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[Galaxy S6 General] AgashU:
Got the S6 yesterday

I got the S6 for $100 and let me tell you something. I upgraded from a S4 and it's basically the same. Although, it is a bit faster (8 > 4 cores) with a higher base frequency. It also has an aluminum glass body which is really nice, it feels good and doesn't feel cheap like the polycarbonate plastic that was used on the S4. Also, the S6 comes with smaller batter but comes with a fast charge feature when you need to go quick, which is great. It's perfect for lollipop than the S4 is as it's more snappier and apps load much quicker and installs much quicker. It has a 1440p screen over the 1080p on the S4. The heart sensors and finger pass code are nice little features. Disappointed that there was no SD card nor removable battery but 32 GB is enough for me. As of right now, great phone. Worth of an upgrade over S4? Not for $800, maybe $200. This does feel like an upgrade, mostly because of the design and brightness of the screen (looks brighter than my S4). Rate: 8.5/10

While it took away two main factors (SD card slot and removable battery), it's still a nice upgrade or great for a new phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] aydc:
iPhone 6s has neither removable battery nor sdcard and it sold 13 million even before it was in the stores. Consumers don't care about those things so neither to manufacturers. Let's get over it and move on.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Its almost the same. ?

Are you crazy man.

I had s3 s5 change for note4 and from the note to s6, i notice changes from note 4, S4 is nothing compare to s6.

Sd don't need it have 100gb cloud.

Battery removal only s3 i bought one. S5 or note and s6 don't need it.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] AgashU:
What makes it more different from the S4? Maybe you know more since you used it longer than I have. So, please tell me what the differences are so I can enjoy my S6 much more. [emoji3]
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I don't had the s4 but s5 its better than s4.

Note 4 slightly fast than s5 , and note 4 only note had a little better battery, but had other problems.

S6 for slightly more faster than note 4 doesn't notice any lags, power screen, it's what I like more. The touch is one of the bests , and now we have a premium phone with no problem with the plastic.

Battery is not the best. Maybe the next nexus 6p has a top battery.

For me to be to satisfy is the note 5 but we don't have in Europe. Its my opinion.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
After rooting and putting a custom ROM on my S6, a freakin great device.

Before that, crippled by bloatware, a true Samsung device.

Now, after the ROM, I can enjoy the great hardware (camera is hands down the best imo, even after the iPhone 6s release) and a true bloat free TouchWiz, which is remarkebly fluid and fast now.

Never thought I was going to enjoy my S6.

Five months stock firmware etc, were a waste of the time I'll use it.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What is the rom you have. ?

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
The latest XtreStoLite with the kernel that comes with it.

But I think any debloated ROM does the trick.

Best decision I made and totally worth loosing my warranty for.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
I already read about that rom its says it's very good.

And you say its worth to lose the warranty. ?

Other thing i want to know, everything works fine,sensors camara , and it have Samsung push service. ?

Maybe i will try it.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
Yea, KNOX counter is set to 1, so therefor warranty is lost as far as I know.

Samsung Pay will also not work, but I live in Europe and I never planned on using that anyway.

But the device is much faster and more responsive, I was skeptical at first.

But now, to me, this is hands down the best phone I have ever used.

Everything works with that ROM, its Samsung software.

They just stripped it entirely, and there is an Aroma package to install Samsung apps as you like.

I used it to restore the Themes, SPlanner and SBrowser.

I did like those Samsung apps :)

If you mean updates with Push Service, then no.

Automatic updates are not available anymore.

But hey, as soon as there is an update, custom ROMs will be available for your manual installation even before your automatic update would be available.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
The Samsung push service its to sync my Samsung account, i have disabled but when i want to sync my calls and messages browser i enable it. Then disabled to not drain the battery. The rest i don't need.

What post do you follow to install the rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
Oh, that.

I suppose thats no problem, as you also need Samsung account thing for Themes which is working fine for me.

Just look on Youtube ("root Galaxy S6 5.1.1").

The way you flash the rooted kernel with Odin, the same way you need to flash TWRP recovery.

From there its super easy.

