The Official Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus Thread

GreenMint · 8 Aug 2018 at 22:34

Got the S9+ 2 days ago and rang enjoying it so far, only thing I've found compared to the S6 is that I have to have the brightness on this set a lot higher to be the same as it was on 20% on the S6, even then the clock etc in the notification area look more washed out.

Does everyone with an S9+ use the default resolution? Or is it worth pushing it up to the maximum?

fiveub · 9 Aug 2018 at 09:51

Sorry if this has been asked already, but where is the cheapest place to buy a Samsung S9+ right now? I am not fussed on the colour, just need to buy the phone outright, without a SIM.

M1k3H · 9 Aug 2018 at 10:18

Got my S9 yesterday and migrated everything from my Z5 compact.

loving it so far. Only gripe I got is I can't seem to find how to enable the Google feed in place of Bixby. I've disabled Bixby completely but would like to see the Google feed when you slight to the most left screen. Anybody know how to do this?

GreenMint · 9 Aug 2018 at 10:24

M1k3H said:
Got my S9 yesterday and migrated everything from my Z5 compact.

loving it so far. Only gripe I got is I can't seem to find how to enable the Google feed in place of Bixby. I've disabled Bixby completely but would like to see the Google feed when you slight to the most left screen. Anybody know how to do this?

I'm not sure about that but I've seen a few apps to remap the bixby button so that *might* help a bit? I don't get the left screen as I've swapped launchers.

james.miller · 9 Aug 2018 at 10:34

most launchers like Nova, for example, support it or have a plugin that will enable swipe right to google feed. You might have to pay a small fee though, i cant remember it's been a while since i installed it for nova.

yak.h'cir · 10 Aug 2018 at 16:26

Boo, smashed my screen with a fall of about 1.5m onto carpet

At least it's insured through nationwide so I'll get to find out whether it's been worth paying £13 a month for that bank account!!!

matt100 · 10 Aug 2018 at 18:36

james.miller said:
most launchers like Nova, for example, support it or have a plugin that will enable swipe right to google feed. You might have to pay a small fee though, i cant remember it's been a while since i installed it for nova.

Honestly can't work out how to do that with Nova? derp...

matt100 · 10 Aug 2018 at 18:39

yak.h'cir said:
Boo, smashed my screen with a fall of about 1.5m onto carpet At least it's insured through nationwide so I'll get to find out whether it's been worth paying £13 a month for that bank account!!!

I bet it hit a corner right?

I managed to crack my cased S8+'s screen for the second time this year doing a barrel roll tripping over my own feet running for a train.. I didn't even drop it it was just in my hand but it clearly took a whack in the corner.

yak.h'cir · 10 Aug 2018 at 21:57

matt100 said:
I bet it hit a corner right?

That's what I would have expected but it cracked from the middle of the left edge. Quite a bit of damage actually. The whole bottom half of the screen flickered and failed to respond properly to touch afterwards which made resetting the thing as per the insurers request quite tricky.

andy_mk3 · 10 Aug 2018 at 22:25

Gf managed to break the screen on her S9 today, it's not insured. Any recommendations on a place of repair? Or just stick to Samsung authorised repairers?

Solus · 10 Aug 2018 at 22:32

andy_mk3 said:
Gf managed to break the screen on her S9 today, it's not insured. Any recommendations on a place of repair? Or just stick to Samsung authorised repairers?

Genuine Samsung parts only.

yak.h'cir · 10 Aug 2018 at 22:48

andy_mk3 said:
Gf managed to break the screen on her S9 today, it's not insured. Any recommendations on a place of repair? Or just stick to Samsung authorised repairers?

https://samsungrepair.com/prices#/

It's not going to be cheap, but on the plus side depending on where you live they'll come to your house and repair the phone within the hour!

andy_mk3 · 11 Aug 2018 at 10:37

yak.h'cir said:
https://samsungrepair.com/prices#/

It's not going to be cheap, but on the plus side depending on where you live they'll come to your house and repair the phone within the hour!

Thanks for that link. Was expecting over £200 so no big surprise there. She's bloody terrible with phone screens

Cyclone · 15 Aug 2018 at 22:58

New firmware installed on my S9

RG8 Baseband, RGA Build Number & 1st August Security Level

yak.h'cir · 15 Aug 2018 at 23:47

Ha, my broken screen is apparently beyond economical repair so they've asked if it's ok to replace with a brand new phone!

partycan · 16 Aug 2018 at 09:53

M1k3H said:
Just phoned three aboutupgrading my current Sim only conteact with 8 months left to get an S9.

The offered me the S9 with 30gb of data advanced plan for £35 a month without an upfront cost.

I still had to pay for the remainder of the contract however hey discounted the remainder by 30%, so roughly £78 up front for that. Phone arrives on Wednesday, can’t wait! I am honestly surprised on how good this deal is.

Wife and I have had the same deal they are both being delivered today, need to get a case sorted though before I start using it! We are upgrading from an S7 & S7 Edge

M1k3H · 16 Aug 2018 at 18:10

partycan said:
Wife and I have had the same deal they are both being delivered today, need to get a case sorted though before I start using it! We are upgrading from an S7 & S7 Edge

Got the samsung silicon one. Itspretty good, but detracts from the beauty if the handset.

Helps a lot as it makes it non slippy.

Devious · 16 Aug 2018 at 22:23

Was trying to choose between the pixel 2, op6 and Huawei phones. Never considered the S9 plus, because of the higher cost but saw the 15% off on eBay last week and grabbed a New dual sim one with a nice discount.

Really liking the phone, not had a Samsung since my S2.

One weird issue I am having is every now and again and mp3 track will start playing. Its always the same track and it's only done it about 3 times. If I shake the phone or swipe down the notification bar it stops.
No app seems to be running..very odd.

Cyclone · 17 Aug 2018 at 08:02

What's the issue with the imoji's in messages, they've gone :confused:

JeditOjanen · 17 Aug 2018 at 12:55

partycan said:
Wife and I have had the same deal they are both being delivered today, need to get a case sorted though before I start using it! We are upgrading from an S7 & S7 Edge

I have a Gear4 on mine. The salesdrone at CPW demonstrated it by bouncing his S9 off the floor, which is good enough for me.

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