The Official Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Thread

GMac11 · 20 Nov 2018 at 17:19

Cheers for that. I actually surprised myself at how cheap the S8 can be got on contract as at first it didn't even enter the thought process. If it were me I'd be buying sim free or even used and going sim only but she wants a contract. £26 a month with £10 up front is still decent though.

bastic · 20 Nov 2018 at 17:52

XeNoN89 said:
My S8 has REALLY slowed down over the last week or two, it's turned into a laggy frustrating mess suddenly. it also seems to be running hotter than before.

Guess it's about the right time to annoy everyone so they want to upgrade when the next one comes out...

mine is horrendous....
laggy
apps crash or won't load...
camera keeps on switching between internal and sd memory...
and that's after fresh hard 2 weekend's ago...

BananaDunka · 20 Nov 2018 at 17:55

Mine's 2 years old now and still fine in terms of performance and stability.

james.miller · 20 Nov 2018 at 21:34

Software on mine is absolutely fine. Its the hardware that I've had issues with lol

bastic · 20 Nov 2018 at 22:22

james.miller said:
Software on mine is absolutely fine. Its the hardware that I've had issues with lol

maybe have to reset mine again...

XeNoN89 · 21 Nov 2018 at 09:18

bastic said:
mine is horrendous....
laggy
apps crash or won't load...
camera keeps on switching between internal and sd memory...
and that's after fresh hard 2 weekend's ago...

Funnily enough since i posted that i've had 2 or 3 more updates and it's improved again!

D1craig · 24 Nov 2018 at 01:20

can anybody recommend a perfect screen protector that wont pop off in a case?

ive used 2 or 3 different wet application ones and a solid one. the wet application ones just dont stick perfectly on the edges (i will not get my phone out of the box until my screen protector has arrived so cant be because of anything on the screen) and the solid one was awful, tiny bit of glue on the edges and it didnt stick well at all.

IvanDobskey · 24 Nov 2018 at 07:52

Still very happy with my S8. I look at the new phones on the market and I'm getting zero urge to upgrade. I can see myself keeping it for another year yet.

Thebug · 24 Nov 2018 at 14:43

D1craig said:
can anybody recommend a perfect screen protector that wont pop off in a case?

ive used 2 or 3 different wet application ones and a solid one. the wet application ones just dont stick perfectly on the edges (i will not get my phone out of the box until my screen protector has arrived so cant be because of anything on the screen) and the solid one was awful, tiny bit of glue on the edges and it didnt stick well at all.

I have the screenknight one on at the moment fits perfect no lifting edges like the previous ones just make sure you get the case fit version

ping8781 · 10 Dec 2018 at 09:09

Anyone got the November security update yet?

MrRockliffe · 10 Dec 2018 at 09:28

I've noticed the phone seems to scratch quite easily - I look after mine, but it's already accumulated 2 scratches on the screen :/

Kainz · 10 Dec 2018 at 10:07

ping8781 said:
Anyone got the November security update yet?

Nothing on 3 yet. Still on October here.

ping8781 · 10 Dec 2018 at 10:14

thanks, not just me then

stoofa · 10 Dec 2018 at 12:00

I'm using a "purchased directly from Samsung" currently on EE, S8 - still October here too.

stoofa · 12 Dec 2018 at 12:03

November Security Update came through this morning

ping8781 · 12 Dec 2018 at 12:11

Thanks for this, just checked and i have it too

FlyingFish · 22 Dec 2018 at 09:54

December update came through yesterday for me: G950FXXU4CRL3

http://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G950F/BTU/doc.html

Mick

stoofa · 23 Dec 2018 at 17:00

FlyingFish said:
December update came through yesterday for me: G950FXXU4CRL3

http://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G950F/BTU/doc.html

Mick

Aye, just checked - me too.
That was a very short gap between releases.

Nexus18 · 5 Jan 2019 at 05:28

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-Wireless-Charging-Desk-Stand-QI-Compatible-/223204949264

Pretty good discount, going to order 1.

stoofa · 5 Jan 2019 at 16:03

Nexus18 said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-Wireless-Charging-Desk-Stand-QI-Compatible-/223204949264

Pretty good discount, going to order 1.

Nice find.
I bought two from Ebay last year, both were fakes.
One lasted a fortnight before dying, managed to get a refund on that one, the other lasted about 10 weeks.
Vendor told me to contact Samsung who promptly took one look at it and told me it was fake.

See these are from the Samsung store, think I'll try again.

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