Samsung Galaxy A12
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- Sprite
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- 29 Jan 2024
Brendaleesha, 24 Jan 202410 minutes into my Netflix show the phone shuts off and tel... moreBrightness too high? I've used a phone with p35 and it was hot as hell just from scrolling
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- who cares
- gJt
- 29 Jan 2024
Brendaleesha, 24 Jan 202410 minutes into my Netflix show the phone shuts off and tel... moreThere's a chance your screen brightness is too high.
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- Brendaleesha
- myE
- 24 Jan 2024
10 minutes into my Netflix show the phone shuts off and tells me it’s overheated! No other apps were open, only Netflix. Camera quality is utter shite unless you have really good lighting, slightly dark scenery and you’re done for. I switched to apple just because of this phone and let me tell you I’m never coming back! This phone has no image-stabilisation so unless you have a tri pod or something to put your phone on, your pictures/videos will be awfully shaky. I tried playing Roblox Piggy with my daughter but it kept crashing and freezing, it was unplayable! My daughter’s experience was buttery smooth and she plays on an iPhone 6s. For some reason this phone has so many problems with connecting to WiFi and mobile service so don’t have an emergency with this phone. When you use flash to take photos, the flash interferes with the cameras resulting in a white blurry blob. The microphone is incredibly bad, you quite literally have to shout for it to pick your voice up, super embarrassing when you’re in public! The buttons are really cheaply made, my power button got stuck in the phone multiple times so i had to pull it out with tweezers. Volume down button fell out 3 months in I got the phone and i’ve lost it so i have to dig my nail in there if i want to decrease volume. Also, if you shake/hit the phone it’ll shut down because the internals are loosely fitted and poorly made.The OS is horrifically laggy and the slowest thing to man kind, opened Tiktok and I managed to do 11 star jumps before it loaded.
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- Thomas
- myE
- 24 Jan 2024
Had this phone for 5 months now, constant freezes and crashes happen every day! Opening Tiktok takes a good 20 seconds. Slow as hell, can’t even handle a simple game like Roblox without it lagging/crashing. Pressing the power button to turn on the device takes 5 seconds for the screen to actually turn on, it’s so slow. It’s obsolete in this modern day and age. I highly discourage getting this phone, please get a more recent one with a better chip as all you’ll be doing all day is waiting for apps to load.
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- Merrill
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- 23 Jan 2024
Does this model has the facility to record calls? If so how can I do it?
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- Anonymous
- CDu
- 09 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2024Did anyone update to the android 13? Should I update or not?Mine works on Android13 perfectly
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- Anonymous
- CDu
- 09 Jan 2024
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2024Why does my a12 never allows me to watch a movie, or play g... moreNever happened to me before. Maybe you broke yours?
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- Anonymous
- r3b
- 09 Jan 2024
Why does my a12 never allows me to watch a movie, or play games,whenever i start using it to watch something,a notification appears sayin phone is overheating and then it shuts down all the app i am using at the time
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- Anonymous
- nbX
- 08 Jan 2024
Did anyone update to the android 13? Should I update or not?
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- Ian
- 3Dt
- 04 Jan 2024
Karen, 01 Jan 2024I've had my phone for almost three years...to make a p... moreMy A12 started to fail at 18 months. Call and data dont work at all or very intermittently and unreliably. Nota network issue. Tried 5 factory resets, safe mode.loads of sim swaps. It is definitely the phone that's faulty. Sent to Samsung 3 times over 2 months and it's got worse if that's possible! They claim they've fixed it as their engineers say so and therefore it's now out of warranty so I can send it in a 4th time but they'll bill me and it still won't work! Never touch Samsung again. Complaints department and customer service are a very sick joke. I've been polite and cooperative all through maybe ranting would work but I doubt it.
