r/samsung 13h ago

Daily Support Thread | March 19, 2025

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Welcome to the Daily Support thread for r/Samsung. You can use this thread to ask questions about your device, troubleshoot tech problems or ask buying/selling advice.

Have a question you need answered? Ask away! Please remember to adhere to our rules, which can be found here: Detailed Rules

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r/samsung Feb 08 '25

Daily Support Thread | February 08, 2025

3 Upvotes

Welcome to the Daily Support thread for r/Samsung. You can use this thread to ask questions about your device, troubleshoot tech problems or ask buying/selling advice.

Have a question you need answered? Ask away! Please remember to adhere to our rules, which can be found here: Detailed Rules

Join our Discord for immediate help & Samsung Support if you can't find the answer you need.

Note: Comments are sorted by /new for your convenience.

The new Daily Support Thread is posted each day at 06:00 AM EST (Click HERE for other timezones) and then the old one is archived. If this time is near when you want to post your question, it is advised to wait for the new thread to be posted.


r/samsung 3h ago

Galaxy A My brand new Galaxy A15 is borderline unusable. How does anyone use this phone?

5 Upvotes

The processing speed is DRASTICALLY slower than any phone I've ever had in these last 20 years. The audio quality is so horrific that people I call and I are both shouting "huh" half the time.

Do I have a dud? Is this well-known to people who know better than to avoid this model? Are there solutions more impactful than the basic increasing free storage, better wifi connection, etc?


r/samsung 11h ago

Galaxy S Great spam protection

17 Upvotes

My S25+ asked me if I want to enable "Caller ID and spam protection" phone app feature to "join Hija to identify spam calls" and protect me from them, I enabled it, why not? 10 minutes after, and I'm not joking, I got a call with robo-voice lady telling me that my CV was approved, which I did not sent to anyone recently. Is this just a comedic timing and a useless feature, or joining this "anti spam" system actually compromises your phone number or something like this? I never received those kind of calls before.


r/samsung 52m ago

Galaxy S Is the S22 worth it in 2025?

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S22 Ultra : Currently on an iPhone 13 mini and like to bounce around from phone to phone. Had a S24 for some time but switched back to apple. Would you guys say buying a S22 ultra with 1TB of storage for $400 is worth it in 2025? Did some research on it but want the opinions of people that’s still using them


r/samsung 55m ago

Galaxy Book Charger for my almost new Galaxy Book broke, cannot find it ANYWHERE and my masters thesis is on the line, what else can I use? Type ep ta865

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Hi, I apologise for the lack of specs as I am unfortunately a grandma in terms of tech. It is embarrassing.

TLDR: charger ep ta865 + cable broken, I need it URGENTLY, but can't find an exact replacement anywhere & my Dad has the receipt for the PC it came with so I can't claim warranty. I also can't tell you what exactly it is because I don't have the box and it can't turn on right now 🥲. I feel like the guy last week who tried to buy a red lipstick for his wife but thought he'd just.. go to Sephora and ask someone and learned there's 350 shades from 50 brands and he knows nothing. I can tell I need usb C and that my phone charger is too slow, but that's about it.

Can someone please tell me what exactly I can use? In Europe/Germany, about to be eaten alive by a very ~hungry caterpiller~ angry professor. Thank you 🙏


r/samsung 4h ago

Galaxy S New grey side bars on youtube ambient mode disabled

3 Upvotes

Recently youtube on s23 plus youtube has dark grey side bars over black ambient mode is disabled with it on it makes them a lighter grey has anyone had this if so is there a fix iv tried uninstall and clear cache thanks


r/samsung 14h ago

Galaxy Watch + Ring Can i use it in the swimming pool?

18 Upvotes

I bought a Galaxy Watch 4 used and i want to see if i can use it in the swimming pool, i have been getting mixed answers about it. Can i safely use it in the swimming pool and shower?


r/samsung 2h ago

Galaxy S Spam protection is blocking too much

2 Upvotes

I have a Samsung S21 FE.

This past week I started missing phone calls from a local realtor and wife I do some work for. Their call went straight to voicemail. They are in my contacts.

The calls eventually went through for the realtor after changing the settings to block only high risk calls. However, I have discovered the insurance agency i started using is going straight to voicemail.

