Recent content by Manuel Garces

Ah, it could be a Canadian version thing then! I went to Best Buy and tried a brand new S9+ and it had the same issue with the call UI not changing. I will check next time I am in the US. Thanks!

I found out that it is not possible because the new firmware has a version 4 bootloader. The old Nougat firmware has a version 3. There is no version 4 in Nougat.

I wish you were right. I truly do. I am an avid theme collector. I know the theme store quite well. It is a matter of taste of course. Yes, I agree there are thousands of themes that are ok for most people. The issue is that the call UI is no longer integrated with the rest of the theme...

Something like that, yes.

Ok, thanks! That makes sense. I guess I am stuck with the call UI whether I like it or not, unless I go through the trouble of rooting and start messing around with the phone.

IF I rooted my phone, could I selectively install just the call UI from Nougat and keep everything else the same (OREO)?

Yes, you are right it didn't work. I tried it last night. Lots of work for nothing. I am giving up now. Waiting for Samsung for fix the bug then. Thanks for your help! Appreciate it!

That's a nice launcher. I used it before. It will work with whatever theme you have installed. Yes, I should have clarified that I use third party themes from the Theme Store. Sold commercially by Samsung. Samsung made themes are boring and of low sophistication. There are artists in the theme...

Samsung themes from the Theme Store. Do you use themes? If you did, you should have noticed by now. Unless , the error did not apply to the version of OREO in your part of the world. That I can't speak for.

And this is the build I downloaded from SamMobile as it corresponds with what I had before installed on my phone.

Nope, I have verified. It is OREO. The call UI is no longer integrated to the themes. Call button doesn't show theme when you make the call. If you noticed, they made a change to that screen with OREO.

I have a Bell Canada version of the note 8. I downloaded the exact previous Nougat version that was on my phone prior to the update to OREO. I read somewhere in XDA that, with OREO, Samsung made a change to the bootloader that prevents you from going back and from installing out if country...

Both are good for battery life. For me it is about the themes. Oreo made some changes to the phone ui that don't go well with my themes.

Thank you! I will give it a try.