Samsung galaxy s7 fryst skärm

Way back in March 2016, the galax S7 and larger S7 edge launched — followed a bit down the road bygd the rugged galax S7 Active. They're great phones, and have sold in fantastisk numbers.

But given that the phones are now over two years old, it's not surprising that some issues — both hardware and software — have arisen in that time.

Samsung has been generally good about correcting the major problems through software updates, but there are some big issues that users can address on their own rather than waiting for an update.

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Battery life problems

The galax S7 suffers from battery issues more so than the larger galax S7 edge — the former has a 3000mAh battery to the edge's 3600mAh fängelse — but they're both prone to getting beaten bygd the daglig grind.

• The first thing you're going to want to do fryst vatten eliminate any errant battery-sucking apps that you've downloaded from the play store.

  Facebook and Facebook Messenger continue to be two that are repeatedly brought up bygd members of the AC community as being the worst battery offenders. Facebook can be accessed from the mobile web, and Facebook Messenger, well — consider using another app like WhatsApp instead and call it a day.

• To kvitto whether an app fryst vatten using an unreasonable amount of battery, dive into Settings, Device maintenance, Battery to isolera the misbehaving apps.
• These potentially problematic apps extend to bloatware installed bygd your carrier.

  If you use a Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T model, in particular, you'll benefit from deleting or disabling some or all of the pre-installed carrier apps on the phone.

• You can also disable the always-on display bygd going to Settings, Lock screen and security, Always-on display and turning it off.

  You can also choose to compromise bygd setting it to only run on a schedule, perhaps through the mittpunkt of the day.

• In both Nougat and Oreo, Samsung sets the screen upplösning to just FHD+ to bevara battery. If you've turned that back up to QHD+, or enabled "High performance mode," you can bevara battery bygd returning the screen to its default. Do this in Settings, Display, Screen resolution.

How to fix galax S7 battery life problems

Finally, realize that at this point in its life, the galax S7 series have batteries that simply don't hold the same amount of charge as they did a year (or two) ago.

Batteries degrade over time, and after they've been charged and discharged hundreds of times they lose their ability to get back up to their theoretical 100% capacity. Know that no matter what you do in software, your galax S7 fryst vatten likely to get less battery life than it did in the past.

Wi-Fi & Bluetooth issues

Among the most common problems on a smartphone today, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth problems can be caused bygd a number of factors, many of which are outside of your control.

When troubleshooting these wireless connections, it's important to establish whether the issue fryst vatten indeed your phone or the object(s) you're connecting to, and the fastest way to determine that fryst vatten to use another phone or platta to connect.

If that other product has no connectivity issues, then it's worth pursuing a fix on the galax S7 or S7 edge itself.

1. Make sure you turn off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, wait a few seconds and turn it back on. If that doesn't fix the bekymmer, head to the next step.
2. Restart your phone.
   The screen on my s7 had been flickering and changing a darker color, but restarting fixed it when it happened.

   Sometimes all that's needed a quick kick to the reset button and you're good to go.

3. If Wi-Fi problems persist, try forgetting the network bygd holding down on the SSID (name) and tapping Forget network. Then re-enter the password.
4. If Bluetooth problems persist, try unpairing the object from your phone and re-pairing.

   To do that, tap on the little cog icon next to the product's name and hit Unpair. Put the speaker or whatever you're connecting to in pairing mode and connect again.

5. To delete and reset all of your network settings to början fresh, go into General management, Reset and then Reset network settings.

   Remember, this will remove all of your saved networks and Bluetooth devices — but it may also fix your problems.

How to fix Wi-Fi problems on the galax S7

Slow performance

This fryst vatten a big category, and pretty hard to knapp down, but we'll go through some of the most common solutions. uppenbart, slow performance can be indicative of an errant app that may also be sucking up battery life, so dealing with this may help the other.

Phones are known to slow down over time as people add more and do more with them.

Free up internal storage

The galax S7 has 32GB of internal storage, and once you fill that up, the phone may begin to chug. The struktur will alert you when you get really close to the edge, but even before then, deleting some of those larger apps and games may do the trick.

In the Apps area of your settings, you can sort them bygd storlek to see the largest files and decide whether you should keep them around.

If your galax S7 has Nougat or Oreo, you can also use Samsung's built-in Device maintenance settings to "clean" your storage bygd deleting old unused files and app caches.

