S24 Series Issues After One UI 8.5 (Important)
Okay, so before you say "let it settle," it's been 3 days, the phone's settled, all the data gathering is done, battery's stable, everything's set. Now let's talk issues. Let me know if you guys have the same problems listed below or if you found any fixes.
The quick panel lag is so much worse now, it's crazy! Before, with One UI 8, it was manageable if you just turned off the RAM Plus feature, but now it's terrible. The quick panel lags when you swipe left for notifications, I mean, the whole quick panel UI is totally messed up. It feels like i'm using a 2-300$ phone.
The UI isn't consistent across apps; some are polished, others aren't. For example, the clock app has a weird background, and the caller app's grey background isn't AMOLED, so it looks messy. I turned off the "now brief" feature because it's useless, but Samsung keeps forcing me to turn it back on by giving me a "now bar" that asks me to enable it. I really don't want it, so just stop it already! Also the battery pill wtf is that man greyish shyt thing i mean it was better before why u change it.
So, the next big thing is connectivity, my Wi-Fi is good, but what's up with the cellular data? It's really bad, Samsung needs to fix it ASAP. Some apps work fine, others buffer, it's so inconsistent. I'm on LTE, not 5G, I don't need 5G, it drains the battery like crazy.
The battery's good, like with the April patch, and it works fine on Wi-Fi. But with cellular, it feels like it drains more than before. On Wi-Fi, I get around 7-8 hours of screen-on time, and with cellular, it's more than 5 hours with normal use.
The system UI and One UI home optimization is a big problem; I used to get 8-9 hours of SOT, but now it's less, so it needs fix too. I mean dude these 2 are draining more power than the AOD like what why?
Sometimes the animations feel a bit stuttery, not the quick panel, that's a whole different story. I'm talking about the regular back and closing animations, even call animations, they just seem to be missing something, like the search button on the app drawer, there's no animation there at all.
Scrolling feels laggy now, Play Store scroll feels laggy, X scroll feels laggy, Spotify scroll lag, Reddit and Insta are good. X has a fix, turn off auto video playback in settings. All apps in settings feel laggy, like the refresh rate changed from 120 to 60Hz.
I have a fix for the animations though: switch off the phone after the update, then turn it on after a minute. The animations get pretty good, I'd say, but still need some polishing.
Ram management had gotten a bit better after the switch off thing.
No heating issue right now, it just suddenly getting hot after the update without doing anything major, probably because of all the data gathering. Gaming heat management also better now, it doesn't get as hot as it used to, which is an improvement.
All the AI stuff and new features are cool, but Samsung totally ripped us off by not putting the scan feature right in the camera app. It was so handy and needed, why'd you do that, Samsung? I mean, the lag isn't even fixed, so why bother taking out the scan feature from the camera app in the name of hardware boundaries? It was there in the beta versions. There's a workaround for that feature from the notes app but it includes a lot of steps.
The May security patch update is pending. I hope we'll get fixes for the cellular connectivity issue and animation fixes. Maybe the quick panel lag will get fixed somewhat, at least like before. I'm not saying to fix it properly before One UI 9.