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New FW update - nothing new?

Had an update in Kies this morning, haven't had it connected for perhaps a week or two. Updated it but can't find anything new. Can anyone else? US 6120

Which FW version you are updating to?
I Updated from KK3 to KL1, and feels many subtle improvements.

Yep KL1 now. What have you noticed as differences? Only updated this morning and havent used the thing much since but nothing was apparent

I haven't had a random reboot since installing it and I think there are some new widgets as there are a couple that I've never seen before.

I'm looking at the new FW right now. I'd be going from KJC to KL1. I'm rooted with some bloatware removed. I've read that the root is no problem. What about the bloatware that's gone, will KIES throwup when it sees it missing?

I spoke too soon my Tab just rebooted itself, after not doing it for about 2 days after updating.
I only had one thing missing when I did the update, Yahoo Stocks, and it updated without a problem. It will however remove root, I just flashed the root.zip again in recovery and then had to update the su binary (thru superuser app) as the root.zip file has an older version.

Cptnodegard said:
Yep KL1 now. What have you noticed as differences? Only updated this morning and havent used the thing much since but nothing was apparent
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I used to have some glitches (finger swipe -> screen move -> sudden stop -> move)when swiping through screen, it's totally smooth now.

kzoodroid said:
I only had one thing missing when I did the update, Yahoo Stocks, and it updated without a problem. It will however remove root, I just flashed the root.zip again in recovery and then had to update the su binary (thru superuser app) as the root.zip file has an older version.
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Thank you. Done. I'll re-root later.
Do I dare say it feels faster moving to and from and opening apps?

The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.

speedrabbit said:
The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.
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Yes, I felt as soon as I updated that scrolling seemed worse. At first I thought maybe I needed to clean the screen and I realized it was already almost spotless.

Tried messing with the TouchScreen Booster app on the market, hoping to both increase the scroll speed and the the overall sensitivity, but it didn't seem to have any effect. I find that a lot of my quick taps are missed, I assume not because they weren't detected but because they're below some minimum time threshold to avoid accidental taps, but it results it me retapping buttons a lot.

I've noticed that the 7.0 PLus is absolutely horrible with stylus input. Don't know what it is, but they barely even work at all

Cptnodegard said:
I've noticed that the 7.0 PLus is absolutely horrible with stylus input. Don't know what it is, but they barely even work at all
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My stylus works fine, but still stylus on capacitive screens are terrible.
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speedrabbit said:
The Launcher still feels pretty slow to me to load. Certainly much slower than Go Launcher. I actually like the Honeycomb launcher but waiting a couple seconds for it to redraw sometimes is annoying. Doesn't happen every time, just sometimes.
Other things that were changed that I've noticed:
-Quick launch setting in Display settings (can change screenshot button to app drawer, search, camera).
-Updated Market app, now allows portrait mode and looks/works waaaaaaay better. YES!
No changes to the Gmail app or anything else that I've noticed. Still can't see the Notifications list without scrolling the window.
Speaking of changes, has anyone noticed any settings to change scrolling sensitivity? I feel like I have to swipe a lot of times to scroll up/down a long web page.
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Launcher only reloads when you run out of memory in your app. Yes, even with 1G RAM the Honeycomb tablet run out of RAM easily. Is there an option to disable dock in Go Launcher? I use go on my phone.
Quicklaunch settings alread present in previous KK3 build.
I used to have very unsensitive scrolling when moving my finger fast or scrolling horizontaly on top edge of the screen but it feels fine now.

GaresTaylan said:
Yes, I felt as soon as I updated that scrolling seemed worse. At first I thought maybe I needed to clean the screen and I realized it was already almost spotless.
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I have noticed slow swiping in every application EXCEPT Opera. On flick and opera and it will scroll to the end of a page of you don't stop it. I wish the rest of the aps would roll like that.I

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My stylus works fine, but still stylus on capacitive screens are terrible.
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That's the result of trying to write with a stylus. There's lagg, you have to press so hard that being accurate is hard (resulting in the squished O etc), and it doesn't register all the strokes leading to cut off lines in the Es, last P etc. Are you saying yours isn't like that?

