Samsung Galaxy S7
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I've had my s7 for about 6 weeks now and pretty disappointed with it to be honest. For context I came from an HTC M7.
It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
JackReacher said:
I've had my s7 for about 6 weeks now and pretty disappointed with it to be honest. For context I came from an HTC M7.
It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
Are you using the built in browser? I tend to use chrome but have never had an issue with the built in one.It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
The phone won't pick up adware, you must have installed an app with it. I'd go back over your installed apps and see which one it is likely to be.
Never had issues with sound quality but you may be used to better audio.
JackReacher said:
I've had my s7 for about 6 weeks now and pretty disappointed with it to be honest. For context I came from an HTC M7.
It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
Number 2 is the most likely contributor to Number 1 so it's not necessarily the phone - would likely be the case with any hardware you had!It's certainly quicker, has a fantastic screen, great camera and I like the size and feel of it.
However, there are a number of problems:-
1. The web browser will crash trying to load a page. If I open a new tab it will work fine. This seems to happen most days.
2. It seems to have picked up some adware, with some pop up congratulating me on a price with amazonnws message. Never had any such issues with the old HTC.
3. Sound quality with headphones and without is not as good. I was sort of expecting this given the M7 was well specced there, but with the other issues it's just annoying me.
Beginning to wish I had gone for an HTC 10, but it's now going to cost me significantly to make the switch
Just bought the "duos" version of the S7 Edge after my LG G4 dual sim failing with a known boot loop hardware issue (shame on LG who're slow and uninterested in fixing a 9 month old phone)
Samsung in their wisdom seem to think people either want dual sim or extended memory on their phones. with the 2nd sim sharing the location of the Micro SD card. After a little googling I discovered the solution, stick the 2nd sim on the memory card.
Dissolve the plastic rear of the sim card and remove the chip and contact strip off the 2nd sim using acetone.
Trim the sides of the contact so that it fits between the gap on the sim/memory card tray.
Glue the chip the the underside of the MicroSD card paying attention to the orientation and position (note the pencil lines on the tray to line up the gaps in the contacts)
Job done. The phone now allows both sim cards to be active simultaneously along with the extra SD card.
I'm liking the phone so far aside from the gimmick of the rounded screen. It's tricky to use when menus and buttons are placed on the corner. I'm sure I'l get used to it and it does feel nicer in the hand.
Samsung in their wisdom seem to think people either want dual sim or extended memory on their phones. with the 2nd sim sharing the location of the Micro SD card. After a little googling I discovered the solution, stick the 2nd sim on the memory card.
Dissolve the plastic rear of the sim card and remove the chip and contact strip off the 2nd sim using acetone.
Trim the sides of the contact so that it fits between the gap on the sim/memory card tray.
Glue the chip the the underside of the MicroSD card paying attention to the orientation and position (note the pencil lines on the tray to line up the gaps in the contacts)
Job done. The phone now allows both sim cards to be active simultaneously along with the extra SD card.
I'm liking the phone so far aside from the gimmick of the rounded screen. It's tricky to use when menus and buttons are placed on the corner. I'm sure I'l get used to it and it does feel nicer in the hand.
Tycho said:
Are you using the built in browser? I tend to use chrome but have never had an issue with the built in one.
The phone won't pick up adware, you must have installed an app with it. I'd go back over your installed apps and see which one it is likely to be.
Never had issues with sound quality but you may be used to better audio.
Thanks, uninstalled a few recent apps and it hasn't come back. Although web browser still freezes. I will try an alternative browserThe phone won't pick up adware, you must have installed an app with it. I'd go back over your installed apps and see which one it is likely to be.
Never had issues with sound quality but you may be used to better audio.
Try the yootech one, this is the one I settled down to after trying quite a few out.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01IY1KLZ0/ref...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01IY1KLZ0/ref...
My battery life of late has become pretty appalling, I'm struggling to get 12 hours of life (apart from overnight). I had the Samsung "Good lock" app which I removed as it was crap and life and some functionality has returned, but I'm really struggling with it.
A couple of things that eat the battery are "Media server" which seems to be Chrome related but generally I don't use it a huge amount - I play Clash of Clans on occasion - But even that isn't that much.
It's gradually getting worse so I may do a hard reset to see if that will cure it but I'm not hopeful.....
A couple of things that eat the battery are "Media server" which seems to be Chrome related but generally I don't use it a huge amount - I play Clash of Clans on occasion - But even that isn't that much.
It's gradually getting worse so I may do a hard reset to see if that will cure it but I'm not hopeful.....
drdino said:
Media server-possibly related to indexing. Do some google-fu related to that + battery drain.
I googled this a lot and the indexing bit came up, but what also came up was that it was Chrome related - I disabled Chrome and the Media Server entry went away. Lots of indexing fixing suggestions in Google, but the battery life problem remains even without Media Server
The 'media server' battery drain thing is related to a Chrome bug. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail...
The bug came in to Chrome update on the 3rd August - before that it was fine. I noticed the problem on mine during August and it was driving me nuts - took ages to figure out what it was!! Not sure if it has been fixed in Chrome yet, but there is a very simple fix.
Open up Chrome and type 'chome://flags' into the address bar. This takes you to the advanced settings page for Chrome.
Enable the setting "Disables the unified media pipeline on Android". (It's a bit counter intuitive - enabling the setting actually disables the feature!)
That's it - problem fixed!
The bug came in to Chrome update on the 3rd August - before that it was fine. I noticed the problem on mine during August and it was driving me nuts - took ages to figure out what it was!! Not sure if it has been fixed in Chrome yet, but there is a very simple fix.
Open up Chrome and type 'chome://flags' into the address bar. This takes you to the advanced settings page for Chrome.
Enable the setting "Disables the unified media pipeline on Android". (It's a bit counter intuitive - enabling the setting actually disables the feature!)
That's it - problem fixed!
walamai said:
The 'media server' battery drain thing is related to a Chrome bug. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail...
The bug came in to Chrome update on the 3rd August - before that it was fine. I noticed the problem on mine during August and it was driving me nuts - took ages to figure out what it was!! Not sure if it has been fixed in Chrome yet, but there is a very simple fix.
Open up Chrome and type 'chome://flags' into the address bar. This takes you to the advanced settings page for Chrome.
Enable the setting "Disables the unified media pipeline on Android". (It's a bit counter intuitive - enabling the setting actually disables the feature!)
That's it - problem fixed!
Thanks - I'll give that a goThe bug came in to Chrome update on the 3rd August - before that it was fine. I noticed the problem on mine during August and it was driving me nuts - took ages to figure out what it was!! Not sure if it has been fixed in Chrome yet, but there is a very simple fix.
Open up Chrome and type 'chome://flags' into the address bar. This takes you to the advanced settings page for Chrome.
Enable the setting "Disables the unified media pipeline on Android". (It's a bit counter intuitive - enabling the setting actually disables the feature!)
That's it - problem fixed!
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