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Best Android 7.0 Nougat features for the Samsung Galaxy S7!

I've decided to try out 7.0 on the S7 for a week. On Saturday I'll be rolling the phone back to the March 6.0.1 version. For every thing I like about the 7.0 update I find 2 I hate. Let's start with what I like:

- custom quick setting toggles in the notification tray. Very useful to launch some apps no matter in which screen you are.

- Resolution scalling. I don't notice any difference between 1080p and QHD. I also don't notice any difference in battery life. But I like to be able to decide that.

- Maintenance centre is nice.

Now here's why I'm going back:

- Google's idiotic "security policy" hasn't been fixed and double tap to sleep + fingerprint unlock on Nova is therefore still broken. It's bad enough the S7 doesn't have double tap to wake, not being able to have double tap to sleep is just infuriating to me.

- The new notification shade is a disaster. I can choose the size of the grid when fully expanded...but not when not? As a result I get 6 minuscule icons at the top of the screen, which are a pain to reach without gymnastics or holding the phone in a way I consider unnatural and uncomfortable (I hold my phones with the bottom resting atop my little finger).

- The new settings are a complete mess. The axing of the quick settings on the top is a very stupid idea. I actually used it a lot. Now I have to either constantly search or spend ages trying to figure out where the Hell did Samsung put a certain setting. They literally picked Windows 10's new settings app and ripped it off. There are a lot of Windows 10 things they could have copied...the settings app should have been the last thing.

- Multi-windows is a disaster now. I have the habit of using it with YouTube on top and another window open below it. With "Google's split screen" whenever I try to use it, the picture on YouTube goes black and I have to constantly be rewinding the video for the picture to show again. And the gesture to minimize the video window with a swipe? Yeah, not working with the new split view.

- WHITES EVERYWHERE. A black theme solved the horribleness of the settings menu and notification shade. Unfortunately things like the caller now remain untouched and every time I go to use it I have to bare those horrible whites and that new "colourful sea" animation, as if a unicorn was vomiting inside my phone.

- The new notifications are also terrible. For example, on 6.0, when I opened the torch, I'd get the notification with a "turn off" option right there. Now? Now I not only have to pull down the notification tray, I also have to expand the notification to turn off the torch. An extra set which was completely unnecessary.Same thing for most notifications. They get condensed and cut and I have to expand them to be able to make them useful. Sure I can now reply directly from them but what's the point? If I'm going to have to expand them to actually be able to read them and then click to reply I might as well just click them and have the app open.

I gave it a try. No one can say I didn't.But the 7.0 update on the S7 is just too bad for me to want to keep using it. Too much broken for my taste. And I don't give a sh*t about which version of Android I'm in. All I care about is that the phone works the way I want it to work. And that's not happening on 7.0 to me.(Same reason I rolled the Z3C back to KitKat).


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