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    #1892
    UnknownEntity
    Registered Users Posts: 658 ✭✭✭UnknownEntity


    Finally time to say goodbye to my S6. I got it all the way back in May 2015 and has been so good since then but I think it's finally time to move on, the S8 is just irresistible.


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    #1893
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Gazzmonkey wrote: »
    Three customer here

    Still waiting on the marshmallow update for S6

    Seems to be taking a long time

    I'm on it about 3 weeks or so at this stage.


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    #1894
    Azatadine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,222 ✭✭✭Azatadine


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


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    #1895
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Actually, mine is the S6edge+ but I reckon all the s6 firmware would have been rolled out at around the same time?

    Check for your own here.

    http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?r=&v=Nougat%28Android+7.0%29&q=galaxy+s6&exact=1


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    #1896
    Vahevala
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Vahevala


    Three posted that they found an error with the update during testing and have contacted Samsung to fix as a high priority so it has been delayed.


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    #1897
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,814 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Vahevala wrote: »
    Three posted that they found an error with the update during testing and have contacted Samsung to fix as a high priority so it has been delayed.

    I am not surprised, the Vodafone version seems rather bugy.


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    #1898
    apope8
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭apope8


    Just received the 7.0 update on my eir s6

    Installing now. Hopefully bug free!


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    #1899
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,814 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    apope8 wrote: »
    Just received the 7.0 update on my eir s6

    Installing now. Hopefully bug free!

    Could you please try setting an alarm and tell me if it has the invisible save/cancel button text problem? (white text on white button). I am curious as to whether it's a Samsung or Vodafone problem.


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    #1900
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    cnocbui wrote: »
    Could you please try setting an alarm and tell me if it has the invisible save/cancel button text problem? (white text on white button). I am curious as to whether it's a Samsung or Vodafone problem.

    I am on Vodafone S6 and got the update ages ago

    I don't have that issue


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    #1901
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »
    I am on Vodafone S6 and got the update ages ago

    I don't have that issue

    Nor do i.

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


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    #1902
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭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 !


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    #1903
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,814 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #1904
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭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


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    #1905
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭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 :D )


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    #1906
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Tom Cruises Left Nut wrote: »
    Nope, on a standard s6 though

    As am I


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    #1907
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Can you explain that? (Preferably in words of one syllable for tech idiots like me :D )

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


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    #1908
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭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!


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    #1909
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭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 !


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    #1910
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭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??


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    #1911
    angeleyes
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭angeleyes


    Any sign of the S6 coming down in price?


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    #1912
    apope8
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭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


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    #1913
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,814 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #1914
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,814 ✭✭✭✭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?


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    #1915
    BullBlackNova
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1916
    Gazzmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Gazzmonkey


    Cortecs wrote: »
    I don't have it yet either (Three customer too).

    Now released, downloading as we speak.

    Hope its not buggy


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    #1917
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭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!


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    #1918
    Vahevala
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1919
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,862 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #1920
    Gazzmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1921
    Azatadine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,222 ✭✭✭Azatadine


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


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