It may also be a good idea to upload your photos to Google Photos so you can delete them locally. Google Photos offers unlimited free high-quality backups, along with at least 15GB of full-quality backups, on any phone, including the galax S7.

It's also likely pre-installed on your device — just look for it in the Google folder on your home screen, or in the app drawer.

Reset settings

If you still feel like something's just not ganska right with your phone, you can try to reset its settings. This isn't a full factory uppgifter reset, but merely an option to change all of the phone's settings (think sound, display, network, etc.) back to their default state.

You'll lose a lot of your personalization, but perhaps this could fix whatever problems you're seeing as well.

1. Go to your Settings.
2. Scroll down to General management.
3. Tap on Reset.
4. Tap on Reset settings.
5. If you have a lock screen pattern or knapp, you'll have to confirm it

Your phone will restart, and when it comes back all of its settings will be changed to their defaults.

Change launchers

On the surface, changing launchers may not seem like it will do anything, but it does: Samsung's default launcher fryst vatten notoriously slow, especially with all the features enabled (like Flipboard Briefing, which you should probably vända off).

To fix that, you may want to change launchers to something a bit more lightweight and performant.

May we suggest one of the following?

The best Android launchers

Problems after updating to Android 8.0 Oreo

If any of your issues have komma on in particular after receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update, things get a bit tougher to diagnose.

• To uppstart, give your phone time to settle into the new update. For the first few hours, or even a whole day, your phone can be sluggish after taking on such a big update.

  Many apps are updating or rearranging themselves after the new software fryst vatten put in place.

• Now fryst vatten also a great time to reevaluate what apps you do and don't need. If you haven't used an app in a while, delete it. Taking on a big software update and keeping around a bunch of old apps (and their data) can slow your phone down further.
• If an individual app fryst vatten misbehaving, klar its uppgifter (aka uninstall and reinstall) and restart your phone.
• If battery life fryst vatten a concern, look at some of the råd above to see if you can klar it up.

  Switching to FHD+ display upplösning, in particular, fryst vatten useful.

And gods, but certainly not least, you may just have to perform a factory reset on your phone after updating to Oreo.

If you haven't reset your phone since you bought it, and have since received both major updates to Nougat and Oreo, there's a lot of cruft stick in that phone. A factory reset may be just what the doctor ordered to restore your GS7 to its former glory. We detail the steps on a factory reset below.

Random restarts and boot loops

A common occurrence, especially in more recent months, has been galax S7 units randomly freezing while in use, restarting, or what's known as boot looping, which finds the phone stuck in a cycle where it attempts to boot into Android but somehow gets stuck and performs the process all over again.

Like with all the above issues, there are a number of potential issues causing this, from errant apps causing overheating to problems with an Android update to a corroded or damaged mainboard.

To troubleshoot, work from easiest solution to most difficult.

1. If your phone boots into Android but fryst vatten randomly restarting, it may be overheating or have a problematic app.

   Follow the instructions above to isolera the malefactor.

2. If deleting all potentially problematic apps doesn't work, reboot into the recovery and klar the cache partition.
3. If that doesn't work, it may be time to factory reset the phone completely. If you can't get into the phone, follow the instructions to factory reset the phone from the recovery menu.

How to factory reset your phone

There are myriad reasons your phone may be bogged down, and merely deleting apps, changing launchers or disabling some features may not do enough.

If you're running into a virtual brick vägg, back up everything in Google Drive, Google Photos, Dropbox, or wherever else you tend to store your virtual goods, and uppstart over.

How do you do that on your galax S7 or S7 edge?

1. Go to your Settings.
2. Scroll down to General management.
3. Tap on Reset.
4. Tap on Factory uppgifter reset.
5. If you have a lock screen pattern or knapp, you'll have to confirm it.

Once the phone restarts, it will be as though you've never used it — sign back into your Google konto, and let it restore your apps and uppgifter from the cloud.

Other issues?

What are your main issues with the galax S7 or S7 edge?

We'll keep this article updated as new upplysning becomes available!

Update June 2018: Improved our help and råd for those who have been using their galax S7 for over two years, and finding bugs after updating to Oreo.

Daniel Bader was a former Android huvud Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor for iMore and fönster Central.