Not sure what i did, but now i have a profile pic next to all text messages from me, how do I kill this?
It's connected to your Samsung account. If you want to change it, just go into any conversation and click your icon (or picture, whatever you have right now) and it'll bring up your profile info that you can change. Hopefully it's self explanatory from there.
Spent a few weeks with a S8 now. Obviously a beautiful design, and also obviously going to physically break before the usual 12/24month periods. Currently I'm running a cheap screen protector and a Spigen Liquid Air case, but having both back and front glass means it's a matter of time before there's broken glass no matter how bulky you decide to go with protection..
The complaints about the weird position of the fingerprint sensor are overblown, it shouldn't be a surprise that users can easily build muscle memory to work with a new position, and a case helps guide the finger. But the major problem is the stupid Samsung bloatware, including this Bixby nonsense.
The extra Samsung apps means that we have a duplicate "clock" app' for example, with exactly the same functionality as the regular android clock. So when I say "OK Google, set an alarm for 10pm", the google assistant might have no problems. But when I the follow up with "OK Google, cancel all alarms" the system gives me a "no alarms set" error, because there are multiple programs handling the same basic functions. Basically Samsung has reduced the functionality of Samsung branded devices by messing up the software ecosystem with their own software which is completely redundant.
My above point does not cover "Bixby", which is almost completely useless in my opinion.
It's only fragile if you abuse you phones.What is bad if you are someone who needs a full case with a built-in screen protector. Obviously that's impossible with the curved glass.
Is Bixby even fully functional yet? I thought the answer was no. At any rate, I don't use voice assistants so it is of little consequence to me.
So far my biggest gripe isn't phone related but carrier; Verizon blocks wifi calling on unlocked devices. Oh well.
I've been fiddling with it all day. Rather than do a restore I decided to set it up fresh, so going through each and every setting took the better part of the morning. I have since streamed about 40 minutes of YouTube and 30 minutes of web browsing, so that's 3 hours and 40 minutes of screen on time and I am at 70% battery. And this is entirely on LTE, no wifi.2.5 hours and you're at 81%? My Nexus 6P would've been dead at 1.5-2 hours I really want a new phone, but I want to hold out at least till Note 8 announcement. I did get Amazon to agree to refund my 6P. I'm just waiting to transfer my data to a different temporary phone and send it back.
That's very goodWhen I got the S8+ I was excited to be back in the Android world, and I was definitely expecting an improvement in the battery life department compared to the iPhone 7 Plus I've been using, but holy crap:
Over 10 hours of screen on time! I used to be super happy with just over 5. This is incredible, super happy about my purchase now!
Spent a few weeks with a S8 now. Obviously a beautiful design, and also obviously going to physically break before the usual 12/24month periods. Currently I'm running a cheap screen protector and a Spigen Liquid Air case, but having both back and front glass means it's a matter of time before there's broken glass no matter how bulky you decide to go with protection...
If you're consistently breaking your phones glass in 12-24 months, you're doing something wrong.
I'd hazard the S8+ has better battery life than the standard S8 but I've never seen anything like that battery life on my + though I'm on LTE doing mostly web surfing. On a good day I might get close to 6 hrs SOT which is 2 hours better than my S7 Edge.That's very good
I never saw battery life that good, but it's been solid for me and most of my day is spent on a poor signal area. It was also better out of the box and has degraded since it was new a bit, but still good
Took it off the charger at 6:30 am. From then until 4pm I was on LTE only. Good signal almost the entire time so maybe that played a part?I'd hazard the S8+ has better battery life than the standard S8 but I've never seen anything like that battery life on my + though I'm on LTE doing mostly web surfing. On a good day I might get close to 6 hrs SOT which is 2 hours better than my S7 Edge.
If you're on wifi all day and watching movies, I could see something like those results but that would be the best possible scenario.