Official Samung Galaxy S7 Thread

I don't use one.

 

Today got a screen protector for s7 edge. Always believed curve screen protection is hard to apply. Day 1. Can't comment will see in long term but this feels very elastic. And good no finger print magnet.

I must say note 7 vs s7 edge screen, note is less finger print magnet. Must be different screen types.

Still waiting for note 7 second gens.

 

First time I've bought Spigen, definitely won't be the last, loving it

No plastic on this case either, the whole thing is one piece rubber (Carbon fibre texture? Whatever that means lol)

 

wich screen protector you order???

 

Fast charging isn't exactly amazing I've noticed, from a partially charged phone it says something like 34 minutes until fully charged, switch to normal charging, 37 minutes until fully charged

Normal charge - No heat
Fast charge - Phone gets pretty warm

 

Was about to ask where that option was, but im being lazy lol.
Using a non fast charge charger is a huge difference though, assuming the software option is just tweaking it for further, maybe to win some benchmarks.

I did notice an issue with the phone at the weekend, while driving down to Penrith and using Google Maps I ran into signal issues, we all did but my wife's LG G5 kept a 4G signal when I couldn't, and even when I was was completely offline.

Both on Vodafone.

 

Yea you're probably right about the charger being the main thing, it's a fairly quick charge either way, don't see the need for the extra heat with fast though, unless I was in a hurry and every % counted

Not noticed any signal issues, or any differences to my old S5's signal, I'm on o2

 

Me either, will disable it now and check from 1% as my phone is approaching that now.

I haven't had a issue signal wise here, it was a remote location with lots of trees, but was surprised I had to ditch my phone and switch to the LG G5 to use the maps.

 

It tells you in the notification dropdown how long until fully charged, got to disconnect it to switch between fast and normal though

Obviously the two phones have different hardware, modems etc, but I wouldn't expect the difference to be that drastic

 

Forgot to do it when it got low, but from 77% it said 36 minutes on normal, but 35mins on fast charge.

Both seem high for that high though, will time it myself if I get time.

 

Yea, the speed difference between normal and fast is so little it's hardly worth the degradation to the battery the extra heat is likely causing

I haven't timed it's estimate to real time yet, assumed it would be fairly accurate already

 

Fast charging is a lot faster than normal charging. 35 minutes to fully charge from 77%? Seems odd. It should fully charge from around 40% in 35 minutes.

 

Only a few minutes faster using fast vs normal for me, not even 5 mins quicker

 

Did try making this just on the S7, it worked, but no site I could find could host a 6.5MB gif for some reason, or they added huge top bottom borders to it

Spoiler

 

Today's update to the Oculus VR app on Samsung phones is causing heavy battery drain

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...p-samsung-phones-causing-heavy-battery-drain/

 

Hmmm, that might explain why the phone was really warm just browsing and was the video was freezing (audio kept playing) on YouTube.

 

Yea I thought it might be an idea to post it here, I was playing with the Oculus stuff yesterday and I got the update but uninstalled the whole thing earlier before finding out about the drain bug, so didn't notice anything

EDIT - Actually, I did notice something, I was playing with Open Camera, and the whole phone was stuttering and freezing, I blamed the camera app and removed it, bet it was the Oculus update

Bad news all round that company and their mothership FB

 

Do you have the vr gear 2 headset ?

 

I don't have any Gear VR headset yet, I used SideloadVR app to trick it into working with my cardboard (Sort of, still needed to press the screen to select stuff, so uninstalled the lot)

 

I got the headset with the phone, and it's great, much better than i expected.
A massive laugh watching other people use it as well.

Today i uninstalled all the VR stuff though, think ive saw everything, and I have a baby crawling around so don't get to use it now anyway.

It was taking up over 1gb storage as well..