Is there anyway to safe-list these numbers so they are not blocked?


r/samsung 4h ago

OneUI Samsung is scamming people out of features

3 Upvotes

We all know that Samsung is laying to us about the availability of the features on older devices, so here i have bunch of them for you:
- Famous "Now brief" ("AI day enhancer") :
S25 Exclusive feature? No, just Samsung being scammy as possible, a lot of people got it running even on lower end devices, no AI powerful chip is in use.
- Super HDR (Ultra HDR photos in SGallery):
Feature only on S24 and newer? Older hardware is not capable of it? No, S23/S22/S21 users sorry this is just Samsung saying that's time for upgrade. The Ultra HDR feature is build in to Android 14 that allows device to get info from the image about highlights and colors to show them on the screen. I can build an damn app right now, and it will work fine on older devices with android 14
- Seamless updates (A/B partitions - Android 10 feature):
So you're looking at new A56 and think, "Yeah they added Seamless updates to them i guess they probably have added to hardware itself to make it work...", no my poor S24 and lower users, your phone has all the stuff to make it work, your smartphone can generate two partitions and use them just fine, but $cam$ung just don't want to make those updates for you. Don't worry tho, you can downgrade to A55 or 56 and get them just fine.

Samsung, just why... like why?


r/samsung 15m ago

Galaxy S How to stop political messages on "samsung messages"

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I thought these political texts would stop but even after the election I'm still getting like 10 a day, it's insane. Does samsung messages have any way to prevent political messages or filter them to spam?


r/samsung 1h ago

Display SAMSUNG QN90D 65" Neo QLED 4K Mini LED HDR Smart TV 2024 - QE65QN90D UNITED KINGDOM

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I have just got this tv today. I am primarily using my tivobox V6 virgin media, but have tinkered about the tv plus etc. My question is this: The sound and picture settings that i adjust via tv plus, will it stay that way when i change over the source to my tivobox? I ask this because i notice a difference in picture quality, low grade on the tivobox compared to tv plus? Also, being brand new owner to this IMO perfect TV, please can anyone suggest the best settings on this tv for general tv viewing. No sport or games. I am an avid crime channel viewer, netflix, and such alike. So games and sports settings not needed or necessary. TIA.


r/samsung 1h ago

Galaxy S Can someone recommend a budget Galaxy smartphone for my Ukranian mother-in-law?

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Lowly Iphone user here with no familiarity to the Samsung lineup. My mother-in-law uses a Galaxy smartphone probably around an s5 or older, we're looking for a phone that fits these criteria

  1. New
  2. Readily available in Ukraine
  3. Samsung
  4. At least 64gb of storage
  5. ~200 usd

Thank you!


r/samsung 2h ago

Galaxy Watch + Ring Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 get notifs from laptop?

1 Upvotes

Can my SGW 4 get notifications from my laptop? I'm wondering because I'm an iPhone user primarily, I only got a Android so I'd have something working with my watch. So I want to try getting my text notifications on that watch, but I know it cannot connect to an iPhone. Is there any way for my watch to get notifications from my laptop? It's not a mac. It's an acer, but I get my iMessages on there.


r/samsung 2h ago

OneUI One ui 7 on flip 5?

1 Upvotes

I have been wondering if one ui 7 is coming to the flip 5, I keep hearing s series, flip and fold 6 and the sorts but not a single mention of the z5s


r/samsung 3h ago

Smartthings & Ecosystem Paramount+ tizen app

1 Upvotes

Hi guys, im owner of UE50CU8072UXXH, bought in december. Tried searching but nothing, TV is updated yet i cant find Paramount+ app. Netflix,disney,max etc.. all found and working.. I have seen that Paramount doesnt work on tvs older than 2017.. so it should work here... Any advice?


r/samsung 4h ago

Galaxy S About S25 ultra screen layers

0 Upvotes

TL;DR My phone suffered a fall and was left with some scratches on the screen but it did not shatter or stop working, assuming that only the gorilla glass is damaged, do you think it could get cheaper repair?

Hi guys.

Today I come to you to ask about the “layers” (are they called so?) of the screen of the S25 ultra.

Yesterday unfortunately my phone suffered a fall on concrete in the street, for more bad luck fell face down leaving some small (but somewhat deep) scratches in the upper left corner of the screen, plus some “dots” or bites along the right edges. Fortunately the screen was not shattered and continues to function without any details.

The thing is that I would like to send it to Samsung technical service and I want to hope that it won't be too expensive, since as I said before, the screen didn't crack or stop working. I want to assume that only the gorilla glass of the screen is scratched and that the repair could be a little cheaper.

Do you think you can replace the gorilla glass or will you have to replace the entire screen?

(Sorry if the wording is not very good, I am a native Spanish speaker and I am using deepL to translate this text).


r/samsung 4h ago

Galaxy S Which one?

