I just wanted to see if the newly released 2.9 fixes the problems in the previous post. The updated APK link is on the electrum site https://electrum.org/#download but only leads to:

Not Found
The requested URL /2.9.0/Electrum-2.9.0.0.apk was not found on this server.

Please upload the new non-Google Android version. And does it address the issues above?