So a full factory reset after the update made the phone run better. Many hours of modifying and tweaking the look got the phone looking ok...  BUT THESE SAMSUNG FRACKERS JUST MADE ANOTHER UPDATE THATS JUST MESSED UP THE PHONE AGAIN *****   Anyone else getting distorted and loud notification sounds now?  If i go into sound setting notifacations play ok but when the phone gets an email or txt the notification is playplayed twice and distorts. Watching movies the notification is so loud and distorted.  I just want to smash this phone right now... ... View more

I think is now a given. After months of silence Samsung's response is at best absolutely disgusting. People are constantly coming here and stating much the same response and concern. The best people can do is not buy Samsung again. I certainly will not be upgrading to Samsung in the future. I will not support their actions and a sending the best message I can.    Very disappointing but if that's how they treat their customers I don't want to be one.  ... View more

CLOCK FIX - Actually works plus other fixes... Download from the galaxy store goodlock (Not play store as that is an entirely different app) http://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock Install, open and then install quickstar. Open that up. Half way down is an option to position clock. Have a good look at the other plugin option too from goodlock as there Is a lot of customization fixes. Well worth spending some time doing so.  I have managed to rectify a few issues created  from pie update now.   Unfortunately the battery problem is still a concern. ... View more

Think you find @JRau  that only affects the lock screen ( widget type) clock. Not the one that sits in the top left hand corner of the screen near notifications that once was on the left     ... View more

I've got the programs. But could do with a walkthrough..     @Goldfire wrote: @Maxozone wrote:   jfgratton   Apprentice 15 minutes ago     @Maxozone wrote: There is a way to go back however it voids the warranty and is only for 'Techy" people. It envolves utising a program that I am told is used by Samsung for flashing new stuff into a phone, and the OREO program is available from another site. Please do not. Really. There's a fuse on the phone's board that will get burned; this e-fuse is part of the security setup called Knox. The phone uses this to see if it was tampered with and thus voiding all kinds of software installs, updates, not to say waranties. This is the main reason why I'm not doing it. My Samsung Gear S3 Fronteer smartwatch wouldn't work anymore with the tampered device. Otherwise I'd have never bothered and fixed the phone myself.   In any way... it's been almost a full month for me here, I've ordered an iPhone XS that I'll receive next week. I'm done with Samsung.   --Jeff Sorry, but this is not correct. Downgrading does not trip the fuse or cause problems with Knox - I've downgraded multiple S9 phones and blocked the updates with a package disabler, the warranty is still intact (Void status = 0x0000), it also doesn't block future updates, I could return back to Pie if I was stupid enough.   Again, downgrading does not void the warranty and isn't even for "techy" people. You will only have problems if you root the phone at the same time. Which we're not doing here, so even things like my S3 Frontier works fine with my downgraded phone, as well as the other phones I've downgraded.   In the future though, AVB2 will be enforced on phones that come stock with Android Pie and will make downgrading tricky, but not impossible. That isn't the case here for the S9 that came stock with Oreo.   ... View more

Please feel free to tag on to this Twitter post.   https://twitter.com/ps4matt/status/1109930560724430848?s=19   Power in numbers  ... View more

  Start posting on Twitter and everywhere else. Soon as I can get rid of the S9+ I will be buy another brand and not coming back. Frak Samsung and all there products. I hate my S9+ plus now. Hate checking emails, browsing internet, taking photos everything about it is shiet. I hate using it.   https://twitter.com/ps4matt/status/1109930560724430848?s=19 ... View more

Everyone needs to unite and stick together. Multiple petitions under different names multiple hashtags in Twitter with some mean nothing to the outsiders.    Start with something simple and eye catching. #Ihatesamsungnow, #itsoverSamsung or #samsungslemonpie  whatever it is stick with it as power in numbers.    I tried to start a petition months ago. There's hundreds posting in forums yet there was less than a hundred signatures... if people not prepared or wanting to stick together, We've lost.         ... View more

Ive been looking into rolling back and I found this site. https://www.teamandroid.com/2018/12/13/update-galaxys9-s9plus-december2018-firmware/ Havent tried it as yet as I am waiting on my Telco to get back to me to see what they offer. If I dont get anywhere with them, I will go throught this process and try it out. To which I might add if I go down this line of fix it will confirm that the relationship I have had with Samsung is over. I will beucott any future purchases with samsung and will also go out my way to tell others of what they did, to get them also to go elsewhere.   I know that this will screw with waranty, but I dont care I rather a phone I can use and happy with than one that gives me grief and doesnt work. ... View more

I am guess you have to be a USA citizen to do it this way. ... View more

    sorry bit crude but typing post hangs and no longer as smooth as it used to be.   Bottom pic shows app. If not installed can be found in the play or galaxy store.   Top photo shows open page icon bottom right.   Second page show feed back option is the top blue icon.   Hope it helps   ... View more

I encourage EVERYONE to go to http://chng.it/vTPPPh9QYy   It is a link to petition to Samsung and Google to fix the issues of the Pie One UI upgrade.   It was also said to me by Samsung Care best way to get feedback to Samsung and the best way to be heard was to use the feedback option on the Samsung Members app. There is a blue "?" icon in the bottom rright-hand corner, clicking on that will open the feedback option.   Please take the time to do both as it seems its the only way to get Samsung to seriously listen to us atm.         ... View more

I spoke to Samsung Customer Care Australia today.   They remarked that I am not alone with my complaint as they have recieved a lot.  His word were there are a lot of other samsung users out there voicing the same issue. He also said there was no way possible to roll back and no current fix. He did say the best way to be heard was to use the feedback option on the Samsung Members app. There is a blue icon in the bottom right hand corner, clicking on that will open the feedback option.   File a complaint (or many as I have mentioning every issue I am encountering or discover). I will continue to file feedback daily untill its fixed. I am not even 1/2 way into 24mth contact and not in a possition to change to a new phone right now. However when I do, it wont be another samsung. ... View more

Dear Samsung.   You lost me as a devoted customer of 9yrs. My next phone will not be a Samsung. My next TV upgrade will not be a Samsung. My next appliance will never be a Samsung.   So very sorry to have supported you over the past several years.    Super glad that my microwave isn't on the internet. You may want to upgrade is to a toaster if you could. Happy my washing machine is limited in upgrades to might want to upgrade that to a bubble machine as for my smart TV... I'm thinking I should disable any net access as I don't want it turning into a photo frame..   It's End of an Era for me and Samsung... RIP Samsung..     ... View more

Seems Samsung has seen the opportunity to dumb down & force previous models back to basic while S10 keeps the goodies. How can a company offer a pro video option on s9 then disable it? Yet the s10 has it. Pie update is a downgr   So many malfunctions, issues and poor navigation changes in this downgrade.   It's why I created a  Petition to be heard   Doesn't seem that Samsung is listening.   The next phone I buy is definitely not going to be a Samsung phone ... View more

Sorry.. Double post due to lagging phone now.. Thanks pie ... View more

Along with signing the Petiton to fix it at change dot org.. http://chng.it/vTPPPh9QYy   I recommend everyone phoning their telco provider and demand a new phone/brand if they are in contract as what was sold no longer is the same product.   IT IS THE ONLY SOLUTION AVALIABLE     ... View more

@anneedgewitch wrote: Maybe start a new thread and call it "petition to get a response on One UI update from Samsung". And add a paragraph explaining what you want people to do.   Thanks Did just that  - here     ... View more

Want to fix it.... Read on.. Seriously stop wasting time and voicing here. It's obvious Samsung doesn't care. Have they responded here. NO. Have anyone made headway on a call.  No    So stop wasting your time here posting and get anyone and everyone to go to http://chng.it/vTPPPh9QYy   This will be the only place you be listen to.  This will notify both Samsung and google.  ... View more

@Charlie_B wrote: http://chng.it/RRL2ktwQJm   This petition was setup earlier in case your interested. ... View more

http://chng.it/vTPPPh9QYy A petition already started set up to notify Samsung and Google both. ... View more

Let's take a stand maybe a petition to Samsung will get them listening   http://chng.it/vTPPPh9QYy ... View more