All you really need is Odin, the rooted custom kernel, the TWRP Recovery file and the custom ROM itself.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Odin i have i root other phones.

But never flash a rom. Im not a expert.

I have to root it first, then flash the TWRP recovery ?
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
There are plenty of guides for this on xda/YouTube.

To comfort you; its very easy and anyone can do it.

In short;

1. Download Odin, rooted kernel and TWRP recovery

2. Flash rooted kernel with Odin, reboot.

3. Flash TWRP recovery with Odin, reboot.

4. Download custom ROM and put on SD card.

5. Reboot to recovery (can use like Flashify to reboot to recovery easily) and flash custom ROM.

Make sure to backup your current stock ROM first before flashing the custom ROM.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
What i make a little confused is the kernel, you mean that i have to get the file from kernel, TWRP ,then the rom.

You mean sd card or could be otg flash drive.

If i do a normal root with odin then flash the TWRP it works or have to be a specific kernel ?
[Galaxy S6 General] AgashU:
I rooted my device the day after I got it. I'm planning to install a custom rom today. Which one is good for g920w8?

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'm pretty sure it has to be specific since that's how it worked on my S4. Search your model and root, then install a flash recovery, after that down the rom you like and install it using the flash recovery. Make sure it's a Rom for your specific S6 model. Some roms (most), can work with many different models as well as root. You can use pingpongroot_beta6.apk to root your S6, that's how I rooted my phone. No Odin needed. I would search it up first, then continue.
[Galaxy S6 General] justiiin:
https://youtu.be/G5HDG6caoog

Just watch that :)
[Galaxy S6 General] mtt311:
To me, this is a fast phone with lots of features. I don't even mind TW. However what sucks for me is a lack of samsung pay or android pay. I have a rooted 920f on att network. My sister has a stock att s6. I might trade her but Idk which is more important right now, root or using samsung pay/android pay. 1st world problems...
[Galaxy S6 General] eSu.Matix:
Rooted phone will always decrease it's value, since it loses a feature. That's why I leave my phone unrooted.

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] mrjraider:
Just leaving this here:

Comming from the horrible Xperia SP. The Samsung Galaxy S6 is a true king :) It is an amazing fast, elegant and overall good phone. Even with all the bloatware it has, Word, Powerpoint and Excel from MS Office it still is an awesome phone ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] bsalamon:
Hello , I am currently using att but was considering the sm-920f as there should less crapware hopefully. I was wondering if you noticed any difference in the levels of the cell signal between the att(SM-G920A) and the SM-G920F. I had read that the 920f signal was not as good.
[Galaxy S6 General] andreip90:
I'm done with the s6. I brought the phone since it has been launched. After 6 month of waiting for a good firmware with decent battery life, 3 phones exchanged I have switched to 6s. I have never been a fanboy of apple or Samsung but you have to be absolutely arrogant to put such an amazing display and such a good back camera in a gorgeous chassis and to not give a penny on battery life stability and crapware. And also for s6 edge (my wife has it). Samsung you will go worse if you keep doing the same mistakes every year with that software.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
I was about to make the same move, but last firmware update made me change my mind.

Are you happy with your 6s?
[Galaxy S6 General] andreip90:
Yes, it is a much more complete phone. Battery is stable and better, back camera I think it's a little bit worse than the Samsung camera, but front camera is much better in iPhone. The touch id has no rival (it's very fast and precise). The 3d touch is nice but I haven't got used with it. The screen is worse but good enough for daily use. I think it's a more complete phone. I don't care what benchmarks say because both of them have much more power than we need on daily basis.
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
I don't know what exactly do you mean by "a much more complete phone". For me front camera is not a deal breaker, never used it, but the display is. Nothing so far to make me change my mind.

Thank you
[Galaxy S6 General] Ionut Ciprian:
Really?

What phone did you previously owned?
[Galaxy S6 General] loris100:
i regret buying this super useless phone, no custom roms avaiable only debloated crap...and the stock rom is laggy as hell...my gs3 was way smoother with liqudismooth rom ..
[Galaxy S6 General] lujki1:
Really? Mine hasn't lagged at all for 4 months I have it. Are you on the newest firmware? Btw, ROMs for an Exynos phone are very hard to make (non stock based) so it's really not a surprise that it hasn't got much ROMs. If that's what you wanted you'd be better off buying a Snapdragon CPU phone...

