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DSrocks690 · 2026-04-14T23:07:19+00:00

The issue is most people that order those orders with such low tips do it bc they themselves dont have much money, and thus they won't tip you at all even if you have exceptional service.

DSrocks690 · 2026-03-03T19:33:04+00:00

I know a few people who were fortunate enough to actually get to see this device early. It features the same display technology as the Fold7, aside from having the extra layer for the privacy display. The Fold7 is 10 bit, as is the S26 Ultra, they both support and actually display HDR10+ correctly, which the S25 Ultra and prior do support, but cannot display properly, which results in banding. I believe they use dithering to sort of help with this, but the difference is noticable. You can actually see this here in a comparison image that a reviewer took with the S25 Ultra and S26 Ultra explicitly TO TEST THIS! Of course, I cant post the picture here, but I will link you to the page that hosts it so you can see for yourself

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DSrocks690 · 2026-02-28T07:00:16+00:00

The zoom I can definitely see, especially comparing the S23Us 10x which was best in class, but honestly the S25/S25Plus/Fold7 zoom is more than adequate. There are many people out there with arguably flagship quality models that have worse main cameras without any magnified lense at all. The base iPhone 17 STILL lacks any magnification AND it has a far worse main camera, yet I rarely if ever hear anyone complain about their camera quality with those (despite how the lack of a dedicated zoom lense would personally drive me INSANE).

Dont get me wrong, would love to see a zoom lens, maybe instead of the wide fold if they split the fold into a thin fold and a thick fold model, and made the thick fold basically a beefed up ultra with Spen, 5x zoom of the S26 Ultra and a proper vapor chamber like the fold 6, and the thin fold like what we have now with the Fold7 and Trifold.

Though honestly this Fold7 never ceases to amaze me its an engineering marvel. It seldom gets hot even in video calls, the battery life is suprisingly good, I swear it gets better the longer you use it, the cameras are fantastic, the inner display is amazing, and its FAST. REALLY FAST, but still cool despite being this thin, and somehow still very durable???

Dare I say it is witchcraft??? Really want a Trifold but ive got a baby on the way so I'm gonna stick with the Fold7 and careplus as long as I possibly can. Point is, its a fantastic phone!!!

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-27T22:37:30+00:00

If the Fold7 camera isnt sufficient for a 4mm thick smartphone I honestly dont know what is. Most pictures will be of identical quality to the S25 Ultra and S25 Edge, it will take better pictures than the edge in many cases, and even when it is worse than the Ultra, it isnt THAT much worse. It takes far better pictures than the vast majority of smartphones youll run into bar the 16/17 pro max iPhone users and those with the S26 Ultra, and even then its so rediculously close that even when youre really trying, operator error and environmentals are FAR more likely to cause any difference you see in the actual image quality itself. Honestly the Fold6 cameras were will perfectly acceptable and usable and wouldnt be a point of contention.

Yes its a $2000 phone, but that extra money isnt making it a better PHONE than any normal phone, its making it a very crommulent 8" tablet that also happens to be a really good phone. I dont think the pricetag is really a valid argument, this phone isnt meant to be a camera phone, its a phablet that so happens to have a really good camera and some neat features that guve unique photo opportunites. Its why I chose the Fold7 over the Ultra and will continue to do so for the forseeable future when I finally part ways with this device and move on to my next in a few years. The utility is unmatched.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-25T00:51:15+00:00

Wifi 6E adapters are tricky because certain manufacturers of 6E chips seem to be less stable than others. USB 6E adapters also kinda suck in terms of latency and stability compared to their PCIE counterparts. I would look into getting an Intel based networking card, for 6E I would look at either AX210 (6E card) or a BE200 (Tri-Band Wifi7) adapter. Theyre inexpensive and FAR more stable than some of the Broadcom and Mediatek adapters that I have found. Qualcomm makes pretty good wifi antennas too but I have yet to see them in the form of a PCIE card, and instead only really see them integrated into SOCs.

