Galaxy S7 Edge - early issues thread

[Bryant Laney]

My always on display moves all over it doesn't stay at the top portion of the screen sometimes it's at the bottom or middle or off center.

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[zipro]

My always on display moves all over it doesn't stay at the top portion of the screen sometimes it's at the bottom or middle or off center.

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I would think that's intentional (to prevent screen burn-in, which can happen on AMOLED displays)?

 

[Bryant Laney]

That would make sense actually it doesn't even annoy me now thanks.

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[inffy]

Has anyone had the issue with the SD card mounting and remounting?

Nope, no problems with my device

 

[nnbadboy]

I have the edge, snap dragon T-Mobile version. I am coming from the note 5 and have a few problems similar to that. The phone was hot like others say but that went away after a day. The screen lags a bit when scrolling on Web pages and I believe theverything animation might be set high because its slower to open apps and transition between screens. The screen seems overly responsive as it constantly opens links when scrolling and clicks links very annoying night be a combination of the scroll lag. Any ideas? Also the keyboard lags and can keep up at times when typing fast happens a lot in the messaging app and hangouts app. The great thing about it is the battery life, I was able to get 5 hours and 45 minutes of on screen time the last 3 days. To me that is phenomenal I wasn't even able to get 3 hours out of my note 5. And the camera is amazing expecially in low light.

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

Have you gone into developer mode and turned down the animations? I've done that for every Samsung I've had and it works wonders. I will be doing that within 5 seconds of turning on my 7 Edge for the first time.

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[Cakefish]

Interesting as the Exynos doesn't lag or stutter at all in all the webpages I've tried (I've browsed image heavy sites like IGN, Android Central, BBC etc.). It would make sense though as Anandtech have found that Android web browsers are heavily multi-threaded.

 

[bhatech]

Chrome sucks, use Samsung browser with ad blocker and you will see it's as smooth as Safari on iOS.

 

[cwoms167]

Are all the us models snap dragon

 

[cwoms167]

Didn't they use the exynos last year and people were satisfied? Why would they go back

 

[ThrottleJohnny]

Agreed. The Samsung browser is a powerhouse compared to Chrome.

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[zipro]

Didn't they use the exynos last year and people were satisfied? Why would they go back

I think they just can't make enough of them

 

[mike3000]

I have found 2 minor issues so far. One issues is that I have disabled the lookout security app, but somehow it manages to enable itself after few days, which means I have to disable it again.

A 2nd issue is that when my phone is on vibrate on occasion, I still gets sounds from notifications. Turning sound back on and then back to vibrate fixes the issue.

 

[capncoad]

Agreed. The Samsung browser is a powerhouse compared to Chrome.

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I've always noticed that Chrome has run extremely poorly on Samsung phones, because when I switched to the Nexus 6P, Chrome was super fast. I even did side by side page loading between the Chrome browser on the Samsung phone and the Chrome browser on the Nexus 6P and it wasn't even a contest. It was like two different browsers were running. The Samsung browser was the only thing that came close to Chrome on the Nexus. So something is up with that.

(This was the S6 Edge btw)

 

[Dubss]

I think the Exynos was a better chip then the snapdragon 810. But the 820 has been revised totally different chip heating should not be and issue

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[KimJongOMG]

I've always noticed that Chrome has run extremely poorly on Samsung phones, because when I switched to the Nexus 6P, Chrome was super fast. I even did side by side page loading between the Chrome browser on the Samsung phone and the Chrome browser on the Nexus 6P and it wasn't even a contest. It was like two different browsers were running. The Samsung browser was the only thing that came close to Chrome on the Nexus. So something is up with that.

(This was the S6 Edge btw)

Samsung optimizes its own apps for their phones. Supposedly Sammy has optimized the living hell out of the stock browser for this run of Galaxy phones.

 

[milehigherik]

My always on display moves all over it doesn't stay at the top portion of the screen sometimes it's at the bottom or middle or off center.

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I would prefer to not have the image burned into my screen?

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[inffy]

I would prefer to not have the image burned into my screen?

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And it won't as it moves all the time. These burn in stuff are totally stupid

 

[mrkalel]

Samsung optimizes its own apps for their phones. Supposedly Sammy has optimized the living hell out of the stock browser for this run of Galaxy phones.

Yeah... It's ridiculous how horrible Chrome runs... Also in app browsing as well (Twitter etc).
I hope an update fixes that.

 

[runamonk]

Removed.