About had it with the Galaxy S5 already

[nx5nx5]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

When you say "turn off" an app, how exactly do you do that?

Curious about that, too. Do you mean "disable"?

 

[japetty]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Why did you return it? What "sucked"?

I was wanting to know as well. He also mentioned about he could not use the phone and browse the web at the same time?

 

[Eric Ruiz1]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

When you turn it on. Of if you take the battery cover off and all. It says check the battery cover and the charging port to make sure they are closed so it will be water tight.
Got mine at 10:00 April the 11th. The phone gets great reception. Got rid of a lot of the apps that wants you to pay for them.
Still trying to learn the phone. But I get Txt messages, Emails. Phone calls.
Don't rightly know where voice mail is yet oh unless I call myself.
Not fixing to take it back.

Download Google voice for your voice mails

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[dad2noah]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

I would suggest, again, that you uncheck the box that says "restore apps"...Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
And I never claimed to be an expert, but I had the same issue on my S3.
You're welcome

 

[Huggie87]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Turn off is the same as disable

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[hardrocker89]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

This is how you disable apps. The other way is to go into application manager > name of app> and next to the 'force close' button should be a disable/uninstall button.

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[thegrants82]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Return it, I don't think that anyone can help you.

That's not what I did. There was no option that I saw in the setup that asked me about restoring apps. Boy, these forums are really full of "helpful experts".

 

[Ynnuendo1991]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

For the wake up button you can turn off s voice shortcut, as the phone is actually waiting for you to double press the button . If you turn off svoice shortcut, the button will respond immediately

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[anon(8760912)]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Is there a list somewhere yet of bloat apps that are safe to turn off? Between AT&T and Samsung apps there is probably a good handful to nuke...

 

[jrb363]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

I think you have a lemon. Swap it out for a new one. I have none of these problems.

Sounds like standard Samsung quality to me!

 

[anon(6142785)]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

In order to operate the equipment, one must be more intelligent than the equipment.

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[Fillyo]

Wow, tough group and a lot of interesting fixes. I have the same 32gb SanDisk SD card in my s5 that was in my s4 and s3 before that, I have never had read issues or had to reformat. It's filled with music and pics, and it doesn't take days for your phone to scan your SD card, that was funny. Op - factory reset is in order, you could have got a bad one. I have everything syncing, Google +, multiple emails, and have no drain. I do not back up pics to Google + though. I am also averaging 30 hours of usage all on LTE with over 3 hours of on screen time.

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[stan23]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Fillyo,

It's pretty common knowledge that when you use an pre-used SD card on a new Android installation, the OS will index all files. That is done BEHIND THE SCENES and will take a while depending on how large the card is and how much data you have.

Ever look at your battery stats and see a rogue 'media server' running and taking a bit of battery? That's the OS indexing the files.

 

[Brandon915]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

I just bought my Galaxy S 5. Awesome phone. Took it out of the box and connected it to the charging cable they provided. Came back 30 mins later and the screen was cracked. I didn't believe it at first and though it was a hair or something. Nope. It's cracked. I'm pissed! Why in the heck would this happen. The phone was fine and charging on a flat surface, it was never dropped or anything. I can't believe this BS. I tried contacting Samsung and they told me that since it was physical damage I would have to make a deposit of $70 for them to let me ship it in to get checked. I'm very upset. Has anyone else had this problem? It's obviously a manufacturing defect and I don't think I should have to pay anything. They should replace my phone or fix it for free because it's their fault for not designing it correctly. It's sad, I loved you Samsung, but you just slapped me in the face!! :'(

 

[SocratesRising]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Glass just doesn't break on its own, lol. Your jealous iPhone owning sister must have stepped on it.

I just bought my Galaxy S 5. Awesome phone. Took it out of the box and connected it to the charging cable they provided. Came back 30 mins later and the screen was cracked. I didn't believe it at first and though it was a hair or something. Nope. It's cracked. I'm pissed! Why in the heck would this happen. The phone was fine and charging on a flat surface, it was never dropped or anything. I can't believe this BS. I tried contacting Samsung and they told me that since it was physical damage I would have to make a deposit of $70 for them to let me ship it in to get checked. I'm very upset. Has anyone else had this problem? It's obviously a manufacturing defect and I don't think I should have to pay anything. They should replace my phone or fix it for free because it's their fault for not designing it correctly. It's sad, I loved you Samsung, but you just slapped me in the face!! :'(

 

[nx5nx5]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Thank you to all of the helpful people.

I did a factory reset last night, and formatted my SD card again. I'm still getting the "check battery cover" message way too frequently, and the phone still keeps mounting/unmounting my SD card, so I'm going to return it today and try another. Also going to buy a new SD card.

Wish me luck! Thanks again!

 

[Citizen Coyote]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

I just bought my Galaxy S 5. Awesome phone. Took it out of the box and connected it to the charging cable they provided. Came back 30 mins later and the screen was cracked. I didn't believe it at first and though it was a hair or something. Nope. It's cracked. I'm pissed! Why in the heck would this happen. The phone was fine and charging on a flat surface, it was never dropped or anything. I can't believe this BS. I tried contacting Samsung and they told me that since it was physical damage I would have to make a deposit of $70 for them to let me ship it in to get checked. I'm very upset. Has anyone else had this problem? It's obviously a manufacturing defect and I don't think I should have to pay anything. They should replace my phone or fix it for free because it's their fault for not designing it correctly. It's sad, I loved you Samsung, but you just slapped me in the face!! :'(

Take it back to where you bought it and deal with them. Samsung won't simply take your word for it without being allowed to examine the phone. After all, as someone else said, glass doesn't just crack on its own. Some outside force cracked it, be it some bizarre charging defect or someone in your household knocking the phone off whatever surface it was on and putting it back without telling you about the damage.

 

[Zacharyw70]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

I just bought my Galaxy S 5. Awesome phone. Took it out of the box and connected it to the charging cable they provided. Came back 30 mins later and the screen was cracked. I didn't believe it at first and though it was a hair or something. Nope. It's cracked. I'm pissed! Why in the heck would this happen. The phone was fine and charging on a flat surface, it was never dropped or anything. I can't believe this BS. I tried contacting Samsung and they told me that since it was physical damage I would have to make a deposit of $70 for them to let me ship it in to get checked. I'm very upset. Has anyone else had this problem? It's obviously a manufacturing defect and I don't think I should have to pay anything. They should replace my phone or fix it for free because it's their fault for not designing it correctly. It's sad, I loved you Samsung, but you just slapped me in the face!! :'(

I hope this isn't like the Galaxy Note 3 thread where people are going to start acting like there's a defect with it, and a spam of 1 post users will comment about having the same experience except nobody posts pictures or proof. :-!

 

[SoCalBIGmike]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Dude, (edit by Moderator) Go to the carrier store and have them walk you through it. People have been nice(edit by Moderator)

 

[SoCalBIGmike]

Re: About had it with the S5 already

Take it back to where you bought it and deal with them. Samsung won't simply take your word for it without being allowed to examine the phone. After all, as someone else said, glass doesn't just crack on its own. Some outside force cracked it, be it some bizarre charging defect or someone in your household knocking the phone off whatever surface it was on and putting it back without telling you about the damage.

Pics or didnt happen. (edit by Moderator)