1. “Galaxy Store” is an app preinstalled on Galaxy phones. Open it (Configuring your Samsung account if not yet done).
2. Tap the 3 vertical dots on top right of screen
3. Select “My page” (previously named “My Apps”).
4. Select “All”
5. Select the Watch, Apps or Themes
6. Then re-download what you wish.

To manage your Watch, install the “Galaxy Wearable ” App (previously named Galaxy Gear) via the Google App Store.

Don’t download  and install the «NEON Codec 1.8.9 for Android 6+» usually suggested for MX player in order to support AC3 (available on Google play as «MX Player Codec for ARMv7 NEON CPUs»).

Instead, download the custom codec for arm v7 neon 1.8.6 (available here). Unzip that file, open MX Player, click on the menu …, go to  settings > decoder. Scroll down to the very bottom and select Custom Codec.  There, pick the file libffmpeg.mx.so.neon.1.8.6 you have just unzipped.

MX Player will next restart. You can now try a video with ac3 codec. Ex.: download a sample from here.

Et voilà.

When I used my headphones to play an Oculus gamen I thought that the mobile was not powerful enough to stream the sound via Bluetooth while playing the video. Weird, but ok… it was also not powerful enough to mirror the video on my Samsung TV, so….

But when it failed also to stream fluently music, either from YouTube or from by DS Audio Stations (Synology), I thought there should be a reason behind this.

As it’s known that Bluetooth and WiFi are both using the frequency 2.4GHz, I tried to disable the WiFi… and it solved immediately the problem.

I never never had such a problem with my previous mobiles Also, I am quite sure I would not have that issue if I could connect on a WiFi 5Ghz.

Support page for GS7 in Belgium is: http://www.samsung.com/be_fr/support/model/SM-G935FZDALUX

I did post a request for support to Samsung on the 2nd May and only got an answer on 20th May. I said that the noise was awful when the Wifi was on and great if it was off. I also said that I had not such issue when streaming from my 300€ OnePlus One mobile (the S7 was 799€) or from my Sony Laptop or from my Lenovo Tablets.

They answered that “Samsung does not guarantee the proper functioning of Samsung products. with other branded”

WTF Samsung! Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are standard wireless protocols. My headset works perfect with 3 other brands.

Android Marshmallow has the ability to take a SD card and partition it as semi-permanent device storage. But it’s not accessible on the Samsung Galaxy S7.

I applied this recipes with success: http://www.modaco.com/news/android/heres-how-to-configure-adoptable-storage-on-your-s7-s7-edge-r1632/

• Download and Install “Samsung Usb Drivers” from http://adbdriver.com/downloads/
• Download and copy in a folder the “ADB kits” from http://adbshell.com/downloads
• Enable the “Developer Options” menu via Settings > About Device > Software Info > Type 5 times the “Build number”.
• Enable “USB debugging” via Settings > Developer Options.
• Plug your mobile into your PC via an USB cable.
• Open a command prompt as administrator and type adb shell
• Type next sm list-disks to see the Disk ID. It looked like this on my phone “disk:179,0”
• To use 100% of the SD card as internal storage, type sm partition <Disk ID> private
  • Ex.: sm partition disk:179,0 private
• After formatting the microSD card
  • Reboot
  • Go next into Settings > Storage. Select the “SD card” and hit the menu “More” to “Migrate data”. This moves everything to the SD card. Everything in the future should install to the SD card until it is full and then moves to internal.

Before this, due to Oculus VR stuff, my internal storage was full although I already moved manually most Apps to the SD card. Now, after the “Migration of the Data” only 18GB are still used out of the 32GB (~13GB have been moved to the SD Card).

NB.: Since I did this, I notice that moving Apps to the SD often results in an error message : “Not enough storage space”. I usually just retry and then the move succeeds.

Since a long time now, I am using two great tools (both free) to synchronize the Outlook Local Accounts of all my PC (at home and at work) with my Google Account (which was sync with my Galaxy S2):

1. Google Sync: to sync my calendar both way
2. Go Contact Sync mod: to sync my contacts both way

Now, I am planning to use my Windows Live account account instead of my Google account as a central repository for my calendars and contacts: it’s actually the Windows Live Hotmail feature which is concerned; a.k.a. Outlook.com.

For mails, I will continue to use my own mail server at Servage.net (with imap support). Actually, my main email address is a forwarded to my Gmail address, where the best free spam filter ever made available is applied. Next, the mails are forwarded back to a servage’s mail box that I access via imap from all my devices/PC.

So… what should I do to use outlook.com instead of google on my PC and Galaxy S2 ?

