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

Nexus18 said:
Right that dbrand is going of, tried hair dryer number of times and the thing is just awful on the rounded sides.
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Did you watch the official videos on how to sort that out? I've had like 4 dbrand skins now and they're all smooth around the corners and edges if applied exactly as shown and then "cured" over time. You also have to file in the edges with your finger nail when the film is still warm so it sort of melts to the edge and becomes smooth. After that, it's just a case of a week until it becomes fully smooth like as if it was part of the back cover.
 
mrk said:
Did you watch the official videos on how to sort that out? I've had like 4 dbrand skins now and they're all smooth around the corners and edges if applied exactly as shown and then "cured" over time. You also have to file in the edges with your finger nail when the film is still warm so it sort of melts to the edge and becomes smooth. After that, it's just a case of a week until it becomes fully smooth like as if it was part of the back cover.
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Yup followed it exactly, probably even over did the heat......

Too late to do anything else now as the side parts are covered in dust so it will have lost its stickiness.

Never had any success with these skins :(
 
As my luck would have it, I fell foul of the SystemUI force close at boot last night and had to end up factory resetting from the boot loader.

I'm pretty sure it was not substratum but instead the app, System UI Tuner, which is aimed at Samsung devices and up until now has been fine as I set my tweaks in Nougat and just left as is. Until last night tgat is, when I toggled the Bluetooth icon and later rebooted.

Obviously there's no way to recover from that and to be sure it was nothing to do with Substratum, I uninstalled all overlays with ADB to no avail. So this confirmed it was something else, most likely System UI Tuner.

Staying away from that app from here onwards!

So much faff getting all banking apps and things back up o scratch. At least now I've hi hands on experience with Oreo's cloud restore feature which is pretty neat, and most of my app backup exports are on Drive anyway.

I'll also create a full phone backup with ADB every couple of weeks just to be safe.

Also funny thing is when I signed back into Google on the S8, the two step auth request popped up on my car's Android stereo as that's the only other Android device I was logged into. Just thought that was neat.
 
mrk said:
As my luck would have it, I fell foul of the SystemUI force close at boot last night and had to end up factory resetting from the boot loader.

I'm pretty sure it was not substratum but instead the app, System UI Tuner, which is aimed at Samsung devices and up until now has been fine as I set my tweaks in Nougat and just left as is. Until last night tgat is, when I toggled the Bluetooth icon and later rebooted.

Obviously there's no way to recover from that and to be sure it was nothing to do with Substratum, I uninstalled all overlays with ADB to no avail. So this confirmed it was something else, most likely System UI Tuner.

Staying away from that app from here onwards!

So much faff getting all banking apps and things back up o scratch. At least now I've hi hands on experience with Oreo's cloud restore feature which is pretty neat, and most of my app backup exports are on Drive anyway.

I'll also create a full phone backup with ADB every couple of weeks just to be safe.

Also funny thing is when I signed back into Google on the S8, the two step auth request popped up on my car's Android stereo as that's the only other Android device I was logged into. Just thought that was neat.
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Sounds exactly like the issue I ran into a few months ago. Put me right off the whole idea.
 
Oreo beta 5 is out :)

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The notification icon balls on the lockscreen have been changed. They're now app colour coded and surrounded by one big white outline rather than individual balls.

Preferred the old style.
 
On the upside, you can switch back to notification bars and have the bar background fully transparent, so that's nicer now I guess.
 
It can only be negatively and I can't see any difference between them unless I pixel peep zoomed right in on screen captures. I think Samsung got it right when they chose to default to FHD+ for the OS
 
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