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[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
If you like white you will LOVE this pearl white...I prefer black, makes the screen kind of disappear. The black is not jet black, and the blue tint is only really noticeable/visible with direct light at an angle.

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[Galaxy S6 General] tlxxxsracer:
I went with the white for the reason due to the finger prints and that it was truely black. I get black so the screen blends in with the color, but since its blueish it doesnt quite do what I want. The white has a pearl to it.

Hope to be getting my Tmobile one soon :)
[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
To the author: when you have the chance, please check how are the heads up notifications :) I'm interested mainly in the messaging and phone ones - can you answer a call/ replay to a message without having to quit your current application (like in Stock Lollipop) or is it like before?
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Will do, but I never used heads up previously, so will tell you what I find.

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[Galaxy S6 General] diehardbattery:
My guess is that since both the S5 and Note 4 had those features in KitKat, they should be alive and well in the S6...
[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
Did S5 and Note 4 had those features? Oh... well then it is almost guaranteed they will be present in the S6 as well. I had no idea that they were available in older versions of Android as well.

Neat feature nevertheless :)
[Galaxy S6 General] pleindejaune2:
Could you run this app and post a screenshot? Manual Camera Compatibility from the play store

(sorry I can't post the link directly since this is my first post)

Thank you
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
As mentioned it is there...lollipop 5.1 has an update to this feature where you can dismiss the heads up but it still shows up in the notification pulldown fit later interaction.

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[Galaxy S6 General] microspock:
In the display parameters, can you deactivate the light of the hardware keys ?

Envoyé de mon SM-G900F en utilisant Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
No you cannot, in fact several things are missing from that menu and other menus...unless there in other places a lot of useful stuff has been removed, i.e. I cannot find some of the air gestures like hover, preview, etc... I think Samsung didn't understood what people meant by the bloat I.e. the Samsung apps and auto on features, not take them away completely.

First pic is S6 next two are of S5 display menuView attachment 3237144View attachment 3237145View attachment 3237146

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[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
Yep, no more air gestures. Several features such as this one are being excluded in the S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Ya, which is a shame I actually used some of them. They could have left them, but just off by default. Mainly air preview was good for fast forwarding/rewinding a video or song to the spot you wanted.

This is all we get now, hope the others can be downloaded from the galaxy app store like some of the extra camera modes were! View attachment 3237186

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[Galaxy S6 General] asdfvtn:
This probably won't be a very good test since I'm in Canada and you're in the Ohio, but I was wondering if you could test out the GPS performance on the S6? My G2 locks take quite some time to find it (even after changing servers), and loses it every now and then.
[Galaxy S6 General] derWolf_:
Personally for me it is no biggie the lack of air features. Even the ones still present in the phone will be turned off in my case :p

Two more questions:

1) Have you had the chance to hear the phone's audio quality from headphones? I read a lot of controversial information on the Internet - some say it is amazing, some say it is rather moderate. And if it is moderate it is a deal breaker for me - audio quality is an important aspect.

2) How are the themes in the Theme store? So far the ones I've seen (3 of them) are butt ugly. Is there an option to create your own theme (or that was a feature coming later this month)?
[Galaxy S6 General] testinguser:
Did you see if it supports h.265 encode / decode like qualcomm 810?
[Galaxy S6 General] felloffthetruck:
Which color is the better looking of the two?
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
Post more thoughts! I have an S3 so I could really use an upgrade but the lack of waterproofing and SD card really bummed me out. That and it being $700 :( having a mini stroke over here trying to convince myself to pull the trigger.
[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
Does the power and volume buttons feel sturdy and flushed like on the iphone?
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Yeah this one will very on location. At my house my house I never have troubles getting a lock inside even with a cheapo tablet with poor gps. The s6 locked and had my location practically as I turned it on. If that is a factor for you this works great on this phone!

I will get back to you on this, mind you I am no where close to an audiophile, nor do i listen to complicated music compositions. I mostly use pandora and that is always via bluetooth headsets, (hate the dangling wires).

