Recent content by aj187

Thanks for the great details. I'm in Canada. I'm so surprised a phone bought direct from the manufacturer installs bloatware, I can understand sim locking once the sim is inserted since you can just unlock the phone after but installing bloat when you paid full price for a device does not sit...

I'm a bit surprised you state that since this clearly happend to me and some others: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71995893&postcount=10 I also did a support chat with samsung and they stated that bloatware and sim lock will occur the first time you insert a sim in your device...

Samsungs website only provides one version of the phone, there are no "carrier variant" versions of it.

Hello, I'm aware that the s8 hard resets and carrier locks the first time you insert a sim but was unaware that the device I purchased direct from Samsung also installs all the carrier bloatware as part of this process. Is this normal? I was under the impression that purchasing direct from...