[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] FerroChrome99:
New version with edits, well no edits, more problems, tangents, and targeted keywords for other forums so the Google, Samsung, AT&T super computers and whomever else is involved absorbs my writings. So something could change. Don't forget to cut out the impulse paragraphs related to other projects.

I'm replying to your comment for many reasons, I'm also going to tell you to read entire article I'm writing. Minus the obv and not so obv material. What I write will be edited and posted on other sites. I'm usually not the one having to post. Or even review unless something is spectacular. I am not a troll. Only an individual looking for answers on how to make or adjust to stock performance or better. Minus the battery cycle wear of a 2 yr old phone almost but only purchased and activated 14 months ago. Now to begin.

I have the main problem of the OS drain. I haven't been able to fix it. Although I haven't tried App reset as suggested. In general battery life is horrendous compared to Marshmallow or Lollipop. Oh I'm rocking an AT&T Samsung Note 5. Sorry for not mentioning earlier. I mean beyond horrible battery life. I went from having total on screen time with about 1/4 brightness of 7-8 hrs now down to 2,3,4 hrs if I milk it, adjust everything just so, so my phone is that of an LCD circa 2013, 2012, maybe 2014. This is a dumb problem to have, and one that has retarded progress on millions of phones. I don't use the retarded word like it's historically been used. Its meaning twisted around to the point not only its meaning was abused, adulterated/s bastardized, turned into a derogatory and nasty term. Whatever you see fit to describe the disgusting adaption to the group of ppl we all know. Whom are no different, less than, they are in fact not only equal. But better than us.

However, its true and original meaning fits here. The Nougat update has retarded the progress of millions of phones, plagued them by similar problems. Including newly released phones. This is unacceptable, hence my vehement response. To throw vocab out the window, I'm super pissed I can no longer trust my smartphone for business and pleasure. Now to next problem.

My stock Samsung Keyboard is still plagued by the same issues others have complained about. As I write this I'm using Swift Key. It's working perfectly I guess but complete garbage. I can't type as fast. Can anyone please explain to me why on my Samsung Keyboard after Nougat Update, every misspelled word automatically gets saved into your "word" dictionary above for your auto spell and word creation? Then won't allow you to delete some variations. It was awesome before. Now complete crap. Equally important. The word prediction and auto correct bar disappears when you to Google.com or Google search bar. Makes zero sense. Nougat ruined the keyboard.

I don't want to use Gboard. The permissions are outrageous. There's so many problems. I know I'm forgetting major problems. Oh when you do have a normal, perfect, correctly spelled word, that fits in the sentence, auto correct or prediction will change it to a word that doesn't in any sense fit what you're typing in that particular sentence and zero grammatical sense of any kind. Oh the spell check isn't worth a darn because it saves any accidental misspelling.

I've also lost a quadrant on my touchscreen where the S Pen no longer works. I've switched tips, done the ususal. When using my hands in the same area it's without issue or I'd have lost the ability to type this essay. No, the screen isn't cracked, phone has only been dropped a few times, in case, with my feet breaking the fall and not recently. The area is in the right hand middle side of the phone. I'm wondering if glass screen protector is interfering somehow. Although historically its never been an issue. It could've started when I had to change S Pen tips. But I believe it coincides with a stupid AT&T security patch and or previous update. Nougat hasn't helped.

Now, my PRO MODE on the Camera. This has been a problem for many of y'all, I thought mine was gone, searched forums, wiped the cache partition of phone. And before you ask, that didn't help keyboard issues neither. But I fixed it! This is how and or why. Choose your method.

Today, I downloaded some more camera settings like food, and portrait mode I didn't have before from Samsung App store. I now have pro mode back. There's two ways this worked. Downloading the new camera options or me not realizing that swiping left and right revealed these settings. I'm schmedium when it comes to being tech savvy. It depends on the situation. I thought I knew my Note 5 in and out until the Nougat Update.

I'm also getting constant App crashes. Of all kinds. I've never had this problem before EVER!!! Sorry for dbag caps and excess exclamation points. To me it's insane how one update can more or less ruin a perfectly running flagship. As we all know until Note 8 drops my Note 5 is the top hahaha, I. Digress. I also bought it new for just over 400 bucks May 2016. Thanks to a couple breaking up etc...leasing phones is the biggest scam Phone carriers have ever come up with. Most times. Very very few exceptions. Any solutions or those with similar problem?

Now back to App crashes. I had system crash app icon pop up on my screen as they when this happens. I pushed the send feedback button and ripped them a new one. As I have been doing for all crashes. But nothing happened. It's terrible. I don't want to do a full factory reset. I tried using a couple of the apps that backup and save all app data, sms, etc. But I made a drastic mistake. I'm in the middle of a move and don't have my desktop set-up yet. Go ahead and laugh hahahaha, but it kicks ass and I need it. But these backup programs saved everything to my internal storage instead of going to my Onedrive app/account. Or uploading the files afterwards. The huge problem was it ate up all my storage. Even after I uninstalled the Apps I had to search through everything deleting these backups.

