Software Update Samsung S9 Plus

[Marine Farinha]

Doesanyone - ANYONE - know how to completely remove TV plus from the TV? Is it even possible?

Since the first of the year (approx) TV plus has been erratic, sporadic, non-existent and it is driving my wife and I crazy. Sometime channels come in, sometimes not - mostly not. We tune to a channel and hold our breath. Sometimes hitting the info button and the "watch now" button works - sometime not. We watch a channel but switch to another channel for some reason and when we switch back (after even just 30 seconds), the original channel is blank and won't come in.

I don't know what Samsung did to TV Plus but it is RUINED and not worth the MANY minutes fussing about TRYING to get a channel to work - - and certainly not worth the aggrevation.

ANYONE - ANYONE -how do you completely remove TV Plus from the TV?

Samsung auto switches my TV to TV Plus once a week, even though I don't want to watch TV Plus. And it always says that I don't have internet access, even though I do. In fact I pay extra to my cable company to have one of their fastest speeds, And the TV used the same internet access to update the firmware without any issues. Why is that?

Today I watch TV for a while . Turned the TV off, but left the cable box on. Later I came back and turned on the TV and it had switched to TV Plus. I reached for the remote to switch the HDMI back to the cable box, but before I could the TV put up a screen that said I had no internet access (even though I do have internet access!). And then I couldn't switch the HDMI because Samsung was trying to endlessly connect to TV Plus. I shut off the TV and turned it back on, but then I only had a blank black screen. And none of the buttons on the remote would work. I even bought a universal remote because I thought the original was faulty because of this same thing happening week after week, but no, no, no, neither remote would work. They would not even shut off the TV. Even tried the toggle on the back. No dice. Had to unplug the TV. I had to unplug it and plug back in 6 times, before I finally got a screen where I could change the HDMI back to the cable box.

This same ordeal happens once every week because Samsung thinks it's good idea to try to get me to watch TV Plus even though I have no interest in watching this service. And in fact, I won't ever watch it after the heavy handed way Samsung has tried to shove this service down my throat.

Samsung needs to fix their firmware so that the TV does not try to auto switch the TV to TY Plus once a week. (Every time the above problem occurs, the TV has switched to TV Plus, so I know that is what is happening.) If indeed, it thinks there is no internet access, then it should just abort trying to connect instead of going into some endless loop where the TV is unusable.)

I have already updated the firmware (using the internet that doesn't work). I have reset the internet connection and even updated Samsung tv plus (all using the internet that doesn't work.) Seems to me it's Samsung's faulty firmware that doesn't work.

Please fix the firmware so it doesn't auto switch to TV Plus anymore. I remind you that I bought and paid for this TV and it is I who gets to decide what I and watch and when. Stop trying to switch me to TV Plus!

I need samsung tv plus as an app to add to my roku. Live tv on roku has same channels, but samsung tv plus has all of them closed captioned, only some on roku Live tv are caption and yes I do have my roku tv set to have captioning on always. Please offer this or simply have captioning added to all the channels listed on your live tv.

To the Roku Community Moderator: What I understand, given your answer to Rey is that Roku is waiting on Samsung to perform whatever tasks are necessary to facilitate the availability and accessibility of Samsung TV Plus via Roku. Therefore, I intend to contact Samsung and, fingers crossed, they don't kick me back to you, and I start feeling like a dog chasing its tail.

Artificial intelligence apparently thinks that's a normal sentence to say. My friend and I were speaking over the phone, testing Samsung's new real-time call translation feature on the Galaxy S24. He asked me in Korean whether I had eaten dinner. Alas, the AI thought cancer was on the menu instead.

These AI tricks, powered by Google's Gemini artificial intelligence model, are the key new features on Samsung's latest trio of Android phones: the Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra. They're fantastic handsets all around, but while some of the new smarts they've gained are helpful, they need more polish. There's still plenty of room to catch up to Google's Pixel phones.

The S24 and S24+ are nearly identical, outside of battery size, RAM, and base storage capacity. (The 6.7-inch S24+ starts at 256 GB and 12 GB of RAM instead of 128 GB and 8 GB). The S24 Ultra is the only one with the S Pen stylus, which is housed inside and accessible from the bottom edge. The cameras are also different, but I'll get to that further below. The Ultra's frame is made out of titanium, which is lighter and more durable than aluminum, and the glass protecting the display is tougher than what you'll find on the other two.