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I have noticed slow swiping in every application EXCEPT Opera. On flick and opera and it will scroll to the end of a page of you don't stop it. I wish the rest of the aps would roll like that.I
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Oh geez, you're right. What the? Why can't all apps be like that??
amtrakcn, yeah, I figured out the reloading, but the honeycomb launcher seems to do it a lot. Maybe it uses more RAM than your typical launcher and so gets closed more often. Looking at 'ps' it seems like perhaps it's keeping all the potential widgets you can load 'ready'. Go Launcher doesn't seem to close the Honeycomb launcher, but perhaps because it either gets killed less or doesn't require as many sub-processes to be running (which get killed).
It's too bad the Quick Launch setting doesn't allow you to simply remove the extra button.
I think at this point if I could get Gmail w/o panes and faster scrolling, I'd be pretty happy. Might have to cross the fingers for ICS though?

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That's the result of trying to write with a stylus. There's lagg, you have to press so hard that being accurate is hard (resulting in the squished O etc), and it doesn't register all the strokes leading to cut off lines in the Es, last P etc. Are you saying yours isn't like that?
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Yes there is a lag. But the movement are finely regietered without much pressing.

Well, that lagg is pretty killer. I've written pages up and pages down on my iPad using handwriting, and it works well for two reason: first off, there's no such idiotic lagg. Second, there are dozens of apps on the iPad that has magnification mode, letting you write big letters in a box and have it shrunk down. Those kinds of apps don't even exist on Android, at least not where you can also import documents and do all the other things that have made it possible for me to go a semester without using any paper whatsoever. What annoys me is that this issue with stylus input means that even if that software were to be available, it still wouldn't be the same.

Cptnodegard said:
Well, that lagg is pretty killer. I've written pages up and pages down on my iPad using handwriting, and it works well for two reason: first off, there's no such idiotic lagg. Second, there are dozens of apps on the iPad that has magnification mode, letting you write big letters in a box and have it shrunk down. Those kinds of apps don't even exist on Android, at least not where you can also import documents and do all the other things that have made it possible for me to go a semester without using any paper whatsoever. What annoys me is that this issue with stylus input means that even if that software were to be available, it still wouldn't be the same.
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Android is not quite efficient, the lag is almost not solvable.

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Android is not quite efficient, the lag is almost not solvable.
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I kind of agree. Have tried all sorts of note taking apps on TF101 in particular trying to get the Jot stylus to work consistently well. SuperNote was best with the Jot stylus but still not perfect (what is?).
Got a feeling without a full-blown digitizer we're SOL for now.

[Q] Google+ App uses MASSIVE Data traffic

Hello togehter,
i have a real problem with my Nexus 5 (not rooted, 4.4.4) now.... appeard suddenly and i dont find a way to fix.
The problem is that from one day to the other the Google+ App uses big amounts of battery (up to 50% per load and sends massive amounts of data in background. I talk about up to 3 GB in 2 days (!). No i didnt made pictures that upload now and sync. I dont even use Google+ really, all i do is brwose the last 3 news once per day. Also this happens ONLY in background, when the mobile is in standby. As soon as i turn on the screen i can feel the battery is getting colder by alot (should be opposide...). Also it only shows me like 40 MB of foreground data the last days, so all ok when mobile on lol. It seems to start when going in standby...
What can it be? What i did:
1. Deleted cache of Google+ App
2. Restartet phone many times already
3. uninstalled updates of Google+ App (problem immediadetly disappeared, with this status Google+ didnt even show up in the battery list)
4. deleted data of Google+ Apps
5. put off photo-sync completley
Now all was fine, phone got cold again and data usage back to normal (i let it whole night). Then i installed the update again and problem suddenly start again, in the same second. Only in the last 20 minutes it uploaded 300 MB of data since i did the update.
When i dont do the update, there are errors using the app, so i would like to have the latest google+if possible.
I also have many other Devices like Nexus 7, Huawei P6 (4.4.2) and this is not happening with Google+ there, only n this Nexus 5. Even heere are only half of the apps installed as on the other devices.
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It gets even more funny... I turned of Wifi and witched to mobile data. Same moment it stopped to send data, even theres no restriction to do so. Like mentioned, Photo sync is off, not set to wifi only.
When switching back to wifi, the data sending starts again lol... What the hell?

