Nightmare! Recent update failed to install properly.<\/p>\n
Uninstall and then reinstall failed.<\/p>\n
Reinstall again then caused my Gear S to factory reset.<\/p>\n
No back up data available on my cell phone (because I had to uninstall the Gear Manager software) and I didn’t even want the d4mn update!<\/p>\n
To top it off, the final installation of the Gear Manager also included a “Gear Manager has stopped working” pop up whilst it installed the ‘other’ software.<\/p>\n
The thing\u00a0tricked me when I loaded Gear Manager this morning.\u00a0 I hit “OK” by mistake (not reading the prompt properly on the screen) and off the update went…<\/p>\n
#Samsung updates are not updates, they are packages of hell on which they unleash to people who should know better and move to another company.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nightmare! Recent update failed to install properly. Uninstall and then reinstall failed. Reinstall again then caused my Gear S to factory reset. No back up data available on my cell phone (because I had to uninstall the Gear Manager software) and I didn’t even want the d4mn update! To top it off, the final installation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,85,14,88,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-samsung","category-software","category-tizen","category-wearables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}