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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pilz:
Yes it is, but that's why I also have a Nexus 6P :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jmm22:
I never experienced TW until the Note 4 and I never noticed an issue. People just look for things to complain about, particularly fan boys of other brands. I think it must've been terrible way back and there is still residual opinions from others who haven't touched a TW phone since.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cepheid46e2:
Much better than it used to be but Sense is still better imo.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kxhaz:
I went from the Nexus 6 to the Note 5 a month ago. Even going back from Marshmallow back to Lollipop and stock to TouchWiz it has not been bad at all. I really can not notice much difference. I have used Package Disabler Pro to turn off a few of the Samsung things that I don't need, which I am sure has helped. It will be interesting to see how much better TouchWiz can run on Marshmallow. I should have my S7 edge in a couple of days and will be able to tell. However I really can not see a huge difference anymore. The last TouchWiz phone I had was the S4 and you could really tell on that.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] themuffinman:
For the most part, touchwiz is slow, sure it has improved over the years but so has everyone else's UI experience so with that, it still on the slower end but it more than makes up for it in actual utility which is a decent trade off.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] EchoX860:
Thanks for the answers guys! I was worried about TouchWiz, but now I'm excited to get my phone. Worst case I have a 14 day return policy. I pre-ordered Black Onyx :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] fillyo:
It has some really nice features and had slimmed down a ton, it's fine, plain android is fine but a bit boring.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Zorachus:
Touchwiz blows, but it's a double edge sword. A custom Nexus ROM is the best Android OS. #2 would be HTC's Sense UI. #3 would be CM13. #4 would be Moto X UI. #5 Would be Sony's UI. #6 Would be Samsung Touchwiz

- Yes TW can be laggy and super bloated. Tons of extra apps ship by default on Samsung phones, like doubled up apps that Google already has, like S-Voice and Google Voice, and many other stupid things like that. And carrier bloat apps, and Microsoft apps, etc... It really is ridiculous the amount of BS apps these phones ship with. The app drawer is like 2 or 3 pages when you first boot up, compared to a Nexus phone with less than half a page.

- Running apps; check that out on a TW phone, it's like 25 or 30 frigging apps running in the background. Whereas a Nexus phone will only have less than 10 apps running in the background.

- The default look of TW is eye searing ugly and too white bright. And the Settings menu is nothing like stock Google designed.

- Samsung phones will get laggy and slow after about 9 to 12 months of constant use.

- Custom TW ROM's really help a ton, and are almost required.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] KnownDominance:
Back with my S3 and S4 touchwiz was garbage and I could hardly use my phone at some times. With my current S6 I have found it much easier to customize it to make it feel stock but still have all the features of touchwiz while providing a quick snappy experience.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] cbutters:
I guarantee that if samsung would have simply renamed touchwiz to something else like "Sleek" or something like that when they launched the s5, nobody would be complaining about "touchwiz" being an issue. They would be praising how much better "Sleek" is than touchwiz... (perception and first impressions linger longer than we'd like to imagine.)

Anyways, touchwiz hasn't been terrible since the S2 and since the S6 it has been excellent, lots of features (that you can still disable if you like) and very quick.... There is a reason that so many people aren't rooting and installing custom roms on the s6 and note5. It performs extremely well at stock, that coupled with a theme store, knox (boo.... ) and samsung pay features, means that you don't have to mess with custom roms to have an awesome custom device...

IMO touchwiz is a non-issue and in a lot of ways a perk of the device.

Sure I love a vanilla nexus android device as well, and sure there's way more bloat on a samsung device vs. vanilla android, but at this point of refinement and mobile processing power, it isn't ruining my experience, in general it is making it more pleasant. I and most others still tweak and disable a bunch of bloat down that we don't use and have a really nice user experience.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] razorseal:
I will probably stick with nova because it offers some things tw just can't do (resizing some widgets, hiding apps in drawer, gestures)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] umbrokhan:
galaxy S3 lag abit but not a deal breaker.

i had galaxy S4 touchWiz seem's ok to me.

galaxy S5 lagged also.