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] ChemicalBrother:
Well, mine hasn't had any lag or stuttering of any kind. I found the device to be smooth, even out of the box and without updating anything.

In fact, I never had such a lagless experience with any phone, until my S6... So, that was probably one of the first things I noticed about this phone. And I had an LG G3 before, which was fast and performed well in the every-day tasks, but did actually lag and stutter, quite frequently because of some heavy throttling (Bad CPU temps with that Snapdragon chip).

I'm more than satisfied returning to Samsung, after 2 years or so with LG devices. Only thing I actually missed from LG, was the double-tap 2 wake/sleep screen. Which I already have now on my S6, thanks to custom kernels and greenify. :p
[Galaxy S6 General] stefan kuntz:
switched from iphone 6 and feel free now. After the last update which lets to optimize apps it is perfect now. not laggy you can turn off background app usage for individual apps totally perfect. only missing thing is permissions which will come with android m
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
How you turn off background for individual apps?

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There is a app that already do that and work very good
[Galaxy S6 General] stefan kuntz:
well, i live in Germany and recently got a 70mb update G920FXXE3COI9 and when you go to battery settings you see a "Details" button if you have this this update. Then you see the all apps running and you just tab on each and select "Always Optimize". Then it does not run in background. By mistake I did it for google keep and it did not remind me :)
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Yes i have that update,

But if i put always optimize

App like XDA doesn't get my notifications, and like Facebook lite.

Must let to automatically.
[Galaxy S6 General] stefan kuntz:
yes i prefer to check constantly instead of draining battery. when i run an optimized app i get the notifications which is ok for me. it depends on person, at least we have this option finally :) for 3 years we did not have this option. only on rooted phone and 3rd party apps you may had this option which even does not help like this update. This was the only thing which made me unhappy after switching from iphone6, after 2 week update has been released and now I have the best phone ever :)
[Galaxy S6 General] vimto25:
I love the s6, although I'm on my fourth 1, I've had a mixture of pink screens and noise home buttons. The current 1 seems fine although I'm not 100per cent happy on the button but it will do. I find them to be fast no lag at all! Good camera ,fast os, good loudspeaker and good sound quality from earphones. Battery I find to be very good on all 4 I've had build quality is nice. Screen is lovely (if u get a gooden) the only thing this misses is sd card slot what a shame
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Someone know some app or trick that i could have 4g on and when screen is off the 4g turn off too.

I notice some apps i used don't have that option maybe its because 5.1.1 and that pop up we have when disable 4g
[Galaxy S6 General] the Doctor:
Please start another thread for that question here. This thread is for posting user reviews & opinions.
[Galaxy S6 General] warface123:
I'm used to a iPhone 6 but switched to the galaxy S6 for a few reasons, screen quality is superb, camera is 10x better the on a iphone (own opinion), perfect size for my hands.

I have zero lag issues, everything is butter smooth and I couldn't imagine going back my iPhone, only thing I hate is that I can't remove the back cover, but fast charging works really well so I can live with it
[Galaxy S6 General] Marios092:
I previuosly owned an iPhone 6 but I couldn't live without jailbraking it... so when the s6 was released I thought I should give it a try ... and it wasn't in vain! The screen size is just about right for my liking and the s6's overall performance is great (both stock and custom roms). Battery life could have been better I believe, but if you root you have some options to extend your battery's life. The stock music playback is very poor for my taste and that was one of the main reasons I decided to root my s6. The camera takes beautiful pictures but there's space for improvement. Features like slow motion and time-lapse are a joke on this phone and sammy should try to fix that in the coming versions of the s line. The s6 is beautifully designed and very comfortable to hold. I don't mind the non-removable battery as it's better to get a powerbank with fast charging features. I still have no need for an SD card as the 32GB of storage are enough for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] cavags5:
Today i stay disappointed with my S6

With 577 ppi and i though that has the better screen and brighter and today i said to my mother buy J5 because the s3 was dead.

