AQI5 Update Features? - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Just received an OTA on my US Note 8 unlocked version but hasn't seen any specific enhancement or features. Anybody knows what this update does? Here's what it says on Samsung website:
GPS Fix
UI Lockup (while in emergency mode) fix
Camera launch fix
Updated Samsung keyboard apk

Improved stability for camera, maps, general bug fixes, nothing earth shuttering

I'm trying to figure out if I can sideload Oreo from this ??*

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Unusable Google Maps ver 6.0.0- Help?

Hey everyone
Here is the problem: Recently I decided to update google maps to the newest version 6.0.0. This update made it simply useless for me. GPS locking is good, however scrolling around and zooming in and out is just plain terrible. Anyone know why this is? I tried to uninstall updates but it reverts back to 5.8.0 which is equally as bad. Is there anyway to improve Google Maps? I know that it has a lot of features however the usability is completely gone now for me it is very slow and laggy every time I start it.
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you !
I do not know ..
I also have a similar issue though I don't have a Galaxy S - I have a Galaxy Ace running BehradGH's Cyanogen mod RC2.2.
I often got very laggy maps (totally unusable) and also many "this application has become unresponsive" messages and the options to force close or wait.
I have had to roll back to 5.11 which I had a titanium backup of - this works fine/normally.
I really don't know what causes the issue, I just hope its fixed in the next incremental update.

Instagram upload problem

Hi! I'm from the Philippines. I just want to consult about a problem of mine. My mother bought an S3 LTE (i-9305) from a local seller here. Upon opening, we learned that it came from Portugal (TMN). It says "Modified" on the status. It is also on Android 4.1.1.
Anyway, when I'm trying to upload a photo on Instagram, it will just freeze on the portion where I will choose the filter for the photo. It will be stuck like that for a few minutes and will just redirect me to its home page. I can choose the photo to upload but I can't upload it.
I tried clearing its cache on the Applications page and re-install the app, but to no avail.
I haven't noticed any problem with any of the apps installed, just Instagram.
I hope someone could help me.
Thanks!
Try here:
http://help.instagram.com/377566855660596/
Thanks for the link. I found this bit on their HELP page.
App crashes when applying a filter (Android only).
We are fixing an issue where the Android app crashes and returns users to the Instagram Feed screen (without uploading the photo) or crashes and returns to the device's home screen when trying to apply a filter.
Some users have fixed this issue by increasing the camera resolution setting from their device's camera settings, or by updating to the newest operating system available for their device.
Please note that some devices seeing this crash do not support OpenGL ES 2, which is the technology required to power Instagram's filters. Devices that do not support OpenGL ES 2 will not be able to run Instagram properly. Find more information on whether your device is supported.
How would I know that my S3 has OpenGL ES 2? The camera is already set to its highest resolution and has the newest OS (via Kies).

Is it possible to get rid of everything Google-related?

Hello, i want to get rid of everything that is related to google (Gmail, Playstore, Play Services... everything), like LineageOS or CopperheadOS.
Unfortunately, these are not available for the P10.
So, is it possible to archive something close to that and how would i do that?
Actually project treble makes it possible to run LineageOS or AOSP on your P10 if you have Oreo. See this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10/how-to/lineageos-15-1-p10-t3753886 for more info and some experiences. The Honor View forum has a number of roms and a camera mod: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-view-10/development. Many of them work also for the P10. Expect some issues with the camera, volte and fast charging though.

Could HMD be deprecating the Nokia Camera on Oreo devices?

