jnadke

Any regrets getting the S7 Edge over the regular S7? I have an S5 now so I suspect the strange wrap around edges will take a little getting used to.

If it helps, the S7 Edge is the same physical dimensions as the S5.

You're getting more screen for the same width.

If you've never been comfortable holding the S5, then yeah, maybe you downgrade.

I would hold off on the wireless charger promo. Samsung pay has had better and I guarantee there will be better ones.

I agree. Like $100 Samsung coupons, Best Buy coupons, $50 off your bill, etc...

Those were past deals.

The deals have gotten worse over time.  There's no guarantee the deals will be as good as they were in the past.

Anyway, the comment is irrelevant since the Wireless Charger deal expired on Tuesday.

Someone on the reddit thread this popped up claimed you won't be eligible for the $30 if you do the wireless charger after asking Samsung customer support.

 

But we all know how right customer support can sometimes be.

 

 

Proceed at your own risk.

 

http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-pay/gift-card/terms-and-conditions/index.html

 

 

The wireless charger promo gives you a direct coupon code for Samsung.com. So you can order it for 1-3 day free shipping as opposed to the past promos that didn't show up for 4-6 weeks.

If you got the Wireless Charger promo, I just double-dipped and got the $30 gift card with my first transaction on the card I added to get the Wireless Charger.

Now to decide eBay or Best Buy.

edit:  Went with eBay, I buy crap there all the time, Best Buy sux.

That seems like a game the women in my life would be naturally good at...especially my 5 year old

There's a bomb that has puzzles. You print out pieces of paper that have the puzzle solution.

One person describes what they see, and the other people tell them the solution to the puzzle.

The Gear VR games dropped.

After you plug your phone in and trigger the Gear VR installation (which you then have to remove your phone from the Gear VR, grrrrr....), your games should show up in My Library in the Oculus Rift Store (I had my Oculus Store set up on Monday, they just added today).

The Sprint games are:

-Eve: Gunjack

-Esper 2

-Herobound:  Spirit Champion

-Dead Secret

-Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

-Star Chart (under Experiences)

I have the same card, I just may try this Adopted Storage procedure later tonight.

 

TS

I probably would not do it until you need it.

Currently there's no published way to undo the process other than Factory Reset.  I'm sure someone will figure it out.

That mixed with what I said above, you might unintentionally slow down your device.

My sandisk 200gb card is no slouch.  I transferred 3.5gig of work notes yesterday in less than 1/3 the time it used to take.

What used to take almost an hour was just over 15 minutes.  I don't know if it is the phone, the card, or both.  Same old pc and cable.

That's not bad for a 200GB card.  Generally, as the microSDXC cards get bigger they get slower.

3.5 GB in 15 minutes is about 5 MB/sec write speed.  Pretty decent for a larger card (and smaller files are generally slower).

My 64GB Samsung EVO+ card benchmarks at 23 MB/sec write (65 MB/sec read).

For comparison the UFS 2.0 internal NAND is 110 MB/sec write (300 MB/sec read).

You can use this to benchmark your SD card (it will not delete your data, it benchmarks the free space):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a1dev.sdbench

I'd recommend you at least benchmark it.  If you use SD for android apps, and the read/write is dramatically different, you might introduce lag in your device.

The 128GB Samsung PRO+ 90/90 card is $89.  I'll probably pick one up in 6 months when it's below $50 when I'll need Adopted Storage.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MB-MD128DA/AM

You can enable Adopted Storage via ADB!

Obviously you'd want a fast Samsung Pro+ card supporting 90 MB/sec read AND write.

http://www.modaco.com/news/android/heres-how-to-configure-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/

You can also partition the card so that part of it is readable in a standard computer (you'd obviously want to turn off the phone before removing the card).  Store pictures on half and use the other half for extra App space.

32GB is plenty for me for now (though my 16GB on my S5 was limiting), but it's nice to have in reserve.

I posted this question a moment ago over in the other thread, then realized I ought to have posted it here instead. Does those who've got the device think well of the display? All the photos I've seen of the display turned on look pretty much surreal to me, very vivid, great looking display.

 

I'm hoping the improvements to the LG G5's screen turn out looking at least almost as good, but I'm not sure how it will, based on what I've seen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 looking as good as it does. Then again, I'm also considering the Oppo R9 Plus.

