Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 Announcement and Owners Thread

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#3397408 27-Jul-2025 14:00

@Thorak:

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Thorak:

Coming from an Oppo Find X8 Pro, the battery life on this is ROUGH if not outright terrible. The 25w charging speeds are also not uptoscratch for 2025, a quick 10-15 minutes on the Oppo gives me enough for half a day, an hour on the Fold will give me a couple hours. Can't see me holding onto this for very long.

(Drop a bloody cinder black on my Oppo, destroyed lol)

You decided to use it, instead of selling it? If so, you should remove the listing, surely.

Oh yeah good catch. Still for sale but my other phone played with a cinder block and lost so had to open.

Will edit the listing

In which case better remove the "brand new, unopened" statement.

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#3397485 28-Jul-2025 07:38

I was really surprised to see how the Fold 7 went against Jerry's tests,

Click to see spoiler(s)

especially that it survived the bend test when wide open

considering how thin it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hgg4YEdPak&ab_channel=JerryRigEverything

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#3397733 28-Jul-2025 15:29

Anyone else wish the fingerprint ready was a little more raised? Find myself missing it constantly and unable to really press it to lock or turn the screen on. Feels too reccessed.

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#3397740 28-Jul-2025 15:40

I have the setting enabled to unlock and launch the home screen when the sensor is touched. It means you don't have to fully depress the button. I also set up 4 fingers so it's easily unlocked depending how I am holding the phone while it's folded closed.

I do find that doublepressing the button to launch the camera isn't as easy as my previous Samsung devices. I might end up using a lock screen shortcut instead.

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#3397773 28-Jul-2025 17:17

gehenna:

I have the setting enabled to unlock and launch the home screen when the sensor is touched. It means you don't have to fully depress the button. I also set up 4 fingers so it's easily unlocked depending how I am holding the phone while it's folded closed.

I do find that doublepressing the button to launch the camera isn't as easy as my previous Samsung devices. I might end up using a lock screen shortcut instead.

Oh didn't know that was an option. Where do I find it.

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#3397776 28-Jul-2025 17:21

Settings, search Fingerprint and select Fingerprint Always On.

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#3397785 28-Jul-2025 18:34

Thorak:

Oh didn't know that was an option. Where do I find it.

Explore the phone's settings further than that, too, you might find it competes with the other devices you mentioned in more than just specs. Most behaviours can be altered in software to suit how you use the device. And you can add Good Lock for more settings.

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#3397898 29-Jul-2025 06:15

Yes, the unlock button was something I have noted as slightly more difficult to use than my ZF3. Mind you, the old phone had a wallet cover that woke the phone when opened.

The work around I had been using on the ZF7 was to double tap the screen, then find the fingerprint sensor. But certainly the settings change above will be something I will change.

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#3397907 29-Jul-2025 07:35

It's good to see that a lot of the Good Lock settings for Foldables have moved to the native OneUI settings. There's still a few that you can only access via Good Lock, though, so make sure you have it if you have a Fold, or you're missing out on customisations you'll probably enjoy.

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#3397919 29-Jul-2025 08:31

A few things haven't yet been added to Good Lock for the Fold 7?

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#3397942 29-Jul-2025 09:45

Your point?

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#3397962 29-Jul-2025 11:00

gehenna:

Your point?

Wsan't a point, was a question. Does it take them a while to update?

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#3398011 29-Jul-2025 12:28

It's frequently updated, there are some things there now, some things will continue to be added, and some things in Good Lock will eventually make their way to native OneUI settings if enough people take up the features and use them.

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#3398606 31-Jul-2025 07:59

Is anyone experiencing either:

Display scaling inconsistencies between inner and outer screen means I can only get the inner screen looking how I want it, but then the outer screen is too small for my eyes and fingers - but the can't be scaled independently. Anyone know of a workaround? Currently I have the fonts sized higher than I'd like, which makes some menus on the outer screen run out of space.
Wallpaper changes back to the Samsung ootb default at random times. Doesn't seem to be tied to anything in Modes and Routines etc. I can't find where it's being told to do it, or why, or how to get the change to be sticky once I change it back. On my S24U I would change the wallpaper to black when enabling Sleep mode, which has a routine to turn off lights and other settings. That worked fine on the S24 and would change back to the correct wallpaper each morning. That's not enabled on the Fold7 so I don't think it's that.

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#3398618 31-Jul-2025 08:34

Think they got the cover screen size pretty well bang on. Comfortable to use but big enough to be useful.

Tell you what though, phone gets HOT while gaming for 5 minutes.

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