I have the Flip 4 and the EXACT SAME THING happened to me. Although not at all surprised, another lie they attempt to sell us regarding updates is device "must" be connected to Wi-Fi AND cannot have an almost drained battery -neither of which is true. I avoid updates like the plague and back in January, before plugging my phone up for the night, knowing a forced update was looming, decided to take my SIM card out and clicked "forget network" for home WiFi. My amateur thinking was no connection for update, no update. [I knowwww, amateur move. I'm actually laughing out loud as I typed this realizing how freaking stupid it sounds because it's samsung. They don't give a ***** about you or your privacy, will always do whatever they want to with or to your phone, regardless of legality and if they have your permission. Those of you who have long time experience with and knowledge of Samsung, already know Samsung will force any app, permission and "update" they want no matter what roadblocks I try setting up. The update pushed through the next day while I was out in about and I was pissed but I know that's part of having these phones.
About two or three days after the update, I couldn't sleep and was up watching a favorite creator on YouTube right around midnight, which is when it reinstalls the forced updates which I HATE for a number of reasons. One of them being the update starts immediately closing YouTube without warning. So, when YouTube closed, I knew the update reinstalled. I immediately opened YouTube app properties to UNinstall said update but every time I clicked uninstall updates, the folder/window crashed which never happened previous times I uninstalled said update. It was annoying and I decided to reboot my phone.If I'd had any miraculous insight or somehow had a clue as to what rebooting was going to cause, I definitely would not have rebooted. While waiting for the phone to restart, I realized it was taking an abnormally long time. That's when I noticed the reboot cycle kept restarting which is something I have never experienced. A screen most of us don't often see you finally appeared informing me the only way to recover my device was to wipe the partition. Not only that, it said something to the effect make sure to back up device or make sure it's backed up before wiping partution. Ummmm..... I realized Samsung doesn't give a ***** however, how do they figger I'd do that? I back my device up regularly however, stuck in that screen, had no way to do that right then. As for partitioning/wiping my device, I ***** sure did not want to do that because it is a huge hassle and pain in the ass to get my phone to exactly the way I had it, tolerable. When it finally got to setup, since my entire device was wiped, I couldn't access ColorNotes to retrieve my Wi-Fi password and was not near my router. clicked skip, but was met with a warning that said wifi had to be connected to in order to verify _____, I do not remember. Riddle me that...let me get this straight, it needs to connect to my home Wi-Fi to reverify whatever it was because there was an unauthorized attempt to wipe the partition. I was so blown away and enraged with the reckless negligence and DTP companies like Samsung base operations on, the probability my head might blow the ***** off my shoulders seemed very high. ANYHOW, my strung out, crackhead prostitute pimped out by Samdung is the UNSTABLE and clearly HIGH AS ***** device WHICH TOLD ME to wipe said partition. If I could have escaped that screen or powered off my device, if that was even possible, I ***** sure would have.
After all was said and done, despite the fact I've regularly backed up my device, I lost nearly everything of any significance which has not been recoverable thus far. Not only that, since the update, there are many apps that no longer function and did prior to. I used Blue Mail for a long time and I was no longer able to use it as it crashed anytime I attempted to open it. The call blocking program which when message blocking is enabled, becomes the default text message source, program or _____ ? I'm not sure what basic phone based services are called. Source? App? Program?
Wow! Since late stage primary and all through secondary, I've had a terribly frustrating struggle whilst attempting to share what I want or am trying to say out in a manner that makes sense to the masses, er- anyone bored on the loo reading it out of desperate boredom - AND is shorter than War and Peace. 😆
🤘 ❤️ Tiffany
