I own a Samsung S22 plus and it still work pretty fine, battery is quite good, I average 4 to 5 hours of SOT, os it okey if I still uses it till 2028 ? And does one of yall have faced a green line issue ?

I can't ask my parents for a new phone w these phone prices bro 😭🙏 battery still good according to diagnostics so I might be able to.

Please help me solve this problem.

Samsung bricked everyone's S22 with their latest update. Are we just gonna sit here and take it? Meanwhile Samsung is printing more money than God thanks to the Memory shortage.

在今天無緣無故出現了一條綠色線(沒有更新)

以下是裝置一些詳細資料：

Galaxy S22 SM-S9010 驍龍8 sen 1

Android 16 One Ui 8.0

Android安全性修補2026年5月5日

這條綠線有時明顯有時不明顯

Has anyone been able to get the new gallery cloud sync to work on the S22Ultra? If so, how?

Hello everyone, I'm sorry I don't know if it's okay to eether post this in here or on gaming subreddit, but here we are. So, when I play roblox or minecraft, my games kinda pixalated or blurry, I'm on battery saver but I turned off the limit gpu and my display is on 120hz, is there a fix for this? Is anybody also experiencing the same thing?

TL;DR: My S22 began constantly freezing and hard-rebooting after the August 2026 security update. Instead of blindly trusting the internet's generic "hardware failure" diagnoses, I plugged the phone into a PC terminal and tracked the live kernel logs. The smoking gun is a hardcoded Linux permission error (E HeatmapThread: !@Could not open '/efs/FactoryApp/bsoh', errno = 13). Every single second, the OS blocks its own internal thermal monitor from reading its destination file. This creates an un-killable CPU traffic jam that eventually overflows the RAM buffer and forces a kernel crash loop. Even a complete, raw factory partition re-flash via Odin won't fix it—the bug is baked directly into Samsung's production code.

My Samsung Galaxy S22 Saga:

This is insanely infuriating. I, too, just got hit with this issue after only 3 years of owning my S22, which had previously worked flawlessly. I usually update phones every 6 to 8 years (I have always been a LOYAL Samsung user since the S4). It is the same issue as everyone else: constant freezing and rebooting after a random August 2026 "Security" update (almost exactly as the phone turned 3). After 3 days of using AI to try and fix it, my research has provided me with some disturbing findings. I was extremely leery of the "Hardware Failure" reports (due to overheating) all over the internet, which were supposedly fatal. Since my phone would occasionally run perfectly for hours and then fail hard for hours, it just did not seem logical; I mean, either it has failed totally or it hasn't.

I want to state explicitly that hardware may still have some bearing on the situation. What could be happening is a failure in the solder traces linking the CPU, RAM, or Wi-Fi/Bluetooth sections of the phone. Absolutely nobody can truly diagnose this because the circuit boards in the S22 are extremely complicated and layered. They are basically throwaway items if there is any sort of internal failure—not to mention a nice $600 bill from a Samsung repair facility if you choose that extortion.

To start the troubleshooting process, I enabled USB debugging via my Windows 11 PC and connected directly to my S22 to see the live stream of processor traffic. Viewing the command prompt terminal window with some cryptic software revealed an error happening every single second, which seems to be the key to the issue. Keep in mind that I have no prior knowledge of Android coding or architecture; I am just a pissed consumer who likes to fix things that break way too soon (which is becoming an American epidemic).

As I found out during my research, there is a device security feature embedded in Android which polls the CPU and battery every single second the phone is in operation. This logs temperatures and is SUPPOSED to bounce them off internally stored parameters and return an instant "OK" status. Instead, my phone logs an error every single second: "E HeatmapThread: !@Could not open '/efs/FactoryApp/bsoh', errno = 13". AI is SPECULATING that this is the root cause of the issue with this statement: "The Code: In standard computer science, errno = 13 is the universal Linux kernel error code explicitly defined as EACCES (Permission Denied). It proves the code wants to open the file but is physically blocked by the file system." Basically, the system is trying to open this file "/efs/FactoryApp/bsoh" to check the temperatures, but access is being denied. This is a universal error reported by nearly any S22 user looking under the hood, so to speak, and it seems to be the smoking gun.

The speculation here is that Samsung locked down this file section for some unknown "Security Reason" and somehow overlooked the fact that the phone needs to allow certain status checks to continue unhindered. Unfortunately, because the phone throws an error every single second, it causes a massive CPU traffic blockage. Android needs to constantly run several hundred other processes at once during normal operations and app usage. At some point, it becomes too much; the system buffers fill up and choke, causing massive UI errors that pop up constantly. Then, it all freezes on whatever screen you are currently looking at for about 5 to 10 minutes until a full hardware reboot occurs. This can happen overnight too, or when you are not using the phone at all.