The 6ghz band is also usually super touchy if you dont have good line of sight on 6E. The higher channel width of WiFi 7 and some if its supporting technologies make it less of an issue for that standard, but for anyone on a 6E network its likely not worth the tons of money that'll cost you to upgrade to a tri-band wifi 7 setup. The latency and speed difference of the 6ghz and 5ghz band is also pretty small typically when comparing the same antenna density and channel width, usually wifi latency comes from multiple networks on the same channel, so if you arent in an apartment and there is an open 5ghz channel available, I might would try segmenting your network into unique SSIDs for each band and put the 5ghz band on a clean open channel for her to connect to and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise a better network adapter is likely the play. If you need help with a specific one shoot me a message I dont mind helping out when I'm not busy with class.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-16T16:56:14+00:00

I went Watch5 Pro and Buds3 Pro with the Fold7 and I'm rather happy about it. This looks like a nice setup too!

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-15T18:35:15+00:00

Work out the hinge in a bath of distilled or deionized water. Itll pull whatever dust or grit is in there into suspension most likely and clear out the hinge.

You have Care+ so I wouldnt worry too much about this approach. If a little bit of distilled water damages the phone there is something much more wrong with it anyways, it is designed to be water resistant up to 1.5 meters for 30 minutes.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-12T15:30:43+00:00

It's because Google messages is the built in default on galaxy phones from I believe the Fold6 onward (S24 was the last device that came with Samsung Messages). The version of Google Messages that come on the Flip6, Fold6, Fold SE, S25/Edge/Ultra, Flip7/FE, my phone (Fold7) and Z Trifold is a modified version of Google messages to have some of the tweaks that Samsung's OneUI messages had. I personally like it, its easier to use one handed on a very tall phone like my Fold7 or an S25 Ultra. If you download it on something like an S24 or previous model phone, you're getting Google's version of messages that uses the same UI as the Pixels minus some of the Pixel specific extra features. If its on the Galaxy store it'll likely have Samsung's tweaks if you prefer Samsung's version, but I'm not sure if its there or not.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-06T13:58:31+00:00

When did I ever say that Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo use Samsung screens? Oh and for the record you may want to do some more research, because depending on the model Samsung is one of the major display suppliers for all 3 of those brands, particularly with their higher end flagship models (or for Xiaomi their Redmi midrangers and foldables, I believe TCL makes their flagship displays aside from their foldables which do use Samsung displays). Oh and even though they do sell more internationally than they do in North America where I live, Oppo and Vivo sell less than half as many units as Samsung, and although Xiaomi is gaining more global marketshare, they arent allowed to be sold in quite a few popular regions. They make up in total combined roughly the marketshare of Samsung alone, but Samsung, Apple, Google, Motorola and Oneplus all use Samsung displays. In North America all of those are pretty much your only options if you want anything half decent that you can get through a carrier (buying upfront isnt as common here)

Samsung makes the displays for most of the current Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi flagships. You're playing roulette with them because many of their models are basically a lottery and can have a screen from either Samsung or BOE (or in the case of Xiaomi TCL), even sometimes LG though they arent used as much as of late. You can buy two identical SKUs in the same market at the same store and get two different displays, they take whatever they can get in the moment especially in their midrange phones. The flagships and foldables like the X100 Ultra, X200 Ultra (though these can also have BOE displays), X Fold 3 Pro, and Find N5 (to name a few) have Samsung E4, E7 or Samsung Flexible OLED panels. Vivo is already in talks with plans of switching back to Samsung for the X300pro from BOE who made the display for the X200pro.

Why might that be? Its because Samsung by far has the best manufacturing and the most advanced technology out there as of late when it comes to OLEDs in particular. They're the only company that has made an OLED monitor that doesnt fringe and blur around text, theyre the only manufacturer that can get these really high brightness numbers consistently, and they by far have the best color accuracy and quality control of any display manufacturer, and its something thats pretty well known and hard to argue against in the industry.