And compare the brightness of the screens and J5 is a bit more brightness than S6.

And for the price a great phone.
[Galaxy S6 General] lujki1:
Well, when put on auto brightness and then on the sun, max brightness there is much higher than max brightness that we can normally enable. There's an article on that too, somewhere on the Internet. And brighter screen doesn't mean better quality. But I get it. I'm with you on that one. They can make it brighter (by allowing us to put it on the real max) but for soccer reason they won't...

And good news, everyone. Marshmallow is coming on S6/edge/+ in January, and Note 4 and 5 in February. S5 in April.

There was a document that leaked, and then there were a few changes. So this should be final ETA :D

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] ere1nion:
Yeah, January from Samsung, carrier will need time to.... Release it in October...

Throwing pixels at you
[Galaxy S6 General] lujki1:
Well, then at least for us with unlocked version I guess...

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] drew2d1:
Got mine yesterday.

It was between the S6 and the Nexux 5X(same price). Having got the 5X a few weeks ago i sent it back because the screen looked awful and the speaker/headphone volumes were pretty bad.

The screen on the S6 is amazing. Coming from the OP1 which was pretty good itself, this is another level. Speaker is good. Headphone volume good. It is a bit laggy here and there but once i decide if I'm definitely keeping it I'll stick on a bloatfree rom.

I prefer stock Android on the 5X and i like the placement and speed of the 5X fingerprint sensor better. I'd say i have an 80% first time success rate with the S6 sensor.

Only major issue is i have the Isocell camera sensor. But I'll only be taking photos for Facebook so it probably won't make a difference for me. If there was a huge drop off in quality between the 2 sensors more would have been made of it.

So at the moment I'm on the side of keeping it at least until the next round of Nexus phones.
[Galaxy S6 General] lujki1:
Welcome to the S6 clan. Haha, kidding. I've got the ISOCELL sensor too, and it's making perfect photos. What's the problem with yours?
[Galaxy S6 General] androidddaaron:
A common lag fix for almost all galaxy's is turning animation scale to Off inside developers options just sayin!

:cool:

Sent Via s6
[Galaxy S6 General] lujki1:
That one saved me on S3 Mini...

But it's not really necessary on the S6. I mean what does it take to make this phone lag? (Had mine since June 2015, didn't lag once)
[Galaxy S6 General] stefan kuntz:
i had galaxy s4 before then i bought iphone six. after 4 months i have i**** to my wife. i am glad that i got s6. yes there are some problems related with ram management and battery but android 6 hopefully fix those issues. i am using action 3 launcher and it is pretty fine also battery is now better with action 3. i used nova premium as well. i use phone sync disabled so no issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] HaGii:
The biggest concern I have about the S6 is the UI lags. Even though it's nothing major, it really is the one thing that brothers me most. Coming from an iPhone 6, the Galaxy S6 is a very different experience.

I had a Galaxy S4 two years ago and I hated that it was lagging, so I said to myself to never buy a Galaxy device again. But after many great reviews about the S6 I wanted to try it again, but to be honest:

Microlags are not what I want to see in a flagship device. I don't wanna have to turn off animations to see no lags. I wanna have a smooth UI and an overall fluid user experience.

So, I'll go back to a iPhone 6S+.

Don't get me wrong about Android itself, but in terms of smoothness and user experience nothing can beat Apples perfect interaction between hardware and software (ATM).

Cheers
[Galaxy S6 General] Koostis:
So I moved to a S6 from a G4 about a week ago and the impressions are:

-Amazing screen, not better, but completely different when compared to G4, more to my taste

-Great camera, missing the raw and adjustable shutter speed from the G4, but auto mode is unbelievable here

-Using nova launcher the UI is smooth as silk, I don't think I've ever had a phone this smooth

-Music quality is miles better than one on the G4

-Feels great in hand, doesn't feel as slippery or fragile as often told, fingerprint magnet though

-My first fingerprint scanner and it's really fun, accurate and fast

-Call quality - not that amazing, tends to get quite much of background noise

-Battery life - extremely inconsistent. With moderate usage I managed to get 1.5 days with 3-4 hrs sot, with high usage I discharged the phone from 100 to 0 twice in a single day

