SmartApps missing due to improper Country?

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

Welcome to the World of (increadibly stupid) Samsung…

Smartthings Samsung account set to the wrong country. No way out but a complete wipe and reload

As naggy as this is, I wanted to air out a huge pita issue that has a programmatically simple fix but as a user I have no way to fix it. Somehow when migrating from ST classic to ST on samsung account the samsung account got set to the country code “Germany”. I have a shield TV as a hub so now NOTHING can be added via the new mobile app. Long story short, programmatically there is a single field in a database at samsung that is the source of all of my woes but no one, (apparently) can change that field. I’ve been told that instead of changing my country to USA, I must remove every single switch, dimmer, light bulb, remote, button, and so on in my entire house. Something like 100+ devices or so. Wipe the hub and factory reset, create a new account with the correct country code, re-add ev…