Battery life across the board is easily more than a day on all three of these devices with average use, but even with heavier usage, you'll likely be able to finish the day with some juice left over. (Overall, you'll see better battery life on the S24+ and Ultra.) The 5,000-mAh cell in the S24 Ultra left me with 32 percent after six hours of screen-on time (SOT), the 4,900-mAh cell in the S24+ had 24 percent left with seven hours of SOT, and the S24 had 16 percent remaining after six hours of SOT. They're all quite respectable numbers.

It's a shame Samsung wasn't able to add Qi2 support on these devices. Yes, Qi wireless charging is available like before, but the new Qi2 charging standard would have enabled a MagSafe-like system on the back of these phones, allowing you to take advantage of a great ecosystem of magnetic accessories. Ah well, next year. For now, maybe use a MagSafe case instead.

Speaking of support, Samsung will keep the software on these phones updated for seven years, which is a big leap from before. This now matches what Google is offering on its Pixel 8 series, and is some of the longest software support you'll find on a smartphone. Time will tell how this plays out and whether Samsung stays true to its promises, but it's fantastic news for anyone who prefers to hold on to their devices for a long time.

I highly recommend muting the other person's (and your) voice in the phone app's settings when you have this translation feature enabled, because things can quickly get confusing. The AI often starts reading out the translated text, but the other person on the line might not realize it, and they'll start speaking again. My friend, who spoke to me in Korean, says it's about 65 percent accurate (see the whole eating cancer thing). The translations are akin to results you'd get from Google Translate and don't quite capture the intent of the message. Still, he says the transcriptions that appear on the screen are better, and it was cool to have a somewhat functional conversation in Korean. I think most people will be able to use it to get by if they need to make such a call when traveling abroad.

I typically use Google's Recorder app for all of my interviews, thanks to its excellent real-time transcriptions, so it's nice to see this functionality on Samsung's default recorder app. It works similarly well when I used it during a briefing and also includes speaker labels, though these aren't always perfect. I also took notes in the same meeting with Samsung's Notes app, and I appreciate being able to use AI to format my garbled words into a nice-looking page with proper formatting and bullet points.

While these features are smart, using the phone over the past two weeks has made me miss some of the smart features on Google's Pixel phones. For example, I've received an endless amount of spam calls, even with Samsung's spam protection turned on. PSE&G keeps calling me to say that they'll shut down my utilities in 45 minutes if I don't make a payment, but after four days of calling, you'd think I'd be typing in darkness right now. I rarely get spam or robocalls when I use a Pixel thanks to Call Screen.

It wouldn't be a smartphone review if I didn't spend a bit of time on the cameras. The S24 and S24+ share the same camera system, with a 50-MP primary sensor joined by a 12-MP ultrawide and a 10-MP telephoto offering 3X optical zoom. The S24 Ultra adds an extra 5X optical zoom camera and switches out the main camera for a 200-MP sensor. Long story short, whether you have the S24 or S24 Ultra, you're getting a versatile and reliable set of cameras.

Samsung swapped the 10X optical zoom for a 5X optical zoom on the S24 Ultra, and I don't like the change. Sure, the sharpness is relatively close when you use the 10X digital zoom on the S24 Ultra, but things are still a bit fuzzier. Colors, contrast, and white balance were all a bit off, compared to the same results from the S23 Ultra. It was super unique to have such a high zoom level, especially when you still have 3X optical zoom. Too bad. Thankfully, the 5X is still a nice option to have, and its results are usually sharper than that of 5X zoom on the Google Pixel 8 Pro. As usual, Samsung tends to pump up the colors a bit.

I prefer the quality of the Pixel 8 Pro's ultrawide over the ultrawide on the S24 series; it has sharper details and colors are more natural with better white balance. The 3X zoom seems to be sharper on the S24 series over its predecessors by a hair, and these are still some of the best selfie cameras on a smartphone.

Video performance, as usual, is excellent, but my favorite new feature is Instant Slow-Mo. In the Gallery app, just press and hold any video to instantly turn part of it into slow motion. As someone who routinely forgets that slow-mo is a feature on the camera, this lets you apply it with any clip as it generates new frames in between real frames to make the footage appear smooth. The quality is not going to be nearly as good if you had actually shot in slow-mo, but it's good enough for social videos for when you inevitably forget to film in that mode.

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