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My Samsung Galaxy s21+ worked fairly well out of the box but within a few days it became apparent that the phone was struggling with a slew of software bugs.
The most noticeable bug is that nearly all my apps suddenly crash fairly frequently. Anything from YouTube, to twitch, to mobile games suffer from this issue. There is no warning, the app just closes. When on Google Chrome I instead get an error (forget exactly what it is, but the page turns white and an error message pops up along with the face of a frozen looking file icon) again with no warning. The frequency of Chrome crashing seems to correlate with the complexity of the page I'm on.
Another issue I'm having is that seemingly whenever I save or take another picture my phone completely loses track of all my other photos. By this I mean my gallery will be empty except for the new image. When I restart my phone all the pictures return including the new one. I will note this issue started occurring after I got my phone repaired for a screen malfunction (not my fault, screen stopped working out of nowhere).
Both of these issues have persisted after I factory reseted my phone, although I do have some suspicion of the cause. I'm not am expert but I think it perhaps has something to do with the fact that I transfered my Galaxy s9 data onto this phone, perhaps the data transfer also transfered over some code that is no longer compatible with the s21. Before I factory reset I backed up my pictures, apps, etc. so perhaps the "corrupt" data persisted.
If any of y'all could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it because I want to love this phone but it has been a buggy nightmare.
The most noticeable bug is that nearly all my apps suddenly crash fairly frequently. Anything from YouTube, to twitch, to mobile games suffer from this issue. There is no warning, the app just closes. When on Google Chrome I instead get an error (forget exactly what it is, but the page turns white and an error message pops up along with the face of a frozen looking file icon) again with no warning. The frequency of Chrome crashing seems to correlate with the complexity of the page I'm on.
Another issue I'm having is that seemingly whenever I save or take another picture my phone completely loses track of all my other photos. By this I mean my gallery will be empty except for the new image. When I restart my phone all the pictures return including the new one. I will note this issue started occurring after I got my phone repaired for a screen malfunction (not my fault, screen stopped working out of nowhere).
Both of these issues have persisted after I factory reseted my phone, although I do have some suspicion of the cause. I'm not am expert but I think it perhaps has something to do with the fact that I transfered my Galaxy s9 data onto this phone, perhaps the data transfer also transfered over some code that is no longer compatible with the s21. Before I factory reset I backed up my pictures, apps, etc. so perhaps the "corrupt" data persisted.
If any of y'all could give me some advice I would greatly appreciate it because I want to love this phone but it has been a buggy nightmare.