My phone is fine now. Minus the above problems, along with almost all side effects of Nougat update. In fact my phone maybe cleaner then it ever was to a point. There's some pictures even on this phone, uploaded to the cloud, and on an phone I cannot allow myself to delete. But I'm still searching for some of the excess files. From my failed extra backup attempts. This Nougat problem has me all messed up. Unable to fix simple problems, research their soltions, or find a way around etc..... Please help. Solutions? Guidance? Legit guidance please.

I don't want to root my phone. I have been using package disabler pro since I basically purchased the phone. As we all know. Even if you disable and uninstall updates from the apps you choose not to use. The next time you get an OTA update with a new app etc...that needs the app you have disabled on your phone it will reinstall and "turn on" the disabled app through your typical settings. That's why Package Disabler Pro is needed and so valuable. I realize this turned into an essay. I'm sorry. I'm only desperate for help. Any solutions?

When I make a call or answer a call. It's as if it's on speakerphone, when I don't have it on speakerphone. I toggle back and forth between speakerphone and regular to no avail. All volume is directed to bottom speaker and none to the typical speaker up top between the sensors and front facing camera. Any solutions?

Part of the next section, at the beginning at least is one of my large problems. The rest is a self test of something that needs to be written anyways. Some people will rip on me because it doesn't apply to the forum etc...Please still help me with the problems I've stated. If not, enjoy the reading and maybe we can chat privately or on other forums. Skip to end for a test result of battery and other's.

As you all know by now phone has gone bonkers. It's getting me angry enough to go buy the newest IPhone when it comes out. But the 8 is rumoured to have serious problems, and much of what is and was being promised could be out. Please skip on ahead to my paragraphs on phones past and present. When I mean past I mean one generation in Samsung years.

But then I would need to spend hundreds of dollars putting in a new head unit in my 2000 Land Rover Discovery II. I need a headphone jack for the tape deck adapter to play music and hear GPS or anything through speakers. That's right I said tapedeck hahaha.

I sold my 2011 Sonata because I put on enough miles where the delta of payments left and.value reached the point where I would be losing money. With what was left on the loan. So I sold it, with only 68k miles or so.I purchased it with less than 11,200 miles. Literally an old dude usec it to make grocery store runs. I got the deal of the century. Especially when my trade in truck was a 2006 F150 Lariat Supercrew, two tone black and champagne with Lincoln grill. Not just for looks. Let the radiator breath better. Most importantly a not 100% all fixed after a drunk driver sideswiped me and 5 other vehicles. All State is evil and wouldn't fix unsafe axle. Pulled the wool over the Hyundai dealership. Brought her in on Sunday, no one to test drive, only turn on engine hahaha. Now to tie this all in, I made a few hundred bucks, or so and bought the Rover from a family friend. As for the Sonata, Magnificent car fyi. I'm 6'8" tall and in most respects, especially legroom in passengers seat, I had more room than any of my trucks.

Believe it or not. With the knee cutouts, knee airbags, the Ford Fiesta base model was also fantastic. It was a cheaper option to buy a 2011 new, when I was working in Boston. But commuting 90 miles each way. I had the 99 F250 7.3 diesel truck up to 22-25mpg if I behaved myself going 62-65 MPH. I'm saving up for the next two years and then buying a "new used" truck all cash in 2-3 years. Let someone take the instant depreciation and find a gem. Then make it last for 15-18 years minimum. It will be an expensive "second" dream truck. Already bought and sold my first 99 F250 superduty diesel after college in 08.' Jacked her way up, treated her well but would go through any mud bog, rock trail,.sketchyness etc... To get to fishing holes seen on Google maps without roads leading to them.

I'm sorry and happy for writing all this. Part of the truck part needed to be written for a letter. It's been a battery test timing this, words per minute, which is abysmal. I'm accustomed to firing off hundreds of emails a day when my back isn't messed up. But on low low brightness. This has taken just over 100 minutes to this point, with swift key being horrid, and having to monitor other app crashes and reports. Timing doesn't include what's after this. I would say I've been 10-20 words per minute.

My normal even with my freakishly large hands is an avg of at least 90 words per minute. Thank you old school Blackberries I had for work and play from 07-2011. They trained me well hahaha. With swift key adding extra periods, making me constantly backspace. Just like Samsung Keyboard. At least it's only periods and not incessant misspellings, along with misspelled words that also somehow have a space in them and can't be deleted. For instance del eted. By some kind of slut/skank magic. (Pls don't remove whole post for last sentence) That spelling of deleted and other's, including words that aren't even words in other languages. I extensively checked. But still doesn't account for gap, and inability to delete. Then when you do hold down the word and you select delete this word. It doesn't go away. This phone is about to find its way into the Intra Coastal waterway, bayou, or sweet Southern Georgia ocean on an upcoming roadtrip.

