Im Having Same Apps and Setting Of My Note5 On My Mate 8 , For My Own Experience Mate 8 Is Better And Smooth Than My Note5 , Data Loading And Network Signal Its Better Than My Note5..

for Note5 , Im Facing Slow Process , Lag on Lock Screen sometime ( screen black out , all button not function , need to reboot) , Lag Suddenly in Standby mode Till Battery Empty and make me miss my alarm to wake myself up to work , Lag With a Long duration sound of 'Beep' and screen black out and all the button not function till i force to reboot it..

Your Note5 confirm somewhere not right. Note5 never ever got such issue and never ever have fake hang issue before. Fake hang do occurred in S6 Edge before but never appear in Note5.

I use Note5 since launch and I never face a single hang issue and never need to force restart. Also never seen people mention before.

S7 Edge I am using now do hang few times and it is common issue and I won't deny it but not the Note5.

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Apr 12 2016, 01:49 AM

Better wait for p9 plus.but price damm expensive

P9 Plus coming

See ur forum and we will know why. Maybe u are just one of the S-sheep that will defend Samsung to death when someone comment something bad about Samsung.

If expensive then no point bro. Might as well i het s7 edge.

Would having a sd card inserted affect battery?

Can relock bootloader? Or got counter?

Relocking bootloader is easy but you must factory reset phone first
Just a simple command : fastboot oem relock xxx...xxx ( where xx..xxx) is your unlock code
Warning : you will get a nasty warning message of phone being insecure during bootup if you had unlock bootloader. Such warning had been so since Marshmallow ( see it too on Nexus6)
This is not Samsung phone n no such counter displayed with bl unlock or rooted done

About the warning, are they persist or interrupt user experience? Can it be disable?

The warning will always appear each time you reboot the phone. Non experienced users will get frightened by the warning!! Unlocking bootloader will not affect the phone in any way unlike say Sony ( the only brand I knows of it affect the phone graphics performance). You unlock BL only if you wish to root the phone
It CANNOT be disabled unless you lock back the bootloader

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 12 2016, 08:39 AM

The Mate8 battery life is already so good that any effect of ext SDcard if there are will be so minimal that no normal user can even detect it !! Seriously my answer is no idea how ext Sdcard will affect the battery life

Just wonder, to all the owner... Do you snap your photo in 4:3 or 16:9?

Thanks, I mean if the warning always appear on notification bar, or only during start up?
Well either way, should be no issue. I hope with root, this warning can be disable

This WARNING I said again CANNOT be disabled at all even with root. It is part and parcel of Marshmallow firmware.
Unless some guy could do it first on MM on Nexus6 first?
It ONLY appears during bootup before you see the HW splash logo

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 12 2016, 11:46 AM

4:3 if you choose 16M or 8MP. 16:9 if you choose 12M or 6MP
I always choose 16MP ( 4:3)

I juz telling the truth.anyway that is not my forum.it is lowyat forum.maybe u need learn how to use a smartphone

This post has been edited by samsungXP: Apr 12 2016, 11:11 AM

Is the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch compatible with the Mate8? Phone is still new and I could only see Mate7 in their supported list
I will go to Samsung center one of these days to test it out

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 12 2016, 12:00 PM

Chill. Samsung is one of predecessor in smart phone and many catching up. Cheers

nowdays ppl very strange.come out new phone then say very smooth,no lag,fast,camera nice....after using few month then complain not good,lag and so on.new things always good

This post has been edited by samsungXP: Apr 12 2016, 01:28 PM