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Is there a flash that's clean of bloatware for the note?
I know there's no root for the N5 and I learned about the flashing idea from the S8 forum here at xda. The person wrote to flash unlocked. Verizon says that all their 4g phones are unlocked. How do flash unlocked?
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Can anyone comment on this positivity or negatively.?
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pbman1953 said:
Can anyone comment on this positivity or negatively.?
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There is no bloatware free firmware that you can flash. When Verizon says unlocked by that they mean the sim card slots unlocked so you can use it with any carrier you choose.. You cannot flash nothing to the N5 with the locked bootloader.
I really appreciate you chiming in. I guess a bloatware free flash is wishful thinking. At this point and since my upgrade is in November I've given up hope on any chance of a root for the note5. And almost don't care anymore. My next phone may be the s8 or s8+. So far I don't see any review on the Note 8 that's swaying me towards another note. I'm almost thinking 7s iPhone series but probably won't.
Do you know if the Verizon s8 series has root?
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I really appreciate you chiming in. I guess a bloatware free flash is wishful thinking. At this point and since my upgrade is in November I've given up hope on any chance of a root for the note5. And almost don't care anymore. My next phone may be the s8 or s8+. So far I don't see any review on the Note 8 that's swaying me towards another note. I'm almost thinking 7s iPhone series but probably won't.
Do you know if the Verizon s8 series has root?
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I have the Verizon S8+ and yes it has root access!! I also just received my new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and I'm messing with it testing the battery VS the S8+ because the Note 8 is 3,300 and the S8+ is 3,500 but the funny thing is the Note 8 lasted longer and I had them both doing the same exact thing brightness was 100% on both and both were playing a YouTube video and the first one to shut off was the S8+ so I was a bit shocked but then again the Note 8 has more ram and the firmware was perfected just for the Note 8 and battery longevity, so I'm going to keep the Note 8 for now.
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I have the Verizon S8+ and yes it has root access!! I also just received my new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and I'm messing with it testing the battery VS the S8+ because the Note 8 is 3,300 and the S8+ is 3,500 but the funny thing is the Note 8 lasted longer and I had them both doing the same exact thing brightness was 100% on both and both were playing a YouTube video and the first one to shut off was the S8+ so I was a bit shocked but then again the Note 8 has more ram and the firmware was perfected just for the Note 8 and battery longevity, so I'm going to keep the Note 8 for now.
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Nice!! Well, I'm still leaning to a the S8 but I'll still see what the Pixel 2 is like. I like the thought of being bloat free. But with a rooted s8 or plus that could be a wash in favor for Samsung.
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so this means you cannot flash an unlocked firmware on the N5, like you can on the S8+, to remove Verizon's bloatware and stuff?
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Will update this OP as needed.
4/26/2018- There are TWO people working on root. Don't expect it ANYTIME soon. ?. Zero progress has been made since release.
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This is the single most 'thing' I'm waiting for...is a root method for the S9+ ... I wouldn't mind something like samfail for the Note 8, which I'm running and is absolutely perfect in doing everything it needs to...
I used to be all about ROM ROM ROM ... but honestly the stock firmware has been great with it debloated and cleaned up.
Hoping for the best... If we get Root for the S9+ (SD variant) I'm in for another S9+ lol...
Note: As some of you know like with the Note 8, there exists the v1, v2, v2.5, v3 root methods for the different firmware. What I'm curious about is at what point will we be completely locked out of our S9+'s due to those virus updates/patches?
Tip: DO NO BLINDLY JUMP TO UPDATES FOLKS... NEIN NEIN NEIN.... If you roll up too far and that virus update/patch so happens to be the one to lock the device out from ever being able to obtain some kind of root, you'll be totally SOL.
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This is the single most 'thing' I'm waiting for...is a root for the S9+ ... I wouldn't mind something like samfail for the Note 8, which I'm running and is absolutely perfect in doing everything it needs to...
I used to be all about ROM ROM ROM ... but honestly the stock firmware has been great with it debloated and cleaned up.
Hoping for the best... If we get Root for the S9+ (SD variant) I'm in for another S9+ lol...
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Stock has come a long way.
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Stock has come a long way.
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Yes indeed it has. MM 6.0 was great...Nougat 7.0 has been awesome....Oreo 8.0 has been a complete disaster like LP 5.0 was.
I still favor the simplicity of the good ol' JB 4.3 days lol....
At the end of the day, I'll take root over a custom ROM any day and I'm sure a lot of folks are in that same boat as well...
Not being able to use Titanium Back Up has been painful. :fingers-crossed: for root for the S9+
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Yes indeed it has. MM 6.0 was great...Nougat 7.0 has been awesome....Oreo 8.0 has been a complete disaster like LP 5.0 was.
