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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] roundel77:
Try AdGuard for Android. Been using this on my S6 for 4 months now..After 1 month trial you have to pay like 9 bucks for a year , for me totally worth it!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] MirceaForce:
hello maybe some can help me disable device security form smart manager.....if there is a way..... :(( i don't want it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] paolo_gatto:
for the camera shutter sound, if cannot be disabled from settings (for eu regulations), there is a small apk called "Enforced Stream Silencer" that does the job (at least in android 4 and 5, I suppose also in 6 but I have not tested). Easy to find with google, I used since many years in S3 and S5 and works fine
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] viruzth:
Call me fanboy or anything. But this one is near perfection.

On star discount by bloatwarez from Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] NYYFan02:
Just got it last night, upgraded from Note 4 - the fluidity of it blows my Note 4 away, which lagged a bit, especially opening the camera and switching to and from camera and gallery. I've gone from the S3 to Note 4 and now to this and am happier each time with the trimmed down TouchWhiz and less bloat. I do have two questions though:

I was under the impression you could have just the "edge" always one with time/date, etc. although I don't see this as an option, only the "always on display" which is the whole screen. Am I missing something?

When I open a game, CoC for instance, my screen goes to like full on torch mode - ultra saturated, and looks pretty bad. I have the screen set to Basic but for some reason it changes when I open CoC.

Loving the phone so far, hopefully the battery impresses.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] bigkevbosky:
The edge features are only for the edge version of the S7. You're in the regular S7 forums, so I assume you have a regular S7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] NYYFan02:
Whoops... I do have an Edge, just in the wrong forum, sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Pleske:
To fix over saturation in games, install package disabler from the play store and disable "Game Service (com.enhance.gameservice)"
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] NYYFan02:
Thank you! That did the trick.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] chris@r5:
I love this phone. Had a S6 for a while, but could not live with the horrible battery and reception. All gone with this beauty. Best phone I've had, and I've had hundreds of phones over the years...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Digital DJ:
Switched!

Well, I actually left Verizon where I had the badass Motorola Droid Turbo 2 (which I'll never stop loving) to T-Mobile and got the Galaxy S7. I like it so far, but I'm not in love with it like my Droid. Hopefully, it'll grow on me...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] MirceaForce:
does anyone know how to disable device security from smart manager ???
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] xkravenx:
For a flagship phone I think the S7 is underwhelming. There is absolutely nothing new in the phone.

The implementation of the Always On Display is pretty useless. It can only display Samsung Apps. I heard LG G5 can do a lot more.

The display is nice. But so it was on the S5 and S6.

And finally, IMO is the "BACK" button on the right!. It should be on the left.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] joeherlev:
This phone MUST have 5 stars.. I have never ever had a greater phone..

All is fast and fantastic..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] ben805:
In the past few years my wife and I went from Note 2 (Verizon) to Note 4 (ATT) and now back to Verizon on this S7. We simply got tired of carrying around the behemoth phablet so we were looking to downsize to either S7 Edge or the S7, Verizon offered BOGO deal with both our Note 4 trade in, they also gave us two free Samsung S2 watch ($350 retail each), extra $100 visa credit per line, and more data for less (16GB for $80 vs 15GB for $100 from ATT), can also claim the free VR gear from samsung, too good of a deal to past up! LOL I heard the Edge screen is super sensitive (saw quite a few complaints on S7 Edge forum) and there's no getting around it yet, and some people had the curve screen scratch too easily. After playing around with both phones at the store we found the Edge wasn't much of a downsize anyway but the S7 is just perfect.

