Mtiede
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07-01-2019
12:53 PM
Ah Ha! That was it. I didn't have any notifications and she did. Thanks.
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07-01-2019
12:23 PM
I tried to use the pre-ordered phones directly from Samsung, but had to send it back since AT&T couldn't get the unlocked phone to use their data service.
So both phones are direct from AT&T and purchased at the same time. Not sure what the "full model number" is, nor where to display it. They are both Galaxy S10. However, my phone does have the 512gig memory and my wife's only has the 128gig.
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07-01-2019
12:21 PM
I THINK it shows all the time on mine. Not sure. I just happened to notice it when Outlook asked for her password for the hundredth time for Spectrum mail. I was setting it up again and noticed the difference.
I don't know why safe mode would make a difference, but no, I didn't try it because I didn't know about it. I'll look for it.
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07-01-2019
12:16 PM
You can see the AT&T on my phone below. That is what my wife's doesn't show.
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07-01-2019
11:56 AM
At the top of my S10 is a line of status icons (don't know what it might be called). I have a time followed by "AT&T".
My wife's phone is also an S10. But her line does not show the "AT&T" part.
Is there some setting somewhere that makes that appear? I'm surprised our phones aren't showing the same things.
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06-21-2019
09:18 AM
So, does the S10 have s beam? I see that the setting for android beam is already on.
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06-21-2019
06:15 AM
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I'm not sure what "S beam" is. Does it exist on S10? Is it just the "touch to send"? Or something else.
How does it relate/compare with "Android Beam"?
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05-24-2019
11:43 AM
I THINK I got it. I found the Photos app in the default apps. I did a "clear defaults" or some such and I think that fixed. Not totally for sure yet, because I don't know what I accidentally selected originally.
But I'm going to say that was it.
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05-24-2019
11:39 AM
I'm guessing that you are not using a Galaxy S10 with One UI. I don't have a "settings > apps > three dots" that I can find. There is "settings > apps > default apps", but I don't see what one should do there.
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05-24-2019
07:49 AM
I was looking at a photos and videos and accidentally selected to ALWAYS use a particular app. It wasn't the one I wanted. How to I get it to "unremember" the default app to use? I don't recognize a setting that would undo it. (in fact, I can't even find a list of defaults for different types of files)
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05-08-2019
07:34 AM
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HOW did you try to use the dismiss button? Did you just touch it? I think you have to touch and hold and then swipe up to activate the button. Don't know why? Seems counterintuitive. Let me know if that helps.
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04-28-2019
12:44 AM
FWIW, you don't have to double click looking for notifications , just turn on "always on display" and the icons will give you the information without any action on your part other than glancing at the screen. And it is my understanding that it uses very little battery to do that. It isn't the same as the old led notification, but you wouldn't feel like an addict anymore.
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04-11-2019
05:57 PM
I found it. The "roaming clock" seems to have been set to South Korea on my wife's phone. I probably changed mine and not hers at some point.
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04-11-2019
01:59 PM
My wife and I both have Galaxy S10. We use aod to display current location time and "home" time. Mine are both correct. My wife's has the right local time, but the "home" time is way off. Where is it looking is not the right time.
How is it determining the home?
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04-05-2019
05:25 AM
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Sorry, wasn't meaning to be a jerk. And your assumption that all cell phones have a notification light isn't correct. My last 3 cell phones didn't have such a light. My 950xl didn't have any. It never bothered me as I could see from the Glance screen if there were notifications that I didn't hear.
My comment was just because everyone seems so EXTREMELY irritated by something that seems to me to be a minor annoyance at best. I can just spot new notifications from the Always On Display on the S10.
So why someone would reject the S10+ for some other phone JUST because it doesn't have the LED notice is curious.
Just trying to understand the rational for rejecting such a powerful phone.
Apparently it is a case of different strokes for different folks.
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04-05-2019
05:11 AM
Wait what? You say you didn't get the S10+ because of the missing LED, but when you describe your new phone, you didn't describe its LED so I assume it didn't have one either. But the all important LED wasn't so all important after all? Or it DID have the LED and you just didn't mention it?
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04-03-2019
06:37 AM
My fingerprint scanner works fine. After your comment about being in water and it not working, I washed my hands and didn't dry off and it recognized immediately. And I don't have to put my thumb "square on the screen".
I'd suggest you register your fingerprint a couple more times. Try when it is a little moist and another when a little dry. Try with more angles (though I think the registration process encourages you to do other angles already.
I actually find mine works best if I put a little moisture on my thumb, OR just rub my thumb and finger together if I have trouble with it.
FWIW, my only real gripe is that it so very very slippery. I wish the surface was more "grabby". Maybe in the summer when my hands are less dry, it will be easier to hold.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the phone, but I still like my 950xl better. I really like the camera better on the 950xl.
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04-02-2019
05:33 AM
I thought I already posted a reply to this, but I don't see it, so here goes again.
We have our phones on the wireless charger stand by the bed and, at night, you CAN get status of things at a glance. Just use the "Always On Display" and the icons will show the status of a lot of apps and if you have something new. If you don't want AOD to be on all the time, I'm pretty sure you could just have bixby turn on at night.
The only thing I don't like about that is I can't get a dark red color so that it doesn't light up the room at night. Our 950xl and 950 Windows Phones did the same sort of thing at night with their "Glance screen", but allowed a nice darker red color so that it wasn't so bright.
With the 950xl/950 the "Glance screen" took little or maybe even NO battery so we kept it on all the time. I assume that the AOD is the same way. I haven't noticed a significant battery drain from it on the S10 anyway.
