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Welcome, and following me is a Samsung Galaxy A25
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And today I will show you how we can go through the setup process of this device
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Now to get started, you only have one option right here to press the button and then find
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your desired language from the list. Now for me it already selected English, which is the language that I want, but you also
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have different regions. So things like the United Kingdom, United States, or so on
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And obviously all sorts of other languages listed here. So select your desired one
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And press next. Connect to mobile network. This can be done by inserting a SIM card
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I'm going to be setting up this device without a SIM card, so I'm just going to select next
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For your review, here we have a user license agreement and some optional trash
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So we're going to omit the additional trash and just agree to the user agreement
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You can also tap on details to read exactly what you are agreeing to
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Once you set up with another device, this will allow you to import your data from an
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old device to this one. When it comes down to Samsung devices, I believe you will get a pop-up on your Samsung if you
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start interacting with it while on this page. But for other devices, you can download the smart switch or whatever Samsung has
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I'm pretty sure it's going to be listed if you choose to go through with this
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And you can download that application on your other device if it's not Samsung
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And then go to the procedure of connecting these two devices together
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And obviously if you don't want to backup or restore data at all, you can just select
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set up manually and this will skip the restoration of your data from other device
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Next we have choose a Wi-Fi network. Now in my case I can skip this, but chances are if this is a brand new device for you
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you do not have this option visible. And that is because Samsung does this annoying thing where they just force you to connect
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to Wi-Fi network without any reason for it. Because why would you have choices in a setup
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It's not like you're setting up your device, you're setting up Samsung's device
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So connect to network. Once you do so, in addition to that, you'll be forced to probably reboot your device
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Why I have no freaking idea. Again Samsung doesn't give you any information because it's not your device, it's their device
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So just go through it. If it forces you to reboot, just know it's Samsung doing Samsung things
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And from there you can continue the setup. Now because I chose to skip connecting to Wi-Fi network of any kind of source, either
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through mobile or Wi-Fi, my date and time won't be set automatically and in addition
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I don't need to reboot the device. But that being said, this device has already been set up for the first time before, so
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I do have option to do so. So this is where it will differ a little bit for you if for you the device is brand new
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The next thing you should also see, which is the Google services, and you have a couple different services like location, scanning and sending user and agnostic data
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If you don't want any of them, you can turn them all off and from there go to the next page and you can then protect your phone by selecting a face recognition, fingerprint
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and pin pattern or password. If you're planning to protect your device in any kind of way, so if you're planning
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to use face recognition or fingerprint, you'll be forced to select also a physical way of
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unlocking the device, that'd be pin pattern or password. And the reason for that being is if something would happen to your biometrics like face
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or fingerprint or both, then you'd lose access to your device. Hence that leaves you with the option to unlock it using things like pin pattern or password
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which biometrics won't be affected by. And in addition, you can also just choose one of those three pin pattern and password
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without needing to select face recognition or fingerprint. Additionally, on top of that, you can just skip it if you don't want to protect your
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device altogether, though that wouldn't be advised. I am going to select a pattern
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Let's give it a second. Now even though I am not connected to network, it's bringing this stupid pop-up right here
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so I can sign into a Samsung account. No I can't because I don't have internet, but Samsung just decides to completely ignore
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this setup procedure and be like, if you want to sign in, we're going to backtrack back
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to the Wi-Fi. Now, that being said, Samsung account doesn't really offer anything useful at Samsung, so
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obviously no surprise there. And in addition, if you try to skip this, so forgot password or don't have an account
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because why would you have an easy access to skip this, now it's hidden, set up later
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in the settings, it will give you this bullshit of a message right here that you want to skip
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out on all this basically. Why do you need a Samsung account
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Sorry for that. Oh boy. Why do you need a Samsung account
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You don't. That would be the correct answer here, or not showing this at all
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And it gives you some bullcrap list of different things. Now they did shorten it up from what it used to be, but in general it's still just a list
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of crap. So find your lost phone, yes we have that with Google, sign in to apps and websites
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with your biometrics, again we have that with Google, sync apps and settings across all
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your devices, again we have that with Google, copy and paste between your phone, tablet
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or computer, now this is a little bit more unique, and then answer calls and texts on
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your tablet or computer. Again newer Android devices can do that as well through phone application on your Windows
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So like I mentioned, most of this is just garbage and you can just confidently skip it
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It's not like you're missing out on anything. Then we have some Samsung services, customization service and smart suggestions
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I'm just going to disable both of them just because I don't like anything Samsung related
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And then we have choose your display mode, light or dark, so this is more like a theme
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not mode. And you have light mode and dark mode, choose whichever one you prefer more
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If you tap on it, it will automatically apply so you can see how things will change
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And you're all set up, finish. And this will then present us with the home screen, with the device being fully set up
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Now with that being said, if you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe
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and thanks for watching
