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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mzsquared:
It's sad to see Samsung lowering their standards that much. People who are planning to buy S21 and S21+ will be comparing the specs to S20 and S20+ and right now they can buy S20 or 20+ for $600 less, still having 50% more of RAM(12GB v 8), SD card extension and better screen resolution. Unbelievable. People who never had a Samsung phone and for some reason are disappointed with their iPhones, Pixels or OnePlus devices will buy it just for a change and they are accustomed to missing SD card slot. But that's a small market share, Samsung is moving backwards.

My daily phone is now Pixel 4a5G, great phone, reliable, I really like it and I paid for it $420 after some Amazon discounts so it's about a ½ price for pretty much the same experience that the S21 would provide.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] JuliancitoD:
I was very excited for the new 2021 "flagship" and after seeing all the leaks I don't even know how to feel. I mean, what is going to be Samsung's excuse to bring a stripped down model this year?

Very disappointed.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mzsquared:
Well, I bought the ultra as the only option to be slightly excited about. Watched the presentations, pretty much samo-samo as the previous ones, but I decided to recycle my N10+ and one of my cc has almost $300 in points so the whole purchase won't be that painful. Funny thing I've noticed, is that they totally omitted the fingerprint, that means the S21 series will have the same sensor as S10-N20 again, otherwise they would make out of it one of the main points in this presentation.

So, there is 'one carrot' - seemingly lower price for those S21 models and than a lot of 'sticks' like, no SD slot or chargers.

Still, am looking forward to put my hands on that new

camera

phone.

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01/16 edit: order changed to 512GB phone for the sake of 16GB RAM, forgot about the RAM differences and am gonna double the storage for only ~$130 more.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mindseye0803:
Don't forget, Pixel 4a 5G comes with e-sim too, which is missing from all Samsung S & Note series.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] blackhawk:
I'm sticking with the 10+ that's still running on Pie. No SD card means no sale... I demand to have a data drive.

Samsung still hasn't upgraded their bt chipset hardware to include AptX-HD... I call foul, again. Lame.

I'm stuck on the 10+ Pie for the foreseeable future unless Samsung and Android get their sorry acts together. Q and up scoped storage and lack of overlay support just plain sucks.

No way Sammy can bribe me to trade in my 10+ that's in near perfect condition and is running fast, stable, with close to 1 tb of storage on it.

You'll love the Buds+, the best bt Buds set for this phone. With Poweramp's EQ you can dial them in pretty good.

There are -still- issues with the Bud's firmware. Occasionally I need to reset them as nothing else seems to cure them when their sound goes wanky. Reboot, clearing caches and cursing does nothing. It may happen when they switch codecs... not sure what the trigger is. Could be a 3rd party apk or game that goofs them up?

Be nice if Samsung would get it spot on... for once so we didn't have to do their job and try to play in their muck!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Geekser:
I got the Ultra too. While I was dissapointed that they ended up removing the SD card, it really is not that unusual these days for phones to have onboard storage only - no SD Card. The options to have from 128 to 512 GB adds quite a bit of additional storage and for me, will be more than enough. I will miss the SD card a little - but I will get used to it. (my wife uses my Pixel 5 and sometimes we switch and I use it. Not really a big deal to go without that SD card....)

I wonder if mzsquared Is right about the Fingerprint sensor? I know they didn't talk about it at all, but I hope that Samsung will surprise us when we get the phones.....
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] varcor:
I was looking to upgrade which I have done after every new release since the S6. As prerelease rumors were confirmed I am no longer looking at the S21 as an upgrade. What made Galaxy devices unique was not following iPhone's "Advances". Now Samsung has eliminated the 3.5 Jack, MicroSD, 1440 Screen Resolution, Eaphones or Buds, Immersive Display, Back Panel Glass and the Charger.

For me the biggest setback is no MicroSD. Sorry, I have no faith in Cloud Security and my current MicroSD already has more data than the S21's highest capacity device. As a musician and serious audiophile no bluetooth connection will preform as accurately or sound as definitive as a wired connection, it's just not happening! Not to mention the hassle of changing wireless buds. I couldn't care less about S Pen functionality, even if it was included with the device. Some of these are personal preferences but based on initial responses it's obvious there's widespread disappointment in Samsung's new direction.

