Overall speed - Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Real Life Review

Would you say that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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No issue whatsoever with performance. Not one sign of lag or stutter yet.

fastest smartphone i've used....

Yeah super fast coming from note 4 which I was happy with. Super duper fast

Works great for my daily things, and even the few games I play.
Size and spec of the s7 edge makes it my daily device and it works perfectly so far.
Coming from ip6s+, but also had before that N6p,N5 and s6 edge. So I compare it to good devices and not some low end device..
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its fast, dunno how good it is compared with other newer phones, but everything runs smooth, games are awesome!

Setting everything was super fast, did a reboot and charging up to take a break, coming from a Note 4, which was reasonably fast, but this thing has zero lag so far.

GS7
this is a great phone, you can get the performance that you want and easily to use :good:

Snappiness of this phone has put my Note 4 to shame, particularly with switching to and from camera to gallery.

The sd card max transfer speeds are not up to par for 2016. Everything else is great.

Galaxy S7 edge is really fast, I do all multi tasking stuff like running multiple apps, playing game, downloading and auto updates parallely and its still runs with full speed. like all other samsung mobiles S7 edge runs with high speed.

No lag for me yet.

I can easily get mine to freeze up or lag.

exzacklyright said:
I can easily get mine to freeze up or lag.
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Same here. There is microlag when scrolling all throughout Touchwiz. For the most part its smooth and seamless but for everyone saying they haven't seen lag, you probably have.
There is just a strong chance that it wasn't sustained lag which makes it easy to be dismissive of it.
It is especially noticeable when coming from the N6P (chalking this up to stock android not being bloated)

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Same here. There is microlag when scrolling all throughout Touchwiz. For the most part its smooth and seamless but for everyone saying they haven't seen lag, you probably have.
There is just a strong chance that it wasn't sustained lag which makes it easy to be dismissive of it.
It is especially noticeable when coming from the N6P (chalking this up to stock android not being bloated)
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Agreed, I have seen micro lag, but nothing to irritating. It got much better when I disabled everything (everything that is dis-ableable anyhow) from Samsung and Verizon as always. Also as always once its rooted we can disable the rest and ti will fly. Its a shame that we have to do that, but it is what it is. I would do anything for an S7 Edge with stock Android... Better yet, a Nexus Edge

Hi, and what about the most performance demanding games? I use these expensive phones as portable consoles and if I invest 800€ into phone, which is price of computer, I expect every single game on google play smooth at 50 fps. But on some ytb videos I have seen some microshutter and fps drops for example in Dead trigger 2, Asphalt 8 or GTA san andreas. Dont know which version it was, but I prefer adreno 530 gpu which is not on market in my country :/ . I actually dont care very much about fast app launching/loadings or appdrawer, but for me most important is FPS when game is already loaded. Or can I lower res to 1080p to eliminate any FPS issue? Did anyone compared gaming exynos vs snapdragon? (not benchmarks, real gaming FPS) .
PS: Please keep hate and comments like phone is not for gaming away, Im listening it all the time. But i am heavy gamer at any platform and if I wanted phone for calls and sms I could stick with my old nokia 3310. But thanks for any possible useful info from owners of this phone

Only time I had lag was with Chrome. I'm using the Samsung browser now and it's fast. The update seems like it made my phone fast not that it was slow. I'm happy. Oh I'm using Nova so that probably helps.

most of it is fast except slight lag once in awhile. fps is slower compare to my oneplus 2

