Deleting and re-adding my email account solved my email problems. However, now, every time I turn on my phone, after I enter my lock screen PIN I get a dialog saying Unfortunately Touchwiz Home has stopped. I say OK to the dialog, and everything seems to go on as usual.
The phone gets really hot when I talk on it, I was on the phone for about ten minutes yesterday and it was starting to hurt my ear.
And the GPS toggle appears to be gone from the Settings you get when you drop down the top shade of the phone, it says "location" now, and your choices are "high accuracy" which uses GPS, network towers, etc. to locate you (when I choose that my GPS searches, searches, searches....), power saver which does not use GPS, only network towers, or totally off. This is not an improvement, I used to be able to control my GPS separately and it actually could find the satellites.
My battery drains a little faster than it used to, not frighteningly so, but I cannot get two 8 hour days out of one charge anymore so I am making more use of my spare battery. An 8-10 hour day of normal use for me now uses about 65% of my battery.
I am disinclined to waste hours and hours on the phone with people who clearly cannot help me, as they have not helped others who commented.
I am not rooted, I'm running stock stuff and do not have any battery saver, process cleaner, or other such management apps on my phone.
I don't know whether most people are also having these issues and whether they have found any clever improvements they could make to improve things. I guess we just have to live with it.
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