OK I really something is very wrong with my device.... Look at following pics, WiFi is turned off the whole 4 hours, still it shows up with so many %, that cannot be normal...and it also shows up as activated all the time, even its not.
Then I really wonder how the battery holds so well in mobile network, I mean 1% battery drain per hour with everything activated is not really bad, isn't it? But then you see next PIC...the phone never sleeps lol. Never saw this many wakeloks without it affecting battery.
I think I have to make a reset...
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thats google play service, a known issue, not g+. are you on android 444 yet?

Its Google + in this case. The pic doesnt show it. It shows the time when the bug not appears, when in mobile internet mode. If the drain appears its Google + that's on top of the list. And this drain happens as soon WiFi is activated.
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Android 4.4.4 yes.
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Saenchai said:
Its Google + in this case. The pic doesnt show it. It shows the time when the bug not appears, when in mobile internet mode. If the drain appears its Google + that's on top of the list. And this drain happens as soon WiFi is activated.
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Android 4.4.4 yes.
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in g+ setting, it sounds like you hve this enabled..

I agree my original post is long but in point 5 I said I put off that sync completely. Autobackup=off. So I guess this option has no effect anymore, shouldn't it?
But I saw this option in another place, that is the gallery itself. If I go to gallery and settings there's another photo sync, why? And why this one will be turned on even if the one in the other app is off?
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Saenchai said:
OK I really something is very wrong with my device.... Look at following pics, WiFi is turned off the whole 4 hours, still it shows up with so many %, that cannot be normal...and it also shows up as activated all the time, even its not.
Then I really wonder how the battery holds so well in mobile network, I mean 1% battery drain per hour with everything activated is not really bad, isn't it? But then you see next PIC...the phone never sleeps lol. Never saw this many wakeloks without it affecting battery.
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Turn off constant WiFi scanning in advanced option in WiFi menu. As default it is enabled(!).
This option allows Google services constant scanning, even when you turn off WiFi switch.
When you disable that option battery should stay alive longer.
And for Google+ issue - I had similar problem. Turn off 'background data' option for Google+ - it helps.
Google+ buffers your pictures from backup (like a cache). By turning off background data - it shouldn't take place when app is closed.

Well, this is looked into by a Google support guy now. Sadly all that doesn't help. Also hardresets won't. Nothing did. They get into error reports and all that now but probably change my phone, according to him.
I made a topic about in on Google+ itself, I'll post link later.
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mieszk3 said:
And for Google+ issue - I had similar problem. Turn off 'background data' option for Google+ - it helps.
Google+ buffers your pictures from backup (like a cache). By turning off background data - it shouldn't take place when app is closed.
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Wich setting you mean with that? Where can i find it?
Its really unbelievable... The problem still remains, even after days of chat with google support directly. Not sure whats going on but i cannot think about how this can be hardware related and the other problem is that if i want to exchange it Amazon will probably laugh at me, since theres no visible error.
This is the link to the Google+ Post
https://plus.google.com/+AlexWBKK/posts/ECKG3EeHVZd
This was another advice that didnt help:
- go to your device settings
- go to Applications
- Find the Google+ App
- uninstall all updates for the google+ app
- clear app data
- Go to the play store
- go to my apps
- update your apps from the play store
- go to your device settings
- scroll to account
- tap into google
- tap into your email address
- ensure all boxes are checked.
- especially the google+ photos and Autobackup
- ensure sync is on
it should work as per normal now.
- go to google+ app
- log into app
- ensure settings are to your requirements
- go to the Photos app
- go to the left side menu
- go to On Device
- if the Autobackup Cloud icon is highlighted blue tap it to switch it off for a particular folder that you don't want to be backed up.
This is optional
- go back to the Google+ app
- From the settings go to the autobackup settings
- select the option to backup all photos now do not dismiss the notification for it.
Do all the steps described you don't have to do the optional one, but please ensure that you do the steps in that order. 
10 hours after doing this it happened again and in one hour 1 GB of data was recieved, battery down 20% more and phone hot. In Standby mode...
Support has all the bug reports i made, seems either they dont find something or i dunno, at least i didnt hear from them since days now....
Maybe someone of you can see something? This bug report is of a time after the suggested advice from the google support. It was ok many hours, then i charged the phone to 100%, went to bed and 4 hours later when i woke up i saw that mobile again is hot, google at top positions and 2 GB data gone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw2HIVhZzrqQZExudWczcGtZTlU/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw2HIVhZzrqQZnh6NDFXclBZNk0/edit?usp=sharing
So what in all names is left for me? I have a hard time explaining Amazon that i really have a problem..
And i know there is something wrong because NONE of my other devices with the exactly same settings on the exactly same account this happens. On some like my Nexus 7 i have 2 more google+ accounts added to the one i use on the problem Nexus 5 and absolutley no drain here..