Performance:

The camera from S7 is leap and bound above the Note 4, it focus instantly, it is significantly more responsive than our Note 4, which had some focusing bugs issues, the Note 4 simply would not focus until we shoke the phones a few times, I've went through two new Note 4 with the same focusing problem, odin new rom or factory reset did not help either, it happened on 4.4 Kitkat and 5.01 Lolipop so it seems like a hardware issue. Overall we love our new S7, it feels much more responsive navigating and opening multiple apps, didn't notice lag like we often do with Note 4, no delay in keyboard. Battery life seems fine to us, it last us all day so no complaint there, though the phone does run warmer than Note 4, during charge or heavy usage in cpu/gpu intensive apps or games. Usually we upgrade our phones in 2 years cycle so the non-removable battery never bothers us at all, we have never needed to replace the battery on Note 2 or Note 4.

Case:

We bought several different cases for the S7, the $20 VRS Design High Pro shield feels cheap and the shell is too thin and inadequate to protect from drop, volume and power buttons are free floating and clicky, they are easily fell off as well. 2nd one we ried was the $40 Otterbox Defender, unfortunately the built-in screen protector on both unit we bought have too much gap and don't sit flush to the screen, the buttons for volume and power are extremely stiff and hard to press in, for whatever reason Otterbox mess this one up for the S7, this is a complete garbage comparing to the Defender we had on our Note 4, won't even pay $20 for this junk so we returned it. 3rd one we tried was the SUPCASE Full-body Rugged Holster Case with Built-in Screen Protector for $18, it is slightly slimmer than the Otterbox Defender but fits like a glove, the screen protector sits flush to the screen with zero gap or rainbow effect, my wife can't even tell there's a screen protector in place, volume and power buttons are responsive and easy to press, overall the SUPCASE feel as rugged as the defender from our Note 4, it is what the S7 Defender should have been. I would gladly pay $40 for it, feels like I ripped them off for paying only $18 from Amazon. If you want a rugged case for the S7 the SUPCASE is the one to get!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] s3icc0:
Still there is a lot of small things to improve ... usually on the firmware/software side ... anyway otherwise it is a great device ... (after 9 full days of usage)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] OCedHrt:
Better than S6 but still buggy software implementation
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Jairus24:
I really like it, especially for someone like me who upgraded from a Galaxy S4. The build quality jump from plastic to metal frame+glass, to the camera and the overall performance snappiness just never cease to amaze me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] grundgedanke:
I'm coming from a iPhone 6 and I'm very happy so far. I tend to switch between iOS and Android with every phone switch. Back in 2009 i had the first Samsung Galaxy and it sucked big time. I said to myself that I'll never buy a Samsung phone again. But because of everything I read and heard about the great camera I jumped on the S7 train anyways. Also some facts like water resistacne attracted me as it seems to be very usefull with one, soon two, little kis around.

I was very unsecure as a lot of people have complains about TouchWiz, but I really have to say it has come a long way since 09 :) and i like it.

So far there is nothing I have to complain about and especially the camera blowed me away. If everything stays that way Samsung and I am friends again :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] codabrink:
I run Syncthing on my phone, and due to lack of support with the Go language, the only way to write to all directories (instead of just /Android/data) on the SD card is to give the app root.

That's why root would be useful to me.

Currently all of my synced Movies/Videos are synced to an obscure directory in /SD-Card/Android/data/com.whateversyncthingis/data/...

It's a little annoying, but not the end of the world.

Still. I want root. I paid a lot of money for my phone, just to have Samsung tell me what I can and can't do with it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] eraycetin:
Feels like a real phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] chapmangeo:
If Samsung did not decide to kill the phone, I would have loved it. Now I'm switching back to HTC - and rootable devices.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] robie_cz:
Packages safe to disable

Hi,

do you have pls a packages list, what can be safety disable? I used one, but I had an issue with signal "not registered in network". So I enabled all packages except aps like Note, Photos, Google music etc. and it seems there is no issue.

