Guys, while going through few battery life related threads, I found that APC8 firmware which was released in March 2016 works best on S7 Edge Exynos. I am currently on Nougat. I have following questions :
1) Can I downgrade from Nougat to APC8? What about Knox?
2) What are the major features I am going to loose if compared with last release of MM..?
AlanDS said:
Guys, while going through few battery life related threads, I found that APC8 firmware which was released in March 2016 works best on S7 Edge Exynos. I am currently on Nougat. I have following questions :
1) Can I downgrade from Nougat to APC8? What about Knox?
2) What are the major features I am going to loose if compared with last release of MM..?
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There's nothing special about APC8. You can ODIN to APC8 yes. You'll lose all features introduced post APC8.
If APC8 was somehow better, you'd see ROMs based on that firmware. Don’t waste your time imho. Cheers
AlanDS said:
Guys, while going through few battery life related threads, I found that APC8 firmware which was released in March 2016 works best on S7 Edge Exynos. I am currently on Nougat. I have following questions :
1) Can I downgrade from Nougat to APC8? What about Knox?
2) What are the major features I am going to loose if compared with last release of MM..?
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I stick with that firmware since release of the device and loved battery life.
I recently upgraded to nougat and after debloating I get just as good battery life.
So I wouldn't waste your time IMO.
I get about 5-6 hours sot gaming on wifi with ACP8 stock, doesn't seem to stand out compared to others and I'm on exynos
Ironically when I first got Note 7 I was able to game for 9 hours straight with snapdragon so I'll never understand how any of this **** works
Thanks guys for the reply. I found that latest BTU nougat release (DQB3) is giving good standby time.. Didn't check SOT yet as I am not charging my battery upto 100%.. Max is 80%. All firmwares prior to this had deep sleep issues. I will check for few more days..
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On latest Nougat
4g all day - 20 hours standby - 4 hours SOT
APC8
4g all day - 32 hour standby - 6 hours SOT
APC8 wins
Do you guys know any good APC8 roms from the past? Hard to find anything after all this time.
I am back to APC8 build after long time. I can easily get 5 to 6 Hours SOT with this. It was only 3 to 4 hours SOT with same usage in recent Nougat build for my region (XSG).
Will continue with APC8 until Oreo release.
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Hello,
I am a SM-N910C user. I bought my phone and it had 5.0.1. The performance was great, so was the battery life. Then after a month later, I received the 5.1.1 update, updated, then instantly downloaded Wanam ROM. Currently, I am losing 1% of battery every 4 minutes SOT. My cousin is losing 1% every 7-8 minutes, who has a S6. I know the battery life on 5.0.1 is better, right? But not the performance. Also, I have read that 4.4.4 has the best battery life, but what about the performance? I am still new to the Note 4, but I really need help from you brothers on this. I want someone who knows enough about this device to tell me what I will lose or win if I update or downgrade through any of these OS versions. The best will be posted here in the Original Post for everyone else to see.
Thanks in advance!
Kazzko said:
Hello,
I am a SM-N910C user. I bought my phone and it had 5.0.1. The performance was great, so was the battery life. Then after a month later, I received the 5.1.1 update, updated, then instantly downloaded Wanam ROM. Currently, I am losing 1% of battery every 4 minutes SOT. My cousin is losing 1% every 7-8 minutes, who has a S6. I know the battery life on 5.0.1 is better, right? But not the performance. Also, I have read that 4.4.4 has the best battery life, but what about the performance? I am still new to the Note 4, but I really need help from you brothers on this. I want someone who knows enough about this device to tell me what I will lose or win if I update or downgrade through any of these OS versions. The best will be posted here in the Original Post for everyone else to see.
Thanks in advance!
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I have the ATT n910a, and we just got the 5.1.1 update Friday. The battery life now is MUCH better than on 5.0.1. 5.1.1 seems to be very close to 4.4.4, but 4.4.4 may still have been a little better.
AFAIK, the only differences between 4.4.4, 5.0.1, and 5.1.1 is battery life, performance and Stagefright patches.
4.4.4 was slow, but great battery. I'm not sure if it was vulnerable to Stagefright though.
5.0.1 was faster, but had a ton of system bugs, which affected memory and battery. Later patches were made to fix Stagefright.
5.1.1 is the fastest and has most of the major bugs patched.
Other than all that, Lollipop in general brought the new Material color theming.
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Anyone try and test the new firmware: DQEF (with May security patch)?
Wonder any differences bring it in S7E like the battery drain, system and camera performance... and also for the bugs in Nougat.
My S7E is from France (XEF)
Using DQEF since about two weeks but don't notice much of a difference compared to DQD.
I hope to have battery life like the old Android 6 (APC, APD firmwares). If nothing changes, no neeed to uptade it.
Thanks for reply.
andiling said:
Using DQEF since about two weeks but don't notice much of a difference compared to DQD.
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For me N is better than MM regarding battery life... however, I do not see any alternative to an upgrade as APD has security patch of April, 2016.
