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They don't have to do that anymore Now it's, meet the new phone, same as the old phone. Except it doesn't come with a cable. Soon it'll be, 'phones now coming wrapped in bubble wrap to save trees'
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bull3964 posted:But Samsung sleep tracking sucks too and the rest of the fitness metric stuff is decidedly 'meh.' My only smart watch has been a galaxy watch active 2. I don't really use the sleep tracking if that means anything more than looking at it in the morning to see how long I slept. Its usually accurate, there have been a few times in the 2+ years where it says I slept way less than I did. Is that discrepancy what you mean or is it doing/not doing something else I'm not even aware of? I've always wondered if the analysis of my sleep, light vs heavy and so on, is accurate but I have nothing else to compare to
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Sep 25, 2023 23:03
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Watts ville Bull, I've always wondered, are phones related to your job in any way or just a hobby?
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Sep 26, 2023 05:33
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Are you going back to ios? Also it time for the quarterly fingerprint sensor discussgument already
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smoobles posted:Why can't we move on from glossy backs. Just one big smudge factory. My s23u has a matte back 
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Gonna cross post this from the wear os thread since that thread is dead apparently. Or maybe my questions are dumb. After further messing around with the blood pressure I'm more certain it's a gimmick. I just got off my exercise bike and it still shows my blood pressure right where the calibration was. What is even the point of putting it in the watch. Or am I doing something really wrong with it? Resdfru posted:Does Samsung still have reactivation lock or did that get lost when they switched to wear os? Had it on my active 2 and it seems useful but I can't find it anywhere on my new galaxy watch 6. Google just leads me to outdated instructions and people trying to disable it
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Thanks. Good points. I guess no way to know if the steps to enable in the US change the way it works outside of the US. To be clear I never expected it to match the accuracy of a device made for blood pressure but it doesn't actually seem to measure since it gives the same reading whether I take it in the morning or 5 seconds after doing a bunch of cardio. Thanks for the activation lock info. I meant dead in both that no one responded but also this thread get a ton of posts and that one doesn't (not just replies to me)
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Oct 9, 2023 18:50
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FunOne posted:He's got a tablet already that's locked down. Agreed on unfiltered internet access not being age appropriate. Whats your lock down process/procedure?
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Oct 18, 2023 19:30
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I don't know what tick tick provides, or if this works in android 14 but. Habits has notifications that cant be dismissed and pretty good tracking/stats of your reminders. I use mine for taking meds as well. Might be a hold over at least till your main app fixes whatever
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Oct 19, 2023 06:20
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Vagrancy posted:Non-Dismissable notifications became dismissible in Android 14 Oh dang, cool change. I hate apps that set notifications that cant be dismissed when I didn't ask for them. Glad it doesn't apply to clear all cause that won't affect my habits notification
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Oct 19, 2023 21:22
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Which apps? Robinhood let's me do face unlock but it's the only app I ever see it on out of various bank, credit card, and password manager apps. I think at one point the Discover app used to but then it stopped, but I can't remember if that was the s23u or the s21u
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Oct 27, 2023 05:09
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The work profile has its own login, are you using your work email? It sounds like you're saying Google play says you don't have access, which is based on the account you're using on Google play. I think anyway.
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Oct 31, 2023 16:16
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That qr code says it's for a demo so that's probably why. Go to settings on your phone and enable work profile there for the real thing. If you're on samsung use shelter app from fdroid to get it
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I'm not sure as I have samsung, I assumed you could just enable work profile in settings somewhere. Looks like you try following this: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9370410?hl=en#zippy=%2Cim-using-my-own-personal-device You could also try Shelter which just forces work profile to be available and you can install what you want in it. Not sure if that causes issues with Microsoft stuff. I use it on my Samsung with Google work stuff with no issues. I don't remember if shelter is on regular play store but if it is it might only be updated on f droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
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Oct 31, 2023 17:57
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Shelter on Fdroid adds the work stuff. I haven't had my work stuff wiped yet but I assume it will work the right way
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Nov 3, 2023 14:58
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There are a few people in the iPhone thread here either commending the fact that it's staying green or wishing it was some ridiculous color/color combination to make people even more ostracized. I guess they wouldn't get to feel superior to people if all the chat bubbles were the same color
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I can give em the benefit of the doubt and say it's just for jokes but even then I don't get it? I guess the only reason I can think of for wanting different colors if all the imessage features work is that not all of them would work, like the imessage games won't work.
