The Official Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus Thread

something daft already!! · 26 Mar 2018 at 20:09

The case I bought from rainy place has already fallen apart! The front cover is bonded to a vinyl like hinge and it is lifting off from there, it is almost all of the way off now. They have a agreed to replace it but I am going to order an official Samsung one.

tres · 27 Mar 2018 at 10:13

Really, really enjoying this phone. Performance is fantastic. Everything just works so well. The only small issue, is whilst on mobile data, sometimes I don't get WhatsApp or messenger notifications. I've gone through battery options and make sure the apps don't sleep, but still a bit hit and miss. Other than that, the best phone I've used.

Gerard · 27 Mar 2018 at 14:43

I took delivery of an s9+ on Thursday and its still in its package unopened, still mulling over if its worth ditching my s6 edge + for essentially a slightly bigger screen and camera + storage upgrade for the most part.

DBT85 · 27 Mar 2018 at 16:33

Thoroughly enjoying my S9+.

Less so the email from Samsung saying that the Z5 I traded in suffers from a weak vibrate function and I need to pay £75 to continue. It's a really weird email too as there are links right there in the email saying "click me" which, naturally, I don't want to do.

yak.h'cir · 27 Mar 2018 at 16:52

That's a really specific failure! Was it noticeably to you? My z3 was accepted, I was a little concerned as I'd just replaced the port covers with unofficial versions and they're unscathedness stood out from the rest of the phone.

Bradmax57 · 27 Mar 2018 at 20:30

DBT85 said:
Thoroughly enjoying my S9+.

Less so the email from Samsung saying that the Z5 I traded in suffers from a weak vibrate function and I need to pay £75 to continue. It's a really weird email too as there are links right there in the email saying "click me" which, naturally, I don't want to do.

That's unfortunate, anyone know what happens you don't pay the £75? do they take it from payment card automatically? I honestly thought they would refuse or do similar with the S4 I sent in for trade in, cant believe they gave £95 or thereabouts for a beaten up S4

Soulja · 27 Mar 2018 at 22:10

tres said:
Really, really enjoying this phone. Performance is fantastic. Everything just works so well. The only small issue, is whilst on mobile data, sometimes I don't get WhatsApp or messenger notifications. I've gone through battery options and make sure the apps don't sleep, but still a bit hit and miss. Other than that, the best phone I've used.

What network are you on? I'm on virgin and had the same issues as well.

jonneymendoza · 28 Mar 2018 at 07:54

i paid over 800 quid outright. am i mad?

great phone though

Bradmax57 · 28 Mar 2018 at 08:21

jonneymendoza said:
i paid over 800 quid outright. am i mad?

great phone though

not really as the normal.price is nearer 900

Richy888 · 28 Mar 2018 at 10:13

jonneymendoza said:
i paid over 800 quid outright. am i mad?

great phone though

So did I and I'm as mad as a bucket of frogs

matt100 · 28 Mar 2018 at 10:32

Nice things cost money... I don't see that as being madness.

What's lost on a lot of people is that phones as with many other things like cars and computers etc are more than the sum of their parts.

You could have a 6" bezel free android device with 6gb of ram etc etc and it could still easily be a POS if it's poorly optimised, this is the extra sauce people like Samsung or Apple bring to the party that you can't get on a spec sheet.

I will say I managed to fool someone yesterday that my S8+ was an S9+ but hardly surprising

Kryton · 28 Mar 2018 at 13:52

Has anyone had any problems with Google Chrome? more specifically it crashing at random times? It's not a lot but just doing normal browsing, can be the BBC website or Sky Sports and it'll crash out saying the app has had to close.

sityeuropa · 28 Mar 2018 at 20:29

I paid £560 for the 960FD.

FD is an import but all new and working and is the same. Took around a week to arrive.

Marzipanogram · 28 Mar 2018 at 23:47

Can anyone tell me if it's worth it (hassle wise) to order the S9+ from the German Amazon store?
Would anyone know what the final cost would be (using a regular CC)?
Do you just download the UK firmware to make it usable or do you just alter the language to English?

Thank you.

Bradmax57 · 29 Mar 2018 at 07:13

No idea on final cost as most cc charges will be different no need to download firmware just select English when setting up handset

jonneymendoza · 29 Mar 2018 at 07:52

Richy888 said:
So did I and I'm as mad as a bucket of frogs

ITS THE MOST I PAID FOR A PHONE!

Bradmax57 · 29 Mar 2018 at 08:08

jonneymendoza said:
ITS THE MOST I PAID FOR A PHONE!

Beat you there after buying a iPhone x for my wife for Xmas......

Marzipanogram · 29 Mar 2018 at 10:51

Bradmax57 said:
No idea on final cost as most cc charges will be different no need to download firmware just select English when setting up handset

Thank you Sir

Marzipanogram · 29 Mar 2018 at 18:17

A couple more Q's

Does anyone know if you buy the SIM free S9+ from a Samsung UK store, do you get any free stuff with it? (I've phoned both Manchester stores but can't get through at all. One of the numbers is dead).

If I bought it from a foreign site i.e. Toby Deals as an example.
Is it better to try and get a certain CPU type over the other, Snapdragon vs Exynos?
For performance, battery life and the ability to root it?

Thank you.

Richy888 · 30 Mar 2018 at 09:39

Another update for S9. Just downloaded and install later. A few fixes I think..

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Galaxy-S9-plus-update-call-stability_id103675

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