Nougat Beta Completed - Official update due in January to S7 and S7 Edge

[iBolski]

Samsung apparently has sent out a final notification to all those enrolled in the Nougat Beta that there will be no more updates and that the beta ends officially on December 30th and that they will attempt to push out the official update to everyone in January. Hope this means they were able to quash all major bugs.

http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s7-and-s7-edge-receive-nougat-update-january

And it is officially Android 7.1.1, at least for those in the US.

 

[COMTB]

Hopefully we get it soon, I would love some Nougat. At this point I prefer to not have to root my phone to get updates because it's a hassle without being able to unlock the bootloader. I was rooted for awhile and IMHO stock runs butter unless you spend hours customizing it. I love debloating but I would prefer a fully unlocked/rooted phone to a partial solution.

I don't have high hopes for when we get this updated because of verizon but we eventually will, about 2 years after everyone else

 

[iBolski]

Hopefully we get it soon, I would love some Nougat. At this point I prefer to not have to root my phone to get updates because it's a hassle without being able to unlock the bootloader. I was rooted for awhile and IMHO stock runs butter unless you spend hours customizing it. I love debloating but I would prefer a fully unlocked/rooted phone to a partial solution.

I don't have high hopes for when we get this updated because of verizon but we eventually will, about 2 years after everyone else

I haven't been rooted for over a year. I was on an LG G3 before my S7 and so far, I haven't found a real need to root. Before, I rooted because I used TiBu to backup my apps, but with the G3, they had their own backup utility that worked just like TiBu, but it's only for LG devices.

But with how Google Play uploads settings now, that appears to work just fine for me as well, so at this point, I have no reason to root. Plus, I really love Samsung Pay so I don't want to lose that.

 

[JediDru]

This is the first device I have owned that I have never rooted. No need to. Faster than anything I have ever owned and mine never slows down for my usage. It's the first device that I feel works as intended. I also wasted a few years of my life with this stuff and just don't have the motivation anymore. Especially without an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery, I'd never.

 

[COMTB]

This is the first device I have owned that I have never rooted. No need to. Faster than anything I have ever owned and mine never slows down for my usage. It's the first device that I feel works as intended. I also wasted a few years of my life with this stuff and just don't have the motivation anymore. Especially without an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery, I'd never.

Agree completely. The root process works well etc but I had to go through xposed and do a lot of tweaks to get it running well for really no gain over what I had stock.

 

[iBolski]

This is the first device I have owned that I have never rooted. No need to. Faster than anything I have ever owned and mine never slows down for my usage. It's the first device that I feel works as intended. I also wasted a few years of my life with this stuff and just don't have the motivation anymore. Especially without an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery, I'd never.

I completely agree. The G3 was the first phone I ended up not rooting. I did at first because I was just in that mode of, get a new phone, root, flash a custom ROM. But as I started getting used to a lot of the features, and found that the battery life wasn't bad, coupled with running Greenify in non-root mode, I could make the battery last 1.5 days. So, over the last year of the two years I owned it, I didn't root.

With the S7, no need to root. This is smoothest phone I've had yet. The quality of the phone itself is excellent. So, this phone will not be rooted.

 

[iBolski]

It appears the official Nougat OTA is being pushed out, with beta testers getting it first.

Anyone on here that has gotten the Nougat OTA notification yet? I'm holding off on accepting until I know better on how it performs, etc.

http://www.androidcentral.com/stabl...ing-galaxy-s7-and-s7-edge-starting-beta-users

 

[j0hnh0lmes]

It appears the official Nougat OTA is being pushed out, with beta testers getting it first.

Anyone on here that has gotten the Nougat OTA notification yet? I'm holding off on accepting until I know better on how it performs, etc.

http://www.androidcentral.com/stabl...ing-galaxy-s7-and-s7-edge-starting-beta-users

Nothing on my end yet.

Sent from my SM-G930V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[sklarskyj]

was there ever a second beta OTA sent out to Verizon testers? I didn't get into the beta but side loaded the only 7.0 beta build OTA that was floating around and my build number is NRD90M.G930VVRU4ZPK4. Was there an update to after that? Trying to figure out if the Nougate beta -> final OTA (assuming someone pulls it) will work on my phone or if I'll need to find the intermediary beta OTAs or else wipe clean and start from scratch.

 

[iBolski]

was there ever a second beta OTA sent out to Verizon testers? I didn't get into the beta but side loaded the only 7.0 beta build OTA that was floating around and my build number is NRD90M.G930VVRU4ZPK4. Was there an update to after that? Trying to figure out if the Nougate beta -> final OTA (assuming someone pulls it) will work on my phone or if I'll need to find the intermediary beta OTAs or else wipe clean and start from scratch.

I believe there were only two betas for VZW phones and then they cancelled the beta testing for VZW-based phones. Not sure why. Kind of sucks. Probably Big Red had something to do with it.

 

[COMTB]

Nothing on my end yet.

Sent from my SM-G930V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

Same here, tried rebooting and checking again a few times and still nothing.

Oh well

 

[SoerenHelmer]

I spoke to Verizon about this and they dont know when the update will be out.

 

[j0hnh0lmes]

I spoke to Verizon about this and they dont know when the update will be out.

Of course they don't. They have to add crapware, disable a bunch of stuff and add backdoors.

Sent from my SM-G930V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[Sir_Eagle]

I spoke to Verizon about this and they dont know when the update will be out.

That's their usual response.

 

[iBolski]

I've read US-Based carriers have no ETA yet. Grr.

 

[COMTB]

I've read US-Based carriers have no ETA yet. Grr.

I swear searching around the interwebs for information on release dates has at least as much mis-information as looking for information on the election candidates during the election. So much trash.

But I haven't found anyone stating they heard definite dates. I'm thinking it will be late January at this point maybe early Feb before it hits our phones.

 

[quantum tao]

i have given up speculating anything that involves verizon. nothing would surprise me.

 

[COMTB]

Take it where its coming from but it looks like some US non-beta testers are starting to see the update. "Unlocked" phones only but still....

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14321980/samsung-galaxy-s7-edge-android-nougat-update

 

[lickwid]

I have an official unlocked US model, but nothing yet. I expect to see the update by the weekend. Crossing fingers.

 

[iBolski]

I have an official unlocked US model, but nothing yet. I expect to see the update by the weekend. Crossing fingers.

I believe unlocked models should be getting it before us on Verizon. But, there was a story out that stated OTAs for some reason have stopped being pushed out and Samsung has acknowledged this and is looking into why it happened.

http://www.droidviews.com/samsung-galaxy-s7-android-nougat-problems-firmware-delivery-stops/

Whether the "bug" is in the firmware itself or with the update process that sends out the notifications is not mentioned.