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Samsung is currently rolling out a fourth major Nougat update to Samsung Galaxy Beta Program Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge testers. This is the fifth build overall if you include a small Facebook bug fix that was rolled out earlier. The new update includes bug fixes. The update notes also mention...

It looks like Samsung is getting a head start on liquidating their Galaxy S7 accessories in preparation for the release of the Galaxy S8 next year. They have just heavily reduced the price of the Galaxy S7 Wireless Charging Battery Pack Cover. This is one of the coolest accessories by Samsung in...

I was recently able to update my Galaxy S7 Edge to the Beta build of Nougat. There have been plenty of nice changes in this update including better battery life with Doze On The Go, Split Screen, and other features. I just tried to use FoxFi and it appears that Nougat has killed the app. For...

I have been trying to install the Nougat beta on my Galaxy S7 Edge for a few weeks now. I wan not aware of the registration for the beta program, and by the time I found out about it all the spots were filled. Luckily I was able to find an update.zip file that had been pulled and was able to...

Thanks to some very resourceful Galaxy Beta testers we now have a method for installing the Beta build of Nougat on the Galaxy S7 Edge. So far users are reporting better speed and performance, better battery life, and are overall satisfied with the update. Installing the beta build is actually...

I have been doing my very best to get the Nougat Beta installed on my Galaxy S7 Edge. Apparently I am a bit late to the game. Samsung held open registration starting last week. Earlier in the week the Beta builds began to roll out over the air for those who had already registered. The only way...

Android Nougat may be just around the corner for the Galaxy S7. It would only stand to reason that Samsung is now able to sink all their resources into S7 and S7 edge development now that the Note 7 has been cancelled. Hopefully this means faster all around updates for the S7 now that the S7 is...

If you had to return your Note 7 due to the cancellation of the device you may find yourself moving over to the Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge which would be my personal recommendation. Samsung is doing their best to try to make these two devices enough to hold you over until the next Note device is...

Now that the Note 7 has been cancelled, what will Samsung do to try to recover some of the $17Billion they will lose from Note 7 sales? We are still five months from the Galaxy S8 launch so there is this large gap where we won't have a new flagship device from Samsung. This means that the latest...

We know that Samsung is currently testing their Nougat update on the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge which means that a release for the update is imminent. Of course we know that carrier variants will receive the update weeks or months after the unlocked variants. Apparently the upcoming Nougat update...

The most annoying thing about the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge Root is that it adds these obnoxious notification icons to your notification bar. After rooting your Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge you will see a huge "hurricane looking" icon in the notification bar, this is the RCS service icon. You...

One of the coolest features of Touchwiz devices is the included theme manager. In the olden days of Android you would need to flash a custom rom after unlocking your bootloader if you wanted to use a theme. Even then most themes were Rom specific, and it could take hours to round up a theme you...

Xposed Framework your one stop shop for all mods. What makes Xposed so special is the fact that it only requires root. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge US Qualcomm variants just received root. We still do not have an unlocked bootloader on these devices and there is currently no way to install TWRP or...

CyanogenMod vowed years ago that they would not support any devices with an Exynos processor. Exynos processors just aren't user friendly. Samsung is slow to release source code for the Exynos lineup of processors. When code is released it is often far from workable. This has driven Cyanogen...

The good news is that the US variants of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are now rooted! The bad news is that this is one of the sloppiest roots ever. The root method utilizes an Engineering Bootloader. The EngBoot leaked from Samsung is made specifically for testing and firmware bring up. It...

For most of us Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge users especially those of us with the Verizon variant, Root was just a vague memory from fun times of devices past. Verizon and AT&T have locked down all their devices making them nearly impossible to root and rom over the past few years. This has been...

When the Galaxy S7 released here in the US we were all pretty happy to see that the device came loaded with a Snapdragon 820 chip. Qualcomm processors have always been pretty well received by the development community. Then we found out that no US variant would come with an unlockable...

Here is a video on how to teardown the S7 Active

Samsung has not had the best track record when it comes to Android updates. They tend to update devices one by one and one carrier version may have an update several months ahead of the next carrier version. Samsung has still not provided Marshmallow for every flagship version. Google meanwhile...

I have been using the HTC 10 as my daily driver device over the past week, and there is one feature from the Galaxy S7 Edge that I am really missing. The HTC 10 does not have an always on display equivalent. While many have complained about the Always on Display I have really enjoyed Samsung's...