r/samsunggalaxy

I had an experience previously where we bought a budget phone for family, and it started lagging after a year or a year and a half. Is this the same situation with other Samsung Galaxy phones? I currently have an S24 Ultra, but I am not facing any such issues. However, I am only getting 3 to 4 hours of screen-on time. It has very poor battery optimization. The battery drains drastically when I am not using it.

So, I got S25 Ultra Japanese Version (Softbank)

Still not get the new firmware, and i've been waiting fo this.

Can someone explain to me, Why Japanese Carrier are so slow to release the firmware?

I bought my s25fe 10 days ago brand new

I used to charge it to 85% and it would last me the whole day at 5pm I'd have 30% left

After updating to one ui 8.5 my phone doesn't even last me till 3pm and iv changed it to where it chargers to 95 % not 85%

Any help is my device faulty I read online that I need to give the one ui 8.5 battery learning some time but this is ridiculous I'm extremely disappointed

Context: Day one S23 Ultra heavy user.

Last week I noticed my phone would turn off after reaching ~30% and would lose charge overnight.

Since I always use a case I didn't notice until now: when I removed the case, the back of the phone was peeling off due to the battery being swollen. Honestly didn't want to throw the phone away, it's still buttery smooth and in almost perfect condition.

Looked around and decided to give it a shot at changing the battery myself. I wanted initially to buy one off Amazon but I didn't personally trust it (despite having zero experience with battery replacement), I saw some people suggesting to buy it from ifixit.

50€, arrived yesterday, replacement wasn't that hard honestly, majorly thanks to the battery having a pull instead of being filled with glue and the glue of the back being already removed for most part by the swollen battery.

So far so good and nothing broke, phone feel like new, lost 0% overnight. Will have to see how its going after a month though because I saw some negative reviews about it, will comment an update in about a month.

Edit: grammar.

Samsung is increasingly moving towards a one-size-fits-all constrained OS with less user freedom, and I don't like it one bit.

Since yesterday's update (2026-05-20) for Android 16, One UI 8.0, you can no longer smoothly open .txt files with your default text editor. Samsung has apparently decided that 'My Files' now overrides any user settings and opens the file with 'My Files' itself.

If you want to use your preferred editor, you now need to long press the file and choose it among several apps. There is no more 'always' option to set the default in the 'open with' menu, and the default apps menu in settings does not show an option for txt files.

For now my fix is to reset the 'My Files' app to factory defaults and reject future updates. In the long term I might look to a different OEM for my next smartphone.

i am a vivid user of Samsung S series and i have work profile setup. I had found it difficult to switch personal and work profile by clicking on the tabs. I had raised this issue in feedback for adding into Samsung Goodlook or otherwise. I updated the phone for OneUI 8.5 and voila !!! I checked the first thing by opening the home and swiping and it worked. Thanks Samsung for making my life less difficult.