The only features worth having are a more efficient SoC, some photo or video processing and the 120Hz refresh rate. I'm not opposed to spending top dollar for a worthy smartphone but the S21 has eliminated many features which are truly valuable. For now I'll stick with my S10 Plus, IMHO it's still the best Galaxy device currently available. The S20's worldwide sales dropped 35% when compared to the S10, this latest offering has no hope for reversing this decline.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Geekser:
Fingerprint Sensor has been improved!

I know we have to take information we get from Samsung Support with a grain of salt, I am hoping they were right when I asked about whether Samsung had improved the Fingerprint Sensor on the new S21 Ultra.

Customer Support told me:

"The in-screen fingerprint sensor in Samsung's Galaxy S21 is easier to use than ever. it has the second generation of its 3D Sonic Sensor that's faster and bigger, making it easier for people to to unlock their devices using their fingerprints."

Hopefully, he was right - we will find out in a couple of weeks...
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] varcor:
Not so, Galaxy S20 Exynos devices have e-sim enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] blackhawk:
The problem with the SD card is people don't utilize it to it's full potential by making it the dedicated data drive. I did this too for years until I realized I could use exactly like I used data drives for years on my PC rigs.

Downloads stay on internal memory until they can be vetted malware free. A small security buffer but one that has already saved my data on the 10+ from a tainted jpeg with embedded script as well as a trojan preloader.

Up to 1 tb is supported... I could use 3 tb but it's irrelevant for now as even 1 tb cards are prohibitively expensive. A .5 tb V30 Lexar can be had for reasonable $75.

What I like to see is dual SD card support; you can never have too much fast storage.

Over a decade ago my PC with packing 2 tb of data drive storage. Even my E6400 laptop now has a 2 tb data drive with a 7200 rpm 1 tb OS drive. Hell yeah.

I'm wondering if the mobo chipset Samsung chose even supports an sd card?

Either way Samsung wants to skimp and still charge big bucks... No!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] JAMRZ69:
Yup I usually without fail switch back n forth from the s line to the note line to have the latest and greatest but the fact that stupid samsung decided to kill micro SD support on all 3 models is absolutely ridiculous so I will be skipping the S21 Ultra and hoping Samsung can pull there head out of their asses and at least keep micro SD support for the next Note model cause without it I have no use for it,I have a 512 gb. Internal storage Note 20 ultra with 1tb.micro SD card so Samsung either step your game up or prepare to be disappointed.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] netnerd:
on samsung dot com, it said Esim supported.

it listed Ultrasonic Fingerprint: 7.5x8.25mm

i dont know the size of previous galaxy.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Frostfree:
I've ordered the 256GB S10 Ultra as an upgrade from the S10 5G, which also has 256GB internal storage with no memory card slot.

I've ran all my old Samsung phones at 1080p rgardless of maximum resolution, and I gave up using SD cards several years ago. From my perspective, the eSIM support, camera upgrades, larger battery newer hardware and software makes it a worthy upgrade. I returned the Exynos Note 20 Ultra because the battery live was unbearably poor, so I'm hoping for an improvement in that area.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] catman51:
I ordered the Ultra as a replacement for my Note 10+ too.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mzsquared:
They used 15 minutes this morning to talk about these buds, it's a nice piece of technology, the internals are very impressive.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mzsquared:
That was a wrong guess on my part fortunately. In the presentation, they spent so much time talking about a 'heroic efforts"o_O to get that specific 'phantom black' on the back of the Ultra phone that I thought they must have exhausted all available R&D brain power working on it and the fp sensor was postponed again to next year. They never mentioned it.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] blackhawk:
The Buds link up seamlessly with a Samsung if bt is active. That and range are not issues.

They never fall out... for calls I don't even put them all the way in and they still stay in place.

