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That's good to be aware of, but not really a deal breaker, or wouldn't be for me. I leveraged the tendency of the factory screen protector to scratch to purchase a cheap phone off e-bay. I'd find the one with the worst looking screen with okay looking everything else then when I got the phone...

This phone was exclusive to a GSM carrier in the USA, so it seems unlikely that you are going to find help. I imagine that the modem has the capability to communicate via CDMA with the correct firmware since it shares most hardware with any other Qualcomm S7 (this is way outside of my knowledge...

Sorry about that. Now I finallyI see it in the active key settings under Settings > Advanced Features > Active Key. I thought it was a toggle, but it's just described there and is apparently always supposed to work. Unfortunately, I can confirm that it doesn't seem to work on the 3CRG2 build.

I don't think you could ever use the active key to take photos. You can launch apps with it, but a cursory google search doesn't reveal anything. Even the official Samsung page which seems to point at a Nougat OS doesn't indicate you can. I can't tell if the battery is better. I was already...

I have CRG2 running. Still April 1 security update. I don't see any changes so far... But, it also seems to run fine...?

If it helps, I could post the hashes for the files I download directly from ATT and then a second user could post what they see from mail.ru and we can confirm that they agree so that at least the files are legit. khaliullov is trustworthy AFAIAC.

SS-G891AUCU3CRE7-to-U3CRG1-UP and SS-G891AUCU3CRE7-to-U3CRG2-UP are up on ATT servers. Haven't installed either for fear of a beta trap, but they exist. khaliullov will probably put them up on the mail.ru site soon. Read the forum to find that site or to check how to download these from ATT...

The full ROMs that are available are factory meaning that they will have all the bloat. There isn't much in the way of ROM development for these phones because of their locked-down nature. However, you can carefully go through the app list and disable a whole heck of a lot and thereby hide much...

I've been using CRE7 for a while now and don't see too many drawbacks, if any. There are lots of minor changes for the good, battery life is about the same or maybe slightly better. The only major issue I have been having is with roaming from Canada to the US. My phone hasn't been able to...

Update -- I just re-ran the CTS Profile and SafetyNet checks on my phone with U3CRE7 and it now passes. A week ago it didn't. Innnnnnteresting.

It seems that with the betas, Google's SafetyNet API doesn't classify the phone as unmodified in terms of something called the CTS Profile. So, Google Pay doesn't work. But, in terms of your question, Knox doesn't seem to care about those things so all things Knox related work on the betas that...

For future reference, when you see the "No Command" screen with a little dead android character, if you hold power while clicking vol up then release recovery should start up. If you are in recovery and don't select "reboot system" then the phone will continually reboot to recovery first...

I'm flashing it now and will be headed to the US this weekend so will be able to see if the roaming issues are still present. The paranoid part of my brain that doesn't know how these things actually work is worried that my IMEI has been blacklisted off ATT for having unauthorized betas on my...

U3CRE7 is up on ATT servers. I'm sure khaliullov will have it on his cloud site soon.

No problem. Glad you got where you want to be. NB: don't hold out for many more nougat versions. Maybe one more official OTA security update but I'd be really surprised if the next update wasn't official Oreo.