Recent content by Kevin Demers

Has anyone exchanged a damaged Note 7 successfully? Was waiting to return mine until I bought a replacement, but failed one day short - have a broken front glass panel now. Can I still return it? Exchange it for a different phone? Only exchange it for a Note 7? My plan had been to Grab an...

Will likely wait until I get my replacement Note and try again - maybe it will clear up any hickups. This is all with a Bank of America Visa Chip Card.

Apparently my stores as just the worst? Tried at both a Target (no NFC, but Chip active) and a Shaws (NFC & Chip). At target I was prompted to insert the card, and at Shaws I was prompted to insert the card until I got NFC to register instead of MST. Not a good start so far and will probably...

So Samsung Pay seems great in theory, but in practice is more of a nightmare. The issues: Chip cards and Chip card readers. Scenario 1: Store doesn't accept NFC payments, but accepts Chip Cards -> Samsung Pay is 100% unuseable. MST swipe tells the reader that you have a chip card, reader tells...

Mine hasn't been much better. At the end of a work day I'm typically sitting at ~45 minutes of screen on time and ~70% battery. If I use it a bit more in the afternoon, I tend to put it on the charger with ~1.5 Hrs SOT and ~50% battery life. Extrapolated out it is about 3 hours of SOT. I...

Anyone up for doing some kind of repeatable test? I'm trying to compare my Battery Life to reviews as I feel I've gotten a Lemon. I saw one review quote 8-9 % battery life Streaming Netflix, but I lose closer to ~15% for an hour of Netflix on WiFi, with brightness at just a bit under 50%. This...

Well, anyone who is upset that they paid for Next Day shipping and didn't get their phones early - don't be. I had the same choice, stuck with 2-Day shipping, and am getting bit by the opposite problem: Verizon utterly failed in my shipment and didn't send it out until 8/18 - with 2-day...

Edit: Duplicate post. See post further down.

For about a week or two I was able to use Android Pay on my Verizon S7 Edge the normal way: unlock phone with my fingerprint and then just pay. Some event occured however (an update? something else?) that broke this behavior: now even if my phone is unlocked, if I go to use Android Pay it will...

Re: Change DPI scaling to condensed As a heads up, This absolutely DID break Android Pay/SafetyNet on my Verizon S7 Edge. It was a ***** to track down. So for me, in summary, this breaks Android Pay in the same way that the adb DPI modification method does.

Hello! So after a week of using Android Pay without problems, I recently ran into an issue where I would get the following error when I tried to use it: "Android Pay cannot be used" followed by "Google is unable to verify that your device or the software running on it is Android compatible"...

OP Is not crazy. 820 on Verizon here (S7 Edge), and can confirm all the behaviors indicated. This phone (like every Samsung Galaxy I've ever used) has a buttery problem. That is, things are just not buttery smooth. In most cases, most people don't notice it. Either they aren't bothered by the...