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a month ago
I call that a benefit not a detriment. Best if it was optional that way you could get it and it wouldn't be forced on me, but Samsung seems intent on making it mandatory to any device they dictate receives it. Given that hope they never push it to the S3 until mine goes off to the electronic graveyard one day. Already elected to pass on future Samsung products and eventually through attrician rid myself of the brand.
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a month ago
Been awhile since I am using an iPhone now, but I seem to recall you can change notifications type to keep the notification, but remove the audio component.
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09-14-2019
03:23 AM
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I'm well established as not liking brand Samsung, but I consider myself fair. Although I now use a Apple 8+ as my daily and my old Samsung S8 as emergency spare I can say I never had many issues with the figerprint reader.
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09-14-2019
03:09 AM
I like to think of Bixby as a virus. It is unwanted by me. It is non removable by me. It uses resources even when denied any permissions that I can deny it. When you think of it this way it makes sense that each new version is bad. I solved the issue by downgrading my S8 from daily phone to emergency back up only and moved on to the Apple ecosystem. I needed Facetime so that was a good choice for me as it gave me Facetime and got rid of my Samsung headaches of which Bixby was one but not the only headache.
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09-13-2019
02:07 PM
I switched to an iPhone 8+, but my backup is a Samsung US unlocked S8. On Sprint the S8 is on Android Pie August security patch level with One UI version 1.0. Updates depend on Samsung releasing then carrier so somebody with same phone on Tmobile or another carrier may be on different operating system. Since Pie was the 2nd op system update it is near zero that it will go to Android 10 so keep that in mind as you consider your purchase.
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09-09-2019
08:01 PM
Lol saved me having to decide if I wanted to post the same though I will say my current Iphone is blissfully Bixby free.
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09-07-2019
04:50 PM
As much as I dislike Samsung I concur. I know it is still crippled under unlocked S8 and ATT network so would not doubt same for S10. Also agree a visit to ATT is poster's only hope
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09-07-2019
04:44 PM
Yep ironically my data connection where I live is horrible under Sprint but I use wifi so mostly don't care. Voice works fine though. Work was the decider and it was Sprint that was only one to get consistent data and voice for me. BTW ATT blocks wifi calling if you bring a carrier unlocked S8 to their network but support it if you bought the S8 from them. This is why they failed to entice me when I last switched
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09-07-2019
04:24 PM
Ah good to know. With all the hills and valleys where I live I'm more or less happy with first a data connection period then anything above 3G which is painful. I've had Verizon, Tmobile and now Sprint and due to a very special dead spot like Sprint the best so far because it happens to work in a key location for me that the other 2 didn't. ATT blocks features on unlocked S8 phones so I ruled them out last time I played Telco shuffle. Now I use an Iphone so guess ATT might work but I've been happy enough with Sprint to stay put for now
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09-07-2019
03:59 PM
Always thought LTE and 4G were same thing just used differently by the vendors/telcos but I could be wrong.
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09-07-2019
03:55 PM
Yeah no worries I get it. I was called Cosmic Ray in a post once since that was my rank at the time and agree the user name defaults are easy to mix up. All good.
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09-07-2019
03:40 PM
Lol I agree but you replied to me not the poster. I currently only use Samsung products I already own and have zero chances of having a pre order cancelled since I currently have no plans to buy any new products from them
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09-07-2019
03:03 PM
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FYI not an official Samsung news source but I've always found this site to be reasonably accurate https://www.sammobile.com/news/
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09-07-2019
02:56 PM
Maybe it is a blessing that this happened before purchase and a sign to seek another option?
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09-07-2019
01:55 PM
Does your country have the equivalent of our Better Business Bureau? If so I would contact them for guidance since your post suggests you are getting nowhere with Samsung. In any event good luck
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09-07-2019
12:49 PM
Most telcos will swap out a sim card. If a factory reset didn't fix it and you hadn't restored any data yet I would try that next
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09-07-2019
12:42 PM
Ultimately I decided I was fed up with Samsung and switched to Apple. I will say though I was surprised that before I switched phones I switched from Tmobile to Sprint and my S8 that I was using at that time also got a security update once it was on Sprint so you might be on to something. I now have the S8 as a spare phone only and keep it up to date via wifi. Sprint has it on the August security patch.
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09-07-2019
12:16 PM
I concur with your bottom line. This is your opinion. As for Samsung or Best Buy at fault I see no way to prove it without access to actual factual order data so logically one shouldn't blame one over the other without more information in my opinion.
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09-05-2019
08:19 PM
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Shipped with Android 6 iirc so extremely unlikely but wish you luck
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09-05-2019
04:45 PM
Glad you are making progress. You may be on to something about Android version being a factor since I don't remember when 1.1.1.1 started doing that to me. It might have been post Android Pie update. BTW Cosmic Ray is my ranking based on postings - my username is that long mess starting with user. Neil works too :-)
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09-05-2019
03:51 PM
Given the past 2 OS update precedence from Samsung I'd place money on a bet that you are wrong. This is all part of the dark side of the Android ecosystem.
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09-04-2019
03:41 PM
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Seems like something worth discussing with the BBB especially if you have any supporting non verbal evidence
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09-03-2019
04:31 PM
From all I read seems like a solid choice. In my case I had a personal need to be able to communicate with someone who uses Apple Facetime so it was either Apple phone or tablet and I recently bought the Chromebook I use so phone was the better choice for me.
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09-03-2019
04:13 PM
I switched from Samsung to Apple but before I did I seem to recall being able to go into settings and denying Bixby permission to use the microphone. Doesn't fix being forced to have Bixby installed at all but might solve your conflict. Neil
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09-02-2019
04:41 PM
I would check and make sure you don't have a badly behaving app running in background hijaaking the speaker output. I had it happen to me once on an iPhone and it was related to a website I was sometimes visiting as part of a news source used by a news aggregator app I was using. It only happened for some visits to the website depending on the video they were using so it took me a while to figure it out. I turned off that news source from the app's settings where it let you choose what websites to aggregate news from and the problem went away.
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09-02-2019
11:49 AM
Understand and wish you best luck. I reached my boiling point with Samsung and switched to an iPhone 8+. Perfect no. Without challenges no. Without Samsung headaches YES.
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09-01-2019
09:00 PM
If you run the vpn app 1.1.1.1 try disabling it. i find that works for me on my S3 tablet and my S8 phone. Mostly though I fixed it by ditching Samsung. Both those devices are now my spares. Daily drivers are my Dell Chromebook and my Apple 8+. I lost faith in brand Samsung so now actively avoid it as much as possible.
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