There are only about 11 themes so far. Most of them are sort of ummmm, femine in a sense. The avengers seem to be the most masculine one on there. I really like the purple one for its icons. Of note this theme engine is aggressive...It changes every aspect of the phone. I must say of all the things Samsung did, this is the most important ones for touchwiz as you no longer have that funny blue everywhere that so many people complain about. I did not see any option to create your own theme. One thing I noticed is if you use a theme whatever Icons it changed, they will be reverted if you use say Nova Launcher to stock. The other elements retain their theming.

How would I test this...not a videophile hehehe, guide me.

Hard hard choice. I never liked white electronics as I am more of a piano black type guy, but this pearl white is something else. If I was to go to the store tomorrow and buy one I might walk out with the white and wouldn't look back. I also have a pearl white wireless powermat and it just looks so elegantly sick together.

Yo, your not on the fence about this your still in the basement ha ha:) , The S3 was a great phone but it is NO COMPARISON to this S6! If you have not upgraded since the S3 (three years?) I think you saved some money and its time to treat yourself hehehe. I went from S3-S4-S5-S6 and each of those steps I felt I was wasting money because the one before was very capable, but your jump you will definitely feel you made an upgrade. Oh yeah see my update on the SD card issue/OTG.
[Galaxy S6 General] lowspeed:
From what I understand the missing features like the air gesture are in the Samsung store.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Checked didn't see them, still, not even official release date yet so maybe in time.

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[Galaxy S6 General] anewday:
tenxo, did you forget about my question? :(
[Galaxy S6 General] tft:
you mean it makes the phone bezel disappear? and i agree this is why i loved black phones because when you're playing videos all you see is the screen and better immersion. i could never understand why people want white phones (unless because you buy iSheep and have no other choice)., i'd be caught dead with a white phone just because i hate iphone. and white phones remind me of iSheeps :cyclops:

while the OTG cable is a cool feature, not sure i would get much use from it compared to an SD card because you always have to carry the dongle if you want to access external storage at any time. it's like carrying a charger all the time.. guess its a little convenient if you just need to move around some files once in a while or go on vacation and want to carrry extra media or something as you mentioned, otherwise i think that whole thing about samsung improving speed of data memory is a bit of a gimmick since 99% of that speed is unnecessary on a mobile device unless you're coping many gigs of data which typically many people just don't do.

i think im just going to have to wait for a few months for price to come down, i can't justify the price of a 64gb right now.. 32Gb might be enough, but after Android/OS and bloat, a 32gb only has like 23gb~
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Sorry missed it with the multiquote. Buttons are very solid just like everything else with this phone. No wiggles, no cheap clickly sound on the home button like the s5 had, solid presses with little travel on the volume and power keys.
[Galaxy S6 General] entropism:
How flush is your screen with the frame? The bottom corners for me have the frame coming up slightly, and you can definitely feel it if you drag your thumb over it.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
You dont think this is by design? I as you state the going into the corners is not as smooth as say sliding in from the edge, but all four front corners and the four back corners feel this way. Same on both my devices. The edges flow right over the edge smoothly.
[Galaxy S6 General] entropism:
One part of me thought this was by design, as it makes the device a bit more grippy when you hold it. The other half of me was twitching because it's just the two bottom corners, not the top. I'll be checking out the store demos tomorrow for sure.
[Galaxy S6 General] rjayflo:
I remember reading that the frame not sitting flush with the front/back glass was by design
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
Please report back on battery life :)
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Will be a while! Still playing with stuff, adjusting my usage, until I get back to a normal usage will be hard to give feedback on this.

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[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
I agree with you but I really want to ditch my S3 so I've been looking at options!

http://www.adorama.com/kgdtduo332gb.html

Amazon sells them as well but I don't have Prime soo.. There's also a 64GB version. It's not as great as being able to add permanent storage and never having to worry about losing stuff (SD cards IMO are tougher than a phone) but it's a pretty nice Band-Aid. Once I can get my hands on a phone I'll look into doing wireless backups to a PC or maybe a networked HDD. I'm going to try my luck at a tmo store since the pre-order refused to ship to an address other than what is on my account and I won't be back there for weeks... :crying: May have to wait to the 10th. SO FAR AWAY.