Ok i just scrolled through the bug report myself and i see that there are TONS of supends and task restarts until line 52710.217422, starting far up from that line, for some hours. Someone familiar with entries like that?

Saenchai said:
Wich setting you mean with that? Where can i find it?
Its really unbelievable... The problem still remains, even after days of chat with google support directly. Not sure whats going on but i cannot think about how this can be hardware related and the other problem is that if i want to exchange it Amazon will probably laugh at me, since theres no visible error.
This is the link to the Google+ Post
https://plus.google.com/+AlexWBKK/posts/ECKG3EeHVZd
This was another advice that didnt help:
- go to your device settings
- go to Applications
- Find the Google+ App
- uninstall all updates for the google+ app
- clear app data
- Go to the play store
- go to my apps
- update your apps from the play store
- go to your device settings
- scroll to account
- tap into google
- tap into your email address
- ensure all boxes are checked.
- especially the google+ photos and Autobackup
- ensure sync is on
it should work as per normal now.
- go to google+ app
- log into app
- ensure settings are to your requirements
- go to the Photos app
- go to the left side menu
- go to On Device
- if the Autobackup Cloud icon is highlighted blue tap it to switch it off for a particular folder that you don't want to be backed up.
This is optional
- go back to the Google+ app
- From the settings go to the autobackup settings
- select the option to backup all photos now do not dismiss the notification for it.
Do all the steps described you don't have to do the optional one, but please ensure that you do the steps in that order. 
10 hours after doing this it happened again and in one hour 1 GB of data was recieved, battery down 20% more and phone hot. In Standby mode...
Support has all the bug reports i made, seems either they dont find something or i dunno, at least i didnt hear from them since days now....
Maybe someone of you can see something? This bug report is of a time after the suggested advice from the google support. It was ok many hours, then i charged the phone to 100%, went to bed and 4 hours later when i woke up i saw that mobile again is hot, google at top positions and 2 GB data gone.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw2HIVhZzrqQZExudWczcGtZTlU/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw2HIVhZzrqQZnh6NDFXclBZNk0/edit?usp=sharing
So what in all names is left for me? I have a hard time explaining Amazon that i really have a problem..
And i know there is something wrong because NONE of my other devices with the exactly same settings on the exactly same account this happens. On some like my Nexus 7 i have 2 more google+ accounts added to the one i use on the problem Nexus 5 and absolutley no drain here..
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Go to Settings->Data usage
Select Google+ app and select background data option on the bottom. It should stop data when in GSM range.
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mieszk3 said:
Go to Settings->Data usage
Select Google+ app and select background data option on the bottom. It should stop data when in GSM range.
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Thanks but the problem is only happening in Wifi. Background Data usage of G+ in 3G Mode is at 5 MB for the last 5 days. In Wifi it shows 7 GB now.

Saenchai said:
Thanks but the problem is only happening in Wifi. Background Data usage of G+ in 3G Mode is at 5 MB for the last 5 days. In Wifi it shows 7 GB now.
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Just to let others know if they read this and have the same by any chance.
The problem was not related to any setting that was wrong or anything like that. It seems the updates (from 4.3 to 4.4.3 to 4.4.4) caused some errors when i installed them in fast order. Google Support read my logs and it seems there were many errors overall that doesnt really make sense.
So after even all the hardresets, google-tips and cache wipes didnt bring any outcome i tried to flash a factory image instead of only a hardreset, this time directly 4.4.4 and now after one week i think i can say the error is gone. I neither had any Drain from Google+ nor my Telephone service acted up. I charged 3 times now the last week and also after charging (where the error appeared before) nothing is out of order.

Hi to all, I'm having the same issue with my Nexus 5; large amount of data downloaded on wifi. In 8 hours something like 10 GB of data transferred but free space on my device remain the same
I disabled Google+ from TIB, but I like it and this is only a workaround

Couple of problems with new S8+ caused me to have to reset twice in one day.

