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Hello dear people.

I know that now when the samsung s8 is out on the market the s7 and s7 edge is less appleing to buy but I still felt like I needed to post this for someone that considers buying one. 

I've used the s7 edge since September last year and loved evrything about it. Evrything from the edge screen to the camera feels awesome to use, but there is a problem with it that I can't seem to find in this forum.

I've dropped my phone a total of 3-4 times this last year and the first time something relly weird happend, you see the screen started flickering and pulsating this green light that coverd almost half of the bottom screen making the phone unusable and I had to return it to the store. i did not give it much thought at first though I felt like it was my own fault i dropped it  (without a case covering it).

but a month ago i just bumped my phone into a wooden table and the screen started flickering in the exakt same way once again, and this was on the same model but a diffrent phone so I assumed it couldent be a coincidence. So i googled it and found that the s7 edge has a poor bulid quality that results in the flickering when droped or bumped into something. 

I know that electonics issent build for fall damge but I mean come on Samsung, your phone can't break down just cuz someone once bumped it. It has no scratches or craks at all either. 

Also I don't think this applies to the regular s7, I could only find anything online about the edge model.

And as far as I could tell from Samsungs website they don't refund you for this. 

I tried to restart the phone a couple of times, i even went as far as factory reseting it wich I don't recomend. my screen will only light up for a split second before going dark again. So this is obviously not a software thing.

the touchscreen still works but whenever i lanuch a application on the phone evrything turns green.

I posted this to spread the information but if you have any suggestion on solution i will welcome you with open arms. 

(ps sorry for my poor spelling, English is not my main language)

 

This video shows a bit how it looks but with the constant flickering.

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