--EDIT--

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RBGYGMO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2BYVMH7NSQ63F

This one is a lot faster and there are buying options on Amazon with free shipping. I think it's worth the $5!
[Galaxy S6 General] Towle:
How do your white backgrounds look? When I'm on a white background, such as Facebook or Tapatalk, it almost looks like construction paper.. it's the weirdest thing. I don't think it's really a big enough deal to make me want an exchange.
[Galaxy S6 General] entropism:
Accurate battery testing takes days, even weeks to report back on. Trust me, you'll be seeing battery life reports from EVERYONE, who either hate it, love it, or barely care about it. Just you wait...
[Galaxy S6 General] eyc:
Weird. I had that issue with my Galaxy Nexus, but I could never figure out what was wrong with it. People said it was the nature of the screen technology, but something was definitely wrong with mine. It looked like there was a transparent texture layer of construction paper overlaying the phone, most prominent when displaying white.
[Galaxy S6 General] jonahtriangle:
Benchmarks?
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
I don't like those for the simple fact they put more strain on the micro port say while resting in your palm and especially if you where to bump or snag it on something it has less free give like the wire one that I got. Those are a way more compact an portable solution though, so works all the same for some quick added storage. Heck I might buy one of those too just for the heck of it!

I haven't noticed anything like that, can you post a pic compared to something? I will check mine side-by-side and let you know.
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
I agree with the plug thing but like how direct this is. With a metal body the port should be pretty stable and I'm really careful so it shouldn't be a problem.

Another option is getting one of those free AC routers from tmo and plugging in an USB 3.0 external to it. Need to do more research on automatic backups/file syncing but AC is FAST so it may be a good non-portable option.

I'll probably have to wait till next Saturday and pray they're in stock. Also hopefully by then there will be a ROM with tethering. Just got lollipop on my work S5 and don't really like it compared to my custom ROM.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
The personal cloud thing I have been planning to do for years now for the auto syncing (I procrastinate like nobody else:rolleyes:) I even purchased an expensive 4 bay NAS and hard drives, a couple of years ago and its not even turned on:confused:. I also have that tmo AC router its a really nice one. Maybe we can learn how to make this personal cloud thing work, together lol:good:.
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
I'll look at setting up at FTP server on the router at the end of the week.. This flash drive is on sale

today

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8563892&CatId=9532 so I might pick one up (128gb for $31). I would rather leave flash plugged into the router 24/7 than an external harddrive. Although with a NAS setup that's something entirely different. So you'd have to look into setting that up separately.

Check out Titanium Media Sync on the playstore. It looks like it should do what I'm interested in.

Amazon price matched the 128gb flash drive. http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Turbo-128...&keywords=128GB+PNY+Turbo+USB+3.0+Flash+Drive
[Galaxy S6 General] Shawn haz root:
There's no redundancy there if that flash drive dies so I wouldn't keep anything on there you wouldn't want to lose. For cloud storage, I would look at iDrive https://www.idrive.com/. $50 a year for 1TB or 5GB free and you can sync it across all platforms ie, Windows, Android, iOS, etc.
[Galaxy S6 General] Protagoras:
That's what I'm doing. I have a Synology NAS setup in RAID for redundancy with a few TB of drive space, and I connect to it using WebDav (but FTP, etc. also works). I then use FolderSync (needs root I think) to automatically sync some chosen folders to it (my camera photos, music, save games from some games, etc.) when I'm within my home WiFi so my phone is always up to date, and properly backed up without having to think about it. And it's all synced with my tablet too. And the best is that the NAS doubles up as a media server that's available everywhere through my router.