some games are laggier than on my Sony Z3, sometimes the transitions lag as well

Great speed

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App launch speed

OMG! Kim K posted another selfie with tons of cleavage! Rate this thread to express how quickly apps launch on the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. A higher rating indicates that even the most intensive apps launch quickly and without hesitation, even if they are no longer in RAM.
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maybe apps aren't optimized yet for the new chipset and new version of android... there are lags for some apps...
I agree, there are lags on some apps. I am experiencing major lag on Dolphin Browser.
It's fast, but touchwiz is heavy!
it's really fast device
Really smooth.
App launching isn't amazing but it works just fine.
Pretty impressed
Slick performance
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Slick performance
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what is ur phone
It's maybe apps aren't optimized yet for the new version of android but launching just fine to me. Really all are smooth.
Use a different launcher like nova and the phone is very fast.
It is very fast for me
S7 Edge Blue Coral
The device is zippy and fast when opening and closing apps.
It just works. I am comparing this to my experiences with the Snapdragon 820 Note 7 which had laggy responses when launching and closing apps.
The Exynos Chip is fantastic
Up to an iPhone level. But some cases, specially gaming, it can be slow.
I have been facing lags while opening Snapchat and sometime Facebook, Snapchat lag is noticeable, at first s7 edge had no lag but its noticable after almost an year of use... Its an snapdragon variant..
Really fast device, but it sucks in gaming, because the games aren't optimised for its Vulcan API, and for the device also.. But who needs games? when telephone is for calling, texting?

Coming from S5 to P9 Plus ...

I just received my P9 Plus, the S5 is good but was getting a bit long in the tooth hardware-wise. The P9 Plus is now below 500$ in my country so I thought it was time to switch to current hardware. The S7 is still too expensive imho.
All good so far, I had to cut my sim-card with a scissor which seemingly works. It has gone through two updates in less than an hour. Now at B170. I was tempted by Mate 8 for it's more than excellent headphone output, but P9 Plus has AMOLED and an arguably better camera and is now even cheaper than Mate 8. And HP out is still better than S5, even though not quite up to Mate 8.
I haven't had time to play around with anything yet, this is just my initial hello to this group, more impressions will follow
As an S5 user myself i'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on the differences, benefits etc of the P9 Plus, as it's one of the phones on my shortlist to upgrade to.
I've only had it for two days now but;
It's much faster, roughly twice as fast(100% faster) at everything, lag is virtually nonexistent. I ran Geekbench 4 and it was faster than EVERY phone listed in their current charts. That means worldrecord fast. Faster than both the Galaxy S7 and Note 7 in GB4 combined score, both single- and multiprocessing. OnePlus 3 is way behind.
Screen is not only bigger, but much more clear, despite having the same resolution. Obviously it's a much higher specced type of AMOLED than in the S5.
Sound is much better, much more clean and smooth, both loudspeaker and using headphones. It drives fullsize cans without problems and without sounding the least harsh. Background is dead silent.
It's obvious 4GB RAM is of good use when switching between many apps, it never slows down. 64GB onboard storage is great, as is sdcard-tray.
It doesn't get warm, at all. The SOC is made with the same TSMC process as Nvidias new Pascal videocards, and it's a cool running type of chip.
Batterylife is more than twice that of a fully debloated S5, even though it hasn't been debloated at all.
Call quality is much better, network speed is faster. USB file transfer is much faster. USB-C is great.
Fit and finish is top class, same level as Galaxy S7/Iphone 7, in some regards even better.
Latest firmware B181 with Android patch for September 2016 installed without a hitch, EMUI 4.1.1 looks good clearly better than Touchwiz and certainly more smooth. And it has lots of small useful, contrary to unneccesary, features not present in vanilla Android.
8MP 1080P autofocus selfie-camera is useful for easily capturing clips of oneself, in example playing some guitar for Youtube
Stereo-speakers is nice, as is stereo sound recording. Sound in videos are recorded at 192kbps which is quite enough for some nice "bootleg".
The camera is of course of good quality, but I haven't had time to explore that one yet.
All in all, the only phone I may wish for even more is the new Mate 9. Huawei have already catched up with the big brands, and in some ways exceeded them imho
edit. it's one of the smallest and lightest 5.5" flagships, which is also nice.
edit2. Oh, and the fingerprint sensor actually works, and it is lightning fast.
You should really order a new sim as Old ones on new phones usually draw more energy.
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Scrolling smoothness

Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Huawei Mate 9 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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The only choppy scrolling I've experienced so far (3 days of use in the US) is with the Twitter app Talon. I'm using the international version (MHA-L29).
Compared to the Nexus 6p, it's bad. Especially in instagram. I cannot stand how choppy it feels. I love the phone but this issue is a deal breaker
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Compared to the Nexus 6p, it's bad. Especially in instagram. I cannot stand how choppy it feels. I love the phone but this issue is a deal breaker
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Hmm, interesting, i came from 6P to M9 few days ago.
On Nexus i was using pure nexus rom+elementalx kernel, on stock governor settings, when i put phones side by side, this Mate 9 performed better- opening apps, scrolling in chrome, google+ ,instagram, he only app that is stuttering a bit is facebook as always, but that app is crap due to low optimizations. 6P feels very smooth on fresh rom install, but after i set up few basic apps, use for a day, or go through few charges, it slows down very much, compared to Mate 9, who has much crap stock apps,e.t.c. Most stock apps like stock messenger and keyboard i replaced with google stock ones.:good:
I've mentioned this in another thread, on my device the only app with massive scrolling lag is Google Play Games, everything else is buttery smooth.
I use Instagram via Hermit so can't really comment on that one.
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Honestly you're going to have to just expect some apps a little choppier than others. The one place where I really always judge it is by using Google now. The better optimized phones I find will be buttery. I had a slight hiccup here and there with my honor 8 compared to the oneplus 3t. My Mate 9 will be here tomorrow so I'm hoping all is well.
Same here, and the scrolling physics are screwy
swordstool said:
The only choppy scrolling I've experienced so far (3 days of use in the US) is with the Twitter app Talon. I'm using the international version (MHA-L29).
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In Talon, and less so in some other apps, the page seems to start scrolling slow, then speed up, then slow to a stop in a very unnatural way.
This is the smooth phone I have ever used.
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Horrendous gaming experience. Is my ROG phone faulty?

Hey guys,
I own a Razer Phone 1 and thought upgrading to ROG was a no brainer, faster chipset and oled panel (though 90hz).
My ROG phone is so choppy and laggy compared to my RP1, to the stage I thought my phone was faulty. The games I tried testing were guns of boom, nba 2k, where reaction times and ability to control matters to some degree. I troubleshooted a bit and made sure X mode was on, cleared all the ram, 90hz setting was selected, and I turned on the gaming information and was averaing 50fps which is great for a phone! So why was it so choppy and laggy? I ran the same games on RP1 and reduced the screen to 90hz and ran the same games. The RP1 was perfect, all the choppy frames and lag were gone. So if both ROG and RP1 were running 90hz, and ROG should be having higher frame rates (845 vs 835), then is it because of ROG's oled panel?
Is there anyone else having this problem?
I'll try to upload a video to show the problem? It's a bit discouraging that the latest gaming phone performs worse in the real-world (not benchmark) than an older generation product.
Reuben3 said:
Hey guys,
I own a Razer Phone 1 and thought upgrading to ROG was a no brainer, faster chipset and oled panel (though 90hz).
My ROG phone is so choppy and laggy compared to my RP1, to the stage I thought my phone was faulty. The games I tried testing were guns of boom, nba 2k, where reaction times and ability to control matters to some degree. I troubleshooted a bit and made sure X mode was on, cleared all the ram, 90hz setting was selected, and I turned on the gaming information and was averaing 50fps which is great for a phone! So why was it so choppy and laggy? I ran the same games on RP1 and reduced the screen to 90hz and ran the same games. The RP1 was perfect, all the choppy frames and lag were gone. So if both ROG and RP1 were running 90hz, and ROG should be having higher frame rates (845 vs 835), then is it because of ROG's oled panel?
Is there anyone else having this problem?
I'll try to upload a video to show the problem? It's a bit discouraging that the latest gaming phone performs worse in the real-world (not benchmark) than an older generation product.
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I love the phone but i do think it's over hyped. Coming from HTC U11+ (835 vs 845 snapdragon) i don't think the differences are big in terms of processor power. My guess the software experience of the phone isn't polished yet to it's potential that's why i believe the next few updates will make the experience more smooth and how it should be.
One disclaimer i think the CN Rom is worse in performance in comparison with a WW Rom (But no real actual proof just a hypothesis) because you will get some games or apps stopping because of missing Google play services or some google apps.
It's a huge difference in person but still noticeable after recording it and uploading it to youtube.
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(add youtube to the front as I'm new and unable to post links. please also view in 60fps setting)
Reuben3 said:
It's a huge difference in person but still noticeable after recording it and uploading it to youtube.
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(add youtube to the front as I'm new and unable to post links. please also view in 60fps setting)
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The link doesn't work.
I also upgraded from Razer Phone to RoG Phone, and I'm loving it. All the games I play are smooth, with colors so much brighter, and vibrant. So happy to have THE Headphone jack back.
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I also upgraded from Razer Phone to RoG Phone, and I'm loving it. All the games I play are smooth, with colors so much brighter, and vibrant. So happy to have THE Headphone jack back.
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Thanks Zicott, in that case my phone is very likely defective. I'll see if I can get it repaired .
Tried out guns of boom and it played well on mine

