I’m looking into android and this would only be a secondary phone. I’m more wanting to reap the reward of android(Samsung dex, emulation, running of windows applications) as I currently have a iPhone SE 3. Will it be fit for these purposes. Also have any of you ordered from amazon renewed.

I have xaa US variant (unlocked) I used *#2263# to enable all bands in NR including 78-nsa and 78-sa but in JIO in India I can't get 5G. True 5G from carrier was already enabled as I put the sim in iPhone. iPhone gets 5G fine and reports connected to N78

See the iPhone screenshot: https://ibb.co/hVtBfhs

Please see galaxy screenshot of network settings. Any thoughts?

https://ibb.co/YWwxP2c

How do I enable wifi calling? I've tried to find it in settings and where it says it should be there is nothing. I can't even search it.

Hello everyone I want to ask regarding my phones survival rate. My phone has been having an issue the last couple of months that when I restart it , the phone would have connectivity issues. It would either connect to the internet using 4g/5g or make calls using 2g. Today I had some problems with the phone restarting randomly. Didn't think much of it until it now stopped turning on and is looping the restart logo without actually turning it on. I am sending it for repair tomorrow but would like to know the chances it is actually scrapped.

I currently have a Verizon branded S21+. I’m considering upgrading to a S24+. Is the reception for the S24+ a little better than the S21+ in a very weak signal area. I have a vacation home in a mountainous area with only a one bar lte signal.

I'm using the US unlocked CSC (XAA) on my Samsung S21+ (SM-G996U), but I haven't received any updates yet. On the Verizon CSC, I used to get updates reliably around the 17th of every month.

Does anyone know which CSC typically gets updates the fastest? Should I consider switching back to Verizon CSC for quicker updates?

P.S. I switched to XAA to enable multiple eSIMs, as Verizon only allowed 1 eSIM and a nano SIM.

I'm looking at getting it but I don't know if the apt optimisation is good like on the front camera if you were to do a TikTok would it be like bad quailty and frame rate or is it good

So when I try to record a video the camera app starts lagging then freezes then the error camera app failed so I thought is was a software glitch so I reset my phone after setting it back up same problem does anyone know what is going on or how to fix?

So title is the problem. But some more Information, as I already tried alot.

Few Werks ago my Phone wasn't loading in my car anymore. At first I didn't care that much, thinking it was a faulty charge. Mostly using my wireless charging station, hadnt any serios problems until I was on a trip and tried to use my Power Pack. Same issue as in my car.

The phone recognize the charger and shows the right time for charging but I takes alot more then displayed. I talk about like 1% every half hour, when the Phone is not in use. Otherwise the battery even drops. Using the USB Port to connect to the computer also works fine.

Now I tried different things.

1. Cleaned the charging port
2. Tried different chargers and cables
3. Tried to load the phone in safty mode or turned off
4. Change the setting for fast charge and ultra fast charge
5. Wiped Cached Data
6. Replaced the charging board in the phone

Everything resulted in the same behavior, wireless charging is no problem but usb sucks alot.

I searched about 3 hours of Google and reddit and have no idea what to try next. May you guys got an idea for me.

I have too many photos on my phone (just under 2GB storage left) and that hasn't really been a problem before.

But not I can't transfer any of my photos from my phone to my PC.

I began by trying to transfer just one file, since I wanted to see if transferring it back would keep the "motion" file of the photo (I'm guessing it won't).

But File Explorer kept freezing.

Then I read somewhere that it's not uncommon for certain Android devices not being able to transfer larger numbers of photos since a certain Android OS version (can't remember which one, but it was related to S21 FE).

Anyway, their suggestion was to divide up the Camera folder by smaller ones and try again. This does not work either. Windows11 just says that it loses the connection with the device each time.

Does anyone know how to get around this, or are the photos just lost once the phone itself gives up?

I guess I could try and just delete every app I have and see if that frees up enough storage space, since that might be the issue. What do you guys think?

It's a bit of a long shot here, but I have no idea what else to try. My S21 Ultra, with the latest firmware, will 100% crash after not being used for almost 6 hours. Sometimes, it's 6 hours and 12 minutes, other times, it's 6 hours and 5 minutes, but it always crashes after I've gone to sleep, regardless of whether I plugged it in to charge or not.

I've tested this over 2 months and its been consistent every night. I've been awake a few times to catch it happening and it doesn't feel any different to usual, not overheating or anything of the sort.

I tried doing all the standard, factory reset, rebooting it before going to sleep, ensuring it's on the latest version, and checking that automatic restarts are off and nothing has worked to no avail. It's 100% a crash as the member's app will prompt me to submit a crash report every time.

Does anyone have any ideas what this could be?