I still favor the simplicity of the good ol' JB 4.3 days lol....
At the end of the day, I'll take root over a custom ROM any day and I'm sure a lot of folks are in that same boat as well...
Not being able to use Titanium Back Up has been painful. :fingers-crossed: for root for the S9+
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What's the problem with 8.0? It hasn't even been fully released on all devices yet.
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What's the problem with 8.0? It hasn't even been fully released on all devices yet.
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For the apps that I use, it's mainly compatibility issues...also as time goes on things are getting more and more locked down. Heck Android P might as well rename it to Android iOS. It's absolutely daunting on where Android is headed now.... it is drunk on the Apple kool aid.
What happened to asop and the freedom right?
I'm very happy with 8.0
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For the apps that I use, it's mainly compatibility issues...also as time goes on things are getting more and more locked down. Heck Android P might as well rename it to Android iOS. It's absolutely daunting on where Android is headed now.... it is drunk on the Apple kool aid.
What happened to asop and the freedom right?
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The reason why it's become so bad, my opinion anyway, is people who have no business rooting their phones are doing it and wrecking their phones, then wanting someone else to foot the bill for it.
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The reason why it's become so bad, my opinion anyway, is people who have no business rooting their phones are doing it and wrecking their phones, then wanting someone else to foot the bill for it.
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That could very well add to the sky falling.
However, a lot of this proprietary security stuff is causing the lock down too with Knox etc...
They should just offer the ability to unlock bl/BB and have a button that needs be to tapped 10x to confirm the void in warranty by proceeding... That way it's idiot proof and fair game.
If people are too lazy to read, then they deserve to pay the tuition of reality check 101 lol..
I know I'm blunt... But it's the truth and most would agree.
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iunlock said:
That could very well add to the sky falling.
However, a lot of this proprietary security stuff is causing the lock down too with Knox etc...
They should just offer the ability to unlock bl/BB and have a button that needs be to tapped 10x to confirm the void in warranty by proceeding... That way it's idiot proof and fair game.
If people are too lazy to read, then they deserve to pay the tuition of reality check 101 lol..
I know I'm blunt... But it's the truth and most would agree.
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Pretty much the way it is in the automotive world. You blow it up, you fix it.
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why someone even bother to buy trash broken snapdragon version, just why ?
we have a normal unlocked working version with exynos chipset.
G965F doesnt support B71 for Tmobile in USA
x111 said:
why someone even bother to buy trash broken snapdragon version, just why ?
we have a normal unlocked working version with exynos chipset.
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Because that is the default device for the North American market.
I'm perfectly happy with my SD version. Good battery life and performance seems to be spectacular.
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why someone even bother to buy trash broken snapdragon version, just why ?
we have a normal unlocked working version with exynos chipset.
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...AND because those with T-Mobile can get land a killer deal on the top Samsung flagships.
Ex. T-Mobile had a BOGO Deal on the Note 8, which makes both of my Note 8's come out to ~$410. If I sell my 2nd one, I would be making +$300 to own my current Note 8 LOL ... just saying... (Pic attached of the $820 pre paid Mastercard for proof that I got back for the 2nd Note 8... not that it's needed, but it doesn't hurt to back it up.) Even if I keep my 2nd Note 8 as a back up, I'm still in the win for obtaining a flagship for less than the wannabe chinese knock off's out there that are no longer really cheap at $450-$500+ now *cough* OP5 ...
The S9/S9+ has a trade in deal right now as well for either $200 or $360, depending on what phone you trade in. So why would I pass up getting $200 for my old S4's and S5's? ...there's no way to get even close to that in today's market.... it's a no brainer.
I do agree that the Exynos variants are much better in terms of CPU and Dev support. A non rooted phone is useless to me, so that is one of the reasons why I even opted for the SD Note 8, ONLY because it has root. As for the S9+ there is a working Titanium Back Up alternative that allows me to freeze the virus software updates so that's the only reason why the S9+ is not going back. We're all hoping for a root for the SD S9+'s.... fingers crossed.
Of course I'd love to get my hands on the 256GB Exynos S9+, however, it is still unsure if it will suffer from the carrier aggregation the Exynos Note 8 had on our US networks. I know that there are a few folks that have ordered the Korean 256GB Exynos variant, so once we get confirmation that those work 100% with TM, I'm all in for another S9+.
So I keep pushing the first update back. Should I go ahead and take it? I'm on Verizon and I know sometimes firmware from release date is easier to root.
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Hopefully the S9 line gets root. The S8 having no proper form of root at the time and the Note 8 being such a good deal while having root made it hard not to get. Hopefully they Note 9 has a form of Samfail again.
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So I keep pushing the first update back. Should I go ahead and take it? I'm on Verizon and I know sometimes firmware from release date is easier to root.