I'll get laughed out of here, f_ck the app gap, and some idiosyncrasies. If I can find a brand new old stock AT&T Nokia Lumia 1520. Yes a Windows Phone. That allegedly was supposed to get upgraded to Windows 10 from.8.1. Long story short. As dumb as I sound. If someone has a new old stock AT&T Nokia Lumia 1520 or who can point me in the direction of someone who can completely fix and possibly upgrade my barely working one. It needs a new digitizer, badly, along with a battery. And a brand new AT&T never been open until you test for me..... See very last paragraph.

Besides my BB curve and other models up to 2011 when I purchased my first Android. An HTC Evo 3D. Then in 2012 an IPhone 4s then in early 2014 the Lumia 1520. Now Note 5 from May 2016 until I see something I believe is worth the money. The simplicity, fluidity, attention to detail, and efficiency of the Lumia 1520 beat anything on the market at the time, and still would be my daily driver. With an upgraded chip I bet it would beat a ton of phones on the Market.

I like, hell might even love Touchwiz! Somewhat reminds me of my BlackBerry's. Stock Android bores the heck out of me. Puts me to sleep while using it. I had a Moto G when I drove for Uber in CT when Uber first matriculated up the 95 corridor out of NYC, before everyone and their grandma signed up to drive. Like net 2500k a week working less than 40 hours muahaha. I averaged that for about 3-4 months before ppl figured it out, and Uber started advertising... I had to Uber while I could before my back got worse. It was fun. I normally run/Manage Scrap Yards aka Metals Recycling. It reminded me of, and got me as close to daily interaction of all kinds of people from all walks of life etc....

I was partially forced to leave my adoptive homeland of the South, LA, SC, GA mainly GA and LA, Geaux Tigers! To come back to CT where famiy is just over 2-yrs ago for back surgery. What I thought would be a quick 6-9 months with surgery has turned into me trapped in the Yankee stronghold I fled @ 18 for LSU. So, I was born up here but the South stole my heart. Just like the plains and Mountains West of the Mississippi River that has fulltime water. But I'll take Baton Rouge, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Aiken, Columbia, SC, basically most of the SEC. Except Kentucky, Sorry guys but all y'all more MidWest. Doesn't mean the State isn't beautiful, but Aiken, SC I believe, I did live there. Has the second largest concentration of horse tracks, farms, trainers, polo fields, training grounds, anything you need..for a town of 30k or so outside Kentucky/Louisville. Who knows what CA has, but they will eventually run out water.

Lucky for me I opted out of all their shiznit because they owe me money. I digressed, again but the point was, that 4G cheap Moto G didn't perform faster, obv my Note 5 was and is quicker. As an exaggeration diehard stock android fanatics would have you believe it should. I still have it, to activate on Straightalk or similar in an Emergency setting. Getting back to the real point.

Also, the opposite navigation buttons compared to most or all other Androids. Idk there might be some niche Android phone manufacturers whose layout is similar to that of Samsung. Oh, as for my 1520. It had living Images a year or more before Apple stole it. I have no idea if Microsoft sold, leased, gets royalties, bent Apple over because Cupertino needed something new, as Microsoft's foray into phone manufacturing caught on. I love live tiles as the Windows OS has. Plus. Hands down the best keyboard and predictive word and spelling engine ever. I want Microsoft to sell Samsung the patent rights to live tiles. Just like I had an always on display on the 1520 years before S7.

I'M not bashing, only wondering how these things happen, then marketed as new. Which makes all these Nougat issues on legacy and new models egregious. Just like the price of an IPhone.

Although any Samsung, or other phone to fully work on AT&T has to originally made for AT&T. Not a GSM carrier but badged AT&T. This is according to some forums some of which were in AT&T itself. Its customers,.not corporate. As I'm researching the Essential Phone/brand. Please help me clarify. This issue when it comes to HD voice or AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, video calling "through AT&T app" I use Skype, that's the rub, most of what allegedly doesn't translate to international/GSM unlocked for all. And, like the IPhone the Essential phone has all bands to go between say Verizon or AT&T. Now for my conclusion.

I think it's insane the Samsung S8+ has the same camera as the S7 with a few tiny tweaks, same amount of memory. I love the 6.2" screen. I mean really love. My 1520 was 6". I did feel a huge difference going to the 5.7" of the Note 5. I'm certain there's efficiency errrrr directives in the firmware and hardware to make it faster than previous generations. Especially the 10nm chipset. But for the price of a very nice laptop. Or.heck yall. My hands are large enough for a tablet that can make calls. I expect better. We as a consumer deserve better. This obsession with thinness. Who cares. Most people I've ever talked to wanted larger batteries and a product that didn't bend in their pocket, or feel downright dainty. The slightly larger battery and stagnant 4GB memory won't be sufficient down the road as updates, non removal battery, and other drawbacks besides the expandable memory.

