Samsung made some interesting decisions with the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ this year. Not only did they remove the hardware home button that has defined the South Korean tech giant for so many years, but they also stretched the screen more than they ever have before. This resulted in a higher screen-to-body ratio than they’ve had in the past, and allowed them to fit bigger screens in a smaller form factor.

A number of smartphone OEMs have launched two different versions of their flagship over the last few years. One of them has been smaller (generally around 5″ to 5.2″) while also offering a larger version (at around 5.5″ to 5.7″) for those who like a bigger screen. Samsung could have kept with the same screen size this year as they did last year, which would have produced much smaller phones overall. Instead they settled on a 5.8″ display for the regular Galaxy S8 and 6.2″ for the larger Galaxy S8+.

This is rather unique because phones with a 6.2″ display are very hard to come by these days. Most OEMs will not take the risk and use a phone with a display that large for a flagship. So the OEMs who do release such phones do so by putting them on a mid-range phone and releasing it after their flagship is already on the market. But again, Samsung was able to avoid the Galaxy S8+ from being a monster of a phone because of how they handled bezels.

While some would have thought this was a big risk for Samsung to take, it actually looks to have been a huge success for the company. Not only is Samsung seeing more pre-orders for the S8 and S8+ (which is impressive after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle) than they saw last year with the S7, but a report from Yuanta Securities Korea Co. states the S8+ will outsell the regular Galaxy S8. The company is expecting Samsung to sell 50.4 million units worldwide and that 53.9% (or 27.1 million units sold) of those units will be the Galaxy S8+.

A few weeks ago, it was discovered that traditional hardware button remapper applications made it possible to change the dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ to anything else. Naturally, many wanted the ability to change this button to launch Google Assistant or even Google Now. We covered this tip and wrote up a guide on how to remap the button to Google Assistant, but sadly this didn’t work for very long.

Not even two weeks later, Samsung started rolling out an OTA update that disabled this feature. The new update did exactly that by preventing Accessibility Services from intercepting this key event since this is how those regular remapping applications work. This change was confirmed by a Samsung representative via Twitter, and it caused a number of community developers here at XDA to start hunting for alternative ways to remap the hardware button.

So we wanted to highlight a few of those here today with the first one coming from XDA Recognized Developer . Their application is called BixBye, and it allows you to remap the button to a voice assistant, to launch an application, to open up the notification drawer, bring up the power menu, open the recents or take you to the home screen. Most of these remapping applications will actually just kill the Bixby service after it launches and then launch the one you want it to — However, the developer of BixBye says their application does not do this.

XDA: BixBye

Next up is an application from XDA Senior Member  called Bixby Remapper. This one lets you use the Bixby button to launch your camera, launch a specific app (like Google Now), play/pause music, toggle your flashlight and more. Lastly we have an application from XDA Member  called Custom Bixby Button. It works similarly to Bixby Remapper and will only trigger when it detects the Bixby app comes to the foreground.

XDA: Bixby Remapper
XDA: Custom Bixby Button

With the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ reaching the hands of more and more consumers, development on the devices was bound to begin sooner rather than later. Kickstarting the slew of software modifications on the S8+ Exynos variant is this release of TWRP.

XDA Recognized Developer and Contributor  has built TWRP for the Samsung Galaxy S8+ Exynos variant. The recovery build has been tested on the Korean and International variants of the devices and is confirmed as working on those, though the developer notes that it should work on other Exynos variants as well.

Installation for the recovery is through Odin. Users wanting to flash this must make sure to enable “OEM Unlock” in the Developer Options before proceeding with anything.

As kernel sources have not been released yet for the device, features like MTP are not available on this build. The developer recognizes that the recovery could be difficult to operate without MTP/ADB  (inability to transfer files from computer to phone) and when /data partition is encrypted (inability to view internal storage in TWRP). So to make life easier, two flashable zips are included in the recovery image itself. First, users can disable encryption by flashing the “no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip” and make /data encryption optional. Second, users can also root by simply flashing “Magisk-v12.0-arm64.zip” to install Magisk and then root their device using Magisk.

The availability of TWRP will make it easier to install other modifications on the device. While it might take a while for full-fledged AOSP based ROMs to appear on the device (especially on the Exynos variant), smaller modifications as well as TouchWiz-based modified stock ROMs will offer more choice to flash-happy users in the mean time.

Have you flashed this TWRP build yet on your Samsung Galaxy S8+? Let us know your experience in the comments below!

