Warning: Samsung phone udate to UI8 bricked my phone!

[BillTodd]

Just a warning to anyone using a Samsung A53 5g or similar A series phone.

The Android 16 and UI8 update has stopped my 10 month old phone working. It no longer sees the sim and the gps is broken.

The online advice, is ineffective and even a full factory reset fails because it installs UI8. Samsung Members both here and US are reporting the same problem.

Samsung are, as usual, unresponsive,

[BillTodd]

Just to add to my woes, it stopped my bike working too.   

 I jumped on the bike this morning to go get the shopping and couldn't get any electric assistance . It is way too heavy to cycle without assistance so that put the kybosch on that. 

The R&M uses a Bosch motor which can be locked out by the phone app (you see where this is going...) factory reset buggered the bosch app and hours of pain followed 

Forgot to mention;  I tried to use the car and after a few weeks unused at now 0?C the battery was flat as a pancake. Charging as I type :-(

[tom osselton]

Isn?t technology bloody wonderful!

[BillTodd]

It is astonishing how they change core functions without thoroughly testing them .  Phones need sims so detection is a fundamental activity and something that must be a well established stable piece of code which should not change. So  have they compiled a version with debug left in place ?