Samsung to introduce bendable phones in 2017, says report (CNET Update)
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Samsung May Release Phones With Bendable Screens in 2017
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Burned too many times.....
1- Note 4 - Great phone, great battery, until Samsung force fed me Lollipop 5.0.1 and deliberately delayed the update to 5.1.1 which fixed a of the initial bugs when every other handset manufacturer was on 5.1.1 in no time. Reason? They knew the Note 4 got crippled because of this update and wanted to push people to upgrade to the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge+
2- Galaxy S6 edge+ 64GB, great phone for the first 3 days, then starts to lag like no tomorrow. Then it has a major bug all over XDA and Android Central Forums where the screen would be frozen after the phone goes on standby so any touches you make don't register for a awhile, then they all register at the same time causing the phone to go crazy. Also if the phone is on standby after being left alone for a while, when you receive a call, you won't be able to answer since your swipes to answer the phone call won't register.
Samsung issued a firmware update to fix this within weeks but it didn't fix it completely.
3- Galaxy S7, Great phone, great camera, snappy, horrible battery life, had to charge it 3 times a day and I am a very light user, even barely touching the phone and all app background refresh is off so it's not the apps. Standby time on Samsung is horrible on every phone. I see this in other YouTube real reviews by Flossy Carter as well
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
Do you guys remember "Earth: Final Conflict" sci-fi series had an roll-able display called an global, the series is from 1997
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This would be better than their "edge" technology. Never really saw any benefit to a more shatter-prone screen...
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Even with no root Android has kernel access for tools like Greenify to allow "root-like" access for controlling power drawing applications.
After a month of use, disabling built-in apps, being careful to monitor what I load, and tuning apps to reduce their power foot print, I now get 2-3 days usage on my Samsung S7 Edge between charges.
It's gotten so good I have forgotten a couple of times, and run the battery down below 25% charge, my usual "time to plug it in for sure, right now" level.
I have 2 other Android phones to play with if the desire arises.
I am really liking the Samsung S7 Edge, great photo's, great sound, super performance, amazingly readable clear text and video's on the OLED display.
The Edge tools are interesting, but I've disabled both Edges for now while focusing on the core functionality. I use the Always on Screen, and Night Screen - that probably helps with the run time too, as I don't need to turn on the screen to see time and charge level.
If the Samsung S7 Edge was an inch bigger it would be without complaint. Compared to my 6.4" Sony Xperia Z Ultra it seems small
I put the Samsung S7 Edge in a cool Samsung LED Flip Cover that has a slim profile and adequate protection. The case design gives me places to put my fingers off the "Edges", when I had the Edges enabled I didn't set them off unintended:
Oh yeah, the one thing the S7 Edge doesn't have that I wish it did, is a "Bendable Screen"Last edited: Jun 9, 2016Ethrem and Spartan@HIDevolution like this. -
I have my phone S-OFF and set up as a US unlocked phone. It's got later software than any of the carrier phones.
Root is systemless now so you can completely unroot, still take OTAs, etc. I usually MOD what I need to and then unroot for security.Heatshiver and hmscott like this. -
@Ethrem started an HTC 10 thread, you'll probably love disussing HTC 10 related stuff over there
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/htc-10.792080/#post-10265205
Although, strangely enough, when I go to the first page of that thread, it starts with post #4... no way to go to the prev/next page with posts #1-#3... first time I have seen that.
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I got a free Samsung Tab A 8" tablet with the Samsung S7 Edge, so I am spending time using that to access content too, probably helping the run time of the S7 Edge.
It's not the root'ing itself that's the issue, it's me fooling around with things and breaking something when I need to use the phone
Maybe when the Note "7" comes out that will be a good upgrade - larger screen, better CPU/memory - maybe larger built in storage - and storage expansion too.
Or, I'll wait for the Bendable Phones to make an appearance next yearLast edited: Jun 9, 2016Ethrem likes this. -
You have an Exynos or Snapdragon Edge? Because that's just plain not normal battery life.
I didn't have any problem pulling up the first posts in the HTC 10 thread so it seems fine.
I've never used Greenify before but I just used it for all but my games.hmscott likes this. -
Greenify can be used for everything, even system apps and games, as it doesn't do it's thing unless the app is idle, and there is a long enough delay to not interfere with usage.
You can exclude an app like Alarm Clocks, Calendar's, monitoring software, and anything that runs in the background long term that you don't want to get automatically hibernated.
I have the paid version of Greenify that enables more functionality.
Go to the settings and enable stuff, until you get an alert dialog that you need to enable access for Greenify, on the S7 Edge there are 2 such items.
Also, have it create the 2 icons for Hibernate Now - which does a manual Hibernate - don't touch the screen, be patient and wait for Greenify to go through all the background stuff and Hibernate them, you don't need to interact just wait for Greenify to go through the dialogs to Stop things.
The other Icon is to Hibernate + Lock Screen, same but you don't need to watch Greenify Hibernate stuff.
Those 2 tools are to catch the things you can't disable or stop starting in the background. For me they stay gone for a long time, so I only run the Hibernate Now manually a few times a day.
I try to remember to end my use by using the Hibernate + Lock app instead of the side button to turn off and lock the screen.
Be sure and Click the More button at the bottom of the Hibernate list to keep seeing more apps to mark for Hibernation, and use the More button at the drop down to show system apps. I rather disable than Hibernate, but some apps won't disable so Hibernating through Greenify is the best that can be done.Last edited: Jun 8, 2016Ethrem likes this. -
As for Greenify, HTC actually did a really great job keeping usage down with idle tasks (though there is a Wi-Fi driver bug that causes it to constantly stop and start but HTC just released new kernel source today so hopefully they fixed that) but a lot of my apps do things in the background so I Greenified all of them.hmscott likes this. -
The Samsung S7 Edge battery made it past 3 days 24 minutes, with 2 hours and 30 minutes charge remaining at 5%, then 4% with a battery alert
About 1 hr 30 minutes estimated to Fast Charge (3600 mah) when I plugged it in, it said 1 hr 21 minutes estimated in this screenshot:
I've now had several recharge cycles, and my last longevity test got 3 days 15 hours on battery , with 2 hours runtime remaining
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Samsung bringing bendable phones in '17? Apple introduced that feature years ago already
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Lenovo foldable smartphone and tablet concept first look
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Samsung Bendable Smartphones - 2017
Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by hmscott, Jun 7, 2016.