Thx,

Tomas
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] libb:
I stopped only Clock (using Google clock) and com.samsung.faceservice because it crashed often. Another applications like Slype, Word etc. I disabled in Application manager.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] BCSC:
Tomorrow I'm RMAing my second S7. This thing is garbage. The w8 version anyway. So many crashes, hard boots and FC's and yet Samsung has not issued an update in Canada.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] strokercrate:
I dislike it compared to s6 and especially the note 5, to many issues and glitches. Lower build quality (anyone notice they left out the pretty trim around home button, camera and sensors?) Does not work well in gear vr.. First samsung flagship i regret having. And i have used 3 s7 and one s7edge and they all have these problems, some others have notice them as well in other forums.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] waingro808:
S7 is the best overall Android phone to come out since the LG G2! It really is the complete package; speed, battery life, camera, sexy body, wireless charging. My only tiny complaints: it's heavy, back button on right side, no option for soft keys, mine doesn't have quick setting for toggling mobile data (maybe other versions do).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] SeaFractor:
So far best phone for me is my Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930T) from T-Mobile. I've had the SG S3, SG S5, SG S6 and now am on my SG S7 with great success.

Simply put, the S7 brings back the two features I really liked from the S5 - microSD and water/dust resistance. Larger battery is a great help as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] barondebxl:
Hands down no debate the best phone I have ever ever used and I have used them all, just name it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] southsideswaggar:
Nothing bad to say. Camera is top notch, got the Sony cam, Exynos can multitask like a mother, SOT after disabling bloat and unused apps with package disabler is around 6.5/hrs, and I get a full 24hrs use to 32hrs depending on usage & games run like fluid with no dropped frames or stuttering even when recording them at 1080p 6mbps. OnlyOnly downfall I found was the sound quality of the dac isn't as good as my Galaxy S3 was. Great job Samsung.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] strokercrate:
Im willing to bet the user experience is much better with exynos over slowdragon
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] liteon163:
I replaced my GSM LG G2 when I combined plans with my new wife. I'm underwhelmed. The only notable upgrade for me is the water resistance, otherwise every other notable feature is something I simply don't care about. Camera? Better, but I barely use the camera so it doesn't matter. Fingerprint reader? I used it for two days before the novelty wore off, and I don't do mobile payments. In-call audio is nice, but I don't talk much, while headphone audio quality is a wash. I dislike the reversed back and menu buttons. The UI speed is not much better, and in many cases it is worse (like when opening lists of things, App Manager as an example). Battery life is slightly inferior. But to end on a positive note, GPS lock is much quicker and more accurate, while Wi-Fi radios are much better.

The only reason I still have it is because there's nothing "wrong" with it and Verizon doesn't have any other phones I feel that would be worth the money. At least the S7 qualifies for early upgrades...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] strokercrate:
Ugh these phones are junk! After all the problems with the two s7 i have and had to return, now my wifes s7 is acting up, black screening with only the back and open app buttons would randomly light up so i have to do hard resets with volume down and power because just power doesnt work when it black screens! Samsung is loosing my love with the s7 line... Atleast the snapdragon version!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] greatmoo:
Scrolling and Animation

Hi, I'm also thinking of switching from iPhone 6 to the S7.. However, would like to ask your feedback on the scrolling and animation on the Android TouchWiz as compared to the iOS? Does it bother you that it feels different?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] strokercrate:
I like touchwiz, but i adjust the animation to .5 sec or 0 to my preference. Which is much faster than ios. You do this through developer options.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] barondebxl:
Absolutely
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] mouhalves:
This is my complete review of this bad boy!

Home button sucks! =S

I can not post a youtube video in here =(

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKppKRgmIT4
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] johnnyspritz:
Nothing compares. The best phone ever made, period. Was considering getting a Nexus 6P but this was absolutely the right choice :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] 007zzz:
Chinese version can turn off the camera sound.:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] tango007:
Samsung has tweaked the eye catching design of S6, corrected the wrongs of its previous flagships, and made a smartphone phone you don't want to put down. The Samsung Galaxy S7 is iterative perfection.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] andycohui:
battery is great and camera is fantastic! Extraordinary in low light!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] victorinoxs:
4.5 rounded up to 5
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] droidcol:
Best phone I've ever had, reliable.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] D3Seeker:
The device itself is wonderful. A powerhouse, and certain improvement over the S4. It faster, feels smoother, and in the hands ACTUALLY feels like a flagship phone; solid unlike the plasticy S4.

