[Galaxy S6 Edge+ General] raptorseye:
In the spirit of talking about bugs/annoyances i figured i would post a copy of an email i sent to the Samsung help desk. Will they take it seriously? Idk. Did I waste my time? Idk. Maybe, but then again maybe not, who knows, time will tell. But since I found this thread where people are talking about bugs/annoyances, I figured I would go ahead and share. This pertains to the U.S. 64 gig Sprint variant of the Edge+, but I am sure that a lot of what I mentioned is applicable to several/most other variants as well... anyway... see below.

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This is not a rant email. I just want to suggest some things that should be added to software updates for the "Galaxy S6 Edge+".

This is in regards to the "SM-G928P" - U.S. Sprint version of the Galaxy S6 Edge+. Although, I imagine that what I am about to talk about is probably reflected on all Edge+ models and likely on the Edge models as well.

1. The "Gallery" needs to be able to display social media photos as albums (previous galaxy handsets did this; S3, S4, S5, Note 4, etc...). Currently the gallery does not show social media photos at all. There is no album displayed as "Facebook" to show Facebook photos, there is no album labeled "Google Photos" or "Picasa" to show their respective photos. Please include this in a future update. I mean, this needs to be toggle-able. Some people really want it others may not, so make it a toggle-able function.

2. Continuous scrolling needs to be added. Currently on the "S6 Edge+", if you reach the end of the app drawer, home screens, widget screens, then you can go no further and you have to start scrolling in the opposite direction. This is an annoyance and really should be corrected. So for example, if I have 12 screens worth of apps in my app drawer and I happen to be scrolling through them looking for a specific app, when I reach screen 12 I cannot simply flick one more time to reach screen 1. No, I would have to scroll all the way back in the opposite direction 12 screens worth of apps to get back to screen 1. This is currently the functionality of the widget selection screens, and the home screens as well. It needs to be changed so that if you scroll past the final screen it takes you all the way back to the first screen; ie. continuous scrolling, scrolling that doesn't end.

3. The "daydream" function is cool. But when using any of the "photos" variants for this function, daydream needs to have a random display option. It appears that it chooses the specific album randomly, but it will not switch to another album until it has completed all pictures from one album. So for people with 10,000 photos across multiple albums there needs to be a "random" option that allows for the display of photos to occur from random albums and from one photo to the next. So photo 1 could come from a hypothetical album "family", photo 2 might come from "birthdays", photo 3 might come from "concerts", etc.

4. The "S6 Edge+" edge screen is far too difficult to activate when the screen is off. You literally have to rub the edge screen as if you were rubbing a lamp expecting a genie to come out. I understand that, at the same time, you wouldn't want it to become activated every time something touched it (like if it were in your pocket), but there needs to be some type of compromise. Maybe make it to where you have to touch it with 3 or 4 fingers simultaneously to activate it or something. I mean I leave the actual fix to Samsung, but it does need to be easier to activate when the screen is off.

5. Also pertaining to the edge screen: you shouldn't have to load the stock weather widget onto the home screen for the edge screen to display weather data. Rather all that should be required is that you have given the stock weather app all the information it needs to obtain your weather data. So if the app has the data, then it should be able to display it on the edge screen when activated. It should not require the actual widget to be on the home screen.

6. This next one I would call a "bug" rather than a "suggestion". This has to do with the "top 5 contacts" you add to your edge screen when they have multiple email addresses. This actually seems specific to those contacts with multiple email addresses; multiple phone numbers do not seem to be a problem. Ok, so this is what happens: when you click on an edge screen contact you get the 3 basic options, call them, text them, or email them. If you select call them or message them AND IF this contact has multiple phone numbers then it will prompt you to select a specific phone number and provide you the option to "mark it as default" so that you no longer have to make that selection. This is good. Likewise, if they have more than one email then this same process is performed under that function. Here is the problem: if you select and email and you mark it as default then from that moment forward every time you use the "text" function from that contact on the edge screen, then it will automatically send it to the email that was "marked as default" rather than the phone number that was "marked as default". Furthermore, if you go and view that contact within the contacts app you will see that both the phone number and email address that have been "marked as default" will have a blue check mark indicating their status as their default data classification, be it a phone number or an email address. To correct this issue you have to long press on the marked email and select "clear default". Once done the phone number will be restored as the method for sending a text message from the edge screen contact. However, if you desire to send them an email through the email function (using the contact on the edge screen) then you will again have to select an email address (again this happens with contacts that have multiple email addresses). If you try to, again, select and email address while "marking it as default" you will cause the same above mentioned error to happen again, and you will yet again have to go and clear that contact's email default. So in short, as of its current software, you cannot select a default email for an edge screen contact without it interfering with your ability to, by default, send a text to that same contact's phone number, and this is even when both a default phone number and default email address are selected within the same contact. So this, I feel, is an actual bug that needs to be corrected.