I upgraded from O to P, then rolled back to O after a few days of trying out P (have my own reasons, one of which is that of Magisk and the number of issues that I and others experienced/are experiencing on P).
Before the upgrade, I received a Play Store update for the Nokia Camera that was at v90.9.xx at the time. It was working well with O despite issues here and there. Then I made the jump to P, which came with the v91.9.xx Nokia Camera.
Now that I rolled back to O with Sept 2018 patch level, I was surprised to find out that the Nokia Camera from the Play Store disappeared. I could no longer update the app that came with a v8.xxx. It is now marked as incompatible with my device. As a workaround, I sideloaded the latest v91.9.1130.40 available apk from apkmirror. It installed and ran normally but then would immediately FC after a few minutes. No amount of clearing appdata/cache would make it run on O without FCing. So I settled with the last version that ran without issues, v90.9.1125.10.
My question is, would anyone have any idea if HMD is removing support on O for future versions of the Nokia Camera starting with v91.xx?
In the app description it still says there for requirements a Nokia smartphone running at least Android O 8.0 and the apk, even though its target SDK is api28 (Pie), its minimum SDK is api26 (Oreo).
EDIT: Even though I'm using a gcam port for my shots, I would still like to have an updated stock cam on Oreo for its other features like bothies, PRO mode, and 16MP selfies ?. I plan on staying a little while longer on O. ?
I have updated to Pie among other reasons, for new camera software since I get use to on Nokia 6.1
miljenko said:
I have updated to Pie among other reasons, for new camera software since I get use to on Nokia 6.1
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That's a valid point, but not quite helpful in my inquiry. The Nokia Camera SHOULD be made available to at least Oreo and later. There hasn't been a complete rollout of Pie in Nokia's entire device lineup, but the Play Stores marks the current version v91.9.1133.80 incompatible with Oreo, locking out devices that still have no Pie update available and denying updates and bug fixes to the stock camera.
braveheartleo said:
That's a valid point, but not quite helpful in my inquiry. The Nokia Camera SHOULD be made available to at least Oreo and later. There hasn't been a complete rollout of Pie in Nokia's entire device lineup, but the Play Stores marks the current version v91.9.1133.80 incompatible with Oreo, locking out devices that still have no Pie update available and denying updates and bug fixes to the stock camera.
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But it is available on Play store for Nokia 6.1 2108 running Oreo.
braveheartleo said:
I upgraded from O to P, then rolled back to O after a few days of trying out P (have my own reasons, one of which is that of Magisk and the number of issues that I and others experienced/are experiencing on P).
Before the upgrade, I received a Play Store update for the Nokia Camera that was at v90.9.xx at the time. It was working well with O despite issues here and there. Then I made the jump to P, which came with the v91.9.xx Nokia Camera.
Now that I rolled back to O with Sept 2018 patch level, I was surprised to find out that the Nokia Camera from the Play Store disappeared. I could no longer update the app that came with a v8.xxx. It is now marked as incompatible with my device. As a workaround, I sideloaded the latest v91.9.1130.40 available apk from apkmirror. It installed and ran normally but then would immediately FC after a few minutes. No amount of clearing appdata/cache would make it run on O without FCing. So I settled with the last version that ran without issues, v90.9.1125.10.
My question is, would anyone have any idea if HMD is removing support on O for future versions of the Nokia Camera starting with v91.xx?
In the app description it still says there for requirements a Nokia smartphone running at least Android O 8.0 and the apk, even though its target SDK is api28 (Pie), its minimum SDK is api26 (Oreo).
EDIT: Even though I'm using a gcam port for my shots, I would still like to have an updated stock cam on Oreo for its other features like bothies, PRO mode, and 16MP selfies . I plan on staying a little while longer on O.
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I am in the same shoes like you. I also want to stay on Oreo for some more time until they fix graphic glitches and some small bugs on Pie.
Last time I rolled back from Pie beta to Oreo, Nokia camera was also not showing on the Play store, and after a week or so, the update came...
We shall see about this time.
Btw. camera version you marked as one to be working, is also crashing for me, especially when I try to use the silly faces and masks from the top shortcuts...
miljenko said:
But it is available on Play store for Nokia 6.1 2108 running Oreo.
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I'm surprised that it appears on a Nokia 6.1 2018 running Oreo. Does the v91.9.1133.80 work flawlessly with it without crashing? Are the AR stickers working as well? (Though I have my doubts about that, I don't know if AR is supported in that device, lemme know ?)
pujolsk said:
I am in the same shoes like you. I also want to stay on Oreo for some more time until they fix graphic glitches and some small bugs on Pie.
Last time I rolled back from Pie beta to Oreo, Nokia camera was also not showing on the Play store, and after a week or so, the update came...
We shall see about this time.
Btw. camera version you marked as one to be working, is also crashing for me, especially when I try to use the silly faces and masks from the top shortcuts...
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Hey thanks for dropping by. Regarding that crash with stickers on v90.9.1125.40 yes I experienced that as well and wrote it off as a bug ?, needing a fix. But that's not possible atm because Nokia Camera in the play store on on this phone is marked incompatible, at least on Oreo.
I too am thinking the same way as you, when issues with Pie iron out. The UI glitches I find inconvenient and distracts from the experience. More than that, Magisk is incompatible with Pie on this device, causing certain system functions to go missing, further making the experience unbearable ?. But I do like the improvements Pie brings to the table.
braveheartleo said:
I'm surprised that it appears on a Nokia 6.1 2018 running Oreo. Does the v91.9.1133.80 work flawlessly with it without crashing? Are the AR stickers working as well? (Though I have my doubts about that, I don't know if AR is supported in that device, lemme know ?)
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Everything works normally, no glitches.
miljenko said:
Everything works normally, no glitches.
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Thanks for the sitrep on that end. But here it's a different story. ?
Hmm this is weird. I never had the application available on the store for my Nokia 7 plus (O and P)