Also had HTC one M8 runs more smooth like butter. but to less features.

i have galaxy S6 edge Plus it runs smooth and its lots of features and i love samsung themes. dual window and other features. plus you get a better screen. edge looks beautiful.

installing Iron man theme sometimes makes my phone stutter on web pages sometimes.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] iteam:
What grid patterns will TW on the S7 EDGE will be available? I like at least 7 icons across the horizontal.. As I'm used to LG UX and NOVA previously.. Just can't find any info on that.

---------- Post added at 06:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:09 PM ----------

Guess I will use NOVA PRIME...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] samomamo:
I have the s7 edge in my hands and it is ****ty slow and laggy compared to my Nexus 6P
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dwang:
hmm, I have a n6p and I pre-ordered a s7 edge.

When I played around with the s7 edge at best buy, it seemed pretty smooth to me.

can you expand on what you mean by slow and laggy?

Is it scrolling? Opening apps? Swiping?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] samomamo:
Everything in the phone seems like its slower scroling, typing(same google keyboard) opening apps, lots of crashes of apps. I dont know thats what im experiancing. And i turned off the animation and all in the developer settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] meyerweb:
I think most of the people who rag on TW have never used it, or at least not since the days of the S2 or S3. It's always fun to pick on the big dog, and Google fanboys are as bad as Apple fanboys in dissing anything that doesn't toe the "official line."
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] blah_blah_blah_blah:
I've had almost every samsung galaxy phone they have made

The vibrant

S3

S4

Note3

S5

Note4

S6

Note5

And now the S7 edge

I can definitely say they have made major improvements on TouchWiz after the s6
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Dr. Fed:
TW is much improved. This (S7/S7e) is the best version yet. A nice balance of features and speed. And it is highly customizable thanks to themes.

Android purists have every right to disagree.:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] iteam:
LOL, we'll all be the judge of that very soon.... Sorry you think that or are having a bad experience, just very hard to believe is all. Try NOVA launcher....... Wish I (we all) had an S7 EDGE in our hands to be disappointed with..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jpeg42:
Curious to see this updated to this with the S7 version of TouchWiz:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/46n82a/whats_lurking_beneath_android_system_a_comparison/

You have to admit, all those processes running in the background are going to have some impact on battery and performance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] jkforce:
Agreed 100%.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] PDXMatt:
When a people come into using TouchWiz with a preconceived notion that TouchWiz is slow they're going to say it's slower or laggy compared to stock Android. It's the power of suggestion. I've used all kinds of phones from Nexus and HTC and Samsung to LG. Anyone who truly believes that the newer versions of TouchWiz are so much more laggy that stock Android or Sense are just kidding themselves.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] tiskewlio:
I'm not a samsung fanboy but I did notiece TW improvements over the years. The last Samsung device I owned and use over a long period of time was the s3 and they have come a long way since then. Since Samsung holds a large % of market share I believe they will only continue to improve on their software and hardware integration. I still remember a time when Samsung was the underdog and not many people liked them but I kept telling others that Samsung will be big one day..now they are huge so the improvements does show!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] mocsab:
I have used HTC, NEXUS and a bunch of Samsung Phones - Personally, I feel that Touchwiz has gotten much better but then so have the phones running them - and so has Android - so all things combined, it is smoother - more flexible and considerably better than it used to be. I also have a Nexus 6p - I love the phone and the camera that came with it - but it isn't quite as good as my NOTE 5 and no where near as nice as my new S7 edge which arrived today. I love this new phone - still getting to know it - haven't owned an edge before and I like the new Edge features Samsung added this time around.

