- #Cant install snapdragon battery guru on s7 full#
- #Cant install snapdragon battery guru on s7 portable#
When I got to where I was going, I was on Wifi for about 30 minutes, and then left to go back home. I had listened to music, tweaked with sound settings, and browsed Reddit with the new Boost app for about an hour and a half. By the time I got home at 1030pm, my battery was at 23%. Which brings me to my second issue - the battery. I don't think I want to spend anywhere from $60 to $300 on a secondary piece of equipment that I need to keep connected to my phone whenever I want to listen to music while traveling.
#Cant install snapdragon battery guru on s7 portable#
I know a lot of people run their headphone rigs with some portable DAC headphone amps, but let's be honest - I'm spending $800 on a phone. Is anyone else having this problem? I've done some research and it seems that the Exynos variant has a Wolfson DAC that's much higher quality, and the Snapdragon DAC is sub-par. It seems that the quality of the sound coming out of the headphone jack is just not as good. Across the board, the S7 audio is weak, tinny, lacks bass, and even with Adapt Sound, UHQ upscale enabled, and a custom PowerAmp EQ setting enabled, sounds worse than my old S4. I've tested the stock S7 headphones, stock S4 headphones, Sennheister HD280, and 1964 Quad custom IEMs. There were certain instruments I couldn't hear at all, nuances I was missing, all things that I could hear crystal clear on my S4.
The quality of the S7 DAC sounded absolutely horrendous. I'm not an audiophile, but I am a musician, and hearing music clearly is very important. When I plugged in the same headphones into my S4 and listened to the same song, I was floored. I began tweaking with the sounds in the PowerAmp app for over an hour, and once I had gotten them somewhat reasonable, I left it alone to see how it compared to my S4. When increasing the low end, the entire volume output decreases, especially in the higher frequencies, and the low end increase is nominal at best. I've adjusted the system EQ, but it's essentially broken. I've enabled Adapt Sound and UHQ upscaler, which makes a small bit of difference.
#Cant install snapdragon battery guru on s7 full#
In order to get a full range of sound, you must crank up the volume to the last one or two volume levels, where it becomes uncomfortable to listen. The low end is non-existent, and the highs are piercing. Then I realized that the sound quality was VERY different. I was still getting a poor fit with the stock headphones, so I switched back to my S4 stock headphones. I cranked it up into the orange level, which I never had to do on my S4. I plugged in the stock headphones and turned on some music through PowerAmp. I jumped on the train for my hour and fifteen minute commute (about half of it underground). I had the phone fully charged at 100% at 4:00pm. Yesterday is when I started having problems, and was hoping you guys could help me out, or see if anyone was having similar issues. Go give it a shot at the Play Store link above, and let us know how it works for you.Hey guys! I've been super excited for the new S7 Edge, and just got it in on Saturday while I was out of the country. If you absolutely need to have certain apps syncing right on time, then I'd be weary to completely trust this app to manage the sync intervals for you. If you're someone that doesn't always need 100-percent push alerts for items like Gmail, Skype and Google+, and have a Snapdragon-powered device, then BatteryGuru can probably add a bit of a buffer to your battery life. For the most important push notifications, I want to be completely certain that I'll receive them. The problem being that it's not exactly clear if this will always be the case, or if at some point the app will choose to turn off sync again. Thankfully, you can go into BatteryGuru's settings and manually override the interval it has chosen to sync for each app it has access to. This is fine for an app like Words With Friends because I really don't need to know when someone makes a play that exact second, but for apps like Gmail and Google Talk, this isn't a good idea. Although I check my Gmail dozens (okay, maybe hundreds) of times a day, BatteryGuru still made the decision to lower its sync interval to save battery life. The other thing we noticed is that we were not getting push email alerts from Gmail anymore - which is not a good thing. We must admit that in our few days of anecdotal testing, the battery did seem to last longer on our Nexus 4 than it did before installing the app.
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