Most of my friends, peers, acquaintances, are 29-32. We're the upper generation of Millenials who graduated college in 08-09, a portion in 2010. We are not cheap by any means. We and I especially look for the biggest bang for our dollar. That will last a long time. We don't have a problem with patience, I/We like to pay cash for phones, houses, cars, trucks, and save save save. On the other hand. If something breaks. For instance a flagship phone that's over a year old. I or we would rather pickup a used, new but cheap, to fill the gap until we see something that we know is going to last and be truly special. It boggles my mind how for so many years people have purchased IPhone's with very small incremental changes. I'd love to meet the real marketing guys who turned Apple into a cult. I think the 7s and 7s Plus will compete directly with the IPhone 8. Oops hahaha

This goes for Samsung. They're getting closer to direct to consumer selling. There's an ongoing Groupon ad 200 bucks off S8 S8+ However. I don't want an edge screen. I want flat, with bezels, less fragile. The size is perfect on the S8+ . I have to say it's about time. I really hope the Note8 is something special. It needs at least 6-8GB of ram. Internal memory starting at 128 then expandable to 1TB. It's not Samsung's fault SD cards don't hold more. Oh, and finally a removable battery. And more Apps for SPen. Option to upgrade updates. Security patches can come through. However, the consumer should have the choice to update. Like Apple. As I recall from ownership updates were alright until you had to basically wipe all apps etc. From your phone. Then update, have the possibility it will brick your phone, or majorly slow it down.

I will abandon a brand, platform, etc....unless. I'm satisfied. I'm extremely unsatisfied at the moment. It's taken me 3.75 hrs total write this. With little editing, copy and pasting to OneNote as a safety. My phone was at 93% went down to 26% before I plugged into charger. With functioning keyboard and device, this should've taken me right about an hour and 12_15% battery life if that. That's what it was like two months roughly. As AT&T automatically will update phone after you delay update 3 times. It's forced upon customers. I don't even have a contract. It's month to month, great plan etc..... All I've been doing is writing an essay that will stick out, with obvious tangents but tied into overall objectives. I'm hoping there's other people out there like me who have had the exact same problems but have found solutions.

Like I said, right now I'm looking for solutions to my stated problems, open to someone who has either 1. A brand new AT&T Note 5 never activated in box, 2. A way to fix and update, maybe a new chipset for my Nokia Lumia 1520.

Don't be surprised if you see this on other major forums. I want and need my phone as close to normal as possible. I'd also enjoy the products,companies,.ideas, I'm not aware of. I'm not interested in fanboys/fangirls/fanatics of Apple vs Android where it's personal attacks and neither party would ever purchase the other brand. I'm looking for conversations, solutions, research, products,

and of course the aforementioned real, and I mean completely untouched, hidden in a closet, forgotten about, hung on to during a divorce out of spite, Santa didn't count the boxes, Brand New, in box, hardly even touched, never activated, never registered an account, clean IMEI, AT&T Note 5 any color. And I mean the first time it ever feels a charge is when you plug it in to make sure it still charges to 100%. With my huge hands the edge screens don't work for me. That's why the S Pen is so important to me. My Index finger is over 2" around, and full wingspan of hand is about 12.88". That's measured tip of thumb to tip of ring finger splayed out on any hand. Imagine making a really wide hand turkey for Thanksgiving. Thats all folks. I'm sure I'm going to get a ton of anonymous negative responses. As that's what the internet is notorious for and why I rarely even review a product unless it's horrible and people need to be warned or the antithesis.

This took was 4.5hrs roughly, now over 5 hrs. I'm trying to undo an oops of some paragraphs that shouldn't be in this post. If my keyboards and phone was working properly I estimate 1.5hrs. Now 2hrs if working properly. Phone was charged again from 29% now 58% avg discharging speed is between 233-458mAh per hour. According to a couple battery apps. The Health of my battery is at 70% or less. Original capacity was/is 3000mAh. I'm still.doing Initial tests to compare with my own calculations. So apps are saying roughly 2100-2700mAh. Like I said not sure and dialing in. I could be what's considered a power user with the hospital stays from my back and being laid up. It's beginning to prove a not so secret hypothesis. Companies want you to upgrade every year. Who can actually afford that?

LET'S FIND THE PHONE COMPANY WHO MANUFACTURES FOR LONG TERM USE. OR EASILY REMOVABLE AND REPLACEABLE

PARTS BY THE CUSTOMER! WITH HIGH END SPECS!

Sincerely,

RW