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If you go into settings, accounts, Samsung account - options for backup should be there. It's not a separate app it's meant to be baked in to the ROM i believe.
Thanks for checking. Pretty sure they blocked it.
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I believe Samsung Cloud is part of settings but when I go into the settings in your post mine only shows backup options for internet, calendar, and one other thing. Someone in this thread or a related one posted screenshots of Samsung cloud and it was very much similar to the iCloud settings page. Didn't look anything like the asamsing backup settings. It's been confirmed that Verizon has blocked it and looks like AT&T has done the same Pretty ridiculous
here is my gorgeous note 7 ..
sadly i already a small scratch on the home button... its so weird because i use iris to unlock device.i seldom touch the home button... i think its a scratch or uneven paint...
20160822_092210 by mackie_hanrei, on Flickr
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20160822_092253 by mackie_hanrei, on Flickr
sadly i already a small scratch on the home button... its so weird because i use iris to unlock device.i seldom touch the home button... i think its a scratch or uneven paint...
20160822_092210 by mackie_hanrei, on Flickrcloseup ...
20160822_092253 by mackie_hanrei, on Flickr
I got two defective ones at SAMs club. The battery would not charge after about 24 hours with the phone. The other flaked out and rebooted and kept switching between dark and bright modes on the display.
My first impressions, first few days in using the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 coming from an iPhone 6S Plus and Nexus 6P before that. This is in no way a FULL review as I still have yet to use all the features, full test out the battery, camera, etc. There is just so much this phone can do! So far, this phone looks like a winner and I am really impressed with how far Samsung has come!
It could also be the same sticky goop that was all over the back of my Note 7. I think it came from the wrapper but I'm not sure. It looked like I had scrapes on the back of my Note. But it came off with rubbing alcohol and a paper towel. I'm not sure that's safe to use on the home button though. I bet it's barely visible in person. Eventually that button gets gooped up or dust on it anyway.here is my gorgeous note 7 ..
sadly i already a small scratch on the home button... its so weird because i use iris to unlock device.i seldom touch the home button... i think its a scratch or uneven paint...
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It's not there. That's okay I'm using Google drive and Google photos for backups. At&T is also offering 50GB free storage. My husband said just to stick to one backup so they don't get out of sync with each other.
I also signed up for a free three month trial subscription to Google play music. It seemed smarter than Apple music but I dont know how to make it my default player when I ask Ok Google to play me a song.
I returned them and luckily they had a few extras but it took them 5 hours of my time to do it because the screwed up the SIM card serial number registrations.
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I'm having some measure of beginner's luck. My battery is running down normally. A little better or at least the same as my iPhone SE. I haven't hit anything I would consider lag, yet. But I have not tried to play games on it. I am about to set up my Gear S2 watch.
I hope you are able to get your Note running soon. It is possible you got a defective one. Apparently a few people here have.
I'm going to try the GPS tomorrow. I hope it works.
I haven't seen a phone ship with this much problems in a while. Not sure if it's because there is more expectation on the Note this generation, because it's more popular, or if it has legit issues, but I'm seeing a lot of complaints of performance and battery. I hope it's something that can fixed in software.
Still looking forward to getting mine, t-minus 18 hrs.
Still looking forward to getting mine, t-minus 18 hrs.
Since I'm sure many of you are waiting for my Note 7 review, here it is after a few days with it.....
-Fantastic design. This is an "edge" I can really get behind. It's more a design feature rather than some gimmicky function (though they leave that ability for those who use it). Really feels great to hold and is easy to maneuver with one hand.
-Camera is pretty great. As expected, the low light photos are pretty incredible. The one gripe I have is that I know what the scene looked like and the photo doesn't look "real". After snapping the photo of a dark cloudy sky at sunset with blue in the background, I looked at the photo and immediately thought "the sky doesn't look that blue". Makes for a cool looking photo but not as realistic. I am looking forward to Apple beefing up the low light capabilities of the iPhone to compete.
