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An expanded battery is a bad sign. Get it replaced (battery or phone itself - your choice) as soon as you can.
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a month ago
I have an S9. Got the One UI 2.1 update a few weeks back. So did my oldest son. No problem getting LTE. In fact, still getting AT&T's fake "5G-E" in some parts of town. I have not seen any complaints of S9s losing LTE after the update, so don't project your issue as being "all S9 owners", because it's not. Have you tried the basic remedies first? Putting it in airplane mode temporarily, then switching it back off? Verify the APN setting is correct? Reset network settings? Rebooting the phone? Wiping the cache partition? The last drastic thing to try is a factory reset.
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08-14-2020
08:45 AM
Some carriers won't allow over-the-air OS updates over mobile data. you have to have Wi-Fi in that case. Assuming the OP means OS updates.
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08-14-2020
08:42 AM
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I'm not the OP, but out of curiosity, does it not still ask for the original PIN before letting you change it?
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08-14-2020
08:35 AM
And, if they were to update the S9 to one more OS, why not go ahead and update the S8 series to Android 10? Or, the S7 series to Pie? It's all about the number of devices they feel they can reliably update. They can't keep updating every variant of every series they've ever sold. It's enough of a miracle that they seem to be including the current A series in on the 3 OS update schedule. No mention of last year's A series phones.
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What makes you think you have spyware on your phone. More than likely, something is just messed up, or you aren't looking in the right place. The idea behind spyware, if you really had it, is that you wouldn't know about it. Unless you are the one adding the spyware.
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08-11-2020
01:43 PM
Nope, that's not it. I have this problem too, and "One UI Home" actually updated itself before I got the One UI 2.1 update.
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08-10-2020
10:02 PM
What carrier do you have? Is your phone factory unlocked, or carrier locked?
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08-10-2020
09:56 PM
Samsung phones from AT&T don't have that option. The only process to update is "Settings" > "Software Updates" > "Check for updates". and then you can only check once in a 24 hour period.
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08-10-2020
09:51 PM
AT&T provided the updates from their own servers, and based on complaints the last few years on AT&T's community forum, many people don't get updates. Most do, but a significant number of people have never received an update. Customer reps don't have a solution except to regurgitate the same process everyone already tried, and no one higher up at AT&T even bothers to figure out the problem. If you're not getting the update now - and out of curiosity, what version and security patch are you on now?- you probably aren't ever getting the update. Oh, and the One UI 2 update came out last March - that was the Android 10 update. Just a few weeks ago was the July 1 Security update that included the minor One UI 2.1 update.
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07-28-2020
10:54 PM
Lots of AT&T customers with S8s thru S10s aren't getting updates. Even some S20s. Not everyone (all our phones have been getting them), but enough if you hang out on AT&T's support forum to know it's a problem. AT&T won't admit it. but somehow the IMEIs are not getting registered properly in their system, and AT&T phones only get updates OTA from the AT&T network. You can call their customer service and most will just say it's on Samsung. It's not. It's on AT&T but they just can't seem to be bothered to fix the problem.
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07-28-2020
10:48 PM
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That's not an official list from Samsung. That's a wild guess. The S9 series only just got 2.1, so I'd be surprised if it gets 2.5. Great if it does, but don't hold your breath.
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07-24-2020
10:23 AM
Apparently, Verizon is starting to send 2.1 to their S9s. Who knows when AT&T will start.
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07-24-2020
10:21 AM
What kind of "unlock" do you mean? Carrier unlock? For that, you have to go through the original carrier. Or are you asking about just unlocking from the Lock screen to the home screen? That's something you had to have set up in the first place. Just type in the PIN you set, or use the fingerprint reader on the back.
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02-11-2020
08:27 PM
Regular S9, locked to AT&T. My notification LED still works fine for me. I don't use edge lighting. Got the android 10 update a week ago.
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As soon as Samsung is ready to send it out. Or, your carrier, if you have a locked phone.
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02-21-2019
01:40 PM
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Correct about swiping up to close apps - standard android practice (although because the default is card-stacked, you swipe away to either side to close). About the auto-hidden nav bar, you knew that was an option you can set to either stay on, or auto-hide, right?
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