01-04-2020 06:59 PM
While this is primarily a Niantic issue, perhaps a gentle 'nudge' from Samsung might get their attention. All Samsung Galaxy Store versions of PoGo starting with 0.170.0 and subsequent updates 0.171.1 and 0.171.2 will freeze a few seconds after starting the game, from various Forum Threads around it seems to be just the S20 Ultra has this issue, i also have an S8+ and i even resurrected an old S7 Flat to test it and all updates are fine on them, luckily a forced update hasn't happened yet but when it comes looks like S20 Ultra players will be locked out, just to point out this also happens on the Google Play Store versions so ball is in Niantic's court.
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21-04-2020 11:48 PM
New update that works fine at the moment. 0.173.2
22-04-2020 06:03 AM
Finally, a working version and got it direct from the Galaxy Store, if you also need the Google Play Store version of 0.173.2 you can sideload the .apk by downloading it from here
22-04-2020 06:05 AM
Seen it this morning on galaxy store so expect it today on play store too. Welcome back to pokemon on the S20 range guys and gals.
22-04-2020 07:14 AM
Thanks for sharing the link...installed and seems to work well...realised how smooth our S20 screen is.
22-04-2020 07:17 AM
22-04-2020 08:08 AM
Will you require some niantic compensation? for what we lost?
22-04-2020 08:37 AM
Hi all,
Just a post to let you know I've marked Slipmat's post as the 'solution' for this.
Hopefully, it is indeed finally sorted for you guys - but please post in this thread if version 0.173.2 doesn't work for you. 👍
22-04-2020 09:39 AM
Nice worked for me as well!!! Finally after a greusome month of not playing Pokemon!! Don't know why Play Store still doesn't have this update but thanks Samsung Store! Thanks as well Slipmat !
25-04-2020 05:03 PM
Now PlayStore work as well!
26-04-2020 09:08 PM
Thanks for the update