yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] Salval:
I preordered through Verizon. Samsung accepted my application for the promo and I was able to pay for the fully immersive promo as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] Gandor:
The receipt you need is in your my verizon account. Look under My Billing then Documents and Receipts. What you are looking for is the document called Equipment Purchase it should have the same date you preordered. Download that file and upload it to Samsung

your get the imei number in phone. its in settings under "ABOUT PHONE" then "Status" you'll see the IMEI number you need there
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] chase7545:
I registered for the $99 promo right when I got the phone on the 20th and was approved according to the status on the samsung website but never received the email to make the payment. Checked spam and everything. Anyone else have that happen?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] nadcicle:
Same here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] jcastellana0:
I am getting the immersive vr bundle on tues by 8 pm via Fed ex....received my tracking # a few hours ago...I pre-ordered through verizon(I switched from sprint)...rrceived phone on April 20th...registered for immersive vr bundle on the 20th...it shipped today
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] countryg1rl:
Well my email got approved for promo but my husband's was denied twice. Total b's. Been trying to talk to Samsung.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] Knarled:
I pre-ordered Mar 31. Phone arrived Apr 19 with my neighbor signing for it. At the time, and for rest of the week, I was back and forth from hospital as my daughter delivered my first grandchild and suffered complications during birth. Long week, both mother and child now home and doing fine. I didn't actually activate phone until Apr 27 (I'm probably only person on planet to have S8+ for over a week and hadn't turned it on). After activation, was able to register for Gear VR but unable to pay for $99 promo.

So......while I lost out on the promo, I got a healthy granddaughter. I'm good with that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] coldconfession13:
That is good news [MENTION=8201953]Knarled[/MENTION]. I'm still waiting for mine to ship the status says it has been approved and that is where I'm at.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] dumpyloser:
I'm in the same boat. Just waiting on them to ship it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] countryg1rl:
Family is important. I'm glad she is ok. Congrats on your new grandchild
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] chase7545:
Update: Samsung finally sent me the $99 payment link on May 10th. I paid the $99 within an hour of receiving the email and have yet to receive a shipment confirmation or anything in the mail despite my cc being billed 3 weeks ago. On top of that you can't reach anyone at Samsung to see what's going on without having to wait an hour+ on hold (I gave up twice). Their customer service and execution of this promotion is the worst I've seen from any company period.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] Chronoxshift:
what I did I was take my receipt and change the purchase date on it via uploading it to my computer and editing it in word.... then proceeded to upload it on the Samsung website
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discuss] chuckboy1129:
Finally received it
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
As some of you may know I've ported the nvidia verson of the bcmdhd WiFi driver from their Tegra X1 reference kernel source code to xceed. What you all probably don't know is that there is a significant difference between nvidia's version, and the one in Google's kernel tree:

Nvidia's bcmdhd driver lacks an API called "GSCAN". What is GSCAN? GSCAN is an Android WiFi driver API for scanning for access points and making the list available to Android. Now you might say: but this works in xceed! Stop the bull, cheepskate, what are you talking about?

Yes, of course it works, because the "naked" bcmdhd driver implements a standard API for scanning for access points. So what is GSCAN really for?

Simple: it's meant to make the gathering of data about access points near your location as thorough and detailed as possible, in order to enable Google to create a mesh of these access points in order to improve their location service based on WiFi data. It's the infamous "Scan for access points even when WiFi is off" option in the Settings. And even if you turn that option off, while your WiFi is enabled so would be GSCAN, gathering data about access points and ruining your battery life.

I've deliberately left this API out of Xceed. First of all, this greatly improves battery life with WiFi. But to be fair to myself, it's not the only reason batterry life is so great: it took a substantial amount of hacking and insights to get to the point where xceed is now.

But secondly, and more importantly, this makes the users of my kernel completely black-boxed towards Google, and Google has no means to interfere with your own control of battery life, or the WiFi and therefore device itself in a manner that you do not condone. It is, really and truly, as much a political as a technical decision, and I intend to keep it that way.

I can only estimate, but if the WiFi drivers of other devices would have the GSCAN API removed (and please note that the WiFi and Android works just fine without it) the battery life would see a substantial boost.

I don't think this was a great decision by Google by any measure, at least from the consumer point of view. Let's hope that maybe in a future Android version it will be possible to turn it off completely without having to remove it from the driver. Does that sound likely? Rather not. But as always, one can hope.

And in the meantime, or for as long as you wish, there's xceed.

Have a nice day.
[Pixel C General] cam30era:
Very interesting. Would you care to speculate on why Google did this?
[Pixel C General] smitel:
Do I understand correctly that GSCAN is a module in the bcmdhd driver that's always active, regardless of "Scan for access points even when WiFi is off"?