Scrolling smoothness

Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".
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Mine is having a issue of shuttering and choppy scrolling while using twitter or opening a web page need to wait at least 1 sec for the browser. or is it my perception because I was using previous 90 hz display on Red Magic 3 for almost 8 months
My 975F scrolls smoothly, buttery smooth, I see no problems whatsoever, but, if compare it to a screen with 90, 120, etc Hz of refreshing rate, obviously differnces would be evident, that is, DIFFERENCES, not issues
Regardless of the phone's loading factor, teh scrooling is always very smooth. What I did encounter however is in certain situations GBoard gets very laggy, and no amount of apps closing down seems to fix it. What make it better though is to switch the screen off and turn back on, and the keyboard is, again, very responsive.
as usual not smooth and fast like Chinese softwares
I cam from.p30 pro and it was much faster and smoother with A10
vivo nex 3 too way way faster and smoother
samsung needs to make oneui more smoother
Mine was butter smooth when i first got it Android 9. Now that i've updated to Android 10 its went straight down the sh#*er!!! laggy AF on most games and web pages..
Mine was butter smooth when i first got it Android 9. Now that i've updated to Android 10 its went straight down the sh#*er!!! laggy AF on most games and web pages..
I updated to 10 with ui 2.0, and it behaves exactly as before, scrolls and transitions are smooth, no lags, no stutters, but I have seen some posts where users complain about ui 2.1
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Mine was butter smooth when i first got it Android 9. Now that i've updated to Android 10 its went straight down the sh#*er!!! laggy AF on most games and web pages..
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Mine was butter smooth when i first got it Android 9. Now that i've updated to Android 10 its went straight down the sh#*er!!! laggy AF on most games and web pages..
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Wow, two different posters with word for word copies of each other? I'm sure that's legit.
well I can tell you I didn't copy anyone.. you can look at the post and see that. Don't know about the other guy but what I wrote is how my phone is acting
rajnathr said:
Mine is having a issue of shuttering and choppy scrolling while using twitter or opening a web page need to wait at least 1 sec for the browser. or is it my perception because I was using previous 90 hz display on Red Magic 3 for almost 8 months
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Try resetting network settings. A poor internet connection will cause that.
The Note 10+ its self runs very fast unless overheated or because of rogue apk(s). 3rd party apks including carrier and Samsung bloatware can raise hell... ditch as many as you don't need.
Google Transport is another habitual offender; turn it off. Turn off all Google, Samsung and carrier feedback.
AT&T updates is just about malware and a pig; block when not updating if running an AT&T variant.
Sometimes it's better to turn some off rather than use a package blocker as using a blocker will leave other dependencies constantly polling the disabled apk (sucking up resources needlessly) such as the case with Google Transport.
I run with animations disabled in Developer Mode which adds a bit more speed. Use Running Processes in same to track them down and well as Samsung's Battery Tracker.

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