Encryption and flash options have been added to the Silk browser settings. No other setting changes in system.
Any other stock KF users noticing smoother web usage?
Especially in the full screen mode, I feel a bit smoother usage, but I suspect that it's a placebo effect.
I really didn't understand why they introduced encryption for Silk. Since it requires additional proecessing, it will be slower as indicated, but then why should I use Silk anyway?
Dont Use Silk, Problem solved.
ive been using official lollipop firmware for about a month now and i really love the boost its faster then before thats for sure and battery life seems alot better. one thing is that gaming is horrible! yeah it runs low level games great but ive been playing MK X and just cnt seem to stand the damn lag. i was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on how to improve 3d game performance?? thanks in advance
if it's an official stock rom...
go to Settings>About Device>tap on "Build Number" a few times to activate "Developer Options"
Now, Go to Developer options, check "enable adb"(Good to have checked), also check "allow unknown sources"(also good to have checked")
Anyway, you can try speeding up performance of your phone by UNchecking Window, Transition, and Animator scaling, the 3 of them. That's used to speed up the Phones OS a little bit.
To try and speed up games, try checking "Force GPU Rendering", if that doesn't help, unchecked that one, and try checking "Enable 4x MSAA". If that doesn't work, maybe try uninstall some apps that could be taking up critical ram. Other than that, not much else I can see working other than trying a custom rom.
ok im going to try this out see if works out i really like the stock firmware but im not pleased with lag on 3d games where 2gb of ram should be enough to run these games
Hi Guys,
As you all know,Nougat Has been released for some devices,Waiting for more!
Lets discuss the initial impression here.
Those(lucky guys) who have upgraded their S6 to Nougat,can post their initial impression here.
Tell us the performance,speed,Battery life(SOT) improvements.
Also,Any new feature worth mentioning? Also,If anything missed by Samsung.
And what is your expectations form Next update.
So..lets get started.
P.S. - Moderators,If you find this tread as redundant,Pls. feel free to close this.
So,please post only impressions here.
Thanks,
Speed, smoothness whatever definitely improved. UI is in my opinion a lot better too. Battery is slightly better on my phone although it's a bit inconsistent. One day it lasts me all day while the other day it's empty halfway through. No new features as far as I've seen. Also Netflix doesn't seem to work.
We waited a long time for this update. We waited a long time for an amazing update!
• The new UI is very good-looking, clear and more simple.
• The system is a lot smoother.
• I have a better battery life, with a VERY INTENSIVE (2G/3G switching all the time with using it) I got 7 hours of SOT, amazing for me
• The new camera app is... just beautiful and I don't know if I being crazy but I think pictures quality is better, like on the auto-focus which is more "intelligent".
The only backward we could say about that is :
• We didn't get the resolution change like on Galaxy S7. Even if we know that changing resolution and density on our phone don't change a lot of things about battery life and performances, it's always cool to get new features.
To summarise, I'm very happy of this update and long life to S6 series!
And by the way, it could help developers for smoother AOSP roms (based on 7.0 and 7.1) because Samsung has released optimized prebuilt binaries for Nougat
iDroid27210 said:
We waited a long time for this update. We waited a long time for an amazing update!
• The new UI is very good-looking, clear and more simple.
• The system is a lot smoother.
• I have a better battery life, with a VERY INTENSIVE (2G/3G switching all the time with using it) I got 7 hours of SOT, amazing for me
• The new camera app is... just beautiful and I don't know if I being crazy but I think pictures quality is better, like on the auto-focus which is more "intelligent".
The only backward we could say about that is :
• We didn't get the resolution change like on Galaxy S7. Even if we know that changing resolution and density on our phone don't change a lot of things about battery life and performances, it's always cool to get new features.
To summarise, I'm very happy of this update and long life to S6 series!
And by the way, it could help developers for smoother AOSP roms (based on 7.0 and 7.1) because Samsung has released optimized prebuilt binaries for Nougat
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7 hours?! That's impossible. I demand proof.
I charged my phone between that delay.
By very intensive usage, maybe I'm too strong
I meant I was checking Twitter, Discord, etc every 5 minutes with listening music via Spotify all the time with a switching 2G/3G so it's not the best for a phone with a poor battery.
(btw it means that with S7 battery I think we could have an ****ing amazing battery life !!)
ROM is extremely smooth, this is an amazing update!
For me battery is the same as 6.0.1 (~3h SOT) , clean flashed XEF. However (I can't say there are bugs):
S Health on knox 0x1 (even if unrooted) won't work only if you update OTA after opening S Health on 6.0.1. If you are rooted there are workarounds.
Secure Folder doesn't appear for me (I am 0x1 so it may be because of this).