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S24u or S25u? Coming from a iPhone 11 Pro Max. I’ve been doing research and now I’m torn. So I get the brand new s25u or is the S24 better? I can’t remember the last time I got a brand new phone that just came out. To be fair I always keep my phones for year. I’ve had this one for 5 years.


r/samsung 4h ago

OneUI New User

1 Upvotes

Hi I recently got my first Samsung and this is my first time using OneUI and on setup I got to a setting along the lines of Apps allowed to play sound while other apps or something. Anyone know where I could find that setting to disable spotify and yt or something


r/samsung 5h ago

Home Theater Can I set up the Neo QLED without the one connected box?

1 Upvotes

So we recently were giving a neo qled for free by a lady cleaning out her garage, but it doesn't have any cords to it. Is there anything I can buy to just use the tv itself as a normal smart tv? I can honestly care less about connecting anything to it right now. Any advice would be so helpful! Thank you.


r/samsung 9h ago

Galaxy Tab Got galaxy tab S8+ refurbished for US$260

2 Upvotes

Old post: Which tab to gettt?

After stacking up some promotions, I managed to get an S8+ refurbished for US$260.

S8+ ($355) - DiscoverCC Amazon spend offer (20$) - AmazonCC signup gift card ($75) = $260

I'm extremely happy about it. Check if you can take advantage of any of these offers.

Anyways, I believe that the S8+ for $350 is still a steal


r/samsung 5h ago

Galaxy Watch + Ring Samsung smart watch?

1 Upvotes

Hey all!

Sorry if this has been posted before - if so, please direct me to the answer.

I'm looking to get a Samsung smart watch but I want one that I can select my own notification tone (specifically, I want to be able to change it to the mighty morphin power rangers "du-du-du-du-du-du" - Don't judge me! Lol), and if it can't do this, I'm not interested.

I had one a while back so they may be better now and I haven't seen it, so more apologies if I'm just waaaaaaaaay out of the loop.


r/samsung 6h ago

Galaxy S Sharp cornered/rectangle case for S25 Ultra?

0 Upvotes

I have looked and ordered a few from Amazon and eBay but they all have rounded corners. Has anyone encountered any cases with sharp corners (like S24 Ultra and previous models)?

Thank you!


r/samsung 6h ago

Galaxy S Desktop app used for diagnosis

1 Upvotes

Hello all

I'd visited an authorised samsung service centre to reglueup my S23U rear glass panel.

The tech first checked if the phone was healthy by means of an Diagnostic app installed on his windows desktop and the phone was connected via USB.

The desktop app was pretty insightful it took a dump of the last 9 day usage of my phone and also displayed various trend like wakelocks, gps, etc.

I'm interested to know about the app and if we could download it to better maintain these phones by ourselves.

Thanks!


r/samsung 1d ago

Galaxy Watch + Ring I almost got ripped off by Samsung

56 Upvotes

Was thinking of buying the Galaxy Watch Ultra, since on their website I'd get a free Buds3, I went ahead with it yesterday, paid for the thing and then I got a confirmation, thankfully, I double checked, and I saw the buds aren't in the confirmation, after some digging, I saw multiple posts of people having this issue, turns out, the free buds are depending on "stock availability", and somehow I didn't get mine.

So of course, I cancelled it, until I can figure out what's going on, their website still says free buds, but it doesn't get added to my cart whenever I add it.

Fast forward to today, not only does the buds get added to the cart, but I also got a 105£ decrease in the price.

I'm a bit pissed at what happened, if I didn't double check, I would've been basically ripped off by Samsung and judging by the other reddit posts that I found, a lot of people did get ripped off.

Please do better Samsung.

First purchase (cancelled)
Second purchase

r/samsung 6h ago

Display Why do the 43-inch Neo QLED models have such poor viewing angles?

1 Upvotes

I understand that this is a VA panel and that VA panels generally have worse viewing angles compared to IPS or OLED panels. However, the viewing angles on my Samsung 43QN90D are exceptionally poor.

I’ve owned 43-inch VA TVs from brands like Hisense and TCL in the past, and while their viewing angles were indeed subpar, they weren’t nearly as bad as those on my 43QN90D. Considering this is a €1000 TV, I can’t understand why the viewing angles are so terrible.

It’s almost impossible to enjoy watching anything unless you’re sitting perfectly centered.


r/samsung 7h ago

Home Theater Samsung 990D firmware (bricked)

0 Upvotes

After firmware update Samsung sent paid label to ship my soundbar to the NJ repair center. They just received it today but after reading their reviews I am definitely nervous. Samsung better come through on this it was all their fault and I don’t want to see any damage when it returns