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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] DSF:
So the phone can be usable again when there are I/O operations on the storage (eg: when downloading via playstore, when downloading additional resources in a game)?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
In short - yes, but with high performance turned on...

Anyway, since the last update i am regulary getting 2 errors, youtube and samsung ip service are crashing. Could it be because of the disabled apps and services? I use BK disabler, but have mostly disabled (in my case) unneeded stuff like google news, movies, music, samsung vr services and so on... I guess i should restore everything to default just to see if it helps. Will report back on this...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
First, the fact that it's another 7.0 beta release indicates Samsung is not ready with 7.1.1. Like I said before, Google announced that the 7.1 CTS will be available in January which means we will most likely not see any 7.1.1 except the ones on Google devices (Pixel/Nexus) before January. I don't understand all the talk about 7.1.x - if you want the latest from Google get a pure Google device.

Second, Android 7.x is going to be quite important for Samsung specifically on the GS7/GS7Edge. After the Note 7 fiasco Samsung needs a device to pit against the iPhone 7 / 7 plus, the Pixel/Pixel XL and other "flagships" that can eat at its market share. It makes sense to thoroughly test it and get customer feedback (hence the beta program).

It's actually great that we are getting another beta to test. In fact, I hope Samsung adopts the same approach as Microsoft and create a permanent open beta program and engages its customers much more.

Third, as for Samsung's slow time to market - yes, it is taking forever.. but consider this, Samsung devices use a lot propriety technology and IP. It's harder to test and certify all these components.

Google Nexus and Pixel devices are all Qualcomm SnapDragon SoC-based (and normally use Sony IMX camera sensors) which means as soon as Google releases to AOSP the relevant drivers are out as well making the life for the likes of LG, HTC, Motorola, etc (who use Qualcomm SnapDragon SoC sand Sony IMX sensors) much easier. With the exclusion of the Huawei Mate 9 (HiSilicon 960), I don't recall seeing any other SoC (Mediatek, HiSilicon) ready with a Nougat release (even the HiSilicon 950-based P9 which is due to get Android 7.0 in January)

So it makes sense for Samsung to take longer for the Exynos-based phones, especially since some have Sony IMX sensors and some Samsung's ISOCELL.

As for most of the SD820 based ones, they are carrier controlled which adds a whole boat-load of delays and testing...

I'm pretty sure Samsung could easily update all their Qualcomm-based mid-range devices to Nougat but that would upset all the flagship owners even more.

Finally, I think it's best for everyone involved to relax and enjoy the holiday season :). Samsung will release Android 7.0 or 7.1.1 when it is ready to do so.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] violin.siva:
Well said.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] heblu:
Thanks [MENTION=7910468]N-way[/MENTION] for this explanation!

Microsoft has a beta program, yes, but anybody can be in it :) This way only users who are really interested to give feedback remains. In samsung way only those who were fast enough to login participate.

I say this because in here is mostly silent regarding detailed review about latest betas.

No pictures, no info about bugs, etc

From what I understand sammy will release N 7.0 in January (with some luck :))

And I maintain my pov that they are slow for such a huge company and such an expensive device.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] olafsand:
Beta 1 (or beta 0) was a bit buggy. After that all betas are perfect. For me the beta 5 (or 4) is 100% perfect. So no problem when samsung release final finalised nougat.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Yeah, i woulden't say perfect but they are getting there... The last beta is definitely an improvement in performance and smoothness, but it too has some problems.

For example, most of the themes i had installed are uselless now (i get an error stating some kind of incompatibility). Another issue is the youtube app, somethimes it

crashes without me even running it and somethimes while browsing the videos.. Never had that problem with earlier betas. I can't say with 100% certinty that the latest

beta is the problem here because i have some apps/services disabled with BK disabler... So i went and enabled a lot of them and left some disabled (mostly google apps

like movies, news and that kind of c*ap), but youtube still crashes... Generaly i am satisfied with the last beta, but i hope to see another one with android 7.1 in January before the final firmware comes out.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] throbberx8:
I was Suffering terribly with the constant freeze/reboot problem with my s7 marshmallow,tried everything to cure it with no results.

So I throw coreshion to the wind and installed this build. I must say it's super smooth and working great.:D

I missed out on the beta program, the app I run just shows a "error connecting to server".