Samsung Galaxy S8 Model Build Numbers

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Since the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ was first introduced, a few people noticed that some of them had a red tint to it. The first time I perosnally saw someone notice this was in Erica Griffin’s hands-on video at the Unpacked launch event here in the United States. But then a few days ago we started to see reports about the issue being widespread, and that many owners in South Korea right are facing this issue. Some thought this was just the nature of OLED technology.

Because it’s organic, it is expected to have some sort of variance from one device to another. We’ve seen this time and time again on Samsung devices, and others which are using AMOLED panels that were sourced from Samsung. This is generally not a widespread issue though and most of the time the difference is rather small. For whatever reason though, this doesn’t seem to be the case with the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+.

In her video, Erica showed that you could adjust the red color balance slider to reduce the amount that is shown on the screen. This is certainly not an ideal solution though and a new announcement from Samsung says the issue will be fixed with a software update. This new OTA update to fix the red tint issue is said to be coming next week at the end of April, and Samsung assures their customers that there isn’t a problem with the phone itself.

Instead, they feel the issue lies within the software itself and that it is simply a bug with the color balance feature within TouchWiz. Even with the red tint issue being known, it doesn’t seem to be impacting sales of the device. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ has been able to amass ~1 million pre-orders in South Korea. This is more than 5 times the amount of pre-orders the company saw for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge in the country last year.

Source: The Korea Herald

Last week Samsung announced that the Galaxy S8 would ship without Bixby Voice control. It seems unlikely that that little bombshell will dissuade anyone from buying the new flagship. It is, after all, a great piece of hardware, as evidenced by our recent review.

Still, it’s a notable disappointment for one of the phone’s key selling points and a stumble for a feature that’s designed to point the way forward for the company. At present, the Samsung’s smart assistant has the makings of a compelling feature, but the execution is scattershot.

Bixby can and perhaps will be the great unifying force promised by the company. In its current state, however, it feels like a suite of features added onto Samsung’s already sizable selection of Android add-ons. The company has never wanted for apps. In fact, they’ve long been one of the driving factors its use to distinguish itself from the countless other Android manufacturers flooding the market.

That was likely a large part of the reason the company opted to launch its own assistant, after failing to make too much headway with S-Voice. Why settle for Google Assistant when you can make your own in house? Doing so could once and for all unite the Galaxy’s myriad applications under a single, accessible banner and serve as the foundation for broader controls.

After all, recent plays by Amazon, Apple and Google have all demonstrating that smart assistants are the gateway to a lot more than just the weather and silly Wikipedia questions. Among other things, they’re a common language that can serve as an entry point for unifying the smart home – a space in which Samsung is clearly heavily invested with numerous connected appliances.

It’s clear that Samsung is hanging a lot on the software. It even went so far as devoting a full button to Bixby, even as it made a big show of ditching the big home key up front. But an essential part of adoption requires a strong user experience right out of the gate, and in its present form, Bixby doesn’t deliver on the blustery promises the company made ahead of launch, when it promised it would be “revolutionizing phone interfaces.”

Samsung’s acknowledgement of its failure to ship Bixby at press time was less an admission of failure than it was an opportunity for the company to talk up the pieces that are shipping with the phone.

“With its intelligent interface and contextual awareness, Bixby will make your phone more helpful by assisting in completing tasks, telling you what you’re looking at, learning your routine and remembering what you need to do,” it said in a statement sent to TechCrunch following the news. “Key features of Bixby, including Vision, Home and Reminder, will be available with the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8 on April 21. Bixby Voice will be available in the U.S. on the Galaxy S8 later this spring.”

In its current state, Bixby consists of Home, the bit that pops up when you hit the side button; Vision, an image and text scanning service; and Reminder, which, well, lets you create reminders.

This early iteration of Home doesn’t do all that much to set itself apart from myriad other content aggregating mobile services. Vision, meanwhile, is the most promising piece of the offering, adding a shopping feature along the lines of Amazon Flow, which lets users buy things by scanning a label or barcode. That’s coupled with the ability to scan and translate text – definitely a helpful feature for frequent travels.

But as with the S8 itself, which the company promised would be “the beginning of a new way to experience the world” in its keynote, Samsung is setting the bar impossibly high. Sure, there are some compelling features on the horizon, like Voice, which is said to offer a more contextual user experience than Siri and the like. More features derived from the acquisition of Viv like added third-party support could help push it over the top, as well.

At present, Bixby feels like a rushed piece of an otherwise well-formed and long thought out phone. The company has the opportunity to deliver a real groundbreaking software experience in Bixby, one that could truly set its software apart from the rest of its Android brethren and help build a connected future moving forward. As it stands, however, the smart assistant has gotten off on the wrong foot with undelivered potential.