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Galaxy S24 Series

Regular backups are crucial, IMO, especially if there is no regular backup of critical personal data set up. Monthly security patches aren't as much a concern as a major OS upgrade (from one version to another). It could be anything: a corrupted download, for example. Reports abound of bricked devices and people losing critical files because they didn't back up anything to another device.

It's never a bad idea to back up - often. It's always a bad idea to rely on "the cloud" to keep everything up to date and just assume that the upgrade will go 100% smoothly.
 
Bearsyzf said:
@The_Chief, what do you use to back up your phone, don't think i've ever done that 🤔
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I generally connect my phone to my computer and copy my photos, videos, and any updated documents or other files to a backup folder (we're paranoid and have several redundant backups). Just before installing the update, I'll use Samsung Cloud and Google Backup in Settings.

After the upgrade is complete, I will turn off the phone, boot into Android Recovery (Volume up+Power) and delete the CACHE partition just to eliminate any stray bits floating around.
 
It looks like the S25 Ultra will be a massive upgrade - actually, a massively incremental upgrade - over the S24 Ultra. At this point, the only thing that would compel me to buy it is if it will get emergency satellite texting and the S24 won't. I believe the function will be built into the Snapdragon 8 Elite: but each manufacturer and carrier will have to activate it. The only other real gain is power efficiency. With the GPU, radio and everything within the 3nm processor, it's expected to have almost half again the efficiency. My 24U already lasts the day without a charge and charges wirelessly overnight: so I wouldn't really care about that.
 
The_Chief said:
It looks like the S25 Ultra will be a massive upgrade - actually, a massively incremental upgrade - over the S24 Ultra. At this point, the only thing that would compel me to buy it is if it will get emergency satellite texting and the S24 won't. I believe the function will be built into the Snapdragon 8 Elite: but each manufacturer and carrier will have to activate it. The only other real gain is power efficiency. With the GPU, radio and everything within the 3nm processor, it's expected to have almost half again the efficiency. My 24U already lasts the day without a charge and charges wirelessly overnight: so I wouldn't really care about that.
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This is encouraging news about satellite texting functionality, it's worth it for me to wait for S25 to upgrade from my venerable S10+; she's been a faithful companion for over 5 years and continues to be a perfectly good device, but I fear the sunset of support is overtaking me now. I can hang on till next year though.
 
I've been running cheap for the past couple years and just couldn't convince myself each time a new version was introduced that it was dramatically different, though there are truly capabilities that would have justified it. My wife and I both have same phones, bought at same time, and she's seeing degraded battery life, so finally we feel we amortized the cost of the S10 series enough to get new ones. I'm one of those folks the manufacturers and carriers loathe, the guy who holds a device for over 4 years.
 
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