Recent content by dkp23

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    Battery Life is despicable

    So officially i have given up on trying to tweak the settings. While turning off some apps including facebook and instagram to work behind the scenes and removing my emails did result in improved standby battery drain, it does not improve on the battery when actually using thephone. There is...
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    Battery Life is despicable

    So another update...Again this morning, the standby battery drain was pretty bad. On a 30 minute drive to work, i was already at 90% and 60% by lunch time after getting off the charge at 730am. So whe i first checked in the day after the initial drain, i noticed the email sync being the...
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    Should I buy an S6 - if not which phone should I get?

    I just started using an s6 and i would not recommend it to anyone, the battery life is horrible, like really horrible. Until there is a legitimate solution to make the battery just respectable without having to turn off and tinker with everything, i wouldn't recommend it. People said the edge...
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    Battery Life is despicable

    So small update to this, been trying to find a way to actually disable specific apps to not run in background, anybody know how to do that? I went to applications to manager and if you pick disable, it resets the app to factory or something. I dontt hink that is a solution. The battery...
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    Battery Life is despicable

    So I just moved from a 6+ to an s6, i havent used a galaxy s device since s4 which had decent battery life. I am pretty shocked on how bad this battery is, it just drains immediately off the charger. In my history of using phones which included a number of windows phone, iphoens and galaxy s...
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    Verizon Galaxy s6 to work on Tmobile - Help

    I have a verizon galaxy s6 and trying to get it to work on tmobile, the data specifically. I've looked up the APNs on this site and others and it still does not work, it does show either E or H, but it is grayed out. I can't seem to get the correct APN. can somebody screenshot their settings...
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    Galaxy S5 - How to get bluetooth to auto connect every time I get in the car?

    anybody have a solution for this issue, i am one that has an s5 that wont connect automatically when i get into my car. I have to toggle bluetooth off then on everytime. I usually have bluetooth on constantly. iPhone/widows phone, once my car is on, it auto connect, but not the s5. Anybody...
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    are you still really happy with your s5?

    Yes, when music is playing i can turn up and down, when music is playing. If it isn't playing, if i need to silence, or i want to turn off my notification sounds, phone sounds, system sounds, i have to unlock the phone to do that, correct? Ill apply to a real life situation, i am in a...
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    are you still really happy with your s5?

    but you can't do that without entering a pin, correct? that is the point.
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    are you still really happy with your s5?

    If i need to silence my phone, how do i do that without having to enter a pin?
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    are you still really happy with your s5?

    I'd had the phone heading towards two weeks, new android user coming from iphone/windows phone. Good: Google integration screen Bad: A lot of things. First, i hate having to configure the hell out of this thing to get it to work the way i want it. With all the bubbly noises and all the...
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    Anyone having a hard time adapting to s5

    Long time windows phone/iphone user. I also got a free s 5 from samsung as a guest to one of their events. I have a verizon version using on ATT, so eliminating the headache of just going through teh APN settings and trying to get MMS/Voicemail to work, the transition hasn't been smooth...
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    Galaxy S5 user need help from s4 users, specifically Verizon Variant.

    att tried to help, but still not working. anybody?