Samsung Galaxy S6
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- DiBi
- gDF
- 26 Mar 2025
I had it for around 3 years and its probably the phone with the worst battery I ever had in these 10+ years using Samsung.. I don't know if it was just my phone but the battery didn't last for 5 hours..
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- TechNerd22
- DbD
- 26 Mar 2025
this phone was garbage, even for its time, it overheated, was fragile, no microsd slot, and ran slow as hell even on the stock firmware, it really was just a publicly released s7 prototype.
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- Anonymous
- UUJ
- 22 Mar 2025
I have been my s6 since 8 years or a bit over 8 years.it was a great experience but recently with old age it's a bit slow and battery life but it's fine .
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- Jmmy
- 0cb
- 10 Mar 2025
The galaxy s6 has a built in infared port as well. Thats the reason i owned one
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- Anonymous
- uFn
- 03 Mar 2025
This page needs to be edited, the Galaxy S6's final update was Android 7.0 not 8.0
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- Gloryboi Siddiq
- fuv
- 10 Feb 2025
Very low spec but it lcd too expensive
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- Tedi
- nuD
- 29 Jan 2025
My mom had a galaxy s6 with android 7.0, but later mom now gave it to me like as a gift
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- Anonymous
- ke5
- 23 Jan 2025
giuseppe, 10 Jan 2025My main phone (Redmi Note 11) died, i was using an Alcatel ... moreit should be usable for like a year or two but android 7 support is starting to dwindle plus a lot of apps aren't optimized well enough for older android versions, especially ones with custom skins on top of the existing os
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- Anonymous
- 0}d
- 20 Jan 2025
With the Android 6.0 update, the camera launching while power saving mode is on slowed down significantly. They made that camera app for Android 5.0 and apparently didn't optimize it properly for 6.0.
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- giuseppe
- dWN
- 10 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 07 Nov 2024As of 2024 that's still quite a good phone, oddly. Eve... moreMy main phone (Redmi Note 11) died, i was using an Alcatel 1X (2018) until i found my old S6, is still usable in 2025?
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- anonymous
- FVb
- 08 Jan 2025
has a issue with the screen popping off
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- qnc
- 30 Nov 2024
Anonymous, 07 Nov 2024As of 2024 that's still quite a good phone, oddly. Eve... morewhat borders
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- Anonymous
- Jg@
- 07 Nov 2024
As of 2024 that's still quite a good phone, oddly. Even thought the borders are creeping me up.
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- Anonymous
- mFd
- 05 Nov 2024
Stoon, 22 Sep 2024if you have TWRP installed, delete : /data/system/lockse... moreSpecial.but no memory card slot
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- Stoon
- fwK
- 22 Sep 2024
cliff, 08 Feb 2024Am still using it. Have one problem I set a password and lo... moreif you have TWRP installed, delete :
/data/system/locksettings.db
&
/data/misc/keystore
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- samsung is good
- pdt
- 11 Sep 2024
stay on android 7.0 or upgrade to 8.0
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- Anonymous
- xEq
- 14 Aug 2024
Anonymous, 29 Mar 2023You missed the point completely. The essentials that Samsun... moreyou made an error in your post, referring to the microSD card as non-critical. you see, this is, and even at the time of this phone, was a critical feature for me :)
(indeed, i no longer purchase flagships because of this)
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- Anonymous
- n67
- 04 Aug 2024
Specification sheets should not just mention the charging speed, but also the charging speed while the screen is on. This is important to know.
On the keynote of the S6 in 2015, the presenter Justin Denison said that he needs fast charging to be able to charge faster at the airport lounge. Unfortunately, the S6 (and several successors thereof) slow down charging to 6 watts while the screen is on, so charging is only fast in stand-by mode or while powered off.
In other words, Justin Denison can't read his emails while charging at the airport.
It took Samsung years to realize that slowing down charging while the screen is on is not a good idea. The more recent Samsungs thankfully maintain the full charging speed while the screen is on. If Samsung's intention was to prevent overheating, how come it even slows down charging when turning on the screen when the battery is cold? Doesn't make sense. This was one of the greatest annoyances back then.
Also, thankfully new smartphones are thicker to house a larger battery. This thin design trend from the mid-2010s was a very bad idea. Smartphone vendors know better now.
Also, flash is disabled under 15% of battery charge because the battery is too weak to power the flash. But wouldn't it make more sense if it only limited the brightness of the flash rather than completely disabling it?
If the battery has enough power for full-brightness flashlight at 16% charge, it should still have enough power for slightly less brightness at 15%.
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- Anonymous
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- 21 Jun 2024
Remember the short-term thinking people who said "120fps video recording is unnecessary because screens only have 60 Hz"?
Now that 120 Hz screens are arriving even at entry-level smartphones, those 720p120fps videos recorded on the S6 can be enjoyed as real-time.
Too bad new Samsung phones do not encode slow-motion videos in real-time anymore. Samsung introduced real-time encoding on the S6 (file has same frame rate as was actually recorded), but later changed back to the inferior method of slowing down the video file, which is both bad for video editing and does not allow playback in real-time with sound.
While the S6 had many disappointing feature removals, at least real-time encoding of 120fps videos + audio track was a welcome improvement.
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- Anonymous
- PEq
- 19 Jun 2024
Anonymous, 17 Jun 2024Is this phone worth $7 in 2024? It's got a high res sc... moreIf you are taking it as a collection, then yes, but if you are gonna use it for main device, well i suggest you to get Samsung Galaxy S9.