Battery seems to have improved a little bit with the latest update for me, also the cell standby thing is gone. However battery life for me was satisfying before and still is after the update, so no problems there. ... View more

Disregarding the higher battery consumption (which has improved over time for me and is not as bad as for some others in this thread) I'm very happy with the Oreo update on the S7 edge. The phone feels much snappier and there are some useful new features, too. I hope Samsung fixes the battery issue, and then there's a good chance that my next phone will be a Samsung again. ... View more

I guess the battery drain with Oreo was fixed on S8 and S9, so there's a pretty good chance that it will be fixed on the S7 too. However, not fixing it would be ridiculous, as it is clearly an issue of the firmware. ... View more

Okay, so what is your patch-level now? For me (in Germany with CSC DBT) there was only one Oreo-update yet and it had the April-patch already included. In fact the April-patch already came before the Oreo-update when the phone was still on Nougat. ... View more

But as far as I know you will have to flash the firmware via Odin, because if you do a factory reset in the menu it will still be on the last firmware version before the reset (with the security patch). ... View more

I also have this problem with the Cell Standby Drain. All in all the (standby) battery life with Oreo seems to be much worse for me than on Nougat, so I hope that will be fixed by an update soon. ... View more