Overall - one of the best phones that I've ever had despite its biggest minus - the battery.
[Galaxy S6 General] sdfsdfsfs:
which is the latest software version?
[Galaxy S6 General] jamezr:
The display model S6 Edge at BB was on 5.02
[Galaxy S6 General] Lessismooore:
how's the rear glass, is it durable enough compared to the sony xperia z series?

and how about the battery life compared to the S4 and S5? I think it's a downgrade from sammy not because it's only less but a screen with a 1440 x 2560 pixels and 557 ppi will eat up the battery very fast...so what do you think guys?

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unfortunately you're right, this remind me with the removable batteries laptops era 2 years ago and look how it goes right now, most of these devices are non-removable batteries right now.. looks like it's the same with mobile phones too.. manufacturers want us to buy their flagship every year... it's a trend my friend and every once a while there will be a downgrade as long as there are old devices still working properly and even competing nowadays...
[Galaxy S6 General] the Doctor:
You can always find that out here:

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[Galaxy S6 General] xocomaox:
Pretty good, unbiased review. Thanks for that.

I know what you mean about not taking advantage of these. But a lot of people got used to Samsung's practice of removable battery and memory card slot, so to see a flagship like this lacking them... It's a slap in the face to anyone that was considering an iPhone for a while but knew Android OEM's offered something without a large price premium.

Good business practice would indicate that Samsung will release another model with added perks, for another price premium. Or to catch everyone that didn't take the bait (S6 and S6 Edge) the first time around. Although I feel like usually when good business moves are happening, it's the customer that always loses.

Either way, at the end of the day, they still put out a very nice product that would be hard not to enjoy. It us, after all, a flagship.
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
All very well written. But I think all the praise over the build is the quality of the build and not the materials it self. Samsung has basically gone from KIA to Maserati (in attention to detail) in one model upgrade. I think that's pretty big feat IMO
[Galaxy S6 General] latino147:
I guess that if you really, really, *really* need a removable battery that is because you travel a lot and somehow can't charge or use an external battery. In that, imho, very rare case you can always get another Samsung phone, like the excellent Note 4.
[Galaxy S6 General] Sachinfan:
correct, anybody ditching this phone for the lack of SD or removable battery is blasphemous
[Galaxy S6 General] Juvenall:
In a Samsung-to-Samsung comparison, I totally agree, but I feel like the celebration around their acceptance of the market demand for "premium" devices should be seen as more of a "it's about time" than the second coming of Android Jesus. The Xperia Z3 felt premium, the M8 felt premium, some even said the glass back on the Nexus 4 made it premium. Don't get me wrong here; the S6 is solid, but the market should be expecting this by now, not shocked by it.
[Galaxy S6 General] 3545alg:
No removable battery

I fiddle with my phones a lot, probably more than I should. What happens when you have to remove the battery for a soft reset?
[Galaxy S6 General] marcochapita:
You simply can't :/ so many other phones that don't have removable batteries and are still selling like hot cakes. You have to get used to it I guess. Other than that option of soft reset that I did was well or the phone completely block I don't see the need for removable battery
[Galaxy S6 General] hajyihia:
you can simply press the power button 10 seconds and it will restart...no need to take out the battery...even on my s4 i do this and it always work..
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
This.

Phones without removable batteries always have a hardware kill switch. You can still shut off/restart the phone even if the software has completely hard-locked. It's like the power button on a PC, it always works no matter what the OS is doing.
[Galaxy S6 General] latino147:
Is that 10s a minimum? I think I've tried that with my G3 a few times and it didn't work and I had to pull the battery. Or is that kill switch only available with phones without the removable battery?
[Galaxy S6 General] Sevael:
It's usually 5-7 seconds, and mostly for phones without removable batteries.

All phones without removable batteries have this feature (for obvious reasons) but only some phones with removable batteries have it (it's up to the manufacturer).
[Galaxy S6 General] hajyihia:
i have this on my S4 and my old S2, i dont know if LG do the same with their phones....