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Last week the Galaxy S7 finally received its official update to Nougat. You may be wondering exactly what all is new in the latest build. Here is a list of what has changed. -More color in the phone app -Battery usage in settings has been cleaned up -App folders are transparent -New blue light...

While both the Moto Z and Moto Z Force have already received their updates to Nougat the Moto Z Play is still waiting on the sidelines to joing the fun. Motorola has not given any confirmation as to when they plan on releasing the update however Koodo Mobile has just dropped a hint honing in on...

We have had official SuperSU for Nougat for a while now, but upon rooting with current builds of SuperSU some users have been experiencing bootloops. This actually happened to me when I rooted Nougat on the Nexus 6P. My phone started to bootloop when the battery hit 20%. That exact bug had been...

The day has finally arrived! Samsung is now rolling out the Official Stable builds of Nougat to S7 and S7 Edge devices. I am currently running the beta build and have not seen the update on my device, but I have seen many others who are reporting that the update is coming through on their...

One of the last remaining operable versions of the Note 7 is finally dead today. Verizon decided to pull the trigger and send out the battery killing update to the last of the Note 7 devices on their network. The update brings the software version to N930VVRS3APL2. Once you accept the update you...

Samsung has been working on perfecting their Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge for the past few months now. I have been running the Beta build of Nougat on my Galaxy S7 Edge for a good 3 weeks now and I have to say it has been very smooth and mostly bug free. The only issue that I have...

Over the holiday weekend the co-founder of OnePlus let us know that he would be sending out Beta builds of Nougat to OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T units. Of course owners of the phone were not satisfied with Beta builds, as stable builds were promised by the end of 2016. A few hours after the beta...

We are nearly to the first of the year and we still don't have a stable build of Nougat for Galaxy S7 devices. That is about to change though as Samsung has wrapped up the Nougat beta program for the S7 and S7 edge. The beta program has been running strong for the past few months. I have...

One of the main selling points to the Nexus lineup was the promise that they would be among the first to receive updates from Google when new versions of the Android OS came out. Google has done an excellent job at keeping even some of their older devices updated. They have already officially...

The day of reckoning is finally here. If you are on T-Mobile and you are still trying to use your Note 7 you will soon find that your device can no longer accept a charge. The new update is labeled N930TUVU2APL2. T-mobile's support page says that the once the update is received you will get a...

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 seems like 2015 was the year of live video. I can remember spending hours per week on Periscope. Of course there were a few scopers that I followed pretty regularly, but I also found it very interesting to pick a place on a map and see what random scopers were up to. One of my family's...

It is no surprise that Pokemon has just announced an update adding a few new Pokemon to the game. This would happen to be a peak season for a game like Pokemon. Over the next several weeks people will be taking time off work and kids will be on Christmas break. The peak of the Pokemon Go craze...

It should come as no surprise that Verizon will not be sending out the Galaxy Note 7 bricking update. Actually that was just a bit of sarcasm as Verizon has been known in the past for being the last to release updates. However this time Verizon claims to have a pretty good reason to not release...

One of the main issues that arrived early on with the Pixel and Pixel XL was an issue with Band 4 LTE which meant mediocre to terrible 4G reception for some users. Bugs like these are normal early on and are the sacrifices early adopters are generally willing to make in order to use the latest...

HTC is now officially rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to the HTC 10. I have not actually used the HTC 10 in quite a while but this update may be enough to get me to pull the phone out of my desk drawer. HTC mentioned the update would be coming soon on November 24th through their twitter account...

It is officially time to dust off the old Note 5. Samsung is officially rolling out their Grace UX to the latest Galaxy Note device you can actually still use. Grace UX is a very slimmed down version of the familiar Touchwiz UI. The UX also comes with a flatter more Material look. There are also...

The Nougat update is finally rolling out to the LG G5 on Sprint. Sprint is officially the first US carrier to offer the update to the LG G5. The file size is 1.2GB so you should probably download it over wifi. The kernel version will be updated to 3.18.31 the build number will be LS992ZV8. Of...

Motorola has started sending out the official over the air updates to Android 7.0 Nougat for the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. We know exactly what all has changed in the update thanks to the official changelog that Verizon has posted. The new build is labeled NCL25.86-11. Some new features included...

There are currently only a handful of devices out there with official Nougat builds. The Pixel, Pixel XL and LG V20 are among those, but it looks like a few other devices are beginning to receive the update right now. According to some reddit users Verizon is already starting to force push the...