Grrrrr. I was going to just wait till the replacement Note 7's were approved, but my husband and one son were making me feel guilty, like I was going to be the one responsible for torching the family, our four dogs, three parrots, and 25 neighbors! I tried out my other son's S7E and just couldn't do it. Plus the thought of a possible update to limit charging gave me the final push.
(I left BlackBerry's amazing keyboards very reluctantly almost four years ago, but could never use a touch - my finger tips are always so dry and cracked that it simply doesn't work. Actually almost couldn't have a background check done recently since only 5 fingers were registering prints. The guy had to really smash a 6th finger to get it done, lol! Also could never get the fingerprint scanner on the N4, 5 or 7 to work. So the S-Pen was/is a God-send. I type & swype with it, scroll, dial the phone, Action Memo & S-Note galore.)
Anyhow, went to my local VZW corporate store (they're always great) to ask for a Note 5 (been setting my old N5 up to give to my husband) . They're on top of this, and of the 10+ customers in the store, three of us were returning Note 7's. They said it's been a pretty steady flow. When she went to do the exchange I saw the box said 32GB. There's just no way. My 64GB N5 had about 5MB free when I switched to the N7. She said that she'd note

the account and to call customer service to do the exchange thru them.
I just got off an hour and 20 minutes call with them. OMG. Again...very nice, very helpful, but everything she tried to do wouldn't work. Got a supervisor and the two of them were overriding one thing after another! Finnnnnnally, they said I'll receive a new 64GB Note 5 on Fri. She also said my payment plan would just continue from the original purchase date of the N7, same when I exchange for the replacement N7 (so for the 24 months from Aug 19th).
Geeeeez.