This update made my s7 edge go totally downhill. The phone couldnt last me even 21 hours and required charging it. The only improvement i got was the phone became very snappy. Reverted back to DQAF. How is it holding up for you?
Does anyone know if the latest Nougat G935FXXU1DQG1 firmware has fixed the poor battery life issues on the S7 Edge? I went back to the stock factory G935FXXU1APAW firmware as I found Nougat was giving me much poorer battery life. My estimated remaining time on APAW on a full charge is usually around 24 hours!
Also which official Samsung firmware offers the best battery life and performance? Am I right in thinking I already have it with the original stock factory APAW firmware? Thanks.
Samsung is focusing on s8 sales so I dont think so.
should I downgrade to official 7.0 or stay on beta till 8.0 is released?
I tried beta but wasnt impressed with some of the bugs and battery life, I went back to 7.0 where everything just works and battery is way better, will wait for official beta ROMs,which won't be far away with the official Oreo release sometime this month...I always jumped to early on my other phones, no need to rush though, I just dont think its worth it, am using the extreme debloat ROM from foobar66 and its insane, I get 3 days plus between charges and at least 6 hours SoT I got half this or less on O Beta.
Jostian said:
I tried beta but wasnt impressed with some of the bugs and battery life, I went back to 7.0 where everything just works and battery is way better, will wait for official beta ROMs,which won't be far away with the official Oreo release sometime this month...I always jumped to early on my other phones, no need to rush though, I just dont think its worth it, am using the extreme debloat ROM from foobar66 and its insane, I get 3 days plus between charges and at least 6 hours SoT I got half this or less on O Beta.
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Yes battery life is very poor less than 4 hours SOT with the final beta. And some occasional crashes. Was thinking if going back to official is a better idea. Or wait with beta and receive the official Oreo release one day early. It's ok but not sure how long I might have to live with this battery life:crying:
JR5968 said:
Yes battery life is very poor less than 4 hours SOT with the final beta. And some occasional crashes. Was thinking if going back to official is a better idea. Or wait with beta and rece. It's ok but not sure how long I might have to live with this battery life:crying:
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I had the same dilemma. But couldn't cope with the battery life... Awful...
Hi,
I have been using this phone for a year now. I really feel we got more preformance after oreo. The phone is pretty smooth after all the hassle. I do think we lost a bit screen on time with the os update. I feel that is many times the price of getting more speed. Anyway i tried for a while my G4 rooted + optimized. My conclusion is that optimized + sabs and non rooted s7 edge is really fast phone. I see no lag. I feel this phone has a year left in it and thats actually impressive knowing its 2,5 years old.
I tried Oreo without factory reset. My experience was that some of the apps did not function well. So i did the factory reset and all works now. I think its only smart move after os update. Now i will just clear system cache after minor fixes.
The last as good deal was lg g2 to me. Love your phone still its in the competition with never phones. After year i bet we see improvements that will make many of us consider changing to a next generation of phones.
Btw. Did anyone else get the stability update after oreo? What do you guys think of it? My feel is that now almost 100% is working and smooth as a butter.
Model: SM-G935F, Exynos
You need to specify what version of the phone you actually have.
Thanks for the comment.
I edited the first post to give the model of my phone
SM-G935F, Exynos
Pallonaado said:
Thanks for the comment.
I edited the first post to give the model of my phone
SM-G935F, Exynos
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I have moved back to nougat and stayed there for now, i did not mind the cell drain as it still lasted me all day, however i had random reboots as soon as i moved to official Oreo or even custom rom with 8.0 base, did not matter what i did the reboots would get worse over time. I moved back to nougat and not one reboot experienced, Oreo for me is good when it worked and would love to use it but drove me crackers when rebooting. SM-G935F
daveparki said:
i did not mind the cell drain as it still lasted me all day, however i had random reboots as soon as i moved to official Oreo or even custom rom with 8.0 base, did not matter what i did the reboots would get worse over time.
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This is actually intresting. My phone did random screen freeze and couple of reboots in nougat, but on Oreo that is not happening to me.
But i do definetly have the cell drain still after the last update. I kind of woke up by the fact that i have lost about 1h screen on time. Yes i am a heavy user so thats the first que for something is eating the battery.
What kind of cycle your battery lasts average and how is your SOT on nougat? My is average 27hours on time hours and sot 5-6 hours
Pallonaado said:
This is actually intresting. My phone did random screen freeze and couple of reboots in nougat, but on Oreo that is not happening to me.
But i do definetly have the cell drain still after the last update. I kind of woke up by the fact that i have lost about 1h screen on time. Yes i am a heavy user so thats the first que for something is eating the battery.
What kind of cycle your battery lasts average and how is your SOT on nougat? My is average 27hours on time hours and sot 5-6 hours
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I am unable to advise you on SOT as i don't monitor this, i am running a custom rom with nougat base (Sac23 S8 port) i have a battery life of between 29 and 32 hours, never really goes past 40% remaining at the end of the day.