To my untrained eye it just looks like GSCAN is a mechanism that pushes the job of constantly polling for accesspoint away from the application processor and letting them firmware of the wifi do the work.

I can even imagine this might be more battery efficient.

How did you measure the effect on consumption?
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
GSCAN does not run in the firmware but in the bcmdhd driver. Even if it did, it would be hardly more efficient than it not running at all.
[Pixel C General] smitel:
It seems like this GSCAN functionality is called "Prefered Network Offload" (PNO) by Broadcom and is also used by Wi-Fi Location Service(WLS).

It offloads the wifi probing from Android to the Wifi firmware.

It seems implemented in dhd_pno.c, which gives commands to the Wifi firmware through dhd_iovar().

I can imagine using Wifi for localization requires a lot more data collection/probing than just using Wifi for connecting to networks.

Without kernel-support this would require Android to do a lot of polling and collection.

GSCAN seems an system to collect this data in kernel or in firmware, and produce it batch/event-wise to Android for consumption.

And it's also used for 'preferred network offload'. So it offloads/optimizes the probing for Wifi networks into bcmdhd or firmware instead of doing it through wpa_supplicant in userspace.

So this should also save battery.

Is your issue with the 'Wi-Fi Localization Services'?

I don't know if disabling GSCAN means Android will no longer use Wifi for localization.

If it does, maybe setting 'Location Mode' to 'Device only' would produce the same result?

If it does not, disabling GSCAN would increase power consumption because all the polling would require waking Android instead of just doing it in kernel or even firmware.
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
That logic seems sound at first, but it's not what can be observed when GSCAN is disabled in the driver; Android doesn't do what you propose, but feel free to prove me wrong. The GSCAN part of the driver could always be added to nvidia's driver.
[Pixel C General] smitel:
What do you observe when GSCAN is disabled in the driver?
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
I don't understand the question. What would I observe?
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
BTW it's 9 AM in the morning here, I'm just barely up. I should have waited before replying, I'm not really able to go into detail with you right now.
[Pixel C General] smitel:
Same here. But it's a holiday here in the Netherlands, King's Day, so I have all day. ;)

I'm just curious to either the mechanics to what you're claiming or measurements to support these saving.

Because to me it looks like you're just disabling Android-specific optimizations by porting the generic Linux driver to the Android kernel.
[Pixel C General] cheep5k8:
You've got a good point, and I've been only somewhat dismissive because of the early time of day, sorry for that in any case.

That's what I thought at first, too. But I'll get back with more detail this evening. Thanks for being inquisitive and observant, without peer review stuff would just not be that good ;)

Ok, so, TTYL :good:
[MX Player] Tolriq:
Hi,

Since compiling for Android N and being forced to use content:// url to share videos to Mx Player it seems subs passed in the intent are no more taken in account even if shown in Mx Player dump.

Of course on Android before N all works perfectly with file:// url or http:// urls.

Is this a known issue with a workaround or anything more I can provide?
[MX Player] Thirumalai.K:
can you provide the link of your app?

It will be helpful to reproduce the issue ourself.

Your report has been forwarded to our development team.
[MX Player] Tolriq:
Well the app is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree but this features requires a licence :( and a Kodi serving the files to cache them. Not that simple to reproduce if you do not use any of those.

Can provide anything you want as logs from both apps.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] regime2008:
For some reason my notification light has not worked ever since upgrading to Android O. I have a pixel Xl, which I flashed the stock Android O image, with everything stock, no root etc. And before anyone asks, i have enabled the notification light toggle already. :confused:
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] DaveHTC200:
It never worked for me, but it's an alpha release, if that so expect things not to work
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nordkurier:
Hi friends,

i have a problem with animated Themes in my PDA Qtek 9100. I have testing all things, update FlashPlayer and install Animated Today Ver. 2.0 - nothing is the solution. When i use a animated Theme, only the Windows-Standard Theme i can see on my display. Other Themes not Problem. I have the Animated Themes install in My Documents - no function, or in Windows-Folder - also no function. What is the Error???

Thank You an Greetings from Austria
[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] tigrouetwinnie:
Hello

I have a Huawei p9 lite with VIN L31C02B123 and I haven't received the nougat update yet, Huawei said me that the update has to be deployed by my operator (strange) and i don't think it will be deployed soon (it takes a lot of time in Belgium).

so, is there any other possibilities to have Android 7 on my device?

My phone is not root, but could be.

