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05-30-2019
10:42 PM
Thanks! Very useful information on how to decode the update names. Excellent.
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05-28-2019
12:56 PM
Can you provide a link to the page where camera updates are listed?
And I guess I'm confused, I thought that unlocked phones got their updates directly from Samsung. So with unlocked phones we are not getting updates from Verizon.
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05-27-2019
10:38 PM
Just saw this from a notification on my phone and installed. Don't see any feature changes. No night mode on camera. Seems only security update.
Samsung's own fw update page (linked to from the SW update section on the phone settings) doesn't even list the update!
http://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G973U1/VZW/doc.html
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05-23-2019
06:07 PM
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The best improvement I've had w/the phone waking in my pocket when double-touch is enabled, is to put the phone in my pocket w/the screen facing forward. It's less comfortable putting it in and taking it out, it's more natural to put in in my pocket w/screen towards my leg, but if I do that it wakes up constantly and starts doing crazy things.
But...it does really make a difference for me - since I started keeping it w/the screen facing away from my leg, I've had very few instances of it waking in my pocket.
YMMV, of course.
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05-12-2019
11:24 AM
Thanks. Contacts setting was always set to save to my Google account as the default, on both my S7 Edge and on my S10. Issue was creation of duplicate "Phone" contacts during Smart Switch process when moving to the S10. All resolved now, happily.
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05-12-2019
11:18 AM
I've never used Samsung to back up and sync my contacts, only Google. This issue occurred during a Smart Switch process updating from my S7 Edge to the S10...something in there (and could have been operator error on my part) ended up creating all my Google contacts as duplicate Phone contacts.
But all is well now.
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05-12-2019
10:53 AM
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Tried it (turn off contact sync for Google account, delete duplicate Phone account on phone, then re-enable sync again) and the contact is removed from Google Contacts as well...so there is some sort of memory there that keeps a record of the delete of the PHone account on the phone and then processes that delete on the Google account.
So I'll follow your approach - delete all the phone contacts (which will delete the Google contacts) and then do a restore.
Worked perfectly - after deleting all "Phone" contacts on the phone, I had to wait a bit for the contacts on the web to catch up and show all contacts deleted. Then chose the "Undo Changes" option on the Contact menu on the and chose 1 hour ago, and everything is back on the web and on my phone as I want it, as Google contacts only! Perfect.
Thanks again.
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05-12-2019
10:45 AM
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Thanks, makes sense. I was also thinking some more about this, and thought I might be able to turn off Google contact sync on my phone for my account, delete the phone contacts, and then turn on sync again.
I wasn't aware of the restore option, so that is great to learn about that! 😎
Thanks!
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05-12-2019
08:06 AM
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I have a new S10 and used Smart Switch to update from my S7 Edge to the S10.
However, I have ended up w/my contacts (which I have always stored exclusively on my Google account) now replicated as "Phone" contacts. So when I look at the Contacts I see 1091 contacts in my Google account, and 1086 contacts in "Phone."
If I look back at my S7 Edge, I only have 7 "Phone" contacts on that device, so the >1000 Phone contacts now on my S10 were apparently were created (unintentionally) on the S10 during the Smart Switch process.
I assumed the fix would be to simply to delete all the Phone contacts, but when I select a Phone contact and choose Delete, a message comes up saying "All linked contacts will be deleted" and the matching Google contact is also deleted. Not what I want, obviously. I only want to delete the newly created "Phone" versions of the contacts.
How can I do this quickly and easily?
Thanks!
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