So many issues right off the bat my head is swimming. Trying to figure out where to start.. Can't believe this kind of thing is allowed to happen w/no warning. I don't fully buy your conclusion that it's just Samsungs fault. I've always thought having an android phone is collusion & cooperation between Samsung, Google and Android. My S8 was supposed to be considered one of the best phones in the world. Even before this update, the phone has had more issues than I could begin to count, but I a least was used to them and was able to find ways around most of the problems to make the phone at least pretty usable. But now, w/this pie update, I do t see how the hell I'm gonna be able to do many things.. To me, to say the update works fine with pixel phones sounds like a cop out. Android isn't just for pixel phones. I'd venture there are a heleva lot more peeps w/Samsung S phones than have pixel phones. Anyway, the 1st big thing is some of the navigation buttons are now out of alignment. At 1st I thought the buttons simply ceased to work but later discovered they do work, or at least some do, but are out of alignment on the page. The most prominent example of that I've seen so far, is with the tabs. Hold on, now it has stopped allowing me to type in landscape. It was allowing that & now it is not. That is not a new issue, it has always plagued me. I hate portrait. Can't stand it & I really need landscape to type. Extremely difficult for me to type in portrait. Hurts me & constant mistakes. The keyboard covers over the typing field. Occasionally, it leaves a space above the keyboard to see the typing field but usually not. I need badly to know how to correct that problem. Getting back to the tabs issue, now I see that what I began to describe to you is not in the regular brow which I assume is Chrome. That is totally new and different and I still have to get used to that. But the alignment issue, I now see, is in using an older version of opera mini. I use about 5 different browsers for different purposes as some are more suited to certain sites, for me. Anyway, I use 2 different versions of opera mini and the older version I have used because of better navigation & look in certain much used sites. It is that older version that was fine before w/respect to the alignment of the navigation buttons but now, w/the update, it's way off on the actual thumbnail tabs themselves as well as the buttons below the tabs, ie, left & right fwd & back tabs, the refresh button, and the tabs button that pops the tabs up or hides them. I have to tap the tab or the button to the right tab or button from the one I want, in order to get the one I want (to the left) to work or come up, whichever the case is. I'm guessing you're gonna tell me I have to deal w/opera on that. That ain't gonna work cuz they will just say to use a newer version, which I have (and everything may well be ok there w/respect to this issue, but I haven't got that far yet. The thing is, that newer version, while it allows certain things to work that don't on the older version, still the older version has far better rendering & speed & navigational control than the newer version so I use it a major part of the time and have been for years. Nevertheless I'm guessing no one can help me w/that issue.
Next, the screen keeps dimming too dark. And I have to keep pulling down the screen to access the brightness bar. That's also not a new problem as had same issue before except on rarely did it start acting up in that regard but since the update, about 20 times in the 1st hour or so. So far it won't hold for more than 5/10 min. I checked some "automatic" thing but still giving me fits. Hopefully it will learn from my numerous adjustments & settle down. Where is split screen? I depended in that for certain issues I had that required me to take a screenshot of the splitscreen but now I can't find splitscreen? Such a useful thing, why was it taken away? Can't remember the rest of the issues right now. Will have to start gathering them come back here w/them. Any help w/above would be appreciated.
If, as you say, Samsung is the culprit to some degree, they should either provide better warnings on the update page or make rollbacks easy or both. I'm betting anyone also experiencing pie update issues, will agree with me.
Next, the screen keeps dimming too dark. And I have to keep pulling down the screen to access the brightness bar. That's also not a new problem as had same issue before except on rarely did it start acting up in that regard but since the update, about 20 times in the 1st hour or so. So far it won't hold for more than 5/10 min. I checked some "automatic" thing but still giving me fits. Hopefully it will learn from my numerous adjustments & settle down. Where is split screen? I depended in that for certain issues I had that required me to take a screenshot of the splitscreen but now I can't find splitscreen? Such a useful thing, why was it taken away? Can't remember the rest of the issues right now. Will have to start gathering them come back here w/them. Any help w/above would be appreciated.
If, as you say, Samsung is the culprit to some degree, they should either provide better warnings on the update page or make rollbacks easy or both. I'm betting anyone also experiencing pie update issues, will agree with me.
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