Samsung Galaxy S21

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BlueJazz

509 posts

174 months

Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Have got S21 ultra, Huawei P-smart and USB dingle, all on Vodafone. Samsung gets the best signal of the bunch.

Luke.

11,033 posts

252 months

Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Not a fan of the notifications slightly transparentness of Android 12. The font seems smaller too. Cant find a way to make slightly bigger. Anyone know a workaround?

TameRacingDriver

18,126 posts

274 months

Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Luke. said:
Not a fan of the notifications slightly transparentness of Android 12. The font seems smaller too. Cant find a way to make slightly bigger. Anyone know a workaround?
They're slightly transparent on my S21 Ultra on Android 11 confused

For the fonts, is there not an option in Settings > Display > Font size ? I find it hard to believe they'd get rid of an essential accessibility feature.

Cobnapint

8,646 posts

153 months

Sunday 21st November 2021
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Clearly to counter the Pixel 6 release, Samsung are bombarding us with S21 ads at the moment.
I might well be tempted into an Ultra - my S7 is running out of storage, fast. Not helped by what seems like monthly Excel/Word/PowerPoint/OneDrive updates at 56MB each and Google Photos which has a regular 25MB for some reason. Doesn't sound much but it all adds up when you're only packing 32GB in the first place.

anonymous-user

56 months

Sunday 21st November 2021
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Cobnapint said:
Clearly to counter the Pixel 6 release, Samsung are bombarding us with S21 ads at the moment.
I might well be tempted into an Ultra - my S7 is running out of storage, fast. Not helped by what seems like monthly Excel/Word/PowerPoint/OneDrive updates at 56MB each and Google Photos which has a regular 25MB for some reason. Doesn't sound much but it all adds up when you're only packing 32GB in the first place.
Add an SD card, problem over.

Cobnapint

8,646 posts

153 months

Sunday 21st November 2021
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jsf said:
Add an SD card, problem over.
Already done that. All my photos go to it.

You can move some apps to SD storage but they get automatically shifted back every time there's an update. It's not worth all the shifting back afterwards.

chinnyman

214 posts

191 months

Sunday 21st November 2021
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Does anyone have patchy GPS on the s21 Ultra ...?

l354uge

2,895 posts

123 months

Monday 22nd November 2021
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Yes, says accuracy is low since the android 12 update

snuffy

9,944 posts

286 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2021
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Mine updated yesterday to 12. I can't really see any difference.

Mr-B

3,794 posts

196 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2021
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l354uge said:
Yes, says accuracy is low since the android 12 update
I haven't noticed any issues when using maps and it seems fine but I have just checked it now and it says accuracy low, still on android 11.

Newc

1,887 posts

184 months

Wednesday 1st December 2021
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If you have a BMW to go with your S21 you're now able to provide car thieves with another way to steal your car.

Keyless entry - the crap idea that nobody asked for that just keeps getting worse.

https://www.9to5google.com/2021/12/01/pixel-6-andr...

snuffy

9,944 posts

286 months

Thursday 2nd December 2021
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Is it my imagination, or have they introduced a feature that stops the camera shaking at very high zoom ? I remember first using zoom at say over 50 times, and it was very hard to use because it shook so much, so I had to rest my arm or hand on something. But this morning, I happened to zoom right in on something (neighbour's cat as it happens) and it was shaking a bit and then it suddenly stopped shaking - so that my initial thought was that the phone had crashed/hung. But no, it froze the image to allow the photo to be taken.

TameRacingDriver

18,126 posts

274 months

Thursday 2nd December 2021
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Mine has always done that.

snuffy

9,944 posts

286 months

Thursday 2nd December 2021
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TameRacingDriver said:
Mine has always done that.
How odd. Mine certainly didn't to start with. I can remember it shaking around and having to put my hand/arm on something. But it does now.

Unless my hand has stopped shaking !!

TameRacingDriver

18,126 posts

274 months

Thursday 2nd December 2021
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Been using the Android 12 update for a few days now. Generally seems OK, though not much difference, except for the fact it now seems a bit more 'stuttery' than before. Especially when going home from an app or swiping to the Google feed and back on the home screen. Anyone else seeing it feeling slightly less fluid than before?

Mr-B

3,794 posts

196 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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Anyone else got 2 versions (3.0 and 1.0) of Samsung Pass on their phone? Does it need 2 versions? Can't uninstall either of them. I can get rid of 1.0 by uninstalling updates, it does disappear but then galaxy store says I have a Samsung pass update and if I install it it puts version 1.0 back on the phone so back to 2 versions.

BlueJazz

509 posts

174 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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No, just version 3 on mine.

snuffy

9,944 posts

286 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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BlueJazz said:
No, just version 3 on mine.
Same as mine.


Mr-B

3,794 posts

196 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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Strange. I know I am not the only one, there is a thread albeit very short, on the community forum with others mentioning it.

FiF

44,302 posts

253 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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snuffy said:
BlueJazz said:
No, just version 3 on mine.
Same as mine.
Yep version 3.