**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S22 Family Thread ****

Had My S22U 512gb for nearly 2 weeks, and generally i'm happy with it, but I don't find the battery life any better than my 2 1/2 year old Note 10+, I never have the brightness above half, for instance, I woke up at 6.30am, used my phone for about an hour and half, and battery was down to about 60% on low brightness.
 
Mine went very smoothly.
I can only imagine it's people trying to trade in crappy damaged phones with the idea they are acceptable, and get caught out. Samsung doesn't hide what they want from a trade in device, or it's T&C's.

If you're paranoid about it, then take pictures and video of your trade in device, package it up nice and securely, and send it recorded.
 
The main issue is usually with people submitting phones in 'good condition' that actually have screen burn. IMHO, if a Samsung AMOLED phone is >1 year old, it probably has some minor screen burn if it's seen anything other than light indoor use. Type *#0*# into the dialler and check the blue subpixel. That's usually the one that goes first, followed by the red. (by the way, don't try that in a dark room on an S22U :P)

All of my Samsung phones burn the notification area into the display, and both my Note 4 and Note 9 have significantly colour shifted displays due to blue subpixel aging (whites become yellow, etc). The displays wear out faster the batteries do.
 
DarkBahamut said:
The main issue is usually with people submitting phones in 'good condition' that actually have screen burn. IMHO, if a Samsung AMOLED phone is >1 year old, it probably has some minor screen burn if it's seen anything other than light indoor use. Type *#0*# into the dialler and check the blue subpixel. That's usually the one that goes first, followed by the red. (by the way, don't try that in a dark room on an S22U :p)

All of my Samsung phones burn the notification area into the display, and both my Note 4 and Note 9 have significantly colour shifted displays due to blue subpixel aging (whites become yellow, etc). The displays wear out faster the batteries do.
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Agree, and for the casual user that's just life with 'modern' screens. Although this has been happening for years, I remember an old S8 or something I got changed under warranty due to screen burn. I only realised this after using satnav day after day that left image retention.

Since then, I try to use full screen wherever possible (Samsung browser is good for that). I wish they would bring back immersive mode. And I manually set the brightness myself. The nav buttons have gone and I use gestures.

All this and my old Note 9 still had a perfect stunning image 2+ years later. In fact the image was so good, I adjusted the S22 Ultra image settings to try and match it :D

The screen on this S22 Ultra really is something though, it's just so good. And this latest update seems to have refined things further. UI seems smoother, and the speaker 'pop' has now gone when using the sound quick toggle.
I'll see if I notice anything more after a days use.
 
I might take off the screen protector now. Noticed the top left edge has shrunk somehow! Bizarre but I guess because it's a soft screen protector, heat etc will cause some shrinking. I also lost the little tool thing to align the screen protector when applying a new one so the spare one will be harder to put on if I did apply another.

Other than that it's been fine!

Meh.

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Pressed the protector around the top left area and swiped up and managed to unshrink it lol. Funky. It's now back to normal.
 
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Has anyone noticed two Samsung apps that don't update through the play store, associated with using a Galaxy watch? (which I have).

Galaxy Watch 3 plugin & Samsung Accessory Service.

Both have a yellow warning triangle next to them.

Everything works, but the Play store cannot update these two apps, and recommends I uninstall them. I cannotfind them in the Galaxy Store either. And I don't want to uninstall them, and end up with my watch not working with the S22 Ultra ;)
 
FlyingFish said:
Has anyone noticed two Samsung apps that don't update through the play store, associated with using a Galaxy watch? (which I have).

Galaxy Watch 3 plugin & Samsung Accessory Service.

Both have a yellow warning triangle next to them.

Everything works, but the Play store cannot update these two apps, and recommends I uninstall them. I cannotfind them in the Galaxy Store either. And I don't want to uninstall them, and end up with my watch not working with the S22 Ultra ;)
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All seems fine with my watch and phone, no warning triangles.
 
FlyingFish said:
Has anyone noticed two Samsung apps that don't update through the play store, associated with using a Galaxy watch? (which I have).

Galaxy Watch 3 plugin & Samsung Accessory Service.

Both have a yellow warning triangle next to them.

Everything works, but the Play store cannot update these two apps, and recommends I uninstall them. I cannotfind them in the Galaxy Store either. And I don't want to uninstall them, and end up with my watch not working with the S22 Ultra ;)
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If you uninstall the apps your watch will be reset , do a back up 1st before anything . Might be worth trying to the clear cache on the phone
 
Sometimes I do love (not) how Samsung apps run separate to Google apps, with their own app store, and totally bizarre way of updating. Like they only update when you open the app and it tells you about it. No sign of it in the Samsung store mind!

Even though I checked for updates in the Samsung store, and specifically for the two apps, with no results. As soon as I opened the watch app, it told me to update, and it did so seamlessly.

Why apps, what they are, where they come from and how they are managed cannot be all from the same place, I just don't get. It's like Samsung feel the need to compete with Google on their own devices, while still using Google's apps on the device... Email, text, browser etc all doubled up.
Bah.
Rant over :D
 
Hi guys, I have recently acquired an S22 ultra. I have a USB C PD charger on my desk to charge my laptop, which does up to 60W charging through the cable - charges my laptop fine. However, the S22 U seems to charge VERY slowly through it. THe phone says "fast charging", but the charge rate is actually very slow (think 1% every 3-4 minutes)

What am I doing wrong?
 
ShivP said:
Hi guys, I have recently acquired an S22 ultra. I have a USB C PD charger on my desk to charge my laptop, which does up to 60W charging through the cable - charges my laptop fine. However, the S22 U seems to charge VERY slowly through it. THe phone says "fast charging", but the charge rate is actually very slow (think 1% every 3-4 minutes)

What am I doing wrong?
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Depends. It'll charge slower over 80% and slower still as 8t gets to 100.

Try from 15% onwards, should charge at a decent pace.
 
The perils of working from home and spending 80% of the day in sweat pants with not so deep pockets.

A scratch / crack on the display and a cracked 10x telephoto lens glass.

Fortunately I have a Nationwide FlexPlus account for just this moment. So hopefully it's a speedy process.

Definitely going to have to put it in a thin clear case when I get back, I do find this phone to be a slippery fish sometimes.
 
Is there just a thin clear skin kind of like a thin plastic wrap about for these? I can't deal with cases and don't really drop my phone but I always scratch it in my pocket with keys and coins
 
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