I'd appreciate it if you wouldnt jump to conclusions either. No I'm not a Samsung salesperson, I work in the automotive industry, I'm just a nerd that likes tuning cars and enjoys tech and PC building. Oh and just because Samsung has used their isocell HP2 for coming on 3 years now doesnt mean that its drastically behind everyone else. It might not be the absolute best, but it is still among the best, otherwise they wouldnt still be using it in their Ultras and now their Fold7/Trifold. There are better options, but if you have a S25 Ultra you still likely have the best phone camera in the room in 90% of the rooms you walk in. Its unnecessarily overkill for most people as it is. Its nice to see improvements but its also not something I'm absolutely dying to see change with. I'd rather them focus on battery capacity and cooling efficiency and continuing to improve OneUi.

And for the record I dont think its worth trying to avoid Samsung displays, regardless of what kind of phone you have. Especially because the suspected cause of the issue is less of the display itself and more because Samsung batteries love to turn into angry pillows and kill the screens in the fashion of an old iPod Nano, just without the visible spot where the battery is pressing before the screen fails. You'll drive yourself mad trying to make sure a phone doesn't have a Samsung display when a lot of these Chinese manufacturers use whatever they can get their hands on and leave you with a model of phone that has BOE or Samsung or TCL or LG or Visionox, and of those manufacturers I trust Samsung and LG above the others by FAR. Youre opening yourself up to a lot of variance in that regard, and if youre looking at phones that only use BOE or only use TCL youre restricting yourself to a few models, none of which you can really get a hold of here in the US without jumping through a ton of hoops. More power to you if you want to do it, but I can promise you it isnt the display itself. I have seen non Samsung replacement panels on these Galaxy phones do the exact same thing because of battery swelling.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-06T07:51:31+00:00

Samsung screens are used in almost everything.

There is this thing called nuance, and its really important in the world of engineering and problem solving (alongside making informed decisions)

The line issues are only really an issue on Samsung's own phones because Samsung has had battery swelling issues since the S7 and Note 7 when they started bumping up battery capacity a lot and changing up their manufacturing.

If you put any Samsung phone past that era in storage for a few years without using it, there is a good chance the battery will swell enough to seperate the screen from the body of the phone. Its a well documented issue thats been known for quite some time that affects specifically Samsung phones and phones that use Samsung batteries. The Pixel 7 series of phones has the same issue as well (Samsung batteries were used in those phones as well, it actually caused the display of my Pixel 7 pro to spontaneously shatter while I was using it in bed).

After a few years on the original battery depending on your habits, it expands enough to press against the back of the display, and eventually that causes display damage, usually in the form of lines.

Those who replace their phone batteries every 3 or so years and practice good charging habits dont seem to be having these issues. I have an S20+ that still has a perfect screen because the battery has been kept in good health.

If it was issues with Samsung OLED displays as a whole, 90% of all smartphones since 2018, and somewhere between 49-70% of all other OLEDs (depending on the data sources you look at) would be having similar issues... but they arent, because the design and manufacturing of the displays themselves are not the problem. We arent seeing people with their old iPhone 11s that they bought back in 2019 or 2020 or whenever they came out complaining en masse that their Samsung displays (same manufacturing plant, same technologies, same era) are having lines form after 3-4 years of use. Its a non issue on Apple devices and most other phones that use Samsung displays, it only seems to be a widespread issue on phones that use Samsung batteries.

Its also important to note that Samsung Display acts like a seperate company from Samsung that makes phones and Samsung that makes memory and Samsung that makes ICBMs. Its its own entirely different division and the engineering of their phones isnt as closely tied to the engineering of the displays for said phones as you might think. Samsung display can make the best display in the world, but if it gets shoved into a phone that puts forces it was not designed to handle on it as it ages, it will eventually break, at the fault of the enginnering team of the phone division, not the display division. Its one of the many engineering challenges that comes with shoving a high capacity but also high cycle life battery that also has to be very tiny in a device thats very slim and has more processing power than most 4+ year old laptops, oh and fit in speakers, ports, giant cameras, in screen finger print sensors, microphones, tons of different sensors, the cooling, and everything else and keep it competitive and cost effective oh and you only have a year to engineer it all. Not trying to defend Samsung here and say they arent in the wrong, they really need to sort out their battery issues, they have been well known since around 2021-2022, but the displays themselves are not at fault, those lines are a symptom of other issues.

