So i finally did the update. Early this morning. Big mistake.
Did the reboots. Did the cache clearing. Did lots of colorful language. Even tried installing a couple of new apps I've never used. One worked, but the freshly installed gaming app crashed just like the previously installed game apps do.
So...Spotify still works. So does Amazon and eBay. MSFT Office works. There are probably others as well. But zero games work. Nor do any of my financial apps which is the real problem. Warm and cold reboots allow only one app to work if I start it immediately after the reboot. But once I close that app session the phone goes back into failure mode for any number of the above types.
I notice that with these apps that crash there is a change in the color temperature of the display, starting with my normal cool color preference then briefly shifting to a warmer tone before completely crashing the app startup. And like many others have reported, the battery drain is noticeably faster since the upgrade(downgrade).
The problems with the financial apps is a REAL ISSUE, Samsung. There needs to be a way to fix this, either with a workaround or removal of this so far vile UI 8.
Waiting for the excuses. Waiting even more for the actual fixes. The clock is ticking, Samsung.
EDIT: BTW, my phone is a S22 Ultra. Zero issues until this morning.
It says right in the update screen that it's recommended to back up your personal data prior to updating your phone. It's recommended practice (and common sense) by all manufacturers to do so. Samsung even offers temporary cloud storage for this purpose. Your automatic backups should be current, but will not contain any data downloaded or in personally created file manager folders. Your apps, settings, messages contacts, are all containrd in the automatic backups that take place nightly. It is good practice yo back up stuff that's important to you on a regular basis anyway or you have no one else to blame but youself if something happens to your phone (lost, stolen, dead).
The fact that you and others had faulty updates does not make the entire update itself bad. If the update was just bad coding, NO ONE'S phone would work after the update. There are an infinite number of reasons an update could have gone wrong for a particular user. In some cases, yes, the only fix is a complete factory reset. Inconvenient, yes. But more inconvenient than a non working device? Certainly not
No one is telling you that you should take comfort in the fact that millions of updates went well, you are being advised on how to remedy your bad install. The fact that you may lose some of your personal info by doing so would be because if your failure to back up. However, you still have the opportunity to back up that stuff prior to resetting your phone.
Doing a factory reset doesn't reinstall the operating system, it gives you a complete new system, unencumbered by having had the old system overwritten (which always carries the possibility of glitches). Restoring your backup is very unlikely to replicate the issues you are having, as the operating system and ui is never included in any backup. Only your apps, settings, messages, contacts - everything except personal data downloaded or created by you. The only way your issues would be replicated is if it was caused by one or more of those apps causing a conflict.
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I'm going to address your comment about the need for overlays (UI) in Android. There is no need unless you don't want to be able to customize your device in any way. You want the stock Android interface, you can go with a brand that uses the stock interface. Likely your issues are not caused by the UI. It is an equal possibility that the issues have been created by the Android update itself, yet you are placing all the blame on Samsung. Why? I can see that being the case if the Android version update came first and was fine and then the OneUI update came and things went awry. Do not forget that the updates also go through your carrier for tweaking, so any or all of your glitches could have been caused by carrier tinkering as well.
You obviously just want to rant and place blame, so I shall honor your request and no longer respond here. I've said what I had to say anyway.
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Your decision to exit the chat...that's a more than acceptable solution to me, since it has become readily apparent that anyone BUT Samsung is seen as the culprit in *your* eyes. At the end there you began sounding like a shill for them and that in itself just adds to the toxicity.
Added info: my wife's S22 Ultra seems to work mostly okay except her battery drains much faster than before. Perhaps T-Mo is partly at fault since that's who we are with, but then again perhaps not. Unbeknownst to me, her UI 8 update was done nearly 2 months prior to mine. She doesn't do any financial apps or games on her phone, preferring to use her PC for such tasks. I'm trying to convince her to install a banking app like Chase or BofA just to see if it will launch correctly but she's protesting, claiming that all I'm going to do is mess up her phone "like I did" to mine. 🙄 Seems as if even in HER eyes that Samsung isn't who's at fault. 😂 Ain't love grand? Regardless, I'm certainly not to blame for her phone's sudden change in battery drainage.
I know how you feel dude. I'm wrestling with my phone as well. I had to give up apps like TikTok and a few others just so that they don't overload my phone. As far as I can tell we just need to wait until Samsung procures a Hotfix update to patch the issues with our s22's.
Not sure what happened to my final update post. Perhaps there's no 1st Amendment in South Korea. Or perhaps they just filter out posts that have the word p-i-x-e-l in it, my unfortunate expensive and definitely unplanned solution for this sordid experience. Anyways, I go from one bad experience to possibly another. Now I get to see the full-on Google rabbit hole and whether there will be anything left of me or my identity to make it out of the other side. 😂😳☠️
Anyways the new phone is ordered and due here in a couple of days. A bunch of money I definitely would've preferred NOT spending, but sadly that's life.