So I guess there's no way I'll get any new updates.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Guto ViP:
The place for that is here:

Not in this topic.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] heblu:
What are you talking about?

Did you read the title of the OP??

---------- Post added at 03:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:21 PM ----------

Yeah, now we who don't have access to beta, know about bugs

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Guto ViP:
Yes, here is a topic about, only about, the Beta 1 to flash using Odin... Not about beta's feedback... Have oficial place to do that.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] heblu:
No, this is the place to talk about beta, as we have more than 100 pages about this topic.

What is the point talking only about beta 1 when we have beta 4 or 5 or n??????

What you say official: is only for beta members on samsung, here is XDA

If you have a link to talk about beta in general on XDA, please share it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dp777:
can i flash on my 930v?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
No. The SM-G930v (Verizon variant) is based on a different SoC (Qualcomm SnapDragon 820) and is locked to using Verzion's model-specific firmware.

You will most likely brick your device if you try to flash any other firmware.

AFAIK, the latest firmware for your device is G930VVRU4API3 (still on 6.0.1).

If you look at update schedules, you see that the SD820 variants (even the unlocked SM-G930U) lag behind the Exynos-based ones by about a month.

So if Samsung releases Nougat in mid-January (my guess) you'd probably see a Nougat update hitting the carriers-locked phones a few weeks later.

That's one of the reasons I never buy phones from carriers. I wish Samsungs (and others) would simply take the Apple route and take control of the update cycles.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
I agree with you that they are slow but I understand why they are slow.

Not only does Samsung has tons of different devices, it has this weird variation of models and regions.

It makes everything so much more complicated.

If you look at Apple and Google (as well as some other manufacturers) you see they have much less variation and it makes change management and lifecycle control much easier.

IMO , opening an open-beta program (similar to Microsoft) and adopting a unified architecture (and updates) are two lessons that Samsung needs to learn quickly if it plans to maintain its leadership position.

In the US, you can see Google starting to take away market share, in the rest of the world, you see the likes of Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaomi, etc creating very good phones (hardware-wise).

It's time for Samsung to step up its software game.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] olafsand:
View attachment 3976164

I tryed AOD in night when i was sleeping. Without AOD it takes 0,4%/h. So aod realy takes 0,8%/h like Samsung said :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Another "bad" news, i restored almost everything i had disabled (besides few google apps like news and music) and youtube is still crashing. I guess the app needs an update, so i'll wait for google... Yesterday i found out that Soundhound isn't working as well. It crashes just like youtube, even though it has all the permissions enabled... I guess it too needs an update.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
Did you try doing a fresh install.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Actually no, I haven't... At least not when this last beta came. I did a fresh install when i installed beta 1, but i guess you have a point. I'll try it later when i finish working, just gotta remember to make a backup first. Such a shame Titanium Backup doesn't work without root :(, because Smart switch saves only the app and not the data...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
You mean app data? Don't restore app data
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] olafsand:
Do you use adaway or something like that? Is yes, then disable and youtube will not crash anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Yup, app data. Why woulden't i restore it (if i could ofcourse), at least the ones that work qithout crashing...

I use Adguard, but it never caused any problems before... But ok, I'll try to disable it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhjw2011:
I have noticed every morning my phone seems to have rebooted. Anyone else getting this. Other than that I am liking Nougat very much.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
There is an option which can enable/disable that. Check it's status, you'll find it in: Settings > General management > Reset
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] heblu:
I like your writings, clearly you are good at it :)

Samsung still has some advantages: Splendid display, great camera and a long update period (my old S4 still receive them)

But for them to be worthy in the future, as you well said, they need to move a bit faster:

Create an open beta program, unified architecture and constantly improving the software.

Finally we will have a new UX interface, the old one has stayed enough - my old S4 software looks pretty similar with S7's which is a bit lame from them

I have a strong feeling that you need to make a clean, fresh install ...

And I hope you will post about it - bugs, if any, etc :)

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhjw2011:
No, I've checked that. It's not enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] olafsand:
Is your sim pin active? If yes then it asks after reboot?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
I sure hope factory reset will help... Will do it probbably this weekend and report back.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhjw2011:
Yes it is active. That's how I know it's rebooted.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s7-android-7-0-vodafone-australia-737350/

Not all S7 will be upgraded directly to 7.1.1
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] supercakefish:
Maybe only countries taking part in the beta get 7.1.1 as final?

