r/GalaxyS22

Hi, I'm reaching out to show that my S22 battery swelled up. I was using it at 19% and it suddenly shut down to zero with no warning whatsoever. I've been using the phone regularly for 3 years, so it's way out of warranty. I tried reaching out to Samsung about this problem, but have received no response yet. I have very important files on that phone. Is it possible to get a discount or something like that?

I Understand the purpose of it, I know how it works and why. But I recall there used to be a setting where you could turn that on or off. So when it goes up against your ear it stays on, or when you take it away from your ear to, let's say quickly grab a verification code texted to you while on a call, it doesn't turn off from the proximity of your hand interacting on the screen.

Is there no longer a way to disable this feature? I tried so many youtube tutorials.

I find it really annoying I want to keep it on. I'm talking about for my personal use case, I would like to turn it off does anyone know if there's a way to turn it off . No I don't want it in speaker phone either.

Motion and Gestures

Proximity Settings

CAll settings,

Cant find anything for it.

Thanks

Hello, I have fallen victim to the notorious green line issue and the number of lines have started increasing. Im thinking of getting a display replacement (16K rupees) and a battery replacement (2.5K rupees) and using it as a secondary phone. I want to know if replacing it is worth it now. If I plan on getting the replacement I hope to use it for the next 2 to 3 years. I have looked at used market and a good s23 plus is costing between 30k to 40k which is out of my budget and mid range phones don’t have the build quality nor good design. My s22+ looks brand new and is the snapdragon model and a used s22+ costs the same as replacing it so replacement would be good. Not exited about using other brand phones as I like one ui and I’m used to it but open to recommendations. Please tell me if it is worth it or not or give me alternatives.

My S22U was last updated on Jan 2026 for the Jan 26 Patch and OneUI 8.0 version. However, I haven't updated it since seeing several users reporting green lines and black screen issues post update.

Things were working just fine with me not updating the phone since Jan. However, due to security issues, Work Apps are no more working due to older Android security patch.

Need some expert opinions here.

Hey all, title pretty much says everything. I've had my S22 for about 3 years, and it's working fine (minus battery dying faster and some slight, occasional overheating, but that seems to be the norm) wondering how long yours lasted? I really don't want to upgrade if it still works fine, but was wondering how long y'all got out of yours, or if I should be prepared to make the switch soon?

I am experiencing some performance issues with my phone. Applications are taking a long time to open, and occasionally the device freezes and restarts. This has been happening for about a month now. I have approximately 80GB of 128GB storage used, and the phone has 8GB of RAM. Could you please provide some guidance on how I might resolve this?

So I restarted my phone yesterday. Big mistake. Every 30 minutes or so after that my phone would lag out and restart itself, this continued until this morning, when now I couldn't even get into the phone without it restarting, and now it won't let me unlock the phone, because the unlock screen crashes when it needs to be unlocked. I can't turn it off an on again because I need to unlock the phone to do so, I can't link it up to my laptop because its not even registering as a device, I can't clear the cache, it's basically just a glow up brick. Is this fixable somehow or do I need a new phone?

Hello everyone. Please excuse my English; I am using an interpreter. I would like to inquire about the potential increase in battery life if I were to replace the battery in my device. My phone is from 2023 and still has its original battery, which currently has a residual capacity of approximately 2900 mAh. Would you recommend changing the battery?

Recently had a banking app stop working because it said that I needed to upgrade to at least OS 13. I thought it odd that while obviously not the newest phone my phone still works fone for what i need it for and i would have thought that for basic functions such as an everyday app a 4 year old phone is still a few years away from being obsolete for basic uses like that. So I checked by information to confirm I was on os12 and then to check for upgrades and it said that I was all up to date.

I'm not going to claim to be an amazingly tech savvy person but I feel like for the most part I know what I'm doing and my phone is just used for everyday personal use, nothing extreme but im aware that the phone supports OP 16. Is there some way to upgrade around the built in feature or did I accidently tuen somthing off that would block it from getting the latest OS?

Got green after 2 years and had a battle with Samsung for screen replacement. But after 1 year got pink line. Now all phone prices are hiked and I don't see any value for money phone with good camera. Only option I could think of is oppo find x9. Any suggestions for new phone or should I try to fix screen and using it for couple of years?

A client has a deceased family members phone with the pattern lock and is looking to gain access to the device data. Besides going through that certificate and other methods is there a temporary lock screen bypass to enter the device then change Google password as it is signed into the device?

Hello, everyone.

I'm sorry if this is the wrong subreddit for this.

A week or two ago, my phone started dying faster.

There'd be the notification at 15% and it'd die before I could plug it in.

I created a routine so I'd get notifications at higher percentages and it got worse.

Now, my phone is bootlooping.

I've tried pressing the power button and volume down button.

Does anyone know anything else I can do?

I'm already planning to get a new phone, but I'd like to turn my phone on one last time so that I can backup and transfer things.

I am in India and moving to Finland for my master's (2 years), so I'm looking for a power bank for my Samsung Galaxy S22...... something that shouldn't give me any problems for at least those 2 years. Any suggestions? I have already spent so much on the start of my master's, so I would be happy if I could get one on a budget but that would still do its job......

I have a S22 (not plus or Ultra) and have to charge at least twice a day.

Curious if people are finding the same

hola, espero que alguien me pueda explicar u orientar de que que le pasó a mi Samsung s22 versión snapdragon, hace 2 días lo sentí un poco lento, no le tomé tanta importancia porque es mi celular con el que veo videos y ceo redes sociales, después de lo que pasó hace dos dias de que se puso un poco lento, ayer y hoy se puso horriblemente lento y me desesperó y lo formatee cómo 3 veces, sigue igual no se si sea algún problema de software o hardware, cabe recalcar que el teléfono lo compré de segunda por fb marketplace y nunca el teléfono nunca se puso lento, espero me puedan ayudar, la verdad no sé si la comunidad sea pero pido su ayuda porque la verdad el cel si me gusta, por cierto, ya busque por YouTube, Google, he preguntado a conocidos que conocen sobre cosas de este tipo e incluso tuve que recurrir a la IA pero nada

pd: todo lo crítico pasó ayer que quise poner música mientras limpiaba

O s22 é um dos piores celulares que eu já tive! Simplesmente horrível. Nunca vi um dispositivo esquentar tanto, acho uma torradeira mais fria. Esquenta em todas as tarefas e em todas as funções. Esquenta em 30 segundos que abriu um jogo. Desempenho fica um lixo. E ainda apareceu 2 linhas na tela. Porcaria de dispositivo!

I feel like the camera quality on my Galaxy S22 has gotten worse after so many software/One UI updates.

The phone used to give me noticeably better video quality, but now I'm not happy with it. I'm mainly using this phone as a webcam, so I don't really care about keeping the latest security updates.

Has anyone actually compared different S22 firmware versions and knows which One UI/firmware version had the best camera quality, especially for video?

I'm considering trying to downgrade the firmware. I know Samsung makes downgrading pretty difficult and there are risks with bootloader/firmware versions, but I'm willing to research it and try if there's a version known to have better camera processing.

S22 owners who used older firmware — which version gave you the best camera quality? Would really appreciate the exact One UI/firmware version if you remember it.

I've also seen other S22 users report that they felt camera quality changed after updates, so I'm wondering if I'm imagining it or if others noticed the same thing.