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After my lengthy reply, I have still been thinking about this. What I'd most like to add isn't an answer to the question "How has your photography evolved", but instead an answer to the related question "How has your photography stayed the same". And this is what drew me to Fuji. What has stayed the same is that apertures change several things, and shutter speeds change several things, and sensitivity or ASA or ISO change several things. For each, the brightness level in the image is one of those things - but brightness is never the ONLY thing that changes! And that is not a problem. That is part of what I like thinking about when taking pictures. I've always used manual aperture and shutter speed. I also used what I'll call "manual film speed", in the sense that I thought about what film speed would suit my needs when loading the camera, though, sadly, in the past the speed couldn't be chosen for each individual shot. What made me reluctant about getting seriously into digital photography was that the digital cameras I was aware of were designed to shoot on auto exposure. Some of them had ways to shoot manually instead, but typically this involved extra effort to override the automatic, maybe dig down into menus to get to each manual setting. About as much fun as entering a complicated password using a TV remote with just a few keys (we went through that the other night). What drew me to Fuji, when somebody pointed it out to me, was that some models put dials for all these things right there in plain view. I love that! It makes digital photography OK! And all the other things I mentioned go on to make it great.

Yeah was waiting for connected the whole time. I already have! Formatted everything!

Ah I see - did you get the "Waiting for Connected" message on the back of the camera when the app tried to join the Wi-Fi network? As a last resort you might try backing up all your settings and then doing a complete reset of everything.

At what point does it hang? Wi-fi needs to connect successfully in order for you take take photos in live view. If you have taken photos using live view do you see the "Download" and "Camera" icons at the top of the screen? Do you see the image you just took when you touch the download icon? If so do you get the "Transfer the selected Image" button after you select the image you just took? If so - and you press the image is that the point it hangs?

When you say "everything works" does that include the ability to use live view and take photos? What happens after you have taken a photo using live view? You switch to image transfer (at the top of the screen - the download icon) and see the image you have just taken - select the image and "Transfer the selected image" button should appear - do you see that? Does the button not transfer the image? Or where exactly is the problem? And what error message do you get (if any)?

I sent lens to the fuji service center. They replaced fourth group of lenses under warranty.

Very rare, but lens is WR and Red Badge so it should not happen with brand new lens. Maybe i'll try send it to Fuji service center. I had similar problem with new x-h2s which had a smudge visible on photos even on very wide apertures and send it to fuji becasue blowing and cleaning by swabs not helped. They change filter on the sensor under warranty and now everything is ok.