all in all I think anyone who had a bad experience in the past with TW would notice a big improvement with the S7/S7 Edge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Xileforce:
The guy who said this thing was super laggy must have a dud. Coming from a highly overclocked s6 that I spent weeks tuning for performance, this thing still kills it. Running Nova launcher because I can't stand the tw launcher though. Will still probably go aosp when that's out because I prefer my software lean and mean, but I'm by no means disappointed with tw until then.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] PaulParanoia:
Touch Wiz App Drawer

I've been using ADW Launcher since the S2 but I'm going to try and stick with Touchwiz for a while when I receive my S7 Edge. One thing I know I'll miss from ADW is the ability to create custom Tabs within the App Drawer. Does anyone know if there's an App available which replaces just the App Drawer (not the whole Home Launcher) providing this functionality. I've searched the Google Store and Web but don't see anything like it. :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] entropism:
It's not AOSP, but it's definitely not as bad as it used to be. I personally toss on Nova and I'm pretty good, I just wish we could use Google's dialer.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] le0.br4zuc4:
It's pretty much personal option. I have a couple of phones now and I like them all in different ways. Samsung is my personal favorite specially after installing action launcher.

I really like the Nexus 6P but I feel like I'm missing a few things.

Basically, be together. Not the same right? One of the reasons I love android. Same operating system but very different phones

And today I'm using my work iPhone and I feel like it's the same phone as when I had an iPhone 4s
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] dopeismarcus:
Ditto. Nova Launcher FTW.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kxhaz:
So having this in hand now for 24 hours, to me this is a non issue. I was a little worried that the Edge Panels would be part of the Samsung Launcher. However after testing Nova the Edge Panels still work. So after putting Nova on, updating the icons to Moko and then using Package Disabler Pro to turn off some of the bloat and Samsung apps the phone is smooth and fast. Battery life looks as good if not better than the Note 5, but it is really hard to tell how good it will be in 24 hours. Attached is a list of everything I have disabled and so far this has caused no issues.
[Android Apps and Games] gamemoi:
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Monster World: World of Pet and Legendary Monster. With the boy, Neil, find his childhood girl friend and discover the big mystery about her life.

Monster World: Carry your monster in a Pet ball, batle with others and catch wild monsters to train. Lets become the best pet trainer - Golden Pet Trainer.

Monster World: More then 100 pets, divided in 7 types. A interesting world is wait for discovered.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigame.petworldred

[YOUTUBE]Zx8Tkaz9WNo[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Apps and Games] gamemoi:
https://www.facebook.com/MonsterWorldFire/

If you want free to active game, you can go facebook page and coment :)
[Android Apps and Games] IAmLucky:
lol, screenshots would be better than showing iPhone pictures and hardly seeing pictures in it. Imo
[Android Apps and Games] denAlex:
Its difficult to see anything on the video, its so small...
[Android Apps and Games] MrManuel:
I think you should take different screenshots. From those ones I cant see the game clearly. Try shooting from a different angle
[Android Apps and Games] gamemoi:
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[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] H0wdy:
My S6 is 1.5 weeks old. I have it rooted, using greenify, etc. The battery seems to drain faster than I'd like.

Any thoughts as to how to dramatically improve it?
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irfannexus:
Grain bettery life using Custom rom

Use Custom rom with battery Optimising kernel will help you .
[Sony Xperia ZL] davimagalhaes:
I have access to fastboot and flash modes, I can lock and unlock bootloader through flashtool, I can do anything... but no matter what i try, SO always crash after "starting apps" or something like this. I've tried differents versions of Cyanogenmod, differents versions of stock ROMs... no success. I've tried it in flashtools, PC Companion and Emma with same results. When SO tries to start and show me the homescreen, it freezes. I dunno what else to do.
[XDA Assist] Miotorres:
Hola me compre el Lg 4 beats y Me gustaría poder instalarle un recovery y No logró encontrar ninguno por Ningun lado . Alguien por favor que me ayude ! Es el Modelo h735p de antemano muchas gracias espero alguna respuesta en nombre de Jesús =(

:fingers-crossed:
[XDA Assist] Vatsal:
Hello,

You may read XDA Rules thoroughly especially section #4.