So far, my third iteration of setting up this phone (twice today) is working, so maybe I don't really have a question, other than "Has anything like this happened to you?", but I thought this was better in the Q&A rather than general discussion section. Mods please move if you disagree. I really did think about this, but couldn't decide where to put it.
I had to buy a new phone about two weeks ago because my S7 Edge's battery swelled up and bent the back of the phone's case. I wound up trading it in on a new S8+ (from Verizon). I love the phone even more than my S7 Edge, which is saying something.
Anyway, I like to use Samsung's themes to switch things up a bit, and I change themes every couple of days. I always search the theme store for new themes that are free. I've learned that most of them are crap, but you can usually tell by looking at the preview shots if the theme designer has gone overboard by using poor color choices/backgrounds in the dialer and messaging apps.
Ok, so first problem: I was playing with a couple of newer (free) themes:
1) Dark Night
2) [LSA]Shinny Moon Town Theme
I switched to the first theme and all was fine, but I thought it was boring, and kept looking.
When I switched to the second theme, I saw a brief message that some elements were incompatible and wouldn't be used, but the message went away before I could really read it carefully. The theme applied, though, and seemed to work correctly.
I liked the colors and style of this theme, but thought the folder icons were too ugly to live with, so I thought I'd just switch the icons back to the stock icons. Here's where things got wonky.
I went to the icons sections, picked the default Samsung icon set, and applied it. The folder icons did not switch back!
At this point, I panicked a bit and just decided to return to the stock theme. When I applied the stock theme, everything looked OK, but I noticed the Infinity wallpaper wasn't working - it just acted like a static wallpaper.
After web searching a bit, it seems this can happen if you set the Always-On Display screen background to not be just blank. I followed the steps in an online instruction for fixing this, but the infinity wallpaper still was not working.
At this point, I tried clearing all of the app caches (in Settings/Device Management/Storage) and rebooting. This did not help.
I then tried clearing the device's cache partition by looking up how to do that online. Timing is a bit tricky on holding down the power key, but after a few tries, I got it right, and managed to clear the cache partition.
Still no working infinity wallpaper. It really seemed broken, and none of the online suggestions I found worked at all.
Now, I realize this may not be a big deal to some, but it's a new phone, and I'm OCD enough to want stuff that was working out of the box to continue to work, so I decided to reset the device.
I did that, and got about 60% through my somewhat involved process in re-installing everything and re-enrolling in various services (iris scanning/fingerprints/credit cards in Samsung Pay/etc. etc. - you all know the drill).
When I went to set Smart Lock options for preventing the device from locking when I'm at home (Trusted Places) or the phone is detected on-body, I found that the Smart Lock screen was completely blank. No options appeared, and no button appeared at the bottom right to allow you to start the setup process for various Smart Lock options..
Back to Google, and I learned the fix was to remove "Smart Lock" from Trust Agents, reboot the phone, and re-add Smart Lock as a Trust Agent.
(PRO TIP: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO THAT).
After the reboot, I couldn't even keep the Settings app from crashing whenever I tried to visit the settings page where Security-related settings are managed. (Samsung's or Google's wonderfully irritating dialog box: "Settings keeps stopping" - yes, no s**t).
Clearing caches and the cache partition did not fix this problem, either, so I reluctantly and nervously reset the phone for the second time in less than 6 hours.
So, I guess my story so far is that this third time appears to be a charm, and everything so far is working great. I'm staying far away from third-party (non-Samsung) themes in the theme store for now, even though they'd always worked fine for me before.
I have absolutely no idea why I had the problem with the Smart Lock setup, though. Everything worked fine after the second reset as far as the Smart Lock setup and options, although I hadn't done anything in the previous attempt that should have interfered with something as baked in as the Smart Lock stuff. I hadn't even changed the default wallpaper or home screen setup yet!
Also learned my lesson about slavishly following steps on a website (Remove "Smart Lock' as a Trust Agent? If I'd really been thinking, this would have seemed like bad advice to me, but things weren't working right anyway, so maybe a bit of experimentation was justified, I don't know...).
Anyway, just thought I'd post my experiences in case they're of help for anyone searching for these type of problems. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this setup will "take", but I have to say my confidence in messing around with manufacturer-provided capabilities and content, using their built-in software and eco-system on their current-year flagship device, has definitely been shaken.