-The stock keyboard is killing me and I'll be looking for alternatives. So far it just doesnt "get me" like my iPhone keyboard does. Of course I have years of typing and hitting letters in a certain spot that my iOS keyboard has learned so I'll cut the Samsung one some slack. However the auto correct leaves a lot to be desired as well...I know about the major alternatives...but I'm trying to keep it as stock Samsung as possible as my goal is to give touchwiz as much of a test as anything.
-Bloatware continues to be a pain but it only took a few minutes to disable all of AT&It's nonsense. Google has done a good job of paring down some of the more redundant apps but I still wish I didnt have 2 photo gallery apps, and I wish Samsung could throw their weight around with the carriers and say enough is enough on the bloat. Apple is finally letting users uninstall most of the stock apps that come on the iPhone so this still a place for improvement with Samsung. Don't even get me started on the absolutely awful boxes Samsung lets AT&T put this phone in. It felt like I just bought a prepaid BLU phone....
-Its still early but battery life is somewhat of a disappointment. Lasts the day with quite a bit to spare but my use of the Note is fairly limited as I cant have it out at work. For comparison my 6S running iOS 10 Beta software was only slightly worse with far more use. I expect the iPhone 7 Plus to be far superior in this regard, but i also know it takes time to normalize so i expect the Note will get better.
-i really like the overall software refinements on the Note 7. It seems menus and icons are more uniform which makes for a much cleaner and more cohesive look and feel. Still doesnt replicate the smoothness of iOS but overall it's a big improvement and as good as an Android phone gets from my experience.
Overall I really like it. I'm plannong to stick with it and will likely stay on the Note upgrade cycle for the foreseeable future. After having tried other Samsung options and some cheaper yet quality alternatives, nothing bests the Note series for me. Really a great phone and i can't wait to check it out side by side with the 7 Plus.
-Fantastic design. This is an "edge" I can really get behind. It's more a design feature rather than some gimmicky function (though they leave that ability for those who use it). Really feels great to hold and is easy to maneuver with one hand.
-Camera is pretty great. As expected, the low light photos are pretty incredible. The one gripe I have is that I know what the scene looked like and the photo doesn't look "real". After snapping the photo of a dark cloudy sky at sunset with blue in the background, I looked at the photo and immediately thought "the sky doesn't look that blue". Makes for a cool looking photo but not as realistic. I am looking forward to Apple beefing up the low light capabilities of the iPhone to compete.
-The stock keyboard is killing me and I'll be looking for alternatives. So far it just doesnt "get me" like my iPhone keyboard does. Of course I have years of typing and hitting letters in a certain spot that my iOS keyboard has learned so I'll cut the Samsung one some slack. However the auto correct leaves a lot to be desired as well...I know about the major alternatives...but I'm trying to keep it as stock Samsung as possible as my goal is to give touchwiz as much of a test as anything.
-Bloatware continues to be a pain but it only took a few minutes to disable all of AT&It's nonsense. Google has done a good job of paring down some of the more redundant apps but I still wish I didnt have 2 photo gallery apps, and I wish Samsung could throw their weight around with the carriers and say enough is enough on the bloat. Apple is finally letting users uninstall most of the stock apps that come on the iPhone so this still a place for improvement with Samsung. Don't even get me started on the absolutely awful boxes Samsung lets AT&T put this phone in. It felt like I just bought a prepaid BLU phone....
-Its still early but battery life is somewhat of a disappointment. Lasts the day with quite a bit to spare but my use of the Note is fairly limited as I cant have it out at work. For comparison my 6S running iOS 10 Beta software was only slightly worse with far more use. I expect the iPhone 7 Plus to be far superior in this regard, but i also know it takes time to normalize so i expect the Note will get better.
-i really like the overall software refinements on the Note 7. It seems menus and icons are more uniform which makes for a much cleaner and more cohesive look and feel. Still doesnt replicate the smoothness of iOS but overall it's a big improvement and as good as an Android phone gets from my experience.