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04-01-2019
02:58 PM
I only tried Message (because that is what I would use). So it DOES work for something. My guess is that the various apps that COULD use it, don't use the proper api call to make it happen because it is some sort of new feature. I've just started looking into doing my own programming so if I find something about that feature and how it must be implemented, I'll let you know.
I can't imagine not having my phone in my pocket or on the desk beside me. Out of curiosity, why do you have it across the room?
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04-01-2019
02:31 PM
Not sure what you meant by "doesn't work", but it either doesn't do what you want, you don't have it set up, or your device isn't working properly, but edge lighting does work (for some services).
Of course, edge lighting doesn't work exactly like the old led notifications. It doesn't STAY lit. It just flashes and goes away. But the Always On Display keeps the notification ICON on the screen so that you know you got something. And if the phone is on a table, the vibration can be heard also.
Personally, I'm perfectly fine with seeing the notification status on the Always On Display.
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03-30-2019
08:26 AM
Thanks for your answer. I already got it from another answer. But I liked that you have the full path to where that option was. Good to get familiar with the hierarchy, though once I knew the magic word was "lift", I just searched to find it.
Thanks again.
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03-30-2019
08:16 AM
I thought that was the case and I poked around in settings for a while and couldn't find anything. I'll search for "lift". Maybe I didn't try that yesterday.
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Ah, there it is. Thanks.
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03-30-2019
08:03 AM
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So currently my wife and I have our phones using the AOD. When the phone is laying on a desk and we pick it up, it goes through the unlock process. But my wife only wants it to be turned on via the "power" button. When she has the phone in her purse and has it laying down, the phone turns on when she lifts the purse up.
Is there a way to ONLY power "off" and "on" using the button on the right side?
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03-28-2019
08:32 AM
What I was able to figure out and I THINK is right:
1. The default Contacts app didn't update photos UNTIL outlook app was running also. And some still don't get updated if they came from a web page being specified in the Contact on the web.
2. The duplicates seem to have come from ALL the Contacts on the web being downloaded. That included the Contacts AND the contents of the Deleted folder and maybe the Suggested folder. Once the Deleted folder was emptied, then almost all of the duplicates were eliminated.
p.s. Some of the duplicates came because Outlook on the web didn't read in first names when it imported an excel backup.
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Maybe it wasn't that Outlook needed to be running, but rather when I ran Outlook, I also was plugged into power. So it might be that the photos don't download unless powered. Looked around for something in settings that might be controlling that, but didn't find anything.
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03-28-2019
07:50 AM
I just noticed that you could do a Flash as notification, but, although the animation made it look like it would do a continuous flashing, it only flashed once when I tried it. I think I also saw there was a vibrate when you pick it up notification type. But that does solve the problem if you want to know as soon as something becomes available.
Hope you are enjoying the S8.
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03-28-2019
06:42 AM
I'm not at all sure what configuration I have now, but it looks like things are all working with contact syncing. I can use the Contacts (Samsung orangy one) and changes I make there are reflected in outlook.com on web and vice versa. I don't know when it does the syncing. It doesn't appear to be right away or when sync is requested through Contacts menu items. Or maybe it does go right away, but is really slow.
I'm used to the Windows Phone changes being immediate. I don't remember any delay there. Or if there was a delay it was minimal.
And I have photos. I'll still have to experiment if I can change the photo on the phone and get the web updated and vice versa. Though the photos don't change that often.
Maybe I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel, I just don't know what tunnel I went down to get here, which would have been nice to learn exactly how this stuff is working.
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Outlook calendar on the phone and the web seem to be syncing fine. (there was a couple of initial tests that seemed to be resetting changes on me, but now it is immediately reflecting changes on each platform. Adding, Deleting, and modifying)
Still waiting for photos test to sync.
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This is an odd saga. So a photo that was modified on the phone, got up to the web. Photo modified on the web hasn't yet made it down to the phone. I would have expected both directions to happen at the same time
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Ooooohhh. Making changes didn't seem to get reflected UNLESS outlook for android was RUNNING. It appears to be that if it is not running, syncing won't really happen. And if it is running, updates are practically immediate. Although I still am not seeing the photos of new items that have come from the PC with a photo. Maybe those are slower, or done later, or something. Timing is now the part that remains a mystery. Will let you know if it ever shows up. (for the record to maybe help someone else or myself later)
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Ew... I just noticed that not ALL the photos came down. I think some of them used icons from associated web pages. So maybe that isn't something the phone would know to do. Not sure what the pattern of missed photos was other than that. Or, maybe they just haven't updated yet.
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03-28-2019
05:51 AM
Well, that is weird. Got up this morning and all the photos are there. Favorites still don't sync.
No idea what caused it. A delay overnight for updating? Something I did?
So I tried adding a test record and it didn't end up in people.live.com. So I decided to resync. Now I don't have pictures again. :-(
I was noticing that I had 2 "Contacts" icons. One was the orangy colored one and the other was blue. I suspect the blue one is a Google one. But it shows NO contacts (though it says other accounts have 1106 or something. I see that it has the outlook account added, and I suppose that count comes somewhat from that. But it is twice the number that should be there. And I couldn't figure out any way to get any to display there.
So now I guess I'm back to waiting overnight and see what happens. I tried to find the "sync" time frequency that might be associated with the account, but couldn't find such a thing anywhere.
I might try playing with the google contacts again for grins.
Or try your suggestion to at least remove and readd the device. I hate to start over again on the phone because I have no guarantee that it will make a difference.
Which Contacts app are you using? The default or one that might have been created when you DIDN'T set up outlook right away?
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The photos are back. Didn't take overnight. Maybe at most 3 hours between resyncing and checking just now.
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