Issues with the Android Pie Update (Google Play Store and Camera -> Gallery App)

Hello everyone!
Today I updated my HTC U12 + (128GB) to the Android Pie version (9.0):
First I received an update of approximately 350 MB, which was downloaded and installed without any problem, the cell phone restarted without any problems (I clarify that my cell phone is encrypted and when it restarts, ask for a password to continue with the restart). For now everything is going well.
After a while the main update was downloaded (950 MB approx) and I had it installed as soon as the download was finished.
Again the cell phone restarted, he asked me for the password to decrypt it, but after that, it went completely black, he did not advance anything else for several minutes. Amid the panic, fear and despair, I pressed the power button to restart the cell phone, asked for the password again, and apparently charged the rest of the installation.
When I went to use the Camera application, the option thath appears in the lower right corner to see the last photos taken (like a gallery) is not working well, the application crashes and is not letting me see the photos taken. (Here goes the first problem).
Another problem I have is with the Google Play Store app: It doesn't allow me to download apps from the store, as if it were locked or something like that. (Here goes the second problem).
Now, the main problem is: Like any good engineer, any problem can be solved with a reboot to see if everything loads well, but I already tried and it didn't work. And following the good traditions of the good engineer, it can be said that I do a hard reset (erasing all the settings and content of the cell phone, which I also consider an effective solution, I will not deny it), but currently I am outside the country where I have hired My phone number, and for work I need WhatsApp (and as you know, I need a text message with the code to login), and I have no way to activate Roamming.
Can anyone help this good citizen with any advice, trick, recommendation or magic spell that does not involve formatting the phone and solving these problems?
Thanks!
PD: A friend with the "same" model (64GB) had no issues with the instalation, and we compared the camera version number, and everythings is the same.

Delete camera and gallery data in settings and reboot. If that don't work do a factory reset... Sometimes after an update it is necessary to delete old caches that get stuck

dioggo92 said:
Delete camera and gallery data in settings and reboot. If that don't work do a factory reset... Sometimes after an update it is necessary to delete old caches that get stuck
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I have already deleted the cache of the applications with problems, but it still does not work properly.
Thanks for your answer and support with this.
(Until I can return to my country, I cannot do the hard reset... sadly)

no issues here since yesterday evening
So far it's great, very smooth, phone (64GB blue on TMO US w/ 128GB SD) is faster & battery life seems to have improved a lot though it's only 1PM here so we will see...
Upgrade went the same way like yours except I waited patiently to come back from the "blackout" after the decryption was done, thanks for the heads-up (though I usually wait a while anyway.)
UI is a tad more responsive - I have a lot running on my phone, I use it heavily for business all day long.
I like the clock's new location in the upper left corner actually more than the previous one - however the new UI design is a too bubbly and too colorful, too 'pop' for my taste, the previous one was far more elegant, I think. I will give it some time, see if I get used to it - if not I will just look up some more subtle theme.
I only had to re-apply my notification sound setting, everything else was kept intact so it's all good.
All in all I'm satisfied so far, very smooth upgrade - it did worth the wait, thank you HTC!

Question So many problem with this phone

I bought a pixel 7 pro and I admit that I am really disappointed. The camera it is true is of quality but otherwise many problems for me. The most annoying thing is the total absence of notification from the messaging applications or the SMS application. Otherwise the sound works correctly, general sound, alarm sound and even notification from the google photos application which tells me what I have memories of the past. Today I made the last update hoping that finally my problem would be solved but not at all and instead while it was working previously the applications which are reduced disappear and I no longer have the possibility of close open applications it's as if I had not launched any application, the list is empty. Does anyone have the same problems as me?
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If you took the latest OTA, just factory reset the phone. I have none of the problems you are experiencing. I suspect you disabled some settings for notifications. Do yourself a favor and factory restore the phone. It's one of the best phones I have used.

radekmazur said:
If you took the latest OTA, just factory reset the phone. I have none of the problems you are experiencing. I suspect you disabled some settings for notifications. Do yourself a favor and factory restore the phone. It's one of the best phones I have used.
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The problem is that I already did a factory reset 2 months ago and it didn't change anything. Believe me, I checked all notification settings and everything is enabled even in the app itself. I just got one from google photos and it's the only app I've seen on AOD since I got the phone. I never had another. it's a really mysterious problem. I know that in the end I will end up doing another factory reset because I don't really see any other solution otherwise I would bring the phone back to the store