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I'm wondering the same thing. Please.
Dude, after the s5, all of my knowledge on rooting etc has gone in the crapper.
I have the unlocked us variant but am on Verizon's network.
As ll the talk regarding the s8+ was even so hard for me to understand and all this used to be so easy. Where did I take a wrong turn? Lol
Doesn't look good guys. Seems like zero development is going on for us Snapdragon users. I've asked and looked in every message board. Seems it's only me and 2 other people working on root.
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Doesn't look good guys. Seems like zero development is going on for us Snapdragon users. I've asked and looked in every message board. Seems it's only me and 2 other people working on root.
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Noooooooo! I don't even know where to begin to help.
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Please don’t delete this topic it’s fair warning!
I hate to be right sometimes but as I told long ago after years of testing it turns out that the best camera of Samsung was in S6 / S6Edge+. Test it yourself. Hold S6 in one hand and for example S8 in the other and take a photo in good light. Then zoom it on the phone and you will see that S6 has better details, no artificial brightener while for example S8 has it.
S6 has 16 Mpix and all flagships that came after had 12 Mpix rear camera.
I’ve tested S6 Edge Plus vs. S7 / S8 / S8+, Note8, S9, S9+ and…
only S9+ finally beat S6. (look how Samsung did bad for us from Sep2015 till March2018)
I wish I had NOT sale my S6 and bought a newer one
If You don't believe me? Ask XDA members who has S6 and a later Galaxy S model (but not S9+)
This is a Warning for You don't sell your S6!!!! or sell only if you can afford to buy S9+.
I did the wrong thing so I Warn you no to make the same mistake that I did
How do I report a post for spam smh.
Of course a camera with 16mp is gonna be sharper, doesn't mean it's gonna be better
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How do I report a post for spam smh.
Of course a camera with 16mp is gonna be sharper, doesn't mean it's gonna be better
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Can You understand what You read.
I wrote that S9+ has better camera then the previous Galaxy S phones
You can dump S6 only if you will buy S9+
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How do I report a post for spam smh.
Of course a camera with 16mp is gonna be sharper, doesn't mean it's gonna be better
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Who needs DxOMark when you have androidbadboy ????
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Who needs DxOMark when you have androidbadboy
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Of course MPix doesnt get the whole thing done when it comes to quality of pics. BTW I never said that!
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How do I report a post for spam smh.
Of course a camera with 16mp is gonna be sharper, doesn't mean it's gonna be better
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Samsung said that all flagships after and including the S10 will get 3 years of Android OS updates. It's a bit unfair for us Note9 and S9 users so I created a petition to Samsung asking them to reconsider adding the S9, S9+ and Note9 to the 3 year major updates support program as well. Here's the link: https://www.change.org/p/samsung-give-android-11-oneui-3-0-to-galaxy-note9-s9-phones
The more people that sign it the better chance we have of Samsung acknowledging it!
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Samsung said that all flagships after and including the S10 will get 3 years of Android OS updates. It's a bit unfair for us Note9 and S9 users so I created a petition to Samsung asking them to reconsider adding the S9, S9+ and Note9 to the 3 year major updates support program as well. Here's the link: https://www.change.org/p/samsung-give-android-11-oneui-3-0-to-galaxy-note9-s9-phones
The more people that sign it the better chance we have of Samsung acknowledging it!
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And are you going to present that petition directly to Samsung?
Plus it only says 100 people as goal... you'll need thousands of signs to make Samsung even consider the idea.
Also in the description it says 4GB RAM. S9's has 6GB of RAM
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And are you going to present that petition directly to Samsung?
Plus it only says 100 people as goal... you'll need thousands of signs to make Samsung even consider the idea.
Also in the description it says 4GB RAM. S9's has 6GB of RAM
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It's my first time doing any petition so I thought the goal would update once the 100 are reached (if at all)
And according to GSMArena the regular S9 has 4GB RAM: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s9-8966.php
I wrote that as that's the minimum RAM of a version from the series.
Edit: So it does auto-update? https://help.change.org/s/article/Changing-your-signature-goal?language=en_US
Can't find a change signatures number option in the Edit menu of the petition nor a place where I set a number when creating a new one.
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It's my first time doing any petition so I thought the goal would update once the 100 are reached (if at all)
And according to GSMArena the regular S9 has 4GB RAM: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s9-8966.php
I wrote that as that's the minimum RAM of a version from the series.
PS: So it does auto-update? https://help.change.org/s/article/Changing-your-signature-goal?language=en_US
Can't find a change signatures number option in the Edit menu of the petition.
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I have no idea, I've never created one.
But my main question is, how are you going to get Samsung's attention to show them how much people have signed it?
You have any important contact inside Samsung with any power on company's decisions?
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I have no idea, I've never created one.
