The Galaxy S22 is celebrating its fourth anniversary this week, but if you’ve been rocking with Samsung’s 2022 flagships since launch, this milestone probably hasn’t been going well for you.
Following last month’s routine security patch for the S22 series, owners have started reporting some serious issues across Reddit, as collected by PiunikaWeb. Everything from bootloops to random launcher crashes and freezes are here, and as is usual for as widespread and havoc-creating a problem as this, solutions and workarounds seem to be sporadically successful at best. Basically, it seems like Galaxy S22 owners are on their own until an official patch from Samsung comes around. Considering the entire series is on a quarterly upgrade cycle, it’s going to take an unscheduled patch to fix this before May.
Complaints began piling up from S22 series owners around two weeks ago, with momentum picking up over the last several days. One Reddit post from two days ago has built up 140 comments alone, with complaints ranging from full bootloops to One UI crashes and rapid battery drain, even as other users report no issues. While these problems popped up after Samsung’s latest update cycle, it’s unclear exactly what the root cause is — and, as a result, users haven’t had a ton of luck in locking down a specific solution.
On the software side, some fans have managed to fix their issues (when the device is bootable) by manually updating the One UI launcher. Others have tied the issues to aging batteries, suggesting that both bootloops and battery drain can be fixed with a replacement from a local repair shop. Some devices have just fixed themselves after an hour or more of failing to boot. And, unsurprisingly, plenty of fans have gone out to pick up a Galaxy S25 rather than waiting for a fix. Even with the Galaxy S26 on the way this week, it’s clear waiting for new hardware — or even a software patch from Samsung — probably isn’t an option if your current phone is completely bricked.
We’ll have to wait for an official response from Samsung on whether these issues can be fixed with a future (and, with any luck, rapidly-released) patch. For now, if you’re a Galaxy S22 owner facing any of these headaches, a battery swap might be all you need — and if not, well, no one would blame you for buying into the planned obsolescence theory. After all, the timing, nor some related lawsuits filed in January over a similarly-bugged October 2024 patch, certainly don’t look great for Samsung.
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