The displays are virtually laminated to the glass, so it comes out looking more like paper.  It's beautiful.

I really can't go back to LCD displays.  The internal air gaps end up refracting and reflecting light and just make everything look fake.  Even with IPS.

It sounds like Samsung is warming up to selling its displays after letting Huawei use it on the Nexus 6p (that and they have competition with LG starting to develop flexible OLED displays).

Rumor is the HTC 10 will use Samsung OLED.  Then there's the other phones that have been announced with edge displays.

It looks like the new Samsung Pay promo will be $30 for Galaxy S7 / Edge users when you make your first purchase after 3/11.

 

 

Current promo is Free Wireless Charger when you sign up and link a card.

 

 

Looks like you can double-dip (link a card now and then do your first purchase after 3/11). Do it now! So you can get a Free Wireless Charger and a $30 gift card for a free case!

 

Makes me feel a little better about passing up the $100 gift card for Target/Sams Club.

 

 

Details:

 

http://www.tmonews.com/2016/03/new-samsung-pay-users-can-now-score-a-free-wireless-charging-pad/ - Instructions on how to get the wireless charger

 

http://imgur.com/nJaQFYg

 

 

I'd prefer the Fast Wireless Charger, but hey, a wireless charger is one I don't have to buy (will be great for travel since I have a Moto 360).

 

My Samsung Pay was getting stuck on the set-up for Verification Method PIN/Fingerprint. I had to uninstall the updates and re-install and then it worked. I think when I first set up the phone Samsung Store notified me of a Samsung Pay update and I installed it. That might have broke it. Just my experience in case someone has the same issue. Uninstall the update and re-install through Samsung Pay.

Someone on the reddit thread this popped up claimed you won't be eligible for the $30 if you do the wireless charger after asking Samsung customer support.

But we all know how right customer support can sometimes be.

Proceed at your own risk.

http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-pay/gift-card/terms-and-conditions/index.html

The wireless charger promo gives you a direct coupon code for Samsung.com. So you can order it for 1-3 day free shipping as opposed to the past promos that didn't show up for 4-6 weeks.

It looks like the new Samsung Pay promo will be $30 for Galaxy S7 / Edge users when you make your first purchase after 3/11.

Current promo is Free Wireless Charger when you sign up and link a card.

Looks like you can double-dip (link a card now and then do your first purchase after 3/11).  Do it now!  So you can get a Free Wireless Charger and a $30 gift card for a free case!

Makes me feel a little better about passing up the $100 gift card for Target/Sams Club.

Details:

http://www.tmonews.com/2016/03/new-samsung-pay-users-can-now-score-a-free-wireless-charging-pad/  - Instructions on how to get the wireless charger

http://imgur.com/nJaQFYg

I'd prefer the Fast Wireless Charger, but hey, a wireless charger is one I don't have to buy (will be great for travel since I have a Moto 360).

My Samsung Pay was getting stuck on the set-up for Verification Method PIN/Fingerprint.  I had to uninstall the updates and re-install and then it worked.  I think when I first set up the phone Samsung Store notified me of a Samsung Pay update and I installed it.  That might have broke it.  Just my experience in case someone has the same issue.  Uninstall the update and re-install through Samsung Pay.

Looks like the review embargo lifted.

Holy crap, dat battery life:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10120/the-samsung-galaxy-s7-review/2

As I was typing this I got my delivered notification. No signature required. My husband is charging it up for me.

 

Sent from my SM-G925P using Tapatalk

If he really loved you he'd bring it to work!

j/k congrats

Being a Sprint model, I can confirm the device does have FM RADIO support (GSM Arena omits this).

Also, all the Sprint bloat (except Voicemail) is fully uninstallable.

It was frustrating if anything since Sprint ID failed to install everything on first setup and it didn't finally install it all until today.  I uninstalled it immediately.

A few tips:

-In the Camera, under "Mode" at the bottom, at the top is "Download".  You can download more camera modes (Sport mode, GIF mode, and Dual camera mode)

-I got sick of the rounded icons quickly (a mix of rounded icons and Material icons), but I replaced it with a Material theme.  Long press home screen > Themes > More Themes > "More" (top right) > Search > "Material Design" (by Cameron Bunch - it's FREE).

The Material theme makes the UI much more consistent.