Hey so randomly my s21u's bottom speaker stopped playing sound. It doesnt work when recording audio or work in gallery, what is weird that it works in apps like tiktok. Seems like its a hardware issue. What could it be?

it just started doing it a few days ago, almost like the sound before you start racing in mario kart. beep beep beep BEEP. i don't know why or what app is doing this, my security app says nothing is amiss and i haven't downloaded anything new. i even have my notifs on vibrate and am not receiving one when it makes the sound, i don't know what the problem is but it's making me anxious

Got my S21+ SM-G996B coming in a couple of days, and the more I read the more I am worried about the touchscreen issue happening when I come to update it. It's a refurbished phone so don't know if it has the original screen or not. I have a few questions:

• What is the current status of the updates and the issues? Has there been another update since the infamous one that fixes the screen issue or is it still a problem on the latest patch?
• If I were to update it manually, what is the latest version that is considered "safe"? I don't mind not having OneUI 6.1 but I'd like Android 14 if possible.
• Is there a way I can tell if it's an aftermarket screen through software? I read something about the screen BIOS showing "NG" for not genuine somewhere, don't know if that's accessible easily or if it needs extra hardware to probe it

Thanks!

I have seen more reports of getting a bad phone with the S21 than possibly any other Samsung Device. It seems you might even be better off with a lower end Samsung than the S21, or an older Flagship.

Is this true or not?

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Hey all, as of the last couple days, my S21 has been telling me that it's super fast charing (SFC brick and USBC to USBC cable, same combo I've been using for around a year), but it's charging so slowly. It'll say a certain amount of time until fully charged, a half hour will pass, and it will only be a few minutes closer to fully charged. Anyone had this before? Do I need a new cable or a charger port repair?

Hello! I was wondering if anyone would know why mic mode would randomly pop up when i pull my menu down. It never has before, never even knew it existed, and now I can't get it to come back.

(sorry, the title should say "with wet fingers", but it's not editable.) Based on everything I've read, the ultrasonic sensor is supposed to work with wet fingers. However, that has never worked for me. I have to have dry fingers. Does anyone else have this problem?

I recently noticed that the navigation bar buttons at the buttom of the screen still shows on my screen (transparent) even after switching to gestures.

I wish I could show it through a screenshot but it doesn't show through screenshot. It shows in light mode but not dark mode.

What could be the issue?

I'm using S21+.

I have a s21+ that is broken and I want to transfer storage from that to a new phone that I'm gonna pick up but the entire phone is broken and not only the screen, Is it possible to extract the data by opening the phone and taking the ssd out and extracting the data through some sort of wire? I don't want to bring it to a repair shop

Hello all. I have a Samsung wireless charger from my S8 days. It works excellent with my S21+... Until I bought an otter case.

As soon as it detects the phone, the charging cycle starts, but a couple seconds later the led indicator starts blinking and the charging stops.

I've watched some videos about this on YouTube. I took the inner sticker out as in one of the videos and the charger does the same.

Is there a magic trick other than make a big hole on the case back?

TIA

Hello to everyone!

I am writing to you to find out if I am the only one outraged by the One UI updates (particularly starting version 6.1.), which caused random reboots, unresponsive screen, and even fried motherboards on phones, for which Samsung has made no official communication ?

I experienced this issue with my S21U last August and have since been checking on Internet for any potential fix.

However more and more I read the comments on social media, the more I realize the problem is quite widespread.

No one at Samung (from what I have read so far) officially commented on this issue despite it makes the phone totally unusable.

Ps: if someone has found any solution, I beg you to share it with us.

Have a good day!

Hey all, my phone get super hot when im playing a game and watching a youtube video at the same time, sometimes it cant handle it and will shit the youtube vid off.. is this normal?

I have a Samsung S21 Ultra SM-G988U1 Snapdragon variant with baseband G998U1UESCGXF3 which I'm guessing its binary C
It was updated ot OneUI 6.1 and when I rebooted the touch screen no longer work, can someone please help as I could not find any clear way or a proper solution to fix it or roll back to OneUI 6.0.

Ive recently ordered a view window case, and it seems pretty good! However ive read that you have to install an app from an external source(chinese) and that your samsung doesnt want you to download the app since its not safe. Do anyone have and haved used the smart view app or any of their cases, and is it safe to use?

So I have an aux cord for my phone and whenever I take a call with my aux cord in my phone will disable my microphone until I restart my phone. Like the microphone won't work for voice notes or Snapchat. Nothing. Any1 run into this problem and know how to fix it?

remember back when One UI 6.1 came out and some users got unresponsive screen?

did anyone who had an unresponsive screen updated to the other patches and fixed the issue. if so ..let me know.