Of course, you could just use GDrive, OneDrive or Dropbox to do the same, but its less flexible.
[Galaxy S6 General] erasat:
Try in your Accessibility Settings, as far as I can remember even the Note 4 now has those options (Some of them) buried in one of those menus.
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
My main concern is that I back up my ROM/apps/pictures on my SD card. I feel that if my phone dies most likely the SD card will survive. But now without removable storage it has to be backed up another way. I won't be using a cloud service. So while there isn't redundancy it's still better than just having things saved on the phone.

You could also use the USB 2.0 on the router for an external or Ethernet for NAS and possibly set up a backup. I'm not sure if routers have that functionality but I don't see why you couldn't have a networked PC move/copy the files once a day/week/w.e. Flash being in the USB 3.0 slot is just so that backups over wifi can be achieved quickly/painlessly.

ASUS has their own android/ios app called AiCloud. I'll test it out when I get home but backing up may be super easy using the free router!
[Galaxy S6 General] marcochapita:
So what's the difference actually in space occupied by lollipop on the s5 to the s6 that you show us that's almost 10gb of wast space after we turn the device for the first time?
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
For whatever reason my Vz S5 16GB running 5.0.2 puts "System memory" under Miscellaneous files but it's showing 5.46GB.
[Galaxy S6 General] marcochapita:
Exactly like mine but I know I don't have 10.15gb when I start the phone for the first time I have always around 8/9 gb
[Galaxy S6 General] Lockeskidney:
Got my yesterday. My IR sensor was blinking red. turns out i had plastic on it

DOH
[Galaxy S6 General] hajyihia:
hey man, can you tell us how is the smoothness of the phone? because someone in the Q&A section mentioned that the phone lags a lot....i really appreciate the help
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
I can tell you this is the fastest phone I ever used. It is incredibly smooth in all things, the settings app drawer scrolling, just everything. Also it is hard to tell what is new lollipop additions versus samsung tweaks to lollipop since this is my first go with lollipop, but the experience is just so goooooodddd. It is many many little things that I keep noticing in the software that makes me think why didn't it always do that, or work like that.

Extra note: I rooted on day 2 of having phone. I know some people say they can live without ROOT but I absolutely cannot. So, since rooting the greatness experience doubled, no quadrupled for me! KNOX WAS TRIPPED, I was so happy (for root, not knox lol;))
[Galaxy S6 General] unBREAKable_Fs5:
Just got mine in today. I'm pretty excited and I have to say that the device feels very sturdy in hand. You'd expect it to feel very fragile due to the glass but it surprisingly has a very well put together and durable feel to it.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Remember some of the lost space is from partitioning, and the fact that do the techno rounding scheme for bytes 1024 to 1000 or something like that (google it). Then touchwiz on top lollipop. I can say that this is the smoothest touchwiz to date...This is probably cause of several reasons: lollipop refinements, reorganization of touchwiz (I dont think they scaled it down 40% or whatever they claimed), THE HARDWARE!

If anything they got rid of/renamed/moved somethings in touchwiz to other places. It WAS 56 installed apps (root fixed that right up) and tons of features in setting some old, some new. I personally prefer to have all the settings and features as long as the user can disable what they want. Same with the pre-installed apps, bloat it if you want as long as the user can actually uninstall them NOT JUST DISABLE them.
[Galaxy S6 General] hajyihia:
thanks man, if you can update us after 2 weeks of using it will help....THANKS
[Galaxy S6 General] akong702:
Has anyone noticed that after the tmobile update that the finger print scanner needs to be clicked then soft touch rather than just a soft touch to unlock the device? Kinda bugging me right now that I have to wake the device and scan my finger to unlock it.... when before it just required a soft touch and it would unlock.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mithrandir007:
Hey, thanks for answering questions :)

I'd like to know if you can still use the Beep'nGo app (Mobeam technology).

I've been using that for a while on the S4 and S5, and I know the Note 3 & 4 have it too so I'm guessing it's still there, but I'd like to have confirmation if possible.

