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

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Phone has not adapted to my usage patterns yet but the first full charge cycle got me this result which I'm quite pleased with. The S10e SnapDragon wasn't as high a screen on time as this and was more around 4 hours mark. Also like the super fast charging when needed, just over an hour from 1% to full is extremely handy
 
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Got the back skin today, as much as I really like the non-metallic grey back of the S20, I still hate fingerprints on the back as it's not coated like the front is and a skin is just nicer too.
 
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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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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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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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
 
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.
 
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This custom EQ will balance the speakers, keep Atmos set to auto and enjoy really nice dynamic range without the mids being too forward. Perfect for both music and media I find. The speakers are now on par with my S10e as I forgot I had a custom EQ on that and when I got the S20 the speakers out the box felt lacking by comparison.

If you listen on headphones then set this with headphones disconnected so it saves to the speakers, then use Adapt Sound to tune the headphones properly when they are connected. Dual purposes sorted then.
 
Well worth getting a high end Micro SD card on a flagship phone. I thought the SanDisk 200GB Ultra was good already but didn't realise just how much faster the Extreme Pro cards are to write to. Went from a 200GB to 512GB:

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What do you mean soft uninstall? When you uninstall an app its data is also removed which is why when you reinstall WhatsApp it needs all settings re-set back up again and you need to log back in with correct authentication. The only things in the WhatsApp folder on internal storage is the backup files that are created daily/weekly and stored media files if you have media set to download automatically or if you click the download button in a chat.

The only thing I can think of is that she's sending HDR10+ and/or HEVC encoded videos that are unable to be converted by WhatsApp because it cannot convert them to a standard format. Only the Samsung gallery app can do this so any media shared by default from within the gallery or Samsung video player app or camera app will automatically be converted to SDR ready for normal sharing within message apps etc and will then be downscaled by those apps.

Best option is to not record with the HDR10+ or HEVC options selected in the Samsung camera app settings. Keep normal HDR set to auto by all means as that's very different to the HDR10+ setting buried in the main settings screen.

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Hmm interesting,, I just tested this out with videos I have sent and saved videos others have sent in both group chats and solo chats.

I sent a 4K 60fps video and that sent as 4K 60fps even tough the screen that comes up allowing you to trim the video etc showed the video would be 1.1MB (I had not touched the trim sliders yet), so even though it said 1.1MB the video sent was the full 5 second long 4K 60fps file.

I downloaded a video sent by someone else on their Galaxy S10, they recorded the video at 1080P and the video appears to be that full 1080P as well at over 30MB in size.

I then re-sent the 4K 60 video to the same chat but this time trimmed it by 1 second in the same window as above and this video now sent as 640x480 although it retained the 60fps.

How odd!
 
I did a test with both cards with a storage test app to confirm this and there is a noticeable difference especially with write speeds:

200GB Sandisk Ultra:
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512GB SanDisk Extreme Pro:
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If anyone ordered the special edition MKBHD skin from dbrand back in Nov, yours should be arriving around about this week, mine arrived yesterday.
 
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