-Vatsal
[Mate 8 General] owenbeals:
Huawei sent me the Mate 8 for review! This phone is pretty amazing for what it is. This is the first phone featuring EMUI that I have used that doesn't lag. The screen is great and the camera is not too shabby either. Check out my full review below. Also leave any questions you have about the device and I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.

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[Mate 8 General] blackinfinity:
great review.

Regarding camera test which firmware did you use ?

I have been reading latest firmware have many camera improvements especially when it comes to auto focus.

Those updates might not have gone out to OTA yet but works with local install.

The sensor in the phone is really good So I hope they will improve the camera a lot with upgrades.

I wish they could borrow the image processing from the 6p cause I think that is what makes a lot of the magic

behind the 6p camera
[Mate 8 General] ajsmsg78:
I've been averaging (with heavy use and with the phone on performance mode) about 7 1/2 hours of screen on time. Your review is pretty spot on though. The speaker is pretty loud as well but when you turn the volume over 70% you get some distortion. All in all I like the phone especially since the camera has gotten a little better it seems with my last rom.
[Mate 8 General] owenbeals:
Yea I'm running the original firmware. It hasn't had an update. I suspect the camera will improve with updates.
[Mate 8 General] owenbeals:
Yea battery life is insane.
[General Questions and Answers] batramanish:
Hi,

I had a very similar problem as you mentioned in below thread.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-10-1/general/n8000-stuck-samsung-logo-t3212923

But now, the device is not even getting on. I had pressed Power+Vol UP combination and it started showing "Downloading....Do not turn off target !!" I left the device on that screen for a while, but nothing happened. Then I tried to power on the device and nothing worked out. It seems like bricked. Though, I never root the device.

Appreciate any guidance on how to solve the problem and make my device back alive.

Regards

Manish
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rachelrgr:
if i boot into recovery mode there is an option 'backup user data' is this the same as backing up my rom? and why does the backup take so long?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m2geek:
Hey guys,

I Love CM/AOSP ROMs but often find the camera somewhat lacking compared to the Touchwiz one, any recommendations for a good camera app?
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hbk6699:
The pre-installed snap camera is as good as it gets for cm/aosp based roms
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ed116:
you can get the HTC Camera (Search HTC Camera old on google) its really good. i use that on my TW rom i think its better
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK0075:
As far as the S5 goes - I can give you the answer, because I also have the same device. I'm using Snap Camera HDR (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marginz.snap&hl=en). The stock CM camera lacks saturation and this app allows you to increase it. I've actually compared pictures from both TouchWiz and CM based ROMs and I can say that when you increase the saturation to 8 or 9, you absoulutelly can't tell the difference.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m2geek:
The stock camera that comes with ResurrectionRemix is Terrible... Especially in Low Light.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m2geek:
Just tried that, and it doesn't seem to be storing the photos are taking em haha. Forgot to mention i'm using a MM rom.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elloco305:
The only down side to snap camera (pro) is how it handles low light photos compared to TW.

Other than that I agree with the rest, snap camera is the best it gets.

PS. Looking into the HTC camera being recommended, will return with results.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pierpo84:
I there! I can suggest two pay apps:

A BETTER CAMERA - good quality camera, the one I use with stock ROM. It supports real HDR, video recording (only 1080p) with HDR (I think it's same as Rich Tone HDR of stock camera), panorama mode, and DRO (Dynamic Range Optimization) that is very similar to Rich Tone HDR (it's a post-processing filter that fix overall exposure of the photos and can save both original and fixed shots).

