I'm using the icons called :The Dawn II Hope this gets through, I keep getting booted out when I hit the post button  ... View more

If the Huawei feel, weight, and operations are even closer, and they come up with an open source type of OS to start, then I have a hunch that they will surge ahead in sales.  ... View more

Fix it til tis' broke ... View more

Yes, lets examine  Huewai. It seems rather an irony that once Huewai begins to get a toe-hold of sales in the US that the Government comes down on them. Almost makes one feel that Huewai was making Google a bit uncomfortable and they rolled over to their bed-fellow Trump and said we need you to put the brakes on them before they capture some market shares.... LoL   How strange  it is. ... View more

Oh yes, a previous poster said it was all just the "theme" ... Hogwash the lot!!  Wait till the next OS my *****! They got my $1200 and I have not heard a peep one about giving me back the phone I bought in the first place. I'll wager two pence to the pound that they leave us all flat with not a word of help   ... View more

Time to call Samugh and speak to Aziz, or Punjab about how to turn your stuff off and stop all the background programs, and runit on a very dim screen, and set it so it goes to sleep when you look away,,,,, ... View more

Mdemik, Thank you for that. All the pieces to the puzzle help. I spoke to one tech at Samshmuck and he said that the program was the result of many focus groups and surveys. It was when I inquired as to the age range of the participants that he choked.  I would guess that the groups polled where of the age that games were a big part of the discussion, and those who had seen the Iphones up close and wished their daddy would buy them one of those instead of the Samsung phone that appears more serious. I thankyou again for that bit of news.  Maxozone ... View more

I have heard that some of those are in the "flags" that you can flip to change. All other Android devices are getting their programming from Google. It's like they want all of them, globally, to be on the same base OS. Welcome to big brother world. ... View more

Well, at least they are doing something good for society, the deaf, dumb, and blind executives employ the mentally handiabled to to manage the product focus groups and do the programming. ... View more

They conducted extensive testing on the one handed operation features. The doing that their executives could be more productive while t*****g off. ... View more

I was wondering about leveling tables or pianos? ... View more

They cannot hear us, they are using Google software in their Samsung hearing *****.. ... View more

Let me interject, I found this set called 'The Dawn II' that is more entertaining as well as unique. It also has the distinction of being free!  ... View more

All praise big brother; MIne Fuhrer VonGoogle ... View more

Well said! Your honesty SHOULD tear at the hearts of both Samsung and Google. I feel the same, and the conspiracy of Google to get all of the Android phones globally on the same OS should be exposed. I'm proud of what you said. Thank you ... View more

BaaaaHaHaHaaaaaa!!  They don't care. It's only a piece of Googles plan for world domination.  ... View more

I'm afraid that it's more a matter of the customer being serviced. There seem to be more folks opting to not fight it and just be integrated into the BORG. The consumer will, from now on, take what big brother  ... View more

#6, icons: I would be happy to follow your suggestion if you can point me to the set that I paid for when I bought the phone with Oreo. Thank you for the help.  ... View more

I watched a few different video instructions on how to do it, and this is what I got: 1) Goto Sammobile site find your phones set of OS updates, choose the latest oreo version 8.0.... and download it( I put it on my desktop) 2) Download the latest Odin from the Sammobile site also to the desktop. 3) Download Smart switch onto your computer, and to your phone. 4) Plug the phone into the computer and do a complete backup(I did one on the computerm one on samsucks site, and also to Google. I tried it one time and we had a storm that made my internet hiccup so the phone went into a bootup loop. Hard reset it and stopped for the night. One person mentioned in one post that the version number was inportant. 1 or 2, but if you have a 3 it won't work but I dunno about that and would suggest looking into ihat also In all my wrangling on the phone with my carrier, and Samsung I did get one tech to confirm that the procedure for going back will work. I have just been too busy and cannotbe without my phone right now for a few weeks, otherwise I would spend the time to do it again.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qEM5j34QI  This is the one I found most helpful. Cheers!! ... View more

I watched a few different video instructions on how to do it, and this is what I got: 1) Goto Sammobile site find your phones set of OS updates, choose the latest oreo version 8.0.... and download it( I put it on my desktop) 2) Download the latest Odin from the Sammobile site also to the desktop. 3) Download Smart switch onto your computer, and to your phone. 4) Plug the phone into the computer and do a complete backup(I did one on the computerm one on samsucks site, and also to Google. I tried it one time and we had a storm that made my internet hiccup so the phone went into a bootup loop. Hard reset it and stopped for the night. One person mentioned in one post that the version number was inportant. 1 or 2, but if you have a 3 it won't work but I dunno about that and would suggest looking into ihat also In all my wrangling on the phone with my carrier, and Samsung I did get one tech to confirm that the procedure for going back will work. I have just been too busy and cannotbe without my phone right now for a few weeks, otherwise I would spend the time to do it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qEM5j34QI This is the one I found most helpful. Cheers!! ... View more

We did that with my finaces NOte8(she is with Verizon) and it did it anyway.  THank you for the suggestion. ... View more

I have to apologize for the previous comment, its another wonderful thing that samsuck does on the phones, the display moves about while I am assembling a post. As I was trying to say; I paid cash for a nice new Note 9, took it home and got to use it for about 2 weeks and then it changed the OS. It now sits in hte box it came in, on the desk as a reminder to be resistant to the BORG. I got a Note 8 in the interem it was operating on Oreo, not PIE. It just pushed the PIE undate and now it is a wonderful piece of S**t PIE. Yummy! I did however find an icon pack that made me feel a little better. It is called "The Dawn II". It has a olde tyme feel but at least it isnt like the Fiher price toy that Samsung shoved down our throat.   ... View more

I fully understand your feelings. I cashed a nite 9 ... View more

I installed an Icon pack called The Dawn II. It has more of an old time look. fyi ... View more

Please forgive me, I forgot to mention the proceure to reload the Oreo software.  ... View more

You just now got it? It's just all the rage for those who have dain bramage...       I am finding some bits to try to make it more pallettable.  I'm finding after two factory resets that Dark rhum seems to help.  Don't give up!! I found an icon pack called The Dawn II, it has some oldsie, a little steampunkesk icons. that made me feel better so far and now I need to get the rest in line. I also heard about an app called Good Lock from android store that has a few bits that I am not done trying. It looks like the only thing I cannot do is change the pages review back to how it was....  Don't slam the phone into your head, it wont change the phone setup, it'll just ***** ou t off more.. LoLoL ... View more

Other users that have other carriers don't have problems or are encountering all these problems. I have tmobile, and they finally said "iyountknow" and hooked me up with Samshmuck. Then settled on the reset... Argh, I've reset 2x and it's still krap. ... View more

I had the same problem with the after PIE patch. Full factory reset, then and now still getting things fixed. I heard that other carriers who had the ... View more

I spent a few hours yesterday dealing with another update on the PIE. I generally power cycle my phone on a regulare basis, and in doing so a patch or something installed. It made the icons so large that only three could fit on a page, the grid size adjustment in settings completely disappeared, as did the icon pack I had installed. Oh how heavenly!!! Called the TMobile people(they were perplexed), they sent me to Samsung who was  confused but stated that I wold need to wait until the next update cycle, and hung up on me.  So I began over with TMobile, then to Samsung, only this time the tech said that it appeared the software only partially updated and I would neeed to do a factory reset. Oh Joy, Oh Joy. I did a fresh backup, did the reset, the phone returned to the same POS it was after the One UI PIE downgrade and I started over.  It is very frustrating having to spend more time fixing than using.  I guess the new Motto for Samsung is: Fix it until it's broken! ... View more