Having said that, I doubt it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
7.1.1 as it is bring nothing much for s7 over 7.0
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
7.1 improves the following

Night Light

Touch/display performance improvements

Moves (Fingerprint swipe down gesture - opt-in)

Seamless A/B system updates

Daydream VR mode

Developer features:

App shortcuts / shortcut manager APIs

Circular app icons support

Keyboard image insertion

Fingerprint sensor gesture to open/close notification shade

Manual storage manager Intent for apps

Improved VR thread scheduling

Enhanced wallpaper metadata

Multi-endpoint call support

Support for various MNO requirements

PCDMA voice privacy property

Source type support for Visual Voicemail

Carrier config options for managing video telephony

Manual storage manager - identifies apps and files and apps using storage

Just having the touch responsiveness improved is a huge deal. While Samsung can back-port a lot of the 7.1.x features into a 7.0 release, it makes better sense to align the software to the latest version and offer the combination of the best hardware with the latest Android features.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] -Ric-:
That's for Nexus devices. There's nothing wrong with the S7 touch responsiveness so it doesn't really affect us.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
AFAIK, it's an improvement / optimization in 7.1 that affects all devices.

And I'm sorry to disagree with you on the touch response. I have a neuxs 5 and its touch response is much better than that of the GS7 despite the inferior specs (and yes, I have animations off) only by using Nova launcher on the GS7 with its speed tweaks am I able to come close to the responsiveness of the N5.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
It looks like you were right, adguard seems to crash youtube but only if set to high quality filtering. Now i've set it to simplified filtering and everything is fine. This never happened before the last update, but at least now i know what causes the problem. Anyway, thank you :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Burtrum57:
Finally I'm able to write to and delete files on the ext sd card. And all of a sudden some of my apps (particularly sygic) have started working! Now if only I could get shealth to work I'd be happy to stay on stock with no root
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] weasley:
May I ask if I flashed this Nougat Beta on my S7, will my s7 receive Nougat OTA as well ?

*I haven't registered on Galaxy Beta Program

Sorry if this question had been asked before
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Burtrum57:
No. You need to be registered for any updates
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Surowica:
Soo, can we expect 7.1.1 in near-future beta updates?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saarvieen Raj:
Not super sure all of this 7.1.1 related stuff have to be taken with a pinch of salt
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] luki2411:
They working on 7.1.1
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] DanielZGK:
"Keep screen turned off" still not working.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersepian:
I was running Nougat beta earlier but due to some GPS issues, i flashed back to stock marshmallow. But now i am not getting any softwate updates. Every S7 user has got December security patch a week ago, but i still don't have any update pending notification. What could be the issue?

Anybody can help me solve it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] mzatari:
Thanks, does this vid warranty?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] antoniskox:
Me to..is a litle strange

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhjw2011:
I still seem to be getting 2 or 3 random reboots every day. Is anyone else getting these. It never happened on the earlier beta releases.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] olafsand:
No reboots here. Latest beta. Never havent had reboots with betas.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
Works fine in the latest beta. I had issues with it in earlier betas but not any more...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] DanielZGK:
It works once after restart and then appears on display the message from beta: "due beta test some errors may occur..."
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Talkrabb:
Until today I had only one reboot (in beta 3).

Disabled a most bloatware with EZ disabler.

ROM is perfect for me: fast, smooth and battery saving.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nomaj:
Downloading .....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rhjw2011:
Just installed the new update. Hopefully this fixes my reboot issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheDogg07:
Nice!!!

Working well?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fumis:
I update to nougat whet it came out. And after that I never find any OTA updates. Doe's anyone know what problem it can be?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Schrotty35:
Beta 5 is not new. Its out for 3 or 4 days.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3514582

Edit ok its new. Its beta 6 real.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SergioA:
Did you subscribe to the official beta program from Samsung?

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fumis:
I guess I didn't. And now registration is closed, yes?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] violin.siva:
Without registration how could you update nougat? Maybe you would have dereigisterd by mistake. Or you have manually flashed beta 1 with odin.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fumis:
I flashed it with odin ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] violin.siva:
Then you will not receive updates dude.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zyuina:
Well they saw nougat on it so my device is apparently marked illegal now. Aka warranty void? I went to the service point in Den Bosch & had contact with Samsung NL on facebook & The Thread on samsung support. So basically they won't ever help me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] N-way:
So much for the beta ending mid-December ;)

but seriously, it's a little strange that Samsung keeps issuing new 7.0 beta builds when they are supposedly working on and going to release 7.1 shortly.