XEF CSC doesn't have stress and spo2 (but it never had), I prefer anyway XEF because of faster updates.
pros:
smooth
fresh
great looking
fast finger print scanner
cons:
laggy gallery
slight delay when cleaning recent apps and going to home screen, the home screen appears without anything, then after 1 second everything appears....maybe it's the animation
unknown:
battery, feels about the same as MM....but i have to give it some time
overall:
really good update, on my old S4, when i got 5.0 it was laggy and slow, and full of bugs....this isn't
Kinda new to s6 cause i only have the phone for a week or so. So I didnt have much time with marshmallow.
First impressions on nougat are great. Phone is smooth and battery seems to hold a bit better. That initial zoom setting is a bit like changing dpi and it works great with nova launcher and polycon. Also Loving the game tuner.
Personally i liked the settings in marshmallow. This kinda of unified settings is a bit confusing.
Samsung Nougat 7.0
Samsung launches a very weak 7.0 nougat. It's light years ahead of 6.01 in terms of performance and stability. Hopefully, with the next version 7.1 you will change a lot for the better.
Flashed XEF through Odin (from BTU) and some of the things I found:
pros:
-really smooth (no gallery lag or other lagging issues, I read that this issue is only if you upgrade from another firmware)
-new UI is way more beautiful in my opinion
-the new camera UI looks gorgeous
-customizable battery saver (finally I can turn off the option to reduce brightness or background sync)
-new animations
-maybe it just seems like it, but I think there are more things now in the Settings
-app drawer finally keeps the sorting option even after restart (sort alphabetically)
-game tools and game launcher are integrated way better, I like them
cons:
-while the new keyboard is a bit better, you cannot change the settings box to comma (as I previously did).. and if you change the dot.. you can not find it anywhere else, which is pretty dumb
-SHealth does not work with tripped 0x1 Knox
-no favorites in settings and also, no separate battery tab
Overall performance is somewhat better, UI is way nicer and it feels smoother then before, battery life is pretty much the same, Camera interface is cleaner and nicer. The only complaints i have for now is laggy animation in Gallery when closing the picture and lag when exiting Recent Apps.
is CYV software is better than XEF as it have newer changelist or ther are the same ?
And btw. We have google assistant without sideloading anything. Just set sys laguage to english us and update google and google services via playstore.
I installed XEF from Odin. After the update I'm facing WiFi issues, it will disconnect after some time when the device is in sleep. Anyone else having this issue?
I did an XEF in place upgrade with Odin.
Everything works great and my battery life seems to be improved slightly. Everything works smooths
When it comes to UI I really like it. It is the best UI Samsung has ever done. It is insanely clean, bright and pretty and looks better then stock IMO.
My only gripe is that I can't just factory reset in the future since S-Health doesn't work with knox tripped. I hope they fix that in an app update or at least provide a setting not to use knox
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Overall performance is somewhat better, UI is way nicer and it feels smoother then before, battery life is pretty much the same, Camera interface is cleaner and nicer. The only complaints i have for now is laggy animation in Gallery when closing the picture and lag when exiting Recent Apps.
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same for me, the only problems are:
1. laggy gallery, especially if you try to zoom in on a picture and then press the back button, then the lag becomes even worse
2. lag when exiting recent apps
other than that it's really good....
abdelha said:
same for me, the only problems are:
1. laggy gallery, especially if you try to zoom in on a picture and then press the back button, then the lag becomes even worse
2. lag when exiting recent apps
other than that it's really good....
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I don't know if it will solve this problem, but try this :
With a good explorer like Solid Explorer, show hidden files and folders (those which starts by a .) and go in DCIM, delete .thumbnails folder then retry to do your things in Gallery.
Is the problem solved ?
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I don't know if it will solve this problem, but try this :
With a good explorer like Solid Explorer, show hidden files and folders (those which starts by a .) and go in DCIM, delete .thumbnails folder then retry to do your things in Gallery.
Is the problem solved ?
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It looks like there is less lag, except when i scrool down, all the way to the bottom of an album, and then open and close some pic.
I did Flash the XEF version and since i use the S. View Cover i detected bugs on window display.
If i use the camera over the cover window it will show a black picture...but if i take a photo or do a video it will be done normally but still it wont show what im filming while doing it.
Anyone else with S. View Cover has this problem?
iDroid27210 said:
I don't know if it will solve this problem, but try this :
With a good explorer like Solid Explorer, show hidden files and folders (those which starts by a .) and go in DCIM, delete .thumbnails folder then retry to do your things in Gallery.
Is the problem solved ?
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i flashed now CYV version...i'll wait and see how it behaves
EDIT: now the gallery is much better....