@braveheartleo : I have the same issue. TA-1046 September patch 8.1.0. The update was showing 1-2 weeks back. I had updated earlier (successfully) but downgraded because of the missing HDR option (autoHDR was not working effectively for me). So I disabled and re-enabled it, going back to factory version. The update was visible but for the last couple of weeks it's not appearing in play store at all.
I had tried to re-update a while back, but it would always get stuck after downloading about 84mb, exactly after downloading the app itself and before downloading "extra data" part that goes upto 150mb. I think its an obb file.
So a couple of days back I found an obb file, around 150mb inside Internal Storage/Android/obb/com.hmdglobal.camera2/.
I wasn't able to delete it, so I forcefully removed it root and went to retry the app update where I found it had disappeared. I obtained the play store url in google, opened it as a webpage, clicked the button to "show in play store".
The app appeared but showed as being incompatible with this device.
I have tried to sideload it (a while back when I could't update), it installs fine but FCs at certain modes (unfortunately I don't remember correctly). Seems I have to use factory one for now.
Gravemind2015 said:
@braveheartleo : I have the same issue. TA-1046 September patch 8.1.0. The update was showing 1-2 weeks back. I had updated earlier (successfully) but downgraded because of the missing HDR option (autoHDR was not working effectively for me). So I disabled and re-enabled it, going back to factory version. The update was visible but for the last couple of weeks it's not appearing in play store at all.
I had tried to re-update a while back, but it would always get stuck after downloading about 84mb, exactly after downloading the app itself and before downloading "extra data" part that goes upto 150mb. I think its an obb file.
So a couple of days back I found an obb file, around 150mb inside Internal Storage/Android/obb/com.hmdglobal.camera2/.
I wasn't able to delete it, so I forcefully removed it root and went to retry the app update where I found it had disappeared. I obtained the play store url in google, opened it as a webpage, clicked the button to "show in play store".
The app appeared but showed as being incompatible with this device.
I have tried to sideload it (a while back when I could't update), it installs fine but FCs at certain modes (unfortunately I don't remember correctly). Seems I have to use factory one for now.
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Thanks for chiming in. ?
We have the same experience regarding the stock cam. Although I haven't been using stock for taking photos, I too noticed the FCs you have seen. Regarding manual HDR toggle missing from v90.x onwards, I found an earlier version on apkmirror that has HDR toggle in the UI, v85.9.1124.31. Perhaps you can try that out as a stop-gap to the issues we are getting starting with v90.x
One other here commented that the latest Play Store version is compatible with Nokia 6.1 on Oreo, but I wonder how compatible it is in practical terms (no FCs, etc.).
braveheartleo said:
Thanks for chiming in. [emoji16]
We have the same experience regarding the stock cam. Although I haven't been using stock for taking photos, I too noticed the FCs you have seen. Regarding manual HDR toggle missing from v90.x onwards, I found an earlier version on apkmirror that has HDR toggle in the UI, v85.9.1124.31. Perhaps you can try that out as a stop-gap to the issues we are getting starting with v90.x
One other here commented that the latest Play Store version is compatible with Nokia 6.1 on Oreo, but I wonder how compatible it is in practical terms (no FCs, etc.).
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Apparantly a new camera version has been uploaded to Google play (here) with some new features. Unfortunately, it's still showing as incompatible. Not just for us, but folks on Nokia 8 and Nokia 6.1 also confirmed the same in a telegram group.
HMD is truly going bananas and nuts.
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Gravemind2015 said:
HMD is truly going bananas and nuts.
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"going"??????? :laugh:
Gravemind2015 said:
Apparantly a new camera version has been uploaded to Google play (here) with some new features. Unfortunately, it's still showing as incompatible. Not just for us, but folks on Nokia 8 and Nokia 6.1 also confirmed the same in a telegram group.
HMD is truly going bananas and nuts.
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Speaking of, have you noticed how the Nokia Mobile Support app quickly jumped from one version to another (it's now at 2.0.9 as of this writing, starting from 2.0.3)? Sure, quick fix releases are commendable, but then you start to wonder how QC for software development is on their end.
divvykev said:
"going"??????? :laugh:
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At this point, it should be safe to say that they've "gone" now :laugh:, with all the bugs people are experiencing on Pie (3.22C), their unstoppable streak on releasing new phones (and now the change to confusing global naming scheme as well), and missed targets on timely releases of monthly updates, resulting in a release that is rushed (and buggy compared to the betas). :laugh:
braveheartleo said:
Speaking of, have you noticed how the Nokia Mobile Support app quickly jumped from one version to another (it's now at 2.0.9 as of this writing, starting from 2.0.3)? Sure, quick fix releases are commendable, but then you start to wonder how QC for software development is on their end.
At this point, it should be safe to say that they've "gone" now :laugh:, with all the bugs people are experiencing on Pie (3.22C), their unstoppable streak on releasing new phones (and now the change to confusing global naming scheme as well), and missed targets on timely releases of monthly updates, resulting in a release that is rushed (and buggy compared to the betas). :laugh:
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Yeah exactly.
Gravemind2015 said:
Yeah exactly.
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Love it when they do that.
got the same incompatible thing on the play store with 2 nokia 7 plus... but its installed. lol
Some problem with novatek-07 displays , what happens with nokia hmd ??
Really they have to repair all novatek displays ? Cant fix it wiyh software ?

Question Google Maps crashing

I just got a US version of the Zenfone 8. It looks like it's running the same software as global versions as one of the updates indicated VoLTE support being added for some EU carriers. Currently on WW_30.11.51.67.
All apps are working fine, except Google Maps which crashes as soon as you try to open it. Is anyone experiencing this issue?
Nope, no crashes whatsoever
No crashing either. You could try to use OrganicMaps as a replacement that does not track you and is open source.

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