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- Karen
- Iig
- 01 Jan 2024
I've had my phone for almost three years...to make a phone call either using phone or through Bluetooth is almost impossible. I keep getting PRIVATE MODE...I'M NOT CONNECTED TO A SERVICE and that is sitting right under a cell tower. I have reset this phone so many times it is ridiculous. I dread if I have an emergency and cannot contact anyone. I do have Tracfone service, but this phone just will not pickup a signal even on an interstate highway...not good. Guessing I just need to ditch this one and go back to my LG phone...no problem with LG.
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- Bladee
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- 16 Dec 2023
Uh so bad ive had this phone for 3 years and it ran very bad it couldnt even turn on quick it took 5 seconds to make it run and the apps never worked only apk overall this phone is a 3/10 samsung galaxy a 54 is the phone i used recently and it is alot better
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- 09 Dec 2023
Anonymous, 29 Nov 2023Why isn't the A12 available as a new purchase anymore?... moreThere's Nokia G42 with 5G support and significantly better build quality with the same design
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- Monam
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- 08 Dec 2023
Overall good phone but too much adds on this model is much irritating even if I'm using WhatsApp or any other app add will disturb me continuously 😔
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- Anonymous
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- 29 Nov 2023
Why isn't the A12 available as a new purchase anymore? I wanted to buy a 2nd one! Why don't they improve the hardware interior, introduce 5G support, improve the camera and screen but keep the shape, the back and the overall design and release it as the A15 5G?
It would certainly sell better than the crappy and ugly A13 and the A14/A14 5G.
And hope they reintroduce the amazing Teal blue color as shown here!
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- Gasman
- mxt
- 20 Nov 2023
I liked the phone, still have it in fact, but was not aware it was 2.4GHZ wifi only, so miss many networks.
I bought it is it had the dual sim PLUS a memory card slot, so now I have all my music on a 256GB card in it.
Bought mainly as an mp3 player as large capacity mp3 players do not seem to exist anymore, you are meant to stream. :-(
Also use it for email, Excel for my trips as a community driver, so using it more and more.
Not a bad phone for the price IMHO
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- Me again
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- 17 Nov 2023
My last Samsung, 03 Jun 2023Not a bad phone but the camera is terrible, makes people lo... moreI still think uts screen is a bit washed out (definitely worse than on my newest the A14 5G). And the camera, too. But: As a phone and for browsing the Internet the A12 is much better than the A14 5G! It sees and connects to many WiFi networks that the A14 struggles to connect to. I was on a vacation and the A14 constantly couldn't discover WiFi networks or would refuse to connect. I wish I took my A12 when abroad. The A14 is also too thick, the A12 has a better size.
I hole the A15 (?) brings back the WiFi stability of the A12 as well as the beautiful greenish blue color but has a good camera and screen like the A14 5G.
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- Better WiFi than A14
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- 16 Nov 2023
I also have the Galaxy A14 5G. Compared to it the A12 has:
- a worse screen - the A14 judt has more vivid colors
- better Internet experience, yes the A12 is better than the A14 5G when it comes to WiFi.
- The A14 has more lag, many websites appear glitchy on Chrome whereas I have no such problems on the A12.
- the A14 sometimes can't connect to some wifi networks whereas the A12 can. The A14 doesn't even "see" certain WiFi connections, while the A12 sees and connects to them no problems.
- both have so so cameras, the A14 one is slightly better though.
If the A12 had the screen & camera of the A14 5G it would be perfect. I'm downgrading back to the A12 from the A14 5G soon!
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- Anonymous
- I@H
- 15 Nov 2023
Olyray, 09 Nov 2023Big lie,for me this model is ok it's just the way you ... moreMaybe it was bad for him. It was a miracle that they did not put 2gb ram here like on 2021 Samsung tablets lol. And that it still managed to run with 4gb ram. And the lockscreen displays ads during charging. Something a regular user like my mom will never be able to figure out how to turn off. Lockscreen ads, on an Amoled screen.
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- Olyray
- X5u
- 09 Nov 2023
The phone is ok for a budget.