Cell phones survey
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So far I'm really liking the Samsung Galaxy S8+. However, it froze twice already. Nothign that I done, it was just sitting there, on the locked/always on screen or whatever it's called when it's in standby... I noticed that the clock on it was like 20 minutes behind. The phone was frozen. I had to soft-reset it / reboot the phone to fix it... twice now.
But if I overlook that, it's an excellent phone. Well worth the $88 I paid for it.
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@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
So far I'm really liking the Samsung Galaxy S8+. However, it froze twice already. Nothign that I done, it was just sitting there, on the locked/always on screen or whatever it's called when it's in standby... I noticed that the clock on it was like 20 minutes behind. The phone was frozen. I had to soft-reset it / reboot the phone to fix it... twice now.
But if I overlook that, it's an excellent phone. Well worth the $88 I paid for it.
That's not unlike my Android experiences in 2012. Back when I used one, they would always crash but look like they were still on. So you'd not notice when calls, emails, or texts came in because the phone looked fine, but messages were not being delivered.
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@scottalanmiller said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
So far I'm really liking the Samsung Galaxy S8+. However, it froze twice already. Nothign that I done, it was just sitting there, on the locked/always on screen or whatever it's called when it's in standby... I noticed that the clock on it was like 20 minutes behind. The phone was frozen. I had to soft-reset it / reboot the phone to fix it... twice now.
But if I overlook that, it's an excellent phone. Well worth the $88 I paid for it.
That's not unlike my Android experiences in 2012. Back when I used one, they would always crash but look like they were still on. So you'd not notice when calls, emails, or texts came in because the phone looked fine, but messages were not being delivered.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened twice now over a week. I've never had an Android phone do that before, this is my first time seeing this issue.
Win10 Mobile would be sweet on this hardware... it's a shame it won't become more. I can't stand iOS, so I guess I'm stuck with Android.
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I have had the S8+ since its release, and have never had it freeze on me. It is a super quick phone.
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@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:
I have had the S8+ since its release, and have never had it freeze on me. It is a super quick phone.
Yes the hardware is excellent and Android looks great on it. I'm really liking it. I wish it had the 6gb ram the Asus phone comes with among other things, but I haven't yet noticed any performance issues.
May I just got a bad phone which is the root cause of the freezing.
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@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:
I have had the S8+ since its release, and have never had it freeze on me. It is a super quick phone.
Yes the hardware is excellent and Android looks great on it. I'm really liking it. I wish it had the 6gb ram the Asus phone comes with, but I haven't yet noticed any performance issues.
May I just got a bad phone which is the root cause of the freezing.
The Note 8 has 6GB of RAM. But it will cost more than $88. Yeah, not sure what the freezing thing could be.
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Unfortunately I could only get store credit/gift card... They didn't have the note 8 or I would have gotten that one for like $50 more or whatever.
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@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
Unfortunately I could only get store credit/gift card... They didn't have the note 8 or I would have gotten that one for like $50 more or whatever.
Come to think of it. I have seen weird behavior with reboots and freezing on other Android phones when there was a bad SD card inserted. Do you even have one in there?
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But honestly my expectation was walking out of the store with a replacement battery, and paying $600 for an Asus phone.
So a full refund later and paying $88 for an almost $900 phone... I'm happy so long as this freezing issue is isolated.
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@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
Unfortunately I could only get store credit/gift card... They didn't have the note 8 or I would have gotten that one for like $50 more or whatever.
Come to think of it. I have seen weird behavior with reboots and freezing on other Android phones when there was a bad SD card inserted. Do you even have one in there?
Yes actually I do have one in that came from my Windows phone. My Windows phone complained often to scan and look for errors on it. Perhaps it really is kind of bad, even though it seems to function fine otherwise.
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@tim_g Remove it for a couple days and see if your freezing stops.
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@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g Remove it for a couple days and see if your freezing stops.
I'll try that.
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@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:
@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:
@tim_g Remove it for a couple days and see if your freezing stops.
I'll try that.
Crossing my fingers XX