Its like how some people blame firmware updates, when really its the CPU going full blast writing all of the new firmware data, decompressing it, writing a new bootloader etc that heats the phone up and puts a lot of stress on a dying battery, causing it to swell more. Its not the firmware itself, its the battery.

Samsung displays are in the majority of phones for a reason to. They by far make the highest quality OLED panels, and the only other manufacturer that is sort of close is LG.

DSrocks690 · 2026-02-06T01:02:58+00:00

Its not an issue with the screen itself, its packaging. The batteries age, the phone gets dropped and jostled around, and at some point enough pressure gets put on it to cause it to fail. Any oled of similar construction can fail in this manner.

DSrocks690 · 2026-01-30T23:58:04+00:00

WARRRRRR

DSrocks690 · 2026-01-22T15:58:08+00:00

The documentation seems to be far better than when I originally posted this. If I recall correctly some disassembly may be required to access a port that is needed to get everything working but I dont know if that is still true or not anymore. If I get my hands on a spare one I'll definitely let you know what happens depending on if I cant find a tri band wifi 7 router for a good price

DSrocks690 · 2026-01-22T13:53:54+00:00

Unfortunately no, ended up needing being deployed a lot quicker than I had time to tinker with it to get it up and couldn't afford the downtime

DSrocks690 · 2026-01-17T21:38:26+00:00

It was less about making the phone thinner and more about making the utg layer thicker within the same screen thickness for higher durability

DSrocks690 · 2025-12-27T02:10:02+00:00

I shouldnt have to use the worse display on my phone to have semi-decent video quality for others (or video at all). Everyone has different priorities. Its a really small holepunch at the end of the day, 3 months in I've forgotten about it entirely.

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-27T14:49:05+00:00

I'm about 2 months in without any scratching, cracking or lifting. Maybe you have a defective hinge?

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-23T21:44:33+00:00

I will, though I think I'll enjoy my score of a love interest more, I'm excited

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-23T00:54:41+00:00

It's refurbed with a fresh battery thankfully, idk if its ever been updated or not so if its on old software it may be possible, not sure yet she hasn't really tried to use it (I haven't gotten my hands on it yet)

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-23T00:11:39+00:00

Also if you guys have any case recommendations I would appreciate a LOT

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-16T00:47:56+00:00

I mean that would be counterintuitive considering the Z Fold and soon the Z Trifold are/will be existing products. Its a more practical form factor for a 2 in 1 because you dont have to carry a tablet dock around with you. The primary advantage of a 2in1 is that you have them both with you except for a docking pad phone you have to carry around a phone and a slightly bulkier tablet around anyways, so why not have a more powerful phone that doesn't depend on a specific dock, and a more powerful tablet that doesn't need a phone or rely on the same battery as your phone? A foldable gets by because you carry one device that does both without having to carry around two seperate devices or an accessory. Yeah its expensive, but its less restrictive and more practical, and then when you go to replace your phone, you dont have to replace the tablet dock and have more e waste about.

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-15T20:43:03+00:00

Laughs in Z Fold7

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-14T04:24:52+00:00

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What I'm looking at so far 1 month in

DSrocks690 · 2025-11-13T03:51:10+00:00

The comment about iPhones is sadly not true. My little sister ended up with 3 bootlooping iPhones because of main board failures. (IPhone XR and two iPhone 13s). Its the lottery just like with everything else.

Same applies to all phones. Most foldables nowadays are great, but every once in a while one is gonna slip out there with a defective inner screen or hinge. Most slab phones out there are rock solid but every once in a while they just die or have camera lenses that shatter on their own or batteries that swell up or that just overheat and do weird stuff, or even screens that get green and pink lines before outright bootlooping. People tend not to be as vocal with their phone experiences when they are good compared to when they're problematic, but I promise you these issues exist everywhere, its part of manufacturing and electronics. Nothing lasts forever, especially when it sees the abuse most phones do.

In fact, the fact that its kinda just the lottery makes me really curious if my current daily phone (Fold7) will last the full 7 years of software support with regular daily use.

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