**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Thread ****

So the strangest thing happened on Wednesday. Was sat at my desk, message pops up prompting the software update so I figured I'd let it install whilst I was working. Phone restarts and the screen has gone all blotchy with a red tint. It's hard to describe it's like wherever a plain white background should have been, it was as if the phone had loaded a horribly pixelated texture of crunched up paper. There was also a bizarre artefact on the right hand side that looked like someone had spilt fluid inside the display.

After panicking and Samsung being absolutely useless on Twitter insisting it was a hardware fault. I changed the colour balance settings of the edge display. The phone reset and it was all back to normal. How bizarre!

That aside I'm a new S8+ user after countless years with the iPhone. Haven't looked back, much prefer it to the iPhone 7+ I had before. Also pleased to be moving away from Apple, their relentless pursuit of style and form over substance has really started to P me off. Next thing to go is my MBP because the new one is just a complete and utter joke.

Oh and great to have upgraded to a headphone jack too!
 
Also on a different matter the battery life of the S8+ is definitely improving. When I first got it I was besides myself at how quickly the battery percentage was dropping compared to my old I7+ which seemed to stay 90%-100% for ages after a full charge. It appears the Samsung battery % is far more linear though. When the iPhone got to 50% it was definitely more like the last 20%. The Sammy just goes on and on and on...
 
Dinerty said:
The S8 battery is a good one, getting very good screen on times. Been turning off some settings to squeeze some more out of it.
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I'll end up with 9 hours SoT today if the battery continues as it is. If I use the screen less, Android battery dribble leaves me with SoT estimates closer to 5 hours.
 
I've forgotten to charge my 8+ some nights but my 50 min commute to work with fast charger in my car means I get there with a full battery and I couldn't drain it whilst at work no matter how hard I tried. Battery life is no issue for me whatsoever, I have everything switched on/cranked up to full. :D
 
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Am amazed that actually worked, especially with the 4TB HDD plugged in without the need for an additional power source.
 
Loving my S8+ having come from an iphone 6s+.

One random issue though, my keyboard sounds don't seem to work, option is ticked in the settings but don't click when I type, weirdly if I connect to my Bluetooth speaker they work coming through the speaker? Any ideas? I prefer sound to vibrate when typing. :-)
 
Anyone know how to set the lock screen timeout. When I press the power button the screen only stays on for 5 seconds. I have been in the settings and change the screen timeout to 2 mins which works fine when the phone is unlocked but can't find the setting for the screen in locked mode?
 
DezUk said:
Anyone know how to set the lock screen timeout. When I press the power button the screen only stays on for 5 seconds. I have been in the settings and change the screen timeout to 2 mins which works fine when the phone is unlocked but can't find the setting for the screen in locked mode?
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Go to settings, lock screen and security, secure lock settings and then select lock automatically at the top.
 
TIP!

If you take a screenshot, then click the crop button once, it auto-crops out notification bar and navbar. If you don't click crop, it keeps them in.

On the S7/S7e running Nougat, clicking the crop button brings up a crop box, and you have to manually size the box to the area you want to keep.
 
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