Poll: **** The Official Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Thread ****
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It's the dark material theme, all the menus are back to being white, some of the menus appear black and other parts are while, looks incomplete, or maybe that's by design.
Other issues? Inability to hide the navigation bar, the only choice is on or with gesture controls which looks stupid, also Google Fit is not working, just been for a walk and it never picked up anything, will try that again later.
If I'm honest the whole interface looks worse to me.
EDIT: The free dark theme seems to be OK, looks a bit better, also the icons look a bit derpy.
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I had this also it looks like tap to show is set as default after the update I changed this back to scheduled display in the Lock screen settings.
Thanks, hadn't even seen this setting before to think it could have been that! Now to get rid of the time in the status bar/along the top.
So annoying not being able to hide the navigation buttons, feels like I've lost part of my screen.
If you go into display setting/navigation bar & turn off gesture hints it will remove them so you get full screen again.
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I'm impressed with the update, though it is strange getting used to how things are very different. I use full screen all the time, and contemplated downgrading when I thought it was missing! But now I've found the right settings, I'm slowly getting used to swiping up the lower screen for the 3 buttons.
I like how the screen is now better utilised for the design of the Note, moving things to the bottom, and more accessible.
I haven't found a way of changing how the recents screen displays yet. I like to see a list of cards like before, not a fan of pages in the slightest. You've no idea how far to scroll to quickly find the app you want, and so annoyingly whizz past it!
Another thing is the lock screen, entering the pin now takes more input to unlock the phone. Making it slower when the phone is docked and I can't access the finger print sensor.
All minor things, rest is excellent.
Mick
I like how the screen is now better utilised for the design of the Note, moving things to the bottom, and more accessible.
I haven't found a way of changing how the recents screen displays yet. I like to see a list of cards like before, not a fan of pages in the slightest. You've no idea how far to scroll to quickly find the app you want, and so annoyingly whizz past it!
Another thing is the lock screen, entering the pin now takes more input to unlock the phone. Making it slower when the phone is docked and I can't access the finger print sensor.
All minor things, rest is excellent.
Mick
That does work but getting used to using gestures will not be easy...
Don't understand why they didn't just include the option to hide navigation bar, it just worked, so why remove it.
Edit- Ok, how do you bring up Google Assistant? Without the on screen button? Nevermind, Nova Launcher to the rescue.
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No update from o2 yet, Can I just flash the UK BTU firmware ? essentially rebranding the phone and getting the update or is there to more to it?
Yes but you will lose any O2 extras .. Does O2 wifi calling work on unbranded phones if you use that ?
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Not sure but never use Wifi calling, will give it till the weekend and then flash the BTU. Cheers