pleasantly easy to have my farm on a new device

I got a new iPad a couple of months ago not long after the last update and felt similar. Carefully backed everything up and held my breath when I opened it. Thank goodness it all worked 😊😊😂. A great success actually as the game is no longer jerky.
Glad yours worked so well too Eturtle and best wishes to anyone else doing the same 😊

Me too! 🌷❤️👍

You don't need hesitate. Samsung will work instantly. I'm dealing with Samsung devices for years, believe me, no trouble. 👍🙂

I can relate. I have been playing HD for ten years, so I have changed unit more than once. It always stresses me. That's how I recognize my HD addiction, well that and the ridiculous amount of resources - especially time - I have spend over the years on this marvelous game. 😍

Congratulations on your new unit! It will now be quite some time, before you have to go through it all again. 😋

Congratulations to those who transferred the game successfully to new devices. I remember my trepidation and excitement when I did the same on a tablet running Android 4 to one running Android 9 in 2019. Thanks to Supercell ID, the transition was smooth as silk, IIRC.

For those who don't know, Hay Day announced in December 2022 the current minimum requirements are devices running iOS 11 and Android 5, justhayday.boards.net/post/34117/thread

I try to keep it connected to Google as well, but strangely it disconnects. At that time my farm was not connected to Google Play. 

Just to explain my panic, way back when, I helped my mom to switch her farm to her new device and something went wrong. Tech support back then still had live people one could talk to on the phone. yeppers, unbelievable, right?  so that took a lot of proof finding, begging and tears to get them to unlock her farm for her. One proof they wanted was what date she started playing. who writes this down? :/

Wow, Christmas came six months early for you this year.  I looked up the S8 Ultra's specifications and the ones which interest me the most are Android 12, upgradeable to 13 and 8-16 GB RAM.

Congratulations donkeyfan.

Eturtle
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I absolutly understand your panic. That's really a terrible experience.
You are right. You usually don't write down all these things.
And so many years after starting nobody knows this.

donkeyfan:
Ohh, great device. But really expensive.
I'm sure you will like it.
Could you get a special offer with extras? Sometimes there are promotions and you can get the keyboard case for example.

I choosed the smaller one.
The Ultra is too much for me. Both the prize and the size.
For me it is too big for daily use. I like it more handy.

But the display is so great in each size. So colorful and sharp. It is a pleasure to use it.
And the spen is such a great feature.
All the great functions!
It also helps me so much to being here. My pen can translate words I don't know simply by overview the word. (after starting the function, of course).

Good news for you donkeyfan, I am sure you will enjoy it. I don’t know anything about Samsung as we are have Apple devices. I love my new iPad. Happy farming😊🌹

Mine was jerky after the spring update which was one of the  reasons for getting a new one as well as the age of it.  It is just fine now😊😊😊

Did anybody notice some graphics becoming more blurry, but not all, and Sounds less diversified? I mean on old devices. Like the typical production building noise is the same for all buildings and in town, there’s only one voice for males ans one voice for females.
I am curious how the game changes on a new device, which long lost features might come back.

The game still runs smoothly on my very old iPad.

Yesterday I was in a local eletronic shop, because I wanted to see new phones. (Need a new one, but can't decide what I should choose.)
They also had the Ultra there. 
Wow. I wasn't aware that 14" are so big. Is it still a tablet or is it already a little notebook. 🤣

You are right. Samsung has become greedy. The prize and the power sometimes don't match, in my opinion.  Especially at there phones. Delivering phones partly with big issues in the highend sector is unacceptable (for me). 

The missing charging tool is a new trend. But there are many companies that don't deliver a charging tool with there devices. Unfortunatally meanwhile it is something special if they do. 

But on the other side you often can get good offers for Samsung devices. 
I'm really surprised that you didn't get one. 
For their current devices there are great promotions from samsung most of the time. Sometimes free keyboard cover or earbuds. 
For their phones sometimes double memory. 

Have you checked the samsung page? 
At the moment (started on June, 19th) there are smart deals which gives you the galaxy buds for free and the option to buy the keyboard cover for a special prize. 

donkeyfan
Yes, absolutly agree with you.
As I bought my new tablet - the "little sister" from yours 😉 - I also read some reviews. And there it was mentioned, that the tablet comes without a charging power supply. I was really surprised and dissapointed about that fact.
They say the reason is, that so many people already have enough power supplies and they want to save the enviroment.
For me this is only a lame excuse.
I don't have enough. And my power supplies are all with a usb a connection. And what does they deliver?
A cable for usb c to usb c. Very funny!
If they really decided it by reason of enviroment, they could give us the option to choose what we need. With oder without. Of course for the same prize.

I'm also with you by the buds. I wouldn't need it, too.
But the special prize for the keyboard cover is really great.

This is really a must-have for me.
I got mine with the keyboard cover (of course the smaller one. The Ultra has a better one).
For me it is really a game-changer. I'm so glad I have it. It works pretty well and is so light and slim.

The option to choose what kind of charger we need, or none (and have it included for the same price) would make so much sense!  Would love that.