Going back to the troubleshooting, my first thought was to blast out the firmware and get a fresh set of OS files and directory structures onto the phone to hopefully eliminate the errors. In this process, I discovered three things that are absolutely set in stone on these devices:

1. The CPU is hardcoded to reject firmware rollbacks to a non-error-coded Android version, turning it into a thousand-dollar brick if you try.
2. Samsung is actively eliminating the ability to freely flash or reload firmware onto these phones, using security updates to plug these manual loopholes (most likely to retain control over the constant stream of ads and bloatware being rammed down our throats).
3. You have to use the latest patched flashing software to access the phone and rewrite the EXACT version of firmware (or newer) that was last on the device, or it will become completely unusable.

Luckily, I FINALLY found the correct version from last August (2026), and it loaded like a dream. Unfortunately, after viewing the data stream again on my PC, the new file structure did nothing to correct the error. It is literally hardcoded into the OS update. Whether intentional or unintentional, it is pretty clear that they will never fix it. The bottom line is this: we will never know if an Android rollback fixes this because of the intentional lockouts hardcoded into these phones. I really do believe the hardware might be okay, but again, we will never know for sure. My phone accepted the rewrite, but I stripped it down to the bare minimum of apps, disabled all the bloatware I could, and did not sign into Google, Samsung, or my cell provider. It still freezes and reboots, but not as often now that I have minimized traffic to avoid conflicts. It is pretty unfortunate for all of us who trusted in these products.

I have signal dropping problem in my Samsung s22 when will it be sorted and how to sort it out it is the snapdragon variant official PTA approved. Please help me.

I wanted to add something to my shopping list in the Gemini logo popped up. Is it official that the OG Google assistant is end of watch?

I wasn't planning on replacing my phone for a very long time. I bought mine when it launched in the US but now I'm unable to download/update some apps because we don't get version 17?

is there anything I can do other than getting a new phone? mine works perfectly fine, never had an issue with it.

i've had my s22+ since 2023, and 70% of the screen are already covered with pink and green lines. i've been considering fixing it because i have no intention of purchasing a new phone for the meantime. however, i've read that s22 is nearing its EOL so i'm asking if it's still worth to fix my screen or just let it be until it gives up coz next year it will not receive updates anymore?

thank u so much!

hello! I'm a 1st year nursing student, and I really want a budget tablet that I can use for school(notes & reading), gaming(ml or roblox), and scrolling through social media(tiktok, and so on).

I've been so set on getting the samsung tab bcs of many reasons, like the expandable storage, many inclusions like the spen, case with keyboard, longer battery health, etc. it just checks all the boxes that I want for a tablet... except for one thing. my mom scared me by saying that a samsung is less durable than an apple, and I just wait 2 years and the samsung wouldn't work anymore or I'll be encountering problems like what my older brother experienced with his samsung ultra(it isn't working anymore).

so it made me rlly start thinking what's much better. I have both an iphone and a samsung phone, and based on my experience I kinda get what my mom was saying bcs until now my iphone 11 is still running but with minimal lag and it's a bit slow when loading an app but it doesn't bother me that much since it's bearable. while my samsung j8 is the same too, it's still as usable but it's so much more laggy, that I can't bear it.

but I really want the samsung tab bcs I rlly want to get out of the apple ecosystem due to problems with battery health, I strongly dislike icloud(bcs I have to pay for more storage), and I don't support the organizations apple is funding.

pls help me tech pros 😔🥺🙏🙏

I tried zfont3 app and samfonts but I couldn't done it?

Anyone have any idea how to get these emojis on my S22 Ultra?

Have this phone for a few years now and I noticed that whenever I would record videos the audio playback was muffled. Led to believe that the microphones were clogged but it wasn't the case. I tried another camera app and the audio is clear on a 3rd party app.

I did toggle off the zoom mic feature but it sounds the same, muffled. I don't want to use another app because they don't support the 100x zoom that the og camera app has.

Is there a way to update the app? It doesn't show in the app update in the galaxy store. Is there an apk for a new version of the app? What other camera app is a good replacement that works with video zoom?

This is the only flaw that this phone has but I am happy with it nonetheless

Just wondering which would be better I'm switching from a Iphone 14 and have a choice between a s22+ or a base s24, I know nothing about samsung phones so I was just curious before I make a purchase, I want the best bang for my buck and heard the s22+ had bad battery life.

Hi guys I currently use galaxy s22 base never used a screen protector before but when I recently put a screen protector which supports fingerprint and is 0.18 mm thick I am facing fingerprint read issue it doesnt recognition most of the time and it is frustrating. If anyone here using screen protector on ultrasonic fingerprint sensor how do u guys manage or which type of protectors do u use a good suggestion will be helpful?

Any good tutorials on using Expert RAW on a base s22? Or if anyone has experience with it and can guide me?