Nothing for weeks and two in less than a week, Samsung are spoiling us
I had it earlier but have deferred downloading it till later when I charge the phone.**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Thread ****
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Nothing for weeks and two in less than a week, Samsung are spoiling us
I had it earlier but have deferred downloading it till later when I charge the phone.
Associate
Yes same here, did a reinstall fix it for you?
Soldato
Update just arrived for my Three S8. 1073mb. I'll install tomorrow
Associate
Yea NatWest keeps crashing for me, the app works fine I just get the popup every so often.
Associate
I have only had the popup once since re-installing so definitely worth a try, i was getting it numerous times a day before.
Hopefully they will release an update for it soon
Hopefully they will release an update for it soon
Soldato
EE update for the + is now available
Man of Honour
I was on CRAP and didn't see any OTA for my sim free BTU... So manually updated with Odin from Samfirmware. Now on CRB7/9.
Was starting getting a bit fed up of my day 1 release S8+ with it being a bit laggy (even after factory resorting it recently) and the battery was terrible.
I've had the oero update a few days now and it's given the phone a new lease of life! So much better and the battery is holding out much better!
I've had the oero update a few days now and it's given the phone a new lease of life! So much better and the battery is holding out much better!
Man of Honour
I read a few people mention lags but personally I'd not experience any such thing at all on Nougat. There must be a common thing among those users perhaps? Either way, I've had many Samsung flagships over the years and the S8+ has been the only one to not slow down or be a bit of a nuisance after a year. I'm unrooted, but running Substratum of course with Nova. It's everything I'd expect from a Pixel 2, and then some to be honest, which is why I'm now super critical of all new phones that U like the look of as a potential upgrade.
Soldato
My S8 mostly lags when opening the camera, it can often take a few seconds to rotate and then be ready to take a picture.
Soldato
Mine's got something causing it to randomly restart of its own accord that I think is going to need a full restore to fix, so we'll see how that goes. Actual performance isn't bad - things that were slow before still are, but nothing's getting slower.
People who experience lag, go to developer options and force 2D GPU rendering and try switching the default render from opengial to something else.
But yes, the little hitches I once had are completely gone with oreo, phone is buttery smooth and as consistent as what my nexus 5x was.
But yes, the little hitches I once had are completely gone with oreo, phone is buttery smooth and as consistent as what my nexus 5x was.
Associate
Has anyone received the March 2018 security patch yet?
Associate
You can get it from XDA.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/discussion-oreo-final-t3746561
To install you put update.zip on sd card, boot into recovery and install update.zip from sd card.
All works well and the version is CRC7.
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Soldato
My youngest (18 months) got hold of my s8 today and lobbed it over the living room gate on to the laminate flooring in the hallway. It did not end well 
smashed top left corner. Arse!
smashed top left corner. Arse!Well I bought Package Disabler Pro + and it was a little flaky but did eventually work. Doesn't require any additional software which others do. Should have got my money back on it really as I uninstalled and installed BK Package Manager which I'd bought and used before. This needs addition app but works well. So long as it shuts down that idiot Bixby rubbish and one or two other things, then it'll do for me
Not sure why Samsung persist with Bixby really?