Thanks in advance
[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] miz_pimp:
See here: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72250393&postcount=9
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] JarkMackson:
I have two sets of airpods that are constantly getting disconnected during a phone call. They worked fine with my s7 and Note 5. Any one else experiencing this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
I'm having issues with my Bluetooth disconnecting from my gear s3 when I'm not that far away (maybe 20-30ft)

Considering that the phone has bt 5.0 that should have a much farther distance I don't get it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] daddy0702:
This has been my biggest problem with the phone. With the S7 edge the watch stayed connected through bluetooth without any issue. I was even having problems with Samsung Pay until I reset the Gear a few times.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] sicerik:
S8 plus here and I'm having the same problem. I can actually block the Bluetooth signal by placing my hand on back of the phone. Riding it out to see if any more info rises, before call tmobile for a replacement.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Syn Ack:
I get disconnects from my high end Bluetooth headset but it stays connected to my car Pioneer head unit fine. But it does have an annoying stutter every ~5 mins sometimes.

March update was perfect. April update kinda messed up Bluetooth a bit.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Accessories] Rynil2000:
I am a product designer looking to develop new phone case accessories for the Android market. I have been working as part of a small startup for a few months. We have mostly been concentrating on Apple products thus far; mainly because of their popularity and availability of online design guides (schematic drawings provided by Apple).

We are looking to develop more Android phones because we've had a lot of requests to expand our line. My issues is that I cannot find any reliable and accurate schematics or 3D CAD for ANY Android phones that are currently available. :-/

Can anyone point me in the right direction of where to find measurements, drawings, accurate CAD (not for rendering only) models? Where do companies get their information from? Is it worth giving Samsung a phone call or email?

Any help is appreciated! Thanks
[Galaxy Note5 Themes and Apps] mrtkts:
Hi,

My note5 is rooted(Magisk). Without root, app works smooth but after root it says "service unavailable. Samsung smart home application can not run on rooted devices due to security concerns 101"

I asked to samsung and told them "i can even use bank account apps with my rooted device" but they didnt do anything.

So is there anyway to not get this warning.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
Hi Guys, i flashed 3 official roms for the s8+ including PHN Rom but it's all the same , always back to my regional CSC code which is XSG....

all the files are the same size and all of them are identical, i think it's only one file and they just change the name of it, please try and let me know if im doing something wrong because so far no luck at all changing the CSC code or even the normal Apps that comes with each Region ..

also i noticed that after flashing by odin the blue screen is always 32% and then it restarts
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] clubtech:
Have you tried a factory reset after you flashed? Sometimes it is required to have the CSC change on a new firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
I tried that as well but it's not working if anyone was able to do the csc change please let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] henklbr:
The European model of the S8/S8+ (SM-G950F + SM-G955F) will get a Multi-CSC -> OXM

This Multi-CSC was already used in the Note 7, and will now be continued on the S8/S8+

This Multi-CSC has the following CSC's included:

AFR ATO AUT BGL BTU CHO DBT ETL EUR ILO ITV LUX MAT MID MWD NEE ORX PCL PHE PHN PTR ROM SEB SEE TEB TPA TPH TTT TUR XEF XEH XEO XEU XFA XFE XSG

With other words: If you want to change your XSG-CSC to one of the above, it's NOT POSSIBLE anymore!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] androidrouen:
Do you know if we can flash CSC_Home from another model ? i get SM-G955N, do you think i can flash CSC from 955F ? ^^
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
so i cant flash any other rom than mine?

i cant use the PHN or BTU ?

this is strange and actually ****ed up :( as the middle east Roms doesn't work like the European ones as my experience with the S7 Edge
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] henklbr:
You can only flash G955N firmware, NOT G955F firmware!

---------- Post added at 10:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:54 AM ----------

Yes you can:

If firmware of one in the Multi-CSC OXM mentioned CSC's is released earlier then for your XSG model, you can flash that firmware too (all firmwares are the same for the CSC's in OXM)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] androidrouen:
On the GS7, it was possible to flash G935U firmware on at&t G935A ,

do you think there is really a software difference between different 955N (6gb and 4gb Ram) ?

It doesn't seem there is software difference between 6gb ram and 4gb ram, at least model numbers seems the same : 955NZKE is 128gb in dark (ZKE is dark), 955NZVA is 64gb in violet (ZVA is violet) and G955NZBA is 64gb in blue (ZBA is blue),

Does i miss something important ? ^^

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
I'm sorry man I didn't get it actually. I have the PHN and the BTU roms I flash them and still the csc code is xsg

Now if I download the TUR Rom which has in it's home csc code XSG also it will work ?

Till now I didn't see the csc XSG Rom out but I know the home csc file for the TUR includes XSG
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] henklbr:
I can't give you an answer in this one...