On the software side. It's ok.

I'm missing Viper4android, and some Xposed goodies could really help things along. It doesn't help that the thing constantly pops up with silly junk like 'location consent' and 'if you turn off your data...' (junk that as I remember weren't introduced until NG5/NC6 on the S4 which mean they must be "features" put in place to help the 'dumb blonds' in mind somewhere between Samsung and Verizon.

I need my root freedom and ability to tinker to fix V and Sammy's nonsense.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] destroyletter:
my phone I can't never give it up !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] darkinners:
While the phone looks great and very fast but the battery life leave a lot to be desire and the phone gets very warm after few minutes of use.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] LiNe11:
Not really. Mine doesnt get warm even when im playing.

Enviado do meu SM-G930F através de Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Macklessdaddy:
agreed about the battery,love everything else but will have to go to the new note as this battery is not getting it done
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] NewShockerGuy:
I am going to get the S7 here in about a week and this thread is great!

I am upgrading from my rooted Galaxy s2.... so needless to say this new phone is going to probably BLOW my mind.

I do have a quick question since I can't seem to find it but I have noticed that the s7 has a TON of radio bands which seems like it would cover practically anywhere one would go... I have Sprint now and with my S2 anywhere out of the country my phone doesn't work, and I believe this is because it only has a limited amount of radio bands. All the S7's have sim cards so it doesn't matter if it's CDMA (Sprint) or I go with say Tmobile right, because the phone will pick up on whatever radio band that is in the country and worst case scenario I can still get data.

Is there one brand/carrier where the S7 is better? I'm in the USA.

Thanks,

-Nigel
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] InvincibIe:
AdAway is enough reason to root for me. That said, I'll take a non-rooted S7 edge over my old rooted Note 3 any day of the week. The speed, battery life, and features (minus the lack of IR) are enough to be content. I'll just be frustrated when my 99 cent YouTube Red subscription ends in September and root isn't out for my beloved YouTubeAdAway module.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] 3Plus:
love the device, 1 wish though= would of been nice if around 6.9mm thick :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Diversion:
I am extremely disappointed with both the Verizon S7E and S7 I had.. Let me say that I also have a iPhone 6S and a Nexus 6P.

The S7E and S7 both heat up doing the simplest of things.. My daily routine is texting, Hangouts, light web browsing (mostly reading) and work e-mail. And both of these models would hit over 90F/34C most of the day. The iPhone 6S remains cold (Never warms up) and the 6P was just slightly warmer than my iPhone but way cooler than the S7/S7E. You might think it's Verizon or my signal but it's not, even when the SIM cards are out, the S7 is a hot phone doing literally brainless tasks.

Aside from that, the S7s are a complete lagfest for me.. 6P runs circles around the S7 in terms of speed and smoothness.. Despite being on a 810 cpu vs the newer 820.

Battery drain is terrible on the S7s.. especially in idle drain (overnight drain is about 10% per 6-7 hours).. Even with Greenify/etc.. I've factory reset, i've tried rooting, i've tried battery tricks.. And even after all that hassle, it barely improves anything.. All the flashable tweaks to help fix lag don't work and I confirmed the flashes were definitely flashed.

It's hard to hate the S7 lineup, but the heat and lag just ruin it for me.. I wanted to love this phone and keep one of these but I need a cold running phone that isn't annoying to use and jerky/laggy just flipping between a couple of apps.. Taking a screenshot with Google Now and sharing it literally feels like the slowest thing in the world but such a remedial task for a phone. I blame Samsung for mucking up the baseline Android rom they use on these phone. When you compare to the clean AOSP experience on the 6P.. It makes you really wonder what Samsung is managing to do to really slow down a "flagship" phone.. It feels like I downgraded to a 2 year old S4 when I use the S7s..