They're pretty light too.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] netnerd:
now i really thinking of cancelling my S21 Ultra order.

no Samsung Pay MST, i'm nervous to use mobile pay, when you tap phone to credit card reader and it doesnt work, it' embarrassing !
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Frostfree:
NFC is pretty solid. I've never had any payment failures and neither have I used Samsung Pay MST.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] D.Spirit:
I believe they could have used the new UFS cards slot but they did not. I was really hoping for that UFS cards slot as their read and write speeds: 500 MB/s and 200 MB/s.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Bubba:
I purchased the S21 Ultra 512gb. I traded in my Note 10+ with a $50 profit. I have had a love hate relationship with this phone. The fingerprint sensor and facial recognition 6 times out of 10 know me, the other 4 they are WTF are you. The fingerprint sensor on mine is horrible. The S21 had the new sensor. It's talked about in several phone in hand review videos. The 512 gb storage is more than enough for me. If the FP sensor is indeed better, I'll be completely satisfied, If not, I'll return it and wait to see what the Oneplus 9 Pro has to offer. All the free extras plus a profit on a 2 year old phone were just too much of a temptation.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Hurricane Andrew:
I pulled the trigger on the S21+ as an upgrade for my Note 9. Great trade in offer from AT&T. The reason I chose the Plus is purely a size issue. I just turned 50, my eyes are getting a little worse, and I just really wanted the bigger screen. The larger battery was a "plus" as well. I didn't want to spend the additional for the Ultra since I honestly never used my S-Pen all that much over the years and the screen resolution wasn't a huge issue for me since I generally run at FHD+ anyway on my existing device just for the battery savings. Tough to really notice the difference, for me at least, on a sub-10 inch screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Bubba:
I've had multiple notes through the years. Starting with the original. The 3 was my favorite. One of my buds has his Note 3 running on Android 11 lol. They were a beast. I'm nearing 60 now so size matters more now as visual rather than just wanting the biggest in my case. lol
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] MassScrew:
I originally ordered the S21+ but I have now ordered the S21Ultra.

I am coming from a Note8 that I just cracked the screen after 4 years of use.

I will trading in my note 8 for $100 but keeping the stylus for the Ultra.

I am buying mine from Samsung Unlocked so I am hoping it won't have all the Carrier Bloatware.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Geekser:
Congratulations, I am looking forward to getting my ATT S21 Ultra. I wonder what would happen if I kept my S-Pen? Would Samsung have a problem with that?

By the way, regarding bloatware...I have found that by flashing the firmware intended for the "unlocked" variant, for example on my current phone I flash the N986U1 firmware on my N986U (ATT) device and I end up with no bloatware while still getting all the carrier services (WIFI Calling, Video Calling, etc.) You just have to flash the CSC file from the N986U firmware.

Bottomline, you get the same benefits as having an unlocked device while still getting carrier services.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] powerful111:
Lack of SD CARD is unacceptable! we should boycott the s21 like we did the s6 and they will bring it back!

We need to get their attention
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] netnerd:
i want my freaking MST back !

someone explain to me.

i compared it to note20 ultra, the 865+ has higher cpu speed. so how does this 888 with lower speeds give more performance?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] powerful111:
Ye they took away the payment system too smh
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Corlan:
I'm doing the same - Note 8 to S21 Ultra. I'm buying on contract though, so I don't have to pay for it outright - and trading in through Envirophone for a little more. Buying direct through Samsung means more colour choice and you get the buds sooner, but I can't drop £1k+.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] oneandroidnut:
I ordered one to try, 512gb black ultra. Mostly curious about the new cameras and how big of difference 16 gb of ram makes!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] MassScrew:
I am getting it on the Payment plan even thru Samsung. I can pay it off whenever I want. I can always flash the carrier apps I want.

I can do without half the crap Verizon puts on there.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] bomp306:
I got the 16GB ram on S20 ultra, it makes ZERO difference.

Also when you come to trade it in you get zero extra cash via Samsung. Save your money and go for 256GB as its best value of the three.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] oneandroidnut:
Good to know, I mean my 12 gb note 20 ultra is fine and I just did quick memory check and 256 gb should be more then enough I am sitting around 110 gb on my sdcard and another 60 gb on phone so should be fine. Worst case I will return 256 for 512 but right now I saved $150 by switching to 256! Thanks! Also comes a lot earlier if Samsung follows through!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Corlan:
I use my phone for work so my employer pays up to £25 towards my contract - but won't pay towards a phone payment plan. Otherwise I'd be tempted to do the same
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] blackhawk:
Well there's this. Not a pretty picture if this is true.