---------- Post added at 11:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

If you flash ROM's with the Multi-CSC OXM, your CSC will stay XSG
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
Thanks man

There is no way to know before downloading ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] henklbr:
Follow my thread for updates (and stay ON-topic there):

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/official-stock-firmware-update-odin-t3582175
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
I initially noticed this on my Galaxy s6 a few weeks ago after an update. Google Voice typing stopped pausing the music player if I used the voice option to dictate a text message. It used to stop the music and continue after I was finished. Now it'll play the music in the background and it's making it hard to dictate because it will also pick up on the lyrics from the song. At first I thought my S6 was just going crazy and a factory reset would probably fix it but I just got the S8 and I am facing the same issue. Any advice?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] jkao42:
Hmm... mine pauses anytime it's listening to a voice command. Never tried to text with it though.

I bet that makes for some really interesting conversations.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
It does stop the music if I use the "Ok Google " command to use the assistant but it doesn't do it if I'm using it to dictate a text message.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
Just did a test.....it works fine in version 6.12.25.21 which is the one that comes pre-installed on the s8. however when you update to the latest version in the play store you get the problem. i've downgraded back to the older version for now. anyone else experiencing this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] chanmanx2k:
I'm having the same problem. This is when you activate voice within the google keyboard right? What app did you downgrade?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
Well, I use the Samsung keyboard but yes, it's when you activate the voice option on the keyboard. I did try it with the Google keyboard but was getting the same problem too. The app that I downgraded was "Google". Just go into the playstore, type Google, "uninstall" the app and it should bring you back down to the version that came pre-installed with the phone. And then uncheck auto-update in the right top corner of the app screen in the playstore. That should fix it for now. Let me know if it works!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] chanmanx2k:
I was able to uninstall updates for the google app and yea, I was able to fix the problem. Partially. It pauses the music now when voice is activated. But when I send the message, music will not resume. Does this happen to you?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] A-A Ron 1977:
Same problem with LG G5

I have had the same issue for the past couple of weeks. When using the Google Voice typing, all media apps are no longer paused (Spotify, RocketPlayer, Podcast Addict, etc) thus Google Voice is transcribing the words coming from these media apps. I uninstalled Google App today, but then Google Voice to Text worked very poorly. Does anyone have any thoughts on solutions or workarounds? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] chanmanx2k:
try installing a previous version of the google app. The galaxy s8 comes with this build standard and it works fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] DollarStrawz:
Did you guys ever find a fix for this? its driving me nuts. Im on OnePlus 3 but yeah its a new issue for me started after nougat... It seems like lots of people have the issue but are just living with it. While driving it really sucks. Used to be so easy to voice reply and pod-kicker would resume play back. Now I gotta pause first then reply voice text then hit play again ...its MADDENING. Looking for a fix. The downgrade worked for me for a short while then it just started up again. I didn't auto update google app. Tried clearing every data cache...uninstall reinstall...even different keyboards!!! same issue. Thanks guys!!!! hope we can figure it out.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
The downgrade still works for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] distante:
I have the same problem in my Oneplus 3T, I can not send voice messages while driving.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] jazee:
Same issue on my LG G6, BUT, for me it only does it when I'm connected to Bluetooth in my car - which is of course when you need voice recognition most. I have to manually pause the music to use it. Driving me nuts. I'm surprised they haven't released an update to fix it. I guess not a lot of people on these latest devices using voice recognition.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thechico1986:
The downgrade still works for me but it appears it also has been fixed for me with the newest Google app update 7.3.26.21. I tried it with spotify and google music with and without bluetooth connection and it works. Stops the music then automatically resumes. Let me know if it works for you guys too.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] artkrime:
I didn't want to add a case to my s8+, but the back gets fingerprints very easily and makes it slippery at times. I found that slickwraps has this new design and I think it looks great, check out the pics.

Edit: For some reason it's not listed under the device but you can find it here: https://www.slickwraps.com/honeycomb.html
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] horatiopositronic:
That looks awesome. I have a Dbrand matte black on its way, but today I saw yours, and the new Dbrand "Black Dragon" pattern and I'm wishing I knew about these before.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] artkrime:
Yeah, I saw the dragon skin but didn't really like it. This honeycomb wrap has a nice texture to it and is less slippery compared to the glass back.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] dragunbayne:
I ordered the dragon skin one yesterday. I hope it's as awesome as it looks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] dragunbayne:
Does it actually have a honeycomb texture?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] kevje1406:
Is it also on the sides bro? Did you just put it on there or did you made it hot with an hairdryer or so?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-G955F met Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Accessories] FluxionFluff:
Ooh!! Nice! :D I ordered this skin as well, but in blue! Will definitely post pics when I get mine. Just wondering, as I've never used a skin before, was it hard to apply? I'm just worried about messing it up, lawl. I know there's videos showing the process, but was more wondering if people who do it firsthand, what their thoughts on the matter.