The Official Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus Thread

yak.h'cir · 10 Mar 2018 at 13:30

No wifi trouble here. Absolutely loving the s9!

DBT85 · 10 Mar 2018 at 13:38

No WiFi problem for me either.

Need to have a look and see if there are any decent games to play while I'm "working". Think I've played a total of what hours worth of phone games since I had snake on my 3210 lol.

More strategy (stellaris, hearts of iron) than tap the screen to watch a dude jump or a bird fly.

Also, I've still for the films on my phone. Its been in its Tech21 ego check case since I took it out of the box. Really should update my bank account phone insurance. Used it 4 times in 2 years lol.

Bradmax57 · 10 Mar 2018 at 13:57

Just fitted a wet screen protector and a spiegen tough armour case out tonight so can't risk it

Bradmax57 · 10 Mar 2018 at 14:10

TriedandTested said:
Is anyone having an issue where their wifi drops out every 5-10 mins. I get a little exclamation mark next to wifi in notification bar, and everything with stop (e.g. netflix or whatever)until it reconnect.

Might be worth logging into your router and changing the channel see if that helps?

Gerard · 10 Mar 2018 at 14:51

Is the slow mo feature on this phone as odd as the reviews say? That it only activates if something moving fast enters a reticle on a portion of the screen? Seems a bit of an odd move if so. :confused:

DBT85 · 10 Mar 2018 at 14:58

Gerard said:
Is the slow mo feature on this phone as odd as the reviews say? That it only activates if something moving fast enters a reticle on a portion of the screen? Seems a bit of an odd move if so.

It just auto detects some fast movement. So dog shaking off water would trigger it. Needs lots of light to shoot at this speed though.

Can also trigger it manually .

peterattheboro · 10 Mar 2018 at 15:05

I can't get my head around it. Trying on manual do you hold the slow mo button or tap it once and then again to stop it?

Can also recommend the Spigen Thin Fit case. Feels nice and grippy and pretty tough.

thedazman67 · 10 Mar 2018 at 15:13

Got my S9+ today upgraded from the s7 edge. Definitely an improvement and doesnt even feel that mich bigger. Got a spigen thin fit arriving tomorrow.

Anybody got any theme recommendations I had Material Dark on the edge can't seem to find it in the theme store.

slick rick · 10 Mar 2018 at 15:20

I couldn't get the slow motion to work very well, it seems to be quite finicky. It might just be me rather than the phone.

Also it doesn't seem to like my wireless charger, it has worked fine with my S7e for 2 years but the S9 will have none of it lol.

Newfeee · 10 Mar 2018 at 15:45

On earlier S series you could assign a specific notification tone to a specific contact but it looks as if there is no provision for this now. Anyone know it is possible?

DBT85 · 10 Mar 2018 at 16:32

peterattheboro said:
I can't get my head around it. Trying on manual do you hold the slow mo button or tap it once and then again to stop it?

Can also recommend the Spigen Thin Fit case. Feels nice and grippy and pretty tough.

No need to stop it. It's only recording at that speed for 0.2 seconds.

TriedandTested · 10 Mar 2018 at 17:53

Bradmax57 said:
Might be worth logging into your router and changing the channel see if that helps?

Giving that a go now. Thanks for the suggestion. It's a bit odd and worrying and had no such issue on the 3T.

peterattheboro · 10 Mar 2018 at 18:52

The AKG headphones aren't bad

TriedandTested · 10 Mar 2018 at 19:48

peterattheboro said:
The AKG headphones aren't bad

I have to say...i think the atmos setting with netflix is pretty amazing.

AndyMoody · 10 Mar 2018 at 21:13

Newfeee said:
On earlier S series you could assign a specific notification tone to a specific contact but it looks as if there is no provision for this now. Anyone know it is possible?

If you mean a text tone and not a ringtone, then I use Next SMS by Handcent which does allow this. I've not used the Samsung Messages app for many years. You can personalise, the led colour, text tone, led flash, on screen alert symbol and much more for each contact.

Cryfreeman · 10 Mar 2018 at 22:17

How old are your guys firmware’s? January patch with no update available on a new divice ain’t filling me with confidence for timely updates
Enjoying my S9+ at the moment , will be testing it beside my older iPhone 8 over the coming week and selling the least enjoyable of the two

kona786 · 10 Mar 2018 at 22:47

Cryfreeman said:
How old are your guys firmware’s? January patch with no update available on a new divice ain’t filling me with confidence for timely updates
Enjoying my S9+ at the moment , will be testing it beside my older iPhone 8 over the coming week and selling the least enjoyable of the two

Samsung and timely updates are mutually exclusive I'm afraid.

Broken Hope · 11 Mar 2018 at 08:04

I thought I read they had released the March update at least? US only so far?

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/first-galaxy-s9-software-update-download-3421553

slick rick · 11 Mar 2018 at 09:03

Downloading an update now. Stability of face unlock and stability of camera are improved apparently. It is a 243 MB update.

Cryfreeman · 11 Mar 2018 at 09:07

slick rick said:
Downloading an update now. Stability of face unlock and stability of camera are improved apparently. It is a 243 MB update.

Sim free?

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