But my main question is, how are you going to get Samsung's attention to show them how much people have signed it?
You have any important contact inside Samsung with any power on company's decisions?
Using S.G.S9+ Duos w/ Tapatalk
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No I just tagged them on change.org
Can post on Samsung Members too but that's about it.
I saw this and thought why not create one for OneUI 3.0 as well.
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No I just tagged them on change.org
Can post on Samsung Members too but that's about it.
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Ahhh... then forget they'll care about... sorry to bring you down.
For things to happen you need someone who really matters inside the company and a way to reach him directly with thousands of signs
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Ahhh... then forget they'll care about... sorry to bring you down.
For things to happen you need someone who really matters inside the company and a way to reach him directly with thousands of signs
Using S.G.S9+ Duos w/ Tapatalk
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I know it's a stretch. Just made the petition as another xda user requested one + it was fun exploring how it works. I'm happy with 2.5 too, all I want is wireless DeX.
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite has the same Exynos processor.
It's just a matter of waiting for Android 11 to be released on the Note 10 and there will be a port of it
Not reading wrong thread
Let's try...
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Samsung said that all flagships after and including the S10 will get 3 years of Android OS updates. It's a bit unfair for us Note9 and S9 users so I created a petition to Samsung asking them to reconsider adding the S9, S9+ and Note9 to the 3 year major updates support program as well. Here's the link: https://www.change.org/p/samsung-give-android-11-oneui-3-0-to-galaxy-note9-s9-phones
The more people that sign it the better chance we have of Samsung acknowledging it!
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i dont think samsung will hear us user's of s9+ since most of other people moved ono and buy new samsung's flahship phone either the s10 s20 and just release s21 line up, or maybe some who opted to use iphone instead. sad to see as thisi is going now where, i have signed the petition as well but all i see is only 2.5k signed.. i dont think thats going to be enough to move samsung's, though to be honest back then i was only using the galaxy note N7000, completely rooted nad apply so many mods, it was fun back then, hence i upgrade to the note 3 N9005, that was when i stopped for a brief to not rooting and modding , just few year back i purchased my s9+ back when the price is still overly priced. this s9+ was good only on my region we couldnt get the snapdragon chipset yet stuck with this poorly ecynos chipsets.. well still runs way better then the n7000 & n9005 i guess
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i dont think samsung will hear us user's of s9+ since most of other people moved ono and buy new samsung's flahship phone either the s10 s20 and just release s21 line up, or maybe some who opted to use iphone instead. sad to see as thisi is going now where, i have signed the petition as well but all i see is only 2.5k signed.. i dont think thats going to be enough to move samsung's, though to be honest back then i was only using the galaxy note N7000, completely rooted nad apply so many mods, it was fun back then, hence i upgrade to the note 3 N9005, that was when i stopped for a brief to not rooting and modding , just few year back i purchased my s9+ back when the price is still overly priced. this s9+ was good only on my region we couldnt get the snapdragon chipset yet stuck with this poorly ecynos chipsets.. well still runs way better then the n7000 & n9005 i guess
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I think a lot of people are moving to the Iphone. Because at least all their phones get updated no matter how old they are.. My wife and daughters use to have Android, but long since moved the Apple Iphone instead.
what i can say after upgrading from s20 ultra..
the best decession i made.
main reason its the all in one pakage i need, plus withbsamsung update i will have this phone surely for 4 years.
so #whyGalaxy , because it meets my need and suits very well.
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what i can say after upgrading from s20 ultra..
the best decession i made.
main reason its the all in one pakage i need, plus withbsamsung update i will have this phone surely for 4 years.
so #whyGalaxy , because it meets my need and suits very well.
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I love mine. No issues to report.
israelien said:
what i can say after upgrading from s20 ultra..
the best decession i made.
main reason its the all in one pakage i need, plus withbsamsung update i will have this phone surely for 4 years.
so #whyGalaxy , because it meets my need and suits very well.
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sure thi phone will last for four yeras, the spec is so high, but of course when ever a new one is released its always more appealling than the last and so four years without upgrading seems a long time, im already waiting for the s23 lol ( i am extremely happy with my s22 ultra though)
same sentiments good thing we are back to snap dragon
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sure thi phone will last for four yeras, the spec is so high, but of course when ever a new one is released its always more appealling than the last and so four years without upgrading seems a long time, im already waiting for the s23 lol ( i am extremely happy with my s22 ultra though
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israelien said:
same sentiments good thing we are back to snap dragon
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mines exynos lol, but, still im satisfied with mine
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gav83collins said:
mines exynos lol, but, still im satisfied with mine
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where is samsung wallet
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where is samsung wallet
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its rebranded as samsung pay, but i think there is talks of bringing wallet back from what ive seen
Samsung isn't being wallet back, Google is.