1. Install the Outlook.com sync feature on the Android device. First feedback:
   • It’s great for keeping your Android Calendar in sync with your Outlook.com calendar
   • It’s great for using your Outlook.com contacts from your Android.
   • But it’s really disappointing as contacts can’t be edited
   • And, about the synchronization of the emails, notice that it may only fetch emails from the last 30 days…
2. Add Outlook.com as a new account in Outlook 2013
   1. Go to the menu File and click on the button Add Account in the Account Information pane.
   2. Select Manual setup or additional server types and click Next.
   3. Select Outlook.com or Exchange ActiveSync compatible service.
   4. Add your User information and Logon information, using the Mail Server: blu-m.hotmail.com
3. Define Outlook.com account as the default account in Outlook 2013
   1. Go to the menu File and select the Exchange ActiveSync account (Outlook.com) in the Account Information pane.
   2. From the Account Settings drop-down menu select Account Settings…
   3. In the E-mail tab, select your Exchange ActiveSync account and click on Set as Default (Except if you want to send and receive your email with another account by default).
   4. In the Data Files tab, select your Exchange ActiveSync account and click on Set as Default (If you don’t do that, meetings will be created in the local account which is currently the default one).
4. Export the calendar from Google
   1. Go to Google Calendar
   2. Expand the menu of My Calendars and select Parameters
   3. Click on Export Calendars. A download should start automatically.
   4. Unzip the file downloaded at step C.
5. Import this google calendar in the Outlook.com account via Outlook 2013
   1. Open the Calendar view (via the bottom-left menu).
   2. Go to the menu File and select Open & Export.
   3. Click on Import/Export in the Open pane.
   4. Select Import an iCalendar (.ics) or vCalendar file (.vcs).
   5. Browse to open the file unzipped at step 4.D and containing the calendar exported from Google Calendar.
6. Export the contacts from Gmail
   1. Go to Gmail
   2. From the top-left Gmail drop-down menu and select Contacts to open your Google address book.
   3. From the More actions drop-down menu, select Export…
   4. Select next the Outlook CSV format. A download should start automatically.
7. Import those gmail contacts in Outlook.com (Outlook 2013 does not support to import contacts in the Oultook.com account)
   1. Go to Windows Live Hotmail.
   2. In the top-left drop-down menu Outlook, select People.
   3. Under “Add people to your contact list” select Import from a file.
   4. Click on Choose File and pick the file downloaded at step 6.D and containing the contacts exported from Google Calendar.
   5. Click Import Contacts.
   6. Force a Send/Receive in Outlook 2013 to sync the contacts newly added to the Outlook.com account.

Instead of importing the contacts from Gmail into Outlook.com, you can link those contacts with your Outlook.com account. Doing so, they are in sync!

1. Go to Windows Live Hotmail.
2. In the top-left drop-down menu Outlook, select People.
3. Under “Add people to your contact list”, in the right pane, select Google Contacts.
4. Follow the connection wizard (Notice that the import is not immediate but done in background… Also when you change a Google Contact, the change will be not be synchronize immediately).

How to delete all meetings from Outlook 2013 Calendar:

If by accident you did import your meetings in the wrong calendar, here is how to select all the items and delete them.

1. Go to the menu View.
2. Click on Change View and select List.
3. Select all the Items pressing Ctrl-A
4. Press Delete

How to select all contacts from Outlook.com:

A really hard one as there is neither a Select-All menu nor a shortcut like Ctrl-A! And just like with Windows 8, it’s nowadays really difficult to guess how Microsoft has implemented some of the most simple operations with the keyboard.

To Select All your Contacts in Outlook.com:

1. Select the first contact with your mouse
2. Press Shift + Page Down.

Conclusions: 

I think I hate hotmail (and MS) a little bit more now than before regarding the integration with mobile devices

But ok… hotmail is Microsoft’s target mailing solution and I presume they will continue to work on the integration with outlook 2013 and the mobile devices…

In addition, Googly Calendar Sync will be end of life in January 2013. The download link is already not available anymore…

So, for now, I will only use the calendar of my Windows Live account. Doing so, I can already get rid of the Googly Sync tool from all my PC.

But I will keep “Go Contact Sync Mod” tool to sync the contacts as there is really nothing else convenient offered by MS to share them between PCs and mobile devices That being said, Go Contact Sync Mod 3.5.20 is really great, free and efficient with Outlook 2013 ! E.g.: In my case, I do sync the Google Contacts directly with my Outlook.com account in Outlook 2013…

This solution consists in installing an older version of the Samsung Driver. E.g.:  v1.4.8.0 available here, or 1.4.103 available here. I did use the 1.4.103 with success. No need to uninstall first the version currently installed. You will simply have to confirm during the setup that you want to install that version although another one is already installed.

This issue prevents Kies to connect with the phone via USB. Concretely you see the “connecting” message for a while as well as a spinning icon looping indefinitely.

A solution often mentioned on the web is to remove the following line from the config file (or to completely delete the file) :

This config file is located in “%programfiles%\Samsung\Kies\External\FirmwareUpdate\KiesPDLR.exe.config” (on x64 platform: “%programfiles% (x86)”).

This fix didn’t work for me. But another one did the trick: I did an “advanced” uninstall of Kies using the free “Revo Uninstaller” and did next a fresh re-install.