-I like RSBrowser (general tip):  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rsbrowser.browser&hl=en

It runs an older version of Chrome (open source Chromium), but has a built-in ad-blocker and supports Google bookmarks/password syncing and auto-fill.  It's also custom-compiled to run faster on Snapdragon.

(On Marshmallow it's a little janky since it doesn't seem to ask for permissions properly, I had to go into the Application Manager and turn on the permissions, then I could add my Chrome/Google account to it and give it permission.  For some reason the permission notification stays on top until you reboot).

I can definitely say the camera focusing is super fast and very consistent.

My Galaxy S5 was getting frustrating not being able to focus on close things in poor lighting.

As far as battery life, it'll be easy to hit 5 hours SOT consistently.  I'm at 81% right now with 1 hour SOT (with heavy usage due to still setting stuff up) and Always on Display turned on (and all Google syncing, location reporting, Android Wear).

My work's wifi network also drains it a bit extra due to some weird quirk with authenticated wifi networks (it destroys iPhones too), so it's doing especially well (where my S5 would be at 75% or less right now with far less usage).  I was on cellular for 50% of the time.

The fingerprint sensor works very well, just make sure to move your finger around and register from multiple angles when you first set it up.  Make sure to register the sides of you finger.

Fingerprint unlocking is insanely fast.  If you register the fingerprints properly you will have 0 issues when you unlock it.

I like the double-tap home button to open the camera.  It opens very fast.  You can even do it from the lock screen and it'll unlock with fingerprint and open the camera.

PSA:  You will not get the free 6 apps from the Oculus store until 3/11 even if you got the device early!

There's a post on the Oculus site about it (if I can find the link).

I'm upgrading from a Galaxy S5.

I can say that signal strength is way, way better with the S7 Edge.

I could never get LTE from my desk and would occasionally push to Roaming on my S5.  I get a decent LTE signal from my work desk on my S7 Edge, however.

so you mean once s7 edge is unlocked all the other lte bands will appear?. I have an upgrade I need to use and thinking whether S7 edge or iphone 7 plus

The FCC documents show what bands are supported.

A majority of the bands around the world are supported by the S7 Edge.  But not all of them.  If you're planning on going to Africa where they use some weird bands you may have issues, I guess.

if I may ask since I cannot find, how many LTE bands does sprint S7 edge have ?, I really need a world phone like ipone 6S plus

Different countries have different bands, there's no true "World Phone".  Even the 6S has multiple models.

That said, the S7 has all the same "world phone" bands the iPhone 6S does.

Just picked it up!

The shills at best buy didn't even take it out of the box (that's my job :-) )!  I need to unbox it now and activate it (they activated it in the system, just none of the first boot stuff).

Got a call from Best Buy, my S7 Edge Black is ready for pickup!

Pre-orderd on the 23rd.

Does the S7 support Sprint bands that the S5 does not? Besides carrier aggregation, will there be tangible signal improvements when moving from an S5 (assuming upgraded towers)?

Actually, the S7 supports bands 2, 4, 5, and 12 whereas the S5 does not.  Of course, these are for roaming purposes so if you're in a Sprint market 100% of the time, it will not make a difference.

In other words, compared to the Galaxy S5,  the S7 supports Sprint's LTE Roaming+ initiative (formerly CCA/RRPP).

If you zoom in to the 3rd notch from the top on Sprint's coverage map, you can see they're already rolling out RRPP to very large swaths of the Midwest, as well as other areas of the US:

https://coverage.sprint.com/IMPACT.jsp

Roaming+ counts as standard Sprint usage, you are just on a partner network:

http://support.sprint.com/support/article/FAQs_about_Roaming/b533bc3e-6327-4fdc-84fc-e75409c7115d?question_box=Roaming+&id16=Roaming+

Samsung has the 64GB PRO+ (90MB/sec read / 90 MB/sec write) microSDXC for $29.99

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MB-MD64DA/AM?CID=AFL-hq-mul-0813-11000427

One possibility is that they didn't want any negative initial reviews by real users to tank sales.  The more they get sold before people REALLY know what they have got, the more momentum they give the process.

Not likely, everything I've seen on the reddit GalaxyS7 group has been positive.

But I understand, yeah, I could see them wanting to wait until the review embargo is lifted (which I imagine is probably tomorrow or Monday... tomorrow makes more sense to make the weekend news cycle).