Sorry I know most of you want to hate on me, but I really wanted to love the phone but the OS and for some reason why the CPU feels it needs to peg out all cores to 1500+ mhz idling (you can use Kernel Audituer(sp) and watch the cores literally spike constantly and never rest when just idling.. Samsung really screwed up their kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
indeed!!!

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It does not, but sammy is not european as we know. They tend to reject phones because of rooting.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] daweeze02:
I just came from a Note 5 and grabbed the Verizon S7 to bring back with me to Colombia(phones are $$$$ here) and noticed my Verizon version gets very hot as well and has bad lag. I think part of it is nova launcher and even with all the animations disabled. I reboot the phone every few hours and its better for a bit. My gf got the Moto G4, non plus and her phones feels way snappier than mine. I almost want to go back to my Note to be honest
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Eurofighter_ty:
Here is my review of Galaxy S7 after 3 days of use:

Design / build quality: The metalic edges + the glass are the best combination for a good looking phone, the placement for the speaker is bad and they should put it on the back or on the sides (maybe?). The buttons are good and very clicky and have a good placement.

Display: I am coming from a Moto G 2013 wich t his times had a very good display for the price range. That said I like how much the display tech has improved and make the Samsung the best display in the world. BTW if you want natural colors, then you need to set the Display to Basic from Settings. The screen resolution for VR still isn't enough beacuse is not crystal clear like without the headset.

Performance: The performance of the CPU & GPU is great for most things like gaming. If you just read web pages and light things like YouTube then I think that you don't need this phone beacuse most mid-range devices have 8 core from Qualcomm that are very good in terms of performance. Where this phone has bad performance is in Google Cardboard app with Street View when you explore the cities of the world has a FPS like 4-5 so that's bad really bad.

Sound quality: it's ok but I wished that the placement of the speaker where somewhere else.

Battery: My Moto G 2013 had a SOT of 4-5 hours and S7 gets only 3 hours so that's bad or I am not used to high end phones with less battery life and the CPU's core management again: IT KEEPS 6 CORES always online that ccan hurt the battery very hard and I think this is the problem with the battery life.

That said overall I am very happy with the phone and it's my first flagship !!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] evrydayzawrkday1:
Been using mine for about... 4 months now I think (?). Here are my thoughts:

Overall the performance is what I would expect. I don't play games, but rather listen to music and do some document lookup / email / reddit on my phone. The one thing that irks me is the GUI as I really can't stand TouchWiz, but NovaLauncher does fix that issue for me without an issue. I did come from an iPhone 6s with poor battery life and that is not an issue with the Samsung S7.

Now if someone can get root.. :P
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] haruhinoshana:
size
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] commodorevt:
Near Perfect.

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Can't agree more. I use nova launcher with a icon pack called "Moonrise Icon Pack". Just the customization to play and set nova how you want is the best feeling to have with any phone. Wish alot more companies would freely do this by default, until then there is always nova launcher. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] Jogutierrez:
I have a galaxy s7, a powerful phone, I love it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] xtrl:
I really like this phone. It's blazing fast. I rooted and flashed a ROM out of habit but it was already great out of the box.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] xsever:
I've had this phone for 2 weeks now coming from an LG G3.

I really like everything about it. Size, shape, performance, responsiveness, and root/ recovery support with plenty of ROMs and kernels to try.

The only thing I miss from the G3 is double tap to wake. I have double tap to sleep set using Nova Launcher though.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] xtrl:
The double tap to wake is kind of redundant if you use fingerprint unlock because you can simply press the home button and leave your finger there and the phone will immediately register your fingerprint and unlock. In a way, it's faster than double tap.

If using a different unlock method, then yes, double tap is more convenient.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] xsever:
You're right! I'm still getting used to the fingerprint lock.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Real Life Review] roba93:
owned the phone for about 6 months.

Best phone ive had so far :D:D