Warning hot running power hogs ahead...

The Snapdragon 865 will make phones worse in 2020, thanks to mandatory 5G

Qualcomm is so obsessed with 5G, it's hurting 4G performance to spur adoption.

www.google.com
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] peterg21:
I am not following you. This, essentially, is a year-old article and so is the comment on the SOC. Not relevant to this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Collin80:
I doubt it. Do you remember the initial roll out of 4G? The first phones that supported 4G heated up like crazy. It wasn't until the second generation that 4G was reasonably energy efficient. Now we're talking about a phone with the SD888 processor. It's the next generation of 5G capable processor and the 5G stuff is all on-die. By all accounts it works perfectly fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] blackhawk:
Not so sure about that. If it's on the main chipset it means most likely other vital functions were trimmed back.

The benchmarks and battery life will tell the tale...

No way I'm beta hardware testing these puppies unless it's for free.

My 10+ is running fast and stable; I can and will wait. Samsung has been doing poorly this last year; I have zero confidence in them.

So far haven't seen anything to change my opinion.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mzsquared:
Haven't seen any negative reviews on S21 in regard to overheating, the 5G modem/antennas is a brand new, integrated X60 modem which is totally different than on S20/N20 and it supposed to be more efficient, power saving system. Well, will see - we'd still have 2 weeks window to accept the phone for good.

Personally, since I've been using Pix4a5G right now, I'm gonna be able to compare the 5G performance between them two. Pixel 4a5g/Pixel 5 has similar, but smaller than S21 same gen X52 LTE/5G integrated modem. 5G is not that common in my area yet, but it's showing up on my phone from time to time. As for my Pixel 4a5G - it works wry well, great connections and it stays as cool as cucumber, no overheating issues at all and the battery life is just 'epic'.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] mtm1401:
I've always used Google Pay anyway which works perfectly in the UK.

Clock speeds don't mean everything, if it was the same hardware in the phone then faster clock speeds likely equals higher performance.

S21 has next generation ARM chips being used in both Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, which will be more power efficient and higher performance
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] moSess:
To buy, to buy!

I've been using S21 plus for a few days not and am very, very, satisfied.

Had note ten plus and enjoyed that too. Had a small black dot show up alongside the edge. Was told by samsung it was user error and not a screen defect. Wiggled my way to get them to replace the screen on warranty anyway, whew! But decided right then and there I was done with curved screens. Basically stopped using it afterward. Sold it shortly after.

Oneplus 8t came out and snagged one on a deal as it had a flat screen. Truly missed samsungs os, believe it or not. Routines, side panels, etc.

Saw this opportunity and took it! Tmobile gave me more than the phone was worth when new! $800 trade in value. Being that I made money on the oneplus purchase, believe it or not, by selling the Note and getting half off the oneplus, the S21+ wound up costing me taxes and the price difference on the 256gb model.

I am very happy!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Questions] Bwyan Benton:
I've never had a single issue with Google pay.
[Android Apps and Games] selya_V:
I released a casual game about a falling girl as part of my project "Alexandra Mind Mess".

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Mechanics

Not to say that the mechanics are new, but not very popular. A typical endless runner, only in this case a "faller". Physics of free fall with jumps like in a wind tunnel, with the expectation not to touch obstacles.

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Added an increase in the difficulty and speed of traps, which occurs with the progress of the passage.

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Added boosters and extra lives. And of course the purchase of new skins. She's a girl ☺

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Animation

Many different movements have been tried. We made an unobtrusive and natural movement of the hands and hair

Narrative

In general, the character of Alexandra is the heroine of my psychological thriller-chat stories, which are also released on the Play Market. But this time I decided to do with a minimum of text, limiting myself to an introductory comic strip and some visuals that will be encountered during the game.

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Art

I decided to make the image of the girl "near-anime". We tried to maintain the entire in-game design in the same style.