I guess it is just a reminder to always takes these "announcements" with a grain of salt.

Minor as the changes in 7.1 may be, it still needs to go through quite a lot of testing before it's released.

The way I see it there are a few options:

1. The 7.1.x news was premature.. Samsung will release 7.0 with some back-porting of features. If this is the case, an official release in the first-second week of January would make sense.

2. Samsung will indeed skip 7.0 official release. In that case the first beta 7.1 build will arrive in early January with hopefully an official release in February - March.

3. The entirety of the current beta test was not for Android 7.x on GS7/GS7E - but a beta test for Samsung Experience UI. In that case, it is conceivable that we will never see a beta of 7.1 prior to an official release.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kemby13:
I can +1 all of your claims. If you ask me, even if Sammy decides to skip 7.0 and go directly to 7.1.1, i think we wont see the official firmware before late february. But if it turns out to be false news, we could expect official 7.0 in january, with 7.1.1 beta also coming out in january for those who are participating in the beta programe... Official 7.1.1, hmm, just like you said - late february or early march.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] chrisjwild:
I'm on beta 5 but just got another software update notification. But there is nothing when I do a software check.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
I agree. If th eery decide to go direct to 7.1.1 nougat will only come by March before s8.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] heblu:
There is also a slight possibility for us to have N 7.0 in January and 7.1 after galaxy S8 hits market
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersepian:
My screen started flashing sometimes after latest beta update. Anybody else experiencing this??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Teufelia:
Im running the zpk4 beta. flashed via odin. Will the phone recive the official update when it becomes available? Or do i have to do someting to get it? If so what? :p
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SpotTech:
You must reflash it with the new firmeware, if you don't register in beta pprogram you can't receive any ota update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Teufelia:
I know that, but om thinking more like when the beta ends, and they release 7.0 or 7.1 official
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
Nobody knows. We can only speculate.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] decker39:
Hi guys, has anyone got any wifi issues with the latest beta ? I've not experienced any connection issues with any of the betas apart from this one ( ZPLN )Mine appears to be dropping in & out quite a lot. No connection problems with the ISP, router etc
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ujco:
I'm on ZPLN, no problems with WiFi stability here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] decker39:
A factory reset fixed it ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] RedC:
Gesendet von meinem SM-G930F mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] vladmir:
Some times it's drops but in free hotspots it's drops more often.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] decker39:
No problems whatsoever after the factory reset :good: running super smooth
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] vladmir:
I already tried.... I will wait for official realese and I will do a fresh install.

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sendhiloo7:
Is it possible to flash different csc without data lose..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] decker39:
From what i've read, if you do flash a different CSC it will delete your data
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sendhiloo7:
???. Thanks for your reply.. missing volte in India
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] takerhbk:
OP3 also gets final nougat update. Cmon Samsung. We can do it before Huawei at least.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cosmic1:
Hi all. hoping for a little advice if possible. i tried out this fw and it is/was awesome. ive had to flash back to mm because i shut down my phone over night once and when i went to switch on in the morning it suffered complete bootloop. it took an hour to get it onto recovery screen to delete cache partition. and then that didnt even stop the bootloop so had no choice but to go back to mm. thing is i cant stand mm now and want to use the beta rom i already have again but im worried itll do it again and leave me without a working phone if im away working. any ideas how i can garauntee loop wont happen again on this fw G930FXXU1ZPK4?

thanks in advance for any advice:good:

my device is SM-G930F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] yosef019:
ZPLN is latest beta no bootloops

If you registered to the beta update to the last one
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sendhiloo7:
I revert back to Marshmallow ROM, But I haven't received latest OTA. Can someone tell me how to de register beta member.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] violin.siva:
Just install beta program apk and deregister.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sendhiloo7:
I tried .. but getting server error.. even I tried Samsung members app too
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] violin.siva:
When you deregister your csc must be btu
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cosmic1:
thankyou. but i didnt register i just installed fw from this thread. i cannot get the latest beta :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nidalius:
Apparently the G935FXXU1DPLR is available

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cosmic1:
any idea where i can find it at all? assuming it'll work on my g930f?