Overall I really like it. I'm plannong to stick with it and will likely stay on the Note upgrade cycle for the foreseeable future. After having tried other Samsung options and some cheaper yet quality alternatives, nothing bests the Note series for me. Really a great phone and i can't wait to check it out side by side with the 7 Plus.
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AOD moves positions at every x amount of time. I'm guessing that why the pinned notes are only displayed for an hour before it goes back to the icon.
I thought the same thing about the pictures. It looks like I'm staying at some beautiful resort in Hawaii instead of a beat up old condo along the Atlantic when I take photos of the beach.
But I conducted a little test, because I suspected my Samsung display was adding an extra layer of fantasy to the photos beyond what the camera was doing. I snapped the same scenes on both the Note 7 and my 6S Plus. Then I sent the photos from the Note 7 to the iPhone and compared the Note 7 photo that was sent to the iPhone to the photo of the same scene taken on the iPhone. I did this on the iPhones display. The picture from the Note 7 looked very different on the 6S Plus display than it did on the Note 7's display!
The sky was still more blue than that taken by the iPhone 6S Plus. So was the ocean. But the sand looks about the same color. However, it was far more subdued than the tropical fantasy the Samsung display turned it into.
I did the same test for interior shots and got similar but less dramatic differences.
The crazy thing is with the Samsung camera photos I actually look pretty. I'm not pretty. But in the Samsung photos I am. I saw the special settings to make faces look better but they aren't turned on. It's like Samsung processes my life into this weird alternate universe where the sky is more beautiful, the people are glowing and lovely and we all fart rainbows and unicorns. Too bad I deactivated my Facebook account. I could live such a pretty fake life on social media now.
I think I read somewhere this magical happy unicorn crap can be turned off but I'm not sure. The problem is now I kind of don't want to turn it off. When I'm dead and gone and everyone forgets what I look like it will be kind of nice for them to see these photos and think "Dang, she was better looking than I remembered."
Enable basic mode in display settings and look at your photos. Remember the default adaptive setting boosts contrast and saturation and are not representative of the image in reality when viewed on other devices, using basic mode is the most SRGB colour accurate setting you can use on a Samsung device and is the mode Displaymate use with their display tests.I thought the same thing about the pictures. It looks like I'm staying at some beautiful resort in Hawaii instead of a beat up old condo along the Atlantic when I take photos of the beach.
But I conducted a little test, because I suspected my Samsung display was adding an extra layer of fantasy to the photos beyond what the camera was doing. I snapped the same scenes on both the Note 7 and my 6S Plus. Then I sent the photos from the Note 7 to the iPhone and compared the Note 7 photo that was sent to the iPhone to the photo of the same scene taken on the iPhone. I did this on the iPhones display. The picture from the Note 7 looked very different on the 6S Plus display than it did on the Note 7's display!
The sky was still more blue than that taken by the iPhone 6S Plus. So was the ocean. But the sand looks about the same color. However, it was far more subdued than the tropical fantasy the Samsung display turned it into.
I did the same test for interior shots and got similar but less dramatic differences.
The crazy thing is with the Samsung camera photos I actually look pretty. I'm not pretty. But in the Samsung photos I am. I saw the special settings to make faces look better but they aren't turned on. It's like Samsung processes my life into this weird alternate universe where the sky is more beautiful, the people are glowing and lovely and we all fart rainbows and unicorns. Too bad I deactivated my Facebook account. I could live such a pretty fake life on social media now.
I think I read somewhere this magical happy unicorn crap can be turned off but I'm not sure. The problem is now I kind of don't want to turn it off. When I'm dead and gone and everyone forgets what I look like it will be kind of nice for them to see these photos and think "Dang, she was better looking than I remembered."
Samsung's camera post processing does and a sharpening algorithm too to the mix.
Some folks prefer the artifically boosted saturation and contrast offered by the other display settings however, in which case just remember (queue advertising deep voice) 'content viewed on this device may not be representative of your hum drum existence'
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Huh, I just noticed Samsung phones in the UK only say Samsung on the back but in the USA they also have the model on the back (Galaxy S7 for example).
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