In general, there were several options for the face, we stopped at this.

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Voice acting

I arranged a casting of actresses with the voice I needed.

The difficulty was also in the fact that there are many voices-sounds in the game, for each event its own. They meet often, and so that the player does not get tired of them, he had to voice a sad and funny "ah" in several versions.

In short, I'm really happy with the voice acting. In combination with other sounds and music, it turned out to be a pretty tasty picture.

Game link -

Alexandra: Jumping Falling Girl - Apps on Google Play

Save the girl Alexandra! Jump to help the lady not fall into the scary chat. Rescue her from maniac! Get the girl come back to the reality! Tap the screen to climb stack and dodge obstacles! Collect emojis, choose new skins and superpowers. Don't drop or fall down and help her escape in this...

play.google.com
[Android Apps and Games] AlexandrYuzhanin:
very interesting, thanks. I will test
[Android Apps and Games] selya_V:
Did you play it? What can you say about it?
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Simran62:
I have just got the android 11 update on my mi a3 (indian variant), it came late in the indian variant so was wondering if this is the same update or this one is good ?

Edit - updated to android 11 and indian version is safe to install (update size was 1.4 gb), as of now the update seems stable i haven't encounter any bugs yet
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] papsr6:
You have to wait .

Xiaomi and androidone is disaster.

All of the users with android 11 have many problems after the brick version.

So xiaomi is useless.
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] vaxxume:
Updated it today morning, everything looks and working fine to me. Sometimes the recent apps get stuck on the screen, not that big of an issue and I hate the new notification style, and Whatsapp notifications too, takes up half the screen gets very annoying sometimes.

https://www.xda-developers.com/files/2021/01/photo_2021-01-05_15-51-07-4.jpg
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Simran62:
Yeah man, after reading your post i also have updated to android 11 and first impressions are, my phone is not bricked, and as of now it looks stable and yeah notification drop-down is huge
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] danilocps87:
I'm from Brazil and updated to Android 11 today.

This update has many features missing and some bugs:

- Excessive battery drain;

- Slow charge;

- Power menu controls missing;

- No native screen recording;

- Chat Bubbles not working;

- No wifi calling...

Xiaomi send us a 1,4 Gb package just to change some screen transitions... :mad:
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Simran62:
I agree that some of the features are missing, but battery and charging is fine on my device. Hopefully we will get the missing features in next update.
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] JamieAmmar:
Chat bubbles are working on some devices. Besides after an OS upgrade, always do a factory reset. Some issues should be solved,
[Xiaomi Mi A3 Questions & Answers] Simran62:
Bluetooth is choppy, anyone else having the same problem ?
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
(I live in China, so the interface uses Chinese, please do not remove my posts)

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[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
Only need to unlock the boot loader and execute a very simple command afterwards, boot.img comes from the line brush package of MIUI forum
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
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[Xiaomi Mi 11] feng.zh.cfo:
hi can you share magisk_patched_12.0.12.img link for us,thank you ?
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
You can send an email to 731882624@qq.com, if I see it, I will send you magisk_patched_12.0.12.img as soon as possible. Because I really don’t know what kind of network disk people usually use to share on XDA, maybe you can tell, I will try
[Xiaomi Mi 11] theincognito:
Hi. XDA people usually use https://androidfilehost.com/ and https://sourceforge.net/ for uploading files.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
learnt
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
magisk_patched_12.0.12.img

I ended up using the Google Drive that I am familiar with
[Xiaomi Mi 11] fanxnet:
I flashed it , and rooted my phone, but it is incompletely, the system cann't mount r/w.
[Xiaomi Mi 11] G731882624:
Yes. Until now, I haven’t found a place to turn off forced encryption
[Xiaomi Mi 11] fanxnet:
Rom updates 12.0.17, then flashed this img again. the system crashed.....
[ASUS ROG Phone 3 Accessories] zipxavier:
This is the first sale I'm aware of and they shipped mine within a day, very happy with it, is excellent for moonlight and dolphin/retroarch.

https://store.asus.com/us/item/202009AM250000001
[ASUS ROG Phone 3 Accessories] sendme2pop:
How to get it in India?