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Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by donkeyd »

userbinator wrote: post #98
soared wrote: post #87

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The actual reason to not do it: They don't want you to. We sold you this, don't fuck with it like that. You technically own it and can root it, but then if it slows down you don't blame the root you blame the phone. When your friend sees your non-factory clean S6, he associates all those custom features with an S6, and not a rooted S6. They made a product and want everyone to use it and see it as they intended, rooti…

When your friend sees your non-factory clean S6, he associates all those custom features with an S6, and not a rooted S6. Wouldn't the fact that "you can do all these cool things once it's rooted" increase the perceived value and help drive sales and push towards manufacturers making it easier to root? IMHO the big selling point is all the apps, not just what software came with the hardware.

If you apply this reasoning to iPhones, Jailbreaking should also increase the preceived value of an iPhone. Yet, jailbroken iPhones are the most vulnerable iPhones on the market, so it could actually be detrimental.

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by throwawaymsft »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #126

It never ceases to amaze me the price Samsung pays for sticking with shitty software. The main criticisms of the s6 and S6 Edge were: * poor battery life * you can't uninstall all the bloatware. As someone who is running a custom rom on an s6 edge, I can confirm: the software us also the reason for the poor battery life. I regularly get 10 hours usage time out of my phone. It easily survives 24 hours of light use. My…

It's the 90s all over again. Dell, hp, compaq destroying the experience for Windows users. Apple holding the line on what is acceptable. Let's see how it plays out...

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by tluyben2 »

tempestn wrote: post #109
knaik94 wrote: post #97

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From a security standpoint, allowing a user root access means allowing others to modify the underlying filesystem without validation. This means things like Samsung Pay become vulernable. Tripping the Knox counter is the only way to ensure that the software hasn't been modified by a malicious party. The majority that enjoys using Samsung Pay is a bigger than the minority that benefits from rooting. While the reasons…

Right, which is why they can go ahead and trip it when you root, but there should be a way to completely factory reset, including resetting Knox. That said, we manage to make credit card payments online via rooted devices all the time, so I'm not sure the idea holds water that payments via a rooted device are completely impossible. (Still, I can certainly see that it might not be worth their time. The factory reset s…

Apple their bricking last week and this is very much because of the liability shift October last year. If manufacturers cannot show their equipment is safe the merchant pays for the fraud which means merchants will not accept those means of payment as a result.

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by chrishawes »

kozukumi wrote: post #103
danjayh wrote: post #77

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Your battery life is great now, but what about 3 years from now? The current ~2 year phone refresh cycle should not last forever, and I think that both the S7 and the nexus have it wrong when it comes to batteries. Even at a gentle 50% Depth of Discharge, a typical li-ion is at only 70% capacity after ~1200 cycles. Bump that to near 100% DoD, and you're at 70% after only 300-500 cycles. Sealed-in batteries in a phone…

A fair point. However I buy my phone SIM free for cash. I do not expect to keep this more than a year because like you said a built in battery isn't great. I will sell this phone/trade it in and buy whatever the new phone I want is. Doing it this way means I still get a good price for selling my phone to offset the cost of the new phone. Sure I spend about £200-250 on a phone each year but I am not tied into a contra…

Assuming you have a "One Plan" with Three, you won't have that tariff much longer.

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by chrishawes »

kozukumi wrote: post #103
danjayh wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your battery life is great now, but what about 3 years from now? The current ~2 year phone refresh cycle should not last forever, and I think that both the S7 and the nexus have it wrong when it comes to batteries. Even at a gentle 50% Depth of Discharge, a typical li-ion is at only 70% capacity after ~1200 cycles. Bump that to near 100% DoD, and you're at 70% after only 300-500 cycles. Sealed-in batteries in a phone…

A fair point. However I buy my phone SIM free for cash. I do not expect to keep this more than a year because like you said a built in battery isn't great. I will sell this phone/trade it in and buy whatever the new phone I want is. Doing it this way means I still get a good price for selling my phone to offset the cost of the new phone. Sure I spend about £200-250 on a phone each year but I am not tied into a contra…

Assuming you have a "One Plan" with Three, you won't have that tariff much longer.

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by hutattedonmyarm »

emilsedgh wrote: post #81
Geee wrote: post #44

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Hotspot is just Settings -> Turn on Hotspot. No configuration (even the password is auto-filled). Not sure what you have been doing.

As I described in another comment, that item in my menu was missing so I had to follow a series of very weird steps until it appeared.

Your carrier can disable it, maybe that's what happened?

Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge

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Post by rwmj »

massysett wrote: post #74
rwmj wrote: post #35

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I only replaced my S3 in October (after ~ 3 years) because the battery finally gave up, and I didn't want to run the gauntlet of fakes/scams that is trying to buy a replacement battery. The thing is I was able to turn the S3 into a music player by plugging it into a cheap bluetooth speaker/charger basestation and running the Squeezebox client.

"I didn't want to run the gauntlet of fakes/scams that is trying to buy a replacement battery" I felt the same way when I had to replace a phone battery...which then made me wonder what the point of having a replaceable battery is when you worry that a replacement battery might explode. So my next phone, HTC One, did not have a replaceable battery and I did not miss it. Replacements are too hard to find and besides i…

As far as I can tell, the problem is the manufacturers stop making the batteries for particular phones after quite a short time. So by the time you need a replacement, you're in the territory of "reconditioned" batteries (in the best case).

I suppose I could have the foresight to buy two batteries when I get a new phone, although I've never done that and I'd have to work out how to store the second battery so it wouldn't go dead or get lost, and it increases the initial cost of the phone even further.

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