Uninstall Pixel Launcher updates from Play Store and install it back
had the same problem and thanks to
nomfway i fixed it see post 2103 here https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ixel-7-pro-cheetah-safetynet.4502805/page-106​

boontje3 said:
Uninstall Pixel Launcher updates from Play Store and install it back
had the same problem and thanks to
nomfway i fixed it see post 2103 here https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/march-13-2023-tq2a-230305-008-c1-global-a3-windtre-canada-unlock-bootloader-root-pixel-7-pro-cheetah-safetynet.4502805/solved mypage-106​
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Thank you very much it solved my problem about recent apps disappeared

Some settings are also backed up with your Google account so it is possible that maybe done of your notification settings are persisting due to restored backups.

Verolive said:
I bought a pixel 7 pro and I admit that I am really disappointed. The camera it is true is of quality but otherwise many problems for me. The most annoying thing is the total absence of notification from the messaging applications or the SMS application. Otherwise the sound works correctly, general sound, alarm sound and even notification from the google photos application which tells me what I have memories of the past. Today I made the last update hoping that finally my problem would be solved but not at all and instead while it was working previously the applications which are reduced disappear and I no longer have the possibility of close open applications it's as if I had not launched any application, the list is empty. Does anyone have the same problems as me?
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No problems like that on my 7Pro

Was that really the only problem(s) you were having? I guess we have different definitions of "so many". Thanks for the advice, boontje3, it saved OP from this train wreck of a dumpster fire phone

I almost threw my phone in the trash, glad it was fixed.

synesthete said:
Some settings are also backed up with your Google account so it is possible that maybe done of your notification settings are persisting due to restored backups.
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I think it may be a backup and restore problem but not at the level of the google account settings because while all the notifications are activated at the phone and application level, I don't have any except google photos . If it was a google settings problem (which I haven't changed) it shouldn't prevent messenger or telegram from working normally which is not the case. I suspect the problem is using Samsung smart swith to transfer my data and some apps from my S20+ to the Pixel 7 pro. I will redo a factory reset and reinstall my applications manually. It's true that normally that's what I do but this time for ease I used this application and maybe that's where the problem comes from. if after doing a new factory reset but this time without using smart switch to restore I still have the same problem well I think I will have to turn to a hardware problem or my phone is haunted

smurfmeat said:
Was that really the only problem(s) you were having? I guess we have different definitions of "so many". Thanks for the advice, boontje3, it saved OP from this train wreck of a dumpster fire phone
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Well having a phone that does not receive any notifications even from the basic SMS application is still a serious problem for me. Moreover, this is not the only problem noted. For example I use smart launcher which allows to save the configuration of the launcher. The feature works perfectly on the S20+ but not at all for me with the pixel 7 pro while they are both on Android 13. and during the last update I had to uninstall and reinstall the basic launcher of google because closing recent applications was no longer possible as indicated above by boontje3 which doing this finaly solved the problem

Sounds more like a launcher issue? Action Launcher restored settings for me perfectly just today.

krakout said:
Sounds more like a launcher issue? Action Launcher restored settings for me perfectly just today.
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Yes maybe possible but the fact remains that the functionality works on the Samsung not with the Pixel

Just tried Smart Launcher, changed some settings, saved, uninstalled, installed again, restored settings, worked perfectly. So...

krakout said:
Just tried Smart Launcher, changed some settings, saved, uninstalled, installed again, restored settings, worked perfectly. So...
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So if it works normally for you, that means in the 5 or 6 google system apps that I removed using adb, like Google one or something else (nothing very special and really not much just some crap I don't want ) prevents it from working for me because it still doesn't work. On my S20+ I debloated maybe 50 or more and everything still works perfectly. I specify that the problem with the notifications has nothing to do since it is from the beginning that I have the phone long before I delete these few system app
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So, let me get this straight, you mess with the system software and then you complain that the system does not do what you expect... Ok.
The fact that on your Samsung you removed dozens of apps without a problem only tells me that it's full of really useless crap.

This will help probally, ( They are an AOSP apps, so they can work because they have their own messages prioritet.

cmfCyangenModteam said:
This will help probally, ( They are an AOSP apps, so they can work because they have their own messages prioritet.
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What is it though?

krakout said:
What is it though?
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AOSP apps, they can help.

krakout said:
it's full of really useless crap.
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That's the definition of Samsung!