It seems to be pretty unknown by most people, but it's very handy , it allows the phone to be scanned even by old barcode scanners which usually don't work because of the reflectiveness of the screen.

I have all my cards for different stores in my phone, so I hope it's still possible on the S6 :)

It has never really be advertised by Samsung for some reason, so I have no idea.

I think it uses infrared to send the barcode into the scanner instead of the screen.

It's also always funny to see the store clerks being surprised that it works, as many people have their cards on their phone, but it doesn't work and they have to type the number manually.
[Galaxy S6 General] perikach:
Finally I got my s6 in white with 32GB!! Its an awesome piece of kit. Model is SM-G920F, the european version, French unlocked (XEF). The benchmarks are of the charts. Never seen anything like it. I came from a Note 4 and boy this screen looks small but i don't care. Quality and one hand use comes first. sure i'll miss the 5,7 inch screen. Just waiting to see how battery will turn out. At first it was quite warm but after a while it settled down. I am hoping the battery will improve with time and also pushing an update wouldn't be bad. Here is Antutu benchmark:
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Interesting. I took the updates as well, and must click or phone awake for fingerprint, but I cant remember it not needing to be awake before the update. Are you sure it worked like that before? You should make a topic in the Q&A section so we can query someone that has not taken the update!

Hey good post. I can confirm beaming service is still present and beep'n'Go as well. Thanks for explaining how it works. I used to have the clerks scan my S5 and it indeed would be funny when they would say its not going to work, then the surprise when it works first try. I didn't now it was because of this service though, I just thought the S5 screen was just better so it worked.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mithrandir007:
Well, glad I could be helpful as well, and thank you for the confirmation.

I'm happy they kept that :)
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Hey just a heads up on this type of adapter. If you use a case, especially if ithas a flap for the usb slot like say the Ringke cases. You may have difficulty getting this in without removing the case, which would be more cumbersome.
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
It does warm up when your using it intensely, but I feel that it is more noticeable because of the slim size and the materials adjust to temperture slowly i.e. if its warm it feels warmer, if its cold it feels colder. I tried to see if the S5 or S6 would get hotter doing the same intensive task. The plastic back on the S5 did help with the impression that it was cooler, but when checked the temps with GSAM battery monitor they where ~2-3 degrees different so no big deal I think.
[Galaxy S6 General] DC2CA:
I appreciate the heads up! I actually hate cases so I just throw my phone in a sunglasses bag :victory:
[Galaxy S6 General] tenxo:
Ha Ha, as I posted in the first post, I to was against cases, but this phone is very, very slippery esp. if your using it a bit and the back warms up makes you palm moist. I took it to the zoo the other day, clear skies, mild breeze, about 65 degrees out, so not humid at all. While taking pics I was very worried I would drop it if handling it with one hand (again slippery and thin). As soon as I got home ordered a Ringke clear case (which is amazing I might add), and now the user experience feels much better because I don't have that fear now of it slipping out my hand.

My last 7-8 phones I was 100% against and never used a case, hope that is saying something about the slippery-ness of this phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] lopri:
Hi there. Does the 920F work with AT&T and T-Mo's LTE networks?
[Galaxy S6 General] perikach:
I wouldn't know that. Sorry.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sheldor1967:
Very Helpful!

I haven't ordered mine yet, but I'm so sure I will I went to Amazon and they had those cases on sale - $25 OFF! So I ordered a couple for options! Good to know the info about the OTG being so affordable! I can feel good about the 32 Gig model. Thanks Again!
[Galaxy S6 General] Sheldor1967:
I really like that second one. And frankly, though I definitely CAN imagine myself taking tons of photos, I can not imagine that I would want to leave them on. I have a 64gb card on my S5, but it's mostly for backing up ROMs. This is would be perfect for that. I wonder if you can access something like this from TWRP....

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Thanks for posting. If I may ask, where did you buy it from and what carrier are you using? I plan to go the same route but haven't decided where to purchase it. The G900F (S5) got Lollipop 31 days after was released!