7. The "palm facing towards the front facing camera to initiate taking a selfie using the front facing camera" does not work very well. I personally don't take selfies so this one right here does not bother me whatsoever, BUT I noticed it while experimenting with the phone and camera. In the spirit of making suggestions I figured I would mention it.

8. The stock "email" app needs to be adjusted so that when creating email signatures there is not a character limit, or at least increase the character limit significantly. I personally prefer the functionality of the stock email app over other apps, BUT this signature character limit is a problem for me. I even went and purchased "K@ Mail" (pronounced "Cat Mail") from Google Play because of this, and K@ Mail does not support Exchange, which is another problem because I have an Exchange email account through my school. So to satisfy both of my requirements I used K@ Mail because of the signature and I found a way to use IMAP for my school's email account (which is not discontinued by my school, BUT it is no longer supported either). It was a BIG hassle for me to figure out how to get IMAP to work, it took me a while, but I figured it out. Now it is not Samsung's fault or responsibility as to whether or not K@ Mail supports Exchange or not, BUT I said all of that to illustrate that I preferred to spend a significant amount of time pursuing a convoluted workaround so that I could use an email app that did not limit it's signature capability. So please, increase the signature character limit by 3X at least so that I can return to the stock email app.

9. I don't know if this one is a Samsung issue or a PayPal issue, but I am going to list it either way. If it is PayPal's issue then, obviously Samsung is not going to be able to fix this. BUT, within the PayPal app there is some kind of issue on the S6 Edge+ that is not allowing to link your fingerprint (as recorded from the device) to the PayPal app. It keeps saying "System Error. Please try again later."

10. The stock messaging app should have more customization options than it currently has. BUT this has been the case since the first Galaxy series devices... - But still... a suggestion...

11. The TouchWiz launcher needs to allow people to change app icons if they have downloaded an icon pack from the Google Play Store. I am not asking for anything crazy, I am not asking necessarily that full on theme-ing be enabled, but i do think that icons should be customize-able for people that like to create their own or download icon packs. (i have used several different launchers on Galaxy devices in the past, and personally i prefer TouchWiz).

12. On previous samsung devices, S4, S5, Note 4, there has always been a notification area option for changing the keyboard input option anytime a text field was activated. This was done to easily allow for the switching between keyboards on the fly without having to go all the way through settings and input method to change the keyboard. This needs to be re implemented please.

13. Mobile Data needs to have a toggle-able switch at the top along with Wi-fi, blue tooth, GPS, etc... We should not have to go all the way through into the data settings to toggle mobile data on or off.

14. I like the flashlight toggle up in the notification buttons, but there really needs to be an on screen widget for the flashlight like there has been on S3, S4, S5, Note 3, Note 4...

15. I really like the S.O.S. feature. I think it is very useful and could potentially save a life. When I owned an S5 I had it switched to enable until I accidentally activated the S.O.S. service several times. When accidentally activated it becomes synonymous with "the boy who cried wolf" even if it is purely accidental. So, because of this, on my new S6 Edge+, I do not have it switched to enable. I feel Samsung should change the activation process. Change it activates after 4 repeated power button presses as opposed to 3. In reality, there is not going to be a difference between 3 and 4 presses in an emergency situation, especially since the time measured between each press is literally in the microseconds. So practically, in an emergency situation, 3 and 4 presses are virtually the same. However there would be a big difference between 3 and 4 presses when it comes to accidental activation. If this change were made it would give more credibility to the function when people start receiving these S.O.S. messages as they would know that it is now less likely to be accidental therefore it is more likely that a situation is real thereby promoting more immediate action. We are talking about an emergency situation where immediate action is required. You don't want people having to question whether or not something is really happening or not because they got accidental S.O.S. messages from someone in the past.

16. There should be more select-able color options when creating folders.

17. There should be an option at the top of the screen called "create folder" which would allow an alternate method of creating folders on the desktop. I had to google search how to create a folder on the desktop for this device because it was not obvious. The process has been obvious on previous Samsung handsets.

18. In the app drawer, under edit, there should immediately be a function for creating folders as well. Again I had to google how to do this as the process was not obvious. The process has been obvious on previous Samsung handsets.

19. You should be able to access Widgets from the app drawer as well and not just by long-pressing on the home screen.

20. Going back to the Edge Screen, there is something I forgot to address. In addition to the standard place call, send text, send email function, if you tap the persons image (or generic grey head if they have no image) it should take you to their contact information within the contacts app itself.

