Samsung Galaxy S8

Yeah just picked up a work S8 today, nice phone, but wondering when the rollout will happen.
Asked 3 and they told me PIE was released last yr in July :facepalm:
Ill just keep refreshing the OTA page then so, haha.

ShaneU wrote: »

Thank you, had to scrape out the back of the port and i'm back to fast charging again

Had the same problem on my plus and the misuses 8. Once the dirt was out it was sorted.

Finally got it this morning on vodafone. It's a big change all right. Will take a bit of getting used to

vintagecosmos wrote: »

Not sure about the s8 but fast charge on my old one plus 3 needed both a fast cable and power block.

Had to get a new cable and clear out the charging port again with a needle and a rocker blower to get it going with fast charge again. Thanks for the tip

They've messed was the nav bar for no good reason. I used the new gestures for a day before giving up as they just wouldn't work for me consistently. Now I've gone back to the nav bar which works fine but they've removed the option to hide it by default and swipe up to have it shown. So every single app now has less screen real estate, no idea why they've done this.

Rattlehead_ie wrote: »

See there is a generic UK/Ireland code up there now. Wondering if that means 3 / Eir and others will have this

Thats XEU firmware, Pie is rolled out to unlocked phones purchased direct from samsung UK/IRE.

I would assume that is the case. but Android won't allow you to easily update to an unlocked non carrier firmware.

It can be done by flashing the firmware and you would get OTA updates when Samsung UK/IRE releases it. I haven't done that myself.

What I can say is, I got the Eir update for my s9+ 2 weeks after the unlocked version came out. 3 and Vodafone came a little bit earlier than that.

nee wrote: »

Can you change the icons? Back to something a little less childlike? It feels like they were designed for children.

Yep, grab a launcher like nova launcher, download an icon pack you like and open it up and apply to nova.

Krombopulos Michael wrote: »

I had a bixby button remapper prior to Pie that worked fine. Doesnt work anymore so need to figure a way to disable.

You cant disable it, You can change to double click to activate bixby, or if you update bixby you can now remap it to an app you have.

Selling an immaculate Black S8+, 64GB, unlocked to all networks with a Spigen case if anyone's interested..... PM me.

Must stick it up on Adverts soon.

Ive updated to pie there with 3,checked software updates and it was there

jones wrote: »

Is it definitely a three phone? G955F3IE4CRL3 is what I'm on. 3IE being the three version

3IRL will have the update out next week. It's in testing at the moment according to them.

Krombopulos Michael wrote: »

Notice my Google Assistant doesn't work all the time since the update, so may try clearing the cache.

One of my biggest grips, is they moved the clock to the left side of the notification bar, apparently this is to benefit phones with notches. However, I am use to seeing notifications on the left side, so this is distracting for me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that annoys!

Thank god you can bring back showing notifications on the lock screen instead of those stupid icons, too.

dougm1970 wrote:

thanks for that info....did you contact them to find out ??....i presume, so, that the previous poster who is on 3 and got the update is on a phone he bought independently from the carrier ?

That's what I was thinking too on sammobile the three release isn't out yet so I'm assuming the other poster just has a three sim in a different CSC phone