**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus Thread ****

Battery life is my biggest bugbear with my S9, it can barely last a day (15 hours is my average). My HTC U11 probably lasted twice as long I'd say! I bought a wireless charging pad which helps me to remember to charge it but it's going to be a pain if I'm out places or travelling for work. Pretty disappointing tbh.
 
No issues with black crush or battery life for me tbh.

But I'm probably not a typical use case and I have 4 charging pads around the house.

DBT85 said:
As a follow up. I ignored the first email as it looked like it could easily be a scam.

Today I got another as well as a text message from the same number that my DPD delivery details were from for my S9+ so I know it was legit. Called Samsung to get a number for the returns people, called them and asked about just having the device returned as with a £96 trade in discount and then a £75 surcharge the phone would only be worth £21 becase of a "weak vibration" which is utter tosh. Was told to reply to the latest email and make the request and that it should be possible.
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As a followup to my followup, I got an email today from the samsung recycling folk to say they have waived the £75 fee and completed the order, and apologised for any inconvenience caused.

Annoying that had I not mentioned it I'd be £75 down, but yay I'm sorted.
 
Still have my S7 Edge sat here. Still no return package with only a reminder email 2/3 weeks ago. Would be great if they forget but then, I very much doubt that.
 
Ended up opening my s9+, sort of surprised it wasn't that much bigger than my s6 edge +, side by side barely anything in it really. Performance is obviously much better, starts up much faster as well, not really had a chance to mess with the camera much though it did raise an eyebrow when I seen the camera had a "food" mode...

Can't say I think much of the AR emoji, just seems like a hastily slapped together answer to apples emoji feature which seems far more polished. The lip syncing on the iPhones feature seems a lot more accurate, the Samsung program just reminds me of an old dubbed Japanese movie.

Most of the reviews I've seen of the phone when they do the AR emoji option the characters it creates based on people's faces seem very similar from review to review. It's like a very small selection of faces it has to chose from, the one I made again looks a lot like the ones in reviews, for some reason it almost always seems to give people brown hair from what I've seen so far.

Enjoying it so far though, screen seems far sharper and vibrant and the battery seems much improved over my last phone, still at 30% as I type this after a day of playing games, YouTube, browsing and general messing with features.
 
willhub said:
This "Black Crush", people are posting screen shots to highlight the issue and then saying it's due to the screen and how OLED's are, if this was the case wouldn't the issue reflect on a screenshot? As that's software not hardware and the screenshot only shows as good as the monitor that it is been viewed on. Confused.
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If you can see it in the screenshot then it's not the screen that's the issue.
 
Got an S9 arriving tomorrow, upgrading from an HTC M7, so long overdue!

What cases would people recommend? Would like one that looks good but could survive a drop
 
Apologies if this has been covered before but I'm assuming there's a known issue with the badge notifications? Just got my S9 today and I'm not getting any badges on my apps that I know should have them. I have two unread messages on messenger but there's no indication on the app icon. Same with Facebook, Snapchat etc.
 
Superpatsy said:
Apologies if this has been covered before but I'm assuming there's a known issue with the badge notifications? Just got my S9 today and I'm not getting any badges on my apps that I know should have them. I have two unread messages on messenger but there's no indication on the app icon. Same with Facebook, Snapchat etc.
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Have you got them turned on under SETTINGS >>> NOTIFACATIONS?
 
Superpatsy said:
Yep, all turned on.
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Once you remove the notification/swipe it away the notification blob on the app disappears.

This is because in Oreo, Google want to change the industry standards of notifications on android.

I don't think anyone likes it. Google have made a pigs ear out of notifications on Oreo. Things were better on nougat
 
Hi guys, what do people recommend for phone insurance? I have an s9+ but would just like to know if anyone has taken any insurance out and who with please?

Tia
 
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