PRO CAPTURE - another good camera, it's support natively Samsung Rich Tone HDR (in Scene Mode it's simply called HDR) but photos is little darker thank stock camera. I don't know if support this function with custom ROMs. Photo quality is very good, but this one not support video recording.
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iaa85:
i was on skydragon rom, but i was trying to flash blissmallow rom, but, after flash, when I reboot the phone, I got stuck on Oneplus Logo, without recovery too. I used first aid zip, like another time, but I got a error that I cannot flash anything because the phone is lock. I tryed qualcomm solution, tried flash the entire rom, TWRP, windroid toolbox, Oneplus Tool box and always the same error I cannot flash anything because the phone is lock. I tried the fastboot command to unlock oem and I got another error that oem unlock is disable, so someone has any idea to get my phone back? Thanks anyway.
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ciber05:
http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-2/general/oneplus-solution-hard-bricked-device-t3183449

http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-2/general/guide-unbrick-recover-oneplus-2-to-t3269543

The above threads should help you out.
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iaa85:
the first one I already tried, lets try second one thanks
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iaa85:
i triedthe second one, but not with right instrucions, thanks for the help it´s worked
[Windows 10 Mobile] 535iu:
What are their differences in W10M?

Which of the two is more secure?

I've used vcREG and I have installed CustomPFD, Storage Explorer, File Manager, AdBlocker...

Can my phone now catch viruses? How can I do that my phone is safer without giving up this kind of applications?

Thanks a lot.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwj5279955:
Hey guys and girls, how are you transferring media from PC to Nexus 6p? What folder should I point my files at? Music and or video.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cstrife999:
Whatever you want... I usually just use root directory...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwj5279955:
Thanks. I tried dropping them in my music folder, and some apps can't see them.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lyhoanhni:
When features are "Always on display" port S6?:D I 'm looking forward to that feature
[Xperia Z3v General] AddictedToGlass:
Welp,

I've gone & done it again. My 2nd z3v came from Amazon a few days ago, refurbished, like new. Got the 200GB card for it, went to Verizon & got the SIM, swapped it with my work phone (iPhone 4s) line.

(Now I have 2. But the 1st one was replaced for being in this same situation.)

Got home, swapped the phones back cause I really still wasn't sure I wanted to mess up this z3v with my job (landscaping = lots of dirt).

It had 4.4.4, and I let it update to the latest two part Lollipop to see what the hubbub was about (nothing).

Decided I wanted to make it basically a clone of my primary z3v, so I rooted from the update directly using GigaSPXs guide.

Successful rooted 509 achieved, but with one problem; it kept telling me I had no space left, even though the internal SD had 21 GB left. Peculiar.

Made a recovery file on my #1 z3v's SD. Copied everything from #1 SD to #2 SD, and attempted to "clone" #2 z3v by installing that latest zip copied from z3v #1, but Recovery kept saying "No File Found".

Checked all 5 recovery points I had on there, and each said the same thing. Checked other things on the SD card, and it showed them, but when I tried to open them, it said "No File Found".

Mounting problem? Made sure everything was mounted, etc. Still, same problem.

Tried wiping Dalvik 3 times, but also accidentally wiped System Cache.

Now it sticks at the SONY Xperia logo. I can get to the Sony Recovery options, but Factory Reset doesn't do anything.

Was it System Cache wipe that killed it, and can anything be done?

This time, I took some notes as I went. I was confident, but I've done this before (bricked), so I decided to list what I did as I went along. I highly recommend everyone take notes for when they screw up. LOL!
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
Use Flashtool to flash it back to 4.4.4. After that, don't try to do your attempt again. They're two separate devices and they are both uniquely different internally.
[Xperia Z3v General] AddictedToGlass:
OK, how do I use flashtool? The PC doesn't recognize the phone as anything hooked up to it. Flashtool doesn't recognize it's there.
[Xperia Z3v General] GigaSPX:
IIRC, hold down the down (or up) button and hook the phone to the computer. I think it should trigger recognition from there.
[Xperia Z3v General] :
If that doesn't work and you have connected your phone to your computer before try removing all related Sony drivers from the computer. If you are OK with registry edits you could look for any instances of your phone there too.
[Xperia Z3v General] AddictedToGlass:
Don't I need the drivers installed? :confused: