**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S20 Family Thread ****

mrk said:
Someone try explaining this, the S20 5G is charging wirelessly faster than the S10e, both are supposed to be 15W fast wireless charging as far as I can see. The S10e took 2hrs 40mins to charge from around 10%, the S20 is taking 2hrs 19mins. I am using the Samsung convertible pad/stand charger which outputs 15W of Qi.

Anyhows, battery life now tested on both 60Hz and 120Hz. Granted the 60Hz was with WiFi only as I was home them, whilst the 120Hz one was finished today where I was out between 05:30am through to around 10am so was on 4G until return to home. Standard optimised power mode no social media restricted etc.

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Really impressed. My S10e Snapdragon was good for 3100mAh but I could never get near 5hrs on that display whereas here I am able to get it at 120Hz and it's the Exynos which people were saying to avoid... Granted the battery is 900mAh larger but that is offset against the 120Hz and slightly larger and brighter display too.
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How come you didn't go for the FE? Didn't fancy the size?
 
The size is the #1 thing as I cannot have a phone wider than 70mm for my car's fast wireless charging bay and the ongoing screen issues that various batches seem to have. Also Samsung don't offer the beta programs to the FE so no OneUI 3.0 beta etc which I am currently on and really liking.
 
mrk said:
The size is the #1 thing as I cannot have a phone wider than 70mm for my car's fast wireless charging bay and the ongoing screen issues that various batches seem to have. Also Samsung don't offer the beta programs to the FE so no OneUI 3.0 beta etc which I am currently on and really liking.
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Ah fair enough! Didn't know there were widespread FE screen issues. Would be interested to hear how the battery goes long term. Also looking to move on from a s10e (exynos) but I really need a much better battery.
 
I don't know if it's widespread but I have read comments on forums and reddit all the same but even way before that the sheer size of a phone like that is not for me sadly!
 
Have recently picked up the S20 FE 5G and have a few questions

1. I seem to have a yellow tint on the screen, is this normal as changing the White balance on the screen does'nt seem to make much of a difference. (I have screen brightness at around 20%)

2. Is the 4g signal on the phone poor (I see a few complaints on this on the Samsung forums) .. I had around 90% signal in my Poco phone but may just be the usual 3 network.

3. I've come from a Pocophone F1 with custom kernal & pixel experience rom and tbf this felt much smoother & quicker than the S20, I've disabled/uninstalled all the bloatware on the S20 but anything else I can do to make it run smoother?

4. Has anyone got Prime Video working on DEX? .. I get decrypt error.

cheers
 
S20 5G here not the FE but here's what I've done:

1: Set the colour tone of the display to Natural, set the blue light filter to scheduled by sunset/sunrise. The BLF will give the screen a yellow tint and this is what you want anyway after sunset and you're indoors under dim artificial lighting to reduce eye strain and potential long term eye fatigue from the blue light coming form any digital display.

2: 3 is generally pretty pap still, but also take note that signal bars are configured differently between phone makers. Poco's 4 bars may not be the same same actual value as they Samsung's 4 bars. Pull down twice and search "sim card status" and click the search result under About section, what does the signal strength noise look like? Should be around -91dBm under typical conditions. The closer to 0 the stronger the signal. I am on EE and am on -91dBm at this time of day.

3: Here's what I've done to make the S20 go from already pretty smooth to much faster/smoother.
- Turn on 120Hz refresh rate
- In Developer Options set the window, animation and transition effects to 0.5x from 1x
- Have not set any power saving modes that reduce CPU speed or screen brightness etc

4: Just tried Prime Video with DeX and it also fails. Guess Prime needs to update to support Dex however I can cast directly from Prime to the living room TV using the button inside Prime Video though.
 
mrk said:
Really impressed. My S10e Snapdragon was good for 3100mAh but I could never get near 5hrs on that display whereas here I am able to get it at 120Hz and it's the Exynos which people were saying to avoid... Granted the battery is 900mAh larger but that is offset against the 120Hz and slightly larger and brighter display too.
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5hrs SoT is pretty rubbish IMO. I was getting 8-10 out of the Snapdragon S20 FE, admittedly with fairly easy use. If 5 hours is enough for you then fair enough, but the Exynos is still a terrible chip compared to the SD 865.
 
You cannot compare screen on time as good or bad against someone else's because the content being displayed for those hours matter most as well as how strong the radios reception are throughout that period.

You could get 8+ hours SoT if you're simply just reading eBooks or websites all day long but start watching videos through youtube, netflix etc and that number will tank down considerably hence why I always compare to my own numbers from the previous phone as opposed to what others are getting.