21. Both the display itself and the edge screen (when screen is off) should have customize-able timeout settings, that is if they do not violate the minimum or maximum timeouts. So if I wanted to set a timeout setting to 43 seconds that should be ok. Or at least add a 45 seconds option. For me, 30 seconds is too short, and 1 minute is too long. I have a hard time believing i am the only one in existence that feels this way, so a 45 second time out selection would be beneficial.

22. Edge Screen should be able to be activated on either the right or the left when the screen is off. I think a forced choice when the screen is on is the correct functionality. But when the screen is off, it should be able to be activated on either side by default.

23. The "news feeds" on edge screen should be scroll-able, it takes far too long for the marquee style news feed to travel across the edge screen making room for the next feed. You should be able to horizontally scroll through them to view more headlines without worrying about having to touch the edge screen to keep it from timing out while waiting for the next headline.

24. There should be a Samsung approved "Call Recording" app as part of the stock Rom. Obviously it would need to be toggle-able and come with some sort of required disclosure agreement that the user would have to agree to, BUT there are certainly times when people really need to record a phone conversation.

25. The 2 finger pull down to reveal all of the toggles from the top needs to be re-added. It is highly inconvenient to have to go to "edit" to see all of the toggle-ables. Please reinstate 2 finger pull down.

26. There needs to be a way to remove the "edge screen settings" button from the edge screen itself as an optional choice of course. Since these settings are accessible from the main device's settings, some people may not want this button on the edge screen. It really is kind of an eye-sore.

27. The default "samsung keyboard" app needs to have functional "desktop computer like" keyboard shortcuts such as copy, paste, cut, select all, and maybe some other basic ones. Several 3rd party keyboards already incorporate this, including Swype, for example, within swype, if you swipe from the swype symbol to "a" it selects all, the same process for "c", "x", and "v" does copy, cut, and paste respectively (like the windows "control" button + "a", + "c", + "x", + "v")

28. There needs to be a hardware button initiated way to automatically bring up the keyboard without having to be in a text field. For example, if you press the "recent apps" button and the "back" button at the same time it will bring up the keyboard, or maybe the "home button" and the "back button", or really any combination of the "recent apps", "home", "back", "power", and "volume" buttons (two simultaneous buttons maximum though). I say this because the last phone I owned before switching to android (i never used an iphone though) was a palm-pre. One thing that device did extremely well was the ability to simultaneously search the whole device (with an option to search the web) based on the input that was being received from the keyboard. And you didn't have to be in a text field to start using the keyboard. Granted, it had a hardware keyboard, but still, when you started typing, it started searching. If you typed a contacts name (or even just a piece of it) you would have the option to call, text, email, edit contact info, send media, etc... it would do the same with locating device settings, device apps, web searches, ets... Now samsung's "S-Finder" is very nearly similar to this already, and i do like it. My suggestion to expand on its functionality would be to have a way to bring up the keyboard without being in a text field (like when you are on the regular home screen) so that when you start typing, that input automatically gets routed through the "S-Finder" app. This would be a tremendous advantage over any other current smart-phone. The only phone that I know of that ever did this was the Palm-Pre, and I don't recall a phone having done it since. This would be an awesome feature for Samsung to incorporate into its devices. So a recap, a 2 button hardware combination to bring up keyboard on home screen, without being in a text field, upon which its input is automatically routed through the S-Finder app to conduct thorough search of various device functions, plus web search.

This is all I can currently think of.

There are some hardware issues that I think are kind of a downer. Obviously there are quite a few people upset over the no removable battery and no removable storage (micro sd card). I do personally agree with them, however I can live without those features as long as there is enough storage on the device. I personally believe that if those features were going to disappear then the device should have shipped with 64 gigs minimum storage.

One thing that I really find as a bummer when it comes to hardware removal in this edition is the removal of the IR Blaster. I used the IR blaster quite a bit on my old S4, S5, and Note 4. I have 2 young kids and quite often the remote comes up missing, this function has been a metaphoric lifesaver repeatedly. I am really disappointed that this feature was cut from the lineup. I hope Samsung brings this back with future devices as I really really miss this option.

Overall i like the device, i think there are quite a few improvements, and quite a few new functions that really are applicable and functional. I hope that someone has taken the time to read this and has sent it to the right place, as i took the time to write it. Again this is not a rant, this is a sincere list of suggestions. I truly believe that if most of these suggestions are incorporated that people will absolutely have to have this device.

Thank you for your time.