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    No more separate notification tones in Oreo?

    Version 5.0.21.18 should already be installed. What version do you have? The process for setting an individualised notification sound (not really a ringtone) is fairly convoluted. So in case you do have that version installed I'll explain the process I went through to set an individualised...
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    No more separate notification tones in Oreo?

    There is no "Customize" option on my Samsung S9+. There is "Delete", "Link Contacts", "Block contact", and "Delete calls from history."
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    No more separate notification tones in Oreo?

    Where did you get this information, and was anyone curious enough to ask ****WHY*** did google remove that very basic function from 8.0?
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    Doesn't charge the battery over 80%, is that true?

    No. Samsung sets the threshold at which the device reports a 100% battery charge. What is reported as 100% charge may be less than the maximum of what the battery can actually hold. Whatever the case, charging to 100% as *reported* is not going to harm anything. Thinking about it further...
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    1) McAfee's long dismal history. 2) There are better AV/AM software. 3) Since Samsung is pushing to install McAfee I must therefore respond with a one finger salute.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    The phone was unlocked when I purchased it, and I opened an account with Warehouse Mobile which nobody outside of Australasia is going to know about.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    I don't know why my screen looks different. I thought it was the same as everyone's until posting here. Maybe it is region specific. Maybe Samsung is trying on a hard push of McAfee to New Zealanders.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    It's obvious what is stopping mine from reaching 100%. See above. "Turn On 10 p". I don't know why yours maxes at 74. The S9+ is my first "smart" phone and only my second mobile, the first being a $14 Nokia, so I'm feeling pretty ignorant about these things atm. Learning fast though.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    I was able to hit 100% optimisation soon after I got the phone, but then something happened either through an update or fiddling around. I can no longer get 100%.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    McAfee doesn't appear to be installed so there's nothing to disable or remove. Put it this way, I can't find it in the apps list including system apps. Yet if I turn on Virus Scanning, the first thing that pops up is a mcafee EULA for activation.
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    Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

    I installed an antivirus that is not mcafee, It's by Eset, but it seems that I still cannot get greater than 90% optimisation on the S9+ without activating mcafee. I don't want to activate mcafee. My background with antivirus software is entirely PC related and therefore we hates it to bits...