Battery has mostly been OK here too. On beta 6 I've had the battery run flat mid afternoon. This is out of character really.One time I felt the phone get warm in my pocket but the other two times not so much. Could be a rogue app though nothing showing up. Android system shows 30% usage but never checked what it is normally. Only done 3 times so far. Which is why I might do a wipe when final is released. Apart from what I just mentioned battery life is good. I can do 4hrs screen on and a 17hr day without worrying about a top up. No word on final though wonder if they'll leave it until the S9 is released as only Samsung would do?
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Battery has mostly been OK here too. On beta 6 I've had the battery run flat mid afternoon. This is out of character really.One time I felt the phone get warm in my pocket but the other two times not so much. Could be a rogue app though nothing showing up. Android system shows 30% usage but never checked what it is normally. Only done 3 times so far. Which is why I might do a wipe when final is released. Apart from what I just mentioned battery life is good. I can do 4hrs screen on and a 17hr day without worrying about a top up. No word on final though wonder if they'll leave it until the S9 is released as only Samsung would do?
At least it looks like I won't be needing to jump to the gs 9
Looks to be nothing more other than an incremental improvement this year, some nice things but no "must have" feature.
Hopefully oreo will land relatively soon.
S9 looks a little uninspiring if the leaks are to believed. Doesn't look enough of an upgrade. This is good because it means I'll not be tempted. If I'm honest I'm not really bothered as I can't fall out with the S8. Can't be much excitement about the S9 as no one has started the ***Official S9 thread***
People it looks like there's definetly some sort of battery problem with my s8
I noticed it a couple of days ago with the in car charger not really doing anything after approx 30 mins on charge and since then I've seen small or minor issues such as the phone dropping from 74% to 66 whilst just browsing chrome before writing this.
Just wondering what else I can do or check before contacting Samsung plz and if thers any screenshots or info needed just let me know
Thanks in advance
I noticed it a couple of days ago with the in car charger not really doing anything after approx 30 mins on charge and since then I've seen small or minor issues such as the phone dropping from 74% to 66 whilst just browsing chrome before writing this.
Just wondering what else I can do or check before contacting Samsung plz and if thers any screenshots or info needed just let me know
Thanks in advance
Odd, I use Bluetooth audio through different cars and four different pairs of headphones, no problems at all.
Even gives the high volume warning when turning up.
Sorry that's no help but maybe there's a hardware issue?
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@Columbo do you have the option to disable bluetooth absolute volumn in the developer options? not sure if that's only available in oreo or not but if you have it give that a try.
Not sure fella, but thanks for the tip I’ll check it out and feedback.
Sorry guys but any help on the above plz
Charged the phone all night and from approx 8 just been on Facebook and Insta for a but and phone is now on 85
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8.0 according to this.
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-s8-note8-android-oreo-february-security-patches/
Kinda sad considering how much later Oreo is coming out on the Samsung phones.
Samsung Cloud backup I'd say
Had a read and that appears to be the way to go
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It's been a photo filled year: https://imgur.com/a/ajR7E
AOD on mine only comes on when it's on charge (over night on charge pad). It does move about. Against the AOD on my previous Moto X, the samsung offering is pretty lame. I find it does drain the battery as you would expect. An app I got off XDA (I think) turns AOD on when on charge and doubles as a bedside clock overnight. That is as about useful as it gets IMO. Other than AOD the S8 beats the Moto X hands down.