A frustration known by many Samsung device owners in Australia is the inability to edit the dock icons (shown above), which users see below all app home screens. Just about every other Android phone in existence allows the user to change these ever-present icons — ordinarily users can select Chrome or Gmail instead of the default Messages or Internet icons, or they can replace them with anything they like.
Samsung, however, hasn’t allowed users to do this for quite some time, and it’s been a festering sore.
It’s something that will probably start to hurt a little less now though, with Samsung pushing out an update to Galaxy S5 owners (at this stage) which fixes a few other things, but importantly, allows the editing of these dock icons for the first time.
Keep an eye out for an OTA update for a version ending in ‘NE1’, or for some Australian carriers ‘NE2’ which contains the update. If you don’t see it OTA, you can of course install the update manually by use of the Kies desktop software.
Have you received the update? What else have you noticed?