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There was an article a while back about some NBA guy that got bullied into getting an iPhone cause he was green bubbling the chat But I agree with what someone else said, I don't care what color my chat is on someone else's screen Im just happy that I won't get horrid tiny blurry mms pics and videos from the iPhone people in my life who refuse to get another chat app but insist on sending everything through text
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Nov 17, 2023 16:25
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I don't have it yet on Google fi but I'll install it as soon as it becomes available
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Nov 19, 2023 17:13
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Resdfru posted:I don't have it yet on Google fi but I'll install it as soon as it becomes available One ui 6 on s23 ultra on Google fi downloading now
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Nov 21, 2023 21:00
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Resdfru posted:One ui 6 on s23 ultra on Google fi downloading now Everything looks fine except my home screen app icons are huge. My good Lock layout seems intact so I dunno what's up. Quick glance doesn't show any settings for icon size, so maybe I did have a different grid size in good lock
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Nov 21, 2023 23:32
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I don't know if some models are worse than others or just batches of a production run but both mine and my wife's s21 ultras were littered with fine scratches all over from just normal use. Then we switched to 23u and its what I would expect from a phone screen, no micro scratches all over. I say I dunno if its the whole model or the ones we had cause I looked it up back then and no one talked about it. So if no one else is seeing that on their 8s maybe it's yours? But would Google do something about it
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Nov 28, 2023 05:23
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Does Samsung allow you to install their store/apps on other phones? If not can you trick it? If all else fails there's apk mirror probably
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Nov 29, 2023 23:02
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I think eventually all of them probably https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885446/android-14-beta-google-pixel-webcam-feature-usb-apple-continuity-camera Apple has had that feature for a few years now I think
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Dec 6, 2023 18:18
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Wait actually it's moved to the actual share button now, no good lock needed. Just click share, then 'more', then there's a pencil in the top right. Not sure if it's the same or similar on other versions of android Resdfru fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Kirios posted:So made the plunge to Galaxy (S23 specifically) after being a Pixel guy since basically the…Nexus 6? I think that was the Motorola one. Coming from a Pixel 7 whose battery life and performance was disappointing. I personally think samsung makes a lot of good decisions in oneui and most of the ones I don't like I can change with good lock. So maybe take a look at good lock. It's weird at first, cause it has apps inside it to do different things and it's not always clear what they do. But just install em all and go through em
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That happens to me but it's always been the cable (across multiple phones and cars). I get a new one for 10 bucks and I'm good for a year. Last one I got was an anker two pack for the same price as 1 Amazon basics. I could get a wireless adapter thing but 10 bucks a year (or two if the ankers last) isn't killing me
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There is probably an android tv thread or something more related to that question but on my shield I never had a system wide subtitle setting, in my experience that is usually an application level setting but I could be wrong
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Is dark mode on? Search settings for dim wallpaper when dark mode is on and turn it off and see if that helps
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I love samsung, I've been using their phones since the s3 I think. I expect their AI poo poo to be so so so bad. I hope I'm wrong and it is somehow useful and not trash but yea I'm not gonna hold my breath
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Jan 16, 2024 17:57
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It's gonna be bixbyAI or bixby+AI or something
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Galaxy AI sounds pretty lame? S24u doesn't sound like it's gonna be very different from the s23u so I'll probably just stick with my 23 https://www.ign.com/articles/samsung-galaxy-unpacked-2024-everything-announced-from-samsungs-winter-hardware-event
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https://youtu.be/n7lM36yFh2Y?si=5C19FKNUqri9w8Zw Mkbhd video of the 24 line. The live translation of phone calls seem neat. The AI stuff looks fun to play with but not worth upgrading from a 23 I do like the slight changes in the way it looks though
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I didn't click the links but weird. I guess all the fancy schmancy AI capabilities in sd8 gen3 aren't actually being utilized by any of this stuff Oh they haven't said what will or won't, so possibly some stuff isn't able to run on old hardware Resdfru fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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bull3964 posted:It wouldn't surprise me if the vast majority of Galaxy AI is actually Bard on the backend. Check out the mkbhd video I posted, he shows the various AI features and mentions that you can tell when they're available because they have "two little star icons, well Bard logo" or something like that. He also showed the photo editor and said it seems less restrictive than the pixel version. It also puts a Bard watermark on the edited image
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Jan 18, 2024 04:08
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bull3964 posted:Only issue is no native visual voicemail integration. Visual voicemail on samsung is garbage I think. Unless it's different on other providers. On Google fi it just shows me what voicemail are there and I have to download and listen to them. I guess it is what it says it is but when I first used it I expected it to be more like Google voice voicemails where I can just read it. Is it the same on pixel and other stuff?
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One ui has been fantastic for a while now. Too bad you can't like try before you buy a phone for a month to see if you really like it Lol, lest we start the fingerprint debate again but I guess it's relative. I had an s21 ultra for 2 years and now the s23 for a year and I had a few misreads a year in the 21 and never have any issues on the 23.
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Don't think this will help since you say you're not using extra dim but I turned on extra dim once and didn't realize it was on and my brightness kept being really dumb throughout the day and it was driving me mad till I noticed extra dim was on and once I disabled that it stopped. So I guess verify extra dim didn't get enabled
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Jan 24, 2024 03:46
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My guess is turn on work mode and install a camera app in it. If you're on samsung (dunno if any others don't have a work mode) you can use shelter to enable. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/ Also if on samsung you could just use secure folder but work mode is an option if you're already using that for something else
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Is the phone rooted? I don't think you can uninstall the play store otherwise. If it's not rooted then possibly it's just disabled https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base-222928/ Not familiar with that apk site so maybe factory resetting is not a bad idea if it's a shady site
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