Plus this time round the difference between Exynos and SD is minimal in real world usage, I recall reading reviews and things before and immediate one was Android Authority:

https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s20-snapdragon-vs-exynos-performance-1094471/

Between the Snapdragon and Exynos variants of the Galaxy S20 Plus, the numbers confirm what we’ve suspected. For day-to-day use, CPU-heavy applications, the performance difference is minimal and most users will be more than satisfied with either phone.
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I also recall people like mrwhosetheboss compared and found that prolonged gaming did show the SD to be better as throttling was less of an issue whereas Exynos did throttle heavily after an hour of gaming. I do not game on the phone though.

The other thing mentioned was camera quality between the two but it seems the months since those reviews the firmware updates have brought the camera quality up to speed as well just like we saw with the S10 before the S20.
 
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mrk said:
S20 5G here not the FE but here's what I've done:

1: Set the colour tone of the display to Natural, set the blue light filter to scheduled by sunset/sunrise. The BLF will give the screen a yellow tint and this is what you want anyway after sunset and you're indoors under dim artificial lighting to reduce eye strain and potential long term eye fatigue from the blue light coming form any digital display.

2: 3 is generally pretty pap still, but also take note that signal bars are configured differently between phone makers. Poco's 4 bars may not be the same same actual value as they Samsung's 4 bars. Pull down twice and search "sim card status" and click the search result under About section, what does the signal strength noise look like? Should be around -91dBm under typical conditions. The closer to 0 the stronger the signal. I am on EE and am on -91dBm at this time of day.

3: Here's what I've done to make the S20 go from already pretty smooth to much faster/smoother.
- Turn on 120Hz refresh rate
- In Developer Options set the window, animation and transition effects to 0.5x from 1x
- Have not set any power saving modes that reduce CPU speed or screen brightness etc

4: Just tried Prime Video with DeX and it also fails. Guess Prime needs to update to support Dex however I can cast directly from Prime to the living room TV using the button inside Prime Video though.
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Hi mrk,

I've made the changes to the screens that you recomended and indeed was much easier on the eyes resulting in the screen didn't seem to look like it still had the "yellow tint" as much.

Yeah 3 network is degrading quite quickly, seems there strategy atm is to get as many customers as they can.
I have an EE data sim so put that in the S20 and 3 is showing -105db, EE -95db ... EE has 1 extra signal bar (3 bars in total) .. ran several speedtests through the night and both seem to be about the same speeds but EE has much quicker page load times. Guess I should stop been lazy and change the EE contract to mobile and get rid of 3.

Already done those changes and screen is at 120Hz, I do have the battery set to "optimise" .. will try performance after a full charge and see if there is much difference in both battery and overall performance. On the Poco I had the animation & transistion effects set to 0.2x which is probably why the Poco felt "quicker" In Nova launcher I've set the scroll/animation speed to "faster than light" which again has helped.

cheers for the reply
 
There is a way to get Samsung phones to 0.2 animation speed to btw, but you do need ADB to push commands from PC to phone. The commands are:

Code: 
adb shell

settings put global window_animation_scale 0.2

settings put global transition_animation_scale 0.2

settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.2
 
Skillmister said:
Interesting comments. I'm also planning to move from a Poco F1 (what a phone for the price!).

Main reason is that I want a camera with wide angle and zoom. Other than that the Poco is fine. May just keep it another year
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I wouldn't let my comments put you off, the S20 FE is a big upgrade from the Poco ... screen looks amazing especially without the bulky bezzel & notch, makes the screen look much bigger than it is yet the overall size is about the same as the Poco.
 
mrk said:
There is a way to get Samsung phones to 0.2 animation speed to btw, but you do need ADB to push commands from PC to phone. The commands are:

Code: 
adb shell

settings put global window_animation_scale 0.2

settings put global transition_animation_scale 0.2

settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.2
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I'll give these a go this afternoon
 
It's under warranty either way so you could just contact them to see?

One big addition to Android 11 is notification history which was off by default, turning it on shows you the last 24hrs worth of notifications that have been swiped away/sent. Very useful for getting to something that has been accidentally swiped. I have created a Nova Launcher gesture action on the homescreen to get right to it instead of having to go through settings each time.
 
GMac11 said:
Has anyone read or seen if Samsung are offering returns/replacements for the S20 FE's that are experiencing the touch screen issues?
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If you're outside the 30 day returns window, tell them its faulty and give them one chance to repair it (as per consumer rights law). If it comes back faulty, you can demand a refund, though my personal experience with this is that Samsung will deny you your rights and tell you to send it in again.
 
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